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Blackwell‘s for the win! Could only find it on Amazon but I refuse to give them a penny.

@BarbaraBB

I already finished it thanks to some undisturbed reading time at #gladstones24 🥰

I loved this book just as much as the first in the series, maybe even more. It‘s dark and sad. Evan is a professional football player. He‘s gay and would‘ve have preferred to be a painter. Life just doesn‘t go according to plan. And now he‘s standing trial for his part in the rape of a girl.

So good. I have to preorder Fire!

I love John Boyne and I already love this book after barely 10 pages. “…. films that didn‘t have explosions in it.” 😂

#WeeklyForecast 41/24

This will be the week of my traveling to Gladstone for the very first time and meeting up with a lot of Littens! Very excited about this and about the books I‘ll be bringing. I think, because everything can change of course. 🤦🏻‍♀️

A Persephone seems fit to read in an old library, Keep it in the Family and Blood like Mine are comfort reads and Earth and Tell me Everything are favorite authors so I can‘t go wrong!

Um, wow. The second in Boyne‘s elements series hits every bit as hard as the first. My second recent look at entitled men in the era of #metoo recently but a totally different take. TW in spoiler tag.

An Irish boy leaves his small home island for England. He has hard time before reluctantly becoming a soccer star. Unfortunately, a teammate draws him into an accused rape and subsequent trial. Great twists! 😬🤫

Impossible to choose my next read 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼

Another very impressive addition to Boyne‘s elements series. Earth does all the good things that Water does- it‘s taut, sparse, unflinching, observational writing about an extremely confronting topic. Earth is a bit more direct in its storytelling than Water is, which will appeal to some readers, while others will miss the subtleties. I loved seeing how Boyne would unspool the connections between the stories.

such a sad story but a must read for teens for sure and loved this qoute about how “censorship is the child of fear and father of ignorance”…#audiophile #readinggoal #readinglife #ireadbannedbooks

Quick, sad and sickening read. Worth reading but will devastate.

#Earth#JohnBoyne