This is interesting and I like the premise, but ultimately this was a little too unfocused for me. A woman is writing a novel that she sends to a friend and he sends her feedback. But there's another set of correspondence that I won't get into. The setting is the Back Bay where I work so that didn't really help. It just sort of doesn't work if you look too closely.

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Pub date is 6/7/22
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This was interesting. I like this author. This one is about climate change. Basically. It's very short.

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I actually really loved this. Think Witches of Eastwick with a murder mystery/thriller. Three women are going through the change and develop powers that bring them together to make the world a better place for other women.

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I liked this a lot. It's super informative. She did a great job with the research. The #audiobook is excellent.

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This is a fun YA fantasy/historical fiction. It is nothing like Frankenstein IMO. Just throwing that out there. And the cover is gorgeous. This was a runner up pick for book club. So I read it on my own. TBH I'm a little glad they didn't pick this. Not sure this goes with the group vibe.

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Book fair at work today. #Spoiled

This is what I bought with my free credit.

I'm just going to go ahead and pan this one. I didn't even know about this one prior to reading it for #ShakespeareReadAlong. It's like they've turned into a bunch of sycophants for the CoE or QEI. Not a fan. But my mum's complete Shakespeare is getting some love.

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I'm at an author event. Obviously. Can't you tell?

This is how we roll in the Shire.

I loved this SO much. I want more of them. I get that's an unrealistic desire. But I do plan to read more of her books. I acquired this, I believe, initially because I have a thing for Bluebeard retellings. But all of these stories are fantastic. My favorite might be Puss in Boots.

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I love this author. I found one of her books in the airport in Iceland and so glad I did. This one is about a man whose life is falling apart. He's depressed. So he picks a place to go kill himself. It's a hotel in an unnamed country that experienced a war and is just starting to recover. It may be a little dark but also funny and joyful. I definitely recommend it.

This was really good. But not overly earth shattering. Maybe it was the audio. Maybe I'm in a mood. I got it off Roxane Gay's book club list.

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Me and Collette might be on a break after this one. I'm not even going to try to explain this one. I haven't a fucking clue what the point of this was. Maybe there is no point. Maybe a dung beetle is just a dung beetle.

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Reading my #DoubleSpin book on the train this AM.

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I liked this a lot. It's not like ground breaking or anything. There are SO many books on this topic. But I was definitely engaged and entertained.

My photo is not ok. 😂 But this is how we're going to roll today.

US pub date is 12/6/22
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There's also this work of art which was my April #BookSpinBingo board. I read a lot and didn't get even 1 bingo.

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I'm still in denial about it being May.

This was good but I wasn't blown away. I spent most of the book trying (and failing) to remember what happened in the previous book. This is the follow up to The Miniaturist.

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Pub date is 8/30/22
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This is a mystery of sorts. It's about Elena and her daughter who died in an apparent suicide. The book is actually more about what Elena doesn't know. This is on the International Booker shortlist.

My first experience with Hoopla. Didn't hate it. Definitely a worthy backup plan.

This author is quirky AF and I think I love her. Called Fear and Trembling in English, this tells the story of a Belgian young woman working for a year in Japan. It's funny and brutal and very short. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job might be the only thing I could compare it to.

If only I had gotten this about an hour earlier....
I guess I can wait until tomorrow. *sighs
But I'm pretty pumped to start this one.

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This book is excellent. My book club picked this for May. I love how the author inserted herself as a character. To name just one thing. First (but not last) encounter with this author.

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I bought this because of the cover. Because I love this Max Mara coat she is wearing. It cannot be the stupidest reason I ever bought a book, but it's up there. This would still be lingering on my TBR shelf if it weren't for #BookSpin.

But the book itself is SO interesting. It's well written and flows well. I'm pretty impressed with it. The book ends with her announcing a certain planned impeachment in 2019.

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This book was beautiful but the Flowers for Algernon vibes were a bit overdone. Still gave it 5 🌟

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I enjoyed this a lot. Final discussion this Sunday. Until then 🤐

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I have some questions about this. For the author. Couldn't the narcissist be a total psycho without being on the LGBTQ+ spectrum or making such a big deal about it? What is the real Gore Vidal even doing in this book? I think that's it.

I love this author. This book was fine. But I expected next level. No idea what order this came out in. Feeling judgemental.

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This is fun. It's like an outsider's view of NH (a.k.a. The Shire). With some magical realism thrown in (ghosts). I did not read this author's other book. I thought this was fun and quirky. I'm definitely giving it a pick. I love this cover.

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Pub date was 4/12/22. I'm a little behind but only received this in March.

I really liked this. It was super interesting. It's the history of finance basically. It's a little out of date because it only goes to 2008 when it was published. I'll stop geeking out now before you all get bored.

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This was weirdly enjoyable despite being a tiny bit unfocused. It's stories, so I guess that doesn't matter. And she does something really amusing with female historical figures. It's pretty dark but you'll know what I mean. I'm giving it a pick for sure.

I found this listening to the NPR Book of the Day podcast.

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This just was not my jam. English title is Do You Hear Them?

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This was really good. I'm behind on posting. And I'm not sure audio is my favorite format for poetry. Because I'm already forgetting details. Like I didn't spend enough time absorbing it.

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So good. I definitely recommend the #audiobook. I love this cover. And what an amazing lady.

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This was thoroughly entertaining and I liked it way better than Bill's book. Is it great literature? Probably not. But I definitely recommend it anyway.

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New train book. I'm devouring these things. Bad pic. Sorry. ❤🚂📖

There's something really haunting about this one. Still not sure what my brain plans to do with it. But giving it a pick.

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I liked this a lot. It's dark. It's about Haiti. I don't think there's an English translation.

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Starting a new train book this morning. I like the cover. The content is still tbd. ❤🚂📖

I don't know what to tell you about this. It's 36 hours give or take. And there are no song or dance numbers. How that brilliant man turned this into a musical is beyond me. It's very interesting but the minutia is a bit boring.

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This is a must read. It doesn't go into a lot of depth but covers a lot of ground in a really readable manner. And the author does a great job of using herself and her family as examples.

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Today's train book. 🚂❤ Almost finished tbh. This may have been the train book all week.

I loved this. I picked it for book club before it won the Booker. And I know most of you who are interested already read it, but for those of you who didn't, this gets my recommendation for sure. My book club probably officially hates me. Esp after I totally panned the last book (The Lincoln Highway).

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This one is a really slow burn. It's good. But it seemed to take forever to get to the point(e). I'm drawn to ballet stories. This one is sort of a thriller. It's good if you stick with it.

This is a novella, first published in a magazine. A young girl escapes Haiti in the hopes of reaching America. It's only 80 pages. The title means American Dreams, but was originally Dear Haiti. And it doesn't look like there's a translation. Sometimes we find weird things at the library.

Calling this good. Or good enough.

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This woman was a genius. This is 3 short stories. Basically about different types of loss. And the title story is epistolary which is 100% my jam.

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Did I need to borrow this? Having the library across the square from the office doesn't help my tbr situation.

This is a good sister drama mystery. Does that even make sense? Three sisters are summoned to the ancestral home. They must confront a tragedy and their involvement in it.

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Finished my train book. About to start a new one.....

This book is really very good. It's about the war(s) in Chechnya and what people will do when faced with impossible situations. I heard about this one on the NPR book of the day and definitely glad I tried it out. (Basically everything pales in comparison to the Malaysian garden book.) I definitely recommend this. I learned things.

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This book is beautiful. Historical fiction set in Malaysia. Even just the garden descriptions make this worth reading. But the story is also fantastic.

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This was good. It's interesting. But I wasn't totally blown away.

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Pub date is 7/12/22
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