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So good! Children‘s book to show Iliana as she grows up!

After an auto mechanic shop opens in the main character's backyard, he embarks on an increasingly desperate series of attempts to get some peace from many varieties of noise in modernizing 1950s South American society. It's not as slapstick as it sounds - more like a very long short story with weird character quirks. You feel bad for the guy, but he also reveals himself to be a bit of an oddball, so that adds another dimension to the mix.

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I fell asleep so this one is a day late.

This is around the time my resolve to review books consistently fell apart as usual.

I love this one. Ana Castillo‘s writing is beautiful and poetic. Carmen, despite having polio as a child, is a renowned flamenco dancer in Chicago. I love reading about Carmen, her passionate love affairs, her relationship with her family, and her strength.

Quick read and I loved this twist on the zombie genre.

This was a silly dark comedy about a kill-happy queen trying to stop a rebellion and her princess-cursed-as-a-raven sidekick. It was utter ridiculousness. The story was outrageous. There were some cool voice cameos like Tim Gunn and Meryl Streep but honestly the audio production wasn't that great, the volume was chaotic. Overall this was a good palette cleanser between serious books but nothing special.

It‘s that kind of Sunday morning … reading and a lot of sugar for breakfast 🤷🏻‍♀️

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The only thing the three women had in common was their husband.
And, as of this morning, that they're each accused of his murder.
Blake Nelson moved onto a hidden stretch of land - a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah - where he lived with his three wives:
Rachel, the chief wife, obedient and doting to a fault.

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Frequent violent episodes, mentions of torture, and child abuse are plot points perhaps implemented to raise the stakes of this novel; however, by using inconsistent narrative voice, breaking the fourth wall only when convenient, and introducing characters only to remove them when no longer needed for plot, the reader is left wondering if this book was written by AI. Basically, I hated this.

A suspenseful short story. Maggie Cabot is a devoted wife to her husband of twenty years. She is navigating her daily life as an empty nester since their daughter recently went off to college when the police show up on her doorstep. Her husband, James, is wanted for questioning when the body of his long ago girlfriend is discovered. 🏕️

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#Fitz reads 📚 The Beautiful and Damned was the best out of the bunch. 🩷