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Part 3: I reread the Hunger Games series, multiple Jane Austen novels and modern retellings in honor of her 250th birthday, the Glenbrooke series, and The Martian Chronicles in honor of its 75th anniversary.

Five Bonus Reads:
-  The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

- The Life of Chuck by Stephen King

- Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A fun short novel with a ‘seasoned ‘ main character.
An 83 yo woman was resolved to live the rest of her life alone, but then she acquired a responsibility- she can‘t die now!!
A hint of Fredrik Bachman‘s style of storytelling.
I‘m listening to the audiobook from Libby as well as reading the e-book.

Awww. So sweet. Maybe not the best choice just after reading “The Correspondent”, as they are similar in subject, but super sweet. A great read for a cozy winter night.

This author can really write! I love her stories, the secrets and surprises seep out of the pages and the meanings are never crystal clear. In this book, the narrator lives her quiet, routine life with her family until she starts receiving pages from her diary of 20 years ago, pages she hasn‘t thought about in all this time. It‘s a mystery and a character study, each of equal importance.

This is a quick cozy read about an 80 year old woman who finds a mouse in an abandoned aquarium and slowly befriends him. And makes some other friends along the way. Similar feel to a Backman story, but simpler. Cute.
Ann Patchett raved about it in an instagram post, and from the cover comment you can see she loved it.

I‘m starting a new book tonight, and I flipped to the back to read about the author since this is my first by him. The beginning is standard “he‘s written a lot of stuff,” but at the end it gets interesting. And really the last line wins it all for me. I‘ll probably love this based on that one line 😁.

An Austrian housewife, estranged from her husband and kids, keeps herself busy by tidying the house. One day, she receives her own diary entries from 20 years earlier, sent anonymously by mail.
These entries transport her back to a time away from her family, and the reader gradually learns more about why. But this is Marlen Haushofer, the author of the enigmatic The Wall—and this book is just as mysterious. Perhaps even more so.

#Gladstones25

Just finished this one. A charming story of a lonely older woman who "adopts" a mouse, and the odd connections that are made due to his presence. A quick read, and some of the writing is beautiful. Recommended.

#fiction #animals #mice #loneliness #friendship

This was a sweet little book and just what i needed. A little bit like A Man Called Ove but a shorter, simpler read. I seem to be reading a lot of books about elderly people finding connections!

Photo: a lot of folk in the water this weekend for Junior Surf Club.

Cute read!