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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.

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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And here is my January #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks 😊🎉

A few I've already started, a book by my dear friend @The_Penniless_Author , a few self-help books that I probably won't read despite best intentions, a few cosies and my newly rolled roll100s 😊

Now for matcha tea and short stories... 💕🍵

Eh. This was fine. Some of her wackiness was wonderful, but some of it missed the mark for me. Porn Star features the host of a game show where the winning contestant gets to have sex with her…on the moon. In Deliverywoman, an interstellar trucker heads to an auction house to buy the cryogenically frozen body of her criminal mother. And those were the ones I enjoyed! I much preferred the more structured weird of Tampa and Made for Love.

Here are some books from my shelf that I hope to get to soon...

I have no idea what Stay Up With Me is about, but it has one of my favourite covers of any book ever.

CJ Sansom is an absolute favourite of mine. I need to prioritise this series.

A couple of these (Vonnegut, Ishiguro) are Randy picks @The_Penniless_Author #randyspiles

I loved the Sisters' Brothers and have heard nothing but good things about the next Dewitt.

Murakami ❤