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#weekendreads

📕Finish up Three Day Road for #OhCanada

📗Continue The Woods in Winter for #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

📘Continue Nevada for #OffMyShelf “orange cover”

📙Maybe finish Civil to Strangers for #10beforetheEnd

#OffMyShelf “Nonhuman MC”
#10BeforetheEnd

This was a little too hard SciFi for me - I‘d probably like it better adapted to film. But I am glad to have read it so I know Vinge is not for me. It‘s an ambitious novel with a wide scope. Two children crashland on a planet run by sentient dog packs-only each child end up with a different warring faction. Meanwhile their ship holds the only key to stopping The Blight, which is devouring the universe.

#Offmyshelf “romance”
#10beforetheend

This was a really lovely portrayal of life and love across three generations of women in a family from the 1930s to the early 21st century. Penelope Lively is such a great writer. I can just pick her stuff up, no need to read the blurb. I know I am in good hands.

I bought this used at a library book sale and it had a clipping of the review of the book from the LA Times Book Review from June 17, 2007.

My very messy list that I think I've settled on for #10beforetheend ! Good enough, anyway. They all meet prompts for #gottacatchemall and/or #offmyshelf so hopefully I'll get through them all. I still have some more #gottacatchemall prompts to find books for too.

(Death in the Spires was scratched for Nobleman's Guide solely because I impromptu started the latter last night/this morning. Really the slot could have just said KJ Charles).

Here‘s my #10beforetheend selection. I‘m always looking for something that encourages me to read what I already own.

A few will do double work for the #OffMyShelf challenge.

The Quincunx will meet #Allergictochunksters and #ChunksterChallenge2025 .

It‘s also a holdover along with The Illusionist from the #14Books14Weeks challenge. 🙊

#OffMyShelf “flower on cover”

Very sweet, romantic, and charming but not my cup of tea. The comparison to “The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society” is apt (which I also didn‘t love) . This has a similar vibe, though not epistolary.

Eight people come together in post WWII England to share their love of Austen and protect her literary legacy. Their communion helps each of them heal their own trauma and provide a sense of belonging.

#OffMyShelf “pub year ends in 5”

“Well, there are a lot of things we don‘t know and choose and prefer not to know”.

Mantel‘s debut from 1985. Great writing but creepy, very dark and disturbing. There‘s something not quite right about the Axons: elderly Evelyn and her mentally challenged adult daughter Muriel. Unknowingly intertwined is former neighbor Colin, an unlikable school teacher, who is having an affair with Muriel‘s social worker.

#offmyshelf @wanderinglynn

#AutumnComfortSwap

Each box I opened kept getting more and more!

@kspenmoll the chocolate 🍫 did melt and has been devoured! lol

I have not read either hardcover book - great choices!

A very smart move to go with Emma as the Jane Austen book and tabbies!

I can‘t wait to use the tabbies; I‘ve been wanting that size for some time!

Thank you!!!

#OffMyShelf “recommended”
#AllergictoChuncksters
#ChunksterChallenge2025

Oof! So glad this is over. A 600 page picaresque comic novel that I didn‘t find very funny most of the time. I understand how it will appeal to some readers but alas not I. Buttoned up Raleigh Hayes leaves his ordered life in small town NC to go on a crazy quest to New Orleans on behalf of his estranged father. Along the way he reconnects with what‘s important in life.