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jdiehr

jdiehr

Joined March 2018

Total and complete book nerd
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Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
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You by Caroline Kepnes
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Bitter Roots | C J Carmichael
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Mehso-so

A small town mystery solved by the dispatcher at the local sheriff's office.

This was fine, but I'm not interested in continuing the series.

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RowReads1 Yum 😋 24h
TheSpineView Looks so good. 💛🐝💛 24h
dabbe You are a true bee! #yum 💛🐝💛 23h
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Kristy_K 💛💛🐝 21h
JenlovesJT47 Yummy! 💛🐝🖤 19h
AnnCrystal 😋 Yummy Fun 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🍯🐝💝. 17h
Reggie 🖤🖤🖤 12h
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Done and Dusted | Lyla Sage
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A sweet and spicy cowboy romance 🤠 👢

Emmy and Luke have known each other all their lives, but when she returns home after an accident, they see each other in a new light.

I'll definitely be reading the next book in the series!

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Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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Bear is about sisterhood, finding one's own way, and a little bit of mysticism.

Makes you think. I enjoyed it 😊

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dabbe That's quite the friend! 💛🐝🖤 5d
AnnCrystal That's terrific 🆒👏🏼🐝👍🏼📚🐝💝. 5d
JenlovesJT47 Awesome! 💛🐝🖤 5d
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TheSpineView That's a wonderful friend! 5d
Eggs Loved the wedding dress sewing circle 🪡 🧵 5d
Reggie To be thought of! 🖤🖤🖤 5d
bellabella So fun! I love it when friends give me books! 4d
lil1inblue That's a true friend! 💛 4d
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TheSpineView Perfect! Am I right and that is your haul? 7d
jdiehr @TheSpineView It is 😊 7d
JenlovesJT47 I can smell the old books! Love doing this, haven‘t been to an estate sale in ages. 💛🐝🖤 7d
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AnnCrystal 🤩 Wonderful book haul 👏🏼🐝👍🏼📚💝. 7d
Eggs Wonderful poem/subject! Enjoy your new/old books 📚 7d
AmyG Oh nice. What fun. 7d
dabbe I can smell the books through your words. What treasures! 💛🐝🖤 7d
Reggie Cool! 7d
CBee Ohhhhh old book smell - the best 😊 7d
bellabella Yes, I love getting antique books. I just recently got the whole Heidi series. 6d
DebinHawaii Wonderful haiku & a fabulous book haul! 💛🐝🖤 6d
lil1inblue 👏 👏 👏 😍 😍 😍 4d
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The Names: A Novel | Florence Knapp
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Three different names, three different outcomes.

This is a story about "what ifs" in the same vein as the movie Sliding Doors.

I liked it ?

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TheSpineView 💚💚💚💛🐝💛 1w
bellabella Yes! I love being barefoot in the spring grass that has been freshly mowed! 😍 1w
Eggs Nice haiku👍🏼🙌🏻🫶🏻 1w
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dabbe Fave line: “green before the summer brown” … 🖤🐝🖤 1w
AnnCrystal “Barefoot afternoon“ 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🤩🐝💝. 1w
BooksandCoffee4Me Yes, I too love that “barefoot afternoon” - though, I confess to being barefoot most of the year when inside. 😊💛💛💛 1w
JenlovesJT47 Love this 💛🐝🖤 1w
Reggie I loved scrunching my toes in the grass when I was younger. Great haiku! 1w
Kristy_K Love! 💛 1w
DebinHawaii I feel my allergies kicking in! 😂 Just kidding! This makes me long for childhood springs & summers. 💛🐝🖤 6d
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JenlovesJT47 These are awesome! 💛🐝🖤 1w
AmyG Ha! 1w
actualdisneyprincess GIRL SAME. I have no more room for more of them, and yet I just keep adopting more. (HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO IGNORE THE PRECIOUS NEW MATT MURDOCK, HMMMMM?) 1w
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TheSpineView Sometimes you can't help yourself. 💛🐝💛 1w
CBee I love Funko!!! 1w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🆒🐝👍🏼. 1w
bellabella Haha! So amazing! 😂 1w
dabbe I see these everywhere and have no idea what they are! 🤣 Are they toy figurines? If so, then I can related. Talking to you Precious Moments and Ty Beanie Babies. 💛🐝🖤 1w
jdiehr @dabbe Yes! They are plastic figurines with big heads 😄 When I saw Gilmore Girls 25th Anniversary Funkos, well, I had to have them. I don't have any more of my Precious Moments, but I do have a complete set of the McDonald's beanie babies 😂 1w
Eggs Nice 😊 🥳 1w
Reggie We all have our vices. Good job! 1w
dabbe @jdiehr I gave away all of my Precious Moments to The Ronald McDonald House, a place that provides a “home-away-from-home” for families traveling to the Valley for medical care for their children. I gave my Beanie Babies away to my sister's elementary school for an auction. I now possibly need a new collection project--or should I just stick to books? 🤣 1w
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Earth to Moon: A Memoir | Moon Unit Zappa
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I picked this up expecting to learn some fun facts about Moon and her unique family.

I had NO IDEA about the big rift regarding Frank's estate.

This audiobook is full of love, hope, disappointment, and healing.

Moon's narration is emotional and well-done.

Suet624 Oooh, I had no idea that Moon wrote a book! 2w
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JenlovesJT47 Raining here too! 💛🐝💛 2w
AnnCrystal 😂 I do that sometimes 👏🏼🐝👏🏼🌧️🐝💝. 2w
TheSpineView Sometimes I love the rainy days. 🩶🌧🩶💛🐝💛 2w
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dabbe #truth! 💛🐝🖤 2w
bellabella YES! I love it when you think, “Man, I need a car wash but it looks like rain.“ and then it really pours. 2w
Reggie Cute! 2w
DebinHawaii Perfect! 🌧️ 🚗 🐝🖤 1w
Kristy_K Yes! I do this too lol. 1w
Eggs Washed my car yesterday so far so 🌤️good…great poem 1w
BooksandCoffee4Me 😁😂😁💛 1w
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#haikuhive
#haikuaday

This is going to be fun!

jdiehr Wait...am I supposed to tag everyone? 2w
TheSpineView Yes, please tag the group so they can read the poems. 💛🐝💛 @dabbe is the hosts of the group 2w
JenlovesJT47 💛🐝💛 2w
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dabbe The best nerds ever! Welcome! 💛🐝🖤 2w
Reggie Love it! lol 2w
CBee Love this @jdiehr 💛🐝💛 2w
jdiehr @dabbe Thank you!! 2w
BooksandCoffee4Me Clever! 👏👏👏 2w
bellabella Nice one, @jdiehr!💕 2w
AnnCrystal Spectacular Nerdy Fun 👏🏼🐝👍🏼 Welcome to the HaikuHive 🥳🪄📜✍️🐝💝. 2w
Eggs Excellente 🙌🏻 2w
lil1inblue Hooray! 😍 2w
DebinHawaii Such nerdy fun indeed! 💛🐝🖤 1w
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The Dead Romantics | Ashley Poston
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A ghost writer and a ghostly editor form an unlikely relationship in this book about grief and hope.

I love it when my Romance Book Club picks something different from the norm 🙂

**This overgrown cemetery is not far from my house 🪦

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Scar Tissue | Anthony Kiedis
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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, baby!

VERY heavy on the drugs.

I met Anthony back in the 90s, but, alas, our brief encounter was not mentioned in the book 😂

BittersweetBooks This book has been on my TBR since high school 🫣 (aka when it was published) 2w
fredthemoose I enjoyed this one. What a wild life. Flea‘s pre-RHCP memoir was good, too 2w
Ruthiella He‘s saving your meeting him for his second memoir! 😜 2w
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jdiehr @Ruthiella Right?! ? At one point in the book he gives a "if you're reading this..." to a girl he met in Kentucky. That was the point when I stopped reading a memoir and started reading a fantasy ? 2w
BarbaraBB You met him?!?! Tell me everything! I‘ve had a crush on him since the 80s and especially in the Californication era. “Young Kentucky girl in a push up bra”… that must be you!! 2w
jdiehr @BarbaraBB No, I'm not the Kentucky girl!! But his shout out to her made me wish he was shouting out to the girl he met in LA and posed for a picture with (me 😄) 2w
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Monthly Report | California. Department of Insurance
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Monthly report

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LOVED. THIS. BOOK.

Like, so much!

Thank you @AmyG for such a wonderful Jolabokaflod gift 😊

The hives in the background are ours - in honor of the beekeeper 🐝 🍯

AmyG I am so happy you loved it….I did too! 3w
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I work weekends, so I wasn't able to make it out for Independent Bookstore Day, but I'd say I made up for it today 😁 📚

Aims42 Great haul!! I really enjoyed ‘Addie LaRue‘ 🤩 (edited) 3w
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Saint X | Alexis Schaitkin
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I enjoyed the ride but felt a little bamboozled by the ending.

A teenage girl dies while on vacation with her family.

Her younger sister is haunted by this and runs into one of the suspects years later. Will she get to the bottom of what really happened?

Trashcanman Did you receive my email? 3w
jdiehr @Trashcanman Yes! Sorry I was slow to respond. I emailed this morning 😘 3w
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Melanie Shankle was in my sister's neck of the woods, so she got her latest book signed for me 🥰

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I found a four-leaf clover pressed in an old book at an estate sale today 😃😊 🍀 ☘️

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This Could Be Us | Kennedy Ryan
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Book 2 in the Skyland series, and I loved it!

This is Soledad's story.

Aren't these covers just the prettiest?

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Happy Easter!

Ruthiella Happy Easter 🐣! 1mo
Mimi28 Happy Easter 🐣🙏🏽 1mo
sblbooks Happy Easter! He is risen! 1mo
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Passion Project: A Novel | London Sperry
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Bennet and Henry are just the cutest 🥰

There are lots of bumps in the road in this romance. Bennet is suffering from grief, while Henry does his best to help her find her passion and be patient with her while she grapples.

Of course, a happily ever after is eventually reached.

dabbe Love your hourglass! 💚😍💚 1mo
jdiehr @dabbe Right?! 🤗🥰 1mo
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From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir | Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
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The narration was great.

What a unique, sad life.

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And Then? and Then? What Else? | Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler
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Stories from Handler's life - some funny, some not so much. And lots of stories about books and the readers who love them.

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Intermezzo | Sally Rooney
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I just loved this book ❤️

Last October, I was lucky enough to get a signed edition from Powell's along with a swag bag.

sarahbarnes So cool!! I loved this book. 1mo
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I didn't realize this was as "self-help" as it is.

I keep up with the Duggars like I keep up with the Kardashians ? in that I want to know what's going on in the families.

That being said, I found a couple nuggets of wisdom.

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This memoir is about Allison's life since losing her husband "Twitch" to suicide.

A hard topic for sure, but I admire her willingness to share things from her perspective.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I don‘t think I can read this one… I really hate that she exposed his mental health issues for profit. And there are still questions about his passing. Pretty photo 💛 2mo
jdiehr @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks My take was that she is sharing her side of the story. It didn't read like a cheap expose, but I don't know much about what people are saying 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2mo
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Say Everything | Ione Skye
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For the most part, I enjoyed this memoir.

Ione was unlikeable at times, but she grew into herself and found her happily ever after.

I loved the photos!

BarbaraBB I am so curious about what she‘s written about the years with Anthony Kiedis! 2mo
jdiehr @BarbaraBB A good chunk of the book is about that time in her life! 2mo
BarbaraBB I guess I need to read it then! 2mo
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Carnal Urges | J. T. Geissinger
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I thought this book was going to make me clutch my pearls, but I quite enjoyed it 😁🥵🖤🌶🌶🌶🌶

More than the title suggests. I loved the witty banter, the mysterious element, the kickass heroine.

This is part of a series that I just might continue.

dabbe Daffies!!! 🌼💛🌼 2mo
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Yellowface | R F Kuang
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An ugly story about writing, publishing, opportunism, ambition, racism, cancel culture, etc.

Despite the tough topics, I thought this was very well-done.

Bravo!

dabbe Have you read BABEL by her? I liked this one, but BABEL was stunning! (IMHO) 🤗 2mo
jdiehr @dabbe Yes! I agree 💯 2mo
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The Book Thief | Markus Zusak
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Folio Society did an edition of my all-time favorite book, The Book Thief.

I HAD to have it. It's gorgeous 😍

MemoirsForMe 😍😍😍 2mo
AmyG Just beautiful. 2mo
tpixie Lovely! 2mo
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I don't particularly like fantasy OR dark romance, but this wasn't bad.

Phantasma was the only Book of the Year choice from BOTM that I hadn't read, so here we are!

**Husband took the photo. I just can't with snakes 🐍

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Cute.

I won't remember it in a week, but cute.

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Happiness for Beginners | Katherine Center
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Fantastic!

My co-worker left this in my cubby at work, and I didn't really think I wanted it...I was wrong.

This was so good, uplifting, and delightful!

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I chose this audiobook on a whim, knowing almost nothing about Selma Blair.

Now I know I really like her!

Butterfinger She fights with so much grace. 2mo
kspenmoll Happy Litsyversary!!! 2mo
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Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy
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What a great book!

Very atmospheric.

Towards the end, I was flipping pages as quickly as I could while mysteries were being revealed and questions were being answered.

sarahbarnes Can‘t wait for this one! 2mo
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Dollar Tree was on 🔥 today!

Aims42 I scored a copy of this book there last week 🤩🤩🤩 Love a good Dollar Tree find! 2mo
TheBookHippie I love the dollar tree! 2mo
Deblovestoread Your Dollar Tree book selection is fantastic! Mine is usually a couple of small shelves. I loved Olympus, Texas. 2mo
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Birdsong28 @Aims42 That book is so good!! 2mo
AmyG Wow. I have never seen such a good book section in a Dollar Tree. 2mo
Aims42 @Birdsong28 Oooo yay! 😍 I‘ve had it on my TBR list for a while, I was so excited to get a copy for $1.25 🤩 2mo
Birdsong28 @Aims42 Wow what a bargain! ☺️😍📚📖 2mo
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Whenever I decide to read a Lucinda Berry book, I know that I am in for a suspenseful, twisty ride. Under Her Care was no exception!

I should be better at guessing the twist by now, but I was once again surprised 😄

CatLass007 Being surprised is a very good thing! 2mo
jdiehr @CatLass007 That's how I see it! 2mo
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Rustler Mountain | Maisey Yates
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I really enjoyed this book about a good girl/bad boy and how history affects our relationships.

My favorite Maisey Yates book so far!

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Ready or Not | Cara Bastone
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Eve finds herself pregnant after a one night stand.

What happens after is the start of a slow-burn romance - not with the baby daddy, but with a man she has been friends with since childhood.

The audiobook was narrated fantastically!

AmyG Thanks for posting. Always looking for a well-narrated audiobook. 2mo
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Taming the Scotsman | Kinley MacGregor
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Another good historical romance that I read for Romance Book Club.

What I like about historical romance is that the women have very few choices but somehow find a way to work around the constraints placed on them by society.

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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
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The Reformatory | Tananarive Due
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This is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Drop what you're doing and read this book.

Trust me.

Scochrane26 My friend recommended it to me, so it‘s on my tbr. Glad you loved it. 3mo
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Consent: A Memoir | Jill Ciment
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"Does a story's ending excuse its beginning?"

If it's wrong for a 17 year old girl to sleep with her 47 year old art teacher, does it make it any better that they marry and stay married for decades until he dies??

This memoir was thought-provoking and well done.

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Pet | Catherine Chidgey
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This was good!!

A pretty teacher charms her impressionable class of 12 year olds, but she is far from perfect - maybe even deranged...

This was a page-turner

Suet624 I liked this one too! 3mo
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Rustler Mountain | Maisey Yates
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Excited for this one!

Happy publication day to Maisey Yates 🩷

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Memorials | Richard Chizmar
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The first 90% of this book was good, creepy fun...

But then it just went off the rails for me.

I'm no prude, but there was a REALLY raunchy scene that was thrown in unnecessarily. Why?? It served no purpose for the plot.

Too bad because it was a good story initially.

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Before I Let Go | Kennedy Ryan
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Oh my gosh, you guys!

This was good!

It's the story of a marriage rocked by loss, depression and grief. But the couple never stopped loving each other.

Their journey back to each other after divorce is told realistically and with great empathy.

The spice in this one is spicy 🔥

Jas16 Loved this book so much. 3mo
marleed This was a 5* read for me, and I thought the second book in this series was just as good - 3mo
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