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I‘ll make this my last post for today since I‘ve already overwhelmed your feeds with vacation photos. This is the combined book haul from Gettysburg and Washington D.C., with the exception of the three books I bought at the Freer and Sackler Galleries and had shipped home. I‘ll share those three on Monday, when they arrive. #vacationshopping #bookhaul #allthebooks

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I can‘t remember who posted the #AllTheBooks Banana Pants T-shirt , but I got my tank! I love it! From Tee Fury I believe, and they‘ve got it in lots of t and tank styles and colors. Yay #BananaPants 🍌👖!

(Pretty sure this was created by the All The Books podcast folks)

Oh my God y'all. If you have NOT read Beautiful Broken Rules you HAVE to stop what you are doing and read it. It's full of angst and ALL. THE. FEELS!!! ALL OF THEM, Y'ALL! She just became a new favorite author!!! Thank you, @jodi_bibliophile , for the recommendation! #bookcommunity #bookreviews #kindleunlimited #allthebooks #bookcollector #bookobsessed #bookhoarder #lovetoread #epicreads #readeveryday #readinggoals #covertocovercafereads

Thanks for joining us this month to discuss Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project! Who are your favorite characters in our May Book Club pick?⠀

I just love Laurie Halse Anderson. I began listening on @scribd to her novel Twisted, and I was immediately swept away. The protagonist, Tyler, embodies so much of what is great about teenagers: self-discovery, wavering self-confidence, and an earnest attempt to do what is right. While some of the twists and turns seemed to be a little overdramatized, I left convinced (once again!) of Anderson's ability to dig into the minds of teenagers.⠀

Yesterday, we released our May Book Club episode about Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project. What a fun, thoughtful read! Check out the episode wherever you listen to podcasts, and check back here to let us know what you thought of the book!

APRIL WRAP-UP! I really enjoyed many of the books I read this month. My favorites were The Stars Beneath Our Feet, Daisy Jones and the Six, Internment, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, Normal People, and Anger Is a Gift (though I thoroughly enjoyed many others).⠀

Joseph Boyden's Wenjack is a masterpiece, a concise, spare, and poetic story of Chanie, a nine-year-old Ojibwe boy who was taken from his home and placed in an Indian school designed to assimilate him into the Canadian culture. His escape with two other boys moves through his perspective and the views of the animals who accompany him on his journey in a beautiful, heartbreaking account.⠀

I have a LOT of feelings about both this book AND the movie adaptation (although maybe I should say this screenplay, book adaptation, and subsequent movie adaptation? There are many layers here). Check out our varying opinions about Five Feet Apart in our most recent podcast episode to see what each of us thinks. Then share your opinion—we‘d love to know what you think!!