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jenniferw88
Betty: A novel | Tiffany McDaniel
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slategreyskies Congrats!! ✨ 2y
TrishB Well done 👍🏻 2y
Cinfhen Woohoo!!! Such a compelling book ♥️ 2y
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jenniferw88 @Cinfhen yeah, it would have been 5 ⭐ if there hadn't been cat abuse, hence the .75 of a ⭐ 😂 2y
BookmarkTavern Yay! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉 2y
Ladygodiva7 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2y
BarbaraBB Yay! Congratulations! On to the blank sheet of 2022! 2y
Clwojick Amazing! Way to go! 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Fabulous!! 2y
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BookwormAHN
Summer Sons | Lee Mandelo
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I loved this book. Andrew whose best friend committed suicide and left him everything including his wraith and family curse. But Andrew doesn't believe Eddie killed himself so he goes to Vanderbilt to investigate 💚
#Scarathlon2021 #TeamHendrix
#wickedathon @StayCurious
#Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft
#Booked2021 #AppalachianNoir @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage
#OmniousOctober #RoaringWolf #FamilyAffair @Littlewolf1 @Roary47

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sprainedbrain
The Devil All the Time | Donald Ray Pollock
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This a very dark, grimy, dreadful book, full of nasty people doing terrible things. It‘s also brilliantly written, hard to put down when you‘re reading it, and impossible to forget about when you‘re done. I may even watch the Netflix movie!

This was my #AppalachianNoir book for #Booked2021, finished in August. 😳

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

vivastory I loved this one. I have been meaning to watch the movie. 2y
MatchlessMarie I think the movie did a good job matching the book. 👌 2y
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Singout

Completed my #Booked2021 third quarter:
#ColourinTitle: Well-Read Black Girl
#Relatedto911: The Day the World Came to Town
#Lessthan100pages: Jesus and the Disinherited
#ContainsPhotos: Nomadland
#LatinxAuthor: In the Time of the Butterflies
#AppalachianNoir: Below the Waterfall

Cinfhen Congrats on completing the third quarter #Booked2021 🥳🥳🥳 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job!! 2y
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Reviewsbylola
Untitled | Unknown
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I‘ve been slipping with posting updates for #booked2021, but figured I‘d better get a recap together ASAP now that fall quarter has officially started. 🙌🏻

#containsphotos Funny Girl
#appalachiannoir Razorblade Tears
#colorintitle The Burning Blue
#latinxauthor This is How You Lose Her
#relatedto911 The Red Bandanna
#under150pages Brokeback Mountain

alisiakae 🎉🙌🏽 great job! 2y
BeeMagical Im about mid way through Funny Girl and I love it. Hornby had me hooked with About A Boy! 2y
GinaKButler How was The Burning Blue? Dying to read that one! 2y
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Cinfhen Fabulous 🙌🏻 don‘t forget you have until midnight, **Oct 3** to fill out the third quarter form
https://bit.ly/3b7rK1E
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Reviewsbylola Just did it. I‘m really on my game for once! @Cinfhen 2y
Reviewsbylola I love Hornby! The Polysyllabic Spree is what really hooked me on him. @BeeMagical 2y
Reviewsbylola Absolutely fantastic book. @GinaKButler I‘ve been recommending it a ton since I read it in July. One of my favorite books of 2021. 2y
BeeMagical @Reviewsbylola Oooo!! I haven‘t read that one!! To the TBR list!!!🙌🏻 2y
GinaKButler @Reviewsbylola ohhh...good to know! Thank you! 2y
Cinfhen 🙌🏻 2y
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Read-y_Picker
Booked | Kwame Alexander
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Guess it's time for a quarterly update of my #Booked2021 reads!

🏄Set in Australia - Terra Nullius
📚Title Includes Library or Librarian - The Invisible Library
🎼 Musical Instrument on Cover - Piranesi
🍯 🍎Jewish Author or MC - The Museum of Extraordinary Things
✨Underrated or Lesserknown Book - The Union of Smokers
#Blackjack21 Heart, Club, Spade, Diamond in Title - Every Heart a Doorway

6 for me in the 3rd, 14 total, 10 to go!

Cinfhen Woohoo!!! Fabulous ???? Don‘t forget that we are now tallying completed prompts with a form submission???Every book read, from July 1- September 30th earns you a chance to win our quarterly drawing? You have until midnight, **Oct 3** to fill out the third quarter form?
https://bit.ly/3b7rK1E
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Read-y_Picker @Cinfhen Already done, thanks! I'm just a bit nervous now because the 10 I have remaining are going to be a real challenge. 3y
Cinfhen Uh oh…which prompts are you most nervous about?? 3y
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Read-y_Picker @Cinfhen I suffered a wicked dry spell for months and now I‘ve been mood reading a LOT so prompts like UN peacekeepers, Appalachian Noir, photos that don‘t normally fit in my genre… that‘s why they call it a challenge 😂 3y
Cinfhen Hahaha, I hear ya!! For #AppalachianNoir I can recommend this one- it was good and not my normal genre either 3y
Cinfhen I‘m a HUGE nonfiction reader and I love memoirs and this one was FABULOUS and has AWESOME photos 3y
Read-y_Picker @Cinfhen Solid recommendations, thank you!!! I already checked my libraries and they both carry Blacktop Wasteland. I'm not a huge Elton fan but you did steer me in the right direction. I think I'll revisit a Patti Smith. I just love her! 3y
Cinfhen Yay!! I‘m happy to offer other suggestions… and bails count too😉 3y
Read-y_Picker @Cinfhen Game-changer lol 😏 3y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I will second the recommendation on Blacktop - so gripping and well written. I see your response to the form, so we are alllll good! 3y
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andrew61
Little Sister Death | William Gay
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My previous reading of william gay 'twilight' was an incredibly unsettling tale and Ive been looking fwd to trying him again. This was published posthumously +the end is ambiguous but the overall tale of a writer moving bk to tenessee w wife + dtr to use the 'Bell witch' legend as inspiration for a horror, +staying on the haunted farm allowed for some v unsettling scenes. I just wished there had been 50 pages more.
#AppalachianNoir #booked2021

batsy I've long wanted to read this... Just a little terrified 😳 3y
andrew61 @batsy it is creepy but strange as it felt like there was a couple of chapters missing and as it was posthumously published I wondered if it was unfinished. I did enjoy it though and will definitely read more. 3y
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Deblovestoread
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#BookReport This week I concentrated on finishing the last 3 books for #14books14weeks. All 3 were good reads.
I liked but didn‘t love Blacktop Wasteland for #Booked2021 #AppalachianNoir. I am behind on all my buddy reads but hope to be caught up this week. Sorry to the hosts for the lack of participation.

#WeeklyForecast Finish Moonlight and listen to Coy‘s Hill and see where my mood takes me after that.

Cinfhen I loved this one, audio was fabulous 3y
Cinfhen I really liked this one too but I can see why others might not love it 3y
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CaitZ
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This was grittier and at the same time more poetic than any book I've read. Set in North Carolina, during the last days before the sheriff retires it deals with drugs, corruption, loyalty, and greed. I'll definitely read more from this author.
#AppalachianNoir #Booked2021 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Cinfhen Glad you found a new series/author to discover 🥳 3y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I definitely want to read some Rash. Thanks for the review! 3y
TheSpineView I love Rash's book. Be sure to read before you see the movie. 3y
CaitZ @TheSpineView Serena sounds interesting. I'll make it the next one of his I read. 3y
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Singout
Pickpick

Not a book or genre that I would‘ve picked if it wasn‘t for the challenge, but this was quite good. I liked how the writer interwove the personal struggles, including flashbacks to past traumas, of the main character retiring rural cop, the eco-activist, and the aging farmer, with the two crime threads of meth dealing and resort sabotage. The two voices, one gritty male and one poetic female, worked well in audio.
#Booked2021 #AppalachianNoir

Cinfhen So glad you enjoyed your choice 💚 3y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Sounds good!! 3y
Singout @Cinfhen That‘s one of the fun things about this! 3y
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