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Susanita
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These “new” boy cats are full of personality! I have to tell them at every meal: what is not yours is not yours. They will eat from any food dish even while their sister is trying to eat. Steve has also broken into the treats stash.

But before the new boy cats there was Corey. I miss him. #haikuaday #haikuhive

Corey was my buddy
With a crooked smile and a
Grumpy/sweet meow

TheBookHippie The coloring is just so beautiful. Sweet thing. 🐾🐾 2h
KadaGul Even after your fur 🐈baby has crossed the rainbow 🌈, they remain in our hearts for a long time. 💛😻🧡🐾🤎 1h
ravenlee Gorgeous boy. Reminds me of my dear departed Boris, who had similar coloring but shorter hair. 💗 1h
JenlovesJT47 Aww beautiful ball of fluff 😻😻😻♥️ 27m
Eggbeater You will always carry him in your heart. I will miss my Rose forever. I understand. 21m
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Lauredhel
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I don't get the hype. The translation was clunky, & it's repetitive & overexplained. Every single story involves women sacrificing themselves and their own lives & interests for others.

I guess that's what I get for breaking my guideline by reading a male author who doesn't come very highly recced by people I trust. And for reading SF by a non-SF author.

It did fill the swap shelf prompt in #urc2025 #URC though! @Faranae
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Lauredhel ... and it's going straight back out to my little free library :) 9h
LeeRHarry I didn‘t think much of this one either. 9h
Lauredhel @LeeRHarry right? But it also fills "a book from Open Library‘s front page carousels" in #urc2025 #URC @Faranae 
AND "aimless" and "spectre" in the #gottacatchemall #gottacatchemallspooky challenge. So no regrets!
@PuddleJumper
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PuddleJumper Hope the next book is better! 6h
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ReadingOver50
The Lost Bookshop | Evie Woods
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Pickpick

This book is told from the point of view of 3 characters, Opaline, Martha and Henry. The chapters alternate between all 3. Opaline in the past, Martha and Henry in the present. I liked all 3 stories and enjoyed reading them. Opaline's made me the most furious with the injustices done to her. At the end of the book all 3 stories converge. There was a bit of magicalness in the lost bookshop that made the book more fun. This was a pleasant book.

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K.Wielechowski
Practical Magic | Alice Hoffman
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Sally is the type-A sister who kept the house running from a young age. Gillian is a free-spirited and selfish sister who is fast to love and fast to move on. When Gillian‘s life hits a huge speed bump, she turns to her sister to clean up the mess, with mixed results.

I wanted to love it because I love the movie but I failed to find any of the charm and sisterly bond that was the core of the movie. Plus, a surprising lack of actual magic.

5feet.of.fury Agreeeee, def a rare case of the movie being better than the boook 2d
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fredthemoose
The Husbands | Holly Gramazio
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lauren‘s attic keeps delivering her new husbands, and lives to go with them. She has to decide whether and how long to keep them and when and how to finally stop the cycle. Interesting to think about how to approach deciding whether to keep a fully formed life when you know all you have to do to reset it is send your partner into the attic and get a new one.

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TheQuietQuill
Olivetti | Allie Millington
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What a beautiful book so far 🌼🌸

Nebklvr I loved this one. 5d
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Centique
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For the first couple of chapters, I wondered if the form of this novel was going to become overdone and affected - a POV narrated by a book, disagreeing at times with the boy at the center of the story. But then i relaxed and just let the story wash over me - and I loved it.
This isnt an easy story. Benny and his mother Annabelle are having a very hard time, traumatised by the death of their father/husband, ⬇️

Centique struggling and vulnerable in the world. But there are moments of hope, places of safety, brave and flawed friends who slowly come to connect with this family. Theres also some philosophy, psychology, some Buddhism, and a fabulous library. Loved it! A few TWs in here for sure too. 1w
willaful I got to visit the library it was based on last summer, definitely the coolest library ever! 7d
Suet624 This book had such mixed reviews, but I really liked it too. You‘re right, you just needed to go with the flow of the book. 7d
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Jen2
The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Still processing this one.

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JulietteReadsALot
Exit West: A Novel | Mohsin Hamid
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3/5 - re-read
I read this book when it first came out, but outside the doors, I didn't remember anything.
It's the perfect example of how your taste can change over time. I had put 5/5 at my first reading, but while I still like the book, my current score is 3.
I still like the doors, putting the focus on after they reached a new destination, but I found the second part lacking in nuances, and complexity, with convenient ellipses. I wanted more.