🖤 The Pillars of the Earth
🖤 The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series
🖤 Anything by Markus Zusak
🖤 Song of Achilles/Circe

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Kinda excited to give this a go

I got this for free years back at my library. This book took me completely by surprise. It went much, much deeper and darker than I would have imagined. There's a lot to unpack in this one. A very interesting read for sure.

Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people.

I haven't read any WWII historical fiction in ages. I guess I've been burned out on it. My other book was a DNF.
I got this last Christmas from my bestie and am just now getting around to giving it a go.

Starting this but I have serious reservations about it. 60 pages in... 😕😬

Wow, what a wild ride this book is, all the way through. I'm honestly not even sure I can really fully comprehend what I've just finished. This book is like no other. I don't even know whether to give it 4 or 5 stars. I will be chewing this one a while.

But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?

I've been up for several hours and decided I might as well read if I can't sleep. This is probably going to be my last book for 2021..
Glad I picked a good one to end the year with.
222/622 so far.

The heart heals but never completely. (Pg 96)

I was debating between this and The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult. This won out on my poll. So far I am 80 pages in.

I mean, so-so. A woman goes through a breakup, has a breakdown and starts sleeping around, including an incident with a colleague that comes to bite her in the ass with getting fired. Her besties are there for her thru it all as she picks the pieces of her life and attempts to put them back together. Not an earth shattering book, but it was ok.

Even at over 500 pages, I managed to devour this in 2 days. I found it really enjoyable, right up to the end. The end is what took it from a five to a four star book for me. But still very enjoyable.

Being of for the holidays, I'm flying through this and really enjoying it
I will probably finish it today
Merry Christmas!

Billy Summers by Stephen King will my next read. Perfect for the holidays, right? 🤣🤫

I've been waiting for this to become available since September thru Libby. Can't wait to start reading. Obsessed with all mythology.

I was reading Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese but it's a library book and it's due back before I can finish. I also just realized I bought it, like, last month 😳 so I'll take it back to the library and reread it sometime at my leisure.
I've had Reincarnation Blues for a long while now. I'd saved it for a potential buddy read but realized that's not gonna happen because the tbr pile is just too big.
The cover is beautiful hope I like it

Ah man I should be finishing this up today. It's so good, I almost don't want it to end.

Stopped at my library and picked these up to read over long weekend
Cutting for Stone and Project Hail Mary

110 pages in.... thought provoking to say the least
I feel out of my depth here

Any thoughts on this? It's been in my tbr stacks for quite a while.. I'm less than 20 pages in

Need a good book after JCO and I've heard great things about this

I'll never get that 2 weeks back 🥺👎

My hold for this finally came in after a 30 week wait so I'm diving in since I hate my current read, anyway.

Ugh I'm so ready to be done with this book 😑
I'm not entertained

Surprise #bookmail from a dear friend 🥰📚
The Heretic's Daughter, Kathleen Kent
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy

Reading We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates. This is my 2nd attempt at this book, but I'm 100 pages in this time around, so hopefully sticking with it.

"Do you know the difference between men and gods?"
"No, sir."
"Gods don't think they can become men."

Hanging out with my best friend. We visited a used book store . I got 14 books for under $60. Lonesome Dove is for my mom for Christmas. Memoirs is a better edition than my mass market paperback copy. The Winter People is autographed.
#bookhaul

Hanging out with my best friend. We visited a used book store . I got 14 books for under $60. Lonesome Dove is for my mom for Christmas. Memoirs is a better edition than my mass market paperback copy. The Winter People is autographed.
#bookhaul

Thinking about making this my next book 📖🤔

I won this thru a Goodreads giveaway and opinions are my own.
This was a really short book. There wasn't anything earth shattering in here or much that hadn't been said in other self help style books. It was a quick, easy read.

Next book is my most recent Goodreads giveaway win

was a bit dubious at first..I mean... traveling back in time to save JFK?! 🤔 Definitely not my usual kind of book, for sure. But this book slowly grew on me and sucked me in. I became invested in Jake/George and the other characters in this novel. At times King definitely took his sweet time getting to the actual events of the title of the book, 11/22/63, because we don't actually get to the day in question until part 5.

Only 2 books today and only one was from the used book sale.
The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann

Woot, part 5!
At this rate I'll be finished with this in the next 2 days and still enjoy a couple of these vacation days 🙃📖🤓
11/22/63 Stephen King

Since social media was bupkis all day, I got as much reading in as my eyes would handle. I'm over 500 pages into my book now. 🤓📖

Stopped by the library because my internet is having issues
Scored these 4 books for $1
(There's also a used library sale starting Wed I plan on visiting)
Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker
The 100-Year-Old Man..., Jonas Jonasson
We Were The Lucky Ones, Georgia Hunter
Calypso, David Sedaris

All were on my want to reads list except The 100 year old man.... not sure if I'll like that one, but for a quarter, I'll give it a shot

Reached part 4

I've reached part 2. So far so good.

I won this through Goodreads in exchange for an honest review. Am interesting memoir about all the adventures of her life, thru the strained relationships with her parents and her many countless relationships with partners, usually to thr consternation and disapproval of her parents. Decent read and a pretty short book. 3 star.

Off until the 11th
I'm not a King fan. I've heard high praise about this so here's hoping... Green Mile and Rita Hayworth are on my want to reads list as well, but a dear book friend was kind enough to send me this copy. I've just been waiting to start it so I could actually read more than a few pages/chapter at a time. Work is at it's busiest right now, so I literally get home and only have time to eat before it's basically bedtime.

what a crazy ride that was! This book has so much depth and emotion. I was highlighting phrases and quotes at only 20 pages in. This book has depth and soul. It's very violent, yes. But it also tugs at your heartstrings because it's a story about loss, regrets, redemption, vengeance... this book has everything! Easily five stars and one of the best books I've read this year. Do yourself a favour and read it.

I have a king size bag of Reese's pieces, a bag of lifesaver gummies, a 44 Oz Mountain Dew, and I've been in bed reading Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby since 7 am 🙂 I am 43% through, and this book is so damn good! I feel I'm gonna have a book hangover after this one.

"Life sends us down some strange roads on our way to our destiny.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

"Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

"But time was a river made of quicksilver. It slipped through his grasp even as it enveloped him. Twenty became forty. Winter became spring, and before he knew it he was an old man burying his son and wondering where in the hell that river had taken him.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

Friday night off right with a beer, a book and a bath

Starting this next because it's a library hold. I've heard good things!