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DHill

Joined April 2016

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
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The Broken Girls by Simone St James
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The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Rereading this after many years.

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A little more than half-way in and I‘m having a hard time staying with this. I can‘t get into the audio and feel like I would enjoy the book more if read.

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So, I don‘t know. Half-way in and I don‘t really know what this is about. There are a lot of tangents and a lot of quotes from other people.

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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel | Colson Whitehead
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Not quite 3 stars for Harlem Shuffle but thought I might like Crook Manifesto better. I didn‘t dislike either, just didn‘t really like them. I‘ll probably try the sequel again later.

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Sundays | A. Robert Allen
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Sunday with my girls. #dogsoflitsy

AmyG Awwwwwww ❤️ 1w
AlaMich So sweet!! 1w
dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 1w
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Exiles | Jane Harper
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What I love most about Jane Harper‘s writing is her ability to so masterfully craft the landscape that it becomes its own character, serving as an antagonist that weaves itself around every aspect, moving the story forward. This one just didn‘t quite get there for me.

Still, very well done, excellent narration.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

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Exiles | Jane Harper
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Starting today for March‘s #AuthorAMonth 🤗

One of my favorite authors with another book featuring one of my favorite literary detectives.

@Soubhiville

Soubhiville Yay! 2w
Julsmarshall Just started this too-really good so far, did some extra yard work to keep listening. 2w
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Erasure: A Novel | Percival Everett
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Indeed, the wait is over. 🤗

I didn‘t know the Oscar nominated film American Fiction was adapted from this novel but I‘ll have to watch it once I‘ve finished the book.

Tamra Such a fantastic novel! Begs all the right questions. 3w
Aims42 My library hold just came in for this, I‘m so excited to read it 🤓🙌 3w
SamAnne I will finish it today. My favorite Everett book yet and looking forward to watching the film this week. 3w
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Zone One: A Novel | Colson Whitehead
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I‘m all for a post-apocalyptic horror novel. Let‘s go!

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2nd reading of this one, first in print several years ago and now on audio. I was in love with this the first time I read it. Not as wholly captivated the second time around but still a solid 4-star. It‘s a heavy book but Lauren Groff‘s writing is superb, as always.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

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Why did I ever wait so long to read this?

CindyMyLifeIsLit One of my favorite books! 1mo
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Two audiobooks were so good that I listened to them every free minute and stayed up to finish. Books that long and that good-when you‘re so close you just have to go for it. The Fireman and Wolf Hall.

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern

monkeygirlsmama Lots of times! 1mo
BookmarkTavern I can‘t listen to audiobooks at night. I‘ll fall asleep! 😂 Thanks for posting! 1mo
mariaku21 Yes! I say after the chapter to myself and next thing I know it's 5am and I have to be at work at 8a 😂 1mo
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The Vaster Wilds | Lauren Groff
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I learned two new words today! 🤗

Crazeedi Love learning new words! 1mo
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The Weekend: A Novel | Peter Cameron
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Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store on audio today and still reading The Vaster Wilds in print.

#weekendreads
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The Weekend: A Novel | Peter Cameron
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Always one of each going at all times. Just started The Last Lifeboat audio.

#weekendreads

@rachelsbrittain

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Various Small Books | Phil Taylor, Art
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Latest book haul. #smallbutmighty

darklydreaming Ohhh I really enjoyed the Fredrick Backman one ❤️ 1mo
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Choices | Stella Cameron
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Just borrowed Chorus of Mushrooms and then my hold for The Raging Storm became available. Which to read first??

Crazeedi Love love love Ann Cleeves!! 1mo
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Never Lie | Freida McFadden
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Well, this one didn‘t disappoint. The second book by Freida McFadden I‘ve read and the second one I didn‘t like. ⭐️⭐️/5 only because it might have been less ridiculous with better editing, maybe? Am I the only one who thinks this?

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I really liked two of her books, but the last few have been so over the top that I haven‘t been in a hurry to read the others! 1mo
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Saturday | Ian McEwan
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Starting off my day with a little rea — 🤣🤣🤣

#dogsoflitsy #stealthcat #thegirls

KadaGul @DHill How adorable to start your day with all your fur babies. #ValentinesDay 1mo
AlaMich I love the lower left pic!!! 🤣🤣 1mo
dabbe 🤩🖤🐾🐾🖤🤩 1mo
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The Vaster Wilds | Lauren Groff
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I was going to read this last month but I held it for February #AuthorAMonth

I have read and loved each Lauren Groff I‘ve read (Fates and Furies, Florida and Matrix) so I‘m really looking forward to this one.

@Soubhiville

Soubhiville I loved this one. Hope you will too! 2mo
SamAnne Loved this one 2mo
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The Quiet Tenant | Clemence Michallon
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I can get lost in any Stephen King dark-fantasy novel and not only believe the story could happen, but that it is. Clemence Michallon‘s crime novel, not so much.

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Never Lie | Freida McFadden
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I‘m not a superfan of Freida McFadden but have heard good things about this one, so, sure. Here I go.

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Home: A Novel | Marilynne Robinson
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Back from a week away in Vegas at a trade show and it‘s nice to know nothing has changed. Love my pups and our weekend morning snuggles.

#dogsoflitsy #mammasgirls #cominghome

CoffeeNBooks So sweet! 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 2mo
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Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand
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I saw the movie and am looking forward to reading the book. What an amazing story.

Texreader Excellent book. I liked it much better than the movie 2mo
DHill @Texreader I‘m so excited to listen to the audio. Edward Herrmann also narrated The Boys in the Boat and it‘s one of my all-time favorite audios. 2mo
vlwelser The audio is amazing. 2mo
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The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel | Michael Connelly
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I‘ve read a lot of Michael Connelly Bosch novels but surprisingly, not Haller. Here we go!

TrishB They are good too 👍🏻 2mo
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The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
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I‘m glad there was a mini series made of this because I had a hard time following the book.

emz711 I recently watched the old movie version, it was pretty good 2mo
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Emma | Jane Austen
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Jane Austen is an author I really want to love. I could watch movie adaptations of her novels all day. But I just can‘t capture the nuance in her writing when I read her books. I‘m going to keep on trying, though.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

JenReadsAlot I'm working on this one right now too.... 2mo
MrsV I have to agree. I‘m slogging through Persuasion right now. I love Austen books as movies. I think it‘s just her writing “wordy” for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 2mo
Soubhiville @JenReadsAlot @MrsV @DHill me too. I‘m using Serial Reader for P&P, and while I like the characters, the writing itself can be a slog. I‘m going to finish it though! 2mo
AnnR I think Austen is absolute master of what is now considered to be a run-on-sentence. 2mo
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The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
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Waiting for holds so thought I‘d listen to this in the meantime. I can‘t believe I‘ve never read this.

mom_of_4 I want to read this one. I actually put this in my future folder on my library app. 2mo
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Snowdrifts | Kathi Nidd
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Winter finally came to town. It‘s officially dog sweater weather! If you need to reach me I‘ll be here all day. 🤗
❄️🐶

#iowa #winterweatheradvisory #windchillwarning

Gissy They are ready to be on a reader‘s lap ...who is.....?☺️🐶 ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 2mo
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The Broken Girls | Simone St James
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1. Yes! A beverage is a must at all times. LOL
Morning reading with coffee, afternoon reading with Diet Coke, evening reading with hot tea or room temperature water.

2. Currently, tagged with water.

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

Hey @THill wanna play?

TheSpineView Thanks for playing!❤️📖📚 2mo
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Emma | Jane Austen
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And I‘m off! January #AuthorAMonth started.

@Soubhiville

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Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane
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First read of 2024 tagged. A definite recommend.

@BookmarkTavern #sundayfunday

BookmarkTavern Excellent! Thanks for sharing! 2mo
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The Vaster Wilds | Lauren Groff
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First day home from vacation and before Christmas gets put away I think I‘ll just sit here with coffee and a new book. 😊

#readinginthenewyear

SamAnne Hope to get to this one this month! 2mo
Leftcoastzen Good plan! Gotta build up your stamina by resting! 2mo
Texreader Just perfect. 2mo
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Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane
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Is there anything Dennis Lehane writes that doesn‘t completely wreck you?

Gritty, hard, bleak and so sad with just a nugget of hope.

First finished of ‘24 and I won‘t be surprised if it‘s one of my top reads of the year. #prediction

Tamra I loved it too! Mary Pat is quite an amazing, complicated character. Probably my favorite character last year. 2mo
SamAnne I have been trying to get to this one. 2mo
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Citrus Bowl | Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn
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Citrus Bowl bound.

#OnIowaGoHawks

AmyG Nice! Go Hawks! Have fun! (edited) 3mo
Susanita Have fun! 3mo
DHill Thank you @AmyG and @Susanita 3mo
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The Lake House | Kate Morton
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Strangely enough, Libby had no Kate Morton audiobooks, so I‘ll be finishing 2023‘s #AuthorAMonth challenge with this one from iBooks.

@Soubhiville

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Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult
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I‘ve always enjoyed Jodi Picoult and this thought-provoking novel is no exception.

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Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane
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Saturday morning reading with the trusty trio.

#dogsoflitsy

Sleepswithbooks The cuteness 🥰 3mo
Bookzombie Adorable! 3mo
BookishMadHatter So cozy! Happy reading 3mo
dabbe Hello there, sweet floofs! 🖤🐾🐾🐾🖤 3mo
Gissy Awww🐶🐶🐶💚❤️💚🎄 3mo
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This started out ok. An interesting storyline, but it‘s drug on a bit and heading into the fairly ridiculous. 80% in and I‘m still interested to see how it ends, though, so there‘s that.

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Sundays | A. Robert Allen
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Sunday morning check-in.

Coffee✔️
Crossword✔️
Book✔️
Dogs-on-lap✔️

Happy Sunday✔️

dabbe Hello there, you sweet floofballs! 🖤🐾🐾🐾🖤 3mo
ShelleyBooksie Adorable doggos 3mo
Gissy 🐶🤎🤎🤎 3mo
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Villa | Rachel Hawkins
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Started this one tonight and liking it so far.

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Just another Sunday morning cat in tree and dog on table. 🤔

I‘m just going to sit here and read. 😂

Happy Sunday!

Clare-Dragonfly Where is the cat? I thought I spotted a kitty face toward the top left, but on closer inspection it was not so. 4mo
IndoorDame I‘m stumped by the cat finding game too 😂 but your puppy is adorable!!!!! 4mo
JacqMac 😂 My cats are in the tree today, too. And there are no decorations left on the bottom. But I might have given up the battle. lol 4mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures One of my favorite twitter accounts is called “there is no cat in this image“, this is just like those photos, if you cat at the bottom of the tree to the left of the stockings? Your puppy though, cracking me up. So cute!
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dabbe Hello there, little floof on the table and kitty I can't find! 🖤🐾🐾🖤 4mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick This sassy little pup is cracking me up! I love it. ❤️ 4mo
DHill @ChaoticMissAdventures @Clare-Dragonfly @IndoorDame @dabbe that‘s Carmella sitting with her head in the tree to the left of the stockings, considering…lol! 4mo
dabbe I see her now! Hello there, Cutey Carmella! I once had a cocker named Caramel for the colpr of her coat! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
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Not quite halfway through and I‘m just not connecting. The story and character development seem slow at this point in the book. Im going to keep going and hope it ends up a pick by the end.

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage His books always make me cry. I‘ve avoided picking up the prequel to this so far. 4mo
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Christmastime | Alison Jay
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And just like that, it‘s Christmastime. LOL 🎄

Happy Black Friday to all who observe. I‘ll be on my couch reading.

ChaoticMissAdventures For years I have refused to leave my house on Black Friday, I wonder if it is still the same madhouse out there now that a lot of the sales are online? 4mo
dabbe Hello there, adorable pup! 🖤🐾🎄🐾🖤 4mo
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Friendsgiving | Alexandra Shytsman
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It‘s been a good day. 🦃

#Friendsgiving @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🦃❤️ 4mo
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Road Trip | Beth O'Leary
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Road trip reading.

#LambeauField

Tamra Such a fabulous book! I want to get my hands on a paper copy. 😃 4mo
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My week so far. I didn‘t not like Sag Harbor, just wasn‘t in the mood coming off of Nightbitch, which I loved. The Wife Upstairs is so-so so far.

ChaoticMissAdventures I usually enjoy Colson Whitehead but found Sag to be a bit of a slog. 4mo
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Working on Sunday | Edward Phillips
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Getting through a working Sunday with audio.

#audiobooks

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Next Page Books | Cedar Rapids, IA (Bookstore)
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Afternoons at our favorite local indie.

#nextpagebooks #frankthecat

@THill

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Sagittarius | Astrology World
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Sagittarius ✔️

ChaoticMissAdventures I am laughing as a Virgo who is a DNF queen! Life is too short. I will even sometimes quit with 30 pages left thinking, I get the jist, and I got other things to read 🤣 4mo
wanderinglynn I‘m definitely a Capricorn! ♑️ 🤣 4mo
Deblovestoread Leo: accurate! ♌️ 4mo
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jenniferw88 My Taurus sun and Virgo moon agree, not so sure about my Capricorn rising! 😂 4mo
5feet.of.fury Also a Sag, also have not read HP (and never will) 😂 4mo
CarolynM Pisces 😱 Never! 4mo
Clare-Dragonfly Wow, none of my big 3 apply. Apparently when it comes to reading crimes I am a Leo. I don‘t even have any Leo in my chart 😂 (edited) 4mo
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