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Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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#25Alive! Day 11: Belle‘s #TakeCharge attitude when it comes to JP Morgan‘s collections totally impressed the brilliant man - and the rest is history. Review is forthcoming. Finished reading the book and absolutely loved it. #ReadTheWorld2025: France (translated from French) - although setting is mostly US based. #EuropaCollective

GatheringBooks Food is known as egg carbonara - and yes it is delish. 4d
Eggs That looks amazing 🤩 4d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 4d
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Amor4Libros
The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Next on audio…First Coates!

Scochrane26 I need to listen to this soon. I love his writing & have learned so much from his books. 5d
Amor4Libros @Scochrane26 I‘m enjoying it, so far. Hope you get to it soon! 😊 4d
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GatheringBooks
Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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#25Alive! Day 7: Belle Greene lived a most #Prosperous and charmed life, as she served as a personal librarian to the illustrious and obscenely wealthy JP Morgan during New York‘s Gilded Age in the early 1900s. I can see this #EuropaCollective December pick being made into a riveting TV series. In my last few pages of this fascinating story. So happy to be part of the #EuropaCollective book club. Any 2025 edition, @jlhammar ? 🤩😍

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful photo ❤️ 1w
Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻 1w
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GatheringBooks
Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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#25Alive! Day 2: A strawberry mojito #Toast to our #EuropaCollective pick for December which I have not finished reading yet, unfortunately. 🙈

Lcsmcat My book club read one about the same woman (tagged) and I was unimpressed with the novel but fascinated by the woman. How does this one stack up? 2w
GatheringBooks @Lcsmcat i am really enjoying it, thus far. It‘s giving me Gilded Age vibes with the Astors and Rockefellers. What a world, and what a remarkable woman she was. 2w
Lcsmcat Yes, she was amazing. I‘d like to find a good nonfiction book about her. 2w
GatheringBooks @Lcsmcat this may be it. The pace is good, narrative style is absorbing, the references are sound. It reads like fiction but very clearly backed up by solid research, too. 2w
Eggs Beautifully done 👏🏻👏🏻 2w
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squirrelbrain
Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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I really enjoyed this and it didn‘t matter that I‘d already read The Personal Librarian previously - yes, I knew the general outline but the books are quite different stylistically, and complement each other.

This one felt a little bit more NF (even though the author doesn‘t claim that it is) and I thought Belle herself came across a bit more mercenary and unlikeable in this version.

Thanks @jlhammar for being a great host! #europacollective

Tamra Yes, I was left with the impression I might not like Belle personally. 2w
tpixie @squirrelbrain 😝 yes, our reviews are very similar! 2w
Hooked_on_books Oh cool! Now I look forward to it even more. 😊 2w
GatheringBooks Haven‘t read the other book yet but very interesting that you found her to be mercenary; it didn‘t strike me that way. I found her to be strategic (cunning, even). I admired how she followed her own path with aplomb knowing how the elite society was like in the early 1900s. She was fierce, formidable, possibly hypnotic in her charisma.She struck me as unbelievably vibrant with the edgy sense that everything can be taken away from her in an instant 1w
squirrelbrain @GatheringBooks - I can completely see that she was hypnotic, to nearly everyone she met. I would say calculating as well, which is a very similar to your comment of cunning. 🤔 I definitely admired her, although I would have found her rather scary in real life. 1w
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peanutnine
Whiteout | Dhonielle Clayton, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D Jackson, Angie Thomas, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk
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I enjoy stories with interconnected characters like this. While many of the romances touched on similar themes/tropes, I liked the diversity in characters. The main romance between Stevie and Sola was actually my least favorite. I liked the overarching friendships best. Glad to read this with the #sundaybuddyread crew @TheBookHippie
#WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
#Adventathon @BookmarkTavern
#ChristmasAtoZ @Texreader

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DebinHawaii
Whiteout | Dhonielle Clayton, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D Jackson, Angie Thomas, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk
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#ReadAway2024

Read for #SundayBuddyRead, it‘s a very soft pick from me—too much YA angst & too many characters to keep track of, but I think the concept of different YA authors creating the interlocking stories was good. Some of the characters & stories sparkled more than others, but it was a good pick for a light December read & if I was the intended YA target looking for diversity & representation in my books, I‘m sure I‘d have loved it. ❄️❄️❄️

Andrew65 Well done ☃️☃️☃️ 3w
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 3w
TheBookHippie 🤍❄️🤍 3w
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