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Our challenge for November 2023:

#HumbleHarvest @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Just post a photo - book/title, collage, poem, play, song, etc. - that expresses the daily prompt!

Have fun and thanks for your participation ❤️ Feel free to share!

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This is a new favorite. Set in the 1960's. Middle man mobster gets mixed up in the mob's involvement in the murder of JFK. He is on the run from the mob and runs into a woman and her children running from their own troubles. Everything fun about the 1960's and mobsters. 5 stars.

#TemptingTitles #WithaMonth

I gave this book to my dad a couple of years ago and he enjoyed it. I borrowed his copy and it still sits on my shelf.

Set against a historical event (the JFK assassination 1963), this evolves into a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America.

#WithAMonth #TemptingTitles

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Good morning my Litsy lovelies!! We hope that you are having a wonderful weekend! We have a few more giveaways this morning!! If you are a member of #LitsyLove and you‘re interested in this book drop a comment below! We will have a drawing later today!! 🎉🎊💌📫📚

Lou Berney is an expert at using dynamic descriptions of characters to further relationships and creates revealing information and surprises throughout the story.

The assassination of JFK is the backdrop to this excellent novel. Frank Giudry works for the most powerful mob boss in New Orleans. Frank knows too much about the mob‘s involvement in the assassination and is running from his boss. Charlotte Roy, with her 2 children, decides on the spur of the moment to leave her dull life in Oklahoma for California. Their fates collide. This is not a conspiracy theory book just a nail biting story.

Great historical fiction set around the time of the Kennedy Assassination. I loved the characters in this one. #20in4 book 4 of 4.

Finished this on the way to Toronto to see Canada vs Panama FIFA qualifier. Great game and a great book ( mob business and Kennedy assassination, road trips)

Long weekends are the best

1) Tagged
2) Raspberries
3) The next Louise Penny always
4) brown bananas turned into bread

Thanks for the tags @WJCintron @Eggs

Want to play @Bookworm83 @Whoa_is_me @JimmyMillar

Interesting mix of two characters defining moments creating a solid road trip, both literally and figuratively. I enjoyed the character development and the nod to the Kennedy assassination, this was set well in a time when life was less complicated but just as complex for the people going through it.

Was good at the beginning but lost my attention about half way thru

Book 98

Don‘t mess with the baddies!
Good read about people trying to run from their lives. Liked the ending too.
A good read 👍🏻

The setting is 1963 in the days following JFK‘s assassination in Dallas, most of the story happening on Route 66 through the southwest US. Several strangers‘ paths (each trying to escape their past) cross in a tightly told story

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

This book was a gift from the lovely @Soubhiville ❤️

📝 a lot actually...all the errands I didn‘t get to last week bc: snowbound!
🐈🐄🐴🐶 I don‘t but my kids have enough for all of us
🌴 a blank journal to write in
#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

Just finished for IRL Bookclub... set in 1963, historical fiction set around John Kennedy‘s assassination.... a criminal on the run meets with a fellow traveler, also on the run.
Genre busting .. it‘s a thriller, a crime , a love story.. it‘s cinema, full of images. I was a bit uncertain of the plot at first ... but I became completely addicted! Great writing & story. So good !

I should have known from the first page that this wasn't for me 🙃 I made it 16 chapters in and found that I didn't care about anything going on.

Great for the historical setting, the crime, the heist movie pacing but just meh on the romance. Also, didn‘t like the epilogue. Overall, a fun way to kick of #thanksgivingbreak.

#teachersofLitsy

Always meant to get to this one this month, but it feels like a good omen that I am actually starting it on the anniversary of the day it takes place. #weekendreads

#NovelNovember #Readathon Yay! It's the middle of the month and I need an excuse to read more!
My goal is to complete 6 books.
My tentative stack is as follows:

Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

@Andrew65

Anticipated #tbr for Nov. Usually don‘t plan a book schedule but there are a few I need to read by a certain time.

The Trespasser-might finish in Oct, tbh.

American Dirt-have misgivings, but for book club

Things Fall Apart-for “Read a Book with Kara” on youtube

November Road-obviously, it‘s named after the month

Ask Again Yes-borrowed from my sis months ago & she‘s asking for it back. Must finish by Thanksgiving (if we can have it 😭)

I really wasn't sure was to expect from this book. It sat unread for over a year in my TBR pile as others jumped ahead due to buzz or whatnot.
What the heck was I waiting for?! This was a great read. Talented writer....just wow. The story was a great cat and mouse chase, but the character development was spot on. I would definitely recommend!

1) November Road by Lou Berney
2) The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
3) Ready Player One

Have a GREAT week all!

This was a fast-paced novel that sucked me in from the first page. It alternates among 3 different characters, all destined for a collision course at the climax of the book. It‘s set during the week of the JFK assassination, but it felt like I was sucked into a 1940s film noir (not a bad thing at all!). 4⭐️ Recommended!

#BOTM

I read two books simultaneously on JFK‘s assassination. NR is a fictional retelling that involves mobsters. It‘s fast paced and sucked me right in.

The book on the right is about a mistress of JFK‘s that was murdered shortly after the assassination. Was it a planned hit because she knew to much about something? The author did a shit job with this book, if I‘m honest. What should have been compelling was boring, and not the primary focus.

#bookreport

I‘m 14 books away from meeting my GR goal of 2019. It‘s possible I‘ll make it but it‘s equally possible I won‘t. 😆

This week was a great reading week. Out of five books, two were five stars! P&P and Portrait of a Murderer blew me away, they‘re that good.

So enjoyed this novel and this great month of reading. Several book club books for school, and other reads that took me by surprise! Can‘t even pick a favorite. #swensonreads #swensonreads19

This novel really surprised me. I don‘t typically like historical fiction, but this was truly rooted in reality and human experience. A bold housewife fleeing an unhappy domestic situation crosses paths with a mobster during the JFK assassination. I loved this crime story, love story, and just overall story of characters. I didn‘t think this would be my cup of tea, but wow. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#jojen #catsoflitsy

Centring on the assassination of JFK it‘s a surprisingly tender crime/thriller. With a cast of mobsters & vulnerable young women it would have been easy to have fallen into a plethora of cliches. But every character pops from the page - and has the ability to shock, surprise and show deep and complex emotions. The love story at the centre of the web of characters gives you hope that people can change however dark and violent the past.

This started out pretty slow for me, but turned into a darn good read!

Final discussion tomorrow!!! Questions on @TheBookHippie page!! 1pm CST!!

#BotmBuddyRead

What started as a meh read for me turned into a book worth finishing well past my bedtime. The Kennedy assassination is the backdrop for this story about hitmen and women who take a stand against 1960s housewife mores. It‘s gritty in its narrative, yet the book didn‘t feel too overly like a mobster read. Not my usual type of read, but I‘m so glad I could join in on the #BOTMbuddyread this month for this book.

I enjoyed this book much more than I anticipated. Not a genre I would normally pick up, and started out a bit slow for me but really picked up. It follows Guidry and Charlotte, both on the run who end up crossing paths and find something more than either expected. Quite a few twists and a beautifully developed story. I was incredibly satisfied while still wanting more. Highly recommended! Looking forward to the #botmbuddyread discussion.