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Final #FoodandLit #BuddyRead is The Girl with the Red Balloon 🎈
This is a casual read-at-your-own-pace buddy read. Anyone is welcome to join! Please let me know if you would like to be tagged in the check-in posts.
For 2023, instead of buddy reads we will have a large book list that everyone can add to in order to help you find books for each country!
panThis is honestly the most over-hyped book I‘ve picked up this year and frankly, it was so bad! It‘s extremely slow, confused, and the author has tried too hard to build a plot but fails miserably at it. The characters are horrible and shallow, there‘s a lot of misogyny and fat phobia thrown in. Terrible book that‘s absolutely not worth the hype.
pickI found this to be such a moving read! It‘s a time travel A la The Outlander with romance and intrigue. Set in Ireland I found myself swept up with the story right from the start. Add beautiful writing and well drawn characters and it was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 read for me.
pickI absolutely loved this novel about loss and love and aging and life. Alice, who is about to turn 40, accidentally time travels back to her 16th birthday and is taken aback by how young her (now dying) father is, how many choices still are ahead of her, the closeness with her best friend who now lives in the suburbs with a family. She must figure out if she can change her present - or if she even wants to.
Final #FoodandLit Buddy Read is The Girl with the Red Balloon 🎈
This is a casual read-at-your-own-pace buddy read. Anyone is welcome to join! Please let me know if you would like to be tagged in the check-in posts.
For 2023, instead of buddy reads we will have a large book list that everyone can add to in order to help you find books for each country!
pickI enjoyed the second installment of this series. They‘re just nice, feel-good stories, and there are times when that‘s exactly what I need!
#bookspinbingo - this book earned 2 more bingos!
pickLove love love!! I can‘t wait to read the next book. I‘m dying because my order with the next book doesn‘t come until the end of this week. This series is seriously thrilling and just when you think you know what direction the story is going … bam there‘s a twist you didn‘t expect!
pickI just finish this book a few seconds ago and I‘m still high on that ending. I loooved this book, it had me on the edge of my seat with every chapter. I could say that it was a little heavy to keep up with the amount of characters but overall it was so good. I was also a fan of the writing, the different descriptions and metaphors made. In other words 5 out of 5 for me :)
This week on my book podcast, we say goodbye 👋👋👋 to my annual New Reads November series… but not without a great send-off! Author and former YA ghostwriter Morgan Baden and I chat about SEE YOU YESTERDAY, a time loop novel that explores questions of reinvention and rewriting history. Listen at the link in my bio!
Starting this next on audio before the show comes out!
