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Itchyfeetreader

Joined January 2017

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The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
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Salt. by Nayyirah Waheed
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I set myself my own version of my favourite challenge #booked given it is not, for understandable reasons running. My husband and I had fun setting date related challenges and my book of poetry for WH Auden birthday was an enigma. I find poetry super intimidating but was pleased with this choice. The structure of many of the poems are deceptively simple (4 line verses, mostly alternating rhyme) but there were many poems here that will stick ⬇️

Itchyfeetreader The aurhor writes with wit but also real heart and there is an underlying sense of ‘sad but will work out okay‘ here. With that level of literary analysis I am sure no one is surprised as to why I didn‘t follow English literature beyond gcse ! 13h
dabbe As a former high school English teacher, don't sell yourself short! As a student, I hated dissecting a poem to death. As a teacher, I hated making kids do that. Overall, poetry is meant to be enjoyed and FELT. No poet ever wanted his/her/their poem analyzed to death. I love your thoughts on this book of poems, and am so glad you're embracing poetry. Don't be afraid of it; you know so much more than you think you do #IMHO. 💚💙💚 12h
Itchyfeetreader Thank you @dabbe I love that advice to feel@the poems 3h
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I wanted so badly to love this but I just struggled. It may be where I am at the moment but bit I was just caught in what was heartbreakingly sad story of toxic parenting echoing through multiple generations.

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Just picked a new book, realised I had not made my list, made my list and then spotted the tag and realised the book I have ok led for this evening is my spin! Serendipity!

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Absolutely loved this. Great historical fiction based on a fascinating and complex character who the author does a great job of presenting. I also really appreciated the authors note - Mila is a character who will stick with me and excitingly @Andrew65 it‘s also book 11 that I already owned #readaway2024

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My #bookedintime for the Russian revolution tells us little of the revolution but a good deal on the minutiae of the last days & weeks of the Romanov‘s. Clearly a passion project of research this is only a soft pick for me. the research sang louder than plot or character - this may be because the set up of the novel is a man in his 90s recording his memories of something that happened in his teens but the story loosing something in his voice

Cuilin #RussianRevolution ✔️🎉 sounds like an interesting read. 3w
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This was at time difficult but very powerful story of a teenage girl coming to grips with the loss of her favourite uncle to AIDS and her general feelings of loneliness and lack of connection from her family. There‘s too much in here for the length of the novel - a storyline with her sister that is rushingly resolved, a parental backstory or two and the main storyline where she befriends her uncles boyfriend but for all that a good read

Jari-chan I really loved that one ♥️ 1mo
marleed One of my all time favorite books! 1mo
Reggie Ughhhh when the uncle is telling her that the teapot is for the best people and that she is the best people, then gives it to her…😭 1mo
ErikasMindfulShelf I loved this one! 1mo
Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan @marleed @Reggie @ErikasMindfulShelf I feel really silly that I had owned this for ages but hadn‘t quite got to it! Glad I did! 1mo
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#tlt @dabbe plays or dramas
The crucible
The audience
Pygmalion
Bonuses This house & a dolls house 2 of the better things I have seen in the last few years. Oh and if I have to have a Shakespeare is probably a Henry I have a soft spot for the histories)
Top musicals
Hamilton
Anything goes
Blood brothers
mention to Gypsy (Imelda Stauntons performance in the last 20 minutes best thing I have seen. miss Saigon, my first ‘big London show‘

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 Excellent choices. I loved teaching THE CRUCIBLE to my juniors, and they loved it, too! Thanks for sharing! 🩷💜❤️ 1mo
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The Cloisters | Katy Hays
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One to sit with for a while. The museum setting was fabulous and the tension and angst running through the hot summer added to the gothic feel. The storyline, tarot cards, divination and more could have been great but for the characters. Ann, the main protagonist is beyond bland and all the relationships and interactions felt forced and 2 dimensional. I ended up not caring as much as I could for either the mystery or the people

Caroline2 Yeah, this one just missed the mark for me too. 1mo
Itchyfeetreader @caroline2 I wanted to love it but I just didn‘t in the end ! 1mo
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This is a thoughtful and compelling story about 2 friends (neither of whom are easy to like) torn apart by the tragic consequences of differing views on vaccines. The author does well to make both sympathetic if not at times infuriating in their positions. The varied anonymous voices in the short italicised chapters also add more voice and colour.

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All This I Will Give to You | Dolores Redondo
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Read as a book in translation for my own little challenge of the year. The language in this is at times distractingly over the top - sentences and sentences where a word@or two might have worked but because of dispute this I found this mystery about an aristocratic family dark and compelling. Galicia is at times a character with its unpredictable weather and folklore. Lots of trigger warning lots of deaths!

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#wonderouswednesday @Eggs fun one ! 1. It‘s either late 90s pop - think Britney, 5ive etc or the fairly niche Gloria by Laura Brannigan (also my move quickly to try tube station song!) 2. Honestly anywhere with a temperate to warm climate near the coast I am not fussy I just want sunshine for several months a year and the sound of the sea 3. Disconnecting, baths, getting to swim a few times a week, meaningful time with my husband, dog walks

Suet624 The sound of the sea 💕💕💕 1mo
Eggs You had me at ‘coast‘ 🩵 1mo
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I wanted to love this. WW2, strong female protagonist, books … sounds 100pc up my street and yet unfortunate it was a very soft like for me. I was left with an overwhelming sense that thjs was a book I had already read and books that tackled the difficult topics better. There was almost too much happening here and that might reflect reality of scary, chaotic lives at war there was not enough depth to convince me. Would have preferred a narrower ⬇️

Itchyfeetreader Story. Either a deeper look at the girls friendships or Zofia and her mum would have been more compelling I think. Also … and this is a common complaint of mine on historical fiction - I don‘t think the epilogue added anything :-( 1mo
CaramelLunacy Pity this didn't work well for you. I enjoyed two of the author's other WWII novels, so will probably keep an eye out for this at the library 1mo
Crazeedi A shame, I've thought the same reading other books. Nice review 1mo
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My love of Louisa may Alcott is I think we‘ll publicised here - I have been to orchard House many years ago and today managed to squeeze a spare hour out of a work@trip to go see both of her Boston houses .. this one where she spent her later years is beautiful

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 1mo
Librarybelle Yay! 1mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
mabell How pretty! 1mo
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This is exceptionally researched and exceptionally well written and all sorts of horrifying. The story of the KKK startling and speedy growth in 1920s heartlands, esp Indiana. At the centre a deeply dislikeable man whose violence and hypocrisy eventually brought him down after a savage (TW described in detail) attack on a young woman. So much to reflect on, and perhaps learn.

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My first ever #bookspin - as a mood reader who is also trying to join in some prompts and challenges this year I have been pretty vague but this seems to be what people love about this challenge is it‘s flexibility ! Thanks @TheAromaofBooks

Crazeedi You will have fun! I don't do the bingo 2mo
Crazeedi I did the same kind of list this month too!! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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dabbe All 20 books for me said “On my TBR”. How‘s that for vagueness? 😂 2mo
Itchyfeetreader @dabbe I like your style! 2mo
dabbe @Itchyfeetreader 🤩😂😍 2mo
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Sneaked in another of @DebinHawaii recommendations for #auldlangspine2024 and I loved it. Heartbreaking story of friendship and family over the course of one summer in a neighbourhood grappling with poverty, gangs and it‘s actual eradication and the buildings are demolished. Powerful and both sad and yet optimistic. Beware numerous trigger warnings

DebinHawaii Glad you enjoyed this one! It is very powerful & moving. I am still working my way through The Huntress on audiobook (loving it!) & I will start My Monticello soon. Plus have a few others from the list awaiting holds! 2mo
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The Crow Girl | Erik Axl Sund
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This was a hard read. Hard,dark, upsetting content that I would have given up on but for the fact the plot and storytelling was so compelling. I wanted to know what happened very badly but also feel like I need to steam clean my brain. Read for my own challenge this year as a Nordic noir it was defiantly noir !

ElizaMarie Yes!!! I thought it was pretty difficult (subject matter wise) but such a good book! 2mo
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Booked was my favourite reading challenge for how random but achievable it was for me. When I realised it wasn‘t running this year I co-opted my husband to help me recreate the same sense of challenge. He picked 18 ‘days of the year‘ and we then found someone who shared the same day as a birthday for 12 of them creating a 24 book challenge. No. 1 - a non fiction on a subject I know nothing about for world education day is proving to be dark.

Jari-chan That's a cool challenge idea! 2mo
willaful What was Booked? 2mo
Itchyfeetreader @willaful it was a fab challenge with great random prompts by quarter … I read so widely and new genres etc 2mo
willaful Ah, a shame it's not around anymore. Some challenges are really hard to lose! 2mo
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Yellowface | R F Kuang
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Bought this in an airport last year but didn‘t get to it until my #auldlangspine recs from @DebinHawaii I LOVED it. June, the narrator tries to justify stealing her dead friends manuscript & passing it off as her own. We see her narcissism, her ‘i‘m not racist but in first person which makes her awfulness also kind of captivating. A satire of sorts about publishing, social media & cancel culture. Compelling

DebinHawaii I read this for #CampLitsy over the summer & really enjoyed it for the reasons you mentioned. Compelling is a great word to describe it! 2mo
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The Dead Romantics | Ashley Poston
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My second of @DebinHawaii recs for #auldlangsspine2024 and it‘s another pick from me too! This is a really lovely, and occasionally laugh out loud romantic comedy following an author turned ghost writer who can see ghosts. I always think the best romance stories are really rich in secondary characters & scene setting and have something else to say; this has that in droves. wonderful underlying tale of familial love, great small town and more

DebinHawaii I really enjoyed this one so I am glad you did! 🤗🎉 I started listening to The Huntress on audio—I forgot I bought it a while ago. It‘s good! 2mo
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Gatty's Tale | Kevin Crossley-Holland
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So first up this has been on my kindle for eons and I don‘t know why I ever bought it. Secondly I had hoped it would be my Jan #bookedintime but it‘s 200 years too late and thirdly it‘s one of the most grown up children‘s books I have ever read!! With all that out of the way I absolutely loved this story about a young girl with no family and limited prospects who as second chamber maid joins her widowed lady on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem ⬇️

Itchyfeetreader As ever on a pilgrimage the journey is at least as important as what she find when she makes it. This is full of vibrant descriptions of fabulous places. amazing characters and a quite preen sensibility that doesn‘t feel out of place. I rated it 4 stars on Goodreads but may go back and update as one that I think will really stay with me 2mo
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This is the first of the books off my #Auldlangspine pairing @DebinHawaii and I loved it. A period piece set post WW1 featuring a spunky female lead fighting for her place in a university staff who decides to investigate a poisoning. All the feel of a country house comedy with stoic policemen and an attractive but damaged male love interest this was fun in an enolaholmes sort of a way. I really enjoyed thank you !

DebinHawaii I am so glad you enjoyed it! (The 2nd book was excellent too!) I think this is a great example of why I love @AuldLangSpine so much because it was on the list from my partner last year @Laughterhp & that‘s how I first discovered it. Yay to @monalyisha ‘s bookish matchmaking skills! 🎉📚🎉 2mo
Itchyfeetreader @DebinHawaii I love that - makes me want to sign up and add it to my list for next year! 2mo
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A Harvest of Thorns | Corban Addison
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Why this has been on my kindle for 7 years I do not know but what a great first read of the year. Part legal thriller, part journalistic. Investigation this fictional novel is ringing with anger about global supply chains and the impact they have in the developing world. Better than I am making it sound this was almost a 5 star read for me

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Estoril: ratni roman | Dejan Tiago-Stankovi?
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Bit of an odd one this - I have been dipping in and out for a few weeks. On one hand a fascinating loose fiction of war time comings and goings in Lisbon on the other a spraling cast it was@difficult to emotionally connect with

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Fifty Words for Snow | Nancy Campbell
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I have continued to play along with #booked23 whilst understanding all the reasons why the team behind it pulled it for the year and I am proud to have finished it with this gift from a Litsy swap from @jhod last year! As ever in essays there are some you like more (Japan) than others (France) but this was a lovely little book of peace to dip in and out of through the Christmas season (it‘s also book 100‘of the year!)

jhod How apt! Congrats on your century! 2mo
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#tlt not a resolution sort of person BUT right now on my mind are,
1️⃣get work & life a better balance 2️⃣ be more active - open to what that looks like 3️⃣ read more intentionally. I always loved #booked for forcing me to try new things & have done versions of #mounttbr. This year my own challenge in the vein of booked which I want to meet https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/0f914e97-3b02-4b25-a51b-32dc722...

dabbe I'm not either because I rarely finish them, but I tried to keep mine realistically doable--like yours! 💙❄️💙 3mo
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Christmas Pie | Jodi Taylor
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Despite my best efforts reading this whilst cooking Christmas dinner was not a success but did take me a lovely hour yesterday when everyone else went on a dog walk

julesG Maybe try the audiobook next time? We (as in my daughter and I) listened to the story together yesterday and today while cooking. It was my fourth read of the story (🙈🙈🙈) 3mo
Itchyfeetreader I really struggle with audio books of fiction but maybe starting with this series which I love is a great idea @julesG 3mo
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I am in awe of @monalyisha ability to watch up folks for #auldlangspine. This year I have been paired with @DebinHawaii and I am so excited about the list. We overlapped on one and I have four of her selections already sitting in either a pile or on the kindle! But in true fashion I have picked the tagged to be my first read with a quick download getting me ready for Jan!

DebinHawaii Oh yay! Glad you found some you like! 🎉 @monalyisha makes the best matches! 🤗 3mo
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Thank you @AbigailJaneBlog for my fabulous #Jólabókaflod gift and thank you @MaleficentBookDragon for organising. I love it although am worried about the covetous eye my dad is passing to the chocs!

BennettBookworm This is the best book ever 😭 3mo
Itchyfeetreader It‘s going to be up early in the new a year ! 3mo
AbigailJaneBlog You're so welcome! Might want to get a padlock for those choccies though 🎉 3mo
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My #jolabokaflodswap2023 arrives this morning thank you so much A.Steer can‘t wait to open ! @MaleficentBookDragon

AbigailJaneBlog Sorry, forgot to put my name on the outside! It's been a heck of a week - Merry Christmas 🥰🎉 3mo
Itchyfeetreader I did the exact same thing and forgot to put the add I had written is as well 3mo
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#tlt this is fun - I think I‘d want something winters and snowy va typical Uk grey and damp Christmas! So I‘ll say 1. Canada 2. Finland 3. Austria

dabbe Lovely choices! Thanks for sharing! 💙❄️ 3mo
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Winging this way to the Netherlands and without the card I wrote and left at home! Sorry will@post tomorrow ! @MaleficentBookDragon #jolabokafooswap

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So excited to have caught the sign ups for this year thanks for all you do on this one @monalyisha and also thanks for your very funny explanation of how you make it through winter on the sign up sheet!

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The Lost Plot | Genevieve Cogman
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Had this on the kindle for ages but avoided as I didn‘t like the third book in the series but this one was a return to form. We learn more about the dragons and their culture as well as the wonder of the librarians language. I had picked this as my gaslight fantasy novel but it‘s a bit of a cheat as most happens in a different world to Irene‘s - one that is US jazz age all the way!

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With thanks to @ju.ca.no who gifted me this which took me one step closer to #readingtheamericas23 it‘s a short story collection and as ever some are stronger than others. All are dark, some exceedingly so and the writing is sparse and kind of beautiful even when subject matter is macabre@and deeply disturbing . Not something I would have bought myself but a pick

ju.ca.no Glad it ended up being a pick! 3mo
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Reluctantly picked this for love triangle for my ongoing effort to stick with booked23 even though it‘s finished and I don‘t like love triangles. And yet here I am, crying a tad at what is really 2 love stories - one of 2 people finding their way to each other and their forever but also a great exploration of a female friendship - highs and lows and all. Or it‘s the 2 glasses of wine I had, because it‘s been one heck of a week !

Gissy 🐶🤎🤎🤎🤎 3mo
Hooked_on_books Look at that tummy! 😍🐶 3mo
dabbe Hello there, sweet, sleepy pup! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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Sula | Toni Morrison
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Picked this from my kindle backlog for a #booked23 entry and I was both confused and blown away and really would love to read it as a book club! Theee is no real plot just wonderfully drawn people and places until the town is the lead. Which is just as well as The main character is not introduced until a fir way in and then we lose her for 20 years of her life and what we see of her is not all that pleasant!

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#womderouswedneaday @Eggs sliding in late with this but … 1) we decorate inside tree and nativity 2) we try and buy a decoration when we visit somewhere new so our tree is the story of our lives together - my favourite is probably a star we bought in a German market 20 years ago this year 3) I love Christmas music my absolute favourite will be niche and is the Christmas alphabet sung by dickie valentine!

Eggs Love that idea of picking up ornaments from your travels! 4mo
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The Sanatorium | Sarah Pearse
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There was much here that I thought I would love. The scene setting in the cold, isolated alps is excellent and the build up to a closed house mystery is good and it‘s a great closed house / hotel.. but then it gets messy! Overly complicated back story of the lead feels distracting and the actual who dun it didn‘t really capture my attention. #pantone2023 and will be my mountains #booked2023 which i want to finish regardless

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If ever there was a niche post! I don‘t think I have ever felt so seen in actual published words. I have spent the last 10 plus years feeling like I have to justify where I came from, ‘cos someone thinks I didn‘t sound like it. Lot of ‘I am actually, yes I know it doesn‘t sound like it‘ etc etc (until I have a drink, am tired, or spend a weekend with the family!) all jokes aside though ⬇️

Itchyfeetreader I suspect this is my tiny first wold insight into what confounding small minded expectations feels like. (edited) 4mo
Velvetfur Omg I feel seen now too! I lived in London for 12 years, lived in various places before that, so don't have that much of an accent, but like you out comes out when I'm angry, haha! 4mo
Velvetfur Sorry I don't mean like when you're angry, I know that's not what you said in your post! I mean it comes out in certain situations, sorry I worded it wrong! 4mo
Itchyfeetreader @Velvetfur no need to apologise! Sounds like we had the same experience ‘but are you though?‘. I‘ll never forget esp the first time. It was a friend of a friend. telling me ‘it was okay I didn‘t sound like I was from Liverpool‘ 4mo
Velvetfur @Itchyfeetreader oof! The cheek! On the flip side though, while I lived in London I had several times where I'd say I'm from Liverpool and the person I was talking to would say that they'd been there and absolutely loved it! Which always made me proud, hehe 😁 4mo
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Grown Ups | Marian Keyes
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Uggh what a confusing book. Half way in I thought Keys had managed to write a book full of well fleshed out but awful people m, two thirds of the way in I thought I might dnf but my curiosity as to what happened to them all won through. Then before I know it I have almost finished and am cheering them on. All of which h to say it‘s a rich, detailed book full of well written people you probably wouldn‘t want to be friends with !

BkClubCare Adulting is hard 4mo
willaful Well put! 11h
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Written in poetry this is a beautiful, haunting story of the wars fought in Cuba to gain independence from Spain. The main character is Rosa a slave turned nurse who hides in the countryside helping all who cross her path regardless of allegiance. At the moment though it was Silvia a young girl escaped from the (first) ‘re concentration ‘ camps after all her family died of starvation or disease who might stay with me longest

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Love starting the month with a positive @Eggs . I am good at, 1. Cooking a great curry 2. Remembering peoples names 3. Planning road trips 4. Procrastinating 5. Party planning 6. Putting together an exceptional cheeseboard 7. Getting friends together 8. Helping in a crisis 9. Being calm and still 10. Swimming a slow and steady breaststroke… aim for 2024 be able to add photography to this list! #wonderouswednesday

Eggs You are Blessed 🤗 5mo
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Keeper of Enchanted Rooms | Charlie N. Holmberg
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This was really sweet - arguably almost cozy and I enjoyed immensely! Set in the 1840s in a world whweee magic exists but is reducing the world building was really fun. Merritt, the protagonist inherits a haunted / magical house and sets out to learn the mystery of it with the help of his fab housekeeper. Along the way he learns his own and indeed her secrets to boot. fun and easy also don‘t match for a #pantone2023 I don‘t have yet

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Exactly my kind of historical fiction. Rich plot, well drawn characters and things I didn‘t know. In this case both how tough it was to track down many who committed war crimes and also more about the fascinating women only pilot squadrons in Russia. You always know where this is going to end but the journey to get there has me begging for five more minutes reading last night like I was 7 again.

annahenke Loved this one! I just started her new book 5mo
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My husband and I have been listening to this book on audio for what feels like forever but have really finished the bulk of it on our roadtrip. It‘s little like 2 books - the first two thirds a historical and sometimes philosophical ref election on the development of liberalism - this part I would give 5 out of 5 to. The latter third is a reflection on the threads to liberalism with a real focus on growing nationalism. This section is also ⬇️

Itchyfeetreader Very good but Dunt‘s politics and personal voice shine through - if you agree with him it‘s sharp and powerful if you don‘t it risks being dismissed and that‘s a shame because he lends some great insights. 5mo
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Find You First | Linwood Barclay
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I‘d forgotten how much I liked this author and this was a cracker. Fast paced with multiple voices and threads there but still good characterisation and strong plot with more than a few twists along the way. A perfect read but for a sense of the ending being a little bit rushed.

TrishB And you‘re somewhere where it‘s not raining!! 5mo
kwmg40 I love Linwood Barclay too! I've even had the chance to meet him at book events, as he lives in my part of the world. 5mo
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Unlikely Allies | C. C. Koen
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I have no idea why I bought this in 2015 or why it took my 8 years to read but gosh this was not a book for me. It felt computer generated, all the right parts - sexy CEO, troubled protagonist, super cute kid and yet it didn‘t gel for me at all - badly edited and felt like a male author writing women, badly!

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The Half Moon: A Novel | Mary Beth Keane
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So torn! I found the writing here compelling but for the first half of the book was just epically frustrated by Jess and Malcolm - a married couple who didn‘t seem to communicate at all - then I realised despite myself I had been drawn in and raced to the end ! Book 4 for #outstandingoctober @Andrew65

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The Manningtree Witches | A. K. Blakemore
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This has been on my kindle for almost 2 years and I thought this October was the one but it took me a really long time to get into it - well written it felt a little cold until half way in. Undoubtedly great historical fiction of the witch finder general and the women he aimed to find