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The World Record Book of Racist Stories | Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
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This is so freaking funny. But maybe not quite as funny as the first one. Definitely do the audio.

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Hooked_on_books I‘ll have to look for this. I loved the first one. What a great sense of humor these ladies have. 6h
DebinHawaii I loved their first book too. Stacking! 📚 2h
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Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane
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One of my friends had to stop reading this because he couldn't take all of the racism. As in, we live in Boston so being reminded of how gross this is was a bit much. And the homophobia. Because this was set in the 70s, you'd hope it was better but Boston is pretty well known for this situation. If you liked Mystic River, and you can get through the halfway point, this really is very well written.

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TheBookHippie It‘s in my TBR somewhere. I‘ll have to move it closer to the top. 1d
Tamra This was outstanding on audio! 1d
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 19h
Cathythoughts @Tamra I‘m ready for a new audio 👍🏻 I‘ll try this one. 13h
Cathythoughts Great review! I just got it on audio ❤️ 12h
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Made it. Took a weird selfie to celebrate.

#SundayBuddyRead

TheBookHippie 😅😮‍💨💛📔 4d
TheBookHippie I got the FLORIDA POSTCARD!!!!! 🧡 4d
vlwelser @TheBookHippie perfect. Much faster than Spain. 😂 😘 4d
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I cannot even with this book. It's never going to end....

AmyG 😩That‘s tomorrows reading for me. 6d
mcctrish I like to put it off for as long as possible 6d
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Last beach day. 😔

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The Paris Apartment | Lucy Foley
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This is a good mystery. It is not my favorite Lucy Foley and I do not need all of the French swear words and phrases translated (please. Google exists.) Otherwise this is quite great.

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The Paris Apartment | Lucy Foley
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Beach ✔
Sunrise ✔
Book ✔

youneverarrived Lovely 😍 1w
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Womb City | Tlotlo Tsamaase
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Done! This has Black Mirror vibes.

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Megabooks Cool! Loved that show! 1w
TrishB This looks good 👍🏻 1w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1w
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Womb City | Tlotlo Tsamaase
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Sunrise reading at the beach. Hopefully I'll finish this one today so you'll stop seeing pics of it. 😂

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Blue Nights | Joan Didion
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Joan Didion was very sad and lonely when she wrote this. But her writing is so beautiful.

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TheBookHippie I agree. 💙 2w
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Womb City | Tlotlo Tsamaase
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This morning's beach read.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover and photo ❤️ 2w
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Womb City | Tlotlo Tsamaase
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Giving the battery a rest....

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Catching up on my #ChloeGongReadAlong book. 💕💕💕💕

This is what I love about travel days.

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I loved this. It's freaking adorable. I got about halfway and couldn't stop.

First travel book complete. 🛫 Haven't even made it on the plane yet.

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Pub date is 7/16/24
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The Dry | Jane Harper
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This is just a straightforward mystery. It's good but 🤷. People kept recommending this to me when it came out and I now have no idea why. But good mystery.

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KadaGul @vlwelser Im reading this for#AuthorAMonth.I picked up this copy from a library sale because in 2021 there was a Film Adaptation starring Eric Bana. I like Eric Bana so tempted to read the book before watching the movie. It produced in Australia since Jane Harper is British-Australian🤗 2w
TheAromaofBooks It's been a while since I read this, but I remember liking it. 2w
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After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz
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I appreciate what the author was trying to do here, but it just wasn't my jam. Also the narrator on the audiobook struggles with pronouncing foreign words (esp French) so that was distracting....

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Creepy Korean short stories? Bunny on the cover? Sold!

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rockpools I still have images from this book firmly in my brain, a year on. 2w
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The Dry | Jane Harper
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#LitsyCrafters @Catsandbooks Better to show you, right?

A coworker asked if I knew how to sew. I showed him this.

emz711 Beautiful! 2w
Larkken Wow amazing! 2w
Catsandbooks You've made such great progress! 💖 2w
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Set in Thailand. Loosely tied together short stories with recurring characters. This took a while to read but it was me. I'm the problem. Some of the characters and their stories are more compelling than others.

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Pub date is way past. 😂
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vlwelser
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This was very good. It's really historical fiction with dual timelines that also happens to have a djinn and some ghosts. I thought it was really well executed.

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This should be interesting. Looking forward to this one.

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AardvarkBookClub It‘s a wonderful genre bending tale! We hope you love it ❤️ 2w
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2 of my group reads are doorstops and I'm going to Florida on Tuesday and my mum is coming later in the month so this might just be wishful thinking. We'll see what happens. 😂

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The Friend | Sigrid Nunez
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I still have no idea if I liked this. The narrator is caring for a depressed Great Dane while dealing with her friend's suicide. Basically. It is full of literary references. Many about dogs.

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TheAromaofBooks Intriguing cover, though. 3w
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This is pretty dark. It is dripping in metaphor. Mostly it talks about living in the aftermath of the Korean War. It's sort of haunting but I wouldn't necessarily call it horror.

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US pub date is 3/5/24
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batsy Sounds really interesting! 3w
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sarahbarnes I just read an article about this and went to stack it. Sounds very intriguing. 2w
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Falling | T.J. Newman
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Reading this book in public was problematic. It's very tense and emotional. I highly recommend it.

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Mon mari | Maud Ventura
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I thought this was brilliant. Even and maybe especially the ending.

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BarbaraBB 🙌🏽 3w
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No idea why I needed this but I earned it anyway.

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Falling | T.J. Newman
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This book is making me tear up on the T (subway) this morning.

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Pearl | Sin Hughes
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This is very good. It's basically about mourning a parent. Or I guess mourning in general. The writing is lovely.

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This is beautiful historical fiction told around the life of a famous Turkish architect in Istanbul. The writing is beautiful. The apprentice in the title happens to also be a mahmout in charge of a white elephant. Obviously. Unfortunately I think it needed to be shorter. Just imo.

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The Bad Ones | Melissa Albert
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This is YA horror by an author I like a lot. The weeping statue on the cover made this a must read.

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Pub date is 2/20/24
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System Collapse | Martha Wells
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I feel compelled to read this series over from the beginning. Because I feel like I missed something here. This is book 7. I love Murderbot but this was less than the others imo.

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The Reformatory | Tananarive Due
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Think Nickel Boys + ghosts. It's actually really clever what the author does with this. I recommend this for sure. This was my November Aardvark pick.

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@TheBookHippie dude wtf. This is a doorstop.

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Matrix | Lauren Groff
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My favorite part about this book are the snarky side comments from the author about the environment and feminist topics. It's really very good.

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#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville (I actually meant to just read 1 per month but I thoroughly enjoyed this extra one)

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This has a couple of really interesting articles especially one about the importance of one on one meetings. Giving the whole thing a pick.

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Mehso-so

Unpopular opinion.... I did not love this.

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Underground Airlines | Ben Winters
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I needed these.

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This author has a great imagination. This is short stories. It's like fairy tale horror with humor. Which I appreciate.

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Pub date was 2/6/24 (oops)
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Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
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I really like these. Let's hope she writes more of them before I get distracted (lose interest).

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Florida | Lauren Groff
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This was very good. It happened to be available. I may be reading too many short story collections in a row. But this was available at the library so 🤷.

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dabbe I chose this one, too, and am encouraged by your review. 🤩 1mo
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It's possible I'm on an Atwood kick lately. To the point where my brain sort of expects all books to meet her level of awesome. Totally unrealistic but there you have it. Bar firmly set.

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woke up no light: poems | Leila Mottley
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Highly recommend. Also, Nightcrawling was fantastic.

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Pub date is 4/16/24
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This is about timing. Best, most productive times of the day. Why it's better not to graduate during a recession (😂 duh) etc. I found it very interesting. It also justified my inability to get things done in the afternoon when I get up at 5. Explained? Whatever.

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Crazeedi This sounds like one I want to read! You get up at 5 too?☺️ 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Mornings are my time haha I try to use late afternoons and evenings to do more mindless, low-energy tasks. If it doesn't get done by 3pm, it's probably going on tomorrow's list 😂 1mo
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I don't care how foolish this is. I love this series. And this is the sixth (and final?) book. There are definitely gators in this but they may not be on leashes.

5feet.of.fury Oh wow! I never read this one, I really liked that series I thought there were only 5! 1mo
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Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson
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This was so good. Nearly 5⭐ except the ending is too long. That's just my opinion. I definitely did not need a wrap up that included all of the secondary characters. It's possible I was being moody.

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This book is amazing. Not sure I was in the head space for something that punches you in the gut in the first section but that does not make this less amazing. The author has a unique narrative style that I appreciate.

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I still have a chapter left in my January BookSpin as well lol 1mo
jlhammar Agreed! Love Otsuka. 1mo
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A Little Luck | Claudia Pieiro
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I loved this. The author may be going on my must read list.

TrishB This was a great read 👍🏻 1mo
Tamra I STILL haven‘t read this one - hoarding. 1mo
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