so-soYeaaaahhhh. This needed an editor, was too long. The story was sweet and did have an ending with emotional punch, but the middle is a boring slog.
#Dec2025 Book109
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so-soYeaaaahhhh. This needed an editor, was too long. The story was sweet and did have an ending with emotional punch, but the middle is a boring slog.
#Dec2025 Book109
pickI loved this. I loved the house and the loch and the village. I loved the Miller family. I loved Lucy and Glenda and Clemmie and Alice (perhaps not equally but I did love them all). I even loved the characters with no POV: esp Ross and Nico.
I was in exactly the right mood for this story and I might even read another Sarah Morgan book in the next day or two.
@TheAromaofBooks this is my #bookspin for December.
These are the books I am taking to Thanksgiving 🍁
Theo and Mobius on 14 day loan 😳
Heart the Lover expires today 😱
Parable of Sower on request for MONTHS 😩
Guess I‘ll have to be rude with the family; I‘ve got books to read!!! 🦃🍽️🥧 < 📚 🤣
pickA quiet yet engrossing tale of female friendships. Three Mexican girls have in common their love of embroidery. As Mila plans a memorial service for one of them, she looks back on their lives, especially how they began to grow apart during a trip to Europe in their late teens. #Translation by Christina MacSweeney #LGBTQ
“Citlali was a very selective and slow reader, managing only one chapter at a time—she hated books without chapters.”
[Note: this novel isn‘t divided into chapters. Instead, long and short sections are separated with images of a threaded needle.]
Echinoderms—starfish—can regenerate lost arms, an ability not shared by mammals. To some extent, but by no means totally, we have compensated for this lack with needles and thread.
so-soDating and Dragons, by Kristy Boyce (2024)
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Premise: After moving to a new school, a teenager develops a crush on a member of her new D&D party, which has a strict no-dating policy.
Review: This was a mixed bag for me. On the plus side, it has some great intergenerational family content and an easy-to-root-for couple. ⬇️
pickFun story about getting a chance to do it all over again. While the premise of this story obviously requires you to suspend your disbelief, there were some aspects to the story that felt to me as if they could have been ironed out a bit more.
pickWhat a beautiful and evocative story. If you love books from Catherine Ryan Hyde, you will enjoy this. It has a beautiful message and some poignant moments that will stay with you. I'm adding it to my favorites even though I may not give it 5 stars. It's more like a 4 star read with 5 star takeaways. The brutal scene in this was extremely hard to read, yet the aftermath had such an emotional impact on me.
