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The Half Life of Valery K | Natasha Pulley

Unexpected joy today as half forgotten preorder arrives! Starting this tonight❣️🌟❣️

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Chili

Anatomy: A Love Story | Dana Schwartz

Yay! Finished my #BookSpin book. This was good, not quite a pick but definitely better than so-so. I have a request in for the sequel Immortality.

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ChrisBohjalian

Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War | Robert Penn Warren

Bedtime reading. Good-night! (PS: This book belonged to my mother. I love seeing her handwriting on the bookplate.)

marleed Very cool - I love seeing the hand writing of my parents and grandparents. I have an the top side of an old shirt box that I can‘t throw away because my grandmother wrote a note on the inside of it - her cursive was so unique! 4h

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Kshakal

Winemakers: A Novel of Wine and Secrets | Jan Moran

This is how you do a staff meeting!

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Edecmcl

From Sand and Ash | Amy Harmon

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Still reading. So far, so good

Edecmcl

Number the Stars | Lois Lowry

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Read with my boy

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megnews

By the Shores of Silver Lake | Laura Ingalls Wilder

Another thank you to @Ann_Reads for hosting the last book! Much appreciated!
This one opens after the family suffered from scarlet fever and Mary has gone blind. Why do you suppose Laura skipped writing about this time period?
I‘d forgotten Aunt Docia shows up. I‘m sure no one in this group is surprised to see Pa jump at the chance to move further west. What do you think of his master plan for Caroline to follow with the girls to follow him 👇🏻

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megnews In a few months? What could go wrong? 10h

BarbaraJean Anything and everything could go wrong, as we have learned!! I was really surprised that the scarlet fever, Mary‘s blindness, and the arrival of a new baby sister all happened between books. I wonder if she found it too difficult to write about Mary going blind. 9h

megnews @BarbaraJean i Wonder that too. 8h

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BethM I‘m betting it was too traumatic to write about. I feel like if they‘re going by train anyway they should just go now. Seems like train travel takes the weakness aspect out of it. 8h

Bookwormjillk This chapter was kind of jarring with all of the change that was stuck in there without any backstory. 8h

megnews @BethM i thought similarly. If going by train, why not go together? 7h

megnews @Bookwormjillk i agree. It really was. 7h

Ann_Reads I found the first chapter jarring. As several have already commented, I thought describing the scarlet fever in detail would have been difficult and painful. Well, maybe not the most optimistic way to start the book. Since Pa had to accept the job right away, he probably also wanted to hang onto the wagon and horses. If Mary had been feeling better maybe they all would have left together.

(Thank you Meg & everyone for your appreciative words.) 7h

keys_on_fire At the beginning of the chapter, it said that only Pa and Laura were well. I think Mary was probably the worst off, but I bet everyone else needed to rest more too. But poor Laura is about to get stuck taking care of everyone while Pa goes on ahead! 6h

Vansa This chapter! What an explosive start.One shock after another!A sudden baby!Scarlet fever! Mary's blind!And one more move! 4h

Vansa Interesting that in Plum Creek,she mentioned PA scoffing multiple times at the supposedly incompetent people who farmed the land before him,and how easy it would be to get a good harvest.The first chapter of this book,they're on the brink of poverty and massively in debt,and Pa hasn't been able to get a good wheat harvest either.Living off the land is HARD. 4h

Vansa Also Pa claims that "Uncle Sam" took land away from them on "Indian territory"- he acknowledges it's Indian territory,but still feels he has more of a right over it?! Fascinating to see this line of thinking emerge 4h

mrp27 @Vansa That bit irked me too. This book sure started with a bang. So much change and not all of it good. 4h

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A Sinister Revenge | Deanna Raybourn

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This one was a bit weird. Veronica and Stoker were on the outs, so they didn‘t spend a ton of time together solving crimes. They actually weren‘t very friendly to each other most of the book. I‘m hoping the next book they actually work together to solve a crime!

Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. And we got to spend more time with Stoker‘s brothers.

I love this series.

#SeriesLove2023

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TheSpineView Great job! 10h

Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏 9h

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