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November was maybe my best reading month of the year.
4.5 ⭐
Change the Recipe
Miss Major Speaks
The Message
4 ⭐
A Different Kind of Power
Who Killed My Father
System Collapse
Hungerstone
Frozen River
The Blob (tagged as my surprise like)
I Put A Spell On You
3.75 ⭐
Far from the Tree
The Storyteller
Once Persuaded, Twice Shy
House of Day, House of Night
Mad Mabel
Flesh
3.5 ⭐
The Future Is Disabled
3 ⭐
Time And Again
The Möbius Book
The Peepshow

#ToB26 long listed, but this was already on my radar. As someone who loves those stories about reclusive people living off grid I was hoping for much more of that, since our MC is doing just that—he removed himself from the world at-large after a family fight over politics on Thanksgiving 2016. The novel really takes off when his grandchildren show up at his door. A look at America in the age of MAGA and the creepy Christians-with-guns movement.

My fabulous #AuldLangSpine list from @Billypar — submitted mostly without comment for the time being. Obviously, I love it! I‘ve read a few…but many weren‘t even on my radar (which is exactly how I like it). I‘ll post about my pretty little plans sometime soon.

Thanks, Vinny! I‘m looking forward to January! 🖤

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 This was beautiful. I finished a few weeks ago and remembered thinking maybe it didn‘t need to be quite so long, but thinking back on it I don‘t mind the length at all. Story of Sonia and Sonny, Indian young adults trying to make their way in the US and navigate family dynamics in India. It‘s a slow burn but worth the time.

Current audiobook…Tried reading this on Kindle once and could not get into it. Enjoying the narrator on audio.

Incredible! Part dystopian climate change thriller and part love story, this is really a story of motherhood and grief. I‘ve lived all of her books so far, but this may be my favorite. The ending is crazy good, and every page is intense and beautiful. Can‘t recommend it enough!

I loved this

A book about loneliness, as the title suggests, but also of its consequences

The young girl who finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older male artist that thinks everything is allowed in the name of art

The man that finds his best friend pushing him out of his life to find a wife

Two families that faces their own challenges, an aunt that left her husband, a mother that leaves her husband

About family

December #TBR

Shearwater, an island between Tasmania and the Antarctica is home to 4 people, until a woman washes up on the shore barely alive.
As the tides get higher, the moody skies and angry waves take on a character of their own all the while providing an atmospheric backdrop for a plot that literally had me on the edge of my sofa with my heart hammering in my chest.
I went into this book knowing nothing, and so should you.

I really should have bailed on this one. I love the US cover and the setting, and there were some parts I found engaging, but overall I often found my mind wandering off while listening. To the point that near the end is someone named Charlie and I had no idea who that was. 🤷🏼‍♀️