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Day 8 of #37by37

Yay I made it! ⏱️ Toward the end I started bouncing around between a couple titles but I should finish these before the month is out. 🧁

Thanks to everyone who played along. I had a truly great birthday and today I‘m attending a silent book club at a new bookstore here in town. Happy Sunday!

Gonna little behind with my #37by37 updates.

Happy Birthday @MatchlessMarie! I'll probably read more today but am unlikely to finish anything else. Thanksgiving madness is here!

My #37By37 goal was four books, which I met, as well as a short story and two graphic novels. And am several stories into Table for Two, one of my #10BeforeTheEnd books.

#OffMyShelf 26 letters in title
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Peter Carey is never going to be a favorite, but I do admire him even if I don‘t love him. This started off well but became baggy in the middle. A French aristocrat travels to antebellum America to ostensibly writes treatise on American prisons but really to escape political threats. He‘s accompanied by Englishman Parrot, a nominal servant but very much his own man and with a tragic past.

A soft pick. I picked this up because the essay about Tolentino‘s reality TV stint was referenced in “You Wanna Be on Top?” by Sara Hartshorne. Generally I found the collection to be interesting and smart, but maybe it‘s my attention span, the essays were all too long for me - about 30 pages each. I thought a lot about what I‘d have asked her to cut were I her editor. That said, essays aren‘t my usual fare.

#37by37 (only two more books to go!).

Day 6 of #37by37

Read a bunch of monster books yesterday which seemed suitable for a 13th. Was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed most of the Amazon Original series from October.

My favorite book read yesterday was Unwrap My Heart. ⬇️

‘Warning: After you read this book you will believe in alien life.‘

A decent sequel to Strieber‘s memoir Communion. I will have to get the rest of the books as I didn‘t realize there were more in between.

Book 5/Communion

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#Read2025 #37by37 #Readathon #SeriesLove2025

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Day 5 of #37by37

#OffMyShelf “made me happy”
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This was a posthumous publication of four previously unpublished novels, four short stories and an essay by Pym - a must for any Pym fanatic. The title novel is the longest and the probably best, but I loved all of this collection. I just love Pym‘s sedate and subtly humorous style. Each section has a short introduction by the editor and Pym‘s long time friend, Hazel Holt.

Day 4 of #37by37

I adore anything Emily Austin writes. These poems were excellent.

#ReadYourKindle