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TheBookgeekFrau
The Clock Winder | Anne Tyler
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 1w
Eggs Excellent 🕰️ 7d
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Leftcoastzen
Something to Be Desired | Thomas McGuane
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#CoverStories #Clouds McGuanes protagonists are funny ,seems that they seem smart enough to avoid bad decisions, walk into them anyway. I read them years ago, not sure if I‘d like them as much now.

CatMS Years ago I has such a huge crush on McGuane I read everything of his I could get my hands on. 3w
Leftcoastzen @CatMS I here that ! Maybe I should have put his photo in there instead of the front cover! 😄 3w
Eggs Sounds intriguing 💙 3w
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sisilia
Other Men's Daughters | Richard Stern
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Pickpick

My second time reading this book and my 4⭐️ rating holds. I usually stay away from novels about infidelity but this one is well written, and it digs deeper on a crumbling marriage and a family going through a divorce. It‘s another NYRB Classics gem I‘d add to my recommendation list.

BarbaraBB Thanks! I‘ll be looking out for it! 2mo
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shawnmooney
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https://youtu.be/FQq8dO4UiHM?si=rK9UB75dqIkaHZd5


Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong

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sisilia
Other Men's Daughters | Richard Stern
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Re-reading this gem 🤩

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CarolynM
Hudson River Bracketed | Edith Wharton
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Catch up review from mid year 5/5

I‘m reviewing these 2 together because they are 2 parts of a whole. The tagged book follows the early career of a young man from a small town who achieves literary success but struggles in society. In the sequel (tagged in comments) he struggles to replicate that success while travelling through Europe with his mistress. In both books he is oblivious to making a lot of people unhappy.

Read for #WhartonBuddyRead

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PaperbackPirate
Broke Heart Blues | Joyce Carol Oates
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Chipping away at this book, hoping I can review it in time.
Taken secretly by my dh today while waiting for the food to come.

I‘m trying, team #Flerken!

#HauntedShelf

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AVChrista
Once Is Not Enough | Jacqueline Susann
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I really enjoy Jacqueline‘s writing style and cannot wait to dive into this story!

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Graywacke
Hudson River Bracketed | Edith Wharton
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Mehso-so

Wharton inserts a natural writer raised in the vacuous suburbs, without any foundational literature, in an abandoned grand house with a fabulous library, adds a sort of sprite-muse…and then tries to make a plot out of it. Materialism and unhappiness are her themes. But so is the mind of the writer and publishing world and… well, too much more. It all comes to, I guess, a sequel… which we haven‘t read yet. #whartonbuddyread

BarbaraBB Beautiful photo 😍 7mo
Lcsmcat Love that staircase! And you‘re right - W tried to cram a lot into one short novel. 7mo
Graywacke @BarbaraBB @Lcsmcat the staircase is from the Oliver Bronson House in Hudson, NY. It is a long abandoned, lost and rediscovered example of the Hudson River Bracketed style. Built in 1811, and heavily reworked in the mid 19th century. It rest on the property of a correctional facility! 7mo
BarbaraBB Wow that‘s an interesting story! 7mo
Lcsmcat Wow! That‘s some correctional facility!! 7mo
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