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Vladimir called to me. Can you blame me? (Or the cover model?)

Yes, I loved this novel.

Eminently readable, in that the pacing and formatting creates a good flow, and I appreciate the writing style. More than just a collection of peculiarly-phrased perceptive observations, there does appear to be full life narrated from the point of view of a (possibly neurodivergent) asexual character, a collection of friends and family, 1/?

Wow, all #tob25 for this month's favorites. It either says something about the quality of the longlist, or it's just a reflection of the fact that I read most of this month's books from the longlist so my favorites are statistically more likely to be from among those titles.

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Carbs: A love language all their own. 🍞🥐🥖🍝♥️🥰

Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.

This one deserves all of your love, especially if you‘re into awesome Canadian literature. This gorgeously written, compulsively readable family saga, focussing around the disappearance of two women from a working class town, is layered with secrets, masterfully revealed.

#ohcanada #canlit #fiction

Eh? I listened to this instead of reading in print/digital, and not sure if that was a good thing. But also not sure I would have liked it more otherwise. There were some clever things going on, but I felt like a lot of it went over my head, and I just generally didn‘t love it. Not a strong contender for #tob25.

Loved this book. Definitely in my top 10 of this year.

A very Booker Prize-ish book - it was a bit tricky. This is a series of stories spanning 1908 to 2025 covering love, both romantic and between parent and child, loss, war and science. What I struggled with was the telling, individual stories moving back and forth in time, the narrative in each story also moving around from paragraph to paragraph. Lovely in parts, but it was harder work than I‘m willing to invest.