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AmyG
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#WeeklyFavorites @Read4life

I listened to this one…really enjoyed it.

BarbaraBB Lots to discuss don‘t you think?! 5d
AmyG I enjoyed this. Like you, I liked her life the most. Yes, lots to discuss. 5d
willaful Erasure was one of my fav picks too. 4d
Read4life Great month!! 💙🦋💙 I‘m looking forward to reading this one for #CampLitsy25 4d
AmyG @Read4life Hope you enjoy it. 3d
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BarbaraBB
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Pickpick

I liked Zelu‘s story much more than the book-in-the-book, the SF novel. And I didn‘t get the ending of that SF novel. But it doesn‘t matter, this book is quite an experience and a perfect book to discuss around the fire during #CampLitsy25 in July!

#ReadTheWorld2025 book 18 #Nigeria

sarahbarnes Ooh, glad to see you liked it! 😀 6d
AmyG I am listening to it and enjoying it. I, too, liked her life story more. Good book. 6d
peaKnit What a gorgeous cover. Can‘t wait to read and discuss. 6d
squirrelbrain Great review! ❤️ 6d
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JillR
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Mehso-so

I so wanted to like this, but I kind of didn‘t. The novel follows a quartet of women, all linked, as they ruminate on their loves, their careers, their mothers. Elements I loved and the writing is as good as you‘d expect, but other than Kadiatou‘s story - loosely based on the real case of a New York maid assaulted by a powerful man - the rest left me unmoved and at times, I admit, bored. In fact I skim read the last quarter.

squirrelbrain Yeah, this one was so disappointing. 😔 6d
Kitta Oh no, it‘s on my TBR but maybe I‘ll shift it down in priority. 6d
JillR @squirrelbrain I‘d seen such mixed reviews but really hoped it‘d work for me 🙁 6d
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fictionaddictbooks
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Some days she was fine and some days she was underwater barely breathing. At her 22-week check-up, newly flush with well-being, her nausea receding, she laughed at the grainy-grey image moving on the ultrasound screen, and gaily waved at the front-desk women as she left the doctor‘s
office, but alone in the elevator, she sank to the floor, a stark dissolving all around her. She sent Kwame a text. “I‘m 22 weeks today.”

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Larkken
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Pickpick

A great novel about art, originality, and ownership. Do we use art to manifest parts of ourselves? Can we ever get beyond that? How much ownership can we have over anything we put out in the world?

Can‘t wait to discuss it for #camplitsy, I think there‘s a lot here to unpack!

BarbaraBB Great review!! I am reading it now too and it seems an excellent cook to discuss while camping 🏕️ ! 1w
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BkClubCare
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Pickpick

OooOOOooo! I like this cover more than the one on the hardcover I read (US, library) Anyway, I am giving this a “Pick with reservations” and truly, this is a case of “Book, it‘s not you, it‘s me”. I just couldn‘t overcome the reluctance I felt, the chore it seemed to get this thing read!! I don‘t have time for this, too many books coming at me fast and fury with deadlines. I made it to page 200 before I skipped to the last 4 chapters ⬇️

BkClubCare So I “got” the story, I enjoyed the build, I was disappointed that Zelu‘s family wasn‘t more supportive, and I wish the best for the Humes… #May2025 Book48 1w
BarbaraBB Reading this now. So far so good - after 100 pages! 1w
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - yay! It is intriguing…. If only I was on a beach with fewer distractions (or if sports was on TV so I could tune it out. 😆) 1w
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fictionaddictbooks
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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“Are you an artist?” Luuk asked me, at an art gallery in Mexico City. I was the only Black woman there, in the high-ceilinged space, sedate paintings hangin on very white walls. I told him I was writing a travel essay about the art scene in Mexico City.

“Who do you write for?”

“I‘m freelance.”

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fictionaddictbooks
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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...where I returned from trips to write in my study with its pastel walls and shaggy rugs. The high foyer, the lingering lemony scent in the rooms, the reassuring off and on hum of central air. I liked to sit out on the deck and watch the leaves turning gold in the fall in the beautiful preserve of trees that my mother called a forest.

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BkClubCare
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This made me laugh. Shout out to all the 🐈‍⬛ cat lovers! Yes? 🙌 #catsofLitsy

“Hanging out with Man Man, a humongous black Maine Coon cat who required the attention of a human at all times, was perfect.”

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 1w
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PaperbackPirate
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This cover is hidden under the dust jacket for Death of the Author. The main character, Zelu, writes a wildly popular sci fi book called Rusted Robots, and we get to read some of it in Death of the Author. It was so good. I would read the entire novel.
🤖 Taken with some of my Star Wars robots that matched the robots in the story 🦿

AmyG Oh wow! I am listening to this now. That‘s too cool. 2w
ImperfectCJ Well, heck! I have a copy of the book and didn't have a clue about the cover beneath the dust jacket until your post! What a fun Easter egg! 2w
willaful I *just* picked this up at the library! Though I supposed I won't be able to look under the cover, darn it. 2w
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PaperbackPirate My book club was guessing it would be a good one to listen to for the accents and pronunciation @AmyG ! I hope you‘re loving it! 2w
PaperbackPirate I saw someone post about it on Instagram before my book club picked it so I had some help @ImperfectCJ ! 2w
PaperbackPirate Someone in my book club had a library copy and we were able to peek at it with both covers open @willaful - good luck! I hope you love it! 📖 2w
5feet.of.fury Oh how cool! 2w
PaperbackPirate And sprayed edges?! @5feet.of.fury 😍 2w
AmyG @PaperbackPirate I am enjoying it. It‘s wonderfully read and a great story. 2w
willaful @PaperbackPirate It doesn't seem to have it. Perhaps a special edition. :-( 1w
PaperbackPirate Aw that‘s too bad @willaful 😢 1w
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