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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD 2026 💕💕💕

Our books for 2026

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https://bookhippie.com/index.php/2025/10/01/sunday-buddy-read-2026/

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I don‘t even know what to say, I loved this book so much. I started out, after the prologue, empathizing with Shiva as a queer woman mourning a beloved Jewish father who died too young of cancer (okay, my dad died almost four years ago, but the pain is still there). But there‘s so much more to this book. Four+ generations of Jewish women‘s silence and stories. Love and laughter. Magic and possession.

Well I gave this one a solid try, but even Mara Wilson's narration couldn't save it for me. I was very interested in the topic of the lives of three generations of Jewish women and the youngest, a newly out queer woman, searching for this family history, and the inclusion of Jewish folklore. But the writing feels like mostly big blocks of telling with short bursts of actually being present in the story and that balance does not work for me.

Oops, walked in a bookstore and walked away without my self-restraint and 4 new books

This was one of those library holds that came in and I was like, what is this book and why did I request it? 😂 Then I remembered I read this glowing review https://www.autostraddle.com/in-city-of-laughter-a-story-doesnt-have-to-be-compl..., where Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya says it's a very queer novel that plays with story, language, and self-discovery. Guess this is my next read!