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1) A toss-up between Jason Pargin's “Zoey Punches The Future In The Dick“ & “I'd Rather Be Reading“ by Anne Bogel
2) Tagged!
@thespineview #two4tuesday

TheSpineView I'd rather be reading too. Just have not figured out how to get rid of the job and still eat! 🙃 2d

vivastory @TheSpineView If I find out, I'll let you know 📚📚 2d

TheSpineView @vivastory 👍 2d

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Mrs_B

The Diary of a Bookseller | Shaun Bythell

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I really enjoyed this, I thought it worked really well as an audiobook. Shaun is grumpy but loveable bookseller, who did make me feel guilty for owning a kindle. And not so guilty about my hoard of books. He paints vivid images of his customers and staff - not always favourable but usually very humorous.

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BossLady305

The Library | Bella Osborne

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This was a very lovely written story of a library bringing two strangers together; a 16 year old boy and a 72 year old woman. Well-written and a heartwarming story.

CogsOfEncouragement I really enjoyed this one. 4d

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Kimberlone

Plotted: A Literary Atlas | Andrew DeGraff, Daniel Harmon

so-so

I should have loved this book, and I had high hopes based on my previous experience with Cinemaps by the same artist/author. This one was disappointing because the books featured in the illustrations were overwhelmingly obscure. Even with an English degree, I found myself skipping about half of the books, since there were so many I hadn‘t even heard of and had no context for. Highlights were the “maps” of Pride & Prejudice and A Wrinkle in Time.

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keithmalek

The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy | Daniel Kalder

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LibraryCin

When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II | Molly Guptill Manning

so-so

Unfortunately, this book didn‘t always hold my interest. There were chapters on politics, and censorship, but I was most interested in the soldiers themselves. There was some description of the fighting and such, but the author also included comments on what the soldiers thought of the books that were sent. The last chapter also talked about how many soldiers became readers who hadn‘t been before the war. Cont in comments...

LibraryCin This chapter also talked about how to help the soldiers when they came home. Overall, though, due to me losing interest more than I would have liked, I‘m rating it “ok”. 1w

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Arvena

The Fiction Writer: A Novel | Jillian Cantor

so-so

There was a lot going on! A book within a book, lots of secrets and quite interesting story line, but the story was unrealistic and at times cringe-worthy. Everything felt forced.

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