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Bec_lectic
Swamplandia! | Karen Russell
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Panpan

The premise of this story sounded promising and the writing was beautiful from the start but the story? Weird, boring, and did not keep my interest at all. I skimmed from the middle to end. I don‘t even know why I finished because the ending was just as terrible.

Ruthiella Oh, I hated this book so much after the first chapter. 😂 3w
Susanita I tried three times to read this book and never even got very far. 3w
Bec_lectic @Ruthiella same here!! At first I was like this may be good than after the first chapter it took a nose dive! I still can‘t believe I made it to the end. 3w
Bec_lectic @Susanita three times…you‘re out lol! Don‘t bother trying again. I still can‘t believed I bothered to skim it to the end. 3w
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bravenewtrav2
Swamplandia! | Karen Russell
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Mehso-so

Largely a coming-of-age novel, I found myself more drawn to Kiwi‘s stories vs Ava‘s narration, although the latter is written prettier. I found the dialogue, especially Kiwi‘s “friends” and coworkers to be fairly unbelievable, like what a Boomer thinks “the youth” is saying. But there‘s a turn here that really clarified the novel‘s intent, the temporary nature of innocence and moving forward when your body is not ready.

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LiseWorks
Flap Your Wings | P.D. Eastman
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Pickpick

Love these authors. What happened to the bay bird? I'm pretty sure this is before Are you my mother? 🤣 #ISpyBingoJuly @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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bravenewtrav2
Swamplandia! | Karen Russell

“…a small black desk that looked so weak that I didn‘t even want to rest my eyes on it.”

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Blueberry
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MemoirsForMe 🤣🤣🤣 7mo
TheBookHippie 😂 7mo
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AnnCrystal 😂🐊💝. 7mo
TheSpineView 🤣🤣🤣 7mo
tpixie So funny!!! 7mo
Eggs 🐊 💚 🐊 7mo
IuliaC 😂😂 7mo
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Blueberry
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 7mo
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DebinHawaii
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#CoverStories

A #Reptile on the cover of this semi-true tale of a road trip with an alligator that I read for review about 10 years ago. (Yikes!)

The cover on the left is the original & the right, a newer version.🐊

Eggs Isn‘t this the Homer Hickam of space travel fame? 7mo
DebinHawaii @Eggs Yes! The same Homer Hickam! 7mo
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Susanita
Swamplandia! | Karen Russell
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As a #longtimefed I served under 7 POTUS. I only voted for 3 of them, but I did my job the same regardless. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution when I first joined the government and every time I moved to another office. My employer was the American people and not POTUS.

Higher level managers and administrators are already political appointees. There‘s no need to root out the “disloyal” employees. The result would be the real “deep state.”

Chelsea.Poole Thank you for sharing. 7mo
Leftcoastzen I worked as a contract worker for NPS & also a NPO connected to a historical park.This is insanity. All workers I knew could have made more money in private sector, service was part of the job that made it more meaningful! 7mo
Leftcoastzen They are not hiring seasonal workers for places like Yosemite & Yellowstone which cannot function w/o them. Did not catch where , was listening to NPR . They didn‘t hire seasonal firefighters so a prescribed burn to protect wild/urban interface is abandoned.It was the only window to do the prescribed burn till next year , obviously raised risk for everyone. 7mo
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Susanita @Leftcoastzen You‘re kind of stealing my thunder for future posts 😉 but that‘s okay! I was pleased (if that‘s the right word under the circumstances) that some of the protests this week happened at NPS sites such as the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. 7mo
Leftcoastzen Yosemite too! It‘s been many years so probably won‘t be stealing too much of your thunder! 😏 6k IRS workers, really?! 7mo
Susanita @Leftcoastzen Laying off IRS workers in the middle of tax season! WTAF! They are the weirdest mix of unspeakably evil and unbelievably stupid. 7mo
Leftcoastzen I hate the thought but starting to think the goal is totally break it , declare martial law . 7mo
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KCofKaysville
Swamplandia! | Karen Russell
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Well written, but rather strange story of a swamp-living family and a search for resolution after grief. Kind of blunt and somewhat off-putting in a poetic way.
Could be a little shorter too. It took me a while to read.

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olibai
InvestiGators | John Patrick Green
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It was good