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Billypar
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I love the concept of a bio that zeros in on an artist's favorite hobby. Something about focusing on something besides her writing made Emily Dickinson feel more like a real person instead of her standard brilliant poet role. The page layouts are gorgeous - McDowell discusses ED's relationship to gardening throughout her life, along with photos, illustrations, poems, and excerpts from letters. 🌺🌻🌼🌷🪻

monalyisha Wow, yeah. What a pretty example of book as visual art! 1w
TheBookHippie I just LOVE IT! I‘m so happy you did as well!!! 1w
Texreader How awesome!! Love this post too!! 1w
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Twocougs
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I have seen this since it came out and for some reason had ignored it, until yesterday. Extremely honest, sad but as time goes on Maggie finds peace. Great read.

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Vagabonds!: A Novel | Eloghosa Osunde
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‘People who know loss know this : there‘s nothing harder to let go of than an already-gone thing‘

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Maggie Smith (No not that one, the American poet) is a gorgeous writer. I enjoyed the way this is laid out, it is a contemplative look at her marriage (the end of) and her life. She reiterates that this is not a tell all. It is not a true memoir, she is only giving you the glimpses she chooses. But I did end up wanting to sucker punch her ex husband! A beautifully told story with so much to contemplate on.

ChaoticMissAdventures There is one moment towards the end, that annoyed me. Her therapist tells her about how children pick their parents, and Smith agrees with her, because she loves her parents. I just had to turn it off for a bit as I thought about all of the people I know with terribly abusive parents and how there is no way they would pick that. It totally pulled me out of the book and gave me a bit of a bad "self help" taste that I didn't like. 1mo
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GatheringBooks
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IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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#weeklyforecast

I have the tagged on audio book, and am hoping to make progress on these other 3. Malcolm will probably take me until the end of the month but I want to finish Babel in the next couple of days (it is so good!). Chlorine was mentioned on a list of possibilities for the women's prize, I think it is a long shot but it sounds interesting so picked it up from the library.

squirrelbrain I‘m waiting on Chlorine from the library…just in case! 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I am reading a few the next few weeks “Just in Case“! Probably none will be on the list, but I am also going to try and hitting up
Let Us Decent - Ward
Tom Lake - Patchett
The Vater Wild - Groff
The God of Good Looks - McIvor

I am usually so off on what I think the list will be I only get a couple of them.
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squirrelbrain I‘ve read the first three…haven‘t even heard of the 4th. I shall investigate and add it to my spreadsheet! 🤣 1mo
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squirrelbrain Found it - it‘s available at the (actual, physical) library. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain the 4th is my own guess! I am going off the of early Caribbean picks they have had like The One-Armed Woman and The Bread The Devil, they often to choose 1 title from the area so if they do this year too this one would be my guess. 1mo
squirrelbrain Ah, good thinking! I loved both of the other two you mentioned, so now I have high hopes that this one will be good too. 1mo
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FedeLumachi
Hotel Bosphorus | Esmahan Aykol
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Super, non mi ricordavo di averlo letto e nob mi ricordo bene la storia. La sensazione lasciata dal ricordo però è super positiva. Mi ricordo una lettura veramente geniale e imprevedibile. Molto bello

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GatheringBooks
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#LuckyInLove Day 4: A #Bouquet of flowers spread out here, like so much wound and burning pain because “we are all equally far from love.” Cannot wait to read this.

Eggs Beautiful 🌺💔💐 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🥀❤️ 2mo
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ncsufoxes
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I listened to this one over audio read by the author. This is the first book I‘ve read by Smith & I was not familiar with her work. I really loved this one. The pain she describes over her separation & subsequent divorce from her husband is so imbedded throughout the book. The struggles she faced as a working mom & wife & then as a single parent. How her husband seemed to struggle with her having a career. The never ending tasks of being a mom

ncsufoxes while trying to have a meaningful career (ie the invisible labor). The format is a little hard to get used to at first since she‘s a poet but I really liked it. #bookspin #nonfiction2024 prompt: speak (the author speaks about the difficulties of being a mom & life post divorce) 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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BarbaraBB
A frozen woman | Annie Ernaux
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A frozen woman: frozen in time and in life. A life that consists of being a mother and a wife. No longer a woman, nor a professional. I loved Ernaux‘ The Young Man but this autobiographical story of her life is rather boring in my opinion. Her childhood, teens, meeting her future husband, it‘s all very recognizable but not that interesting.
Also the nagging about motherhood annoys me for she‘s enduring it without trying to improve her situation.

squirrelbrain Great review though! 😃 2mo
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BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain Thank you 😘 2mo
Librarybelle Yikes! That‘s a shame! 2mo
Ruthiella Ah well. I‘ve never read any Erneaux but when I do, I‘ll start with a different one. 2mo
Suet624 Did she win the Nobel prize for this book? 2mo
Hooked_on_books Oh no, a pan for Ernaux! It cannot be! I loved this one, but she definitely has a particular way of telling a story that won‘t work for everyone. 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2mo
dabbe #hailthebail! 🩶🖤🩶 2mo
BarbaraBB @Suet624 no it was published in 1981. 2mo
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books I was surprised too, I thought I would love it 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2mo
batsy A pan for Ernaux! 😱😁 I haven't heard of this one, actually! 2mo
BarbaraBB @batsy I was shocked too, convinced I‘d love it! 2mo
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