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Amie

Amie

Joined September 2016

So many books so little time
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I don't really like mystery/thriller plots based on amnesia but it wasn't so bad in this book. I really liked the main character and her dark, sarcastic sense of humor. I liked that she was sharp, strong, and straightforward, but somehow also unreliable, and in spite of her amnesia, she was not portrayed as being vague and confused.

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Grave Robbery | Deanna Raybourn
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Book 9 in Veronica Speedwell series. Love this series! This one was perfect: intriguing mystery, fast pace, fun banter.

Jasper the cat rarely sits on my lap, but he joined me while I finished this book.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1d
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The Fox Wife: A Novel | Yangsze Choo
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Very good. I enjoyed how the separate threads came together near the end.

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This is the 3rd time I've read this, and it's still good but I found myself being pickier about it this time. I especially kept noticing how clothing was an important detail in many scenes but the descriptions were inadequate, seemingly anachronistic, or actually anachronistic (like pantyhose). I probably don't need to read it again.

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Book 3 in series. The first book remains the best.

Roz goes on a mission to save her island from the poison tide. Although she met me friends along the way, I enjoy her interactions with her island friends most.

In the afterword the author claims to not want this book to be preachy/moralistic but it is a smidge.

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#botm arrived yesterday!

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Panpan

Terrible book about terrible people.

dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 1w
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The Spy Coast: A Thriller | Tess Gerritsen
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Good mystery/thriller about retired CIA spies whose past comes back to haunt them.

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I would have skipped this month, but I really wanted the 2 add-ons (and couldn't wait until next month of course 😁). Listen for the Lie sounds really good, but is the kind of book I would probably check out from the library. I already have the only 2 BOTY finalists that interest me, but can't turn down a free book, right? #botm

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Yellowface | R F Kuang
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There were some slow parts, especially in the beginning, but otherwise I liked this.

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Beautiful story about family secrets, generational trauma, sexuality, and identity. The story of Moud, an American teenager in 2019, his father as a young man in Iran in 1978 , and his grandfather as a teenager in L.A. in 1939.

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Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I liked this. It takes an unexpected turn (that I won't spoil), but I liked how it portrayed a woman living life on her own, her way.

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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America | Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
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Important information about the most disadvantaged places in the U.S. Possible solutions seemed a little simplistic and naive, and I was especially irked at the suggestion that public libraries in these areas should be doing more without any acknowledgement that they are surely underfunded, their employees are likely underpaid, and these are areas where there is active hostility against libraries as well as censorship of diverse books.

Bookwormjillk Wow, libraries in my area do so much already. Can‘t imagine asking them to do more. 4w
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Didn't See That Coming | Jesse Q Sutanto
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Cute teen romcom

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Stone Cold Fox | Rachel Koller Croft
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Mehso-so

There's not a lot of action in this; it's mostly the main character playing mind games and manipulating people. I mostly liked it, but then it kind of fell apart at the end.

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The Wife: A Novel | Alafair Burke
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Mehso-so

I mostly liked this until the end. The ending was not satisfying and I particularly disliked one aspect of the resolution.

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My knowledge of this time period is minimal so I really can't judge the merits of this book except that I found it interesting and informative.

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Beautifully illustrated book about women who did terrible things (although some probably did not commit the crimes that legend attributes to them).

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Mehso-so

Disappointing. Good setup that became too convoluted and then completely fizzled out.

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Good. Set in Appalachia in the 1930s-40s. Coming of age story. Sad in parts, but not overwhelmingly depressing. Ends on a hopeful note (which makes sense because there is a series).

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Love this middle grade mystery series! This is book 5 and I hope there will be more.

MaureenMc My daughter and I love this series, too! We‘re in the middle of this installment, which we‘re reading on audio as a family. 1mo
Amie @MaureenMc I listened to the first book in the series and it was really good on audio. The narrator was entertaining. The series seems like it would make for a fun family listen. 1mo
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The Fox Wife: A Novel | Yangsze Choo
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#botm arrived quickly!

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What the River Knows | Isabel Ibaez
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Mehso-so

Disappointing. Slower-paced than I was expecting, and I didn't find the characters interesting. There was no resolution in the end because the story will continue in the next book, which I probably won't read.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty photo ❤️ 1mo
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Clouds over California | Karyn Parsons
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Middle grade historical fiction about a mixed race 6th grader growing up in 1970s California. New kid at school, bullies, parents' marital problems, racism, the Black Panthers, feminism.

Some fun trivia: the author, Karyn Parsons, is the actor who played Hilary Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She also reads the audiobook.

Aimeesue Parsons has also written one for older kids that was really, really good 1mo
Amie Yes, I liked that one, too 😀 1mo
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Architectural history of the rise and fall of the shopping mall. Also offers some insight into what could be the future of malls. Sometimes dry, but otherwise interesting for readers who grew up when shopping malls were a big deal.

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This was very interesting and informative. Even though this is very far removed from my lived experience, it is relevant, recent U.S. history that has had an influence on our culture, laws, policing, and more.

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The Labors of Hercules Beal | Gary D. Schmidt
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Middle grade fiction. Excellent characters. Several difficult and/or very tragic events were a little too much for me. Very good audio narration.

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Danger on the Atlantic | Erica Ruth Neubauer
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Book 3 in Jane Wunderly mystery series.

Easy read, interesting mystery, a little romance.

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Counting the Cost | Jill Duggar
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Mehso-so

Some of this was interesting, but I wanted more analysis about why this show and lifestyle are harmful and stronger denouncement of the religion and the Duggar parents.

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This is sort of a rom com, but the romance is not center stage.

Maggie is running her friend's bookstore while the friend is on maternity leave. She has good intentions of trying to be helpful by implementing new ideas that are against the co-owner's rules, but she ends up creating a fiasco.

Aims42 I appreciated that romance wasn‘t the main storyline in this book 😊 2mo
Amie @Aims42 I agree! It was just the right amount for me and it felt realistic. 2mo
Aims42 @Amie Yes, just the right amount to be believable without being “tooooo much” 😄 2mo
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Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Mehso-so

Read this for book club. The first half was pretty slow and boring. Once the party started, things got more interesting but there was still a lot of filler that just didn't seem to matter to the plot. It all was just kind of flat.

Crazeedi It wasn't her best, I agree 2mo
LeeRHarry I loved this one! It‘s my favourite of hers. Different books for different folks 😊 2mo
Crazeedi @LeeRHarry how true! 2mo
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Important history, but upsetting to read. Generally about the resurgence of the Klan in the 1920s in Indiana, with mentions of other parts of the U.S. More specifically about the rise to power of one of the leaders and his murder conviction following his sadistic assault and rape of a young woman.

KristiAhlers I really enjoyed this one as well. It was a book club pick for me at the end of last year. 2mo
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How to Find a Missing Girl | Victoria Wlosok
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Good teen mystery. The true crime podcast trope is getting a little old, though.

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This was good. Set in Fiji in 1914. The setting was interesting because I didn't know anything about it, especially Indian people who were indentured servants on the plantations there.

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To Die for | Lisa Gray
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First read of the year!

Decent thriller set in Malibu in the world of high-priced real estate. Five Realtors in the same form are each trying to find a buyer for an expensive beach-front house. A body is found in the pool during the open house. Each Realtor has secrets and motives.

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Good mystery. Set in Philadelphia in 1875. Good historical detail. Main character is a doctor and the dead woman was her patient. A lot of time is spent describing her work with patients, which doesn't directly relate to the mystery. There are numerous clinical but graphic descriptions of injuries, blood, autopsy, etc.

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Fun historical mystery set in 1920s. Lady Adelaide, a young widow, throws a weekend house party at the country estate she inherited from her husband. Two people are murdered, and Addie is being haunted by her husband's very annoying ghost who helps her solve the mystery.

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Murder in Williamstown | Kerry Greenwood
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Enjoyable story, but not the strongest mystery - Phryne doesn't investigate the murder until well over halfway through the book; in the meantime she and her adopted family investigate some smaller, unrelated crimes.

CatLass007 Handsome company.🐈‍⬛ 3mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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Warrior Girl Unearthed | Angeline Boulley
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So good! Follow-up to Firekeeper's Daughter, set several years later and stands on its own.

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Another enjoyable mystery in this series that will make you laugh and cry.

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Murder at Midnight | Katharine Schellman
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Book 4 in Lily Adler series.

A snowstorm during a Christmas ball strands the partygoers for several days at their hostess's home. A murder occurs the first night, and motives, secrets, and nefarious deeds abound.

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This is a sweet, touching story, although I don't like that the main character promised a young child that she would adopt him and be his mother when it was very unlikely that would be possible.

emz711 Such a cute story 3mo
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This was interesting, although I finished listening to it on the way to and from my parents' for Christmas - which meant I listened to the parts about 9/11 and the years following - which was not the right mood for Christmas.

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The figurative language is a bit overdone, but this is a touching story about three generations of Vietnamese American women. I wanted more information about the house.

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The Manor House: A Novel | Gilly Macmillan
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Mehso-so

Started out ok then dragged on and on and just got more ridiculous. Too many threads to be plausible and then some new ones were thrown in at the end. The ending was not satisfying.

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Mehso-so

Not bad but a little messy and sometimes I was skeptical that anyone would behave the way the characters did.

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Promise Boys | Nick Brooks
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Excellent teen mystery set in an all boys school in Washington, D.C. The principal is murdered and three boys are suspects and must work together to clear their names.

Excellent full-cast audio production.

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I'm Not Done with You Yet | Jesse Q. Sutanto
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I guess this is a thriller but it didn't feel quite as intense as a thriller should. I still liked it, though., and it has lots of twists. It was fun to watch all the characters try to manipulate each other. The ending was not as satisfying as I would have liked.

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Christmas Presents | Lisa Unger
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Mehso-so

Disappointing. Very little suspense or tension. I figured out the killer very early on.

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Ravenfall | Kalyn Josephson
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This middle grade story takes place in the days leading up to Samhain and has cozy fall vibes while the characters fight an evil wraith.