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If you like strong character and family stories, you can‘t go wrong with Ann Patchett. 🍊

Rereading this made me appreciated it more. I love how she plotted out the back & forth in time. I can't think of many opening chapters to top this for atmosphere. I didn't love the Leon sections, but they‘re crucial to the story. I love the exploration of processing guilt & how you can't choose your family.

“Life was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid & dependable as the earth itself.”

This was a good and interesting story. I liked it even better when I found out it was loosely based on the author‘s life.😯 the dynamics and intertwining of the families was full of drama. Not gonna lie, it started off a little slow and there are a lot of characters to keep up with.

This was a great audiobook listen as I drove out of town this holiday weekend! If you like family dramas and different timelines, this book is perfect. I was so interested in how all the different people intersected and how different choices led to different outcomes. It seemed like a major theme was choices/fate and I thought it explored that really well.

No clue where my dust jacket went for this book 😬

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Ended up choosing a different book for #TBRtarot since it was a little shorter and I‘m stretched thin this month! Not my favorite Patchett - seemed to drag slightly at first then picked up around the middle. Great read if you like dysfunctional family fiction (lol) like I do 😁

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First stop on our Nashville trip! So excited!!

What a marvel ! Why did I put off reading this for so long ! In essence it‘s just a story about two families becoming linked to each other through divorce but my goodness it‘s so much more than that ! Loved 🥰 it ! If I had to describe it to a non reader I‘d say is the book version of the wonderful bbc series the split . I enjoyed the Dutch house by patchett but it doesn‘t pack a punch 🤛 like this .

Wow 🤩 this book is good 👍 why oh why haven‘t I read any Ann Patchett before she‘s a seriously good storyteller ! #maybookbingo #doublespin #annpatchett
And why do all my photos have my dogs 🐶 in 😆because they snuggle 🤗 with me when I‘m reading 📖

Next read on the bingo list & my first Ann patchett will I be a new fan ?
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#couldbeabingo 3 days left !

Another stellar novel by Ann Patchett where she weaves in so many characters over many years who are simply going about their daily lives. I love how the relationships are intertwined and as people mature, they become more forgiving of one another.

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This is a novel about how an unexpected romantic encounter changes members of the Cousins and Keating families. It is a coming-of-age story about parent/child relationships and the bonds between siblings told in a succession of vignettes. Ann Patchett has admitted that the book is autobiographical. Although it is a mixture of satire, compassion and humor, it has great emotional depth.

Couldn‘t put it down.

Kids moving into different family shapes with parents changing relationships.

“Teresa was shocked by the roaming idleness of her mind, as if she were sifting through trash on the side of the freeway and was stopped, enchanted, by every foil gum wrapper.”

Part one of the best present ever, an overflowing bag of books!

For the vast majority of the people on this planet, the thing that‘s going to kill them is already on the inside

I really identified with this book. Step siblings are so often thrown together, expected to bond and accept one another, then expected to sever the relationships when their parents choose to once again end their marriages. For anyone who has been through that or navigated trauma with siblings and step siblings, this story may ring true. Ann Patchett does such a wonderful job telling complicated family stories.

My fourth Patchett. A story of a step family and how parents can get so wrapped up in their own lives to the detriment of their children. I love her writing and I was invested in the characters and story.

Bel Canto remains my favourite of hers & liked State of Wonder the least.

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“The Christening party took a turn when Albert Cousins arrived with gin”

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This made me laugh. How I love Ann Patchett‘s writing & character development. #currentlyreading

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Prompt: Daddy's Home

This is the prompt for November 1st. I'm just playing catch up.

June wrap up. One bingo of read books, two more if we‘re counting DNF‘s. Two 5🌟 reads Commonwealth and A Thousand Ships. Several 4 or 4.5 🌟 Legendborn, Punching the Air, Under the Udala Tree, The Other Bennett Sister, Emma, A Heart so Fierce and Broken and White Shadow. I did read both #spin books this month.

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This might be my favorite Patchett this month.

Like @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘ve got books to finish so I‘m in! #20in4 @Andrew65

#authoramonth I bought it when it 1st came out,9/16 .
How is it I just get to it now ? How an illicit kiss at a party will cause families to fall apart & be blended.All the characters in this book kept me wanting to see where it would all lead & speculate how it all might have been different.The best book I‘ve read so far this year . I was enchanted by the disarray.I will not soon forget this book.

This book succeeds in exposing the hell of divorce and remarriage for all the offspring involved. But there seemed to be some superfluous characters and that, plus the flipping back and forth in time, was a challenge. I think I shy away from So-So bc of that downward icon. So it‘s somewhere between a Pick and So-So...
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Excellent book! 💚 This is not typically the type of book I would enjoy, but the writing, and the characters, are both so well executed that I found myself enthralled with these two families.

Patchett has a unique way of writing about normal events in life that make them seem fascinating. And I love that she doesn't shy away from flawed characters.

#BookReport #WeeklyForecast I loved loved loved Commonwealth and A Thousand Ships 5🌟 and I mostly loved Rodham and Legendborn 4 🌟. Legendborn completes the BBRC challenge!

This one is awesome. I almost wish I had given it more attention and read it earlier. The #audiobook is also really well done.

#AutyorAMonth with @Soubhiville

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I originally bailed on this book but gave it a second go when I spotted a copy in a local little free library. This is a gorgeous book. Will absolutely be reading more of Patchett in the future. Patchett has a knack for description and writing complicated characters with empathy.

God I love this book! The wonderful balance of characters, Hope Davis‘ fantastic narration of the #audiobook, the nonlinear timeline. It is the book that made me fall in love with Ann, and I‘m so happy to have #reread it for #AuthorAMonth!‘ Great treat on a crappy day. 😁 Highly recommend!!!! #aam

This was a great book. The non-linear timeline made it a little confusing, but it all came together in the end.

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First up for #authoramonth and #littenlisten.

It wasn‘t my intention for my drink to complement my book, but I think it‘s quite pretty!

I feel ya, Ann. When my TBR goes below 100, I panic 😅

5⭐️|| Just finished this and just love this book... the descriptive writing, the character development. I can just feel and smell the summer scenes, including the slamming of the doors, the heat on the vinyl seats. I‘m fairly new to Patchett‘s work, but also loved The Dutch House (though I may have been influenced by the narration and cover on that one!)

I started out ambivalent about this, ended up loving it. It starts a little slow, the timeline shifts around and there are lots of characters but then it just all beautifully comes together. A story of two complicated, messy, entangled families, a secret lurking in the background, the threads slowly pulled together by a book written about them by someone who didn‘t know them. Just 🧡

Another gripping family drama from Patchett! While I didn‘t find it as strong as ‘The Dutch House‘, I still enjoyed the writing and characters. There were some sections of the book that were odd diversions from the primary story that were distracting, but still 4⭐️ overall.

Okay. So. I am 60 pages in and I 💯 do not care about any of this and I just deep cleaned the bathroom instead of picking it back up.
I loved her bel Canto and The Magicians Assistant. I love her as a person, but her last couple of book I just cannot seem to get through.
Oh well #bookspin bail this has been sitting on my shelf since 9/2016 😂.
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I read Bel Canto years ago and had an almost religious experience. The writing here was solid but the story itself just did not work for me. I ended up skimming a good portion of the last quarter.

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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
Today is my first day! I am going to try and continue until I have no more TBTs. #bookstoread #TBRpile

This is a family saga happening over 50 years with 6 children and 4 parents told in warp speed giving us just enough facts and feelings to have an opinion of both the Cousins‘ and the Keatings‘. Sometimes I slog through family dramas even though I like them by the end. I was interested in this one from page to page to end.

What a gorgeous book. It was sort of all over the place with the timeline jumping around over 50+ years and all the different branches of the family... but the prose was so beautiful that I guess I didn‘t care? This was my first book by Patchett and I can see why people rave about her. I have to finally read Bel Canto, which I‘ve probably had on my shelf for a decade.

My find today on my walk. #littlefreelibrary

Some parts were a little slow, but I liked it overall

⭐️⭐️/5 omg I‘m sorry I hated this book. It was dry and boring and it felt so all over the place. Not a winner.

Yes. All of it. ❤️

Good

The more I read Ann Patchett novels the more I want to read Ann Patchett novels.