pickThe story of two teens who find the friendship they desperately need in high school and how a dramatic occurrence and also the passing of time both changes that relationship and doesn‘t. Bunny and Michael were such well crafted characters that the plot seemed secondary to me. I just felt like I knew these kids and worried about them. #14books14weeks book 3
I finally got started on summer with my first #14Books14Weeks and my first visit to the hammock grove on Governors Island!
I picked only paper editions for the #14books14weeks so my summer reading challenge to myself is to actually read my #ReadYourKindle books in June, July, and August (yeah, we'll see how that goes 😅)
I think this is some good midsummer reading here; a mix of the cozy and the queer (or the cozy and the weird, but that has no alliteration 😆)
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pickOhmigoodness this was a twisty turny other world sci-fi murder mystery that I could not put down. Absolutely going to read the second book in the series.
Book 100 of the year! 🎉
Book 3 of #14books14weeks @Liz_M
pickA sinister plot to dethrone the Raven is slowly coming into focus. Less ghost hunting but way more political intrigue. Jusetsu is starting to be more aware of her surroundings and others' perceptions of her.
Book 2 off #14books14weeks @Liz_M
Late post for May #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks
Haven‘t closed out my May reading but my June #bookspin is ready to go. 🤷🏾♀️
#bookspin and #DoubleSpin are both #14Books14weeks
pickA great read from my #14Books14Weeks stack. I‘ve wanted to read this for awhile and really enjoyed Atwood‘s take on The Odyssey. Thank you so much @BarbaraBB for sending me this copy! ♥️
pickI got 50 pages into this, went to find it on Goodreads, & realized that I had read it in 2021! 😂 And rated it 4.5/5 stars! 😂 I blame COVID brain. But I finished it again & still really enjoyed it. #readyourbookshelf #14books14weeks @LizM
pickSayaka Murata has written a novel around the concept of a world in which sex doesn‘t longer exist and children are more or less fabricated and raised by all. Which means the end of families too.
It is an interesting starting point but the story around it fell a bit short, as if it was just a necessary vehicle to execute that concept.
Then again, the ending made up for a lot of that. A light pick.
#14Books14Weeks book 2
pickThe spirit of Cezanne‘s wife & frequent subject, Hortence, tells her story while watching over a writer who is trying to write Hortense‘s biography but winds up writing a heartbreaking part of her own autobiography. That may sound like an unnecessary bit of literary pretentiousness, but it is beautifully & sensitively done. I‘m not surprised it was on all those prize lists last year. #ozfiction
Second book for #14books14weeks
