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A Nail, a Rose
A Nail, a Rose | MADELEINE. BOURDOUXHE
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merelybookish
A Nail, a Rose | MADELEINE. BOURDOUXHE
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Like @TheAromaofBooks I might have a Book Outlet problem. 🙈 All purchased before 2024... Because this year, I'm serious about the book buying ban. 🤪

Tamra Love a stack of new books! 😍 2mo
BarbaraJean 😂 I usually do some Christmas shopping on Book Outlet and inevitably several for me end up in my cart. They get me every time with their free shipping threshold. “I can pay for shipping or I can get some books for me, and then get free shipping… so it‘s like those extra books are free!” 😆 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Oooo I got The Time of Green Magic, too. I couldn't resist that cover and @BarbaraJean gave it a warm review! 2mo
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jlhammar Battleborn is really good. Hope you enjoy! 2mo
sarahbarnes A good looking stack though! 2mo
janeycanuck The Knausgaards look like a series, though, so that only counts as one book! #bookmath 2mo
merelybookish @Tamra The best! 2mo
merelybookish @BarbaraJean Oh I know! It's hard not to keep piling in the books. 💸 2mo
merelybookish @TheAromaofBooks Yes, I just discovered Hilary McKay! And the cover is beautiful. 💚 2mo
merelybookish @jlhammar so glad to hear that! I've had it on my TBR for eons! 2mo
merelybookish @sarahbarnes Thanks! I have a thing for Knaussgaard. 🙈 2mo
merelybookish @janeycanuck Excellent math skills! 😁 2mo
sarahbarnes I just got The Morning Star from the library. The review from @batsy intrigued me. 2mo
batsy I really liked the tagged book! Hope you find it worthwhile. 2mo
batsy @sarahbarnes I hope you like it! It was such a strange and disconcerting read, in the best possible way. I've placed a hold on the follow up 2mo
sarahbarnes @batsy I‘ll be interested in what you think of the follow up! 2mo
BarbaraJean I hope you enjoy The Time of Green Magic! I was enticed by its cover... on Book Outlet... probably at last year's after Christmas sale. 😂 I LOVED Hilary McKay's Casson family series, and this one has a similar feel. 2mo
merelybookish @BarbaraJean Looking forward to it! I just finished her collection of fairy tales 2mo
merelybookish @batsy @sarahbarnes I haven't read any of his fiction outside of My Struggle which is auto fiction. So maybe I d never read any of his fiction ... 2mo
sarahbarnes I read this one years ago and liked it 2mo
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A Nail, a Rose | MADELEINE. BOURDOUXHE

"Your hands and your eyes, sparkling in the shadow of the terrestrial night and in the shadow of our hearts, were saying, 'You are still alive,' and that 'still' contained a whole future of nothingness, so that 'You are still alive' meant, very precisely, 'You are already dead.'"
-"Leah"

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conny
A Nail, a Rose | MADELEINE. BOURDOUXHE
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For the hopeless romantics.

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batsy
A Nail, a Rose | MADELEINE. BOURDOUXHE
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A collection of stories by Belgian writer Bourdouxhe, translated from the French by Faith Evans. I'm not sure how to review this book; it's a series of small, crystalline gems with a razor sharp yet compassionate lens on the interior lives of working-class women. Bourdouxhe studied philosophy & wrote this after the Nazis came to power & accordingly these stories are heavy in thought & mood, less on plot. Reminds me of Clarice Lispector. #WITmonth

TrishB Great review 👍🏻 5y
bromeliad Oh good, Belgium! I hadn't yet found an author from there to put on my TBR. Thanks! 😁 5y
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Cathythoughts Brilliant review! Sounds like a stack for learning 👍🏻♥️ 5y
Tanisha_A Had to stack. Your review! 👏❤️ 5y
batsy @TrishB @Cathythoughts @Tanisha_A Thanks, friends! ❤️ She's quite the discovery and I'd love to read her novels. 5y
batsy @bromeliad My pleasure! 😁 I'm happy to have discovered her as well. 5y
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