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The Memory Collectors
The Memory Collectors: A Novel | Kim Neville
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Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives. Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, andif at all possibledestroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouvers Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls. When the two women meet, Harriet knows that Ev is the only person who can help her make something truly spectacular of her collection. A museum of memory that not only feels warm and inviting but can heal the emotional wounds many people unknowingly carry around. They only know of one other person like them, and they fear the dark effects these objects had on him. Together, they help each other to develop and control their gift, so that what happened to him never happens again. But unbeknownst to them, the same darkness is wrapping itself around another, dragging them down a path that already destroyed Evs family once, and threatens to annihilate what little she has left. The Magpies casts the everyday in a new light, speaking volumes to the hold that our past has over uscontained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objectsand uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny thingssometimes they gather darkness.
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PezFilledCookies
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If you are a sentimental individual this book is FOR YOU! Ev is able to feel the strong emotions associated with items. A child‘s toy and a pair of sewing scissors both harbor strong feeling from their previous owners. But she‘s not alone in her ability, only alone in the way she handles it.

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SilverShanica
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 200.
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CaitlinR
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“Ev squats on a heap of garbage, one hand on the edge of the dumpster to keep her balance, listens for ghosts.”

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Kempfme
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This is a debut book about a woman that can feel emotions through things and sells those things with good feelings. She comes in contact with another woman like her that holds everything, including those that have evil feelings.
I really liked the style of the writing, but I think that I have read so many books like this one that I'm over stimulated. I would recommend this story to anyone that likes magical realism.

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abookishbutterfly
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Mehso-so

I expected something that would stir emotions and pivot around magic. The magical element existed, but the emotional component fell flat for me. Most specifically, I‘d anticipated warmth in the development of the museum plot line, but that was more a device used to bring the characters together. I do wish more energy had been put into the healing aspects.

My full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3593604196

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abookishbutterfly

Harriet enters the library with a bubble of joy in her chest. What a miraculous place. Seven floors of heaven, hundreds of thousands of books, and so many of them singing out their own tiny souls, brought to life through the hands of strangers.

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abookishbutterfly

She imagines him finding Frédérique and loving him alive. It would have to be some fierce love to brighten him so quickly, but children have that magic, the ability to love so hard, undimmed by the fear of loss.

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BoleyBooks
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BoleyBooks
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Don‘t you just love this cover? 😍📚 #boleybooks #thememorycollectors #kimneville #booklove #bookbeast #readwithme
What are you reading?🤓

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Graciouswarriorprincess
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Today was fantastic #bookmail! Two of these books I knew that I had won but others were a complete surprise! Book mail is happy mail!

AmyG Yay!!! 4y
Graciouswarriorprincess @AmyG Thank you! 📚🥰😘 4y
paper.reveries So many beautiful covers! A great book haul indeed. 4y
Graciouswarriorprincess @daisyheadmaesie Thank you! 📚😘🥰 4y
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