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Cleared the board in February! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

This was a difficult read but really well done. A pandemic has happened, the world as we know it has ended, and the few folks left are struggling to make a life. The writing is beautiful and compelling, and the setting in Colorado is unique and provides a calming aspect to the tension. Thanks for encouraging me to finish this one, @Ireadkidlit . Check your trigger warnings for this one. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks good on #audio too.

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Thanks for the Christmas gift Jenny @jenniferw88 - it sounds great! I thought I hadn‘t heard of it before but it‘s on my Litsy TBR, so I must have! 🤣

Also pictured is a rather challenging-looking jigsaw from hubby - that‘s my Boxing Day all sorted! 🤣

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I don‘t usually comment when I bail on a book, but I will in this case because I wish someone had told me this: this is a very violent book, and the violence is so disturbing that I just can‘t stay with it. If you are sensitive to violence as I am, skip it.

This is a dark book, you guys. I like it enough to keep reading, the way the character narrates his experience of past events is quite compelling. I‘m about a third of the way in, and came up with these rather amusing loaves of herb garlic bread while listening today 🤣🪴🏡🥖🧄

This has been on my TBR for ages, finally getting to it for a weekend audio book to keep me company while I bake some bread. I didn‘t realize it was a post apocalypse sort of tale, and I‘m not always a fan of those, but I am enjoying it so far..:

This was an interesting dystopian novel.that takes place in Colorado. I thought it was enjoyabl, but not my favorite Peter Heller book. I loved the details about Colorado and how this disease mentioned in the book changed the beloved state I live in. Overall: Good story: Found the narration choppy at points. 4 Stars.

#BookSpinBingo #TBR #FebruaryPicks Really glad I joined this community, it's been a lot of fun to read and check off books from my bingo card.

@StayCurious Your #ValentinesDaySwap is in the mail it's coming to you from FedEx! I forgot to mark the box! But here's a picture of what the box looks like. I hope you like it. Here's the Tracking Number: 289270380648

The #DashingDecember Readathon has concluded.

✅ finished My Life Among the Underdogs by Tia Torres
❌ did not finish The Dog Stars, but I got to p. 114/320.

Thank you for a great year of readathons @Andrew65 !

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First person, raw, stream of consciousness narrative about a man grieving so many losses in a post-pandemic world, painfully lonely and trying to hold onto his humanity. The kind of book that made me feel so much, almost that I temporarily lived another life. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spoiler in the comments below if you want to know if the dog dies. #pandemic

Loved another Peter Heller book as audio! Suspenseful, but lyrical and and dreamy and philosophical. Loved it! Felt a little bit weird to hear about a major pandemic but it was written in 2012!

Started several audiobooks and this is the first one that's grabbed me on a long time! Third Peter Heller in as many months

This is going to have to be a DNF for now. It is just a bit too sad for my current state of mind. Beautifully written so I will definitely come back to another time. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

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You‘re not too surprised, this is a “Pick” for me, are you❓😊 If you‘re not too sensitive about our current pandemic, I fully recommend it. I so much identified with Hig. 💗 At first, I was a bit shocked by the dog-eat-dog-society, the author presented. I thought this would never happen. But if you think it over, Heller‘s probably right.

Nice add-on: Now I‘m familiar with various types of gasoline and when they go bad. 🙃

Can‘t emphasise how much I ❤️ this. There are so many truths in it. For example when he moans his buddy. He describes states of mind I want to highlight with a text-marker and yell: “Exactly.”

Of course, with his skills he is painted to suit the story but I often think I‘d do, act, feel like he does.

I‘m really enthralled. 😍 I want to know how it all continues but I don‘t want the book to end.

📷: https://shutr.bz/33GSHES

I‘m enjoying the green outside so much, I needed to share a picture with you. Even if it‘s a symbol picture taken from the internet. ☺️

You may have noticed I‘m online less often. This corresponds with my reading time on weekdays also being cut significantly. I need to do daily workout/physical exercises 🤸‍♀️at home now. Very time consuming. 😢 And since I‘m not very keen on sports, you know, I really hate it‼️

I was a no too big fan of all my recent reads or audiobooks. But this audiobook I really love. 💙

Almost from the beginning I was hooked by the setting. A book about a pandemic listened to during a pandemic. 🙂 Well, now you know, what kind of person I am. 😇 But I really feel for Hig. I like how he tells the story (and the voice of the narrator matches brilliantly‼️) and I deeply understand all his doubts and most of his thoughts.

Post-apocalyptic, post-pandemic, dystopia. Probably not something I should have read right now, but it was excellent. Took me a bit to get used to the writting style, had to think of it like reading a journal. To quote GQ - "The Road, but with hope".

I wanted to read this when it was published, but never got around to it. Finally picked it up and enjoyed it. It has very subtle and nuanced manner in arousing emotional response . Well done.

"Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything."

"Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End."

"So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling."

I'm conflicted about this book.
Pros: It's set in Colorado! The writing is very descriptive, which I always love. I was engaged by Hig's story. I'm fascinated by end of the world stories.
Cons: The story drags in the middle; needs editing. The love story is lame. The (few) details of their pandemic hit too close to home right now.
I'm glad I listened to this rather than reading it. #audiostitching makes everything better

I killed 30 minutes of work time creating my #BookSpinBingo square 😁
This morning I started listening to the tagged book. I LOVE that it's set in Colorado but that first chapter is a bit creepy during a pandemic. 😬

Just starting this one...

What a surreal book to read in the midst of a pandemic! The plot revolves around Hig, a pilot who survives a pandemic flu and lives at an airport with his dog Jasper and an extreme survivalist, Bangley. The writing is sparse but powerful. I didn't love the romantic plot in the second half as much as the rest of the book, but I still loved it as a whole. His relationship with his dog & his ability to hope in the midst of grief were just beautiful.

1. I preloaded my ereader incase Overdrive went down if the library closed.

2. More milk because 2nd son is coming home tonight from university.

Tagged is a good apolcalypse book.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

As someone who loves Dystopian novels and Peter Heller‘s writing, I was a little disappointed.

Not my favorite sort of read. Too depressing and unsettling but Books and Brews Club is always fun.🍻🤓
#booksandbrewsclub

#hammock #quotsyjuly19 @TK-421

(I Loved this book so very much when I read it many years ago, and despite that adoration, I forget about it quite often. How is that?)

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#mmdchallenge #mmdreading full review @ https://miquereads.blogspot.com

CAWPILE Rating:

C- 9
A- 10
W- 9
P- 7
I- 8
L- 8
E- 8
Avg- 8.3 = ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#solitude #quotsymar19 @TK-421

Met for BookPub last night at a local pub and had a great time. Our theme was post-apocalyptic. These are some of the books we discussed.

My lab was cancelled today, so I'm enjoying my unexpected reading time before I dig into into studying for final exams.

This has been on #mountTBR forever, and it probably could‘ve stayed there.

Hig, his dog Jasper, and his neighbor/partner Bangley take on survival in the post-apocalypse plains. It‘s written in choppy sentences and has moments of surprising depth, or emotion.

However, I spent most of this book wondering where it could be going and progressively losing interest. But hey, I guess that the apocalypse would actually be pretty boring, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

#Stars from my read list. My favorite was The Dog Stars.
#SisforSeptember @CaliforniaCay

Peter Keller has the unique ability to make the apocalypse boring. Everything in the book is too convenient, and it feels like he‘s trying to hard with the excessive descriptive language. Overall rating: 2.98 stars

I‘m not so sure about this one. Have you read it?

OMG. Just got reminded why I don‘t generally Facebook. Someone actually just accused me of dissing audiobooks!!!!!!! Praying @Litsy stays a safe space

#riotgrams #day22 #bookthatshouldbeadapted
Seriously. Don‘t we all want to think that in a bleak and grieving post-apocalyptic world that maybe hope not only lives but keeps us alive? Maybe something‘s right with the world and it‘s already in development. 🤞

Cozy “mug rug” for morning coffee... and a favorite read ⭐️ #bookandabeverage. #riotgrams

#HappinessIsResistance #Darknessisallaround
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My darkest place was outside my grandparent's farm at night in northern Minnesota.

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