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Deblovestoread

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic | Elizabeth Taylor

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This was a lovely read with an unexpected ending. 4.5🌟. #192025 #1971 #52Bookclub24 #BookerNominee

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Librarybelle It sounds delightful! 10mo

Aimeesue I love this book 💙🩷💙 10mo

BkClubCare The movie 🎥 is well done, too. 10mo

BarbaraBB Such a lovely read! 10mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 10mo

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JamieArc

Redhead by the Side of the Road | Anne Tyler

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For me, Tyler makes life‘s mundane moments interesting. As I was reading this, I was thinking that I had no idea why it made the #bookernominee Longlist, but the last chapter hit it home for me. I saw Micah and his life as a sketch about the fact that for many, life goes on in the midst of terrible things happening in the world. Booker nominees often speak to a snapshot of our current world, and for me, this book did that perfectly.

JamieArc I‘ve especially been thinking about this in the context of Covid - all the ways our lives changed over the past 8 months, yet all of the ways that our lives went on in the midst of a pandemic. 4y

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