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BarbaraBB
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
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I really really liked Small Rain!

Read4life Fantastic!! 💙📚💙 8h
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BarbaraBB
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
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The narrator is hospitalized with a rare vascular condition. For days he‘s at ICU, not really knowing what‘s happening, though he knows it‘s serious.
Each medical detail is described, as is the narrator‘s view on life, his past and future.
And it‘s 2020 and COVID is everywhere. In the hospital, in people‘s attitude, in the protests in the streets. It took me back to those days and although it frightened me I loved this about the book. Very good!

TrishB On the pile! Will get to soon. 5d
BarbaraBB @TrishB I think you‘ll like it too! 5d
Lesliereadsalot I‘m in! I‘m on vacation or I‘d run over to my library and pick it up. Thanks for suggesting. (edited) 5d
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BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot Enjoy your vacation! I guess you have lots to read so this one can wait a bit longer 😜 5d
Lesliereadsalot Exactly 50 on hold at the library! Will get busy when I get home 5d
sarahbarnes I‘ve been curious about this one! 5d
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Sleepswithbooks
Happyland | J. Robert Lennon
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Misty!!! What an amazing box of Happy to return home to after a looong week!! I adore everything so much and I can‘t tell you how much I‘m looking forward to reading “The Women!!!” Thank you for being the sweetest man ever, wonderful Friend that you are! Love you!

#Litsylove #BookLovers #HappyMail
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You‘re so welcome! Love you 🥰 3w
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DGRachel
March Book | Jesse Ball
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I finished 13 books in March. Lots of middle grade and graphic novels, because that‘s all I could mentally handle. The Spear Cuts Through Water was my favorite, even though it took me two months to read. It was so worth the effort. Both of the Swifts books by Beth Lincoln were delightful. #marchwrapup

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DGRachel
March Book | Jesse Ball
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I‘m really hoping that the #bookspin gods are kind to me and pick books that are already on my March TBR. Between library books with due dates that can‘t be extended, books clubs/buddy reads, NetGalley books that publish this month, and my library system‘s annual Community Reads program, my schedule is already packed. In fact, looking at this makes me so stressed, I may bail on everything and just watch Netflix. 😂

Suet624 Hahaha. I hear ya! 2mo
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ImperfectCJ
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
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Things I love:
-The pacing leaves plenty of room for emotions to develop.
-The perspective shows both the frustration of the US medical system and the wonder we can access when knocked out of our unconscious narratives.
-The writing, beautiful without being sappy.

Things that don't quite work:
-The extended treatises on poetry and music go on too long for my taste.
-The meticulous detail, which gets tedious.

Soft pick for a #tob25 longlist title

BarbaraBB I have this one waiting for me. I hope I‘ll like it as well. 2mo
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GatheringBooks
Collected Poems | Robert Bly
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lil1inblue 💚 💚 💚 3mo
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Megabooks
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
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This is the start of Small Rain. It‘s something, I think, anyone who has been to a US ER with chronic illness/pain would recognize. I was just there going through this the week before Christmas.

BarbaraBB That must be confrontational! 3mo
Suet624 So many repeated questions from so many people, all with little laptops in hand. Just read what the answers were that I gave three people ago!! I hope you‘re feeling better, Meg. 3mo
sarahbarnes ♥️♥️♥️ 3mo
Butterfinger Oh no. I hope you are feeling better. Before having surgery, I would be stoic and say 5-6 on the pain scale. Really, I was just losing my balance. My spinal fluid was trapped. Afterwards, the pain between my shoulder blades is excruciating. I cringe when people try to touch it. I'm on my heating pad right now. 3mo
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Pinta
Best American Short Stories 2024 | Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor
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There‘s something stingy and mean in this collection, characters putting up barriers in self-preservation mode. But a few lovely ones: tender tourist in Hyderabad, urban tent housing vs. luxury safari tents, sentimental AI in Mall of America, Paul Yoon‘s mini-epic “Valley of the Moon,” Lori Ostlund‘s bubble family in “Just Another Family.” Preferred 2023 collection edited by Min Jin Lee. 2024