It‘s time for another Elizabeth Jane Howard (the sixth that @shawnmooney and I have buddy-read together)!
sarahbarnes Fun! I want to read more of her. 😍 🍷 8h
Cathythoughts Gorgeous golden picture. Sounds good , stacking. 💛 6h
It‘s time for another Elizabeth Jane Howard (the sixth that @shawnmooney and I have buddy-read together)!
I read 13 books (12 physical, 1 audio) in January—I ran out of free spaces after I completed 2 bingos! I usually read a lot in January, but our major snow/ice storm allowed even more reading time. Got a good start on my library‘s book challenge.
so-soShort of options and money, Ellie agrees to be her landlord‘s fake fiancée so he can get his inheritance and he‘ll pay her a percentage. One of the requirements of the deal was spending Christmas with his family but when Andrew‘s sister Jack arrives, she‘s the same person Ellie had a life-changing date with the year before.
Overall, pretty meh. A conversation would‘ve cleared everything up for everybody, but the grandmas were great.
pickCute romcom with sister component and a parent trap esque situation. 3⭐️
pickLily's self-discovery as a Chinese-American lesbian in early 1950s San Francisco.
A map of SF would definitely have helped. Location obviously had an important effect on how Lily was feeling at various points in the story but the street names didn't really help me locate myself. But still an interesting and engaging story. I did spend quite some time unsure whether the title meant yesterday evening or the final appearance/performance.
The Miss Chinatown contestants were clustered together behind a canvas screen near the stage.
#FirstLineFridays
pickFirst book completed for #CanadaReads 2025
The title suggests that this memoir will focus on Ma-Nee Chacaby's journey as a Two-Spirit person, but that is only one part of the much larger story of her life. Born in the 1950s in a tuberculosis sanitorium, this powerful memoir tells an (almost*) complete story of life as an Indigenous woman in Ontario, with all the traumas and triumphs therein.
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pick5⭐️ I loved it! This book is banned because of its LGBTQ themes, but I think they were missing the bigger picture of the story. It‘s about being true to yourself and standing up for what you believe in. It‘s about facing persecution whether it‘s for gender, race or sexuality. It‘s about overcoming obstacles and learning that just because somebody has always been in your life doesn‘t mean they should be. #ReadBanedBooks
