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Creadnorthey
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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This is really good; hypnotizing me with a laconic anticipation that inevitable tragedy seems less believable but more imminent with every turned page. I‘d read more by Patchett, and recommend this without reservation.

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Maggie4483
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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Thank you @Chelsea.Poole for this awesome template! This will be so helpful for keeping my #Bookspin and #Doublespin picks organized!

Bookspin-Bel Canto (also one of my February #Roll100 picks)
Double spin-Homegoing (last months #FoodandLit pick that I didn‘t get to)

CBee Homegoing is AMAZING ♥️♥️ 2mo
Maggie4483 @CBee I‘m struggling with it right now, but I‘m definitely going to keep going, because I‘m quickly realizing my own ignorance about this terrible chapter in history. 2mo
Mary_Reads Any time a song was mentioned in Bel Canto, I would pull up Spotify and play it while I read the section. It really made the novel come alive. It was a beautiful experience. 2mo
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CBee @Maggie4483 it‘s definitely worth it. Not an easy book to read but so important. 2mo
Maggie4483 @Mary_Reads What a great idea! I‘ll try that! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looking great!! 2mo
Chelsea.Poole 👏 glad you can use it! 2mo
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Magdalenka
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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Let‘s read … they said it‘s a love story .

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Decalino
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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We visited Nashville for a quick overnight trip and had a great time! I finally visited author Ann Patchett's bookshop, Parnassus Books, which I'd been wanting to do for a long time. It was delightful--and chock full of customers on Christmas Eve!

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mjtwo
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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27-30 Nov 23 (audiobook)
I did not love this as much as Tom Lake or The Dutch House, but a weak pick nonetheless.
A famous opera singer attends the birthday party of a Japanese businessman at the house of the VP of a South American country which is stormed by terrorists. The resulting siege lasts months.
Interesting to see the relationships formed and the humanising of the terrorists, who are mostly young and uneducated. I was unsure about the end

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JacintaMCarter
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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AvidReader25
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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It's been 15 years since I first read this and fell in love with Patchett's writing. Since then I've read all of her work and rereading this one was a treat. A birthday party for a Japanese business man in South America takes an unexpected turn when terrorists take the group hostage. It's a surprisingly tender story, less about the hostage situation than about the human connections that can be made in the most extreme situations…Cont. in comments.

AvidReader25 … continued. It's beautiful and will break your heart. The details, like clandestine Spanish lessons in a china closet, a young chess player, the power of music, and the fastidious vice president's efforts to maintain some calm in the chaos, are what will stay with me. A perfect place to start with the work of one of my top-five living authors.  5mo
MrsMalaprop 🙌 Couldn‘t agree more. Bel Canto was my intro to Patchett too. I‘m currently reading Tom Lake. 5mo
AvidReader25 @MrsMalaprop I thought Tom Lake was beautiful! As a mom of two young daughters, I kept thinking about what my future relationship will be with them. 5mo
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CarolynM Lovely review. Bel Canto was my first Patchett too. 5mo
BkClubCare I recently found this at a secondhand store and wanted to reread it. I think the only one I haven‘t read yet is Taft. 5mo
AvidReader25 @MrsMalaprop It‘s a wonderful place to start! 5mo
AvidReader25 @BkClubCare I didn‘t love Taft, but it was an interesting POV. 5mo
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Bookgoil
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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I met the amazing Ann Patchett today after she gave a wonderful talk in beautiful Nashville.

AmyG Wow! 5mo
BookwormAHN Sounds like you had a great day 👻 5mo
BookwormAHN Have you received your #ModernWitchSwap package yet 🐈‍⬛ 5mo
Bookgoil @BookwormAHN yes sorry it came right before I left! Forgot to post! 5mo
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steph_phanie
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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⭐️⭐️⭐️½
I'm impulse rating this one - immediately upon finishing it. I'll call it a Pick because Patchett is a talented writer, and I often felt I was right alongside these characters, yearning for them to find a way out and a path to happiness.

I often couldn't put it down, except right after the end of chapter 7, which was just icky.

But I can't ignore the problems of this book, nor act like I enjoyed the ending. My feelings are very mixed.