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JenReadsAlot
The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah
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Another heartbreaking and great book by this author.

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OutAndAbout
Lonesome Dove: A Novel | Larry McMurtry
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I‘ve wanted to listen to this for some time, but the reviews said the narrator was difficult to listen to. They just released this new audio version and it‘s a narrator that‘s popular for many audios. I‘m only a few hours in but I can tell it‘s a very different and positive listen. Highly recommend if the former narration made you bail on it.

LiteraryHoarderPenny Oh wow Will Patton will be BRILLIANT 2d
AmyG One of my favorite books. I may need to listen to this. 2d
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Karisimo
Hopefuls | Jennifer Close
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To my litten friends everywhere!

Aims42 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Wishing this for you too! 1w
dabbe Same to you! 🧡🩶💜 1w
AnnCrystal 🤩💝 Hope the same for you too 💝💝💝. 1w
Eggs Thank you 🙏🏻 🩷🙏🏻 my coffee was delicious and I finished 2 books! Pretty? Hmmmm 1w
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JoeMo
Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas | Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford
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This book destroys the myths about the Alamo, to include the people involved and the reasons for the battle. The main reason for the Texas revolt, which included the defense of the Alamo, was slavery. Mexico had banned it, infuriating American settlers.

The second half of the book looks at the strange history of its preservation and cultural context. Fun tidbit, musician Phil Collins is a major player in the site‘s recent history.
#bookspinbingo

Amiable I have this one in my TBR pile —glad to hear it‘s a good one! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2w
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Ruthiella
Cherry | Mary Karr
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#Roll100
#OffMyShelf “One Word Title”

Mary Karr writes beautifully of her tween years and adolescence in Leechfield, Texas in the ‘70s. Not as sympathetic as her first memoir, because it‘s a difficult age for many and particularly for Mary, who is smart but also often impudent and challenging as well as challenged by her home life and the counterculture movement.

I would have made the prologue an epilogue, however.

wanderinglynn 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉 you are rocking this challenge! (edited) 2w
Ruthiella @wanderinglynn it‘s really helping me read books I have owned for years! 😃 2w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2w
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Ruthiella
Cherry | Mary Karr
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Waiting at Panera while my dog gets groomed. 😋📚☕️🥗

TheBookHippie Looks good! 3w
Ruthiella @TheBookHippie It is! I can‘t believe after taking my dogs to this groomer for at least a decade, this is the first time I realized I could hang out here and read. 😅 3w
TheBookHippie @Ruthiella happens to me often 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️😅 3w
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wildwoodreads What did you get? It looks delicious. 3w
Ruthiella It was delicious! 😋 It was a Strawberry Caprese Salad. 3w
RamsFan1963 @Ruthiella I'm a big fan of their Green Goddess salad, I love avacado in a salad. 3w
AnnCrystal Yummy 😋👍🏼📚💝. 3w
Ruthiella @RamsFan1963 I will have to try that next time! 🥗 😋 3w
Ruthiella @AnnCrystal It was! 😋 3w
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Bookzombie
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August #wrapup

Total read = 9
Audio - 6
1 middle grade, 1 novella
Print - 3
1 novella

My pick for August is tagged. I also loved Book Woman. I read it for work bookclub and then found out I read the wrong book. 😂 The rest were picks as well.

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Graciouswarriorlibrarian
Killer Jam | Karen MacInerney
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My August Bookly report. It was a slow reading month for me.

Graywacke Another Bookly addict! Doesn‘t look like a bad month to me. 4w
Graciouswarriorlibrarian @Graywacke Thanks! I love Bookly! I normally read double this number of books but was in a reading slump. 4w
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suvata
Lonesome Dove: A Novel | Larry McMurtry
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5 Stars • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry follows retired Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Woodrow Call as they lead a cattle drive from Texas to Montana in the 1870s. With a diverse crew, including young Newt Dobbs and tracker Joshua Deets, they face Indian raids, bandits, and harsh terrain. The epic journey explores friendship, duty, and the fading Old West, culminating in bittersweet success with heavy losses.

bookaholic1 Loved this book 4w
Ruthiella Fantastic novel. 4w
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Michellesibs
The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah
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The book follows Elsa who lives on the great plains with her family and zones into the migrant experience of this particular environmental disaster.
I didn't know about the dust bowl and while I didn't feel any real bond with the characters, I was really interested in the events in both Texas and the migration to California. The government's response, action and the Communist movement really did draw me in.