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If anyone is stuck trying to find a novel for #bookedintime, this website is brilliant!

http://www.historicalnovels.info/Seventeenth-Century.html

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Took this idea from @BarbaraBB and decided to post my #52Books23 challenge progress 😊
I‘ve read 44 out of 52 prompts 😌I‘d say MOST were picks with very few duds🤩

#DoubleDip #Booked2023 #ShortStoryCollection #ReadingTheAmericas23 #Argentina Im really enjoying this collection of twisted stories- each containing a trace of horror, set in a contemporary Argentina. Themes of poverty, mental illness, displacement and marital discord seem to be a common link so far.

I liked this but didn‘t love it.

I actually listened to the audiobook, and I have to say I don‘t think Erdrich should be narrating her own books. Is it just me? She sounds like she‘s reading, instead of telling it, and it pulled me out of the story many times.

The ending was unexpected for me, not in a great way, so low pick at best.

#AuthorAMonth #Booked2023 #AboutReproductiveRights #DoubleDip 😁

#BookSpinBingo for January! I‘m attempting to be more intentional in my “what I want to include for BookSpinBingo” each month by including titles I definitely have to read. Then, I realized I did not include any series entries for #SeriesLove2023 , and I figured I could #DoubleDip for prompts for challenges like the #52BookClub23 or #192025 . Here‘s to a better follow through with Book Spin this year!

Another #ReadingAmericas23 audio that I flew through 🥰I thought this would be a mindless listen ( and it was😉) but it was so entertaining and a great escape. Two moneyed Greenwich families fly to #Bermuda for their daughter‘s destination wedding, where of course family secrets explode. Would work for #52BookClub23 #secrets #contemporarysetting #Scribd

Just so happened to come across these audio specials from Apple Books - Don‘t Cry For Me was my #February12BooksOf2022 choice (it‘s EXCELLENT ) and the Erdrich is the January #AAM @Soubhiville
There‘s LOTS of good deals. I picked up Fatty Fatty Boom Boom for #BodyPositivity 😁
Check out all the deals 🤓

21 + hours but worth my time!! A great fully fledged #HF novel about Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a slave girl from #Montserrat who grows an empire throughout the West Indies including #Guyana #Dominica & #Grenada #Hoopla Loved the narration 🎧#ReadingAmericas23

The writing is excellent of course, each of the stories capturing humanity and compassion. Each story(or should I say book!) echoed the others, with common names, themes and location-an NYC of the past and future, imagined and real. Characters often have little agency, complicated love, struggle with family, illness, grief. But after investing so much time, I ended up feeling a little like I was at arms length from what the book was trying to say.

Another book that leaves me on the fence, Moon of the Crusted Snow is a slow burn post-apocalyptic novel. There‘s quiet menace and a great building of tension, but it all fell a little flat for me. I appreciated the hopeful, if still sad, tone at the end, but I‘m clearly not ready for apocalypse fiction. Pandemic panic is still too raw. #canada for both #booked2022 and #readingtheamericas2023