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Book #3 (and last for today) is Flashlight. This was less polarizing for our panel than others. I loved the writing style (sentences meticulously crafted and beautiful) but wasn‘t my favorite and dragged in some parts. #booker prize

Our panel reviews are at the link below. Drop a comment with your reviews/links.

https://thereadersroom.org/2025/08/29/2025-booker-longlist-flashlight-by-susan-c...

#5joysfriday this week has flown by 😢 1. Last weekend we were at my in laws‘ cottage which is a double edged sword, it‘s beautiful, they are a handful but floating in the lake is my favourite 2. Stopping at Webers for hamburgers is a summer tradition to or from the cottage 3. A fresh manicure always brings joy, it‘s hard to believe I bit my nails for decades 4. Audio books while painting = joy 5. Today is John‘s birthday; he‘s mostly a joy 😉

#BookerLonglist #3

I really liked Szalay‘s other books but I can‘t make much of this one.
István doesn‘t live his life, it just happens to him. He doesn‘t make choices or decisions. He just says okay to everything that is decided for him. There‘s just one time he does takes action, and it changes the course of his life. Yet it doesn‘t have any real impact on him or on me as a reader. So. Not very impressed.

And can someone explain the title?

Here‘s a little French History timeline from Khan Academy I just found

https://youtu.be/I4iwhvDhvKE?si=nzP_0JxezBg31XOT

#ReadLesMis

“Endless” #3

My August #ReadYourKindle2025 picks are:
#5 Broken Country
#3 The Queen of Crimes
#13 Rope
#18 Nobody‘s Fool

@CBee

My #ReadOrDonate choice for August is An Impartial Witness, which is Book #3 in the excellent Bess Crawford Mystery series. It has been sitting on my shelf for several years, patiently waiting for me to notice it. 🥴

What will everyone else be reading/donating?

#goodnewssunday (1 day late)
@Deblovestoread

Below are links to the articles in case you're interested. 🩵📚💚
1: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/books/review/bookstore-pets.html?unlocked_art...
2: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/books/what-to-read-next.html?unlocked_a...
3: https://shorturl.at/GGFJX

Ins.Persis Wadia, the first & only woman in the Indian Police, is tasked with investigating the notorious case of a white man dubbed by press “Ice Man” He was discovered in a mountain cave & determined to have been there for 6 yrs. Other murders followed.Are they linked? If so, how? With codes to break, & enigmatic clues to follow, this case demanded all of her intuition &intelligence to solve it. #serieslove2025 #3 #14books14weeks #week10

For #TLT #ThreeListThursday, @dabbe requested three favorite movie soundtracks.

The ones I thought of first (minus season 1 of The Umbrella Academy, which isn't really a movie) were:

1) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2) Sinners
3) O Brother, Where Art Thou?