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I didn‘t know what to expect with this book, it was a book club pick.

It‘s from the point of view of Flora 717, a sanitation bee in her hive in an orchard. Yes, it‘s from the point of view of a bee, and takes place in a beehive mostly. It‘s fictional, but on googling the bees‘ habits I found a lot of the hive‘s habits and actions are described accurately.

If you can handle strange and you like nature writing, I would recommend this.

I am, as Mrs Bookwomble put it, identifying the fuck out of these bees! 🐝🔍🤓
This is a Garden Bumblebee. Other visitors to the flowering shrub in our back garden have been the Honeybee, of course, a Common Carder Bee and a Red-tailed Bumblebee. The tagged guide has 28 of the most common of the ~250 British bee species, and it's enriching my lazy day in the sun 🌞
Also had a few Common Blue butterflies for variety 🦋

Always learn new things. I took up keeping bees, so I need to know about bees and their behavior. This allows me to be a better steward of the hives I care for.

I loved the characters and arc of the story. It was a touching and creative civil rights era period fiction. I followed with watching the movie, which was also good, but as usual, not as complete or as good as the book.

A man washes up on the Scottish island of Harris with no memory of who he is. Meanwhile, another man is found murdered on the remote Flannan Isles. Our amnesiac main character is concerned he may be the killer and tries to put his memory together to figure out the mystery. I really enjoyed this. Riveting story and stunning setting.

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My April reading was reduced as I started the books of jacob which was ridiculously big. This was a Christmas present and a brilliant story of a beekeeper in a Ukraine town bombed to the extent that only he, a personal riva, and his bees remain. I had only read death and the penguin before so I definitely need to read more kurkov soon.

I couldn‘t choose just one favorite read from January! 🤪

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3⭐️ Thought it was ok; felt like a slog for most of the book, as I felt that the three storylines could have been better integrated than they were. #2024 #bookclub #climatefiction #fiction #dystopian