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MariaW
Shakespeare Undead | Lori Handeland
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The author uses original quotes by Shakespeare at the beginning of each chapter - sometimes they go well with the chapter, sometimes they don‘t.

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Sharpeipup
11/22/63: A Novel | Stephen King
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Love that my cup of caffeine is cheering me on as I start this #chunkster

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xicanti
One Night in Boukos | A.J. Demas
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ONE NIGHT IN BOUKOS is really good, but I‘m limping through it at a glacial pace because I can‘t seem to sit down and actually READ it. Blah. I‘m definitely enjoying it less than I should be. Reading slowly is the worst.

Today I figured I‘d give a big chunk of my afternoon to it, but I‘m dealing with one of those energy-sucking hell colds. I had to NAP. Napping is the other worst. Now I‘m gonna make another push, wrapped in tweed for warmth.

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Smokinjo
All Our Wrong Todays | Elan Mastai
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Little late for March, but better late than never! Lot‘s of great books read in March. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter was so good! But All Our Wrong Tomorrows was my fav. It was an audiobook, and if you‘ve never heard 3+ minutes of the narrator saying “f**k,” you‘re missing out on one of the funniest chapters ever!

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xicanti
One Night in Boukos | A.J. Demas
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I‘m glad to have an A.J. Demas novel to read and a Casey to snuggle. France is great for dog watching but less great for random doggie interactions. They‘re all so well-trained they don‘t even come say hi to you when they‘re on a long leash.

I‘m sad to be back somewhere cold and brown, where most stuff was built in the 1970s or later and I‘ve gotta pay attention to my expensive food‘s country of origin again. 😔

Cheshirecat913 I have really enjoyed your trip posts! 1w
xicanti @Cheshirecat913 thank you! 1w
dabbe C🤩SEY! 🖤🐾🖤
Glad you had a fabulous trip. 💙🩵💙
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xicanti @dabbe it really was great, aside from Casey‘s absence. 7d
MemoirsForMe Seeing Casey makes me smile every time! ❤️ 5d
xicanti @MemoirsForMe ❤️❤️❤️ 5d
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claripetrone
The Dragon Republic | R. F. Kuang
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Pickpick

The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang. Rated 8,4/10

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Cosmos_Moon_River
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Mehso-so

So glad to finally be done with this. I loved Chabon‘s Summerland and this was nothing like it. I thought there may be some fantasy, but pretty purely a detective murder mystery. Some uniqueness in the setting, being in Sitka, Alaska, and a large community of chess-playing Jewish Alaskans, along with the organized crime and police detective theme. Some, but little suspense. I had to push myself to get through. It never really gripped me.

Ruthiella Chabon is hit and miss for me…but mostly miss. 😂 1w
RamsFan1963 I bailed on this a few years ago. I found the pace too slow to keep my attention on the mystery 1w
Cosmos_Moon_River @Ruthiella Haha… oops. I even missed the tagging the right book 🤣 @RamsFan1963 I was 🤏 so close to bailing. I kept hanging on hope it would get more exciting. Not even a good twist. 1w
Cosmos_Moon_River Well, it did let me edit my book tag… Flowers for Algernon was a MUCH better book, though. 1w
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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards
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I'm really loving how Kowal's alternate history is playing out in contrast to the For All Mankind series on AppleTV - both are highlighting how we are just exporting our human conflicts into space, but Kowal focuses on race and gender while FAM is concentrating on socioeconomic class tensions between the millionaire tech bro innovators and the laborers. The implications of having babies in space also come up in both!

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Teresereading
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In the shadows of the Aberystwyth Castle, an amazing site we visited a few years ago
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12
#TBRpile

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Cheshirecat913
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Pickpick

Delightful, literary, timey-wimey fun.

I read this book over 10 years ago and picked it up again, and it was just as good as I remembered.

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