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I‘m not really sure if I liked this … for me it was just okay… on the long-winded side it could have been shorter but it was not what I expected … idk if I‘m just having one of those weeks were anything I read is so-so 🧐😣

1. Mirrored by: Alex Flinn

2. Wayfarer by: Alexandra Bracken

3. Whatever the TBR jar tells me to read.
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Thanks so much Barbara! A perfect choice that I wouldn't have got myself as have not really seen it anywhere, but that I am very keen to read! Merry Christmas and thanks again! And thanks again Chelle for organising us! @BarbaraBB @MaleficentBookDragon

This author has translated big, philosophical ideas into a magical story that opens the mind. It's mainly centered on connection...to each other, nature, and beyond. The main character (a recent widow in her 70s) seemed to live an ordinary life until the tragic loss of her young son years before. She moved to Ibiza after being gifted a home (from a prior acquaintance), and a strange journey ensues. This book was weird, but interesting.

Fourth candle of my #Hanukkahchallenge is a winter fairytale told in four different voices: the daughter of impoverished Jewish moneylender, a tzarina, her faithful servant and a peasant girl. The stories they tell bring to the forefront not the magic but the difficulties of women‘s lives in all walks of life. #reread #told_by_a_woman #iamthatjew

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The way Tolkien describes Sam and Frodo's bond in this last leg of the journey, the most harrowing, makes me think he must have had a real-life example in mind. It's so realistic and involving that he can't have made it up.
I wonder if he saw this kind of comradery in the trenches of WWI. Soldiers developed a very peculiar, uncommon bond in those terrible circumstances. May Tolkien have had that in mind when he wrote this?

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The crossing of Golgoroth is terrible. Frodo and Sam are losing everything. Including hope, for Frodo. In the end, even Sam falters. And yet, somehow, Tolkien manages to keep hope alive.
The episode where Sam sees the star high above, between the clouds (could it be Eärendil?) is one of my very favourite passages in the book.

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This is one of my favourite chapters. Sam coming into his 'power'. I love it!
And my favourite moment in the chapter is when Sam sings and Frodo answers his song.
Something like this happens in the Silmarillion too, when Fingon is looking for Maedhros. Tolkien didn't know whether readers would ever read the Silmarillion, so I wonder whether he included this episode because he loved the concept so much. It is very touching.

Best book in April. I waited forever for this one to drop. And it was worth it.
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