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TheLudicReader
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dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 2w
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CoffeeNBooks
The Lido | Libby Page
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Eggs Perfection 👌🏼 6mo
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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
The Lido | Libby Page
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Usually, I'm not a fan of feel good books as they tend to be very cheesy. But this one I very much liked. I enjoyed how Libby Page writes about time passing. It's a book filled with nostalgia which also talks about what a community is made of. Well written, she's definitely written about what she knew, and it helped her staying away from clichés.

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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
The Lido | Libby Page
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My current read ;)

Still have a lot of pages to read for my book club tomorrow morning... But with a warm chai, I should be able to make it.

And you, what is your current read?

Princess-Kingofkings I‘m imagining Chai in that beautiful mug. ☺️ 7mo
JamieArc I really liked that book, mostly because I love swimming and I love a community of people coming together. 7mo
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Lieh
The Lido | Libby Page
Pickpick

Read in one afternoon at the beach. Sweet and uplifting but at times predictable. Nevertheless had me sobbing multiple times, so it did manage to hit the right snares!

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Andrea313
The Lido | Libby Page
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This beautiful book is a love story on multiple levels- that of life-long partners, of friends new and old, and love of a community. Mostly it made me reflect on how lucky I am to have my own local lido (pictured here closed for cold weather). Detroit's Brennan Pool opened in the 1920s, and was the site of the US swimming Olympic trials in the 1950s. Now I get to spend my sunny days here, and I'm reminded not to take that for granted.

JamieArc Oooh I didn‘t know about this pool. I loved this book too. It‘s a dream to live near a community pool one day. #mittenlitten (edited) 3y
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Ncostell
The Lido | Libby Page
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Rosemary is an 86 year old woman who has spent her whole life swimming at her local lido. Kate is a young journalist trying to find herself and take control of her recurring panic attacks. The two form a friendship as they fight to keep the lido from being closed to make way for an expensive new apartment complex. I loved their relationship and the community involvement in trying to save the lido. A great beach read, perfect for the pool too!

kspenmoll Sounds really good! Stacked. 3y
JamieArc This was one of my favorite reads last summer! I really loved it. The tagged book reminded me of it a lot, except instead of a pool, it was a library they were fighting to save. 3y
Ncostell @kspenmoll It was so good, sweet and uplifting which I was in the mood to read! 3y
Ncostell @JamieArc This is going to be one of my favorites from this summer for sure. Thanks for the recommendation on The Reading List, I just stacked it! 3y
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Sharpeipup
The Lido | Libby Page
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It might be warm out but the pool isn‘t open yet.

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Laru79
The Lido | Libby Page
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I thought this was lovely! Likeable, relatable characters, a heartwarming plot, a little weepy bit or two - what a delight!! This was recommended to me so much, so I‘m really glad I finally had a chance to get stuck in! And reading about the sunshine was delightful in a week of nothing but rain!!

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JillR
The Lido | Libby Page
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I loved the premise of this story; a lido in Brixton facing closure to make way for luxury flats, and the community who rallies to try and save it. However the writing wasn‘t for me, I found it a little too sweet and cliched and wanted more depth from the characters. Still, a quick easy summer read and I love the cover (also lucky enough to be reading it by the side of an actual lido 🏊‍♂️)

Mrs_B The water looks so blue and inviting! 😍 4y
JamieArc I loved this, but sweet is exactly what I need right now. 4y
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