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#inmemoriam

I read this 15 years ago and was rather lukewarm about it. This time round I found it much funnier, though I'm not sure whether I've developed a sense of humour or am just more tolerant of inanity.

Previously a so-so but now maybe a very low pick.

#coffeeandabook #inmemoriam

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#inmemoriam

This was my least favourite Butler so far - but it's Buterl. it's still pretty good.

#WickedWords @AsYouWish - 1 to go

#Booked2023 #InMemoriam (could also be About a Monster!) @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @alisiakae
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#ClassicSF #NoShameReadathon23 @Nessavamusic - none to go! Completed!

27/23 I will never stop thinking about this book. Strange, dark, full of characters blurred somewhere between truth and fiction. It sucks you in and spits you out at the end, unsure of what has just happened. It was a wild ride. So much happens within is 200 pages. This is my #booked2023 #inmemoriam pick. Seabrook sadly died young and had only written two books.

I decided to read this today as my #inmemoriam pick for #booked2023. Beverly Cleary was one of my favorites as a kid, but I‘d never read the Ralph books! Loved the letter at the beginning written by Kate DiCamillo. Beverly Cleary was such a gem 💚💚

Love how Daunts Books are publishing forgotten classics and giving new life to them. These stories are full of quiet female rage, written in a time when this was even less acceptable than it is now. Penelope Mortimer writes so brilliantly about the ennui and dissatisfaction of women of her era, feelings of being trapped, having no voice, being both under and overwhelmed by opportunities, marriage and motherhood. (Continued below)…

I have no words. Oh, wait, yes I do. Degradation and humiliation are NOT sexy. At least not to me. I enjoy erotica now and then and I don‘t consider myself a prude by any means, but this was not the erotica for me. It‘s very repetitive…I mean, enough with the spanking! Move on. BDSM is okay if the parties are consensual but that wasn‘t the case in this book. For me, there was nothing fun or sexy here.

Steinbeck‘s last novel had been sitting unread on my shelves for years until #authoramonth gave me the incentive to finally pick it up. While it did not unseat my favorites of his, it did remind my why I have listed as one of my favorite authors for decades. #booked2023 #inmemoriam

I am so glad I finally picked up this one. The final #Manawake novel offers a fascinating dive into #Canadian history and introduces a bunch of fantastic characters. We all need a Christie, Jules, Ella and Pique in our lives and a Morag of course. Narrator of this great book and what a woman! She is tough and authentic and a real literary heroine if you ask me.

#Roll100 #192025 #1974 #Booked2023 #InMemoriam #1001books #ReadingTheAmericas 🇨🇦