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Erinreadsthebooks

Erinreadsthebooks

Joined April 2016

HS Eng. teacher —> HS librarian —> MS ELA teacher, book pusher, coffee drinker, big dog person, Ravenclaw, living in paradise
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Yours Truly | Abby Jimenez
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This was really good! Not my usual genre, but I‘m thinking I need to add more like this into my reading rotation. The writing was on point, and Jacob is my new book boyfriend. My only gripe is the non-communication trope. 🗣️”Just ask the questions that you need to ask when you need ask them and so many problems will be avoided!!!” Regardless, a definitive pick ❤️

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Nightwatching: A Novel | Tracy Sierra
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Yessss!!! It‘s excellent! I heard a couple of podcasters recommend this one, and they weren‘t wrong. I‘m not big on the suspense/thriller ones, but this is a win. A mom has to protect her children (in the scariest of situations) and justify her decisions to others over and over. Interesting portrayal of how women are doubted, labeled, and mistrusted. Really good stuff! Is this getting buzz?! Sure should be!

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Family Family: A Novel | Laurie Frankel
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Going to be in the car all day, and this one isn‘t working for me. Moving on to something else. Good things I take too many books on every trip I go on 🤪📚🤓

mcctrish Good planning 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣 3w
Aims42 Backup books are always necessary 😁 3w
dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 3w
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Okkkk, was it a pick? Yes. Did it keep my interest? Yes. Will I remember it in a month? Yes. But there‘s something off about this book for me. I didn‘t need to two timelines, and I don‘t love a perfect protagonist nor do I need a perfect spouse for that protagonist. Really, everyone connected to her was perfect. I think this book is excellent for lots of readers, and I‘ll even recommend it to them. There, that‘s my review 🤷🏼‍♀️😏😅🥹🙏😬🤷🏼‍♀️

ChaoticMissAdventures I also feel like things are off when everyone is too perfect. It grates on me. 1mo
Sharpeipup Pretty cover though 1mo
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Halfway through it, and sometimes I‘m so in love with this book and the story. Then the author switches to 35 years prior and a flashback to her and her husband‘s days as newlyweds and it takes me out of the story. I‘m sure it all ties together at some point, but I‘d rather just read the story of her trying to do right by the people of her town and fighting the patriarchy in the process.

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It‘s as good as I remember it. This copy is all marked up and ready for the middle schoolers. We started Ch. 1 today and the kids are in it to win it!! 🙌🤩

Allyneedsbooks 🙌🏼 those kiddos are so lucky to have Mrs. Stutts. 1mo
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Spending a Saturday night marking this one up in preparation for teaching it to 7th graders. I can‘t wait! 🤩🙌 #teachersoflitsy

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Frozen River | Ariel Lawhon
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Library‘s coming in clutch 🙌

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Last Exit to Feral | Mark Fearing
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Godddd, my eyes, my English teacher eyes…for the love!!! 😩😭😩😭😩😭

TheBookHippie 😳🤦🏻‍♀️ 2mo
dabbe 😱 2mo
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Last Exit to Feral | Mark Fearing
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My English teacher heart just can‘t take it. “Tom-or-row, Tom-or-row!” 😩😭

Ruthiella Oops! A proofreader should have caught that. 😬 2mo
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Part 1 of the Conquer a Classic readalong has me wondering why I haven‘t been reading Westerns all this time?! I‘m loving this big chunker of a novel and looking forward to hearing Annie and Hunter‘s discussion for January. 🤓❤️🙌

Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 2mo
Suet624 Isn't it amazingly good??? 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Allyneedsbooks I‘m in. Got my 📕!! 2mo
Leftcoastzen Awww ! 🐶 2mo
Slajaunie 🐾🤎 2mo
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Yeehaw 🤠 Starting my read-along to “conquer a classic” with From the Front Porch podcast. My copy of the book should be into my Indie bookstore on Monday. It‘s a good thing because the library said I can‘t keep this one forever, but I sure do love how worn in it is… 🤗

Suet624 I‘ve read this one three times. I absolutely love it. 2mo
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My first book of 2024 was a banger. Grann can do no wrong, and if he writes it, I‘m reading it. His writing is on point, and he makes these historical figures and their voyage at sea intriguing, fascinating, and weirdly relatable. I loved it!

Suet624 I can‘t wait to read this. 2mo
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I‘ve been holding onto this bad boy since August-ish. I didn‘t want to start it mid-year and it‘s FINALLLLLLY TIME! I can‘t wait 🤩

janeycanuck Oooh, you got the big one! This is my second year with the Always Fully Booked planner. They are so much fun!! 3mo
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Best of the Best: The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year | Food & Wine Magazine, Food and Wine Magazine Staff
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I managed to read 53 books this year. Here‘s my list of 5 star reads for 2023 🤩🎉🤓🥰

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This volume dealt with some more serious issues, but still a quick and enjoyable read. Squeezed it in just in time #2023reads

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 3mo
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Mehso-so

I think Nunez is brilliant and one of the best writers out there, but this one kind of lost me. Maybe I‘m not ready for full pandemic lit just yet. Maybe I just care more about dogs than parrots because I really loved The Friend. Regardless, it was a quick read and I appreciate the connections Nunez makes throughout the book (like all of the flower names). Worth a read, but not one that I‘ll remember forever.

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Trust me when I say that I ask my dogs many, many questions everyday. “Why are you barking?” “Do you need to go outside?” “What is your deal?!” “How did you get to be such a cutie-patootie?!” “Aren‘t you just the best boy ever?!” “You want to go take a nap?” “Why can‘t the bird be in the yard?!” “Will you ever be okay with the neighbors being in their yard?” “Are you always surprised when a truck drives by?!” “Could you be any cuter?!” 🤗🐾❤️🐾🤗

Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ Honestly, I‘d ask what the deal is with the post person? (edited) 3mo
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I hate it when my bookmark is ready to stop reading before I am. 😑🐾🐶😁

Tamra 🤣 3mo
batsy Aww! 😂🐾 3mo
Bookzombie Sweet! 3mo
rachelsbrittain The sweetest bookmark 😍 3mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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Faking Christmas | Cindy Steel
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So I said I was moving to serious books, but I couldn‘t resist this sweet, closed door romance between two high school English teachers (be still, my heart). The banter was cute, not overly sweet, and Miles was the most perfectly sarcastic yet sweet romantic lead. I loved it! ❤️❤️❤️

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Hoping I love this one as much as Killers of the Flower Moon 🌖

TEArificbooks Just finished this yesterdays and I loved it 3mo
dabbe One of my top 10 this year! 🤩 3mo
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Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward
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Thrifted some great books yesterday 🤩

Tamra Love it when that happens! 3mo
Ruthiella Nice haul! And the Jesmyn Ward book is only just out. 👍 3mo
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Cute cute cute cute cute! Rom coms aren‘t usually my jam (I cannot handle cheese in my books) but this worked for me. My grinch heart needed a little sweetness; now it‘s back to my regular program 😏✌️

Allyneedsbooks ❤️ 3mo
CarolynM I was pleasantly surprised by this one🙂 3mo
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Blackouts: A Novel | Justin Torres
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The library stack that‘s been staring me down while I finished my last book. I don‘t think my next read will be the one that‘s tagged. Just flipping through it makes me think it‘s way over my head. 😵‍💫🧐

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Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
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Ok, this took me forever and a day to read. Possibly because, unpopular opinion, it was way too long. Parts should‘ve been edited out, and I don‘t think this was as strong as Fourth Wing. Still good enough and still a Pick, but I was skimming the last quarter and not 100% invested. Ready for a new read.

Soubhiville I so very much agree. I stopped 3/4 in to read something else and I‘m about to go back to it, but it‘s felt like somewhat of a slog. 3mo
Erinreadsthebooks @Soubhiville Yes, the struggle…. I‘m not a skimmer, but I sure had to with this one. My growing stack of library books was staring me down as I forced myself through to the end 😅 3mo
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Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
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I thought I‘d fly through this one, but it feels like it‘s taking forever. 🫠🤷🏼‍♀️🕰️

Soubhiville I feel like it‘s dragging too! I had to put it on the back burner to read some bookclub books. 🤷‍♀️ 3mo
Allyneedsbooks Oh no 😬 3mo
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Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
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So helpful… 🥰😅

Tamra Keeping your place 😄 4mo
dabbe What a sweet face! #bestillmyheart 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
TheBookgeekFrau Awwww 🥰 4mo
Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 4mo
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Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
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Why do I keep seeing dinosaurs instead of dragons in my mind? Specifically, the brontosaurus. 😅🤓🦕🐉🫠

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Are you following Grady Hendrix on Instagram? If you‘re not, you‘re really missing out. The caption for this post says, “Happy Thanksgiving from Pupkin! He made you something!” #iykyk. 😂🤣🤣

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Student: “Mrs. Stutts, do you want a potato?”
Me: “Is it a real potato that you eat?”
Student: “No.”
Me: “Then, absolutely, I do.” I‘m now a proud owner of a positive potato and pretty jazzed about it. 🤓🥳💜

fredthemoose I love that! And now I‘m looking them up to give one to my sister! 4mo
Ruthiella Adorable! 😍 4mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
Reggie Love it! 4mo
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Dogsong | Gary Paulsen
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He would like to speak to the manager about the following issues: not enough petting, has been a full two hours since his last meal, cannot reach the treat jar on his own.

Traci1 Aww, what a sweet little boopable nose. 😍 4mo
squirrelbrain ❤️❤️❤️ 4mo
Tamra 😘 4mo
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AmyG He is very very cute. 4mo
sarahbarnes This sounds very familiar. 4mo
Ruthiella Those are some pretty serious issues! 😆🐶❤️ 4mo
dabbe That face! Those eyes! #inlove 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
Allyneedsbooks Bill! 🤗🫶🏻 4mo
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The Woman in Me | Britney Spears
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I love Britney, and I‘m glad she got to share her story. I can‘t fathom how her father pulled the wool over so many different sets of eyes. This memoir is sad, at parts unbelievable, and reallllllly makes you ready to pull up on Britney‘s behalf 👊. I hope she has nothing but joy from here out because if all the shizz in this book went down, she sure deserves it!

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Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
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Got it!!! Interesting conversation with my bookseller about what an absolute cluster this book‘s release has been for the independent booksellers. Annie of “From the Front Porch” podcast discussed this on a recent episode, too. I love publishing insider info! 🙃

Aims42 Oooo I love insider publishing tea, I‘ll check out that episode! 4mo
Bookish_Gal My indie said the publisher already canceled orders last week due to high demand. That the publisher is brand new and is still learning 4mo
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Mehso-so

Not my favorite Rufi Thorpe book. Of course the writing was good because Rufi Thorpe (hello), but something about this book didn‘t grab me. I skimmed parts, yet other parts were so well done it was like moments of brilliance. I can‘t explain, but I‘m definitely ready to move on.

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Why‘s he judging me?

Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 5mo
dabbe Hello there, sweet pup! 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
ShelleyBooksie So handsome!!!♡ 5mo
Allyneedsbooks 🤗🤗🤗🤗 5mo
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Stolen | Ann-Heln Laestadius
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I don‘t think I‘m going to make it. At about 1/4 of the way through, the book isn‘t keeping my interest. It could be a Taylor issue where I‘m the problem, but for now, I‘m taking a break from reindeer murders…✌️

ErikasMindfulShelf Oh no. I really liked this one. I read it in Swedish so maybe some things got lost in translation. 5mo
Erinreadsthebooks @ErikasMindfulShelf I think it‘s just unfortunate timing. If I see this book out in the wild, I‘ll definitely pick it up and give it another try. 5mo
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Black Sheep | Rachel Harrison
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Just meh for me 🤷🏼‍♀️

DimeryRene Bummer! Do you have a favorite of her books? 5mo
Erinreadsthebooks @DimeryRene Yes, I really enjoyed Cackle. 5mo
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Black Sheep | Rachel Harrison
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It‘s hard to read when someone knows it‘s pushing dinner time. 😑🤪

dabbe Hello there, sweetest pup! 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
oddandbookish Adorable! 5mo
Tamra They are like alarm clocks! 5mo
batsy Awww! 5mo
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Stolen | Ann-Heln Laestadius
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I‘m in an “in between books” rut that is really getting the best of me. The ability to focus and latch onto a book has been missing since I finished my last read. Seriously hoping one of these guys pulls me out of it. BOTM and ALLLLLL the library holds arrived at the same time. Good thing my library is pretty forgiving when it comes to late fees 🤪

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Assistant to the Villain | Hannah Nicole Maehrer
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…
I reallllllllly have a problem starting books. Plenty of options, so what is my deal?!! 🫠

TheBookgeekFrau I have the same problem 😆 6mo
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Talking at Night | Claire Daverley
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👆THIS is what I wanted Normal People to be. I tried Rooney (twice) and couldn‘t deal. This one had that same-ish back and forth, but they always wanted what was best for each other, together or not. And the writing!!! 🤌I really loved this one!

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Talking at Night | Claire Daverley
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Not even halfway through this one yet, but I think it‘s going to be in my top five of the year. 🤓🏆 The cover, to me, says light hearted romance-y reading, but that is not this book. It‘s so much more 🫶

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Just so cute ❤️🥰

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Cutting Teeth: A Novel | Chandler Baker
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It‘s a pick, but not a super pick. I found myself skimming pages in the middle of the book, and it seemed that I‘d get interested in what was happening to one character only to be met with another mom‘s POV in the following chapter. The book does spotlight an interesting theme of how much a mom gives up of herself by being a mom, but there were many storylines happening, too much for my beginning of the school year teacher brain.

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Cutting Teeth: A Novel | Chandler Baker
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“She hates those (stretch marks), has no interest in making peace with them. And this is to say nothing of her breasts, which used to be quite nice before her kids literally ate them. Lately, she‘s been able to crunch them up in her fists like stress balls. They didn‘t use to do that.” 😩😭🤣🤣🤣

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Ripe | Sarah Rose Etter
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Meh, maybe wrong book at the wrong stage of life. Other books (My Year of Rest; Really Good Actually; Pisces) have been 5 star reads for me. This was different. There‘s no snarky, dark humor to help this one. I thought the short chapters would make for a quick read, but I found myself just not wanting to pick up the book and took forever and a day to finish it. Lots of problems with this one for me at this current life stage. It‘s a me problem.

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Little Free Library find 🤩

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 7mo
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Easy peasy feel good graphic novel about finding yourself and the people who love you and forgetting about the rest. Just flat out feel good stuff. I wish I had this book as an option years ago when kids just like Nick and Charlie sat in my classroom, quiet and confused about where they belonged. Glad this series is there for the sweet kids of today 🖤

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The Giver | Lois Lowry
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Don‘t judge, but somehow, I‘ve gone my entire life without reading The Giver or The Outsiders. (Possssssibly read Outsiders in school, but if that‘s true, it didn‘t leave a strong impression on my young, not wholly developed mind 😅). Anywho, I‘ll be teaching both of these titles this year, so I‘m marking up my copy of The Giver and listening to The Outsiders. Pretty dang excited about both of them! 🤓👏

tjwill I taught both of those to 8th graders for a few years. They are modern classics, and kids tend to love them too. (edited) 7mo
LiteraryinLawrence Enjoy them! I taught The Giver to 7th grade for a while and the kids got into it. 7mo
Bookish_Gal The Giver was one of the few mandatory school reads that I actually enjoyed. Although it wasn‘t until recently I found out there were a couple more in the series 7mo
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As much as it hurts, I think these are going back to the library unread. With school right around the corner, my concentration is lacking, and the long, lovely sentences and chapters require more than my mental state can supply. Hoping I can find my way back to these when things calm down.

ChaoticMissAdventures There are many books I check out more than once because I just picked them up at the wrong time. I think it is good for the book! 7mo
TheKidUpstairs @ChaoticMissAdventures We were just talking about this at the library I work at! We all do it, and we decided we were just doing our part to help circulation numbers :) 7mo
Tamra I get it! 7mo
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