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“I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it‘s something I could look at straight.” JoJo is one of my all time favorite characters 💔💔

#WickedWhispers
#Death

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Sometimes the world don‘t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”

This book is heartbreakingly beautiful and I‘ve read it 3 times… I normally don‘t reread a book, but this one holds a special place in my heart. ♥️ 🐦‍⬛

#Aboutabook
#Youvereread

Like many others, a lot of the titles on the list are on my tbr shelf, but I haven't gotten to them yet, maybe because they seem daunting. I was surprised but pleased to see Jesmyn Ward on here three times. I have mixed feelings about many on the list, but that's usually the way of these type of accountings. Thanks to those who have shared the accessible link!

I‘m about halfway through this audiobook, and I really need someone to hug me and tell me it‘s going to be okay. 😢 That Leonie…good grief, such bad judgment! With every new bad decision, I groan, and then feel sad for her poor kids ☹️

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks My package came today! Thank you!
#LitsyLove

#LitsyLove going out today!! Be on the lookout 👀 @Crazeedi @julieclair @S3V3N @Bklover @TieDyeDude @Zuhkeeyah 📮💌🎉📚

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This is one of my all time favorites! This author is phenomenal! I found a paperback copy and would love to give it away in honor of Black History Month! Tell me your favorites by a Black author ✍️ ❤️

#BlackHistoryMonth
#LitsyLove
#LitsyLoveReads

So glad this was my #doublespin and a #roll100, it‘s been on my shelf for ages and now that I‘ve read it I can‘t imagine why it didn‘t call to me sooner. This was brutal, but rich and beautiful and startlingly real. I definitely see why everyone raves about her writing! If anyone has suggestions on which of her books I should read next I‘d love that! @TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper

I like to think I know what death is. #firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

#Midwintersolace

📘What are reading as we officially move into winter?
📗I started the tagged book yesterday.

📘Do you have any reading rituals for the solstice?
📗I always read something dedicated to solstice, but it‘s not the same thing each year.

📘Do you enjoy a different reading format at this time of year than your usual preference?
📗I tend towards a lot more children‘s books, rereads, and short stories than usual.

“I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it‘s something I could look at straight.” JoJo one of my all time favorites 💔 #Death #AutumnPlease

Happy publication day to this amazing author!! 🎉I‘m going to buy Let Us Descend later today! If you haven‘t read her tragic story of grief after losing her husband to Covid you should 💔 👇🏻

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/jesmyn-ward-on-husbands-death-and-gri...

#TitlesandTunes #Blue
Happy publication day to Jesmyn Ward for her latest! I'm always about 5 years behind, so I just finished SUS. I'd heard it described as a road novel, and it technically is, but didn't feel like one. The journey matters less than the fact that the family must share tight quarters when they'd previously been drifting apart. I spent the whole novel concerned for them all: the entire novel is located on the brink of disaster.

#TitlesAndTunes #Blues
From the synopsis, SUS sounds like a road novel that is steeped in loss and haunted characters (maybe literally?). The perfect pairing with this Lurrie Bell album I picked up at a record shop recently. I'd never heard of Bell before, but his guitar riffs are a joy, the kind of blues that take you on a journey, which is perfect for an emotionally charged road novel. And it certainly channels its own ghosts of blues legends.

Such a beautiful book but so hard to read
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#SummerEndReadathon #Wardens2023 #ReadMyRoom #BookSpinBingo

Tonight‘s digital before bed book start. It‘s been a day & I‘m now just gonna chill with my Kobo & my🎶🎧. Officially in a 🧠🐿️ wind-down mode & hoping for a few pages before🛌.

Oomph. This is something else. Heartbreaking how the drug addicted mom goes through life and the effect she has on the rest of the family. Lovely how fiercely Pop loves Mam and his grandchildren. Stunning novel.

This book hurts to read. The amount of neglect the mother shows these children- it‘s difficult to push through to finish the book.

Then again, the love of the grandparents, the beauty in the storytelling, and the mystery made it worthwhile .

I haven‘t ever read addiction written in quite this way. Kind of devastating.

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Another that I had to stick with past the first 30m or so to get pulled in (and also shifting perspectives). This is some great poetic writing! And while I appreciate the reviews that it is sad, I see a hope here and the story of the inevitable return that everyone will make. Waters to waters.

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The writing was lyrical; the story was depressing. I can appreciate why there is a lot of love for this book, but it just wasn‘t for me. 🎧

“I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it‘s something I could look at straight.” JoJo

#Dead
#OminousOctober

“It stays with me, a bruise in the memory that hurts when I touch it.” 💔💔

#PowerfulBook
#IndelibleMoments

Two more excellent short stories by well-known authors.

"A Wild Rose" is about a pianist whose fingers start giving her trouble. She takes up residence in a studio apartment above Carnegie Hall. I love how Fiona Davis always introduces readers to hidden spots in well-known places.

"Mother Swamp" is an excellent story about a hidden community built by women escaping slavery. Very powerful.

I have enjoyed this short story collection immensely

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Overall, a good book. Not an easy read by any means though. Recommended by my high schooler who read it in class. Lots of symbolism, historical context, social commentary, and deeper meanings. I can see why an English teacher would choose it.

Started a new adventure last night and woke up in the middle of the night with it in my armpit. I love falling asleep with books 📖 🛌

Where Year of the Reaper failed with the ghosts, this one shines. I listened to it so I‘m sure I didn‘t catch as much as I should have. I would love to actually read it.

“Sometimes the world don‘t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”

#Bookyouregiftoften
#BookMoods

Misty!!! I feel like the card and bookmark faerie 🧚 came to visit me!!!! What a wonderful surprise!!! Thank you so much! #Litsyloveletters 💌 just waiting for mailboxes 📭I‘m excited to read “Sing Unburied Sing” too. Best Monday Ever 🤗😘💛

Very different sort of novel. About a black family and a road trip to pick up a father from prison. Has a couple of ghosts as characters and tragedies of the present and past. Poetic writing and kind of a dark story. I'll try to read more by the author.

I'm going to read this one. It looks interesting and won the National Book Award.

“River held out his hands to the dogs like he was a river and they were his church.”

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One of my favorites ❤️🖤

#SavvySettings
#Church

Very spiritual

Heartbreaking story about drug addiction, grandparents raising grandkids, inter generational trauma, racism, and how the past can still affect so much of your present. Such a well written book especially dealing with such difficult subjects. I definitely need to read more of Ward‘s books. #bookspin book #booked2022 #bookedreadingchallenge title that repeats itself

This might be my favorite of my #NYWD list that I‘ve read so far. I see why all the love for it. The characters are so raw and richly created, a beautiful entanglement of beauty and flaws. This book had intimidated me for a while. Not sure why, but I‘m glad I was nudged to read it. I won‘t be surprised if it makes my top list of 2022.
✅ #Booked2022 Title Repeats Itself

Hoping to finished the tagged book for #NYWD and #Booked22 along with making progress in Dune and Forbidden.

When you know a book is going to break your heart only a few chapters in. 😭 Jesmyn writes people we may know so well. Forgot to add it meets #pop22 10

Thanks for the recommendation @Readergrrl what an excellent book! #NewYearWhoDis

#sing #beginswith
Exquisite,lyrical and raw, this novel sings.

#BeginsWith #Sing
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

This one is still on my never ending TBR 😬

#BeginsWith 🥳📚 #Sing 🎶

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

“The memory is a living thing – it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives – the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.”

#Beginswith #Sing

One of my all time favorites ❤️

#NewYearWhoDis

Thank you @Readergrrl this list is magnificent!! So after researching your list, instead of completing school work 😂, I have chose the tagged.

And I have to add, Addie and Circe were not only two of my favorite reads, they are also new favorite main characters.

This was amazing! I read it before, but I think in the wake of 2020 it was even more powerful. Beautiful story about love and disappointment in families

I hope you all have a happy Saturday 💕😊

#currentlyreading

#Birdoncover
#FallTreasures

“The memory is a living thing – it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives – the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.” -from One Writer‘s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty

One of my all time favorites 🐦❤️📚

“It stays with me, a bruise in the memory that hurts when I touch it.”

📚The tagged and Evelyn Hugo 💚💚

📚📚yes!! I know it shouldn‘t be, but it is 🙈🙊

📚📚📚 Where the Crawdads Sing

#ThoughtfulThursday

@MoonWitch94 💜