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Mattsbookaday
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Run for the Hills, by Kevin Wilson (2025)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: Very different people become an unlikely family discover they share the same father and embark on a cross-country road trip to find him and ask why he abandoned them all to forge very different lives for himself.

Review: Wilson is the king of profound but off-kilter fiction, and this is no exception. Cont.

Mattsbookaday This is a fascinating exploration of family, the psychological impacts of abandonment, and the capacity for reinvention. Despite the immense suspension of disbelief required to buy that these strangers would road trip together the way they did, I can‘t help but give this five stars.

Bookish Pair: My favourite Kevin Wilson book is Now Is Not the Time to Panic (2022)
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booklover3258
The Hotel Balzaar | Kate DiCamillo
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Such a good book and a wonderful read.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Jhd65EbM9fY?feature=share

Enjoy!

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DebbieGrillo
Tom Lake: A Novel | Ann Patchett
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A captivating story that shows the reality of show business through one young actress' experience and early retirement. And her beautiful and ordinary family life that follows, told to her adult daughters during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The audiobook, performed by Meryl Streep was a masterpiece.

TheLudicReader Did you hear Ann Patchett is going to Fogo Island this summer? My daughter's boyfriend is leaving this weekend to go work at the resort for the season and I am so jealous. 1d
mcctrish @TheLudicReader Fogo Island is on my bucket list 1d
ShelleyBooksie What!!! That is super cool @TheLudicReader 21h
sarahbarnes Agreed - the audio was so good! 19h
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ChaoticMissAdventures
I Think They Love You | Julian Winters
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A low pick mostly from the unbelievable standpoint of some of the story. I just don't buy the idea of party planners being these media darlings, it was all a bit much. I also HATE that Braylon comes back from 4 yrs in London with an accent (I tried the audio of this and couldn't do it) and the competition. BUT even with all that I enjoyed the bones of this second chance + fake dating romance. Denz is a believable and sympathetic character. 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures The writing is good and the pacing clips along. I think it is a romcom you just cannot think much about (like I wish the author would have thought up a fake social media platform, using Facebook in the year of our lord 2024???) It sounds like I don't like this and am picking it apart, but really I read it in a couple of days and was invested in them getting together for real. 1d
willaful You know, I always found fake social media in books annoying but you point out a very rational reason to use them... 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures @willaful I always think cultural things are going to date your book, and when it comes to technology it can date it extremely fast. Things move quick! I cringe now when I see FB or Twitter in books. Even if those sites were part of most of our lives a few years ago. Same with popular celebrities, I hate when I read people idolizing Bridgette Bardot all I can think about is how she keeps going to court and paying fees to be racist! 1d
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IndianBookworm
The Year I Met You | Cecelia Ahern
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After getting fired Jasmine has one year of gardening leave to figure out her life among other things. Matt, her neighbour is in kind of a similar situation and decides to come home drunk every night. They strike a unique friendship all this while which helps them move ahead in their lives.
Feel-good, quick paced, simple characters, and a sweet story overall. The cover is just really cute and was the reason I picked the book
4/5🌟

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SilversReviews
Seven Days of Us | Francesca Hornak
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Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#BIBLIOPHILE
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: BIG SECRET

Andrew has a really big secret from his past.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/32yrmnax

Eggs Love the secrets 🤫💛🤗 1d
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ChaoticMissAdventures
I Think They Love You | Julian Winters
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Unhinged rom-com thought

Do NOT reward a person who went on a couple years exchanged to a foreign country and came back with an accent by sleeping with them.

😂

This plot point is the most randomly annoying 🤣

peanutnine Yes! I thought it was so weird that he came back with an accent!! Like, seems fake dude 2d
ChaoticMissAdventures @peanutnine this is a forever joke of exchange students, but IRL we teased and bullied them until they stopped. Only the most annoying and pretentious travelers do this, so I am not sure what the point is here. Not cute. Not charming. 25 yrs raised in the US and 4 yrs in London is NOT giving you an accent unless you are a git. 2d
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BoleyBooks
Tom Lake: A Novel | Ann Patchett
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Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
What are you reading?
#boleybooks #tomlake #AnnPatchett #bookbeast #novel #bookbuds #bookclub #letsread

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kspenmoll
Good Dirt | Charmaine Wilkerson
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SLibrarian5
The Story of Us | Deb Caletti
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Mehso-so

This reminded me of “The Moon and More, which is my least favorite Sarah Dessen book. I loved the humor and dynamic with Cricket's family, but I didn't like the love triangle and drama. Unfortunately I was correct at guessing part of the ending and sobbed, of course. And I didn't like after all the drama with the love interests, there wasn't any resolution in the ending.