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So I was only able to visit 2 bookstores but I did find plenty of bookmarks on our 1 1/2 week anniversary vacation.☺️👍🏼 so here‘s my haul

Probably NOT the best book for Americans to read at the moment with 🍊 in office (it'll be divisive, depending on your politics), but I flew through this.

#52bookclub25 #readinabermonth

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#Survivor
#charactercharm
Very bleak, they survived a nuclear attack for a while...
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A middle-aged couple face the horrors of nuclear war in this sweet, but devastating adult picture book. A mis/under informed husband tries to man-splain away his worries while his caring but oblivious wife absent-mindedly goes along with his plans. Feels freshly relevant in our age of misinformation, as this couple could only operate with the information they had available, while so many today operate only with the info they choose to accept.

#BookMail from yesterday

This story had been on my mind for quite a while, but I never knew what the title was until @Bookwomble posted about it.

What a BAT-TASTIC 🦇Surprise @AmyG !!!! This was so unexpected and was waiting for me after my colonoscopy 😃😃😃 Thank you!! Yes - Buddy Read Friend 💛 Thank you for always lighting up my heart, as well as my mailbox 🤗

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Some great #Standalone books to read.
1. Swan Song- one of my top 5 favorite reads ever.
2. We Used to Live Here- a newly released haunted house book that is really well done.
3. The Other- great horror classic.
4. Certain Dark Things- an intense vampire read that puts a new spin on the creature of the night.
5. Tender is the Flesh- so disturbing, yet so good.

This book was interesting and definitely intriguing. The narration differed between chapters despite it all being portrayed as a written history of the events of the world by one author. It was a different take on the post apocalyptic world than I‘ve read before & I enjoyed this new take (for me). Makes me think more about what it would be like to be in a hotel when th world ended as we knew it. Overall entertaining read, but will not read again

Briggs's humour is dark! Jim and Hilda are following the actual advice given to the British public by the government in the event of a nuclear war. That they follow it with the expectation they will survive is part of the humour, the pathos and the tragedy. Jim and Hilda are rather hapless with their malaprops, their vague understanding of global politics, and frequent mixing up of their WWII blitz experience with their present situation. ⬇️