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charl08
Somewhere Else | Jenni Daiches, Sara Trevelyan
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Mehso-so

Mixed feelings about this one. Covering the 100 years of Rosa's life, from a Polish pogrom to a garden in Morningside in the early 2000s. Wonderfully Scottish (well, mostly Edinburgh), and with a message surely no one can argue with: conflict is bad.

For me, a bit too ambitious - and heavy on the historical exposition.

Edinburgh skyline (near Dean Village)

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sarahbarnes I have this one on my list but am on the fence about it. 3w
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charl08
Crooked Seeds: A Novel | Karen Jennings
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Pickpick

Not a book to read when you are feeling thirsty.

In the midst of a future Cape Town when water is privatised and in short supply. Deidre is drunk, and blaming everyone else for her problems, despite never having worked or even acknowledged the help she *has* been given.

Will the discovery of buried secrets at her old family home change her attitude?

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charl08
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Well, I wasn't expecting that!
I've only read 3 of these, so 3 more to find.

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Leniverse I have very mixed feelings about this. 2mo
BarbaraBB I am content. I haven‘t read the whole longlist but of this shortlist I have read five and really enjoyed four of those. 2mo
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charl08 @BarbaraBB interesting! Which was the one that you've not read yet? 2mo
sarahbarnes Same - I‘ve read three. 2mo
squirrelbrain Meh, I‘m a bit over the Fiction prize now - I didn‘t love the longlist anyway, and now this hasn‘t helped! 🤷‍♀️ 2mo
charl08 @sarahbarnes will you read the others? 2mo
charl08 @squirrelbrain ah well, there's always the Booker... 2mo
sarahbarnes I‘m not sure…the challenge is they‘re often not at the library here and I don‘t feel invested in any of them enough to buy a copy….How about you? 2mo
charl08 @sarahbarnes I'm guessing Fundamentally will come in at the library, as they've got a few copies stll on order (its a big group of libraries in my county). Not sure about the July or Wouden. 2mo
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charl08
Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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I lifted @squirrelbrain 's graphic and added stickers for the ones I've read. I've got my fingers crossed for Ministry of Time and The Dream Hotel making the shortlist. Still hoping to read some more of the others: found it harder to get hold of all of them this year.

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squirrelbrain Ha! When I first glanced at this I thought ‘ooh this looks just like my list!‘ 🤪 2mo
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charl08
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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Pickpick

This worried me so much I had to skip to the end to check she got out! (And then could finish the book.)

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Ruthiella I do that with particularly intense books too! 😬 2mo
squirrelbrain I did think at first the way she‘d got out was a bit of a let down. But then I changed my mind - insubordination works! 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures It was so tense! I rarely talk out loud to the characters, I definitely talked to Sara 😂 2mo
tpixie Lovely photo! 2mo
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charl08
Amma | Saraid de Silva
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Moving in to this one...

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charl08
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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Mehso-so

I usually enjoy books about wandering Berlin, but this one not so much.

A bildungsroman featuring a lot of drugs, bad sex and bad choices, I winced for the protagonist as she made one awful decision after another. Lots of interesting individual elements, but I never felt I really understood where the author was going (and in placed desperately just hoped it would all just Stop!)

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squirrelbrain It was unremittingly bleak, I thought - too many drugs and bad decisions. 2mo
charl08 @squirrelbrain so many bad decisions... 2mo
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A Little Trickerie | Rosanna Pike
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ChaoticMissAdventures This is the one I am most excited about! (Im) Patiently waiting for my order from Blackwells to swim across the pond. 3mo
squirrelbrain I‘m going to pick this up from the library today. 3mo
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charl08
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45 years! At 14!🤯

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Suet624 Tragic. 4mo
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I wrote this book because I believe the American public needs to understand that the legacy of colonization is not just a problem for Indigenous peoples, but a problem for our democracy.

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