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#BookerLonglist #5

Very elegantly written, I became engaged in the book immediately I enjoyed following the narrator‘s struggle to live in NYC while she‘s still strongly rooted in the Albania she left behind. Het empathy for other refugees jeopardizes her mental wellbeing as well as her closest relationships. She moves between this empathy and self-preservation and there seems no closure. An impressive read.

#ReadTheWorld2025 #27 #Albania

I'm reading Weird Walk #5 while in Anglesey, & although the island doesn't feature, it has made me come over all Neolithicy, so I took the opportunity to visit Bryn Celli Ddu burial mound. It's the only solar-oriented monument on the island, & in fine fettle for c.4000 years.
Amongst the butterflies on the walk up, I spotted this pretty speckled wood ? It was nice, too, to meet another "henge-whore" for a few minutes pleasant talk about stones.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii It's Friday! I start my holidays tomorrow.
1. Look at my pretty petunias that receeded themselves from last year
2. I won 2nd place with the Seeing Green Photo contest.
3. My African Violet is blooming again
4. Sold this small painting
5. Finally, the construction of a new road behind my house has stopped. It's peaceful behind my house.

“Endless” #5

I‘ve blown through the first 4 books of the Sparrow Falls series from Catherine Cowles. Romantic suspense, they are a little repetitive but the characters are compelling, the pacing keeps me reading, and the family dynamic is heartfelt and hilarious. I‘m reading #5 and will then have to wait until fall for #6. Broken Harbor was my #BookspinBingo pick. @TheAromaofBooks

This book was brutal. I can‘t say I enjoyed reading it, but I did learn a lot. It‘s a dual timeline novel, set in 1930s Berlin and 1950s Buenos Aires. Both locations were written with a strong sense of time and place, and the novel was well-researched, particularly the sections that took place in Argentina. ⬇️

#5JoysFriday!

1. Lunch with a good friend
2. Closing out said lunch with Greek frozen yogurt topped with honey and baklava crumbles
3. Reading Terry Pratchett (tagged) for the #OokBOokClub
4. Discovering that Charles Dickens called his youngest son PLORN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dickens
5. Laughing with my husband so hard I cried… over a bunch of fart joke memes

My August #ReadYourKindle2025 picks are:
#5 Broken Country
#3 The Queen of Crimes
#13 Rope
#18 Nobody‘s Fool

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