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Heatherfeather

Heatherfeather

Joined April 2016

Scorpio. Ravenclaw. Bring on all the books. Favorite genres: fantasy, space opera, mystery/thriller, women's & commercial fiction
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The Forgotten Garden | Kate Morton
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So lovely, intricate, sad, positive, perfect.

AvidReader25 Loved this one! 3y
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The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster
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As good as I remembered from my childhood!

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The Winter People: A Novel | Jennifer McMahon
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Mehso-so

Fizzled out at the end, unfortunately

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Troubled Blood | Robert Galbraith
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God I love these books.

bookaholic1 Me too 3y
AvidReader25 I‘ve got this one on my kindle, but it‘s so long I was hesitant to start it. I loved the last one though. It‘s good to hear it doesn‘t disappoint! 3y
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Mehso-so

Loved everything to do with India and her immigrant experience. But I didn't care for the over-writing in the parts having to do with her daughter. Still, I love this woman!

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A Song for Ella Grey | David Almond
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Huh? This really wasn't for me. I started out liking it but then it turned into nonsense and I didn't care about it at all.

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Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter
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Mehso-so

I was really looking forward to this since I loved my first Slaughter book, however this one just didn't click for me. Some good suspense, but lots of cliché and overwriting and repetition.

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Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter

Hoo-boy this shit is DARK

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Fire in the Hole | Elmore Leonard
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Pretty good...my first Leonard. How does someone write almost no detail or description and yet the world is so vivid? (Dialogue. The answer is dialogue.)

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The Guest List | Lucy Foley
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Mehso-so

Argh, I figured it out. And I'm not saying that to brag, I'm disappointed. I love love loved the first part of the book with all the characters in their revelations. But the end was flat for me.

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Things My Son Needs to Know about the World | Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith
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Pickpick

More funny and cute than profound, though the last part made me cry.

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Mehso-so

Ok so I *think* I might understand why so many people liked this book...however, for reasons similar to Crawdads, it just wasn't for me. Also, yikes 1990s views...

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This book is interminable. End already.

DrexEdit 😂😂 I remember when everybody was reading this book. It disappeared kind of quickly! 4y
Heatherfeather @DrexEdit I remember my mom talking about it. It felt dated. 4y
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Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson
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Truly one of the most unique, stunning, and beautiful books I've ever read.

squirrelbrain I loved this too! I listened to it on audio, read by the author herself - wonderful! 4y
Wife This is on my “Keeper” shelf. I adored this!❤️ 4y
Heatherfeather @squirrelbrain oooo I bet it was great! 4y
Heatherfeather @Wife I'm holding on to it for my daughter 4y
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Mehso-so

Good but waaaaaaay tooooo looooonnnngg. Somewhere between so-so and a pick.

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Pickpick

Kate Morton's books are like getting lost in an English country hedge maze: You're very confused for a long time, but you don't mind because it is so utterly beautiful and intriguing, and then everything comes together in the end. (And Joanne Froggatt--Anna on Downton Abbey--is an amazing narrator!)

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Super duper funny while also being insightful!

jouleian Oh I LOVED this book!!! 4y
Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira Thanks for bringing it up, stack add for me 📚 4y
Heatherfeather @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira yay! I'm adding her others too 4y
Heatherfeather @jouleian I was so pleasantly surprised!!! 4y
SiameseCatsRead One of my favorite "self-help" books! 4y
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Untamed | Glennon Doyle
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Pickpick

Loved it. Spoke to my soul.

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This book...

bourne.shell I was totally surprised at how much I loved this book! 4y
Heatherfeather @bourne.shell just so good, all around 4y
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The Island: A Thriller | Ragnar Jonasson
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Mehso-so

Damn I wanted to love this. First chapter was awesome. Setting is incredible. But I just didn't connect. Maybe it was the translated prose? Or the staccato style to the chapters? Still, I'm intrigued by the Icelandic setting to try another one of his books.

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The Night Tiger | Yangsze Choo
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Pickpick

Really liked it! A wonderfully satisfying ending. Haven't read anything like this before.

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Omg so fucking funny

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Love love love this. So perfectly spot on and just what I wanted to hear right now.

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The Likeness: A Novel | Tana French
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God I love French's writing. Didn't love this as much as In the Woods, but still really great.

MelKelsey @Heatherfeather I totally agree! 4y
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Pickpick

Absolutely delightful ❤️❤️❤️

tpixie This is such a sweet book! 4y
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Lovely and happy (but also bittersweet), a joy to read in this time. Short and sweet, and I plan on giving it to my 12 year old daughter now. (That's Lexi, my 4 year old Bernese Mountain Dog.)

Crazeedi Lexi is a beautiful dog💖 4y
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Recursion | Blake Crouch
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Surprisingly profound. Really really liked it.

ItsAnotherJen I really enjoyed this one too! 4y
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Ridiculous and over the top and escapist. Exactly what I needed right now!

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Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
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Bailedbailed

While I was impressed with Bardugo's descriptions, nothing about this book clicked for me by page 176 and so I'm putting it down. I don't understand what's happening, I don't like the characters, I feel like I've read similar things, it feels forced...I'm so disappointed. I wanted to like it so much.

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The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
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Mehso-so

#unpopularopinion...1. GORGEOUS writing 2. I know the story of the Trojan War so there was little to no surprises or AHA moments. 3. But my biggest issue? A first-person narrator should be so compelling I can't shake him when I close the book. The only thing I can say about Patroclus is that HE'S REALLY REALLY IN LOVE WITH ACHILLES. Otherwise he has zero personality.

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The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
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1. Disappointing
2. Yep!!! From Anderson's Bookshop I ordered the rest of The Promised Neverland manga, the first Locke and Key, and the 2nd And 3rd Five Nights at Freddie's books....all for my 12 yo daughter

@TheSpineView

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The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
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I Found You | Lisa Jewell
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Pickpick

Solid mystery/domestic thriller!

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Ask Again, Yes: A Novel | Mary Beth Keane
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Pickpick

This was a doozy. A true "family saga." Extraordinarily written and raw. Expansive yet oh so deep. Will be thinking about for a while now.

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The Secret Keeper | Kate Morton
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Pickpick

Though probably too wordy, it was nonetheless a gorgeous book, whose ending had me tearing up and clutching my heart.

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Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik
Pickpick

What a beautiful book!

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A lot of stuff in this I "knew" but he presented new spins and angles that got me thinking differently and ready to share even more.

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Unsub | Meg Gardiner
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Mehso-so

The best way I can describe this book is "cinematic." It is fast-paced and very focused on creating crime-scene, insane criminal, and police procedure visuals. For me, though, it was done at the expense of any subtlety and felt kind of generic. Which disappoints me bc I was really looking forward to this one.

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Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik
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Foster kitten Apollo (who is apparently a girl??) is telling me I need to read more.

LiteraryinLawrence What a cutie!!!!! 4y
JaneyWaneyB 😻 so tiny and soo cute 😻 4y
UwannaPublishme Awww! 😻 4y
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All We Ever Wanted | Emily Giffin
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Mehso-so

I commend the author for tackling such timely and difficult subject matter, however I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been. The writing felt basic at best and cliche at worst. The structure also felt rambling in places where it should have been tighter, and not detailed enough in places where depth was necessary.

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My heart hurts. Mostly because I recognize so much of her thinking....

Megabooks Fantastic book! 4y
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Read this little gem on the plane home from Utah.

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Funny and honest and filthy and entertaining (did I mention filthy?) 🤣😁

BookDragonNotWorm You had me at filthy! Now I have to read it! 😂 4y
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Bailedbailed

Afraid I have to put this down about halfway through. I'm not sure who her target audience is (tween girls maybe???) but the writing is one exclamation point and all-caps word after another. It reads like an overly long blog post talking down to people who want to be creative. I applaud the concept behind this book, but the exercises are quite dumb. Perhaps they really would work only on young people. It's too bad. Day can be entertaining.

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The Princess Diarist | Carrie Fisher
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Mehso-so

Erm, I feel like this was rambly and its only point was to talk at great length about her affair with Harrison Ford. BUT, I do quite like her writing and I found the actual journal entries to be intelligent, profound, and sad.

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Beartown: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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My 2019 year-end roundup list!!!

TheAromaofBooks Beartown is on my list for next month (thanks to #Authoramonth) - I've heard so many good things! 4y
Heatherfeather I loved it HARD 4y
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Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino
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Really good. So smart. Almost....too smart to listen to on audio? Haha I feel the need to buy print just So I can re-read it and fully comprehend her insightfulness.

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I am in a terrible reading and creative slump. Holding a book and following words has been difficult. As has been creativity. This was a helpful and delightful (and short!) read in needed times.

Bookzombie I hope the slump passes quickly! 4y
Heatherfeather @Bookzombie ugh I know. Thank you! 4y
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Untitled | Unknown
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1. Um. Hmmm. The most accurate is stay-at-home mom, but I'm currently trying to start a calligraphy business and revive my publishing career. Neither will pay jack squat.aa
2. A Bernese mountain dog, Lexi. A b/w cat, Oreo
3. Fantasy
4. Jacqueline Carey, Liane Moriarty, Kate Atkinson
5. Books? Haha
6. Every damn day
7. Both
8. Absolutely
9. Deep dark midnight blue

#litsylove #gettingtoknowyou2020 @TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love your calligraphy ❤️ 4y
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The Lake House | Kate Morton
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I liked this! It was like a thoroughly entertaining BBC mini series with twists and surprises in every chapter. It was a satisfying onion of a story.