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Cooking for Picasso | C A Belmond, Camille Aubray

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Celine and Gil
Dumbwaiter
Well there‘s the painting to save the day 😳😂🤦🏻‍♀️😊
Thank goodness they knew a buyer ..
And it all ends HEA ♥️😂🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️
And oh she can paint Celine can.. so that‘s good.

BarkingMadRead Very neat and tidy 🤣 5mo

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead OMG the hate reading I did 😵‍💫 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️. All ends happily ever after 🤦🏻‍♀️😅 except poor mom. 5mo

Librarybelle @TheBookHippie I love that…hate reading! And yes, of course there happened to be a buyer who will allow Celine to visit whenever as the painting travels around the world in a yacht for the time being. 5mo

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CoffeeNBooks I'm glad they figured out where the painting was... but again, too many convenient plot twists that were fairly far-fetched. 5mo

Karisa Yep, rushed ending for sure. The pacing of the whole book felt off. Leisurely paced first third with Picasso, sped up life with Luc in America, slowed down trip to France, sped up happy ending… 🤷🏻‍♀️ I didn‘t hate it though😂 The yacht part blurred into a Maria Callas book partly set on Aristotle Onassis‘ boat I just finished. Maybe reading about a real larger than life story made this all feel more possible? 😅 5mo

mcctrish #hatereading 👏🏻👏🏻 I think my problem is this book had such potential but CA took lazy, inauthentic short cuts at any opportunity- the Picasso part rang true because she couldn‘t go that far off book ( totally tired herself out with that ) 5mo

IndoorDame I don‘t know if I‘m more upset that her unlikely scheme actually panned out and she became an overnight millionaire, or that she left a priceless piece of art with a guy she barely knew to “sell for her” and that didn‘t come back to bite her in the ass. 🤯 5mo

AmyG The convenience of everything working out. 😳 I liked this book up to last section. 5mo

Read4life I agree with you @AmyG That sealed it as a so-so for me. 5mo

Larkken I think I would have been fine with it except for the mom dying really threw me into #hatereading everyone else‘s HEA. Like, what was the point of selling the painting? Was it to give Celine a nice life, despite the mini lecture about money not giving you happiness?!? 5mo

vlwelser This was all just totally ridiculous. Even for a novel about a fake relationship with Picasso. 5mo

DebinHawaii The food, scenery & art were the highlights. @IndoorDame I was yelling at her for that! 🤯🤬 5mo

vonnie862 When she left the painting with Gil, I started screaming! Luckily, he turned out to be good...too good in fact. 5mo

julieclair @IndoorDame @DebinHawaii @vonnie862 But at least it did occur to her to worry a bit about leaving the painting with Gil… 🤣🤣🤣 5mo

mollyrotondo I didn‘t care about the painting at this point lol I was only interested because I thought it would help her mom but CA decided to kill her off anyway. And did we know Celine could paint? Was the tipoff that she is good makeup? I wanted just a book about Ondine and we could have scrapped the Celine escapades. 5mo

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo not until the end… apparently once she knew Picasso was her grandpa… I assume the make up was leading us .. 5mo

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Lady Chatterley's Lover | Lawrence, D. H.

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We did it!!!

I thank you for SUNDAYS from the bottom of my heart!!! I love our talks … ♥️

vonnie862 Thanks for hosting! I had so much fun! 10mo

vlwelser So much love for our Sundays. So much. 10mo

IndoorDame Yay trophies!!! I think we deserve them this month!!! 10mo

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mcctrish So much love for our Sundays ❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you thank you thank you for all your work and putting up with all my complaining ( I truly hated this book 🤣🤣🤣🤣) 10mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish SERIOUSLY who KNEW this book was this?!?! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 10mo

AmyG Thank YOU, fearless leader. I love our chats too. Sometimes the books we don‘t like are the most fun discussions! (edited) 10mo

mcctrish @AmyG absolutely the most fun slinging mud together 10mo

TheBookHippie @AmyG We‘ve excelled at hate reading 😳🤣 10mo

Cuilin So glad I read this. Thanks Christine @TheBookHippie for my first ever #SundayBuddyRead 10mo

TheBookHippie @Cuilin What an initiation 😉😵‍💫🤣 I‘m so glad you joined in! 10mo

batsy Thanks for hosting! I'm honestly glad to have read it but yes, whew indeed! 😂 10mo

BookwormAHN Thanks for hosting. This has been on my tbr forever and now I can scratch it out with a sharp pencil 😸 10mo

TheBookHippie @BookwormAHN SO MANY of us scratching it off!! 🥴 10mo

TheBookHippie @batsy SAME 10mo

mrp27 Thanks for hosting! Was a fun ride. 10mo

DebinHawaii @BookwormAHN 💯!! ✏️✏️✏️ Glad it‘s over & done with but as usual I really enjoyed the discussions (yes, they are especially fun when we trash talk the book) & I love our Sundays! I am hoping we like September‘s! 🤞🏼 10mo

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii 🤣🏆✏️ 10mo

Larkken @AmyG @mcctrish @TheBookHippie I honestly love hate reading, and hate reading with others only makes it more fun! Thanks for hosting @TheBookHippie 10mo

Larkken Has anyone/ everyone seen the recent movie? I can't decide if I'm curious or running away. I somehow doubt they'll get into the subtext? 10mo

mcctrish @Larkken #hatereading 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 10mo

TheBookHippie @Larkken I plan to watch it this week 🤣😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♀️ 10mo

mollyrotondo Thank you!!! Always enjoy the discussion!!! Love this group! ❤️ 10mo

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