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I had such fun completing the first #OffMyShelf challenge, I‘ll try the next board too! 😃 “Story was adapted”

Paul likes Sean but Sean likes Lauren but Lauren likes Victor… This was disturbing and transgressive yet surprisingly funny at times. Students behaving badly at a liberal arts college in NH. Very‘80s. So much sex and drugs. I didn‘t realize Ellis writes all his books in the same universe with character overlap.

CW for rape l/suicide.

My last category completed for the #OffMyShelf challenge! 🥳 “Gifted by a friend”.

In the acknowledgments, we find the story is based on a real woman‘s life, Eva Panic Nahir, a Hungarian Jew from what is now Croatia who was imprisoned in Tito‘s gulag and later emigrated to Israel with her daughter. In the book, Vera makes a decision to honor her principles and her husband‘s memory at great cost to herself and her relationship with her daughter.

More #offmyshelf ! @wanderinglynn

Pub'd 10+ yrs ago: Crow Lake - really enjoyed
Award winner: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - so good! Can't believe I hadn't read it years ago.

Halfway through this bingo board!

#weekendreads

Will definitely finish “The Fiction Writer” today. I put it on pause to read some other stuff.

Diving in to my 🤞last two books for July. “The Rules of Attraction” is my last #roll100 for the month. The David Grossman is my last #OffMyShelf book and also on my #14Booksin14Weeks .

Two more #offmyshelf !

On your shelf for over 5 years: House of Leaves (bailed, still counting it since it's off my tbr. Storygraph doesn't agree with that philosophy apparently, which is a bit annoying.)

Fave genre or author: Winter's Orbit - sff romance is definitely one of my favourites these days. Everina Maxwell, however, is a new to me author and I really enjoyed this book!

No bingo yet...

@wanderinglynn

#SeriesLove2025
#OffMyShelf - in a series
#14Books14Weeks

Another gentle and entertaining outing with Mma Ramotswe and co. An adopted woman asks the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency to find her biological family and someone is sending poison pen letters to the agency. Both mysteries are solved with compassion and kindness. ❤️

#weekendreads

I have two lighter books on tap this weekend, which is a relief from other heavier reads.

One for #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub and one that will fit both the #serieslove2025 and #offmyshelf challenges.

I need to get back on track/catch up with #KLBR !

#OffMyShelf “started before”

A powerful novel about resistance in Nazi Germany based on true events-both depressing and hopeful to read now.

“As it was, we acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn‘t mean we are alone, Quangel, or that our deaths will be in vain.Nothing in this world is done in vain, and since we are fighting for justice against brutality, we are bound to prevail in the end.”

I'm calling it... Bailing on House of Leaves. At least for now, probably for good but never say never I guess. I read the intro and 2 chapters and it's good but I can already tell it's not the book for me right now. Horror is just not where my brain is at right now.

That knocks off another past #bookspin, and I'm still counting it for #offmyshelf (for on tbr longer than 5 years) since it's off my tbr.

#offmyshelf “most recent TBR”
#ohcanada

This novel brings an important aspect of Canadian history to light-the use/abuse of indigent British children as indentured servants in Canada in the 19th and 20th cent. Told from the present with flashbacks to the past by Winnie to her granddaughter.

I‘m glad to have read it. However, I didn‘t like the writing or storytelling style personally. I found it too basic, the characters felt one dimensional.