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Gleefulreader
Sisters | Lily Tuck
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This was a fast read - a novella really - about a woman who is a second wife, and her obsession with her husband‘s former wife. She is also step-mother to his two older children. The book rips along - the husband is a bit of a blow hard, the former wife seems faultless, the step children have a good relationship with the new wife, and yet the new wife cannot seem to control her impulses leading to a wild ending.

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BarbaraBB
Blue Sisters | Coco Mellors
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Three sisters are destroyed by the death of their fourth sister. All three deal (or don‘t) in their own way, not looking out for each other because being together makes them feel so incomplete without Nicky. Their stories make a raw and tender portrait of grief and unconditional love.

#ToB25Longlist
📸 Frankfurt, Germany

Suet624 Lovely photo!! 1d
julesG Not sure how long you're staying in Frankfurt but I remember a large bookshop (one of the chain stores, Hugendubel or Meyersche probably) with a very good selection of English books on the main shopping mile. 1d
BarbaraBB @julesG Thanks, I‘ll share that with my host, who‘s an avid reader as well. However, we‘re just passing through and will continue to Lausanne today (before the snow hopefully!)😘 (edited) 1d
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julesG Enjoy!!! Are you staying in Lausanne for the holidays? 1d
BarbaraBB @julesG thanks! Just for the night as well, tomorrow to the French side of Lake Geneva where we‘ll stay for the holidays! Have good ones too Julia 🤍 1d
sarahbarnes Beautiful picture and review! I‘m on the hold list for this one and looking forward to it. Enjoy your holiday travels! 🩵 14h
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Julsmarshall
The Christmas Fix | Lucy Score
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Funny, festive, and fiesta, this novella available on KU was a great holiday mood read. Pretty spicy, I especially enjoyed the HGTV show goes to a small town set up. #BookspinBingo #readyourkindle

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TrishB
Blue Sisters | Coco Mellors
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Loved this. Dysfunctional family. Sad and probably not recommended if you‘re still looking for your Christmas smiles.

squirrelbrain One of my favourites of this year ❤️ 2d
AmyG It was one of my favorites too. That ending had me in tears. (edited) 2d
TrishB @squirrelbrain @AmyG I‘d just finished my books of the year list and this has now leaped frogged onto it! I was in tears at a couple of points ♥️ 2d
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Deblovestoread Loved this one. Will be on my #Top24in24 list. 2d
LeeRHarry I think this is the one book I‘m sad I haven‘t got to this year - the holds list at the library is looong. But it‘ll be worth the wait! 😊 2d
BarbaraBB I finished it too today. Loved the sisters but the book didn‘t make my top list 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2d
TrishB @BarbaraBB it‘s definitely a late addition to mine! 1d
TrishB @Deblovestoread mine too! 1d
TrishB @LeeRHarry hope you love when you get to it. 1d
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BkClubCare
Headshot: A Novel | Rita Bullwinkel
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Posing Copper with the🎄has been a challenge this season! Or maybe he only cooperates when I tell him it is for Litsy?! 😂

Audio 🎧 was a good way to experience this and I give kudos to the narrator Cassandra Campbell 🌟 Her voice was perfect for the present tense and the repetition. We get such interesting insight into a broad view of the female psyche; how diverse our wants and needs might be. We are fighters all.

BkClubCare #Dec2024 Book114 #ToBShortList (edited) 1w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1w
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GinaKButler
Expiration Dates | Rebecca Serle
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Up next…our book club pick!

#bookspinbingo

Amor4Libros I enjoyed this one! 😊 1w
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BkClubCare
Headshot: A Novel | Rita Bullwinkel
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“Her head feels like it is filled with undercooked pie”

#LitPie #PieinBooks #iLovePie #CaresPieShow #ToBShortList #ChocPearPie 🥧

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mariaku21
Expiration Dates | Rebecca Serle
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I don't know how to start this review.
I picked up the book because 1) it was all over the place and 2) once I looked at it, the premise sounded interesting but this one wasn't for me.
The FMC came across as flat, a bit one dimensional as the book in her POV talks about her outfits, her apartment, these pieces of paper, and high scale restaurants and bars in L.A., which I didn't care.
A booktok raved book has failed me again.

ChaoticMissAdventures I read her In Five Years a while back and cannot for the life of me tell you anything about it. 1w
mariaku21 @ChaoticMissAdventures I've had that happen with other authors. I was tempted by that one too but after this one, I'm on the fence. 😂 1w
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Sharpeipup
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Trying to read at the dog park but distracted by all the cuteness.

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Anna40
A Fist Or a Heart | Kristn Eirksdttir
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Elín,makes props for theater&films,is “mother to no one”& has no family. She lives in an old house she remodeled,with a tenant,yet I‘m not sure if the tenant is real or imagined. Especially towards the end reality,memory& imagination seem to blur. On her latest job she works on a play written by Ellen, the illegitimate daughter of a famous Finnish author. The girl is as lonely as Elín& she starts stalking her. There‘s something that

Anna40 Connects the two women. There‘s no real story line,most of the narrative takes place in memories. We learn about Elín‘s trauma& inherited trauma & we learn more about Ellen but some of the things that happened to Elín seem so surreal or unbelievable that I‘m not sure if they really happened. A very, very strange book. I loved it but I‘m sure it‘s not for everyone 2w
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