The Earthquake Bird

1. Tagged. The Earthquake Bird by Susannah Jones. I remember being obsessed by it some years ago. - I even once missed my commuter train stop on my way home from work at theatre in the middle of the night because I was so hooked 😅
2. Unheimlich (=eerie, uncanny), a YA romantic thriller omnibus by Ursula Isbel. Got it on my 13th b'day. Still reread it every once in a while.
3. After Dark and/or Dance Dance Dance, my two faves by Haruki Murakami.

Yuki_Onna #ThreeListThursday #TLT #rereads #SusannaJones #Japan #HarukiMurakami #UrsulaIsbel #YA #rememberthetimes
Great question, @dabbe❣️

What are your 3, @BeeMagical @hannah_leeloo @StaceGhost ?
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StaceGhost Yuki I love your choices! Murakami is such a good reread. I think my most rereads are boring— Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, and Anna Karenina. 3w

dabbe Yowza! 3 I've never heard of and now on the TBR. Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 3w

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Yuki_Onna @StaceGhost Classics aren't (necessarily😉) boring! At least not Jane Eyre😁
I've never read the other two. I must say that I'm impressed by your rereading of Anna Karenina 🤯 3w

Yuki_Onna @dabbe You're more than welcome! 🩷🩵💜 3w

dabbe @StaceGhost I don't think so! #1: On my list, too! #greatminds #2: 🤩 #3: You win the #beyondperseverenceaward. I read it once, loved it, and said “Never again.“ 😂 Thanks for playing. 💚💙💚 3w

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rachelk

The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones

pick

I enjoyed this strange, character driven crime/psychological suspense novel and admit I fell for a few red herrings. I didn‘t especially like the main character but I loved the way the story was written with the truth obscured and yet in front of you the whole time. The Tokyo setting was perfect.

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jenniferw88

The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones

so-so

#lmpbc @jhod @Cathythoughts @RachelO unfortunately this is only 3 1/2 🌟 from me - I don't think I like unreliable narrators. Will be in post on Monday, and will post my picks for the next round tomorrow as I don't think we're going to get anyone else.

296 points for #scarathlon, broken down into:
5 for 1 hour read #24b4monday
10 for #teamslaughter theme @Clwojick
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At 4 hours 7 mins total @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Andrew65 A good time so far. 👍😊 4y

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Cathythoughts

The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones

Thanks @RachelO I got it 👍🏻👍🏻And I have to say it sounds great !

Tonton There‘s going to be a 🎥 movie based on the book. 5y

Tonton Netflix. 5y

Cathythoughts @Tonton interesting... 👍🏻I‘m looking forward to reading it this week 5y

rockpools Hooray! Glad it arrived - hope you enjoy it! 5y

Cathythoughts @RachelO thanks! Hooray is right ! Starting it now ..... 5y

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Sweetkokoro

The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones

So does anyone here know what an Interlibrary loan is? I requested my library get this book as its being made into a netflix movie and I thought that fact might help them in wanting to get it (as bird box had a huge influx after the Netflix show) but the request was denied (like all the other books I have requested at my local library to carry >_>) and I still don‘t understand how to use link+ and hey push that service like crazy.

bromeliad It's a van network that goes between a bunch of libraries in a single region. You sign on with your library card, request the book be available for pick up from your preferred library, and the van picks it up from a different city's library and brings it to your location. ☺️ It is super easy and helpful! 5y

Sweetkokoro @bromeliad So I already do that with my local library network, does it go to libraries outside of my network? Because I have checked my libraries catalogue and the book isn‘t available in the 16 libraries that are associated with my card, which is why I requested they add the book to their catalogue. 5y

bromeliad Ohhh. Yeah, either this is just the same thing on a larger scale, or it's a separate system, but is able to do drop offs at your preferred locations. Maybe you need to register for a new library card? I've had to do that sometimes. 5y

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Sweetkokoro @bromeliad I just got the card this year, I‘m thinking with this being an automated response they don‘t realize I already checked their catalogue and none of the libraries have this book, because it‘s not in their catalogue. I wasn‘t even able to find it through hoopla or Libby, I‘m starting to feel like my library has a very small selection in comparison to other states/counties. 5y

Sweetkokoro @bromeliad I figured it out, interlibrary is the circle of my 16local libraries and Link+ connects my card to libraries outside of my library circle and delivers them to my local library, so I was able to find the book finally! Yay! 5y

bromeliad 🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y

LibrarianRyan Yeah. I checked link and it was there. Also, if you ever find a book is not in you local library or link, you can ask (in person) for them to do a statewide or a national ILL (sometimes called an OCLC request). Some libraries are getting away from OCLC, but there are paper forms to request. They may ask for a small fee for shipping if they can not get it through their delivery system. 5y

LibrarianRyan FYI, my guess is you library can not buy this book because of age (originally pubed 2002), that it‘s a British book and they can‘t get it through their jobber (library vendors), that they can only get it from amazon and they have a no amazon policy (more common than you think), or that they can only find used copies, which libraries rarely purchase. Don‘t be too down on you library as they are doing the best they can with what they have. 5y

LibrarianRyan Also FYI, if it is a hit on. Netflix. , a movie tie in edition will be printed and then the library will probably pick it up. 5y

LibrarianRyan Also because I can‘t help myself, many hoopla books (except comics) are not as prevalent because they cost the library more in the long run, and I checked, I couldn‘t order it for our ebook collection, it‘s not available. But being that it‘s a mcMillian, it would probably have a meter that the library can not justify for such an old title. 5y

Sweetkokoro @LibrarianRyan that‘s a lot of info. And my library doesn‘t have a “no amazon” policy as they have a function that uses amazon it just has to be approved. It‘s hard to not get frustrated with my local library as their answer for most requests is normally no, and thats with talking to others who go there. And we don‘t seem to have the nicest librarians around here either :/ but I found it and hopefully they will approve the transfer through link+ 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro interesting. 5y

Sweetkokoro @librarianryan My library also has from what I can tell one of the worst contracts with hoopla, we get 5 borrows a month (it used to be 3) with hardly any selection, im not too fond of hoopla honestly it very rarely ever helps me. 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro Hoopla is play for play. It‘s not a contract limit. The library has to pay for each check out. 2.99-5.99 per audiobook, .99-2.99 per graphic novel, 3.99-7.99 per video, and I‘m not sure what ebooks are but I do know that many libraries shut off the ebook portion. Your library has full access to the entire hoopla collection, however between Amazon meddling with exclusive contracts, and publishers like McMillian putting embargos ⬇️ 5y

LibrarianRyan On when they will sell ebooks and eaudiobooks to libraries, it limits what a library can add to its collection for example, Blackstone audio which is one of the larger audiobook houses, has an exclusive contract with audible for the first 6 months of a books release. No library can purchase those titles which includes its availability with Hoopla. ⬇️ 5y

LibrarianRyan As for the number of items you can check out, this is done by averages. What actually happens is a library sets a budget, either day, month year, etc. and when patrons use Hoopla it adds up the charges until it hits the daily budget and then shuts its off. This Dailey budget is then compared to the number of users and a limit is set. If they didn‘t set limits just a hand full of patrons could blow the budget, leaving no one else access. 5y

LibrarianRyan The Hoopla clock normally resets about midnight library time. My guy works nights so he checks his out at like one in the morning. If I don‘t check mine out before 10 am I normally have to wait til the next day. 5y

Sweetkokoro @librarianryan I see. I still unfortunately find Hoopla unhelpful and useless :/ 5y

LibrarianRyan Other library ebook systems are a price per copy use, like Libby. But those prices are really high, like $60-80 for the new James Patterson, etc. the. You have meters. Some like Scholastic are timed, use that ebook as much as you want for two years, but after 2 years you have to rebuy it. Or are metered to say 36 uses, then rebuy. But the. The embargo‘s come into play again. Tor and Macmillan have a new library policy that says a library may buy 5y

LibrarianRyan One copy of a new ebook. They get to keep it forever. To buy any more copies they have to wait 4 months and then all those extra copies are metered. This policy just went into effect last month and more publishers are adopting similar policies. Most ebook collections at libraries are shared. For example, in central Illinois the Cloud Library portion of eReadIllinois has over 150 multi-type, varying population ranges, etc using 1 collection. The 5y

Sweetkokoro @librarianryan Yup I read about that change Tor and Macmillan put in. I don‘t read ebooks often so it doesn‘t effect me. But I get it there is a lot of behind the scenes stuff I clearly I don‘t know about this... 5y

LibrarianRyan Power of the collective is that they can add tons more books and variety to their digital collections, but then Are hamstringed by the publishers. Can you imagine 1 copy of the newest Red Rising book in a collection serving almost a million people? We libraries are fighting for access but we need help fro P.O. patrons to help in the fight. You have probably seen me say I am anti Amazon. This is part of the reason. For a glimpse check out this 5y

LibrarianRyan Article from last week. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/810... 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro there nothing wrong with finding it useless. It used to be better. But it‘s not Hooplas or you libraries fault. Blame Amazon and publishers. 5y

LibrarianRyan @Sweetkokoro I love having this conversation because even some libraries don‘t pay attention to what is going on. It‘s a fight. It has been a fight. While the general public sees libraries as allies and doors, publishers see them as enemies and dungeons, and the reason they are not seeing profits. But it‘s the big guys turning the head of the publishers away from the real problem, and telling them to blame the little guy. 5y

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jhod

The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones

#lmpbc #groupy
@Cathythoughts @RachelO @jenniferw88
Any preferences or 'please no's!' from these four?

mcctrish I really liked The Mothers, there‘s a lot going on in it 5y

rockpools Yes please to all of them! Bottom 2 on the tbr already; tagged -never heard of - sounds great!; The Mothers - sounds like a good bookclub out-of-my-comfort-zone read. So no help whatsoever then 😉 5y

Amor4Libros I liked The Mothers a lot, too 5y

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Cathythoughts All look good to me ... exciting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y

jenniferw88 Again, any look good - 3 are not on my radar at all, but The Mothers has been on and off the tbr, so if I had to choose I'll pick

The Mothers: A Novel

jhod @Libby1 hi Libby! I chose the earthquake bird last time, any preference on the other three?! X 4y

Libby1 Hello, @jhod ! They all look interesting. I think I lean towards Moonstone, but I‘m happy with whatever you choose. 😊 4y

jhod @Libby1 great!
4y

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jhod

The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones

Made a couple more online purchases for #cupidgoespostal today so obviously I had to get myself something too... Saw this recommended on a blog this morning and it looks great!

Tamra This sounds good! 5y

Tonton Movie now in postproduction! 5y

jhod @Tonton ooh, good knowledge! 5y

BookishMarginalia Pretty cover! 5y

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