Litsy

Lola: A Novel | Melissa Scrivner Love

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This isn‘t a genre I usually read, but I recommend it. It was very fast paced and suspenseful. The leader of a gang is Lola, but everyone thinks it‘s her boyfriend. Until she needs to prove herself to the Cartel and then Lola is thrown into a territory war. The author softens these hard characters and made them well rounded with B storylines. This is a violent book, but there are many themes in this book for a book club, so great pick for that!

SarahBookInterrupted Listen to podcast episode here: https://www.bookinterrupted.com/episodes-podcast/episode/4e864381/lola-episode OR on any major podcast platform (edited) 2d

Bette I remember reading this and being surprised how much I liked it … cuz gangs. 😳 8h

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mrp27

Eve's Hollywood | Eve Babitz

March #WrapUp

March was another great reading month. My top two picks are the tagged title and All The Colors of the Dark. Reading Eve has sent me down the Didion/Babitz rabbit hole which I‘ll be reading more of in April.

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ShananigansReads

The Blackwoods | Brandy Colbert

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ShananigansReads25

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julieclair

K�nstlers in Paradise | Cathleen Schine

My #ReadOrDonate choice for February is Kunstlers in Paradise, which has been calling out to me for a year or so now. This is the month!

What will everyone else be reading/donating?

All are welcome to join.

The link to the optional StoryGraph challenge is: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/efdc1ad1-dea0-414f-abeb-38ea1d0...

Julsmarshall, BarkingMadRead, Cuilin, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, OriginalCyn620, BethM, gossamerchild, Booksblanketsandahotbeverage, Read4life, rmaclean4, BookwormAHN, CoffeeNBooks, Allylu, TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper, willaful

TheAromaofBooks I am trying to knock off some MG reads this month, since I know things are going to be a little crazy and they're fast!! 😂 I got this one spontaneously from Book Outlet a few years ago so it seems like it's time to actually read it -

The Wolf Wilder

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BarkingMadRead I‘ll be reading Pack Darling, it‘s one of my #probablysmut books. This year I‘m trying to read all of my leftover BOTM books plus some of the Smut books 🤣 2mo

PuddleJumper The Son of Neptune will get read and donated. I've got someone who is waiting for me to read the white series so they can get it 🤣 I'd like to get another one off my shelf as well so I'm thinking Scapegracers 2mo

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julieclair @TheAromaofBooks I'm impressed you're planning any reads at all this month! 👍🤪🎉 2mo

julieclair @BarkingMadRead I've heard of lots of different annual reading strategies, but BOTM and Smut is a new one! ??? Actually, in the book club I was in years ago, we always dubbed July "Smut Month". It was an annual tradition! 2mo

julieclair @PuddleJumper Having someone waiting for you to finish books sounds like a powerful motivator! ⏳ 😉 2mo

TheAromaofBooks Reading is more like an addiction than a hobby at this point in my life 😂 2mo

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Right there with ya! 😂💙 2mo

gossamerchild I'm still trying to get thru Cryptonomicon. I'm refusing to give up on this one, and it's a chunker, so it'll probably be a couple more months :-D 2mo

julieclair @gossamerchild Good for you! Keep up the good work! 💪 2mo

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I won an arc of this in a giveaway, so it‘s a read and pass on to the nieces or goes to the neighborhood little free library.

Georgie Summers and the Scribes of Scatterplot: A Novel

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julieclair @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage That one looks like it will be exciting and full of adventure! 2mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Bright Shiny Morning | James Frey

#25Alive #Bright

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 💙 2mo

Eggs Looks good!! 2mo

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britt_brooke

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. | Eve Babitz

so-so

⭐️⭐️ Having read a few of Didion‘s journalistic pieces, and the recent title “Didion & Babitz,” I wanted to try one from the latter. Oh, the pretension and ego! Lord. Grapes, baseball, married men, sex, drugs. 1960s California is one of my favorite things to read about, but this will not go down as a favorite. It‘s a one and done for me and Didion‘s frenemy.

AlaMich Grapes?? 3mo

britt_brooke @AlaMich 🍷 3mo

AlaMich Oh duh!!🙄 3mo

britt_brooke @AlaMich 😆 But I did say it a little weird in the review! 3mo

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everlocalwest

Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. | Lili Anolik

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Eve Babitz was a whole vibe and you can feel the way Anolik is drawn to her (first through Eve's writing but ultimately in a desperation to tell Eve's story). There's sex and celebrity here, sure, but there's also a great deal about how we make and live our art.

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fredthemoose

Tehrangeles: A Novel | Porochista Khakpour

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⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Story of 4 teen daughters of a wealthy Iranian American entrepreneur who were supposed to star in a Kardashian style reality show that was delayed due to COVID. I was initially put off by a very silly opening where one daughter was trying to change her birthday in order to be a different astrological sign. It tended a little vapid, but it eventually got more substantive and interesting.

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