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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading | Sara Nelson

OK, I got a little carried away in the stuff my Kindle events… Cause this isn‘t even a quarter of the books I grabbed this year, and that‘s after deleting so many making this list. So my goal is to clean up my Kindle. Truth is, I am expecting a lot of DNF‘s in this list. But we never know until we try… So here we go, not in order, my #Roll100 for 2025. And yes, I know early, just trying to be on time rather than late this year.

Roary47, PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper I see some familiar covers! I get a bit download happy with those free events. Good luck! I can imagine a lot might not be great 19h

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Littlewolf1

Banned Books | DK

Setting up my challenges for next year, and I‘ve decided to do 12 months of banned books instead of 12 months of classics for 2025. Send me your suggestions and I will choose the first 12 that I have not read. #ReadBannedBooks

shortsarahrose I enjoyed this sapphic YA historical fiction

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Littlewolf1 @shortsarahrose perfect… 1st one on the list… thank you 😊 24h

kspenmoll

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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Littlewolf1 @kspenmoll great, adding to the list. Thank you 🙏🏻 20h

LiteraryinPA I recommend

Gender Queer: A Memoir

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LiteraryinPA Also if you haven't read it

Melissa (Formerly Published as George)

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Littlewolf1 @LiteraryinPA i have not read them so they will be March and April read 16h

BookmarkTavern

Milk and Honey

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Littlewolf1 @BookmarkTavern I loved Milk and Honey, but Ive already read it. Could you choose another one for me. 16h

BookmarkTavern Hmm…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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BookmarkTavern Or

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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BookmarkTavern Also!

Parable of the Sower

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Littlewolf1 @BookmarkTavern i have read Cage Bird but not the other two… i will add them both to my list. Thank you 😊 15h

BookmarkTavern I look forward to seeing your list! 15h

Littlewolf1 @BookmarkTavern me too… i know have six more books to go. 14h

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SanjanaGhosh

The Lost Book of Bonn: A Novel | Brianna Labuskes

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

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Books for Living: a reader�s guide to life | Will Schwalbe

Looking forward to cuddling up with a blanket and a book this weekend. Anyone else feel that way?

TheBookHippie 🙋🏻‍♀️ 3d

Ruthiella That‘s my M.O. every weekend! 😆 3d

Lesliereadsalot Sign me up! 2d

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Robotswithpersonality

The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel | Carsten Henn

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This ended up being heavier in tone than I anticipated, but it provided a beautiful contrast with lighter, warmer and quietly triumphant moments, and the happy ending. The characters introduced are at once simple caricatures and lonely people with real world problems. The answer is as much about community and connection as it is about books. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The tone also ensures that Cha Cha, as the precocious child introducing colour and change into many lives, never ends up turning the narrative saccharine. Karl's steadfastness being rewarded after a period of upheaval brought Vera from Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers to mind, more for the plot beats than a personality match. 3d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Though we get much less of him, Charlotte's father's feelings and reparations touched me - the authentic and hopeful recognition of mistakes - the important idea that an adult, a parent, can admit their wrongs to a child, apologize, do better, seek to share in their child's life rather than just control it, while acknowledging where they and the child differ in interests. 3d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Perhaps Charlotte and her father are what the original bookstore owner, his daughter, and Karl could have been if there'd been more communication in her childhood. Would honestly love to see these characters again if Henn wants to do a short story collection about the book walker and friends, hopefully with the same translator, because this in no way felt like a book struggling to bridge the gap from another language. (edited) 3d

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Perhaps the audiobook narrator flawlessly pronouncing the German people and place names improved my experience. If you got something out of A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams, I think you could enjoy this.
⚠️ domestic abuse 3d

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Amiable

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore | Evan Friss

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I really enjoyed this breezy history of bookstores in the U.S., from colonial days to the present (shoutout to my local indie, RJ Julia Booksellers, which garnered a mention!). It took me a month because I didn‘t read it straight through — I dipped into it a chapter or a section at a time. Definitely recommend for anyone who loves books about bookstores —and nonfiction.

youneverarrived Love the cover. 4h

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Robotswithpersonality

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life | Anne Bogel

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Relatable but not revelatory.
Essays on being a reader, bits of memoir.
If you're craving a bit of reader community solidarity, I think it's a supportive, and at turns commiserative 😉, read.
While the author is the creator of the podcast What Should I Read Next, for those who want more in this vein, I'd be more more inclined to recommend the podcast Reading Glasses.

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Robotswithpersonality

The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe | Ann Morgan

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my experiences with poetry.

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No Two Persons: A Novel | Erica Bauermeister

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“No two people will ever read the same book”… a truer statement could never be spoken and the premise of this book which I absolutely loved!! This book was a love letter to readers and the books that tie us together!

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