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My Libby library hold came in on this one so it snuck into January & I‘m so glad it did! I loved the author‘s The Change that I read in Oct 23 & I may have even liked this one more as it‘s so full of heart & shows the power of books & reading. Is it too optimistic? Probably. Do I care right now? Not at all. Life is too rough in this country & world to not see the positive change a group of people can make fighting for ⬇️

Day 19 #Read2025
I read 5h 4min

YTD 116h 53min:
30h 14min in Finnish
96h 29min in English

I read 538 pages today

YTD 5214 pages:
1152 pages in Finnish
4062 pages in English

I finished two books today

YTD finished books
2 book in Finnish
11 books in English

#BookReview
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The first book I read this year is The Woman in Cabin 10. I had it on my shelf for a long time and finally decided to read it. I was immediately sucked into the story. With every chapter I was more surprised. I really did not see it coming. Especially not this ending. It was really quite a surprise. However, the story is missing a little something to give it a fifth star.
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Dexter and Athena live a life of mundane but content (at least outwardly) domesticity, which is shaken when Dexter bumps into an old girlfriend whose lifestyle is more hedonistic. Garner‘s writing captures the elements of both lifestyles and the effects well, and she has some excellent turns of phrase: “She had all the colour and dynamism of a parsnip”

Book 6/60; Page 999/18000 #Read2025 @DieAReader
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I finished my second #ThematicCozies #Animal pick today running errands. I found it cute & enjoyable overall, especially the setting of Wagtail, Virginia, a town set up to cater to pets & the pet experience inn that the MC‘s grandmother runs there. There‘s the usual cozy quirky small town characters—here they are humans & their pets & the mystery was pretty easy to solve. I would try another book in the⬇️

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I finished this one last week but hadn‘t reviewed it yet. I got it from the library based on the cover & description & made it a January #Roll100 pick (# 62 Any Library Book). (I also saw @BarbaraBB really liked it-always a plus!) So yeah, this book is both very dark & very good. Creepy, set at night & in Iceland where a young woman is exhausted & finds out she‘s sleepwalking to the tune of 40,000 steps on her smart ⬇️

Day 18 #Read2025
I read 7h 57min

YTD 111h 49min:
29h 33min in Finnish
92h 6min in English

I read 306 pages today

YTD 4676 pages:
1125 pages in Finnish
3551 pages in English

I finished one book today

YTD finished books
2 book in Finnish
9 books in English

2nd book in Kate Burkholder Series by Linda Castillo. Enjoying this series. Such good character development.

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Yesterday I read for 6.5 hours bring my YTD total to 102.75.
Slowing working my way to my yearly goals.

So I was a little annoyed that this book was more about two people working at a newspaper than about children being sold out of desperation in the 1930s. But after a bit I became so immersed in the story that it didn't matter anymore.

3/80

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