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BritishLass929

BritishLass929

Joined June 2016

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Station Eleven: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel
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The Runaway Midwife: A Novel by Patricia Harman
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Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel

Hell is the absence of the people you long for. - Wow. #sentencesiwishiwrote

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Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel

Sometimes it is necessary to break everything.

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Windy City Blues | Renée Rosen
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Whether it be the fictional Leah Gold and Red Dupree or the nonfictional Leonard and Phil Chess, the right to people at the right time can indeed change the world. A wonderful novel with an interwoven playlist. In today's sea of apathy, fear and pessimism it's important to recognize the human race has been through many trials and triumphed. We have, we can, and we will. That's simply what we do. Rosen' best work yet.

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Windy City Blues | Renée Rosen

He gave himself a moment, wanting to mark in his mind the last moments of his old self, saying good-bye to that part of him that had been conditioned to play himself down. He no longer had to be a Negro afraid of calling attention to himself in a white world. Now that was all behind him; he could let himself all the way out. #stuffiwishiwrote

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The Animators: A Novel | Kayla Rae Whitaker

It‘s a weird sensation, knowing your family believes the worst of you. It makes you want to disappear a little.

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Behind Her Eyes | Sarah Pinborough
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5/5. Highly recommended! Read it NOW. #wtfwasthatending indeed! Don't have someone spoil it!!

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Behind Her Eyes | Sarah Pinborough
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Small TBR pile (sine ebooks cant be seen) #savethefloorjoists. Currently devouring #behindhereyes. Everything else has taken a back seat. Also trying to read at least one Dickens chapter daily!!

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Behind Her Eyes | Sarah Pinborough

"Better to think of imagined truths than real memories." - I know you aren't supposed to quote from an ARC, but WOW what a sentence !#behindhereyes #sentencesiwishidwritten #flatironbooks #sarahpinborough

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Portrait of Emily Price | Katherine Reay
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The perfect book at the perfect time. Deep characters. Very relatable. Art restorer with a eye for detail misses the forest for the trees when her whirlwind marriage changes her location. About finding your place - in family and in life.

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Portrait of Emily Price | Katherine Reay

Art is about beauty and desire, yes, but beauty is also about truth.

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Portrait of Emily Price | Katherine Reay

"Joy isn't a feeling, it's a truth."

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Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow
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Perfect. Seamlessly interwoven. Keep Google at the ready. (What would I have done had I read this before Google?) and every bit as relevant now as in 1975.

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Amy Snow: A Novel | Tracy Rees
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I enjoyed this novel. It's hard to describe in just a small space. It's a story within a story, and there are many subplots. However, it is a long read (over 500 pgs). Part Dickens, part Austen. Very rich character development.

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Damaged | Lisa Scottoline
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An effective legal drama that tugs at the heartstrings while informing. Our little Mary DiNunzio has grown up and is about to get married. Also a compassionate examination about the foster care (broken) system in Philly. Great read!

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Mehso-so

I've read 3 out of 4 in this set. Although I love the fact that Helen Grace is equal parts badass and future psych patient, I think this one had a solid beginning and end with a wasted middle. Triplicate crime scenes work for and against the story. The best parts are the dialogue and interviews of which there are far too few. I think I'll read one more before deciding whether to continue the series.

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The Cape Deluxe Edition | Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella
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This deluxe edition includes the prequel one-shot, the comic run, an art gallery, and the text of the story itself. Great way to show process. Story wise, it's a nice way to turn superhero books on their head. I'd expect nothing less from Hill.

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Amy Snow: A Novel | Tracy Rees

A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

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Invincible Summer | Alice Adams
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Solid coming of age story involving four friends across a 20 year span. Different chapters focus of different characters, but always in 3rd person. Alas, what would have been brilliant in my 20s, seems obvious in my 40s - which I guess is the point.

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Invincible Summer | Alice Adams
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Some nice quotes; but all-in-all a bit too contrived for my taste. It's a decent coming-of-age for millennials, but looking through older eyes it's all quite obvious. 3/5

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Invincible Summer | Alice Adams

"The thing is, at the time, everything we did felt like it happened in isolation from the rest of the world. It's only when you get older you really understand how everything's connected: money, power, politics, people's actual lives."

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Vinegar Girl | Anne Tyler
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Stands on its own as a funny, light novel. Don't compare to the original, though. Great commentary on communication and marriage - with all their many flaws. Highly amusing.