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Susanita
Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan
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I started the year intending to #readordonate these 21 books in the top picture. I ended up donating 15 of them plus many more from the rest of my books on other shelves. The tagged book is the only LFL book that I didn‘t donate…yet.

I also donated a piece of furniture from my bedroom and completely reorganized my bookshelves. Bottom picture is the same bookstand thingy in its revised location, and it now holds books that I don‘t plan to donate.

Susanita This one I kept because it‘s SO GOOD: now
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perfectsinner
The Last Runaway | Tracy Chevalier

This was a great book! It's been a long time since I started a book in the morning and finished it the same night.

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bekakins
Remote Sympathy | Catherine Chidgey
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Absolutely beautiful book for my first December #roll100 definitely not one for feeling festive but a really interesting and important tale of nazi Germany. Fantastic character development and really interesting plot.

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 14h
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willaful
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Towles writes such immersive and engrossing historical fiction. This is set in 1938 Manhattan, a time and place when obscene wealth and obscene poverty existed side by side. It's narrated by the working-class daughter of a Russian immigrant, who finds herself on the fringes of the high life, and makes many life-changing choices that year. Not quite as endearing as A Gentleman in Moscow, but really left me thinking.

#TenBeforeTheEnd

ChaoticMissAdventures I love this one, I just convinced my ex mother-in-law to read it! ✅ Great progress. 15h
willaful @ChaoticMissAdventures Don't think I'm going to get to them all, but I'm very happy with what I've read. Started Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies last night.

Nice you're still friends with your ex MIL! My ex stepmom's second family is a big part of my extended family.
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ChaoticMissAdventures @willaful sounds like we both got so lucky! You hear so many horror stories, but my ex-in-laws are amazing we talk at least once a month and my ex MIL and I go on trips every couple of years. We rarely talk about my ex but I hear my ex grandmother still refers to me as her first and favorite granddaughter and my exes wife hates it 😂 15h
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CogsOfEncouragement
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Celia approached the vicar, who stood alone for a few moments in the shadow of the rounded arch above the doorway, sheltered from the rising wind.
#FirstLineFridays

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Gadolby
The Moonflowers | Abigail Rose-Marie
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Wonderful story with masterful writing. Women‘s lives intertwine in the story, which unfolds naturally. Nothing feels forced, the emotion is genuine and a topic not often focused on.

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nitalibrarian
The Fox Wife: A Novel | Yangsze Choo
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Put up a new display at work. This one features some the best books of 2024 according to different publications, like Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, NPR, etc.

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 14h
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 14h
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Susanita
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1. After Libby said it would be two more weeks, I got a notification that I could check out the tagged book.
2. The Crime Writers of Color podcast is back after a long hiatus.
3. I got together with a friend for dinner and a movie.
4. We enjoyed War of the Rohirrim!
5. I bought a new wet-dry floor cleaner.
#5joysfriday

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Suet624
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I see this only received a 33% rating on Litsy. I completely understand that people may not like it but upon finishing this book I immediately fell into a deep dive into all it had/still has raised within me. A love story, an escape into the deep woods of Montana, the writing, I was hearing the cadence of long lost relatives, the story-quick & to the point-has all the makings of a Western but it's completely Irish. Tom and Polly. The 10,000 (cont)

Suet624 Irish who left Ireland to work in the mines in Butte, the mystical connection Tom has access to.. something about this book and its lyrical writing has opened a portal to the past for me. Just shows that just because folks don't like a book doesn't mean you won't like it. :). A 5 star for me. (edited) 22h
Suet624 If you'd like to hear him read some of the book, I enjoyed this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5agriAsyYo 22h
Tamra I‘ll see if I can check out the audio. 😄 20h
LeahBergen I‘m happy to read this good review as I bought it as a Xmas gift for a “literary western” loving friend! 18h
Suet624 @LeahBergen I hope they appreciate it as much as I did. It was the Irish aspect of it that I really enjoyed. 15h
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HettyG
Lady of the Rivers | Philippa Gregory
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On a lark I've decided to read all 19 of the Plantagenet and Tudor novel series. This first one is a pretty soft pick for me, the characters don't resonate well and the plot confusing (they're in France, they're in England, they're back in France who can even keep up or care) but it did feature tarot cards and common witchery so that redeems it somewhat.