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Librarybelle
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How I loved this one! Think Rachel Joyce‘s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Kathleen Rooney‘s Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, with a bit of Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal.

Jenny is 77 years old, loves to bake, loves her husband of nearly 60 years Bernard, and has a secret. She also impulsively applies to be on a British baking competition. The story weaves between past and present through her recipes. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Librarybelle ⬆️⬆️⬆️It‘s a story about love, sacrifice, and finding oneself, no matter how old you are. It‘s a remarkable debut novel by Ford, who seems to capture so much emotion and can evoke so many feelings through Jenny‘s stories. Family recipes have power. Have tissues at the ready for this one. #192025 #2024 #52BookClub24 #Publishedin2024 4w
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Sounds lovely, I‘m going to request it from the library. 4w
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Hooked_on_books Oh good! I have this out from the library and I look forward to it even more now! 4w
Librarybelle @Hooked_on_books Hope you enjoy it! 4w
ReadingOver50 Sounds great. Just requested it from the library 3w
CatLass007 It looks good. My library doesn‘t have it yet but I‘ve asked them to notify me when it‘s available. 3w
julesG You're not helping me here. 😭😂😂 #MountTBR 3w
Crazeedi This sounds good, adding!! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3w
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Bluebird
The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry
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Soooooo. I tried reading this book a year ago, but I couldn‘t get into it and set it aside. Love the cover, love everything about the book blurb, and enjoy the writing. This book totally seems my cuppa! I picked it up again for #literarycrew read, but after 25% I‘m giving up. #hailthebail. It‘s just not working for me. 🙈

Texreader I really didn‘t like this book. Not at all like what I thought it would be 1mo
Librarybelle Good try, but nothing wrong with no longer reading a book. #somanybookssolittletime 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ve seen lots of similar reviews 🫤 it‘s on my shelf and I‘m in no hurry! 1mo
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tpixie @Bluebird I‘m sadly not enjoying this so far either. I‘ve restarted it 3 times today. I fell in love with the cover and wanted to do the #literarycrew #buddyread but I may bail also. I‘m not good at bailing, though. We will see 🐍💚📗 @Librarybelle 1mo
Hooked_on_books It is an excellent cover! I have this one, but after mixed reviews early on I‘m a bit hesitant to try it. I may go the same way you went! 1mo
tpixie I wish he were the audiobook narrator! https://youtu.be/Hrz43MGvF9M?si=77bwc68AhB7WL2Eb 1mo
tpixie Also he says, “Bear in mind, if you are a good reader, you will discard a book mercilessly if after the first 40 pages or so you haven‘t gotten into it” 1mo
Bluebird @Texreader glad I‘m not alone! 1mo
Bluebird @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Hooked_on_books yes, no need to rush to it, plenty of other books out there! (edited) 1mo
Bluebird @tpixie thanks for the link! He‘s so enthusiastic! The book he describes sounds fabulous—but not what I experienced. I agree with you! I‘d have loved to try it with him as the reader. 1mo
Bluebird @tpixie @Librarybelle i‘m not great at bailing either. I think it‘s because I‘ve read some gems that were slow to start. However I‘m getting better and now consider bailing at about 20% read. Most of my books are long, so 40 pages seems too few. Guess I‘m not ‘a good reader‘ 😂 1mo
tpixie @Bluebird 😂 I did decide to bail this am. I‘m trying not to feel bad about it 💔 1mo
CatLass007 @tpixie You gave it a fair shot. That‘s all anyone can do. You have to know your own mind to be able to bail. 1mo
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Ruthiella
The Rachel Incident: A novel | Caroline O'Donoghue
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I really enjoyed this coming-of-age novel set in Cork during the 2008 recession. It‘s narrated by the Rachel of the title, looking back on her college years and is about navigating adult life, the callousness of youth, abortion rights in Ireland and as an underlying plot point, the power of friendship. The enduring friendship between James and Rachel was for me the core of the novel.

I‘m using this for #Booked2023 “About Reproductive Rights”

Amiable Sounds great —stacking! 7mo
Ruthiella @Amiable I hope you enjoy it. Though I came of age 20 years earlier, it rang true in my estimation. (edited) 7mo
Cinfhen Nice!! I started this one on audio but it wasn‘t clicking - #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime 😩 7mo
Ruthiella @Cinfhen It happens! 😃 7mo
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Librarybelle
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My combined #BookReport and #WeeklyForecast :

Just one title finished this week! I did start a book but could not connect with the writing style and decided to set it down for now - maybe I‘ll come back to it someday. #somanybookssolittletime

Can you believe we‘re into September the end of this week??? My forecast includes the upcoming #BuddyRead titles.

I am off work this week, so I plan to have some much needed reading time!

Cinfhen Enjoy your week!!!!! You definitely deserve a vacation❣️❣️❣️ 7mo
Librarybelle Thank you, Cindy! @Cinfhen 7mo
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IMASLOWREADER
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to my fellow DNFers lol #somanybookssolittletime

dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 8mo
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Megabooks
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My grandmother‘s sister had a BA in Home Economics and taught Appalachian households to use electric appliances in the 1940s. Because of that, I have always been curious about HE. Dreilinger traces its history from its founding in the mid-19th c to today. It began as a cutting-edge field, but after WWII lost some of its seriousness, however post-pandemic there‘s been a resurgence. She looks at Black, white, and Latinx practitioners.

Cinfhen It actually sounds fascinating….but #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime 😉 9mo
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RaeLovesToRead
Rabbit, Run | John Updike
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Let's be clear. Rabbit is the absolute epitome of a selfish arse. This is a book about what would happen if a family man shunned his responsibilities and did whatever the hell took his fancy.

It does not lead to greatness.

Rabbit, run neither preaches, nor punishes. It simply describes the mindset of a young man trying to escape mediocrity. He's a character both unexceptional and unforgettable.

Plus, the prose is rather delicious.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

RaeLovesToRead @The_Penniless_Author you'll like this one 9mo
Cinfhen Always meant to read this one…but #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime 9mo
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Ruthiella What song is it in? 🤔 9mo
RaeLovesToRead @Ruthiella run rabbit run rabbit run run run... Updike even mentions the song in his afterword as being incidental so I'm totally counting it!!!! 😁😉 9mo
BarbaraBB Glad you liked it and agreed on Rabbit 😉 9mo
The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead Why do you think so? 9mo
RaeLovesToRead @The_Penniless_Author Because a) it's very well written and b) the themes are the sort of thing you seem to respond to in a book - similar to Stoner & Judith Hearne - existential angst, unfulfillment, the mediocrity of everyday life, vague social commentary. I was reading it and thinking "Randy will like this". Happy to be proved wrong ?? 9mo
The_Penniless_Author You may be right. What little I know of Updike is mainly by way of reputation and a couple famous short stories I read in high school. I can't help grouping him (perhaps unfairly) with a certain type of post-war American writer - public intellectual, New Yorker contributor, embraced by academia, etc. The type who examines the marital ennui of upper-crust northeasterners with the same gravity as the fall of the Roman Empire. 9mo
The_Penniless_Author That type of writer I find extremely tiresome (Richard Yates, for example), but the more I read about Updike the more I think you're right and that I probably would like him. I'll give him a shot. Congrats on another successful Rae-commendation 👏 🙂 9mo
RaeLovesToRead @The_Penniless_Author Haha, don't congratulate me until you've read him 🤣 but do let me know what you think! 9mo
The_Penniless_Author Just the fact that I'm going to read it makes it a successful recommendation. You can keep your congrats 😆 9mo
RaeLovesToRead @The_Penniless_Author Yay!!! I'm a literary "influencer" ???? 9mo
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LeslieO
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Score! I thought I wouldn‘t find any good stuff on the second last day of the AAUW book sale. But I was wrong! (I usually go the first day but I was out of town) I found THREE Brookners I didn‘t own!! Plus the Julia Child autobiography that I‘ve been looking for. And a bunch of other great books that were on my radar. Also pictured: 4 library holds that came in while I was gone. #BookHaul #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime

julieclair Wow, some great finds! 10mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I read My Life In France last year and it blew me away! I don't enjoy cooking at all, but I now adore Julia Child. I hope you like it too! 10mo
LeahBergen Nice haul! 👏 10mo
jlhammar Great haul! Loved News of the World, When the Emperor Was Divine and Gilead. I'm hoping to try my first Brookner by the end of the year. Been meaning to for ages! 10mo
Tamra Yay!! 🎰 10mo
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rockpools
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Happy Saturday Litsy!

I‘ve just had a week off work, but am still RIDICULOUSLY happy for a 3-day-weekend. Also, I will get back into writing reviews… one day.

#BookReport This week has been a delightful jumble of STUFF. I accidentally subscribed to a second month of Scribd, so I‘m cramming audiobooks (next up Fire Rush), plus ‘homework‘ on PDA, Bandit Queens is a delight, and London is taking ages simply because print isn‘t happening right now.

squirrelbrain I bet Fire Rush will be fab on audio! 🔥 11mo
rockpools @squirrelbrain That‘s what I‘ve heard! Think I need to sneak it in this month. 11mo
Cinfhen Fire Rush WAS EXCELLENT on audio ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥enjoy!! I love Scribd although some months are more generous than others - do you know what I mean @squirrelbrain @rockpools ?!???!! 11mo
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rockpools @Cinfhen You mean… you gear up to listen to something and IT‘S DISAPPEARED?! It was there yesterday. Now it‘s gone. I don‘t have huge amounts of luck with Scribd! What do you reckon? Buy or borrow Fire Rush on audio? 11mo
Cinfhen Yesssss! And sometimes by the third day of the new monthly cycle I can not even OPEN the new release options! SO FRUSTRATING (edited) 11mo
Cinfhen However, as much as I loved Fire Rush on audio I‘d still say #BorrowNotBuy - I used an Audible credit but I know I‘ll never listen to the book again…although there are very few books that I would ever revisit #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime 11mo
squirrelbrain I‘ve never had anything disappear on me (yet) Rachel, and I don‘t think I use it as much as you do @Cinfhen but I often find that books ‘aren‘t available in your region‘. 11mo
Cinfhen I definitely get my money‘s worth , despite the disappearing audios because for some reason I‘m able to acquire both US and Uk publications most of the time @squirrelbrain ☺️ 11mo
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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards
Trucks & Cars | Walter Wick
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Saw a tractor trailer on my commute home with the sign "DNF Trucking" on the side - and my first thought is "That's a lot of books to not finish!" ?

(pic made up by me later, obviously)

#SoManyBooksSoLittleTime

Bklover 😂😂😂 12mo
monalyisha Ha! Amazing. 😂 12mo
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