Litsy

Now that we're a third through the month, I figured it's time I posted my #BookSpinBingo board. This month I really am going to read the tagged book.

Suet624 Good luck with that! 😊 3d

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Daisey

The Colour: A Novel | Rose Tremain

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Parts of this book were bleak and I was almost constantly listening with a slight feeling of dread about what might be about to happen, but I also enjoyed it. It actually ended on a more hopeful note than I expected through most of the story. I felt it described the setting of 1860s New Zealand and the gold rush very well.

#ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld #NewZealand #audiobook #1001books #TBRTakedown

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Kboltz

The Prospectors: A Novel | Ariel Djanikian

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Good read. The author uses her great-great-great aunts writings from her trek to the Yukon to stake their claim in gold. Dual timeline, the 1898 timeline and the history of striking gold was the majority of this book. Money creates problems. The Han tribe that lived on the Yukon River and the gold rushers that took their chances all either triumphed or suffered from the gold found in that region. Alice‘s story is both brave and cunning.

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LeafingThroughLife

The Sisters Brothers | Patrick DeWitt

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Infamous hitmen Charlie and Eli Sisters have been sent by the Commodore to dispatch one Hermann Kermit Warm, but on the way Eli begins to have an existential crisis. Finding himself with empathy for his bum horse, Tub, and a growing conviction that he might better enjoy life as a shopkeeper, Eli considers retirement. An unexpected final reckoning might make the choice for him. Richly drawn characters and a dose of dark humor make this one shine.

TheAromaofBooks

LeafingThroughLife #Bookspin review catch up from November. Honestly, where does the time go? 4mo

BkClubCare And the movie isn‘t too bad, either 🎥 4mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4mo

LeafingThroughLife @BkClubCare I was wondering about that. Glad to hear it. I‘ll have to give it a watch! 4mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Sisters Brothers | Patrick DeWitt

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Mixed feelings on this one. I continue to enjoy Patrick Dewitt's writing talent; this book has a particular style, different from The Librarianist, but seamless in matching the tone of the book: at once snappy and brutal, occasionally meandering and contemplative. It feels like DeWitt set out to write something that echoes the first generation of westerns/adventure books, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? but wanted to make it a little more honest, or just dark, in confronting the lonely, hardscrabble existence and prevalent greed of gray morality/amoral gunmen amidst gold rush prospectors. I had a rough time with the level of animal cruelty casually discussed, even as the narrator seemed to fluctuate in his levels of apathy and shame regarding the treatment of his horse. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Suffice to say there's a not particularly enlightened view of sex workers demonstrated. Less a moral tale of bad people coming to bad endings, than a tale of equity, everybody's struggling, likely to do wrong, grasp what they can, and moments of tenderness between brothers, friends or potential lovers are short-lived. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 I can't see recommending it because a key element to my overall rating of a book is how I feel throughout, but I can't fault it on a narrative or technical level. It told a story in a unique way with a specific ending that feels purposeful. 🤷🏼‍♂️

⚠️animal death, animal cruelty, fatphobia, racism, slur, alcoholism, gore 5mo

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