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Finally settled on my February #Bookspin list. Featuring more from #NYWD, some BOTM titles to catch up on, and some lighter and anticipated reads.

I wanted to be in love with this and was until the ending.

Whenever I‘m in a small, independent bookstore, I feel obligated to buy at least one book to support local, so I gave myself a rule: that book has to be one I had not heard of before (so not a hot new release). I love the books I am collecting, including this one, from Bay Books in Sutton‘s Bay, Michigan. The owner was lovely, and I look forward to stopping in whenever I‘m in the area.

"I felt a kick right then. Right on the shin. I knew who that was: my conscience, Ernestine. I just kicked the bitch right back. Yes, I'm a liar, I told her; a deceiver, a coldhearted Air France slut. I was thinking not of my Aunt Viv in a French drunk tank but of the braised rabbit in that bistro on the rue Monsieur le Prince." -ch. 1 pg. 17

I was in the mood for a #cozymystery that had a sleuth abroad & this brought so much more. Nanette is a fluent in French saxaphonist with an abiding love for Paris. While searching for her estranged aunt, she finds love, delves into the artistic black expatriate experience in the 20th century through music & dines very well. There's wit & many passages worth remembering.