The Weekenders

rachelsbrittain

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

A new #WeekendReads background for November. Whatcha reading?

AllDebooks Ooh my, that's pretty 😍 5d

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rachelsbrittain

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

#WeekendReads

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ShananigansReads

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

I am not often on the reading one book train but here we are. I‘m really enjoying #PartnersInCrime we‘ll see if I pick up anything else as the weekend moves along.

#WeekendReads @rachelsbrittain

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rachelsbrittain

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

Posting the #WeekendReads graphic for this weekend early to give people some lead time if they want to edit the image to show what they're reading. Feel free to post this version or the other one, whichever you like!

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BookLineNSinker

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

$1 books at the Dollar Tree by my work! Just a couple more titles to add to my library.

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Allylu

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

1. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott and Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim 2. Lilacs and pansies 3. Spending time with my sister who is celebrating her 80th birthday today!

rachelsbrittain

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DieAReader

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

#WeekendReading #Swoonathon #BookSpinBingo #BookNookBuddies2022

Weekend reading plans: progress on all & maybe a finish or two🤞🏻

Thanks for this new and always highly anticipated weekly wind-down @Andrew65 ♥️🥰 Happy reading everyone!

MidnightBookGirl, kimmypete1, CoverToCoverGirl, AkashaVampie, TheAromaofBooks, GHABI4ROSES

Andrew65 Some good reading ahead fir you. Have a great weekend 😊 3y

DieAReader @Andrew65 Have a great weekend as well! Thanks🥰♥️ 3y

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y

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Elizabeth2

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

#weekendreading Just starting Evil Never Dies this one this morning.

Snuggled in my favorite reading chair, with a warm blanket, a cup of coffee, my kindle, a pup curled at my feet and one behind my head (watching out the window for nefarious creatures). #saturdayvibes

@Andrew65

Andrew65 Sounds bliss. 3y

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Andrew65

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

This is my weekend of reading. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind will take me to Malawi for #ReadingAfrica2022.

What are you reading this weekend?

#WeekendReading

Crazeedi, Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

Velvetfur Oohh I haven't got Malawi yet! Thanks, I'll look for that one! I'm going to read Angola actually - 'The World's of "Mestre" Tamoda' by Uanhenga Xitu ? 3y

Velvetfur PS I've got Covid now too, so lots of reading time cos I can't go out, hehehe 👍🏻 3y

BarbaraBB I just read the same Malawi book, and so did @Texreader ! I hope you both will enjoy it too @Andrew65 @Velvetfur And I hope your Covid is mild! 3y

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Librarybelle Lots of good reading this weekend! 3y

Andrew65 @Velvetfur oh no, sorry to hear that 😢 Hope it‘s very mild. I found the key was rest, rest, rest and when you felt ready to get back to normal rest again as puts you backwards. But then again was badly hit by Delta. Hope you recover quickly 💕 3y

Andrew65 @BarbaraBB That sound promising. 3y

Andrew65 @Librarybelle Hopefully. 3y

Bookwormjillk @Velvetfur I hope you have a quick recovery. @Andrew65 looks like a good weekend. The wind is literally howling here so I‘m going to binge watch the Olympics and pick a novel from my pile. Not sure what- maybe

The Quintland Sisters: A Novel

Velvetfur @BarbaraBB @Bookwormjillk Thank you lovelies, it's been mild so it's ok but it's really lingering which is annoying, I can't seem to fully get rid of it. I tested positive on day 11, argh! But it's pouring with rain here so I wouldn't have gone out today anyway 😂 3y

Velvetfur @Andrew65 Thank you 😊 I'm pretty sure it's Omicron as it's been not too bad, I'm sorry to hear you had Delta though 🙁 I've made sure to rest loads and not really do anything, haven't been exercising even gently, and I feel mostly better now apart from a slightly phlegm-y chest - which I feel lucky for because I have asthma so it could have gone the other way.... 3y

Andrew65 @Velvetfur That‘s great news 💕 3y

Andrew65 I was still in bed full time until the end of day 12 so you have done well @Velvetfur Now 5 months on and just feeling almost back to normal. But still get tireder at night earlier than I used to. Almost left me with major flare ups of GERD and IBS and on a long list for cameras. 3y

Andrew65 @Bookwormjillk Definitely a windy weekend! 3y

Andrew65 @Velvetfur Will have to check out the Angola book. 3y

Velvetfur @Andrew65 ugh that sounds horrible, and going on for so long too! I know at the time you said about the IBS, actually it's aggravated mine a bit too now I think about it. I wish all the best for you and wifey continuing to work through your recovery 💜 3y

Crazeedi That book sounds good ! I'll be curious to hear what you think 3y

Crazeedi @Velvetfur get well soon❤️ 3y

Crazeedi @Bookwormjillk Olympics and reading on my list today too! Finally stopped snowing here, but it's very cold today. I'm going to help my sister tomorrow who is recovering from knee replacement tomorrow 3y

Velvetfur @Crazeedi thank you xxx 3y

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DieAReader

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

#WeekendReading #JoyousJanuary

My weekend stack as it stands now😁

Andrew65, GHABI4ROSES

Andrew65 Looks a great weekend ahead! 3y

DieAReader 🤞🏻🤞🏻 3y

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BookLineNSinker

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

Can anyone tell me any new contests/Giveaways, BOTM, etc. For 2022? I'm still learning how everything works on here.

Ruthiella Follow @LitsyEvents . This will keep you abreast of activities on Litsy. 3y

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Andrew65

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

I am starting a new Saturday feature, #WeekendReading.

For a lot of us we get the chance to read more at weekends so each Saturday let‘s share what we are reading that weekend.

I am listening to The PoisonWood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (#AuthoraMonth) and When Hoopoes Go To Heaven by Gaile Parkin. Both of which over countries for #ReadingAfrica 2022

What are you reading? Let‘s Share!

Soubhiville, Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

Andrew65 @CBee @Q84 @Ms_T @kezzlou85 @Texreader @TrishB @AprilMae @TheSpineView @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @eanderson @margreads @Cinfhen @Lizpixie @Clwojick @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Book_Fiend_Melissa @LeahBergen 3y

Andrew65 @Cathythoughts @MittenGirlPeach @AmyG @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @OriginalCyn620 @Eggs @TK-421 @TK421 @Trashcanman @Reggie @CoffeeNBooks @CaffeineAndCandy @Soubhiville @TheAromaofBooks @laurelchandler @pageshifter 3y

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 😘🤩📖📚 3y

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Andrew65 @MaGoose @Ruthiella @rjsthumbelina @AllisonM89 @rachelk @Kdgordon88 @TheEllieMo @Gissy @PaperbackPirate @slategreyskies @Eggbeater @Mollyanna @cleoh @Elizabeth2 @tenar @kwmg40 @Edeli @Weisubei @swynn @TheKidUpstairs @ElizaMarie @oddandbookish @coffeeandbooks @Bookgoil @TheBookDream @Bookwormjillk @Alisnazzy @librariana 3y

Andrew65 @Butterfinger @Marina_h @StayCurious @rubyslippersreads @DGRachel @robinb @wanderinglynn @CarolynM @crimson613 @andrew61 @RamsFan1963 @Megabooks @Johanna414 @ravenlee @MicheleinPhilly @janeycanuck @mhillis @Kenyazero @Cupcake12 @Susanita @FantasyChick @BookishMe @hes7 @Laughterhp @Allylu @julesG @AnneCecilie @Lesanne @RainyDayReading 3y

Andrew65 @Bookworm54 @ferskner @Sresendez12 @Read4life @ElizaMarie @LibrarianRyan @veritysalter @AlobelThee @Charityann @rsteve388 @Charityann @Cairo @CaitZ @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Alora @Bookjunkie57 @MatchlessMarie 3y

Andrew65 @JessClark78 @Jadams1776 @intothehallofbooks @KVanRead @Liatrek @Addison_Reads @CaffeineAndCandy @howjessreads @Bkwrm7 @BookwormAHN @aperfectmjk @BarkingMadRun @Areader2 @Areader @Scochrane26 @Jess861 @Rissa1 @MoonWitch94 @Traci1 3y

Andrew65 @Velvetfur @EadieB @Tove_Reads @gradcat @Crazeedi @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader @IamIamIam @TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Crewgurl @JacqMac @BookwormM @jb72 @ValerieAndBooks @Itchyfeetreader @youneverarrived @InBooksILive @TorieStorieS @JanuarieTimewalker13 @CocoReads 3y

Bookworm04 @Andrew65 seen ur post joined tagged you :) exciting 3y

Tove_Reads About to finish Almost dead by Ragan ad starting Coben‘s Missing You and Killer Deal by Sofie Sarenbrant. 3y

Andrew65 @Bookworm04 Great 😍 3y

MaGoose Reading The Additional Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Hall. And trying to decide what else to read this weekend - can't decide, too many good choices! 3y

Andrew65 @MaGoose I hate trying to choose books which is why sometimes I produce lists. 3y

Andrew65 @Tove_Reads That‘s my commute read for Monday, Almost Dead. 3y

Bookwormjillk A nostalgic read for me- when I was in high school researching for my science fair project at my town‘s library I came across a long shelf under a forgotten window labeled “mystery”. I checked this book out a lifelong love of reading began

"A" is for Alibi

Velvetfur This is a fab idea Andrew! I'm concentrating on 'Awakening The Buddha Within' which I want to finish from last year (!) and recently started the audiobook 'The Quaker' so will probably listen a bit more of that over weekend. Which countries are your two Africa books for? 3y

Andrew65 @Bookwormjillk I‘ve only read A, sounds like I need to get on the other 24. 3y

EadieB I‘m finishing The Harlech Killings then hope to start Almost Dead and i‘ve got The Hundredth Man on audio but can‘t really get into that one. Been listening off and on for the past week and can‘t seem to figure out what‘s going on. May need to start over and read along with physical book. I feel lost! 3y

Bookwormjillk The Poisonwood Bible is a good one for #ReadingAfrica and #AuthorAMonth. I may have to re-read it this month. 3y

DGRachel I have a schedule printed so I can read everything I want to before library and book club deadlines, but I‘m already three days behind. 🤣🤣 I‘m hoping to finish The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson, Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg, and The Guest List by Lucy Foley this weekend. 3y

Andrew65 @Velvetfur Is that the tagged book at the end of this post? If so I read it last year I believe. The PoisonWood Bible - Democratic Republic of Congo, Hoopoes - Swaziland (Eswatini now). Your bokks sound interesting.

The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1)

Andrew65 @Bookwormjillk Kills two birds with one stone and a good read, 62% in, but quite a Chunkster at 640 Pages. 3y

EadieB @Andrew65 I read the Poisonwood Bible around 2010 and enjoyed it but haven‘t read any of her other books. I‘ve seen where others have said that her other books don‘t measure up to her first one. 3y

Andrew65 @DGRachel Some good books you‘re in the middle of. (edited) 3y

Andrew65 @EadieB Hard to follow the success of a week renowned first book. 3y

AmyG This weekend it‘s

The Thursday Murder Club

Andrew65 @EadieB Forgot to post that one. Hoping to get to The Harlech Killings tomorrow. Some books just do not work with audiobooks for some reason. Others are great. Almost Dead will be my commute read on Monday. 3y

Andrew65 @AmyG That‘s a great read and a a good second book in the series out too. (edited) 3y

ShananigansReads I want to finish up Jingle Bell Beard on Kindle. Not sure what audiobook I want to start next 3y

ElizaMarie I‘m about to start

The Sun Down Motel

ElizaMarie @Bookwormjillk oooo I love Kinsey. I‘m currently up on

K Is For Killer

CocoReads Reading Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover and Watching Over You by Lori Foster. Also it‘s been at least a year since I physically set foot in a library—I‘m planning on a quick trip the my local branch in a couple hours when I‘m cleaned up 3y

KellyK Working my way through Harlem Shuffle and listening to Death on the Nile.

I binge-read the Alphabet Mysteries a few years ago and was just finishing up Y isfor Yesterday when a saw the news that Sue Grafton had passed away. 😢

Harlem Shuffle: A Novel

Clwojick Currently reading A Flicker in the Dark, and then I‘ll be moving on to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. 3y

Lizpixie I‘m reading Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear, the 1st in the White Space series, a SciFi set 100s of years in the future. So far it‘s been brilliant!

Ancestral Night

CoffeeNBooks I love this idea! Thanks for the tag! 3y

Andrew65 @Bookjunkie57 The last of the Christmas books? 3y

Andrew65 @ElizaMarie Love that book. (edited) 3y

Andrew65 @ElizaMarie I really do need to get to that series. 3y

Andrew65 @CocoReads I have on,y bern in twice, once to pick up a reserve, once to return it. 3y

Andrew65 @KellyK So sad she didn‘t get to finished the series. 3y

Andrew65 @Clwojick Love the Seven Husbands, enjoy! 3y

Andrew65 @Lizpixie Let me know what it‘s like. 3y

Andrew65 @CoffeeNBooks Great to hear 😊 3y

EadieB @KellyK @Andrew65 Grafton passed away in 2017. I was just reading about her on Wiki. Quite interesting: While going through a "bitter divorce and custody battle that lasted six long years", Grafton imagined ways to kill or maim her ex-husband. Her fantasies were so vivid that she decided to write them down. She told her daughter a ghost would haunt anyone who tried to finish her series. As far as she was concerned, the alphabet ended with “Y.” (edited) 3y

Librarybelle Lots is great #ReadingAfrica2022 reading this weekend! 3y

Megabooks The Poisonwood Bible is great! 3y

Andrew65 @Librarybelle 😍 3y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Great idea! I will be reading for the second week of #sundaybuddyread The Other Side of Midnight and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. If there's time I also have Death on the Nile. I don't usually get much audiobook listening in on the weekends but I have Cleopatra: A Life and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck going, too. I was iffy on reading Kingsolver this month but seeing the comments here, I might try The Poisonwood Bible. 3y

Andrew65 @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Just be aware it‘s a big book. 3y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Yes, a chunkster. And likely the #1 reason I was apprehensive to pick one up. Hey, if I bail, so be it. 😁 3y

PageShifter Thanks for the tag. I have also read The PoisonWood Bible! 3y

IamIamIam Great idea, Andrew!! Also a great way to add to #MountTBR! 😂 I'm revisiting A Separate Peace, which was a favorite of mine from high school but I'm struggling to remember why... 🤨 And for #Bookspin, I'm hoping to start this later today:

The Ickabog

Andrew65 @IamIamIam True #MountTBRAccumulation! Amazing when you read books again and can lead to different thoughts. For me it was

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

IamIamIam @Andrew65 LOL, your posts are 2 out of 3 that come up with that book as a tag!!! 😂 I stacked it and hopefully, I'll get to it in another WWII frenzy. 😁 3y

AprilMae Currently reading

A Simple Favor: A Novel

Andrew65 @IamIamIam I‘m everywhere! 🤣 First read it on a holiday to the Canary Islands as a 19 year old 3y

Andrew65 @AprilMae Looks good. 3y

jb72 I started reading

The Princess Diaries

Andrew65 @jb72 Fun reading. 3y

slategreyskies I love this idea!! :) 3y

robinb I‘m into the second of a new historical mystery series for me about a female pigeoneer during WW2. I started this one without having read the first and was so into it that I went back and read the previous one. 😊 The first one is

Olive Bright, Pigeoneer

Andrew65 @robinb This sounds great. 3y

Deblovestoread I started Things Fall Apart for #Booked2022 last night and also Snowflake just because. Thanks for the tag. 3y

ShananigansReads @Andrew65 yep. Have to finish out the trilogy. 3y

Andrew65 @Kdgordon88 Looks like some good reading ahead. 3y

Eggbeater I am reading Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law, Within These Wicked Walls (A Jane Eyre retelling), and The Chosen and the Beautiful (a Great Gatsby retelling) 3y

Andrew65 @Eggbeater Some good books to retell. 3y

BookwormM Just finished Nights at the Circus, listening to The Child by Fiona Barton and reading Millennium People by J G Ballard 3y

Andrew65 @BookwormM All good books. 3y

CaitZ I just started A Solitude of Wolverines. It's a thriller about a wolverine researcher set in the Rocky Mountains in Montana in winter. 3y

Andrew65 @CaitZ Sounds good. 3y

BookwormAHN I'm reading Star Wars A Test Of Courage and will so start The Once And Future Witches 😺 3y

rachelk I‘m reading and enjoying

The Great Offshore Grounds: A novel

MoonWitch94 Ohhhh fun!!! I just finished this one. Will be posting a review soon.

Wife in Watercolor

Andrew65 @BookwormAHN Looks a good weekend of reading. 3y

Andrew65 @rachelk Looks interesting. (edited) 3y

Andrew65 @MoonWitch94 Love a good historical fiction book. 3y

Velvetfur @Andrew65 Yes that's the one! Thank you for the África suggestions too 😁 3y

Andrew65 @Velvetfur We need to get together a list of African books. 3y

Read4life Thanks for the tag 💙. I‘m finishing A Court of Wings & Ruin, starting Angel‘s Rest, The Making of Us &

The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel

Andrew65 @Read4life Some good books there. 3y

CarolynM Thanks for the tag🙂 I was feeling like some brain candy so I'm catching up with Stephanie Plum

Fortune and Glory: A Novel

TheKidUpstairs @AmyG oh, how I love those characters! Hope you're enjoying! The second book is great, too. 3y

TheKidUpstairs @ElizaMarie ooh, enjoy! That's a good read! 3y

TheKidUpstairs I'm just about finished A Psalm for the Wild Built, and also working on

The Memory Police

AmyG @TheKidUpstairs I love Elizabeth so much. ❤️ 3y

Rissa1 Trying to read this, but I keep being interrupted.

All These Bodies

SpookyMazeOfBooks Would love to do this 3y

Crazeedi I have 4 books going right now! Arghhh! Plus 2 more I have to hopefully read before en of January. Slow going for me this month. Reading right now tagged for #BookSpin also still slowly finishing Missing Sister and the Sunflower Sisters! And my LMPBC book@!

Thursday Murder Club

Bookworm54 I wasn‘t reading anything, as I had work and visited family. Just started the tagged book set in Egypt today :)

No One Sleeps in Alexandria

Crazeedi Oh crikey an I have to get reading this one for #FoodAndLit

Death on the Nile: Hercule Poirot Investigates

JanuarieTimewalker13 If it hasn‘t expired (again). I‘m listening to

Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

(edited) 3y

Andrew65 @JanuarieTimewalker13 Happy reading. 3y

Andrew65 @Crazeedi Still trying to decide what book to read for Egypt for the #ReadingAfrica2022 Challenge, but I have read this one in recent years. 3y

JanuarieTimewalker13 Thank you!!! 3y

Kimzey How do I tag a book? 3y

Crazeedi @Kimzey look for the little tag underneath where you are writing a post. Theres a tag and a skull and crossbones, the tag will bring up the place where you can type in book. The skull is if you want to hide your post! 3y

Crazeedi @Andrew65 I'd love a post with Africa books!! 3y

Kimzey @Crazeedi Thank you! 3y

Kimzey Listening to

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Andrew65 Thanks @Crazeedi for helping @Kimzey to tag a book. 3y

Andrew65 @Crazeedi I‘ll think about how we best do this. 3y

Andrew65 @Kimzey This one sounds great. 3y

Crazeedi @Andrew65 🥰 3y

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Andrew65

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

Starting a new weekly feature #WeekendReading

Most of us get most of our reading done at the weekend, so each weekend let‘s share what we are reading.

I am listening to The PoisonWood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (#AuthoraMonth) and When Hoopoes Go to Heaven by Gaile Parkin. Both cover countries for #ReadingAfrica2022

What are you reading? Let‘s all share.

kspenmoll At the moment I am having coffee and reading

The Other Side of Midnight

Andrew65 Don‘t know what happened here has posted twice 🙈 3y

Andrew65 @kspenmoll Such a great author. 3y

sprainedbrain I ❤️ Poisonwood Bible! 3y

Andrew65 @sprainedbrain It is an excellent read. 3y

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Nessavamusic

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

Here are my planned reads for this weekend‘s #20in4Readathon

Andrew65

Andrew65 Some great choices, good luck 😊👍 3y

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ShananigansReads

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

1. The Hidden Power is F*cking Up, A Madness of Sunshine, Mated
2. Nalini Singh just revealed the cover to her next release Quiet In Her Bones and it‘s looks so pretty.
3. All. The. Time! And it gets me in trouble sometimes but also delighted sometimes.

#WeekendReads @rachelsbrittain

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eanderson

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

The weekend is starting early for us today! 🤗

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MsRadioSilence

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

1. About to start on The Haunting of Hill House!
2. Uhm...I think it was the second Witcher book... I don‘t know. I panic-bought a lot of books from a local bookstore before my college went on spring break and then ultimately shut down.
3. Lay in my bed, play animal crossing, read, and do homework.

#weekendreads

rachelsbrittain

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Well-ReadNeck

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

Here are the books I‘ve finished so for #24B4Monday

Andrew65 Going really well! 5y

KarouBlue How was the Val Kilmer? 5y

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LA_Mead

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

1. #IMOMSOHARD 2. These Witches Don‘t Burn 3. American Royals #weekendresds @rachelsbrittain

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MsRadioSilence

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

1. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, which I‘m enjoying, and of course Pride and Prejudice, which I don‘t think I‘ll ever finish, haha
2. 0. Libraries and me have a terrible relationship because I never turn things in on time.
3. Listen to some nice, chill music. Go outside if it‘s cool, and make a comfy nest inside if it‘s not. Get a cat. Turn off the TV and put your phone on silent. Pick a book you know you‘ll love.

#weekendreads

rachelsbrittain

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Scochrane26

The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa | Alex Garland

1. Travelers by Helon Habila for book club on Monday. Dopesick on audio
2. Hard choice—I‘ll go with Wayward Son, but I also loved A Million Junes and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. All 5 ⭐️reads for me.
3. I should pick something spooky, but I‘m looking forward to The Art of Theft (lady Sherlock) most.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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