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TrishB
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
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Brought this after @squirrelbrain review and then bumped it up the list after @BarbaraBB review this week.
Thoughtful, reflective, detailed musings on life,death and poetry after an emergency medical event. Beautifully written.

squirrelbrain It‘s such a beautiful book! ❤️ 4h
Cathythoughts Lovely review ❤️ 3h
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LitsyBirthdays
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And rounding out the month of April, we‘re celebrating all things double…double the fun, double the #birthdaylove, and double the cake and balloons!
That‘s right! We‘ve got TWO parties to attend! 🥳🥳

We‘re sending our best wishes to you both @Branwen and @Oryx and hope that however you choose to celebrate, it‘s a fabulous day from beginning to end.

Happy, Happy Birthday Rebecca and Emma! 🎈🎈

🧚‍♀️🎉🧚‍♀️🎉🧚‍♀️🎉🧚‍♀️🎉🧚‍♀️🎉🧚‍♀️

robinb Happy Birthday @Branwen ! 📚🎉 Enjoy your day. 2d
robinb Hope your day is fabulous @Oryx . Happy Birthday! 🎁🎈 2d
julesG Happy Birthday @Oryx @Branwen 🎉🎂🎈📚 2d
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SarahBookInterrupted Happy Birthday 🥳 2d
kezzlou85 Happy birthday to you both. Hope you have wonderful days 🎁 🎊 🎉 📚 2d
squirrelbrain Happy Birthday @Oryx @Branwen - have a fabulous day! 🍰🎉📚🍰🎉📚 2d
CarolynM Happy birthday @Oryx @Branwen 🎂🎈🎉 Have a wonderful day! 2d
Deblovestoread Happy birthday! 🎂🎈🎉 2d
BethM Happy birthday! 2d
Cupcake12 Happy birthday 🥳 2d
JacqMac Happy Birthday! 🎉🌸🎉 2d
TheSpineView Happy Birthday! @Oryx and @Branwen Party like it's 1999! 🥂🍾🎉 2d
JenReadsAlot Happy birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 2d
Jas16 Happy Birthday @Branwen @Oryx 🥳🎂🎈 2d
AmyG Wishing you both a very Happy Birthday! 🎂🎂 (edited) 2d
youneverarrived Happy Birthday @Oryx 🩵 2d
youneverarrived Happy Birthday @Branwen 🎉 2d
Branwen Thank you so so much, everyone! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 2d
Oryx Thank you everyone! 2d
Birdsong28 Happy birthday @Oryx. 📚📖 2d
Birdsong28 Happy birthday @Branwen 📚📖 2d
mrp27 Happy Birthday! 🎉📚🎂 2d
AnneCecilie Happy birthday 🥳🎂🎁📚 @Branwen and @Oryx 2d
JessClark78 Happy Birthday! @Branwen and @Oryx 🎊🎂🎉✨ 2d
dabbe HB! 🤩🤩🤩 1d
BookmarkTavern Happy birthday! 🎁🎈🎂🎉🎊 1d
MaureenMc Happy birthday! 🎈🎉 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. 2w
BarbaraBB @TrishB I think you‘ll like it too! 2w
Lesliereadsalot I‘m in! I‘m on vacation or I‘d run over to my library and pick it up. Thanks for suggesting. (edited) 2w
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BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot Enjoy your vacation! I guess you have lots to read so this one can wait a bit longer 😜 2w
Lesliereadsalot Exactly 50 on hold at the library! Will get busy when I get home 2w
sarahbarnes I‘ve been curious about this one! 1w
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dabbe
Selected Poems | Edwin Arlington Robinson
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TheSpineView 🖤🖤🖤 3w
dabbe @TheSpineView 🖤♥️🖤 3w
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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
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You‘re so welcome! Love you 🥰 4w
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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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BarbaraJean
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Years ago, I came across the poem “The Taxi” by Amy Lowell, and its final line has lived in my brain ever since: “Why should I leave you, / To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?” I‘ve meant to read a collection of her poetry ever since, but we all know how the TBR intentions sometimes go. So when it became apparent that in spite of my best intentions in January, I definitely wasn‘t going to get around to reading any (let alone all ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …three volumes) of Dante‘s Divine Comedy by the end of March for the #ClassicsChallenge2025, I decided to read some Amy Lowell instead.

This collection, published in 1919, is made up of two halves. The first is filled with tiny, exquisite poems that play with Chinese and Japanese forms, creating gorgeous crystal-clear images in word pictures. I had a hard time putting it down, savoring bite-sized poem after poem. ⤵️
1mo
BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) The second half is more lyrical, moving away from the Asian-inspired images and into English cities and the countryside. While I preferred the imagery of the first half, there were still some gems in the second half. I‘m glad I finally immersed myself in Amy Lowell‘s poetry, and I‘ll definitely be seeking out more of it!

Link to her poem “The Taxi” (which isn‘t in this collection): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42984/the-taxi
1mo
MommyWantsToReadHerBook Such a beautiful poem. Lovely post 💙 1mo
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BarbaraJean
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SEPTEMBER, 1918

This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight;
The trees glittered with the tumbling of leaves;
The sidewalks shone like alleys of dropped maple leaves,
And the houses ran along them laughing out of square, open windows.
Under a tree in the park,
Two little boys, lying flat on their faces,
Were carefully gathering red berries
To put in a pasteboard box.
⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d)
Some day there will be no war
Then I shall take out this afternoon
And turn it in my fingers
And remark the sweet taste of it upon my palate
And note the crisp variety of its flights of leaves
Today I can only gather it
And put it into my lunch-box
For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world.
1mo
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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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