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AnneCecilie

AnneCecilie

Joined July 2016

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Getting It Right (Revised) by Elizabeth Howard
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Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
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Sjfareren | Erika Fatland
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue my Christmas reads; The Snow Sister and Merry Christmas

I‘ve just started The Land in Winter and I‘m not sure I have time for anything else

I have wondered about starting What Matters in Jane Austen? now that I‘ve finished A Thousand Feasts

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A wonderful book focusing on the small moments of joy in our life, like drinking a cup of something or eating something. A book to read in small doses

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This doesn‘t happen often, that I start a new book the same date as the book starts

Dilara That is a fantastic coincidence! 2d
AnnCrystal 🪄📚 Serendipity Epic 👏🏼🤩👍🏼📚💝. 2d
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The Poisoned King | Katherine Rundell
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The 2nd book in the Impossible Creatures series and from the acknowledgments this will be a 5-books series, so I have more to look forward to

It‘s a year later an Christopher is back in our world. One night Jacques begs him to return, or as Jacques would say, his summoned back to the Archipelago. Someone is killing the dragons, and who‘s strong enough to do this in these numbers?

AnneCecilie In another part of this world, Anya is facing life changes. Her grandfather dies and her dad is accused of murdering him. But Anya doesn‘t believe that a man that can‘t kill the tiniest bug, can kill his own dad. So whose behind this? Anya and Christopher will meet and fight together 3d
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The Poisoned King | Katherine Rundell
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‘Dessert!‘ he said. ‘At least half of a meal should consist of dessert, in my opinion; perhaps two-thirds.‘

(And I couldn‘t agree more. Love dessert and chocolate)

Bookwormjillk Preach! 3d
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🥳😋👍🏼. 3d
kspenmoll I am drooling! 3d
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Sjfareren | Erika Fatland
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#BookReport

I‘ve read Helm, and The Moomins and the Great Flood

I‘ve continued my yearlong reads on the right
I continued A Thousand Feasts
I continued the tagged on audio

I‘ve started my Christmas reads; The Snow Sister and Merry Christmas

I‘ve also started Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King

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The first Moomin book that came out for the first time 80yrs ago. I think it‘s interesting that the original title doesn‘t mention Moomins, but calls them tiny trolls. Apparently the publisher wanted people to know what they was

In this first story Moomin and his mom are on a journey to find a place to live before the winter and looking for dad. In their way they meet several different creatures and has quite the adventure in a 50p book

AnnCrystal Beautiful coverart 🤩📚💝. 4d
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Helm | Sarah Hall
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Mehso-so

I‘m not sure this was a book for me.

It‘s said to be about Helm, a wind in the Northern England. I was surprised by how little we heard from it. In this book of 340p, maybe 20-30p

And also we followed a lot of different people in different time periods, and I had a hard time knowing where I was unless their names popped up. The writing was the same no matter what. Maybe because of Helm, but I don‘t know

email list “Hello! I work with authors to help them promote their books and build engaged email lists. I‘d love to share tips that really grow readers! if you have intrest inbox me with my mail akintayotaye4@gmail.com 4d
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Snssteren | Maja Lunde, Lisa Aisato
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I think this house looks so cozy

From The Snow Sister, illustration by Lisa Aisato

Dilara I wish this was available in English or in French! It looks like their agents tried hard to advertise it to other markets, so I'm not quite sure what happened. I see the film is available on Netflix though, so there's that... 6d
TheBookHippie Oh this is so pretty. 6d
AnnCrystal Cozy beautiful 🤩🌨️🎨🏠📚💝. 6d
dabbe I want to move in right now! 🩵☃️🩶 6d
AshleyHoss820 I love this! 6d
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Lucy by the Sea: A Novel | Elizabeth Strout
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The 4th book about Lucy Barton

This one is about the pandemic. It‘s starts just before everything closed down, and Lucy ex-husband, William, understands where this is going. So he gets himself and Lucy out of NYC and tell their daughters to do the same. They move to Maine, and a new life here with walks, meet now people and face hostilities for being New Yorkers.

This was a very true portrait of the pandemic years

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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #BookSpinBingo card for December is ready

My #BookSpin is the 4th book in a series
My #DoubleSpin is a reread of A Christmas Carol

Here‘s to another great reading month

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 7d
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I can‘t help but wonder how the literary world would have been, if she hadn‘t changed her mind

Ruthiella Maybe she would have been able to write anyway…it‘s hard to say. I‘m thinking of other women writers like Gaskell or Burney. 7d
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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I loved this book

I loved that the “good” people were so good that you loved them and the “bad” people were so bad that you hated them. I love a good villain to hate, and this delivered on that, looking at you Mr Quilp

And I didn‘t see that ending coming

#WhatTheDickens

nanuska_153 This is the only Dickens that I bailed, I usually love his books. Maybe I should give it another try🤔 1w
Cuilin Perfect review. 1w
AnnCrystal Grand review 👏🏼☺️👍🏼📚💝. 1w
Texreader I agree with @cuilin perfect! 1w
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Some of the authors that Nigel Slater are rereading

I see a favorite author of mine, and some I want to read

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I had no idea that Project Gutenberg was founded so early

Ruthiella Me either! 🤯 1w
AnnCrystal Epic 🥳📚💝. 1w
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I loved this

A book about loneliness, as the title suggests, but also of its consequences

The young girl who finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older male artist that thinks everything is allowed in the name of art

The man that finds his best friend pushing him out of his life to find a wife

Two families that faces their own challenges, an aunt that left her husband, a mother that leaves her husband

About family

AnneCecilie And the journey to find the one for you 1w
sarahbarnes I loved it too. 💙 1w
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list is ready

December! Where have the year gone???

The list is a mix of Christmas books, children‘s books and anything else seen as cozy

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1w
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Sjfareren | Erika Fatland
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#BookReport

I finished The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
I read The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts
Continue the tagged on audio

Hopefully read Helm

I also want to start the advent calendar book, The Snow Sister, and God Jul (Merry Christmas) about Norwegian Christmas traditions

Bookwormjillk I‘ll have to look for that Fatland book in English. I really like her writing. 1w
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Another winner in this series

Joyce‘s daughter is getting married and the gang is invited. While there, Elisabeth is approached by the best man that says that someone is trying to kill him and that there was a bomb under his car that day. So the hunt begins

At the same time Ron and his family faces some family difficulties

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Sjfareren | Erika Fatland
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#BookReport

I‘ve finished Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow earlier today
I just finished the last page of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

#WeeklyForecast

Continue The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts

Next up is The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

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& no Paris trip is complete without a visit to Shakespeare and Company

These are the books I came out with:
- Sally on the Rocks reminded my of a Barbara Pym novel
- The Paris Trilogy was recommended to any lover of Annie Ernaux
- Virgina Wolf had prepared The Life of Violet for publication, so then I want to read this early work
- Paris in Winter is the #SundayBuddyRead for December next year
- & Braithwaite‘s highly anticipated 2nd novel

squirrelbrain Great haul! ❤️ 2w
TheBookHippie Ooooooo what a pretty stack!! 2w
kspenmoll Nice!!! 2w
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TrishB Lovely ♥️ it‘s very special getting books in there! 2w
vlwelser I have my eye on Cursed Daughters. I look forward to seeing what you think of it. 2w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳👍🏼🗼💝. 2w
youneverarrived 😍😍 2w
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Librairie Chantelivre | Paris, France (Bookstore)
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When I was in Paris almost 4 weeks ago, I did surprisingly, but some books

This is one of them, and the only in French, in the tagged chain store. The Branch I visited have an amazing picture book section for kids, so I ended up with this

I used to be able to read kids books in French, but not anymore, but I still want to improve myself and hope to read this sometime

I still haven‘t read the book I bought there 2 yrs ago

AnnCrystal 🤩📚💝. 2w
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Persuasion | Jane Austen
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A book about second chances & love that survives

8 yrs ago Anne Elliot was advised by friends and family to turn the proposal of Captain Wentworth since he didn‘t have enough money. Now things have changed, the Elliot‘s is letting out their home to live in Bath for awhile. There Anne meets her lost love again

& off course as in any Austen, there‘s complications and someone isn‘t as nice as they seem to be

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Crinoline_Laphroaig I love this photo! 2w
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Autumn | Ali Smith
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Tagging my favourite Ali Smith, since this essay isn‘t in the database

This essay is 43 p with pictures on every other p and big letters

Ali Smith looks at the forest and especially pine trees in Edvard Munch‘s art

At an event I was at earlier this year, Ali Smith was gushing about how much she loved Edvard Munich‘s art. That event took place in the University Auditorium that is full of his art, and Smith couldn‘t believe her luck.

AnneCecilie This essay was written for an exhibition at the Munch museum in 2024. I can‘t see an English title 2w
BookishMarginalia That sounds super interesting! 2w
sarahbarnes I love her! 💚 2w
AnnCrystal 🆒🥳👍🏼💝. 2w
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My #DoubleSpin for November was to listen to the October musical pieces in this book which I have no done

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w
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As I‘ve written a couple of times, I‘ve fallen behind on my listening in this book

I finally made it to this date, and this musical piece is amazing 🤩

Lcsmcat A favorite of mine too, even if it is an old warhorse! 3w
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This is definitely not the reaction you want when you‘re treating someone

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Persuasion | Jane Austen
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This is a perfect description of Anne Elliot

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

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On this day 1919

I love that bookstore

AnnCrystal 🆒📚💝. 3w
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What every reader wants to do in public transportation

Bklover I‘ve gotten to where I just ask! Otherwise it drives me nuts. 3w
Dilara @Bklover @AnneCecilie Yes, at some point, it's less creepy to just stop and ask the person rather than walk past her 4 times in a row 😕 3w
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One view on Dickens

It really says something about your life when Dickens is better

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The Sherif department get a call about a shooting at the school. When they get there one of the students has a gun and gets shot by the police. After a search of the school, they find one of the teachers shoot. On the teacher‘s phone the police finds pictures of children being tortured and killed, and the search is on to find victims and the third person in the pictures

When the conclusion comes it makes perfect sense and is the most scary of all

AnneCecilie Set in the South America it looks at racism and its deep roots. The white leaders are used to having a way in to the Sherif office which is hard this time when the Sherif is an African American who won‘t play by former rules. There‘s also a white supremacy group that want to march against removing a statue and the counter march. 3w
AshleyHoss820 I also loved this one! Excellent story-telling. I‘m looking forward to reading more of Cosby‘s work! 6d
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Sjfareren | Erika Fatland
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

I‘ve just started the tagged chunkster which would translate into The Seafarer about the lost empire of Portugal

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#BookReport

I finished All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued the buddy reads Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I‘ve started both The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR

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Persuasion | Jane Austen
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A perfect description of an introverted reader

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

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Flesh: A Novel | David Szalay
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Just announced the winner of this year‘s Booker Prize

I‘m quite happy about this since I enjoyed it while I read it

ChaoticMissAdventures I feel lucky I have only read Audition but I have this one from the library at home! 1mo
sarahbarnes Good to know you liked it! I wasn‘t compelled to pick it up. 1mo
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I had no idea that Dumbo in NYC was an abbreviation of this

I just love the name Dumbo since I love the Disney movie with the same name

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 1mo
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“Oh, I can miss someone after a day. Let‘s meet somewhere -“
“Where?”
“Anywhere - let me think. Portofino!” He was delighted by his proposal. “Where the film stars go. Everyone must go to Italy - (…)”

(This dialogue reminds me of Taylor Swift‘s song Elizabeth Taylor. Picture of Portofino found online)

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Tell Me Everything | Elizabeth Strout
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Another winner from Elizabeth Stroud

In this Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess and Lucy Burton all live in the same city, Crosby, Maine

Olive and Lucy meets in Olive home in a retirement community where they tell each other stories of people in their past.

Once a week Lucy and Bob meet to talk a walk so Bob can smoke his one cigarette a day.

And in between this, we hear about their spouses, ex-spouses, children, grandchildren and friends

AnneCecilie In a book where nothing really happens, a lot happens. A women is found dead, someone is accused of murdering her. I also love how Strout‘s focus is on the everyday life 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue the buddy reads; Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue All the Sinners Bleed on audio

The Booker winner is announced tomorrow evening, and I want to get a start on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny

I also want to start The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR

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#BookReport

I finished Mother Mary Comes to Me

I continued my yearlong reads on the right & has started catching up on Year of Wonder

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I completely forgot that last Saturday was the beginning of a new month & new buddy reads, but I‘ve now started Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow & The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

I‘m also reading Tell Me Everything

Crinoline_Laphroaig First of the month snuck up on me as well. 1mo
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A day late, but this was too good not to post

I guess we‘re gonna live for ever then fellow Littens

Bookwormjillk Oh man I‘m not sure I‘m up for living that long 🤣 1mo
Ruthiella I‘m here for any excuse that makes reading healthy! 😅 1mo
lil1inblue Well, that should cancel out one of my bad habits, at least! 🤣 1mo
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Mother Mary Comes to Me | Arundhati Roy
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What an amazing memoir. I loved this

Roy has a complicated relationship with especially her mother, but also her father. A lot of the memoir focuses on this through the ages.

But she also spent time on her school years, film making career and relationships, and as a book lover how much winning the Booker Prize back in 1997 changed her life for ever.

I know it‘s early but I hope to this on next year‘s Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction.

AnneCecilie Now I want to read more of her works and reread 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures That is such a great photo of her. She is so cool. 1mo
TheBookHippie It‘s on my list!! 1mo
Suet624 It's in my stack of books to be read as part of TenBeforetheEnd but now that I'm reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny I'll be lucky to get to it before the end of December. :( 1mo
squirrelbrain I loved this too! And you‘re so right - it should be on the #wpnf list next year. 1mo
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Tell Me Everything | Elizabeth Strout
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This is the story of Bob Burgess, a tall, heavyset man who lives in the town of Crosby, Maine, and he is sixty-five years old at the time that we are speaking of him.

#FirstLineFridays

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Persuasion | Jane Austen
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Jane Austen is not afraid of telling it as it is.

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

ChaoticMissAdventures This is my favorite Austen! She is so funny. 1mo
TheBookHippie The snark!!! Perfection. 1mo
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Mother Mary Comes to Me | Arundhati Roy
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#NonfictionNovember #NFN #TodayILearned

I had no idea that the above was done, not just in India, but at all

Bookwormjillk Ooof 1mo
PatriciaU I‘ve had so many people rec this book to me lately! Your posts have made me move it up in my TBR 1mo
AnneCecilie @PatriciaU I‘m almost finished and loving it. Hope you do too. But the tbr is a funny thing 1mo
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Mother Mary Comes to Me | Arundhati Roy
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I must admit that as someone who has showed up to an event with Roy and had my book signed by her, I love that she enjoys meeting her readers

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September‘s musical pieces were my #BookSpin for September, and I‘m finally finished

The curious thing happened. My listening had been going well, so I thought I would buy her second book. With the result that I stopped listening, and now has some catching up to do

But I love these musical pieces and how they introduce me to so many different composers

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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I‘ve fallen behind on my listening, but have started to catch up

This is worth remembering and that‘s an impressive walk

Suet624 Almost seems like a typo! 250 miles uphill in snow? 1mo
AnneCecilie @Suet624 I had to google it and it seems correct. It‘s an over 5 he drive today. So quite the distance to walk 1mo
Suet624 Yowzer! 1mo
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Pumpkin Heads | Rainbow Rowell
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It has become almost a tradition for me to read this around this time of year. This is my third time reading it

Deja and Josiah are best friends at the pumpkin patch where they work together, but don‘t see each other though out the year.

This is their last day working at the patch. Next year they‘ll be at college, and Deja decides that it‘s time Josiah talked to the girl he has had a crush on for years, but things don‘t go as planned