"My name is Otto Ringling, ( no circus jokes, please) and I have a strange story to tell."
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"My name is Otto Ringling, ( no circus jokes, please) and I have a strange story to tell."
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
pickWhile I did not love this book, I also did not hate it. I feel it was just not the right book for me. It has a couple tropes that I do not love and so that turned me off from the start. Overall the plot was good and the characters were well developed, it was a good book. I would recommend!
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#RoadTrip See the sun ball in the clouds? And the sunbeams at the horizon? Beauty all around us.
I bought this book on the rec of a lady I casually met at the paperback table of our indie bookstore. I asked if she had read The Correspondent- she had not! And she rec'd this one to me. Perfect length for a quick drive north to Manhappiness KS 🌻
#Jan2025 Book2 #ReadICT Category 3: independence
I pulled the Tessa Bailey paper from the bucket! This was the only one currently available on Libby that I have not read yet! Super excited to start!
#book #TessaBailey #TBRBucket
In no particular order, post 5 of my #Top25of2025 reads of the year! Looking forward to more fabulous reading in 2026!!
To all fans of Amor Towles, I ran across an interview he gave in my Strand Magazine. I scanned it so that you could read it below, if interested. It's not the best scan (did it with my phone), but it's still readable. 🤩
Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/139LdO88CJ_GLDZTJysbQXkp8GPpxn63J/view?usp=shari...
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In June, my family continued our tradition of listening to Kevin Wilson books on road trips with Run for the Hills. It wasn't our favorite of Wilson's novels, but it was my favorite read from June.
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pickI enjoyed this! Perhaps I needed more of a lighthearted and easy to follow story while hosting family and creating Christmas magic for my kids. Super exhausting, but being accompanied by this band of siblings during their cross-country roadtrip was a welcome addition to my own chaos. Interesting, as I read it following Lion, another #ToB26 longlist title, and both are focused on fathers.
panEnglishman Dave Gorman travels to America and attempts to drive coast to coast without financially supporting any type of chain, be it food, lodging or gas. This should have been more interesting than it was. In fact, it could have been interesting if it were an article rather than a book--a book that felt like it would never end.
#2025Book58
The best book I read in Feb. Other books might have been more interesting or unique, but again, it is the polished writing that I enjoyed in this one.
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