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Head over to @monalyisha ‘s page and get the details on this fun best books match up. I have done it every year and it‘s helped guarantee that I start my year with some great books! #auldlangspines

This book gave me massive Lucy Barton vibes and I loved it! Told in multiple POV‘s we meet Clara, a young girl whose sister has gone missing, Liam a young man, recently divorced who is Clara‘s new neighbor and Elizabeth, the elderly lady who used to live in the house next to Clara‘s. Set in the 1970‘s this book captures the beauty of small town life, the complexities of adolescence and how the past is always present. 👇🏽

I have been trying to get to this memoir ever since @Cinfhen put it in her #AuldLangSpines list. March Madness seems like the right time! Especially since all the teams from my ACC are out already so nothing needs my full attention.

I forgot to post my January #BookSpinBingo card! I got one bingo, finished 12 books including my BookSpin and DoubleSpin, and three #AuldLangSpines picks. Five were nonfiction. I haven‘t done reviews for all of these yet — maybe I‘ll get caught up soon.

Here‘s my final #AuldLangSpines report: I finished three books from my match with @Cinfhen and thought all three were great. I wasn‘t surprised by that since we had a very successful match last year! Two of these were nonfiction and the other a novel. I don‘t think I‘d have read any of these on my own. I am planning to keep Cindy‘s list close at hand so I can keep reading from it.

Thanks again to @monalyisha for coordinating this match!

I read this pick from my #AuldLangSpines list from @Cinfhen and it was so good. It was well written and helped me learn about the healthcare workers who fought the virus so hard. The last chapter of this book, written before COVID-19, was pretty prescient about the pandemic to come. I‘m not sure if this Ebola outbreak was technically a pandemic or an epidemic but I‘m counting it for #Booked about a pandemic

What would you do if you won the lottery? Probably not what the MC of this novel did, which was recreating her own world modeled after the TV show Three‘s Company. (Jack‘s face in the photo above would probably be his reaction to this idea). It‘s is a pretty dark book about dealing with trauma but I loved it. Unique story with a lot of good details. I stayed up late to finish. This is another win from the #AuldLangSpines list I got from @Cinfhen

This was such as fascinating memoir. Chrysta Bilton has anything but a normal family in many ways but she tells the story of her mother and her donor father with a lot of compassion. Her mother is really the star of this book. This was a good follow up having read The Lost Family, about ancestry databases, a couple of years ago.

This was my first book from the #AuldLangSpines list I got from @Cinfhen and it was a winner!

Happy New Year‘s Eve! Posting my first #BookSpin list for next year. The first five are #AuldLangSpines picks from @Cinfhen that were available now from my library. I expect my holds to come in soon. Looking forward to another good reading start for 2023.

I‘m so excited to explore this list from @Cinfhen again this year. We were well-paired last year because several of her picks ended up on my 2022 list. I‘ve read 2,6, 7, and 12 already but there‘s a lot for me to choose from for January. I‘m not sure where to start, but I‘m sure it will be good. #AuldLangSpines