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BiblioLitten
The Forest of Enchantments | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Weird bookish coincidences that I love:
Last year, on June 16, I went to pick up my library hold and I saw this book was on hold for another person with the same last name as me. The book looked interesting and I snapped a picture. Earlier this year I placed it on hold and guess when it became available? June 16, 2025!!
End of story.

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AroundTheBookWorld
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Mattsbookaday
The Voyage Home | Pat Barker
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The Voyage Home (Women of Troy 3), by Pat Barker (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: A Trojan nurse accompanies the doomed prophetess Cassandra to her fate as Agamemnon‘s entourage returns home.

Review: In a landscape overstuffed with retellings, once again this effort from Pat Barker elevates the genre to its full potential. It was jarring not to have Briseis as our point-of-view character in this third book. Cont.

Mattsbookaday But, I was glad to see Cassandra‘s story brought to its satisfying, sad and fated end. There‘s a reason why these stories have survived for thousands of years; they reflect incredible psychological depth and complexity, and I‘m grateful for Pat Barker for going above and beyond in shining a new light on them.

Bookish Pair: For a fun recent novel that uses Euripides‘s take on this saga as a backdrop, Ferdia Lennon‘s Glorious Exploits (2024).
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June‘s book club choice is a Greek mythology retelling from the perspective of Briseis, a Queen in Troy taken as a prize for Achilles towards the end of the Trojan war. I enjoyed learning about the war and time period and I think it‘ll make a fun discussion next week. This is the first of a trilogy so I may pick up the audio for the rest of the series.

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Cress | Marissa Meyer
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SarahBookInterrupted
Sense and Sensibility | Joanna Trollope
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This was an excellent modern version of Sense and Sensibility. I completely enjoyed it, especially being a Jane Austen lover. The author managed to tell the same story but with social, environmental and technological upgrades. It was a very enjoyable read and I recommend it to any Austen lover who likes a spin off or retelling.

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Sargar114
Morgan Is My Name | Sophie Keetch
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Absolutely loved this book!!! So difficult to put down. Easily my favorite read of the year so far. The origin story of Morgan LeFay, infamous Arthurian sorceress. I look forward to continuing this series. Read for #literarycrew

Librarybelle Yay!! 5d
Cuilin Yes!! I loved it too. 5d
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
Northanger Abbey | Nancy Butler
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This was a fun graphic novel of Northanger Abbey.

Mid-month check in. Read any good Northanger Abbey retellings? Anything you've hated?

#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#Pemberlittens #TalkTilneyToMe

Bookwormjillk I still need to start Ghosted! 7d
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BarkingMadRead Also, I read Ghosted awhile back and it was really good! (edited) 7d
Andrea313 Northranger by Rex Ogle was lots of fun, and I'm enjoying Ghosted so far. But I did a re-read of the following and any silly charm it may have once held drastically faded into sheer stupidity: 7d
TheBookHippie Not yet 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ it‘s been a bit wild here. 7d
Crinoline_Laphroaig @TheBookHippie same! Last few days I read one graphic novel. 7d
Crinoline_Laphroaig @BarkingMadRead I've started as well. I'm really enjoying so far. 7d
Crinoline_Laphroaig @Andrea313 there's a vampire. Makes me want to read. 7d
willaful Oh, I wish I'd known about these. My library has some of them. 20h
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The Bone Spindle | Leslie Vedder
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This was just a lot of fun. I liked how the friendship developed between Fi and Shane and all their adventures. I wasn‘t totally convinced by the romances (very insta-love) and the twist on the Sleeping Beauty story. But overall, I enjoyed it and will consider getting around to the sequel at some point.

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Roary47
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4✨ I love these story‘s for telling stories of villain origin stories. This one follows a brand new story unknown to us until the end when it follows the Tangled version of a Rapunzel story. There is the connection with Circe and the three odd sisters as the other books which ties the series together. Snow White made an appearance too! Not a bad story, but parts of it I wasn‘t quite able to picture in the beginning. #SeriesLove “5/13”

Roary47 #FairyTaleRetellingChallenge “Villian” (edited) 1w
TheSpineView Well done! 1w
peanutnine Cool cover design! 1w
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