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Happy St Patrick's day. I'll be having a pint of the black stuff tonight to celebrate. I'll be reading the tagged as my selection for March's #BookedinTime read.
What are your plans? 🍀

@Cuilin @dabbe

I came in with really high expectations for this and maybe that was the problem. I don‘t think there was anything wrong with it per se, it just wasn‘t as compelling as I hoped for.

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#botm

There is no torture like childbirth

This book had a fairly promising start, with a young woman in 1991 looking for answers, and two people coming together during the Russian Revolution. While it‘s a fairly quick, mostly entertaining read, there are too many dangling plot lines and the ending is a combination of unsatisfying and just silly. But I have my BOTM backlist down to 2 books!

Inspired by one of the minor characters in “Moby Dick,” this book is a slow burn. The reader journeys across the world as 4 generations of women search for the elusive “Ishmael,” a key to their belongingness. If you enjoy women‘s lit fic with a touch of magical realism, keep this book in mind. It will take you on a slow and intentional journey, which sometimes is exactly what is needed. Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6043190663

Been waiting all week for this…brunch and a book!

Alexandra Winslow‘s mom abandoned her at 7 yo, her dad died when she was 14. Despite her tragic circumstances, she becomes a famous mystery novelist but must adopt a pseudonym (Alexander Green) to make it in the publishing world…

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#RushAThon @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

I‘m not sure about this one and maybe my head just wasn‘t in the right place to track the story. I thought there was too much going on and I couldn‘t decide where to focus- who was dead, who was alive, who and if anyone was danger, who was hiding, and just how pivotal where the dolls to the story. Sometimes it just… Read. Okay. Next. But the cover is all sorts of gorgeous!

So top marks for cover. And this would have been a 5-star read for me if the story didn‘t depend on so many people living into their mid90s. And I get it - Loesch wanted to link the Russian Revolution with the fall of the Soviet Union but I just don‘t see how all the key players who were in their 20s in the 1910s were still kicking in 1991. Fantastic otherwise, though.

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