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JenReadsAlot
Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult
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Mehso-so

Not a favorite of hers.

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DebinHawaii
Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult
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Thanks @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag! 🤗

1️⃣ I have always wanted to go to The Galapagos. 💙💚💙

2️⃣ This book is partially set there & in my #TBR 🐢💚

Anyone want to join in? Consider yourself tagged! 🤗

Eggs Great choice! 2mo
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Eggs
Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult
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Listened to this today. Diana and Fin are set to vacay in the Galápagos Islands, but when C-19 hits, Fin (a doctor) can‘t leave but he wants Diana to go, which she does. Of course quarantine is enforced there so her stay turns into months, while Fin works with C patients dawn to dusk, and so many die…Well written

#ReadAway2024

@DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader 🥳Great! 2mo
Eggs @DieAReader 🤗🥰 2mo
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BarbaraBB
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Pickpick

Roddy Doyle used to be a favorite author of mine, back in the days, when he wrote the Barrytown Trilogy and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
He‘s written this short story collection in 2020 and connections to the pandemic are unavoidable.
The Charger, the longest one, is my favorite. It‘s a story about the lockdown and how it could be so cozy at times and frustrating, lonely and frightening at others. It all came back to me while reading this.

ImperfectCJ Stacking this one. I talk to a lot of people who just want to forget lockdown (and the whole pandemic), but I find myself craving art that addresses it. It feels...validating, maybe? Like, this happened, right? And it was crazy but also kind of good sometimes? Maybe it just feels less lonely when it's a shared experience. 2mo
BarbaraBB @ImperfectCJ I know what you mean. It feels so far away already while it had such a huge impact on us back then and I sometimes want to remember how it was and how it felt, good and bad things. (edited) 2mo
vlwelser If anyone can write an accurate book about conflicted lockdown feelings, Doyle seems like a great pick. 2mo
BarbaraBB @vlwelser It‘s a real Doyle book with characters that are very human! 2mo
Suet624 The title made me sad. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙁 2mo
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VRM1975
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OneCent76
Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult
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Pickpick

This book takes us back to 2020 when Covid hit the world. It started off kind of slow but I got into the story and then everything I thought was happening flipped. This was a pretty decent book. I enjoyed it.

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BittersweetBooks
Lucy by the Sea: A Novel | Elizabeth Strout
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It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us 🍂

…that there had been a last time—when they were little—that I had picked up the girls. This had often broken my heart, to realize that you never know the last time you pick up a child. Maybe you say “Oh, honey, you‘re getting too big to be picked up” or something like that. But then you never pick them up again 🥺

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DaniJ
Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult
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Full disclosure, this is a pandemic book set in New York City, which was one of the most COVID-19-wracked cities in the USA. Jodie P did her research, as per usual. It wasn‘t your typical Jodi P book, tho, in that it‘s told from a single POV. I read it in two days. It fully immersed me. It‘s a book about finding hope in a dark time and finding yourself along the way.

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inthegreensandblues
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The House on the Hill was in a tizzy.

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