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I‘m having a lazy, post-Christmas day. Reading (and napping) with my dog close by. Good book so far!
December 27, 2024.

Not a favorite of hers.

Thanks @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag! 🤗

1️⃣ I have always wanted to go to The Galapagos. 💙💚💙

2️⃣ This book is partially set there & in my #TBR 🐢💚

Anyone want to join in? Consider yourself tagged! 🤗

Listened to this today. Diana and Fin are set to vacay in the Galápagos Islands, but when C-19 hits, Fin (a doctor) can‘t leave but he wants Diana to go, which she does. Of course quarantine is enforced there so her stay turns into months, while Fin works with C patients dawn to dusk, and so many die…Well written

#ReadAway2024

@DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

This book takes us back to 2020 when Covid hit the world. It started off kind of slow but I got into the story and then everything I thought was happening flipped. This was a pretty decent book. I enjoyed it.

Full disclosure, this is a pandemic book set in New York City, which was one of the most COVID-19-wracked cities in the USA. Jodie P did her research, as per usual. It wasn‘t your typical Jodi P book, tho, in that it‘s told from a single POV. I read it in two days. It fully immersed me. It‘s a book about finding hope in a dark time and finding yourself along the way.

This had a twist that I wasn‘t expecting. Nice read.

1. Make appointments for a pedicure and eyebrows. 😂
2. I wanted to be a lawyer so I could make a lot of money. It didn‘t happen.
3. Yes - our annual beach trip down the shore. 🌊⛱️
4. I haven‘t read a Jodi Picoult book in a while.

#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

Rainy day reading

I‘m giving this book 5 stars because it is the first book in a long time that made me stop halfway and react to what I read. At first, I wasn‘t sure about reading a book about Covid. We lived through it and that wasn‘t fun and I didn‘t want to relive it in fiction where I go to escape, but this wasn‘t what I expected at all. Really unique story with a really interesting twist. I am surprised at how much I liked this book.

Early morning reading = best way to play hooky

My second book by Jodi Picoult, and I really enjoyed it! I was completely not expecting the turn in this book, and I am becoming very fond of Jodi Picoult‘s writing style! 4/5 ⭐️

Went in blind for this one. Heavy.

#12Booksof2023 #WishYouWereHere

Diana O'Toole is about to get engaged on a trip to Galapagos Island but a virus hits New York on the eve of their departure. Finn tells her she should still go to the island as he has to stay at the hospital to handle all the sick. When Diana arrives on the island the whole island is now under quarantine and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated Diana must venture beyond her comfort zone.

Sad but true.

My most favourite part of the book was reading all the adventures Diana had around the island.

My least favourite part of the book was the Covid aspect. I am already living it for the past 3 years, so reading more about it was the last thing I wanted to do. I decided to be ignorant though.

What I will remember most about this book was that the postcards that was written to Finn by Diana from the island.

Great book! Keeps you guessing on what is her reality and what is fantasy until the last 100 pages. Easy and fun to read!

Well written. I really enjoyed the emails describing the desperation of COVID. I thought the ending was odd. I will always read Picoult bc they are always good. I just strongly prefer the ones she writes about ethical dilemmas.

This is my choice for February #2023readingbracket. I am actually surprised, as I‘ve never been a Picoult fan, other than Nineteen Minutes, which I thought was wonderful. This one was excellent, although it is a Covid book, so if you are avoiding that then skip this one!

This book sucked me in. It was also not what I expected, but in a good way. Set during the early days of the pandemic when no one knew what was happening & everyone thought if we shut down & quarantined for two weeks everything would go back to normal. Boy did things not turn out as expected.

This book is so much better than I thought it would be. The description doesn‘t do it justice. Jodi Picoult has been hit and miss with me. This book appeared in my Apple Books, and I have no memory of buying it. (I probably bought it). Maybe because it was the audiobook, maybe I was just in the right mood, but I fell into this one and didn‘t stop till the end. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#FabulousFebruaryReadathon #BookSpinBingo

Diana O'Toole is about to get engaged on a trip to Galapagos Island but a virus hits New York on the eve of their departure. Finn tells her she should still go as he has to stay at the hospital to handle all the sick. When Diana arrives on the island the whole island is now under quarantine and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated Diana must venture beyond her comfort zone.

📚 the tagged!!
📚 I wanted to read it because I‘ve always loved Jodi‘s books because the subject matter really makes you think and her books are always so well researched!

#Two4Tuesday

At present, this is a “living” novel making it extremely difficult to review as I‘m sure it was for the author to write. Many years from now people will read this book with same sense of bewilderment that we currently feel while reading about the Pandemic of 1918 or the 1883 epidemic of small pox. As unreal as it may seem while reading about it, living through it is an entirely different experience.

💙 tagged
💙 Abbi Waxman
💙 The Wizard of Oz
💙 The Weekend
💙 What‘s Up? (4 Non Blondes)

#ManicMonday
#LetterW

Have you played @thereadingpal @Escapinwithbooks @Bookgoil

“There are two ways of looking at walls. Either they are built to keep people you fear out or they are built to keep people you love in. Either way, you create a divide.”

Another amazing, well researched, thought provoking, descriptive novel by Jodi! At the end of part one I was at a loss for words! The ending left me wanting more!! She does it again!!

#Roll100 #44
#LitsyLoveReads

“Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don‘t have that you never notice what you do. It‘s a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things.”

Well… I didn‘t see that coming!! 😵‍💫😳

#LitsyLoveReads

#NationalTeaDay ☕️ 🫖
#JanuaryJazz

My beautiful teacups from Christine 💜 @TheBookHippie

I‘m really enjoying this book, but I do not care for Finn… I‘m in healthcare and I know how terrible things were. Idk why but he is just grating on my nerves! Am I the only one who feels this way??

#LitsyLoveReads

Images from google…

I had to google these islands so vividly described by Jodi! Her books are always so well researched. Anyone visited Galapagos? 🌊 it‘s so beautiful 💙

I‘m just getting started with this one… really good so far and it makes me think of my relationship with my mother.

What are you reading?

Happy Sunday!! 📚💛💙

#LitsyLoveReads

#NationalBirdDay
#JanuaryJazz

I‘m reading the tagged and picked up the other book at our local bookstore 📚❤️ 🐦

#topread2022 #januaryjazz @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

A wonderful way to end the day! We shopped, we walked, we ate, we hung out on the patio during a storm ⛈️ I hate to have to go back to the real world 🌎 but I‘m grateful for this time we spent together!
#HusbandsofLitsy

I write really big so the bottom notebook is my #Roll100 list!

44- Wish You Were Here
84- The Christmas Shoes
96-The Wild Girls

Happy New Year 🎆🎈🎊

#12BooksOf2022 #May @Andrew65

This book surprised me and hit close to home. I love Picoult‘s writing and this was a contender for my favorite book of the year.

#AdventRecommends @emilyrose_x

This has been one of my favorite reads this year. I definitely wasn‘t expecting it to go the way it went. I don‘t want to spoil anything. I will say I had a similar experience and didn‘t know it was a “thing” until I heard Picoult talking about her research for this book.

#83
I absolutely loved this book!!!

a refreshing yet realistic love novel. was worried about the repetitiveness of a quarantine story but Picoult prevailed. 4.5/5

I didn't think I was ready to read a book that was set during the height of the covid 19 pandemic. Jodi Picoult does it well. I like how she questions alternate realities, parallel universes and the possibility of the multiverse. The only other Picoult book I have read was My Sister's Keeper. Which one should I read next?

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

🍁 I‘ve been lucky enough to meet & talk with Lisa Scottoline, A.J. Finn & Janet Evanovich. So much fun and I believe we could be friends.

🍁🍁 Litsy, Goodreads, family/friends

🍁🍁🍁 I wasn‘t expecting that!

🍁Ellie Alexander or Amy Riechert
🍁🍁usually litsy or other reader friends
🍁🍁🍁I never saw the twist in this book coming!!

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi

As a devoted Jodi picoult fan, it pains me to rate this one as “meh.” Her authors note says she wrote this book at land-speed, and it shows. It‘s fragmented and felt rushed, but also long winded at certain times. There are highlights-the lessons we‘ve learned through the pandemic, how to appreciate who and what you love in the now. The research about NDEs and coma dreams of parallel universes was striking, though. Not bad, but not her best work.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ full review at thejwordpress.wordpress.com

I am not sure I have words to describe this book… set during Covid it was at times hard to read and at others incredibly uplifting and hopeful. Picoult has a way of taking hard topics and making them so real and raw that they will stay with you for a long time to come!

Just amazing beyond amazing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hopefully I can finish today or tonight ☺️

Been reading this one slow. Im enjoying it and also it's my first Jodi Picoult book