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“Long, long ago—when she was only five and a half—Marigold had horrified her family—at least the Grandmotherly part of it—by saying in her nightly prayer, ‘Thank you, dear God, for ‘ranging it so that nobody knows what I think.‘ Since then Marigold had learned worldly wisdom and did not say things like that out loud—in her prayers. But she continued to think privately that God was very wise and good in making thoughts exclusively your own.”

4⭐️ I really quite enjoyed this book and it‘s something that we all can relate to on some level. #2026 #memoir #canadian #nonfiction #bookclub

Started memoirs of Canadian author Mowat. I have only read his WW2 account but I saw movie. Never Cry Wolf.

Another book by LM Montgomery featuring a precocious orphan 😄

Loved it 🤍

Confession: I‘m only just now starting Magic for Marigold 🙃 How‘s everyone else‘s reading coming along?! #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

I'm sorry, sometimes I can't resist a good pun. My review for the tagged?
Ice Planet Bar-Bearian
(In all seriousness, an unconventional novel about a bibliographer who forms a close relationship with a bear at an estate she is tasked with itemizing for her employer. “Unhinged women“ seem to be all of the rage right now & this one is a bit of an outlier. This is a love it/hate it. I found some of the reveals of the MC at the end made me (CONT,)

#fridayhappyreadinghour

Bailing at 41%
I hated this and it isn't interesting enough to hate read. I have been avoiding even listening to this for 2 days. Every woman in this novel is the whiniest privileged woman and it is boring. We are spending all of our time with Toni a war obsessed professor who took Zenia's bf in college and who lives in fear Z will come back and take him back? He is not even a great guy? There are so many moments I swore out loud in disgust

The slow pace of this book made it hard to follow on audiobook, but I loved loved loved the setting in a radio station in small town NW Territories.

This book tried to do too much: Dee‘s parents & grandmother have moved in with her due to Gma‘s poor health; her mother is a font of toxic positivity; Gma has a history of treating Dee, her father, and sister w disdain due to their race; she meets a man she likes & w/ whom she has much in common, she loses her job & gets a new one where she is assigned to a local fashion house to help them w/ diversity hiring, which is greeted w/ plenty of…