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While everyone is posting their May tbr, I‘m still posting books read in January 😳🙄🤷🏽‍♀️☺️
January 2025 Book #8

I enjoyed this book inspired in real facts and real people. It motivated me to read about what happened in that period of time before WWII and about these characters. I couldn‘t put it down because I like novels inspired in this period of time. 3.8/4 ⭐️

My choice for the May #ThematicCozies theme of #Flowers/Plants is #6 in the Darling Dahlias series, by Susan Wittig Albert. I have read several others in this series and enjoyed them.

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This historical fiction features many old Hollywood stars such as Cary Grant whose estate was included on my recent architecture tour.

4⭐️ Really liked this book; it would have been higher if the scenes from the 1950s were just as the ones that were about Maria‘s past. The story was not at all like the movie and Maria‘s story was much more compelling than the musical would lead one to believe. #2025 #biographicalfiction #fiction #1920s #1930s #historicalfiction

I admit that I have a case of the Januarys but this book was sort of meh. Or as my gen z's at work would say.... It was mid as fuck. I don't care, however, because the discussion was delightful as always.

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Historical fiction to start off our 2025 #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
An early days WWII novel that wove Hollywood glamour into the story.

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The tagged book is a light pick. I loved most of this book but there is a part that didn‘t move the story forward that I didn‘t think was needed and the ending was weak. There are some good nuggets in The Things You Can See.

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ve just started Black Woods and it‘s getting a bit weird. Also just started Wintering. Loving Wedding People. Sense & Sensibility is lovely as always.

#JumpStart2025 #Read2025

Great #SundayBuddyRead selection to kick off 2025. I read a lot of WWII books, but this one is from the perspective of a young American woman, working for her uncle at the Grand Hotel in the south of France at the eve of the war & the 1939 Cannes Film Festival. Loved the glimpses of real classic film (& literary) stars of the times & the tense & action-packed story. Didn‘t love the ending, but overall a really good read.