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Hughes made me think deeply about big ideas and problems, and challenged the way I might have thought about these things otherwise, while also drawing my investment into a cast of complex characters, their relationships with themselves, each other, and the world. what I mean to say is this is a novel that made me think and feel. I didn‘t see the ending coming but also it was basically perfect? Anyway, just read this, you won‘t regret it.

This ticks all the literary boxes:
beautiful writing ✅
Not much happens/“quiet” ✅
political ✅
Format change halfway through/“experimental” ✅
It stops rather than ends. ✅
I loved it at first then I got restless. Overall I really liked it but I‘m always left a bit unsatisfied by these types of novels?! 🤷‍♀️ maybe it‘s just me. (Audio version was brilliant tho!) #camplitsy24

You wouldn‘t know it from the sunny day, but bad storms left us without power for 12 hours overnight!

I was so pleased to get my @AardvarkBookClub picks (far right) with the v cute bookmark! #aardvark I bought the tagged for #CampLitsy24, and Impossible Things was just $1 at my library‘s sale.

Library books: Limits and Morningside were on the CL longlist. Mean Boys is a queer essay collection I‘m already enjoying, and 888 just looked fun.

I was worried I wasn‘t going to get this in time for #camplitsy24 but my library purchased 7 additional copies!! I should get it in time now. 😅

Who else is excited for summer camp? ⛺️

I went to the local bookstore for book club for Clear, but apparently this group is one that periodically just decides not to meet, so I chatted with the bookseller a bit then bought another #camplitsy24 selection. I almost bought Whale Fall, too, before I remembered I'd preordered it from bookshop.org already. That was a near miss!

Next month's selection is The Guest by Emma Cline, so I might try to make it to that one.

I shouldn‘t be allowed in a bookstore when I‘m tired 🤦🏻‍♀️🥱

*happy sigh* I love the TBR explosion that is #CampLitsy24 nomination time! So many interesting options. Here are my nominees:

The Alternatives - Caoilinn Hughes (tagged)
There's Always This Year - Haniq Abdurraqib (tagged in comments)
The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Julia Alvarez (tagged in comments)
The Husbands - Holly Gramazio (tagged in comments)

@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

I JUST decided two days ago that I was going to chill out with the pre-orders. Today I found out that Caoilinn Hughes has a new book coming out this year.

So, that didn't last long!

If you haven't read The Wild Laughter yet, I can't recommend it enough. And this one looks like it's going to be just as special.