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readswellwithothers
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Pickpick

4 ⭐️Mom and I have endured some real duds in our recent buddy-read selections, so when we spun the wheel of our books we kept our fingers crossed that it would land, at last, on something we could truly enjoy.
It worked! A heartfelt, heartwarming account of one small town‘s efforts to bring big joy to hundreds of thousands of servicemen/women in WWII. Even with war as the background, this book was sweet, and a welcome reminder of human kindness.

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dabbe
My Antonia | Willa Cather
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#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs (thanks for the tag! 😍)

1. Isabel.
2. Huggy Bear, Caramel, Sal, George, Babs, Pete, Kate, Pippa
3. ANTONIA, SCARLETT, OPHELIA, ARWEN, EOWYN, GALADRIEL ...

Consider yourself tagged! 🤩

Eggs Thanks for playing - love your name choices! 1w
AmyG We had a George, too. 1w
dabbe @Eggs 🤩 1w
dabbe @AmyG Matt name our husky George after his favorite book as a child, CURIOUS GEORGE. 🤩 1w
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JenP
Antidote | Karen Russell
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Birthday hall plus the tagged book which just so happened to arrive on my birthday from the Harvard first editions signed book subscription. My daughter and I are playing hooky from school and work to spa, eat fancy foods, and read 🥳

Mimi28 Happy Birthday 🎊🎂🎁📚📚😍😍 1w
AmyG Happy Birthday 🎂 Sounds like a great day. 1w
Ruthiella Happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 1w
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dabbe HB! 🤩🤩🤩 1w
squirrelbrain Great #camplitsy haul! 😝 Have a great birthday! 1w
BarbaraBB Happy birthday Jen! You‘re all set for #CampLitsy25! You‘ll love Wild Dark Shore! 1w
Suet624 How fun! Happy birthday! 1w
JenP @squirrelbrain it is 😂. I also just finished Audition which isn‘t pictured. 1w
JenP @BarbaraBB ooh, that‘s good to hear. I‘m very excited about most of them. Just finished audition and looking forward to that discussion 1w
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Lcsmcat
Dalva | Jim Harrison
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Pickpick

Centering around an eccentric historian‘s access to the MC‘s g-grandfather‘s journals, this look at history, ethics, family, myth, community, and spirituality is wrapped in a great story with elegant prose. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad. I highlighted many quotes, but didn‘t want to stop reading long enough to post them. Letter D for #litsyAtoZ, No 1 for #14books14weeks

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Lcsmcat
Dalva | Jim Harrison
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My first book for #14Books14Weeks. @Liz_M

Tamra Funny, I was just referencing Harrison‘s poetry today! 2w
Lcsmcat @Tamra I‘ll have to look for his poetry. I‘ve only read his novels, but given how great his prose is I‘m going to fix that. 2w
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Ruthiella
O Pioneers! | Willa Cather
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#WhereAreYouMonday

I‘m in Nebraska with Alexandra Bergson and family as they try to farm and prosper while so many of their neighbors fail and move back to the cities to try their luck.

This is also the fourth book on deck for the #ShelfSweeper readathon. 😊

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bio_chem06
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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I read three bangers in a row but The Antidote was the best book this year, absolutely incredible. I personally did not enjoy The Long Island Compromise.

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sherri
My Antonia | Willa Cather
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Just started this, which I picked up either at a used book sale or online through a used bookstore, I don't remember which. This was a 10th grade English class reading assignment that I didn't like but has called to me recently so I'm giving it another try. So far just a few pages in, I'm intrigued. Did you read this one, either for school or later in life?

Ruthiella I read “Death Comes for the Archbishop” in my 20s and found it boring, because it‘s all descriptive- nothing happened. 20 years later I read My Antonia and loved it. I think I personally needed to grow as a reader to appreciate Cather. 1mo
PurpleyPumpkin I read this classic in 2020. Glad I finally got around to it as I quite enjoyed it! 1mo
sherri @Ruthiella - I agree. It was hard to appreciate and understand some of these stories as a young teen in the early 1990s. Life experience has made me really enjoy reading fiction, whereas I used to gravitate to non-fiction, because I didn't like stories so much as learning stuff. College helped me realize that I can learn so much from fiction. 1mo
sherri @PurpleyPumpkin - So glad to hear you gave it a try and loved it. I'm only a few pages in, and I'm looking forward to sinking in. 1mo
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Nebklvr
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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Mehso-so

This was interesting but not engaging. The characters resembled game pieces. If there was a plot, it was vague enough to escape notice. The author‘s descriptions of the dust storms were the most visceral and true of anything in the novel.

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BBowling
O Pioneers! | Willa Cather
Pickpick

A tender read about homesteading on the raw prairie with all the challenges and heart that entailed. Strongly female centered story. These women weren‘t unique in their time, but rarely were so well represented in the period‘s contemporary fiction. I enjoyed in greatly reminding me of family histories of my own grandmother‘s.