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melissajayne
Indigo | Beverly Jenkins
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Mehso-so

3.5⭐️ I read this for the most recent #bookcougars #readalong. For the most part I enjoyed the book, but I didn‘t expect it to be as steamy as it was. As I said during the chat session, I enjoyed the historical context of the book, but the rest of the story seemed to be a bit contrived in places. I‘m not much of a #romance reader, but I was glad to dip my toes in this genre. #2024 #fiction #bookreview #historicalfiction #fiction

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marleed
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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Pickpick

Skye is just unapologetically herself and I couldn‘t help but enjoy falling into her world. I‘ve read books/seen movies when the random sperm donor meets the person(s) he helped create so I thought this was an interesting take on a child of an egg donor searching for their biological maternal connection.

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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Dancing 💃🏻🕺 #LuckyInLove 💋👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻💌💘

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 💃❤️ 2mo
ShelleyBooksie Love the cover 2mo
Eggs Cover Love 💕 2mo
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MicheleinPhilly
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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Pickpick

This week was “messy queer women in Philly” week for me, I guess. Skye has a metric fuck ton of baggage. How she attempts to sort through that while also navigating a relationship with the 12 year old product of her previous egg donation was warm and witty. I really liked it.

squirrelbrain I can see you, Pickles! ❤️ 12mo
TrishB Sounds good 👍🏻 12mo
BookNAround I have this one perched somewhere in my tbr next piles (which to be honest, have gotten so out of control that even if I drop everything else, I‘d probably take a year to get through). 12mo
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Lindy
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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Pickpick

Skye‘s cranky first-person narrative is peppered with AAVE and Philly-specific vocabulary (“jawn”), her droll manner (calling someone Captain Interrupting Pants) & her general hugging-is-not-how-I-do-life attitude. She‘s a lesbian, almost 40, with a successful business… but she still hasn‘t sorted out her emotional baggage. Although the style is breezy, serious issues like found vs bio families, forgiveness, & racial profiling are tackled. #LGBTQ

tpixie Great review! 13mo
Lindy @tpixie thank you ☺️ 13mo
CBee Next time my husband interrupts me (which is often 😂) I am totally calling him Captain Interrupting Pants 😂😂😂 (edited) 13mo
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tpixie @Lindy 😊 @CBee 😂 13mo
TheBookHippie @CBee you need the picture book 13mo
CBee @TheBookHippie I think the hubs is getting that for his birthday 😂😂😂🤭🤭🤭 (edited) 13mo
TheBookHippie @CBee My readers love it!!! 13mo
Lindy @TheBookHippie @CBee I second the Interrupting Chicken rec! 🐔 13mo
vivastory I just ordered No Friend But The Mountains after watching your wonderful video with Shelley Swearingen. Sounds like an impactful, profound book. 13mo
batsy This sounds really good! 13mo
Lindy @batsy We discussed it at my lesbian+ book club last night. General reaction: amusing but not memorable. Skye is an infuriating character (with the internal dialogue of a stand up comic) but she does resolve her personal demons and I think that narrative arc will would work for you. It‘s also a love letter to the city of Philadelphia. 13mo
Lindy @vivastory Thanks for watching! Please tag me when you‘ve read it. I‘d love to know what you think. 13mo
batsy @Lindy Thanks for this insight. It's always good to know what you're in for—the internal dialogue of a stand up comic is helpful, for me. I'll have to be in the mood for something like that when I pick if up 🙂 13mo
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Lindy
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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“You have bourbon?”
He shakes his head. “Nah. I have some scotch, though. It‘s not too peaty.”
I agree to scotch. He goes inside and brings it out in a coffee mug. I take a drink. It‘s peaty as hell. Like licking the mossy side of a tree. Like what you‘d expect a hobbit‘s butthole to taste like, if you happened to be part of the ass-eating community of the Shire. But I have a rule that I never complain about free liquor.

Cathythoughts A hobbit‘s buttonhole 🥰 13mo
IndoorDame 👏👏👏 13mo
ageekreads 😂 13mo
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Lindy @Cathythoughts @IndoorDame @ageekreads There are some great lines in this book 😁 13mo
Daisey I always appreciate a Tolkien reference, and this is definitely a funny one. 😆 13mo
Lindy @Daisey another literary reference was when the MC said she felt like she was in a Gloria Naylor novel. Wide reading tastes 😊 13mo
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Lindy
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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“There are many levels between sex and a serious relationship, Viva. There‘s friends with benefits. Love affairs. Situationships.”
“Situationships?” She looks horrified.
“It‘s a thing,” I tell her. “Ask the millennials.”
“That sounds like some cishet nonsense.”

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Lindy
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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“I‘ve known Philip Michael for 30 years. He and his wife used to run the corner store. Folks called it the ‘Chinese store‘ back then, even though Phil and his wife, Linh, were Vietnamese.”
The corner store I frequented as a child was also run by Vietnamese people. We also called it “the Chinese store.”

[internet image of a show about a store run by Korean immigrants]

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Lindy
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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Blues sections of record stores are where I feel the most calm. There‘s something about being surrounded by old, blackity-Black music that settles my nerves.

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Lindy
Skye Falling: A Novel | Mia McKenzie
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I feel like I could create a Pantone post about these books I‘m reading concurrently. Instead, I will mention the serendipity of one being nonfiction by a Ugandan climate activist and the other a novel with this passage: “It‘s sunny and warm out, unseasonal for early April in Philly, and I say a little prayer to the global-warming gods for their generosity. I‘m kidding; I know climate change is bad.”

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