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BekaReid
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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Sunday morning reading, and I'm thoroughly enjoying this book!

Leftcoastzen 🥰😻 1mo
Cathythoughts Sunday morning reading 🥰📚 1mo
Cathythoughts I think it deserves a hashtag #Sundaymorningreading 😁. Oh! I see there is a hashtag already 🙈 (edited) 1mo
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Acoleman
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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Pickpick

This a good book and covers a large range of themes. I think I‘m just not a fan of her writing style

Blueberry I always want to like her books more than I do. 1mo
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melissajayne
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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Pickpick

4⭐️ Really enjoyed this #bookclub pick. Got into it much easier than the previous ones that I have read of hers. #2025 #indigineous #contemporary #fiction #covid19fiction

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Soscha
The Mesmerist: A Novel | Caroline Courtney Woods
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Pickpick

A historical thriller based on a true crime during the Gilded Age in Minnesota. Background is three young women staying at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers.

Alas, perhaps the first American serial killer is in their midst. Harry T. Hayward (c. 1865 - December 11, 1895) a man of status living a secret life as a gambler, arsonist, & murderer, and suspected serial killer the "Minneapolis Svengali" based on his ability to charm, con & manipulate.

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LadyCait84
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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Pickpick

Largely set in a haunted bookstore, the actual ghost is but a fraction of what looms over and around Tookie… addiction, incarceration, “rehabilitation” vs isolation; generational traumas both cultural and personal; the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd.

It‘s a lot to unpack.

But worth the emotional time and effort.

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Blueberry
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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Eggs 💛❤️🩵🖤 9mo
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willaful
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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(I love this Italian cover. It's so thoroughly wrong.)

Is Litsy turning me into a person who can understand literary fiction? Or has literary fiction just changed for the better? This is complex yet also so readable. Tookie is one of those unforgettably real narrators, and the old and new traumas she processes as she struggles through 2020 are infinitely resonant.

#BS July

Ruthiella I wonder if your perception of lit fic is maybe too narrow. At least to me, it doesn‘t mean difficult, lyrical, experimental, etc. It‘s any book that doesn‘t otherwise fit into a specific genre. 11mo
Tamra One of my favorite audio books! 11mo
willaful @Ruthiella That could certainly be. You don't draw a distinction between literary fiction and general novels? 11mo
Ruthiella @willaful Not if the only distinction is “lyrical writing” or whatever. 😂 I personally don‘t particularly like either Jodi Picoult or Johnathan Franzen but in my book, they are both literary fiction. (edited) 11mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11mo
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Andrea4
The Guise of Another | Allen Eskens
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Bailedbailed

Well, I really enjoyed the last Eskens but this....just not for me. An overwhelming male cast, all of whom are blah to unlikeable imho. Then there is all the sex-violence-death and I'm just not into it, thanks. It already featured in his other book but at least that seemed more quintessential to the plot. This seems like it's for “flavour“ but the flavour is giving one note and it's getting old.

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 11mo
Andrea4 @dabbe 🙌🏽🙌🏽 11mo
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Cortg
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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Pickpick

I‘ve been wanting to read Louise Erdrich for a while now and I went into this blind. It took a bit to sort out who/what the story was about but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. Might be worth a reread in 10-20 years to relive 2019/2020. I currently have 2 books going with ghosts involved in the plot which is quite unusual for me 👻

Tamra I‘m ready for a reread of this one! 14mo
Cortg @Tamra Go for it! It‘s def a reread-able book! 14mo
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Cathyloves2read
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First,I‘d like to thank Goodreads for picking me as a winner to receive a copy of this book.Second-I‘ve decided to try really hard to never read the book reviews before I read a book.The reviews on this book almost had me convinced not to read it.I‘m so glad that I took a chance,because I ended up really enjoying it.It‘s a story about growing and leaning.Its about hitting rock bottom and bouncing back.This author did a great job on her first novel