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ChaoticMissAdventures

ChaoticMissAdventures

Joined August 2019

Reading is my favorite sport.
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#weeklyforecast I have the tagged on audio for #BookedInTime made a huge dent in it yesterday while doing chores around the house, and am really enjoying it. Once I finish it I have A Day In The Life of Abed Salama.
Picking away at the Women's Prize, started The Maiden and so far I am liking it more than I thought I would.

monalyisha I like your decor! Great curtains & chair (& cat 😸). 11h
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 10h
brittanyreads Your home is delightful! 🏵️ 8h
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Hangman: A Novel | Maya Binyam
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Mehso-so

This is a case of "I see what you did there, well done, this just isnt for me"

Binyam did a fantastic job creating a fever dream of a book, following an unnamed narrator. It takes a minute to understand the purpose of his journey, but the unfolding is just obvious enough. Unfortunatly for me, I got bored about half in. ?.

ChaoticMissAdventures Things started to feel repetitive, I understood the catch of the book, and I was a bit tired of living in the fever dream. I scanned the last bit of this.

I do think that Binyam has crafted an excellent book, that just wasn't for me, but I will be picking up her next book as I think she is super talented
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dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1d
BarbaraBB Just finished it. 🤨 21h
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Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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4.5 Stars

This had me captivated from the get go, and I was squeezing in reading at every moment I could find.

A very powerful family story. I was alive during the Sri Lankan civil war but am completely ignorant of it until now.

#wpfl24
#womensprizefiction.

ChaoticMissAdventures I loved how Ganeshananthan put us into impossible situations. No one is "good" and no one completely unlovable. People do horrendous things during war, and people do amazing things during war. Sashi was a perfectly drawn charcter - strong enough to make decisions and stick to them no matter others opinions, but also relalistic in her questioning of herself, and the situations she is in.

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ChaoticMissAdventures I thought the relationships were drawn with great balance - you can see how much she knows or doesn't know a person by how they are drawn in the story. We don't know the thoughts or motives of everyone, just as Sashi does not 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures My favorite from the long list so far. 1d
BarbaraBB Looking forward to this one. My favorite so far is 21h
squirrelbrain This is my favourite so far too. 19h
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Pickpick

together this book. We are missing so much about life, culture, and genealogy surrounding enslaved people. I was curious about her volleying between the words enslaved people and un-free peoples. It seems she uses the terms interchangeably.

It was clever to take the items in the sack and use them as a launching point to tell about the lives of enslaved people.
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ChaoticMissAdventures Delving into the sack, the dress, pecans, and the lock of hair, piecing together not only when the sack would have been packed, but the possible places Ashley and Rose could have lived. She then goes into the meaning of each of the items, which is important information we should all have.

The book is writen in a laymen's and readable way and the physical book has many pictures and media that elevate the story
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ChaoticMissAdventures Women's Prize long list Nonfiction 2024 1d
charl08 Looking forward to reading this one. 1d
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Western Lane: A Novel | Chetna Maroo
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Mehso-so

A well crafted story about grief and a family left behind. While I found it interesting that squash was at the center of this - and I learned a lot about the sport from the book and much googling - the characters where a bit basic, and overall the story a bit bland. Unfortunatly this is not a book that is going to stick with me. It was a quick an easy to get through read.

Read for the Women's Prize for Fiction Long List 2024
3⭐

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The Maiden | Kate Foster
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Sharing my shame here. I got home from the library and called up my account online and realized I must not have understood the new self checkout machine because all of my library books say they are waiting at the library for me! I didn't check out any of them! I walked right out the door with 5 library books! I stole from the library!
The remodel got rid of the sensors so no alarm sounded. I am so embarrassed.

Tamra Ooops 🤭 2d
Karisa Oh, that sounds like something I would do… Then I‘d go back in to tell on myself and confuse the librarians— instead of just checking them out low key style 😳 2d
HettyG 🤣😂 2d
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squirrelbrain Oopsie- are you sure it just doesn‘t take a while for the system to update? Never mind though, you have a fabulous #womensprize stack! 2d
Coffeymuse I work for a large library system and this happens, no biggie! Just call them up with the books nearby and they should be able to check them out to you :) 2d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Karisa @Coffeymuse I called them this morning and I could hear the shrug over the phone. 😁 She was like happens all the time, you are now on the honor system, please bring them back when you are done. Which is a bit loosey goosey for me, but it does give me more time with the one I am a bit nervous to pick up! 1d
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Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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SLowly making my way through!
I read 3 of 16 last week.

Brotherless Night is by far my favorite of what I have read so far.

I am excited to see what this week holds, staring off with Hangman and then I think Nightbloom, because I am not so excited about that one and would like to get it done (I really enjoyed her first novel, but I think the topic of this one is not going to be for me)

squirrelbrain I‘ve read 5 now (2 of which I read before the announcement). I‘m also reading 2 others - and I‘m loving Brotherless Night too. 6d
BarbaraBB I read three. I enjoyed Ordinary Human Failures a lot but this one I really LOVED: 6d
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We are one week into the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction Long List!
How are you doing?
Hae you changed your mind in either direction on if you are going to read them all?

#WPFL24
#womensprize

squirrelbrain I haven‘t changed my mind - still reading them all! 🤣 6d
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Hangman: A Novel | Maya Binyam
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#weeklyforecast
#wpfl24
#womensprize

All the holds coming in at the library, setting up for a busy reading week! I also have All That She Carried from the Nonfiction long list on audio ✔️✔️✔️

Pageturner1 ooh coffee looks good! and of course the books too— 😀 1w
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Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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What better time to try the vegan Sri Lankan restaurant in town, then to try it while reading this #womensprize book set in Sri Lanka?
Having a blackened pork stuffed Roti and a Sri Lankan iced coffee.

Itchyfeetreader This has been on my to find / read pile for a@while. Hope you enjoy 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Itchyfeetreader I am really enjoying it! Compulsively readable even though the topic is heavy. 1w
charl08 Nice pairing! Looking forward to reading this one. And "compulsively readable" is exciting news. 7d
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Oh nooooo! 😂😍

TheBookgeekFrau 😂😂 1w
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Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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"I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes."

#womensprize
#WPFL24

BarbaraBB Is it good? 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB very. This is my 3rd from the list and so far the most impressive. 1w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1w
BarbaraBB Thanks! That‘s encouraging 1w
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#firstlinefriday
@ShyBookOwl

"We forgot that love is revolutionary, the word, cute and overused in American culture, can feel devoid of spirit, a dead letter suitable only for easy exchange on social media platforms."

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Mehso-so

2/16 Women's Prize long list Nonfiction

3.5⭐

While I found this readable, it was a bit long. Towards the end I started dreading picking it up as I spent a lot of time trying to piece out what was fact and what was Funders embellishments. I enjoyed her research and her criticism. The parts where she is able to walk us through their lives, but I wish her own scene setting work has been left out.

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I recommend picking up the physical book if you are able, there are many photos throughout the text.

jlhammar Good to know. Thanks! 1w
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"How did she get here?"
"How did I get here?"

"I did find her [Eileen], but in scraps of facts, ripped up like a chew toy - a blue eye, the corner of a shoulder blade under a suit jacket.........Eileen was a whisp of a human but inhumanly strong; her nickname, for reasons no one remembers, was Pig."

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I will be reading the Women's Prize for Fiction long list the next 2 months - as they get to me from Blackwells or the Library.

If you would like to join me please do! I am so excited to see what everyone thinks about these books, most of which were not on my radar.

Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist Readathon 2024 tag-

#WPFL24

squirrelbrain I‘d never heard of half of these - and they weren‘t on anyone‘s predictions lists - it‘s all very exciting! Have you read any? I‘ve read 2 so far. 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I have only read The Wren, which I was honestly not that impressed by. But I am excited, Enter Ghost, 8Lives and Ordinary Human Filings were all on my TBR.
We will see how it goes!! Which ones have you read?
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squirrelbrain I saw on your other post that you‘d read The Wren. I‘ve read Western Lane and Ordinary Human Failings. I‘m most looking forward to Enter Ghost and Soldier, Sailor. 2w
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ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I was able to grab Western Lane on audio right away from my library, will start it today, it looks super short, I am surprised it made the cut off of 30K words. 2w
TheKidUpstairs @squirrelbrain I'm so excited for Enter Ghost, too. Soldier Sailor I tried on my Kobo and couldn't get into it, but I think it was the wrong format. I've got a library hold in for a physical copy, hopefully it will read better that way! 2w
TheKidUpstairs @ChaoticMissAdventures I really liked Western Lane, it was up for last year's Booker, but it didn't work for everyone so I'll be interested to hear what you think! 2w
jlhammar I haven‘t read any of these yet! I already wanted to read Ordinary Human Failings so excited to prioritize that. I also ordered Restless Dolly Maunder (I really enjoyed Grenville‘s The Secret River), Western Lane, The Maiden, And Then She Fell, and Brotherless Night to start things off. We‘ll see how many I‘m able to get to. Look forward to following your reviews! 2w
Deblovestoread Glad to see Enter Ghost on the list. It's available at my library, so it will be the first I tackle. Will likely do a Blackwell's order for those not released here yet. I'll be watching for your reviews 😀 2w
AnneCecilie I‘ve read one, but my library had six books. So I‘m waiting on them to arrive. I love that there‘s so many I haven‘t heard about, there‘s so much potential to find a new favorite book/ author 2w
BarbaraBB I‘ll be trying to read as many as possible too though I won‘t be too hard on myself (with the International Booker coming up as well 😅). So far I‘ve only read Western Lane so lots of books to choose from! 2w
Hooked_on_books I haven‘t read a single one of these and haven‘t even heard of many! I‘m a bit flummoxed by that but hoping it turns out to be a good thing. I won‘t try to read them all in time for the prize, but I‘m sure I will read all eventually. 2w
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A Trace of Sun - Pam Williams
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
Hangman - Maya Binyam
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
The Wren The Wren - Anne Enright
The Maiden - Kate Foster
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
In Defence of the Act - Effie Black
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
Restless Dolly Maunder -Kate Grenville
River East River West - Aube Rey Lescure
Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan

ChaoticMissAdventures Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
The Blue, Beautiful World - Karen Lord
And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliott
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Well. I guessed 2 long list titles!

As always most of the ones they picked were not on my radar at all. Though a few were already on my TBR.

I just finished The Wren The Wren this morning, and honestly it was a 3 star read for me, so I am a bit nervous going into this.

squirrelbrain I borrowed The Wren, The Wren from the library so at least I didn‘t buy it, if it‘s not that great! 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain some people love it! The language really is beautiful. This is what I love about these lists, there is always such range there is something for everyone. 2w
squirrelbrain I just noticed Talking at Night on your list. I *just* finished it about 15 minutes ago! I read it in case it made the list. 2w
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ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain it sounds so good! A bit Sally Rooney like maybe? There are many on this list I am going to read as soon as I finish the officail long list. I am wildly surprised the Julia and The Strom We made were not on the offical list. 2w
squirrelbrain Better than Sally Rooney, I think. Yes, there‘s angsty people not communicating but they were less irritating than Rooney protagonists. More like One Day, maybe? 2w
Hooked_on_books I really expected them to have Let Us Descend on the list. But it seems a lot of what they went for are lesser known authors, which isn‘t a bad thing. 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Hooked_on_books I expected that one too! But yes, lots of new to me authors which I am excited for! 2w
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Mehso-so

3⭐

I loved the writing but I can tell this is not a book that will stick with me. A character centric book looking at a mom, daughter, grandfather. But I would have a hard time telling you what exactly this was about. Possible that audio was not the way to go but all of the narrators had pleasant voices and I enjoyed them. But I am not going to remember I read this in 6 months.

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The countdown is on! My favorite book day of the year!

My guesses for ulitmate winner:
Julia by Sandra Newman
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

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"Men turn up on time because it's not that complicated, like fascism or the train."

Listening to this, one possible for the Women's Prize long list on my neighborhood walk.

lil1inblue Excellent quote. 😏 2w
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I have so many thoughts and feelings about this. The language is interesting, a time capsule of how people spoke in the 1960s, the book feels intimate, like Malcolm is sitting you down and walking you through his life. I am so impressed with his ability to look over the different eras in his life and look at his actions, emotions, and thoughts in a balanced and reflective way. You can see his growth, and he can too. Normally I do not think 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures Young people should write autobiographies, but Malcolm was well aware that his life was in danger from multiple directions, and I think we are incredibly lucky he took the time to collaborate with Alex Haley so that we have such a complete record of his life and thoughts on it. (2/3) 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures I am always curious about the wives, and how they are and are not mentioned in men's own biographies. Betty was so interesting and it was fascinating to read about how they were married, though it was less than a chapter, and she is randomly mentioned after. You can see in when he mentions her that he really loved and trusted her but that she barely registered in his written records. 2w
Suet624 I read this so many years ago and was so moved by it. If you‘re interested, The Three Mothers tries to highlight the mothers and wives journey and importance in the lives of Malcolm, MLK and James Baldwin. 2w
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TheBookHippie I just reread this for the third time. It‘s so very powerful. It‘s always interesting to note the wives and mothers of prominent men and their influence and part. Definitely doesn‘t get said enough. 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Suet624 oh yes! I have read it. Mrs Little's story is absolutely heartbreaking. We should all know so much more about it, what the government did to his family from the jump is such important context for his life. 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @TheBookHippie a third time! That is impressive, I am sure you find new things in it each time? I was very intimidated by it. It has been on my self for a couple of years, and I have read a half dozen books about him but was nervous to pick this up. It is dense but a lot more readable than I had feared. 2w
TheBookHippie @ChaoticMissAdventures I read it as a teen, then in my 30s, and now. Hits differently every time. 2w
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Tom Lake: A Novel | Ann Patchett
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This is a great pandemic book. The story is not about the pandemic, and though the plot is because of it, it is completely background noise. I liked this look back at Lara's time at Tim Lake, the TL scenes felt very Dirty Dancing to me, this summer in a picturesque Midwestern camp, the staff running around putting on a play, while quiet debauchery goes on. Normally I am not a fan of book with multiple storylines but this is very well crafted 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures I was invested in all of the threads of the story. Lara is a solid character throughout and though a bit bland she is easy to follow throughout. 2w
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Wedding Date | Jasmine Guillory
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Mehso-so

Catching up on reviews, I was having a February month, just feeling the need for cheesey romance. This was fine, lots of reliance on miscommunication, lack of communication. The characters are realistic and nice though. It was fine.

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Tom Lake: A Novel | Ann Patchett
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This last week I finished 2 incredibly different books. Both American but of 2 different Americans, and yet both are set in and around Lansing and Detroit Michigan! I just thought it was interesting, Michigan is not a place I read about often and to be reading such wildly different books both partially taking place there was unexpected.

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Here we GO!

Fresh bingo card

#bookspin
#bookspinbingo

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Cain | Jos Saramago
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#bookspin #doublespin

Second month in a row bookspin hit my author of the year - Jose Saramago, going to try to get to him this month with the shortest of his I own Cain.
Double spin is from the Women's Prize Nonfiction Long List, it looks interesting about geography and more... already have it on hold at the library.

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Tagged my favorite of the month.

5 ⭐
Saying It Loud
4.5⭐
Babel
Malcolm X
4 ⭐
We Hunt The Flame
Elena Knows
Liliana's Invincible Summer
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Tom Lake
3.5 ⭐
All the Lovers in the Night
The God of Good Looks
3 ⭐
Bet on It
Practice Makes Perfect
The Wedding Date
2.5 ⭐
Shark Heart

#Readingroundup #FebruaryReads
I needed these 3⭐ romances!

ChaoticMissAdventures Library tally:
February: 10 books; $123.24 saved

Total: 14 = $222.02

Prices based off websearches for used books which is how I would normally buy a book.
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mcctrish I love the Shark Heart cover but I am not getting it. So many reviews are like yours #savingmoney thank you for your service 😘 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @mcctrish some people really loved it. I read much weirder so I am sure the people who think it is weird have never picked up anything approaching magical realism. My big issue was how often she repeated the name Angela 😂. Always happy to discourage people! 2w
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I am about 20 pages away from finshing both Tom Lake and Malcolm X so I am counting them as done in February. I went on a bit of a romance kick this month, which is very unusual for me.

This gives me one bingo, and my bookspin this month, I didn't get to my DoubleSpin, but there is still a lot of time in the year to catch up!

#bookspin #bookspinbingo

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Language is interesting to me, there are some words that I am sure we do not use the same, and some words I thought were very new ideas so it is a bit jarring to see ideas of "reverse-racism" and people throwing "red flags" in X's writing.

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The God of Good Looks | Breanne Mc Ivor
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I found this while looking for possible Caribbean picks eligible for the Women's Prize, and I am glad I did! Set in Trinidad and Tobago A look at a woman who had an affair with a politician, and her life after. A cosmetic giant hires her to run his magazine, and his sister just happens to be having an affair with the same politician. An interesting look at beauty, politics, and everyone's secret insecurities.

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I am making 20 predictions for the 16 books on the Women's Prize Long List.

I think that if they are on the list they will only pick one of either Smith, Patchett, or Ward - women that were on the list and are very popular already. They all feel a bit too obvious.

I heard a theory that Enright will be on it becuase she gets pulled every 4 years! 2012, 2016, 2020 it is her time again

#womensprizefiction2024

ChaoticMissAdventures I think their list will have more books about motherhood based on who the judges are, but I honestly don't read those sn couldn't find many I was interested in. I adde Reporduction by Hall because that seemed to be something they would pick most of the others on my list I have already added to my TBR but that one I would not read unless it is on this list. 3w
squirrelbrain Great list! I‘m just about to start Talking at Night, because I think it might be on the list and it‘s due back to the library just before the Longlist announcement. 3w
jlhammar Oooh, great predictions! I‘m getting excited. Really hoping we see Pet by Catherine Chidgey on there. 3w
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ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain it sounds so good! I am trying to ignore all the comparsions to other books, because that always disappoints me,
It is a debut, and we know how much the judges love a debut novel!
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ChaoticMissAdventures @jlhammar This one also sounds so good! I had to stop myself at 20, but my TBR has really grown the last month looking at possiblities. It is so hard to guess what these judges will pick. 3w
BarbaraBB Interesting! I do look forward to the longlist! 3w
Deblovestoread Love seeing your predictions. I‘ve been making a list of all those predicted and looking heavily at those that have made more than one list. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Deblovestoread it would be interesting to keep that list! I know each year there are a few I am surprised that don't make it, but by the next year I have forgotten 😂 3w
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March #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

It is Women't Prize for Fiction time!

We don't know the list yet, so I am saving spots for half the list, assuming I haven't read most of them, and that I can get my hands on them the first few weeks.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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The Signet Library | Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Library)
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I am lucky to live in a city with many libraries, my favorite has been the Central in downtown, it is old & beautiful, but am excited to see the 1 closest to me, it is being rebuilt & opens this summer, looks incredibly promising, from 1 of the smallest to 1 of the biggest in the city!

Outside of my own book borrowing, I love the SIgnet Library in Edinburgh, where you can have tea and chat with librarians, it was built in 1810 and is gorgeous!

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Mehso-so

I enjoyed this. 3⭐
It was a bit too angelic, though I do understand that was in purpose, as we follow sweet virginal Annie who has a swear jar for her siblings and owns a small town flower shop, bad boy Will is brought in to coach her on dating. As with most of these it was so predictable I was often speaking lines before they were read, but I understand some readers like that in these, I just wanted a bit more. Good fluff though.

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Maggie Smith (No not that one, the American poet) is a gorgeous writer. I enjoyed the way this is laid out, it is a contemplative look at her marriage (the end of) and her life. She reiterates that this is not a tell all. It is not a true memoir, she is only giving you the glimpses she chooses. But I did end up wanting to sucker punch her ex husband! A beautifully told story with so much to contemplate on.

ChaoticMissAdventures There is one moment towards the end, that annoyed me. Her therapist tells her about how children pick their parents, and Smith agrees with her, because she loves her parents. I just had to turn it off for a bit as I thought about all of the people I know with terribly abusive parents and how there is no way they would pick that. It totally pulled me out of the book and gave me a bit of a bad "self help" taste that I didn't like. 3w
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Wow this was so good. I loved that the book was completely immersed in Etymology. The world building - taking such a familiar places and building it out with just a bit of magic was so well done. I listened and read this so that I could get a feeling for the sounds of the non-English words and names, highly recommend the story was a bit too complex for full audio but the narrator does an amazing job.
I will continue thinking about this one.

BkClubCare Extremely ambitious work 👏👏👏 4w
dabbe I just started Part 2! 🤩 4w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BkClubCare yes! I kept thinking that as I was reading, very ambitious with her characters, her themes and the creation of the world. 4w
ChaoticMissAdventures @dabbe I hope you are enjoying it too! I had high hopes and I feel like they were met. I am very impressed that she can write such different books, I read her Yellowface last year and this is so incredibly different. 4w
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What lucky! This is my first time winning a Goodreads giveaway, and it was for a book I had on my ARC digital but I didn't get to before it expired.

This sounds so good, love a Lady Pirate!

Librariana Congrats! 🥳 What a delightful little treat! 4w
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#weeklyforecast

I have the tagged on audio book, and am hoping to make progress on these other 3. Malcolm will probably take me until the end of the month but I want to finish Babel in the next couple of days (it is so good!). Chlorine was mentioned on a list of possibilities for the women's prize, I think it is a long shot but it sounds interesting so picked it up from the library.

squirrelbrain I‘m waiting on Chlorine from the library…just in case! 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I am reading a few the next few weeks “Just in Case“! Probably none will be on the list, but I am also going to try and hitting up
Let Us Decent - Ward
Tom Lake - Patchett
The Vater Wild - Groff
The God of Good Looks - McIvor

I am usually so off on what I think the list will be I only get a couple of them.
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squirrelbrain I‘ve read the first three…haven‘t even heard of the 4th. I shall investigate and add it to my spreadsheet! 🤣 1mo
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squirrelbrain Found it - it‘s available at the (actual, physical) library. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain the 4th is my own guess! I am going off the of early Caribbean picks they have had like The One-Armed Woman and The Bread The Devil, they often to choose 1 title from the area so if they do this year too this one would be my guess. 1mo
squirrelbrain Ah, good thinking! I loved both of the other two you mentioned, so now I have high hopes that this one will be good too. 1mo
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This is a sad, and slow read. Irie is a lonely woman who doesn't like the people she works with, she takes a risk to go freelance and we follow her through her journey. There is a lot to ponder in this, she turns to drinking, and she examines her life and her past. She meets a couple of people and contemplates life. It is a very quiet character driven novel that contains a lot of Japanese daily culture and life.

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God of Good Looks | Breanne Mc Ivor
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I have been doing deep dives into eligible books the Women's Prize for Fiction might pick for 2024.

I was thinking about how there is often times a Caribbean novel that I have not heard of makes it's way onto the list, so I started seeking out books from there released since April 1, 2023 and I think if any I read about have a shot is it this one! The synopsis sounds just right for the Women's Prize both in form and theme.

Chelsea.Poole Lovely cover art on this one! 1mo
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#weekendreads

This weekend I am going to finish the tagged and make progress in
Babel and Malcolm X,
Both of the above are amazing reads but a bit chunky just hoping to make some progress in them.
After these reads I am focusing only on books that might have a chance to be on the Women's Prize for Fiction Long List hoping to predict and get a couple of titles checked off before the list is released!

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"When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later , a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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#booknotes @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

There is a certain cadence to Japanese books and while reading this I am thinking about Japanese Breakfast's Be Sweet both because of the cadence and because the main character is sweet and a bit naive
https://youtu.be/2ZfcZEIo6Bw?feature=shared

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5⭐
This is a fantastic read. Mostly set in 1966 around the Black Power/Black Panther philosophy of the civil rights movement it also gave some background on many key players of the time. I am always shocked at the lack of knowledge that was handed down to us. This book was a well balanced and fair account of the time and the people who were affecting change. I app that Whitaker gave credit to the women you don't hear a lot about in other books👇

ChaoticMissAdventures He acknowledged the works of women such as Ella Baker, Ruby Doris Robinson and Dottie Zellner. He told the good and bad of each person and gave a rounded look at where they came from and their views of the day and hoped for the future. I have been fascinated by how culturally we view Malcolm X and this gives a look at how he inspired people at the end and after his death. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures This has many players and lots of acronyms of civil rights groups to keep straight, but Whitaker does a fantastic job of being clear and conscience without repeating himself too often. I found this very easy and fascinating to read. 1mo
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I have been reading this book that is mostly set in 1966 and have been in utter awe of Rudy Doris who not only wielded so much control in the SNCC but the civil rights movement at the time. And who was a pioneer in the Black Is Beautiful movement - wearing natural hair because it was easier to care for when she kept getting arrested for protesting. I am reading that she died at 26. What a powerful bright force she was so young.

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I am always in awe of the civil rights leaders that do not get their due. At the front is Julian Bond who was involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community (SNCC) and who fought in the Supreme Court to be able to verbally protest the Vietnam war. He was one of the first Black Georgia State representatives.
Directly behind him are Bob &Dottie Zellner who met working at SNCC, married and spent their lives on the front lines. I ❤️this 📷

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Pickpick

An interesting memoir from a Gay-Disabled man who grew up with lots of necessary humor in Utah with 2 ill parents. A ton in here about the use of dark humor and the value of family when health issues run the family's life. The stories can be a bit crude - teen boys and sex - but each chapter holds the language and emotions of each stage of Marshall's life.
I found this endearing and funny.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast it is a hectic week here, my best friend is getting a double mastectomy and I am on morning care duty for her and getting her daughter to the bus. I am hoping to have some down time while people sleep to finish Saying It Loud, Babel, and the tagged audiobook. Then to start Malcolm X and All The Lovers In The Night.
Happy reading week everyone.

Ruthiella That is a stressful week! Best wishes to you and your friend . ❤️ 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau All the best to you and your friend 🙏🏼💕 1mo
dabbe Wishing a speedy healing to your friend. 🩷💜❤️ 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures Thanks all! It has been a crash course in the American medical world and it has been rough. Hoping to sail through this week. 1mo
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