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Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong

Perfect read to pick up and finish on a New years day at sea.

Catch up review from mid year 5/5

I‘m reviewing these 2 together because they are 2 parts of a whole. The tagged book follows the early career of a young man from a small town who achieves literary success but struggles in society. In the sequel (tagged in comments) he struggles to replicate that success while travelling through Europe with his mistress. In both books he is oblivious to making a lot of people unhappy.

Read for #WhartonBuddyRead

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Going to stick with a fairly loosy goosy #Bookspin list for 2025. Here‘s January.

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It caught him back to the dreadful moment in the lodge when, raising himself up from Rainer‘s side, he had looked at his hands and seen that they were red…
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At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel.
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Not sure exactly what Wharton was doing here as her artist wanders through all sorts of writing and social circumstances, and his one time muse, now lover, gets neglected, left behind, forgotten. I waited for her seek independence, but Wharton wasn‘t writing for me. I merely got a wink. Still, it‘s pleasant reading. #whartonbuddyread @Lcsmcat

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