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I found this very cool offering in a local free puzzle library (!!!) and did most of it while I listened to FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS. Alas, it‘s the first Cherie Dimaline novel I‘ve disliked. It offers up some intriguing threads, but the story as a whole fails to satisfying and the prose is so performatively purple that it shut me out of the emotions instead of placing me inside them. Sigh. #audiopuzzling

IDK why, maybe because I'm GenX and did this myself, but I really do enjoy any story that involves wandering a cemetery -- as long as it's not horror, which I guess this might be, but not the kind that would give you nightmares like that. Nay, the nightmares would be the kind where you create problems while you try to solve problems. Into the Bright Open is on my TBR.

I read this back in February, but have been delinquent in posting.

There were many good threads of a story that never found their destiny.

I loved the Marrow Thieves by this author so I was excited to read this. Paid full price. About half way through and I just find it flat. To continue or no?

Gosh I really loved this book. The writing is beautiful, almost lyrical sometimes, and the story was so compelling & moving.
It is a ghost story, a love story. It's about grief & how difficult it is to move forward. It's about family & identity and what it means to feel like you don't belong.
I loved the subtle magical realism of it all. I appreciate the indigenous perspective of this author & the depth it brings to her characters and storytelling

I received this from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program.

👻 This is a unique coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who lives in a graveyard with her dad who works there. A mystery, a supernatural resident, romance, and indigenous values are layered in, making this a book I would recommend to others and that I won't soon forget. Bonus points for the comedic chihuahua sidekick.
👻👻👻👻

📚 Thank you @PenguinRandomCa !
#ReadTundra

I had a great time reading for the #20in4 Readathon with @Andrew65 !

My goal was to
✔️ read my Early Reviewer, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls = 271 pages
and
✔️ start Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon = 49 pages (actually read 149 pages)
🟰 420 pages

I exceeded my goal by 100 pages!
#bookly

I‘m joining the #20in4 Readathon with @Andrew65 !

My goal is to
🪦 read my Early Reviewer, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls = 271 pages
and
🐉 start Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon = 49 pages
🟰 320 pages

This is a beautiful read, and most definitely the most intimate when compared to her other books- don‘t even go looking for the Marrow Thieves! A good, edgy story about loss and growing up with it is front and center. Dimaline populates her novel with indigenous culture and characters that, as she usually does in what I‘ve read, covers the gambit of good and bad, to deliver a very human story of getting through things and living with it.

Early Saturday #Bookmail! Super excited to receive this copy of Cherie Diimaline‘s Funeral Songs for Dying Girls. I won it from the April 2023 batch of LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers giveaway. I was nervous it wasn‘t going to arrive before we moved. Worry no more 😉. I will be reading and reviewing it soon. 🤞🏾 Hopefully, I enjoy it.