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*Ally read novels, wrapped up in her duvet beside the central-heating radiator in her bedroom, borrowing them from the centre & the public library, sometimes finishing one & starting another without even changing her position or getting up to make coffee, like an addict...She imagined the reading that she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a sliding door to close behind you...*

I really enjoyed the latest episode of LeVar Burton Reads. A fantastic story by Percival Everett:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7E1dvud8Z7PtBSGadBSx6q?si=PHuhMdoYTeio1VE6VKgIO...

Bought this for the title and cover alone. I have no idea what to expect but starting this as part of #roll100 for December.

@PuddleJumper

This is one of the best short story collections I've read in recent memory. Each of the stories is so different from the next and wholly believable. My only real complaint is that the final story wasn't a full sized novel... Not bad for a random buy at the Friends of the Library sale.

The free book table was refilled today! Love summertime when faculty get rid of the books the no longer want. #bookhaul

Every short story in this mini collection was incredible. All hits, no misses. I'm definitely going to have to read more of her short fiction now because they were all just so wonderfully absurd and inventive. Read for: aliens, genies, time travel, and talking cats.

"The thing about seeking out new civilizations is, every discovery brings a day of vomiting."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Making progress with my cheerful Bingo square.

Cover Crush: Stay Up With Me

Humbug: The Christmas Murder Game

Cuddly Crime: Murder on the Xmas Express (I'm counting it because it was marketed as a cosy, even though things got tonally dark)

Do I feel better about it being the Winter? Not yet. Maybe after a few more squares!

An incredible collection. A series of emotional, bittersweet portraits of characters dealing with loss, grief, jealousy, resentment & preoccupation. We get just a taste of each character's story, & it's just enough.

These tales are of connection, sadness, distance, heartbreak, understandings & misunderstandings.

Heartfelt & devastating in an everyday way, I absolutely loved this book.

It has one of my all-time favourite covers to boot!

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