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Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry

Started the #BookClub selection, listening to the #Audiobook old school style with CDs 💿!

Leftcoastzen Love that ! I still have a portable CD player around here somewhere 2d

slategreyskies Love the CDs! 😍 2d

AnnCrystal CDs 🤩💝💝💝. (edited) 1d

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DyAnne

These Heathens | Mia McKenzie

With a title like that, I had to read it! Recommend highly🩷

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Yenya1954

Booked for Murder | P. J. Nelson

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A southern mystery where the main character Madeleine, returns to her hometown after her aunt dies. She finds she has inherited the bookstore owned by her deceased aunt. Arson, murder and more arson ensues and Madeleine tries to solve the crimes. 3.75/5⭐️

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Itchyfeetreader

Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry

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Left my kindle at home so picked this up at the airport and ended up all but finishing same day. I really liked the main character and the premise of the book. I also thought. It shows great writing skill that so much of the novel is ‘tell‘ vs show because Margaret is narrating her family history but it‘s still compelling. Could have done without the forward love story - Margaret and Alice were enough for me

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JanuarieTimewalker13

The House Next Door | Anne Rivers Siddons

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I REALLY enjoyed this one!!! Plus loved all the late 60s and 70s references. Who knew what a Bigelow was? It‘s a carpet- I had never heard of a Bigelow before, but I‘m definitely old enough to know what an Instamatic is! This book was sufficiently creepy in a Southern Gothic way. Loved it! #Georgia Pub date: 1978

JanuarieTimewalker13 Book 22 2025 finished on 10/10/25. Posted on 10/13/25 1mo

mcipher Oooh I love this book, I‘ve read it so many times. And this is a great cover for it!! 1mo

rubyslippersreads This is one Siddons I‘ve never read. Stacked. 1mo

JanuarieTimewalker13 @mcipher I think that was the first edition cover. It was from my library! 4w

JanuarieTimewalker13 @rubyslippersreads I just got Heartbreak Hotel out of the library😀 4w

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt

so-so

This might be one of the best known true crime books. A John Cusack movie was even made of it (I have heard it is not good so I am passing on it). I found the book itself to be a bit scattered. Lots of characters (in every sense of the word) most not really having anything to do with the story beyond giving the book a particular vibe. Savannah itself comes off as a very well drawn character, and for that I think the author did a good job. 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures 2/2 but overall I thought he didn't have enough material, so he spent most of the book talking about people and events that had nothing to do with what he pretended the book was about (murder!) I now can't even remember what Berendt was doing in town to begin with to be there with all these folks when the crime went down! 1mo

BarbaraBB I read this book a long time ago and remember my anticipation and the underwhelmed feeling afterwards 1mo

TheLudicReader All I remember about reading this book is that it really made me want to visit Savannah. 1mo

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SassyPants617

We Are All Guilty Here | Karin Slaughter

On vacation with my cousins 🛫 Getting some reading in while they nap before we go to Halloween Horror Nights tonight 🎃👻💀

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Mpcacher

We Are All Guilty Here | Karin Slaughter

I really liked this one, particularly the main character of Emmy (a police officer) and look forward to more in the series. I did think the story moved a little slow at times (not unusual for the 1st in a series), but it then built up to a thrilling and unexpected conclusion. Note that this is a dark police procedural that deals with pedophilia and horrific crimes against teen girls, so it is not for everyone. Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC. 4/5

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Amiable

Great Big Beautiful Life | Emily Henry

so-so

I‘ll never understand how it‘s possible to suspend disbelief enough to get on board with the ridiculously compressed timelines in the romance genre: meet/initial dislike/sleep together/fall in love/introduce to mom/misunderstanding/conflict/breakup/heartbreak/resolution of conflict/reconciliation/happily-ever-after…in 2-3 weeks. What saves Emily Henry books from being chucked at the wall is the delightful snarkiness of the main character.

Bookwormjillk Yup 2mo

TheBookHippie I agree. And I don‘t like this author at all. I cannot separate her from the writing 😵‍💫🤦🏻‍♀️😩. So I refuse to buy or read her. (edited) 2mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie She‘s one of those authors (another is Taylor Jenkins Reid) that I will only get from the library if I decide to give a book a go. 2mo

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TheBookHippie @Amiable 💯 2mo

AnneCecilie I think that sometimes you need to know that everything is going to be alright when you start reading/ watching something. I have enjoyed the books that I have read by her. 2mo

Amiable @AnneCecilie It‘s fine to know there‘s a happy ending coming. I just don‘t know why most romance books (or at least the ones I‘ve forced myself to read) cram all of the action and emotion into such unrealistic timelines. 2mo

AnneCecilie I think there‘s a need for instant love, that you meet someone and there‘s something there from the beginning. I guess I just don‘t think too much about the timeframe when I read, no matter the genre (edited) 2mo

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