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LilithHomer

LilithHomer

Joined June 2017

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The Mothers: A Novel | Brit Bennett
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A complicated community with lots of characters opposed to one another but still sympathetic. I'm a little uncomfortable with how many people thought they had a right to make Nadia and Luke's life decisions for them, and ended up not sure whether the author approves or disapproves of that. But certainly lots to think about.

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Mehso-so

A good introduction but probably not much new for a more experienced reader

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I don't think I've ever read a nonfiction book about an idea, not a moment in history, that felt like it had surprise twists. I love the way Ronson commits to a question not an answer in his books.

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Combines a personal narrative about an American living in Switzerland with her French husband with reflections and factual tidbits about bilingualism and xenophobia. It works.

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Young Jane Young | Gabrielle Zevin
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Best book for a sick day. Smart and thought provoking but effortless to read.

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I could not resist the cover, but the characters and dialogue seemed too modern, and I was not feeling it.

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Commonwealth | Ann Patchett
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Memorable scenes and great prose. The plot arc is loose and looping.

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Beautiful prose, beautifully imagined, and an anti-invasion message that seems very 1938. Futuristic, but also of its time? Requires concentration but glad I read it.

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The Nest: A Novel | Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
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I never really got emotionally invested in the main characters but loved the secondary storyline with Tom, Vinnie, and Matilda.

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Mehso-so

Good recipes, but the memoir portions made the author seem unapologetically snobby.

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Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders
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Weird but so good. I loved the empathetic portrayal of Lincoln and his son and the chorus of souls and commentators (twitter in the afterlife??). I listened to the audio with the print book on my lap to help me track who was talking.

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Mehso-so

Huh. I really expected to like this book, and did like the sentences and the imagery, but the characters seemed foolish.

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This romantic comedy makes me feel all fizzy.

pri_bibliophile Oh I loved this book!! 7y
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What it's like to be a brain surgeon. Henry Marsh can be kind of an asshole and I don't want to have him over for dinner, but i so respect his unflinching honesty about the privilege and responsibility of doing something both heroic and unpredictable.

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Very charming flirtation between hero and heroine, plot a little unambiguous.

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Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner
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Quietly awesome. These characters and their lifelong friendship seem so real in how well they come to know the best and worst of one another. Has a summer-into-fall feeling.

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Lost Book of the Grail | Charlie Lovett
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Not deep, but a pleasant digression if you have a soft spot for cathedrals, medieval legends, old books, and old libraries.

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The Skeleton Tree | Iain Lawrence
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Read with my son. For me, too many plot elements and too much tension, but it's a readable middle grade survival story with a vivid setting.

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Bailedbailed

Sort of not in the mood for these first world problems.

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Mehso-so

I can appreciate that the imagery here is fantastic, but sometimes for me, lots of fantasy elements lower the emotional stakes. I'm a bit concrete for this book, maybe.

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Mr. Rochester | Sarah Shoemaker
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As a child, I liked Jane Eyre better than Pride and Prejudice but as an adult I became aware that the plot is ... weird. This book is a fix it that shows events from Rochester 's point of view and makes some of his choices more understandable. I wish I had reread Jane Eyre first though as I spent a lot of time wondering 'is this part original?'

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Broken Harbour | Tana French
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Twisty mystery plus an emotional personal story about the detective

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Smoke and Mirrors | Neil Gaiman
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Full of creativity and magic. My favourite stories were Chivalry and The Goldfish Pool

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Satisfying armchair travelling

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Pleasantly rambling until at the very end you see a scene in the school segregation battle through Steinbeck's eyes. His shock felt like mine listening to the news today. How timely.

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Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout
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Such masterful writing. So simple but so much emotion in plain ordinary lives.

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Great setting, but the plot was unbelievable and the racial stereotypes troubling.

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Song of the Lark | Willa Cather
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If you want to know what it was like to be born a musical prodigy in a Little Town on the Prairie.

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Five stars. Funny, brilliant social satire of the specific things people in the Pacific Northwest can be snobby about, and a heroine I totally see myself in.

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It's not really about who did the murder, it's about the 20s glamour.

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He Said / She Said | Erin Kelly
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If you like a puzzle and you don't mind a whole lot of betrayal - made me feel kind of icky

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Though some suspension of disbelief is required, this book has lots of 30s glamour, snappy dialogue and a supremely likeable heroine.

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Coraline | Neil Gaiman
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So creepy - would be great to get into a Halloween mood.

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Good book to take on a weekend away. Super brave female spies in WW 1 and 2. Some characters based on real people.

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If it would appeal to you to spend time at a cocktail party talking to a guy who spent his life tracing valuable early copies of Shakespeare through the hands of collectors, librarians and thieves, this is for you.

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The Almost Sisters: A Novel | Joshilyn Jackson
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Set in a small town in the South, this book has about 7 plot twists and will keep your vacation mood intact with a happy ending.

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DNF. Very grand theory woven from anecdotal evidence. Not a lot of attention to alternate explanations.

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If you feel like reading a western, with a shootout, but also a rich story about a found family

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The Mésalliance | Stella Riley
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If you want to feel like an intellectual. If you want to revel in the imagery of being a lonely artistic soul in the big city. If you want to know more about outsider artists.

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If you ever wondered what it would really be like to go back to Jane Austen's time. If you want a vacation page turner that also has something to say about the stories we tell about the past.

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Title page of the month!

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Julian Fellowes's Belgravia | Julian Fellowes
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Julian Fellowes's Belgravia | Julian Fellowes
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Lab Girl | Hope Jahren
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Loot | Jude Watson
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Recommended by my 11 year old son. Fast paced fun with kid jewel thieves, cryptic clues, and high stakes heists.

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Dreamland Burning | Jennifer Latham
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Lunch break

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