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Guy, guys, GUYS!!! I FINISHED! It only took like 5 months to read the shortest book ever but I finished!

Loved this book Andrea. It was almost haunting. If I would have had the time, this would have absolutely have been a one sitting kind of read.

Don't judge my comments....I spent most of this half asleep 🤣

On it's way to you @BookishTrish 🥰

#readersgonerogue #bookclub #aboutfuckingtime #alwaysthebottleneck

@Andrea4

I can always tell when the seasons begin to change because it never fails to bring me a cold. 🤧

Made myself a little sleepy-time cocktail to hopefully get a good night's rest and some well over due down time.

#bookandbath #selfcare #tubseason #winteriscoming #readersgonerogue

Thank you @Amiable for these fun bookmarks! I‘m legit jealous that you have so many fave bookstores! I don‘t have many close by! #summerbookmarkswap @cwarnier

I‘m not sure Winterson‘s books are for me… they always make me feel like I‘m missing something! I enjoyed most of the story for the story‘s sake but I kept feeling like there was a deeper meaning that I just wasn‘t spotting!

We can only have an itty bitty little party tomorrow being stuck in lockdown but we're going to make the big ONE as special as we can! It's going to be a late night of cake making so I might as well get a bit of a head start on #NutsInMay to keep me awake 😊

#ReadersGoneRogue I'm about halfway through this one so I'm hoping to send it out soon! I promise I didn't forget 🤣

@Andrew65 @BookishTrish @Andrea4

I probably haven't picked up a book in a week, maybe even two. Has that stopped me from adding to the huger-than-huge TBR? No. But has it stopped me from buying the latest book in a series even though I haven't read half the books in the series? Also no.

Thanks for the extras @andrea4 🥰🥰🥰
#NewBookDay #MailDay #Slump #ReadersGoneRogue @BookishTrish

#ReadersGoneRogue @FantasyChick @BookishTrish
Don't want to say much except that I enjoyed this almost as much as her Christmas Days!
I will note you need to be ok with a non-chronological storyline and multiple storylines. If not, might drive you a little crazy. Oh and if you want a "satisfying ending" I'm maybe going to suggest a different book. Because love doesn't end. And this is a love story.?

Well my #ReadersGoneRogue I have chosen this and I hope you will love it as much as I already am!
@FantasyChick @BookishTrish

#QuotsyFeb20 Day 9: #Fossil

I have opinions! Do you?
I couldn't find any even finish The Gap of Time, didn't enjoy Daylight Gate until halfway through, was never as riveted by oranges and written as everyone else and... Victim blaming isn't any more palatable when the victim is yourself; I couldn't really stomach her autobiography. But the ones that I love? I love more than almost any other books.

Hump day book haul!
4 books, 4 dollars and they were all on my #tbr list.
Anyone read one of these?
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#humpday #bookhaul #happyeaster #louisehay #ruthware #jennywhite #jeanettewinterson #bookworm #buecherwurm

March was sedate on the reading front, since I was out & about so much while in Japan. One night in Tokyo, jetlag kept me wide awake while I reread the tagged book, brought along as a gift for @shawnmooney .
I started to really miss the hours in a day that I normally spend reading, so much so that I started to read in brief bursts on my phone while my travelling companion was taking photos. “Are you reading again?!?” I got busted several times.

#coffeecrullerbook is becoming a weekend theme for me 😋

Rereading this gem of a book while enjoying summer in September 🧡

Look at this beauty!! 😍🌺😍🌺😍🌺😍

June reading wrap-up! Seven is a great month for me. I really liked all of these and I really don‘t have a favorite. It was fun to experience the combo platter of the book and 1959 movie version of On The Beach. Both deliciously sad and somber. #JuneWrapUp

Lighthousekeeping jumps back and forth between the story of Silver, and orphan living with a blind lighthouse keeper in Scotland in modern times, and Babel Dark, who lived in the mid-1800s. Throw in some neat appearances by Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson and some wonderfully weird and thought-provoking situations and you have an engaging bit of fiction. I really like the way Winterson writes, sometimes poetically and always eloquent.

How neat! Winterson‘s character, clergyman Babel Dark, meets Charles Darwin who consoles him because On the Origin Of Species puts Babel in a funk.

I‘m really enjoying Jeanette‘s melancholy tale. 😞

I love the way she writes.

#bookhaul from McKays 3/4
I may have this one already but maybe not hardback? I love Jeanette Winterson.

Stairway inside a #lighthouse in Portugal. Book with #lighthouse inside the title, by one of my favourite authors. 😊⚓️

@RealLifeReading

". . .you had seen the turtles hatch in the sand. Not many of them make it out to the sea, and once there, the sharks are waiting for them. Days disappear and get swallowed up much like that, but the ones like these, the ones that make it, swim out and return for the rest of your life." ❤️

For #recommendsday I'm giving you Lighthousekeeping, my favorite by Jeanette Winterson. Her books revel in their unusual, sometimes disjointed narration, but if you can work through that she'll reward you with a beautiful tale on the power of stories to help us through loss and love.