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"I lived within my own hurt feelings, in a cave that was too dark to see the outline of the trees that filled with green leaves "

"I knew what it was like to fail someone."

Such a pick! Hauntingly good, I could hardly put it down. One more for #aam. And my first #bookspinbingo of the month!

Also, according to GR this one has been on my TBR since June 2015 🤯🥳

What a masterpiece-started it on the plane Monday and just finished. I‘m gobsmacked by Hoffman‘s range of talent, her magic with words, plots, subplots, characters, settings...AND connections to real life events in early 20th century: TriangleShirtwaist Factory fire/laborers‘ rights, and Coney Island‘s Dreamland/exotic humans and other poor creatures. This is a must-read for Hoffman readers-cuts across genres. #authoramonth2021 #bookspinbingo

Went to take some old books to the used bookstore and found these. I'm so into history and life experiences in my reading at the moment. 😊📚📖

I am posting one book a day from my extensive collection of books. No explanation why I have this book. Play along! #tbrpile Day #16

Someone asked me this morning to name my favorite Alice Hoffman book. This is one of them.

#WordsofOctober @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Extraordinary

I‘m starting to visit bookstores when we travel. I bought theses on a whim and look forward to new to me authors.

So gripping, leaving you guessing until the end. I love the way Alice Hoffman writes. This book has two main characters and it bounces back and forth between each one‘s backstory and present time. It was an intriguing way to write the sorry and I loved it. I‘m using this one as my #headcoveringoncover for #booked2020

Alice Hoffman does it agin! This haunting and tender love story showcases Hoffman‘s talents at their best. The story is unusual but based on true events. An incredible and engrossing read.

I keep trying to like Hoffman‘s writing more, but I‘m just not a fan of the structure here and the switching perspectives from two first person POVs to third person... And the characters themselves aren‘t very realistic to me... the historical setting is interesting but the sideshow/human oddities didn‘t feel all that fresh... but the audio is performed well and I enjoyed it for some fun #AudioColoring!

I am a sucker for any kind of circus/carnival/side show type story but throw in #mermaids and I‘m in heaven! Shocked to see this book got crappy reviews on Litsy- I really enjoyed this one and gave it 4 ⭐️. However, seeing as how I live in a mermaid house, I may be a little biased lol 🤷‍♀️
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#anewchapter
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

A story of star-crossed lovers, living in New York in 1911, that I still haven‘t read yet!! 🙄 and a giant pine cone! 👍🏻 #AFairytaleOfNewYork #winterwonderland

#firstsnowonbrooklyn made me homesick. Images of my High School- (FK Lane HS)3 halls in Brooklyn, One in Queens. Cypress Hills Cemetery has an entrance in Brooklyn and Queens, surrounded two sides of my HS and is where Harry Houdini is buried. #winterwonderland

Finished my first audiobook. I really enjoyed this story. Loved the characters and the writing. Alice Hoffman has never let me down.

Do you think you retain any of the story #audiosleeping? Lol. I think I was on chapter three, woke up on chapter 6 😦

Cool this website gives you suggestions based on favourite oils or authors. Will have to keep this handy. https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/isbn/1451693567

Road tripping home with my kiddos in t-30 minutes for Thanksgiving weekend at my parents. They get the DVD player so I am going to audio drive with This one.

What an amazing box of goodies! Thank you so much @SkeletonKey for all of the wonderful gifts in the last box for #novelteabookclub. My family laughed when I gasped in delight...over sugar. 😂😂 I LOVE lavender in food! The tea bag buddy looks awesome, and all the teas look so yummy!! And the tote!!

I hope you don‘t mind if I share this, but Kay is an incredible artist, you should definitely check out their website: theskeletonkeystudio.com.

#AugustIsATrip #museum @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

Trying to get back into some kind of schedule, really enjoying reading this pick for the #tealoverspostalclub #tealoversclub #novelteabookclub

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#CoolBooks #extraordinary @Linsy

Trying to get back on track after a really crazy month. Things are starting to calm down though.

Still need to start on our #tealoversbookclub pick, so that will be next.

#tealovers #novelteabookclub @4thhouseontheleft @cobwebmoth @JenlovesJT47

#qotd #quoteaboutlove

My 1st Hoffman book & certainly will not be my last one! Albeit a slow burn story, I enjoyed this book immensely:

✔ Beautiful & lustrous prose
✔ Character driven story
✔ Circus/oddities themed story with great descriptive writing
✔ Quotable book

❌ Good but not great plot
❌ Italic font used for 1st person narration is harsh for the eyes!

Rating: 4🌟

More review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2451046853

📸: Photography By Curtis Ulrich

Settled into one of the library‘s 2 comfy chairs for the next hour and a half. Wasting time while the boys are at VBS. Seems like a good use of my time. 😊

These are the books I bought at the Strand and had shipped home. It will be so fun getting the package back home.

Love this quote! ???

"The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith. Whatever was witnessed in the real world was unknowable in real time. It was the eye of the camera that captured the world as it truly was."

#qotd #quotefrombook

Thanks so much, @cobwebmoth !! This was great to receive after a stressful week. I love everything you chose for this box, builders tea will remind me of England and I can‘t wait to try the spice tea.

This book has been on my to-read list for a long while too so I‘m excited to start it soon.

#tealoversbookclub #novelteabookclub #teaandbooks #yum

#FoodimentaryWatson is a great way to start a Friday! @MaleficentBookDragon Thank you for the goodies! Chocolate covered potato chips - YUM. Too bad I already did my #bookmarks photo or I could‘ve added these. Thank you! I hope you like your goodies as well. ⭐️💛📚👍🏼 #litsyswaps @wordslinger42 thanks for putting this together.

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I listened to the audio and there are three narrators: Coralie, Eddie, and a generic narrator (voiced by Judith Light). Of the story itself, only Coralie‘s story interested me. (Which is why I have said next to nothing about Eddie in my summary, as I can‘t tell you much more, as my mind wandered during his parts.) Cont in comments...

Interesting but lacked detail overall.

May stats. 5 books. 3 were book club books. I enjoyed them all with a few notable problems in The Loch and All Our Wrong Todays. All in all, a good reading month.

Ready for book club.

Leftover Chinese food and a few stolen pages at my desk.

Arggghhh. This is especially annoying since the two books I read before this one had a lot of sexism in them.

I need to go watch Wonder Woman. Like NOW.

Starting the #8intwo #readathon at LaVeggio with a tasty mocha. #bookandcoffee

For this weekend‘s #8intwo #readathon I‘ll be reading this book for Thursday‘s Books and Beans Book Club (we meet in a different coffee shop near Binghamton NY each month).

This book is worth reading but very slow moving. I also didn‘t like how every other chapter was in italics. It took me out of the story. Still, lots to learn here about the history of New York in 1911. 3.5 ⭐️

Getting ready to dive into this for the #novelteabookclub - this has been on my TBR for awhile now! Jace approves. 👍🏻