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I listened to this on my drive to see family yesterday, and it was a strange read. I didn‘t particularly enjoy it, yet I felt compelled to keep listening. After the sudden death of her mother, the narrator spends some time trying to understand more about her mother‘s life and her connection to her. It was often a confusing and disturbing read.

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This is my favorite of the books I‘ve read by George Eliot. I enjoyed how the characters‘ stories were woven together, and how Silas and Eppie found and helped each other to better lives. These characters were much more real to me than some of Eliot‘s others.

📷: I listened as I worked getting the drill ready to plant sunflowers and other jobs around the farm.

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I enjoyed this, especially the descriptions of some of the locations along the journey, but I agree with some other reviews that the ending was anticlimactic.

📷: I listened to some of this as I was running farm errands, working around the shed, and getting the baler ready to go bale straw. #BooksOnTheFarm

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Toni Morrison is a master at describing the most devastating and heartbreaking stories with wonderful language, and to hear this one in her voice added to that. Some of her books strike me much more than others and this is one of stronger. The switching perspectives and sometimes backwards storytelling were somewhat confusing, but they all had purpose and are worth the effort to follow.

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This was not the book for me. It‘s a strange, dark story with repetitive scenes from the perspective of a narrator frequently in an opium haze. At least that‘s how it seemed to me. I also think I missed aspects due to differences of culture & translation. I feel there‘s much more symbolism than I‘m aware of.

📷: Gandalf kept me company during my #HammockReading this evening.

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These are my current long reads, and I‘m enjoying each of them in their own way.

I got a lot from my previous read of #Genji, so I thought I would reread for the #Reading1001 yearlong read this year by listening to the Washburn translation. It‘s interesting how I‘ve forgotten so many details, but then hear sections that immediately seem so familiar.

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I downloaded this a few nights ago when I needed a new ebook to read a few pages before bed. Set in Albania during a time of transition after communism, it was strangely compelling with its mix of storytelling. There‘s a contemporary story of Mark and his girlfriend in the changing city combined with his remembrances of stories and strange dreams. I found it interesting, but in the end I didn‘t quite understand it.

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My first audiobook of 2025 was a #1001books listen. I liked this one better than the previous book I listened to by this author, but her style is not apparently for me. I felt like this book had somewhat disconnected storylines, left too many things unanswered, and ended rather abruptly. I guess that makes it true to life, but I‘m not sure what I am supposed to take away from it.

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This was a quicker listen than I expected. I started it a few days ago, but when I got back to it today I listened straight through to the end. I‘m not much of a reader of espionage novels, but I appreciated the tangle of events and explanations this one explored. I‘ll definitely be interested in picking up another of Le Carré‘s novels.

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The naughty book-eater!!!

This was such an excellent book!! Love it!!

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