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Ahhh!!! Thank you @Kaylamburson ♡ That was SO incredibly thoughtful of you to gift me TWO books and THREE goodies. I love the planner stuff. Thank you SO much. That is right up my alley. And I loooove the bookmark. Truly a huge delight. I can't wait to read the tagged book and I'm so sorry about buying the other book like a dumb dumb 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣 she's my favorite cozy mystery author and I just couldn't wait. But I love the memory this made haha!

The Kindle edition is on sale for $1.99 on US Amazon right now.

First lines!

I finished two books this weekend: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones and Smile by Raina Telgemeier. Both were enjoyable, but An American Marriage is definitely now a front runner for my favorite reads of the year. It is so beautifully written and I fell in love with every character.

I treated myself to a slow morning spending an hour reading this book over breakfast. IT IS SO GOOD and putting it down to drive to work was a struggle. Reading slump over!

I‘ve been lax in posting my books lately. I finished An American Marriage today and really enjoyed it. And I finished in time for book club this week. I liked hearing the story from all the different points of view - especially Roy. Looking forward to our discussion.

Hey Litsy 👋🏻 I‘ve been in kind of a reading slump. I‘ve been working as a librarian for over a month now, and I‘ve hardly been reading 😹. I have finished a few audiobooks, but it hurts to be surrounded by books all day and never read them. So. Trying to get back into it. I‘m gonna post a few books I‘m reading/planning to read to get over the slump now. Tell me: how do you get over reading slumps?

I wouldn‘t say I loved or hated the wife in this marriage, but she was hard to love because of her choices when her husband was wrongly accused. The whole story was unsettling, which reflects well on the author bc I believe that‘s what she intended. And it worked.

#characteryouhatetolove
#gratefulreads

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

"But how you feel love and understand love is two different things"

Stark, vivid, real, and gritty, these are the words that spring to mind upon reflecting on An American Marriage. Author Tayari Jones takes the premise of an unjust, nightmarish turn of fate and unfurls a novel-length treatise on a budding marriage systematically derailed, when a year and a half into marriage, Roy is incarcerated for a crime he didn‘t commit.

Mixed feelings. Loved the writing and some of the individual sentences. Did not love the characters or the pacing of the book. Some of it felt too rushed, some of it felt too drawn out.
Will give this an overall pick for the important message and the beautiful sentences.

Roy is writing #LettersHome to Celestial in this devastating novel about a newly wed couple.

A day late for #Spooktober @Eggs

🧡🧡this quote 🧡🧡
This is actually how I feel about the ocean 🌊 and the beach 🏖

All the #autumnleaves have fallen off this tree... #screamathonphotochallenge @4thhouseontheleft

Starting this today , I think I am in the mood for some literary fiction and I have heard good things about this one 🤓

The sunflower and bees looks very happy with this month‘s book club selection.

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I enjoyed this one. I‘ve been on a long reading hiatus.

#AmReading #EBooks #Bibliophile #BookAddict #Books #GoodReads #WomensFiction #Kindle #WhatToRead #BookNerd #bookstagram #blitsy #tayarijones

One of those paragraphs you read, stop, close the book, open to read again then just sit and ponder. Beautiful 📖

This was powerful, and I feel like it‘s one of those books that will stay with me for a long time. But I can‘t quite say that I enjoyed it. This was a story of how forced absence can affect a young marriage. It was heartbreaking, and frustrating, but also touching. A moving read.

I started listening to this one today. I bought it during an audible sale and had no idea what it was about. But I‘m engrossed so far!

This book was a gem! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BOTM

I really liked this book a lot. It really makes you think about how you would feel in a situation similar to theirs. Roy and Celestial are newlyweds and he ends up going to prison for false rape charges. A good portion of the book is letter between the two which was my favorite part. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#RedRoseSeptember Day 15: Plenty #GroundsForDivorce in this novel. I did not connect with any of the characters, finding them feckless, the drama overwrought, the sense of entitlement – or sense of persecution – elaborately explained to death. I also could not get past the utter self-absorption of each of the three main characters – whose narrative voices by the way are indistinguishable from each other. Full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kzy

An amazing book. It absolutely broke my heart.

This book was about a young marriage trying to navigate the injustice of the husband wrongfully convicted of a crime. While I enjoyed the writing style and felt the story and writing were well-done, I did not ever truly like the characters themselves and really struggled with many of the decisions/paths/excuses they took. I had a difficult time deciding what I wanted the final outcome to be, but felt the author finished it out very well.

Well. Bloody good book. We'll written. I liked how the characters narrated.
I came away thinking a lot about Roy. At first I had pure sympathy for him but that decreased and I began to dislike him. But towards the end o admired him more. Undecided about him.

I tried so hard to warm to this novel but I simply couldn't. Maybe this is because I am not American and white. What confused me most was the fact that not once in the book did any of the characters investigate into the alleged rape. Instead they all accepted their fates. Is the American legal system really that unreliable and random that African-Americans must fear the worst? If it is, take action when casting your vote next time!

I love the cover of this edition that I got in a charity shop.
I have high hopes for it as I've read so many reviews and it received such high literary praise.

Good thing I decided to start this on a weekend...Because productivity has gone out the window!

Started this last night and enjoying it so far.

200 pages to go and book club is tomorrow! Not sure which of these other ones I'll start next, if I do finish An American Marriage tomorrow though. What's your vote? Also, wish me luck! Lol
#countdown #yethereiamonsocialmedia

This was not my favorite book of the year, but such an important one. As a white woman, raised in a two parent household, I acknowledge my privilege. I have no personal experiences to relate to those of the characters in this book. That is why, even though at times I didn't particularly enjoy it, I think it is such an important book to read. #diversereads #booksaswindows

Oooh when you house sit for a friend and find two books you want to read!

Cheers! It's Wednesday, y'all! And, for once, the sunshine is out. I'm sitting out back, just cracking open An American Marriage. What are you reading?

A tough book to read. The issues with race, relationship, and injustice are at times hard to stomach, but this is a book that needs to be read.

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Despite all the hype this book had, I didn't think it was so good .... The part I liked the most was the epistolografic, I haven't read letters in novels for a long time. #PamelaFeelings #AnAmericanMarriage #TayariJones #book #bookaholic #booklovers #ler #leitura #leitora #reading #instabook #instaread #instabooks #bookstagram #litsy #booklover #readingabook #amreading #books #Sha2019 #taglivros

My next read. Only a few pages in. Anyone read this one? Thoughts?

Four of my favourite books with a #prison element. Can‘t go wrong with any of them.
#LetsTravelAugust

This story was heartbreaking. I cried at the pool. However I loved the character development and the plot based on telling the experience of some African American people in the U.S.

This morning I read the tagged book while the marine layer receded. Only hours later would my imperfect sunscreen application be revealed.

Another belated #MakeMeReadIt review—book 2 completed from my pile of 6. And this was another pick! I was impressed by how deeply this explored the impact incarceration had on a just-begun marriage. I definitely had Opinions on each character‘s actions, but Jones also made me feel deeply for each one. And while it is about a wrongful conviction—and more broadly, mass incarceration—those issues are more of a backdrop than the focus of the novel.

Roy tried to prove his #innocence in this novel, but will his marriage to Celestial survive?

Just picked up my local book club's book for August! Have you read it yet? What did you think??

This story felt really raw and real. The characters' emotions and behaviors were all believable, making you fully invested in the story. This book has everything: issues of race, injustice (political and personal), love (parents and children, husband and wife, friend and friend), and life in general. All these elements are tied together with excellent prose for an excellent read.