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Cool Water | Dianne Warren
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Dominion by Addie E. Citchens

Mr. Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Emma by Jane Austen

Cool Water by Dianne Warren

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson

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Gaza Weddings by Ibrahim Nasrallah

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Above Us the Sea by Ania Card

Full House by M.J. Farrell

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Aims42
VenCo: A Novel | Cherie Dimaline
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#FridayHappyReadingHour Enjoying my fave Chardonnay (please ignore the hard water spots on my glass, I didn‘t have the energy to wipe it with a paper towel before pouring 😂🤷🏼‍♀️) along with my favorite Goldfish flavor: pizza!! I‘m going to start my new book, I‘m so excited! The review from @Soubhiville sold me

Cheers to these buds, but tag yourself if you want to share!
@kspenmoll
@tamara
@mcctrish
@thebookhippie
@BarbaraBB
@Cathythoughts

mcctrish I‘ve added VenCo to my “must read this month” stack, I just have to finish my library book and CHEERS 🎉 TGIF 2d
lil1inblue I enjoyed VenCo a lot! 🥰 2d
lil1inblue Oh, and Cheers! 🤩 2d
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Aims42 @mcctrish This book totally snuck past me when it published, I totally missed it 🤯 But that meant my library had it on the shelf, no 50+ waitlist for me 🙌🙌🙌🙌 2d
kspenmoll Cheers!!! Thinking I should try pizza flavored gold fish! (edited) 2d
Aims42 @lil1inblue YAY! That is high praise 🥰🤩 Cheers and Happy Friday!! 2d
Aims42 @kspenmoll Right back at ya! We made it to Friday 😍🥳 2d
Aims42 @kspenmoll They are my favorite!! Seriously, the best pizza flavored cracker out there 😋 I have to buy 2 bags, I get one and my husband gets the other 🤣 2d
BethM Wes loves pizza. My favorite are the vanilla cupcake grahams. 2d
BarbaraBB Cheers 💕 2d
Aims42 @BethM ooo I‘ve seen those but haven‘t tried them, I‘m adding them to my grocery list 😋 2d
Aims42 @BarbaraBB Happy Friday, Barbara!! 🤩🥳 2d
Ruthiella Cheers! 🥂 2d
Aims42 @Ruthiella Thanks, Ruth! Cheers to the weekend!! 😍 2d
Soubhiville Enjoy! 2d
Cathythoughts Cheers to you too Bud x 🥂 2d
Aims42 @Cathythoughts Thank you!! You can tell when I‘m running out of character space when I start to find the shortest word possible 😆 Friends = buds, Favorite = fave 2d
Cathythoughts 😂 Cheers x 2d
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Soubhiville
VenCo: A Novel | Cherie Dimaline
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Finally, a witchy book I would recommend! (I‘ve read several over the last few years that really didn‘t work for me.)

VenCo is a Maiden, Mother, Crone company tasked with overseeing the gathering of a North American Coven, the first here in a very long time. Once they are assembled, the fall of the patriarchy can begin.

I loved the diversity, the found family feel, and elder care aspect.

With my Halloween girl, Mirabel.

Aims42 Um, this sounds AMAZING! Stacked!! 5d
BennettBookworm Mirabel is so stunning!! 🥹🥹 5d
RaeLovesToRead Mirabel is too cute 😭😭😭 can't cope! 5d
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mcctrish I‘ve got to dig this out of my death tower 5d
ImperfectCJ Stacking this one, and adoring Mirabel's perfect little breadbox! 5d
AmyG Omg she is the cutest little thing. 5d
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 5d
Susanita Mirabel 🐾❤️ 5d
Fortifiedbybooks Look at that adorable murder muffin! 😍 5d
MartinaLove Love your cat! 5d
lil1inblue 😻😻😻 5d
dabbe #marvelousmirabel 🖤🐾🖤 4d
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Mattsbookaday
Pastoral | Andre Alexis
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Pastoral (Quincunx Cycle 1), by André Alexis (2014 ??)
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Premise: A priest arrives in his first parish in a small Ontario town and is immediately put to the test by its residents and his own doubts.

Review: This is an old-fashioned kind of story, but effectively so. I was charmed by the townspeople and appreciated the light, yet serious, touch with which the more spiritual themes were handled.⬇️

Mattsbookaday Bookish Pair: For a more serious book about a small-town priest, The All of It by Jeannette Haien (1986) 2w
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TheAromaofBooks
Across the Miles | Lucy Maud Montgomery
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My #FallingForFallSwap package is finally on its way east!! And I received my package several days ago and just have never gotten around to posting about it, so I apologize!!

Thank you so much for hosting @Avanders @Chrissyreadit !!!

Avanders 🍂🍁🧡 3w
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Gleefulreader
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This is my second Lane Winslow mystery and I am delighting in this series. I do so enjoy a period mystery but where the women get to be strong, capable, independent characters. The incorporation of WW2 and post-WW2 geopolitics raises the bar on these mysteries. Good fun, and love the interior BC setting

kspenmoll This series is wonderful! I loved it-keep in reading ! I have a few left to go…my library had most of this series. (edited) 4w
LiteraryHoarderPenny I love these characters!! Im behind in my reading of them though! 4w
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rubyslippersreads
Hetty Dorval | Ethel Wilson
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I really enjoyed this. At first it seemed like the story of a young girl growing up on a ranch, with an almost idyllic life, but the detail about Ernestine‘s future revealed that the story was going to get darker. This is my first Ethel Wilson, but won‘t be my last.

Does anyone else think that Hetty would be able to get herself out of trouble in Austria, no matter how ominous the last lines? 😏

#PersephoneClub

andrew61 Yes, I agree, Hetty will definitely find someone else who falls for her charms. Great review. 1mo
Tamra @andrew61 agreed! 1mo
willaful Yup, she's a survivor. 1mo
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LeahBergen Haha! Yes, I bet Hetty figured something out. 1mo
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen Maybe she heard that a captain with seven children was looking for a governess. 🤣 1mo
LeahBergen Good one!! 😂 1mo
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CarolynM
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#PersephoneClub
I have a lot of thoughts about this one. Firstly, the ostracism. No one quite seemed to know exactly why, but Hetty was a “menace” & to be shunned. I wonder how often this happened (& still happens) to someone innocent? Then the “femme fatale”. Of course it‘s the woman‘s fault, no man can resist a beautiful woman who appears available & interested🤬 I was kind of disappointed that it turned out Hetty conformed to the stereotype.

Tamra I got the impression that was one of Wilson‘s points, re: stereotype? Hetty & her mother suffered the social stigma of having been real women with real feelings, desires, dreams, etc. who were especially manipulated by men. They in turn had to manipulate others bc they operated in survival mode. I would have liked Hetty more fleshed out in first person, but it was Frankie‘s POV. Honestly, I was more interested in Hetty! (edited) 1mo
Cathythoughts Yes I agree, the judgement of innocent people in this world is upsetting. I think Hetty was set up early on when she tells Frankie their meetings must be a secret… this is how we are introduced to her and it‘s hard to get past. I worried for Hetty‘s future, she was living life in survival mode. Solitary. 1mo
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LeahBergen
Hetty Dorval | Ethel Wilson
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I‘m late to review our latest #PersephoneClub read as I‘ve been travelling around the interior of British Columbia (and very close to the setting of this novel).

I loved it! And who was surprised by the “reveal”?? I felt like I could have continued on with Frankie‘s story just a little bit longer.

Tamra It was a surprise to me! Didn‘t seem to be handled well all the way around. 😅 I felt like that about Frankie too, but I had to keep reminding myself the titular character is Hetty. I wonder if that was a publisher choice? I hope you enjoyed your trip! (edited) 1mo
willaful I would really have liked to see more of what happened to Frankie, but I came to the conclusion that the story was really about her finding her own values and voice and we could take the rest on faith. 1mo
CarolynM I was surprised, but it made sense to me. And I liked what the Afterword said about the consequences of parents behaving as servants to their children. I was uncomfortable all along with accepting that Hetty was bad, without any real evidence. I was hoping for those sitting in judgement to be in the wrong. 1mo
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rubyslippersreads I‘m even later than you, but will come back when I‘m done. 😺 1mo
Cathythoughts I loved it too. The reveal was a surprise to me too, but then on reflection it made sense. I felt for Hetty , but I‘d say she would be a difficult person. I loved the description of their first meeting in nature. Lovely writing. ❤️ 1mo
Cathythoughts Lovely picture ! I hope you had a great time on your trip x 1mo
MemoirsForMe Happy Travels! 🤗🚐❤️ 1mo
rubyslippersreads I was surprised by the reveal. As for Hetty‘s reputation, I think Frankie‘s parents were just trying to protect Frankie, and to keep her from growing up too fast. But that was difficult to do without divulging too much of the sordid gossip around Hetty, which at that time would have been very shocking. 1mo
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