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So, I checked this book out through Libby from the library. Libby uses Kindle. Kindle puts this effing stupid pink line through the entire book. I know it‘s all because I checked out a couple more just to see and, yep, this stupid pink line. What is the purpose?

ETA: I checked Kindle on my laptop. It is not there. Only my phone. :/

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AnnCrystal Why? That can be distracting 🤔😐📚💝. 6d

willaful What on earth? 6d

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LitsyEvents

Burial Rites | Hannah Kent

Repost for @Librarybelle

Great discussion so far for The Chelsea Girls! Our next #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead is Kent‘s historical fiction account of the last woman set to be executed in Iceland.

Read at your own pace. Discussion on July 31st. I will post periodic check-ins throughout the month. All are welcome to join! I know several are planning to join in for the discussion!

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Librarybelle Thanks for reposting! 5d

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Librarybelle

Burial Rites | Hannah Kent

Great discussion so far for The Chelsea Girls! Our next #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead is Kent‘s historical fiction account of the last woman set to be executed in Iceland.

Read at your own pace. Discussion on July 31st. I will post periodic check-ins throughout the month. All are welcome to join! I know several are planning to join in for the discussion!

mcctrish, mjdowens, melissajayne, Jerdencon, tpixie, LapReader, Cuilin, kspenmoll, PurpleyPumpkin, Prairiegirl_reading, Deblovestoread, Teresereading, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, BookwormAHN, Pogue, dabbe, Sargar114, Karisa, bumpinthenight, Singout, julieclair, AllDebooks, IriDas, Lkempf

AllDebooks @LitsyEvents 6d

Sace Just put a copy on hold at my library! 6d

Librarybelle Thank, @AllDebooks ! 6d

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Librarybelle Yay, @Sace ! 6d

julieclair Just picked up my copy at the library today! Also visited Iceland last month, so this timing worked out well for me! 5d

Librarybelle Oh yes, @julieclair ! 4d

Teresereading I just finished The Good People for Bookclub. And currently listening to Always Home, always Homesick, so keen for a trifecta! I‘m in!! 4d

Librarybelle @Teresereading Perfect! I‘ve read The Good People and liked it, but not as much as Burial Rites. 3d

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LitsyEvents

Burial Rites | Hannah Kent

Repost for @Librarybelle

As we approach our June 30th discussion of The Chelsea Girls for #LiteraryCrew, July‘s #BuddyRead is right around the corner!

Burial Rites is dark, compassionate, slow burning and hauntingly beautiful.

Read at your own pace. Discussion July 31st. All are welcome to join. Let @Librarybelle know if you would like to be added or removed from the tag list.

Librarybelle Thanks for reposting! 2w

PuddleJumper Tagging #QueerBC because this has been a suggested author. @ElizaMarie @BookmarkTavern @Read4life @peanutnine @Jari-chan @lil1inblue @willaful @GirlNamedJesse @maich @WJCintron @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @jenniferw88 @Zuhkeeyah @rwmg @JenlovesJT47 @Catsandbooks @JudeCC @AbigailJaneBlog @Butterfinger @Kenyazero @flying_monkeys @TheBookHippie @AllDebooks @Kitta 2w

Teresereading @librarybelle can you add for Burial Rites 2w

Librarybelle Of course, @Teresereading ! 2w

Librarybelle Thanks, @PuddleJumper ! 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

The Whispering Muse: A Novel | Sj�n

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Mostly mourning the lost potential in the premise.
Despite the extensive amount of the story delivered by an unlikeable narrator, I can see so much here that would have really worked for me if handled differently.
The author writes well, but seems to often choose to write in an attempt to shock the reader, but in ways I've encountered before, that only leave a bad taste in my mouth. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Opening with post-WW2 tensions: white supremacy and eugenics still viable ideas to some people, so many who have suffered violence and trauma in war, the 'place of women'.
Then the story within the story of a second mate ostensibly transported from a place and time where he had a past serving aboard the Argo with Jason, in recounting his tale focusing on the Lemnos incident, parallels the fact that he and the listening passengers and crew are (edited) 2w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? aboard a ship in the 1940s unexpectedly paused in its own journey.
One more layer is apparent in a Nordic tale recounted that foreshadows Jason and Medea's own dark endings, told both to the Argonauts and the 40s listeners.
The unlikeable narrator has the potential for farce, because he appears to have a Polonius/Mr. Collins level of clueless chatter that sucks up to his benefactor, and tells people things for their own good and criticizes (edited) 2w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? everyone in the least tolerant manner possible.
There's also a strong theme of sexual violence against women and seeing women only as insatiable sexual objects, which is disturbing in itself, but also because it never really feels like the author did the work to explain the linkage between the problems with the latter and the perpetration of the former. (edited) 2w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? Perhaps the idea was that with such an unlikeable narrator, anything he said you'd understand to be distasteful and not an attitude the reader should take forward, but it's all the messier when Caeneus, the second mate, acting as the narrator for the story within the story is at once catering to the needs of a good portion of the women of Lemnos without valuing them beyond sexual desire, and recounting his own assault at the hands of Poseidon (edited) 2w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? when he was a woman who wished to become a man after this ordeal.
There's a single page that suggests a sci-fi/fantasy element that might explain why Caeneus from ancient mythic Greece is in the 20th century, but for the most part this is a bizarre mashup of historical and myth-retelling. (edited) 2w

Robotswithpersonality 7/? It ends much too quickly for my taste plot-wise, with no real resolution, but too slowly considering some of the uglier discussion topics, and worse, the detestable narrator appears in better state than he started. Again, I've read books where these writing choices are made, before, and I remain baffled as to what the point was. I'm afraid my brain is pretty good at dumping the junk when it's in the realm of fiction, so if the idea was to make (edited) 2w

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 it memorable because it pushed buttons, it failed there too. 🤷🏼‍♂️

⚠️Racism, xenophobia, misogyny, dismemberment, SA, child death 2w

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bibliothecarivs

The Icelandic Saga | Peter Hallberg

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Librarybelle

Burial Rites | Hannah Kent

As we approach our June 30th discussion of The Chelsea Girls for #LiteraryCrew , July‘s #BuddyRead is right around the corner!

Burial Rites is one of my favorite books, and I thrilled the group voted to read this one this year. It‘s dark, compassionate, slow burning, and hauntingly beautiful.

Read at your own pace. Discussion July 31st. All are welcome to join. Let me know if you would like to be added or removed from the tag list!

mcctrish, mjdowens, melissajayne, Jerdencon, tpixie, LapReader, Cuilin, kspenmoll, PurpleyPumpkin, Prairiegirl_reading, Deblovestoread, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, BookwormAHN, Pogue, dabbe, Sargar114, Karisa, bumpinthenight, Singout, julieclair, AllDebooks, Lkempf

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mcctrish I‘ve read this already so I will join in at the end and see if I can remember anything 2w

Cuilin @mcctrish same here! 2w

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Librarybelle Sounds good, @mcctrish @Cuilin ! 2w

Deblovestoread Same as @mcctrish and @Cuilin. Loved it! 2w

julieclair Sounds wonderful! I‘m in. 💙 2w

Librarybelle @Deblovestoread 😁 2w

Librarybelle Yay, @julieclair ! 2w

IriDas I‘d like to be added 2w

Librarybelle Of course, @IriDas ! Welcome! 2w

tpixie Thanks! 2w

Jess861 Such a good book! 2w

Librarybelle @tpixie 😁 2w

Librarybelle It truly is, @Jess861 ! 2w

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bibliothecarivs

Gunnar's Daughter | Sigrid Undset

Recent home library acquisition

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Yenya1954

The Girl Who Died: A Novel | Ragnar Jonasson

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This is a novel which takes place on an island in Iceland. The island has only 10 inhabitants. The residents hire a young woman named Una to teach two young girls. There is a mystery surrounding the island. In an area where darkness is the norm during the winter, living can be depressing. I did enjoy the novel. The town residents were not very friendly and not characters I would want to have contact with. 4/5⭐️

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Hooked_on_books

The Night Guest | Hildur Knutsdottir

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A woman is having some challenging symptoms and thinks increased exercise might be the key. But then he pedometer watch shows an amount of walking that seems impossible. Moving through the investigation of her own behavior is both interesting and steadily increasing in dread. I did find the ending a bit odd and too abrupt, but overall I liked this one.

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