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#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
It took me 2 days to contemplate what I had just finished!! It‘s a beautifully written story, plus stories within the story that all seem to coexist and eventually blend into each other in an artful musical piece…One-of-a-kind
#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
What a beautiful and profound book. I am not sure yet, if I have fully understood the meaning of this story. But it was beautiful and heart wrenching and has a lesson in it for anyone who reads it. Beautiful.
This book will stay with me for a long time. There are many amazing passages in the book that take your breath away, they are so profound.
252 pages of missed chances, regret, and sadness. But somehow I really enjoyed this book and found myself laughing often. Maybe it was the strength of the writing that kept me going through such loss. Although the multiple story lines got confusing at times, would still recommend.
“Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
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It‘s quite a different read but I just loved it. Was also our February #sundaybuddyread 🤍
"At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived." -- Leo Gursky (pg. 165)
Best way I can describe my current reading experience 😊
I enjoyed a peek into a love so consuming but at times it was hard to follow the connection with the characters.
March Book 12/25 #LitsyLove #bookspinbingo
Hoping to make more significant progress with the tagged book before moving on to Dear Edward or possibly The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World.
Whenever I listen to Non-fiction titles, I try to find Fiction counterparts whose subject is complimentary and can be read in tandem with or immediately after completing an audiobook.
Does anyone else do this?
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
🎶 Second verse, same as the first 🎶
This week's forecast is the same as last week's (two audiobooks, four print books) with the hope that I might be able to start the graphic novels on the right once I finish Gender Queer.
Also hoping to make a little bit more progress on the book of poetry as that deserves to be savored and pondered, not rushed.
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
I have been meaning to read this book for years and I can thank @TheBookHippie and her #sundaybuddyread for giving me the motivation to finally take it off my TBR. I had trouble following the various story lines at times. However, this book has some beautiful passages.
There‘s so much love for this book and some of it is really lovely. But there are so many storylines introduced early on that it became a muddle for me. If not for doing a buddy read, I would have bailed. I would have preferred if the book was a bit longer and each storyline a bit more fleshed out before introducing the next.
Gorgeous prose & an exploration of love & loss. I am still untangling it all in my head after finishing last night for #sundaybuddyread 💙This book intrigued me, made me smile & also brought a tear. And oh, all the quotes/passages I highlighted! I admire how the author wove everything together & the twists & turns. Our group discussions & reading it in chunks over the month made a book I might not have picked up otherwise a likely contender for ⬇️
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It has been quite a long time since a book brought me to tears. This book on prose -⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5 stars. Thank you so much for once again traveling through a book with me! 🤍🤍🤍🤍
I think I appreciated this book more due to the #SundayBuddyRead discussions and everyone's amazing insights. I think this was beautiful writing with interesting and likeable characters. Some of the plot was a bit disjointed and confusing though, so I liked it but didn't love it. @TheBookHippie
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Thoughts on things I missed?
Did you like the read?
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Leo and Bird create alternate truths of life
Is it to survive ?
Also the dad and the son were alive and knew the truth at the same time before the son died… poetic.
All the forms of love
All the forms of grief
Two sides to the same coin?
Is it all a love story -every persons journey ?
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Stalled at the age she loved you most
Alma …his thoughts while seeing Alma the second.
And then
He fell in love
It was his life
Can you be in love your whole life with someone who doesn‘t love you? Or did she ? Does it matter ?
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BRUNO IS DEAD died 1941 July
Well WOW. Did he need this to survive ?
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Alma -the original- told Leo THAT
SHE couldn‘t love him?! She was saying goodbye forever ?!
He made hisself forget -WHAT?!
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Misha- he called and then said to not tell!
Herman drove her all that way!
Which is how the other son got the note and called and got Bird into motion to get Alma her answers…
These pieces to the puzzle, forming the end- the relationships - is it whole picture thinking is it I needed this person in life at this time to get go this point? It is just the intricate things of life? It‘s definitely woven well. Thoughts ?
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She was writing to JACOB THE SON-!-
ALSO THE MOM IS TRANSLATING IT WHICH IS WHY LEO COULDN‘T FIND IT !
WELL who saw that coming ?
Blew my mind..thoughts ?
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Brother Alma wanted to help him but didn‘t know how…
Wakes him up to try to fix him.
He tries to go to ISREAL?
Also she threw everything away ?! The mom.
Is it grief?
Is counseling helping him at all?
What is the answer do you think ?
IS there are answer?
Childhood vs adult grief have you ever thought of that reading this?
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Obscure
Alma‘s mom
Grief- a jack in the box springing up on you.
Is her story (the mom) another love form, this immense grief?
Admittedly this is not a novel that I would normally read, but I'm glad I did. This is a book about love, especially lost love and how we handle it.
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's #SundayBuddyRead ❤️🩹
@TheBookHippie
#WickedWords #Love @AsYouWish
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See you SUNDAY for the discussion of the ending 💙
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Anyone who has read this feel free to join in 💙
This book hurt my heart in places. Beautifully written but at first I struggled with how the stories would link (for I felt sure they had to). When they do it‘s one of those moments when you pause on the page and a wave of emotion hits you. Leo Gursky is instantly likeable and you find yourself wishing throughout the book his life would have a different end but it seems just to have had a great love was enough. The world needs more Leo Gurskys. 5*
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️For beautiful writing
⭐️⭐️⭐️For story layout
This book was beautifully written and of course I teared up at the end. But I did feel like the story felt a bit too confusing for me. I think some things could have been made clearer earlier on in the story. I can‘t wait to discuss the ending with #sundaybuddyread this coming Sunday!!
A beautifully written story about a variety of people and multiple types of loving relationships. While it was confusing at times, it ended up being interwoven quite nicely. Books like these are why I love #sundaybuddyread! Because of the fabulous discussion, I try to read every selection of the group as I stumble upon gems like this that I wouldn‘t otherwise have read. Thanks @TheBookHippie 💙❤️
It‘s been great rereading and discussing this amazing novel. Looking forward to last discussion next week. #sundaybuddyread
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We get to finish it ! 📘😱
I do love the prose of this book.
Some passages I read are just beautiful and there really aren‘t words. Or questions. Interesting view of love of all kinds. I think in life these kind of stories are way more than we think. Thanks for sticking with me!
So incredibly glad to read this in small parts and sit with it.
What are you thinking ?
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Zvi journey and then Rosa..
Leo WROTE and asked for the book!
ROSA DESTROYED IT
just wow…
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!! ?!!
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Litvinoff a witness to the love of Alma & Leo
Also he thinks Leo is dead
What did you think of the book being buried and everything else?!
Then the last chapter so people would know it was Leo.
What in the world ?!?
Thoughts?
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Alma-
Her mom -
Alma stoping the search for a mate for her.
Because her mom, although sad, has made a home in her memories …
Why isn‘t that okay, or is it?
Clearly not for Alma to decide. Or understand.
Thoughts?
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Alma wrote to Leo——
He watched his son
Leo at his sons house
I lost….and the list of it all.
Closure?
Anyone else wish we had Alma‘s voice in the story?
It‘s so tragic.
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Bruno Leo the train ..
Leo on the way to get back his book..!!
I very much like these two.
Does Bruno know something -how does he fit in the story?
The book seems to be about all the facets of love - yes?
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Uncle Julian‘s wastebasket note
Well trouble there too with love ..
Also he woke her in the night? Creepy
Her uncle taking her to dinner
Then the gift
I still think he‘s creepy ..
What were your thoughts ?
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Misha gave her a feeling in her stomach that wasn‘t an ache but something different ..
Give me hand…
Then. A kiss. Well. Then. Ugh.
Teenage angst and all the 😫🤦🏻♀️
Think her penpal and her relationship is over?
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5. The things I wanted to say I get stuck in my mouth…
Oh I‘ve been here … you?
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Alma saying “She‘s real -he‘s in love with her -he could change every detail but he can‘t change her..”
Interesting that in the many phases of the book Alma remains ..
Can‘t help but wonder if this is the point 🤷🏻♀️
Thoughts while reading…
Hard to erase a person if you know them?
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(Alma)
Bird and his questions and noises and counting people …
His journaling …
His preparing for a flood..
I‘m still unsure about him, thoughts ?
Holy Stopping Point this week! @TheBookHippie #sundaybuddyread
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THIS WEEK READ
Pages 135 - 191 or “flood” until you get to my life underwater when you reach that STOP don‘t read it!
See you SUNDAY 🤫🤐
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ON WE READ….
I appreciate you sticking it out with me as always. This is an interesting one for discussion, and yet I feel it‘s a good pick for love for valentines. All forms of love.
See you next week!