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❄️ I set a book goal of 150 and have finished 223 so far. And I am one book away from completing #52Booksin52Weeks.
❄️❄️ 2 but they were both rereads. A Christmas Carol and Christmas Days
❄️❄️❄️ 2024 is the year of Follett‘s Knightbridge series. I‘m considering starting at the beginning.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Want to play @PageShifter @Arvena @AmyG

Next up in #MissionReadAllTheLibraryBooks
All these three are due back shortly and can't be renewed 😬 I also want to read the play Our Town before reading Tom Lake.
I might just return Razor Blade Tears unread for now, as I need a revenge story for next year's #52BooksIn52Weeks challenge.

#52booksin52weeks2023 @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

This is what I have planned for the prompts released!

• Set in Dublin
• Books on the cover
• Related to the word 'Murder'

and, not featured because they're books I need to get:
• Octavia E Butler-inspired.

#RememberingJenny

This is a very sad book about a mother and her adult sons who come together a year after the father died. Their shared past is filled with lies and secrets, with misunderstandings and things unspoken.
He has died a year earlier but the invisible father still seems the only one to bring them back together.

#52BooksIn52weeks #RedoOneOfThisYearsPrompts

This book was just what I needed: to escape in Eva‘s and Shane‘s world. I rooted for them, I hurt when they did. I loved the dialogues, the flirting, I loved Audre and Cece.
I didn‘t think it especially steamy or sexy but I wasn‘t looking for that. I wanted romance and that‘s what I got. I look forward to discuss it during our #SummerHeat weekend 17-19 June!

#pop22 #RomanceByABIPOCAuthor #52BooksIn52weeks #InvolvesASecondChance

Tim Butcher travels through the #DemocraticRepublicCongo (DRC). Torn by war, violence, poverty and injustice yet the Congo is mostly a country that the world seems to have forgotten about. I learned so much about politics, geography, human rights etc. Most notable is that the country is not an undeveloped country, rather an undeveloping country ⬇️

#ReadingAfrica2022 🇨🇩
#52BooksIn52weeks #AudioNarratedByAuthor
#Booked2022 #InvolvesExploration

One of my African favourites so far for. These are the memoirs of NYT journalist Helene Cooper, who grows up in #Liberia. When the country falls apart after the coup of 1980, she and her family flee to the US. Her less privileged half sister Eunice stays in a country that for years suffers under crazy dictators who recruit child soldiers  and drug them to fight for.. well, for whatever. ⬇️⬇️

#ReadingAfrica2022 ??

4 1/2 🌟 because when I started reading it I quickly remembered who the murderer is, as I've watched Suchet's version too many times 😂😂😂

Using for the above #pop22 prompt, as well as #52Booksin52Weeks #Tbrdeckofcards #bilingualcharacter @Clwojick @Cinfhen @Cortg @KarenUK @Kalalalatja @4thhouseontheleft @Megabooks @Laughterhp @squirrelbrain @RaeLovesToRead

This is the uncomfortable read about two Mexican boys, more or less condemned to each other out of loneliness, and frustration about how life is turning out. They can‘t be more different yet they keep meeting each other. But it‘s a toxic friendship and you know from the start that no good can come from this.

#52BooksIn52weeks #WealthyCharacter
#internationalBookerPrize2022

This is the beautiful, sad story of 15-year-old Kambili, set in #Nigeria. She is the daughter of a wealthy and fanatical religious man who physically and emotionally abuses his family if they don‘t live up to his Catholic standards. During a sleepover with her free-spirited aunt Kambili starts thinking of her own identity - with all consequences. Recommended!

#19822022 #2003 #ReadingAfrica2022 🇳🇬 #52BooksIn52weeks #FiveSyllableTitle