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A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf

Acquired today for #authoramonth next month

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The Kaiju Preservation Society | John Scalzi

Isn‘t it the best when two of your Litsy challenges meet? #authoramonth #foodandlit #Greenland @Soubhiville @Catsandbooks

TheBookHippie 🎉 23m

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DebinHawaii

God's Country: A Novel | Percival Everett

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Finished today for #AuthorAMonth May. I loved James & wanted to read more Everett & ended up with this one because it was available from my library. I don‘t read a lot of Westerns it‘s just not a genre I gravitate to, but Everett drew me in with his sly wit & dark humor that had me laughing while also wincing at the racism & ignorance of the MC, Curt Marder & other characters in the book. I did not love the ending.

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DieAReader 🥳🥳 6h

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The Kaiju Preservation Society | John Scalzi

I‘m starting my next #authoramonth book tonight! @Soubhiville

Soubhiville Yes! I loved this one. 14h

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The Good Muslim: A Novel | Tahmima Anam

I just finished the tagged book and it was excellent (review to come)!! And it was an excellent reading month—14!!

2 books wrapping up last month‘s #authoramonth
4 Percival Everett books for #authoramonth
1 John Scalzi for #authoramonth
1 wrapping up #Rwanda for #foodandlit
3 for #Bangladesh #foodandlit
2 for #Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit
1 for #Greenland #foodandlit

I couldn‘t possibly pick a favorite! Half of them were 5-stars!

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BarbaraJean

Telephone | Percival Everett

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I‘ve been wanting to read more by Percival Everett (having read James last year), so I took the #AuthoraMonth inspiration to squeeze this into my May reading. It‘s so good, and so different from James. The narrative shifts between Zach‘s family and his job as a professor, and his efforts to unravel the mysterious pleas for help he‘s found in clothes ordered from eBay—two very different plot lines, yet the book doesn‘t feel uneven. ⤵️

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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Following Zach as he processes grief and impending loss—and also avoids it—is an interesting study in control and letting go, and in the human need to effect change in the face of helplessness.

Everett‘s technique of publishing three different versions, with three different endings, fascinates me. I read version A, and I initially liked the ending until I thought about it a bit more. I felt like it dropped some major threads, leaving ⤵️ 1d

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) them unresolved and causing me to wonder a lot about how that particular plotline was (or wasn‘t) resolved in the other versions. I‘ll put my thoughts on the ending under a spoiler tag! ⤵️ @Amiable Would love to hear how your version ended! (edited) 1d

BarbaraJean My version ended with Zach reaching the border with the women, seeing Lt. Deocampo on the other side, then the women being waved through the checkpoint back into Mexico. The narrative leaves Sarah (and Meg) behind, with Sarah in a care facility and no real resolution to the family side of the plot. It‘s of course fairly clear what will happen to Sarah, but I wanted some resolution to how Zach would navigate his marriage in the wake of that loss. 1d

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willaful Oh man! That sounds so interesting but having to choose which ending to read would make me a bit nuts I think. 1d

BarbaraJean @willaful I just put a copy on hold and took what my library gave me 😂 I had to look up how to tell which one I had—there are subtle variations in the cover and an A, B, or C next to the ISBN. Unless you know where to look it‘s not easy to tell which one you‘ve got. I‘d have loved a choose-your-own-adventure style ending, with all three possibilities in the same copy! 1d

willaful @BarbaraJean yes, I think my brain won't be able to read it until there is one. 😂 23h

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DHill

Erasure: A Novel | Percival Everett

Still reading Telephone but got in a re-listen of Erasure for #AuthorAMonth. One of the best narrated books I‘ve listened to and one of my favorites by Everett.

@Soubhiville

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Soubhiville

Spinners | Donna Jo Napoli, Richard Tchen

June‘s #bookspin I‘m keeping it more simple as I prepare to move. 1-10 and repeat the same books for 11-20. I may lean towards more audio than usual while I‘m packing. I hope I have time for all 3 of my book club books and one for #authoramonth, we‘ll see!

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

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tpixie Good luck packing. Are you staying in Texas? 2d

Soubhiville @tpixie I‘ve been back in NC for a year and a half 🙂. Been living in an apartment but my house is almost finished. 2d

squirrelbrain Good luck with the move! 🤞 2d

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Bookwormjillk Good luck with the move! 2d

Tamra Happy moving! 😁 1d

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Best wishes on the move!! It's an adventure! 😂 11h

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ImperfectCJ

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

I am not happy that it's already June (I'm excited about things we're doing in June and that both kids will be home, but it's crazy that May is already over), but I'm always happy to put together my #bookspin list. I've got my #roll100, my #authoramonth, and my #camplitsy25 included here. (We'll see if I can get all of my hashtags right.)
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ImperfectCJ I just realized that I included on this list just ONE of the physical books I own but haven't read yet. I am incorrigible. 1d

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11h

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Constituent Service | John Scalzi

I‘m getting an early start on #authoramonth for June. This is my next audiobook @Soubhiville

Soubhiville I love the cover! 2d

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