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Addie and Louis, both widowed for several years, get to know one another. I really enjoyed the writing and character development. 4.25⭐️

Finished in a day on Easter Monday. I‘m sure I‘ve read it before so possibly a reread for me. A sweet story except for the controlling son. It was the authors last book. Now to look out some other books by him. Hope I don‘t run into the usual from the library, available in ebook only!

I loved this quiet, deep, loving look at friendship, love, and age. And I‘ve never been so angry at a character as I was/am with Gene! Five stars! #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

My last Haruf book—I have really enjoyed them all. I liked this one too. It was different from the others but still very good. It was a quick read. It caused me to think more about change over a lifetime and how we can make new things at any age. Live into life and hope even when it might make people talk.

My #bookspin and #doublespin for February. Thanks @TheAromaofBooks !

Thank you so much ladies for my birthday books! They sound so good! I can‘t wait to read them all! 😃 📚 @TrishB @squirrelbrain @quietlycuriouskate

4⭐️/5⭐️

1. The tagged book

2. Probably one month trying to get through A Prayer for Owen Meaney

3. My daughter

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
#WondrousWednesday

Loved the book, haven‘t watched the movie yet. (I‘m counting it even tho it‘s a movie not a series😜)
#AdaptedtoNetflixSeries #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of many recommendations from Anne Bogel. #alphabetgame #letterO

This was good. I loved the relationship between Addie, Louis, and Jamie (and the dog!), but wth is wrong with Gene!? How can he be so awful to his mother about all this? My grandpa, some years after my grandma died, had a lady friend/companion, and I don‘t know that either my mom or her sister (Grandpa‘s daughters) had an issue with it. Really Gene? Can you not let your mother be happy? Ugh!

Such a wonderful book. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are a bit more glamorous than how I pictured the main characters, but I still enjoyed the adaptation.

#BecameAMovie #BookMoods
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Sorry Andrew! Cheating a little for August. Neither made my top 21 but both were excellent. While Our Souls didn‘t give me the happy ending I wanted it was what I think happens IRL more often than not. ATE is one of my favorite bands. I loved getting his back story and gave deeper meaning to some of his lyrics.

A lovely quiet book about an older man and woman who have both lost their spouses and find solace from their loneliness in each other. Haruf‘s ability to create realistic relationships shines here. He gives us glimpses into others lives that feel deceptively simple. Addie and Louis share their histories during their peaceful nights together while discovering that life can still hold sweet moments if you‘re willing to take a risk. #readathon

This is a kind of unusual little book, but oh so beautifully written. It read like poetry almost, an easy and enjoyable read. The characters made some interesting choices but I enjoyed the character development and how beautifully it was written. I had a hard time putting it down and read it in less than 24 hours. I‘m looking forward to reading more by this author.

Well that was lovely. My first Haruf was his last novel 😢. I loved it and will now seek out his other work.

Thank you for this book @squirrelbrain - it was a lovely read.

I listened to this short book while I worked today. It‘s a beautiful story of a 70 year old widow who invites her neighbor, who is a widower himself, to begin spending nights at her house because she is lonely. It‘s nothing to do with sex, she just wants to talk and have a warm body beside her in bed. The friendship that develops warms my heart.

I will read everything Haruf prints, I can‘t believe I only discovered him in the last couple years.

#ancientkindle
What a lovely book! People being decent to one other and taking the trouble not only to talk but really communicate and sweeten each other's lives thereby.
How does he do it? I haven't read such simple, pared back prose since his Plainsong, probably, but it never comes across as meagre. Something like a really good, homemade bread: wholly satisfying without the need for five kinds of frosting and sprinkles.

... #ivereadinaday

Heute werde ich den ganzen Tag nur Zuhause bleiben, ein neues Buch anfangen und meine Ruhe genießen, bevor morgen wieder eine 7 tägige Arbeitswoche beginnt🥴
#buch #lesen #lesezeit #leseliebe #buchliebe

This is without speech punctuation which I usually dislike but this time I found it added a lot. This is a very ordinary story of 2 older people starting a relationship of sorts. Despite the apparent simplicity this is a really beautiful story that was almost whimsical. I loved it

Book 8 of the month and book 7 of #bookspinbonanza
I can already tell that I need to pick up the rest of Kent Haruf‘s books. @TheAromaofBooks #bookspin

@deweysreadathon book 11.
Oh, oh, oh, my heart. Incredibly moving, beautiful book. 💙 5 🌟 easily.

And with that, I think I am going to head to bed. Will do a wrap-up post but this will likely be the last completed book I will have this #readathon - it's been lovely!
#deweyapril #deweysreadathon

This is my latest book club read.
It is a beautiful story about two people finding companionship in their 70‘s. It is also a story about not wasting time and not bothering with what people do or don‘t think about you. I shed a tear at the end.

Thank you so much Helen. You are so kind - sorry we aren't going to get a chance to catch up at Gladstone's @squirrelbrain
Hope you keeping safe and well. ♥️

2020 has been a great year of reading so far and my third 3x3 grid did not disappoint. I read several interesting shorter books for this grid because I was a bit overwhelmed by The Goldfinch and didn‘t want to put myself in a chunkster reading slump. Tagged my favorite!

I loved this bittersweet story of Addy and Louis discovering each other in their 7th decade. I‘m always amazed when a short book can be told so completely. I‘m thinking if the story had been longer we would learn more about her son, Gene. I don‘t even want to understand Gene so I‘m perfectly content with this concise, beautiful book.

#ReadTheUSA2020 Colorado

“You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I‘m a better person than I was before we got together. That‘s your doing.”
I loved this book so much. It had so much emotion in it and such a great portrayal of love. I can‘t believe I didn‘t read it sooner.

I just finished reading this and so I am still mulling it over. I think the story behind how the author wrote it is very compelling. I do think it is well written and I do love the two main characters and also Addie‘s grandson. I think there is a lot to this with the message of how much of life can be wasted worrying about what others think. It is a good a small book and a really quick read.

Thanks so much for this book @RachelO - I read another of Haruf‘s earlier this year and I‘d love to read more. I love the cover of this one, and of course you chose it deliberately to tone with my reading chair and cushion! 💙

Have a lovely Christmas! 😘

So we went thrifting today. #sorrynotsorry So many of these are ones that were already on my TBR, although some were serendipity. And they‘re not all for me. Four of them are for my husband. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Look what has just arrived, Cindy! ❤️😘👍❤️😘👍

I love, love, love the little squirrel case. 🐿 🦔 🦉 It‘s perfect for the Penguin Moderns, as you demonstrated, 😁 but I‘ve checked already and my Kindle fits in it too! The bookmark is just too cute and, of course, both books look fabulous.

Thank you so much! 😘 @Cinfhen

A smaller novel with short, to the point chapters. Easy to read and pretty enjoyable. I“m just not sure how I feel about the ending. Which I think is intentional. It ends in a place where I'm not sure how I feel about the characters. Are they suppose to be likeable, should we be rooting for them? If not, then what is the author trying to say to the reading. It works because it's a shorter read. Not sure I would even like it, if it were strung out

“I mean we‘re both alone. We‘ve been by ourselves for too long. For years. I‘m lonely. I think you might be too. I wonder if you would come and sleep in the night with me. And talk.”

A wonderful, quiet story about two old people that have an extraordinary relationship, finding solace through companionship.
#ayupaugust #pillowtalk

I loved this quiet, gentle book. A sweet summer read.

Congratulations on 250K, @Megabooks !

#25Etsy #giveaway

I didn't know until I looked for this image that this was made in to a Netflix movie- I will have to watch it now. I'm curious how they end it. This is a super fast read. I enjoyed his writing style, I think I'll read some of his earlier work. I read this for a reading challenge- I needed a book published posthumously. Sadly the author wrote this as he was dying of cancer I believe.

#kentharuf #oursoulsatnight #speedread

What a beautiful, heartbreaking, breathtaking novel. It‘s a short, simple story, but it contains such depth and heart. The characters were so well fleshed out, they were truly three dimensional. Two lonely senior citizens find companionship with one another, and they‘re able to make each other happy for a while. This was the author‘s final novel, published posthumously. What an exquisite literary legacy to leave behind. Have tissues handy.

1. Done
2. Can‘t eat Cheetos anymore
3. Both!
4. Probably donate it to Planned Parenthood or the local halfway house for domestic violence escapees
5. first grade, because I did not yet have adults pressuring me to do a bunch of extracurricular activities like piano lessons, cheerleading, various sports, marching band, scholars bowl...all that crap I didn‘t want to do but had to do so adults can live vicariously.

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Sweet and spare and quiet. ❤️

This was a gentle story of two elderly people who find comfort in one another in a unique way. It is a quiet, simple, and impactful story about companionship, regret, image, parenting, life choices, and family - that which we have and that which we make.

I look forward to reading more of Haruf‘s work, as this was my first. Any recommendations?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Airline travel sure is great for reading. This is a lovely, sweet book about a relationship between two older people whose spouses have died. It‘s quiet and tender and just what I needed to read while dealing with the stress of flying. Highly recommend.

A beautiful little book about love and friendship in later life. And other people. Other people are the worst 💔

Thanks for sending me this @kaysworld1 - it was lovely to read it again.

Are they talking about Haruf‘s other books? Plainsong is still on my shelf to read.

“I made up my mind I‘m not going to pay attention to what people think. I‘ve done that too long — all my life. I‘m not going to live that way any more.”

Decided to go for a reread - something I rarely do, but the lovely @kaysworld1 sent me this a few weeks back, and I decided it was time. Quote from p8 💔 - considerably more striking second time round!

#maywrapup because I know I‘m not going to finish anything else tomorrow!
A great reading month for me with more non fiction than usual....
2 memoirs, 2 cookbooks (though full of wonderful writing and stories too), and 5 novels...
All enjoyable, and four 5 star reads!
Hard to pick a favorite but if I had to, it‘d be Tel Aviv....💕💕💕

The second short, beautiful and heartbreaking book about human connection I‘ve read this week, and to also make me 😭!
(The other was The Traveling Cat Chronicles)
This simple story of love, loneliness and companionship in later years is so touching, so real.....I just loved Louis and Addie so much, and the interference from Addie‘s son was maddening! This book will really stay with me.
#nightorientedtitle #booked2019
#publishedposthumously #pop19

#juststarted this one over breakfast..... I loved the first chapter so much!!! I have a really good feeling about this one....
#booked2019 #nightorientedtitle
#pop19 #abookpublishedposthumously