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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel | Emma Donoghue

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Playing catch-up on some reviews for March. Finished this one on St Patrick‘s Day with our annual Irish red ale, so it seemed pretty fitting. This is the harrowing tale of life inside a Dublin maternity ward in 2018. We are smack in the midst of the Spanish flu pandemic, World War I, and the Irish Uprising. It all seemed eerily familiar and often times hit way too close to reality for our lives in 2020. It is also feels very personal to anyone ⬇️

LaraReads serving in the medical community. The price that they each pay every day & the commitment it takes to survive in such a difficult field. Nurse Power represents the best and it is easy to feel connected to her pain & perseverance. #booked2021 #covidheros 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Mmm...Smithwicks 😋🍺 4y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I think I‘m going to love this book. Great pick for the prompt! 4y

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Crazeedi

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#booked2021 #CovidHeros @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
A very instructive book for children, it explanation all the different occupations that are essential during a pandemic.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Sounds like a good one! 4y

Crazeedi @BarbaraTheBibliophage it was especially for middle grade children 4y

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JennyM

Breathtaking | Rachel Clarke

Winter #Booked2021 ✔️ and submitted in the new 📋online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNM9zdameJwnkQesQ2xQfS32LEzNIXmUmsDTWO...

1. #SetInAustralia - The Good Sister 🇦🇺
2. #NonfictionScienceOrSFWrittenByAWoman - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 🔬🦠
3. #BakedGoodsOnCover - So Lucky 🍩
4. #COVIDHEROS - Breathtaking 💔
5. #MustacheOnCover - This is Dali 🧔 🎨
6. #AuthorsFirstNamesStartsWithABOrC - Real Life 🅱️

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

JennyM Faves were Breathtaking and Real Life ⭐️ 4y

Kalalalatja You go! 👏👏 Real Life was great! 4y

JennyM @Kalalalatja it was so good! Excited to read what he does next 4y

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TrishB Great stuff 👍🏻 4y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job! Thanks! 🥳🥳📚📚💕💕 4y

CarolynM Well done you! I've still got two books to read for this quarter😬 I'm doing #Summer 4y

Cinfhen Thanks for sharing the link 🎉💖Yay on completing first quarter #Booked21 4y

Cinfhen Tagged book sounds emotionally devastating/ did you feel it was too soon to read this?? 4y

JennyM @Cinfhen it was very difficult to read especially with all my family being in the UK and being so worried for them. So although it was a beautifully written and honest account, it was probably not the best time to read it. I had a few weird dreams as a result. 4y

Cinfhen I can imagine what this book would do to my emotional state 😭 4y

valeriegeary Excellent. Again...I am behind on this one. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I can read 2 books by the end of March I think. Plenty of time. 4y

valeriegeary Oh! Actually.... Now that I went and looked at the form and see you can check boxes through all seasons...I am not behind! Whoo hoo! 🙌🏻 4y

JennyM @valeriegeary huzzah 🥳 Hope you are keeping well x 4y

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Bookzombie

A Duty to the Dead | Charles Todd

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First book of 2021, yay! First book in a series and I loved it, crap!

Bess, a WWI nurse, breaks her arm escaping the sinking Britannic. During her medical leave, she sets out to do her duty and relay a message for a soldier who died on an earlier voyage. The family doesn‘t think the message has any significance, but Bess believes it does. Soon Bess finds herself searching for clues regarding the family‘s secrets and a 14 year-old murder. ⬇️

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Bookzombie I love that Bess is independent, strong and capable. I also really liked her father as well as some of the other secondary characters.
This fits prompt number 4 #COVIDHEROS: doctor or nurse MC for #Booked2021 4y

Cinfhen Woohoo 🙌🏻 awesomeness 4y

Bookzombie @TheAromaofBooks I just realized this was my #Bookspin for this month. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 💗 4y

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TheAromaofBooks I read this series at the end of 2019 and loved them. 4y

Bookzombie @TheAromaofBooks I‘m looking forward to the rest of the series. I really like Bess. 4y

TheAromaofBooks I did, too. I felt like she was a good balance between being a strong character without feeling like she was just a 2000s woman plopped into WWI, if that makes sense. 4y

Bookzombie It does make sense. 🙂 4y

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