The Dew Breaker

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The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

Who went overboard at the Friends of the Library used book sale? Def not me! It‘s all for the library, right? 😉

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Megabooks

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

I had a great time at the used bookstore yesterday! Love heading there for backlist titles. I found the tagged book for #ReadingtheAmericas2023 and The Lake House for #AuthorAMonth. 👍🏻 The rest were impulse buys. I was looking for Cormac McCarthy and Kamila Shamsie, too, but they didn‘t have any by either of them. Still a very fun morning!! 😁😁

Cinfhen, Soubhiville, Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

Suet624 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💕 2y

squirrelbrain Great haul! ❤️ 2y

Soubhiville I just got The Forty Rules too, on a recommendation by an ex. 🙃 Nice stack! 2y

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Cinfhen Great purchases 😁Are your new shelves all in? 2y

BarbaraBB Another Danticat! Can‘t wait to hear your thoughts! 2y

vlwelser 😍 great authors! I loved The Wonder. I bet the rest are also fab. 2y

Megabooks @Suet624 😁😁💜 2y

Megabooks @squirrelbrain thanks! 2y

Megabooks @Soubhiville I actually took in one of her books for sale, so it feels really right that the universe put a new one there for me to read! 😊 2y

Megabooks @Cinfhen they are but I‘m still tinkering with them. Soon! 💜 (edited) 2y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB they even had another besides this, but I controlled myself. 😂 I loved the other two I read by her, so I‘m super excited for this!! 2y

Megabooks @vlwelser I never got into Donoghue, but I really enjoyed Haven, so I‘m very excited to get to her backlist. I‘m also happy my 2023 book twin enjoyed it! 😁👯‍♀️ 2y

vlwelser I'll have to move Haven up my to do list. 2y

Librarybelle Great stack! 2y

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TracyReadsBooks

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

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A friend suggested this book and wow, what a powerful, heartbreaking story about violence and hate, love and forgiveness, remorse, historical legacy, happenstance, and hope. Moving between Haiti in the 1960s and NYC in the present, this book tells the story of a man with a dark secret and how it shapes not only his life and that of his family but also so many others. Recommended.

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Bertha_Mason

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

"The sun was coming up with a gentleness that surprised her."

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dastevensish

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

Went to the used bookstore this weekend intent on splurging. Goal met. #bookhaul

Kaye Looks like a nice stack. I‘m always attracted to odd titles. How about Monkey Hunting ? I need to look that up. 7y

dastevensish @Kaye I‘m just hoping no monkeys are actually hunted. 😉 7y

Kaye Looks like some good reading ahead. I like picking unusual books that I know nothing about. You find lots of hidden gems that way. 7y

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TheBookstorePodcast

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

Went to a used bookstore I‘ve never been to today, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good their selection was. The only problem is figuring out which one to read next! -Becca

Mitch It‘s a no brainer - it‘s got to be Fingersmith. Brilliantly story, as always, from Sarah Waters 7y

2BR02B @Mitch Seconded. It's my all-time favorite historical novel. 7y

well.read.panda Agreed, these are all great, but Fingersmith is SO much fun. 7y

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TheBookstorePodcast @Mitch @2BR02B @well.read.panda I‘ve had Fingersmith on my tbr for YEARS. This solidifies that I definitely will be reading it next! 7y

Mitch You will no be disappointed! @TheBookstorePodcast 7y

BiblioLitten The Fingersmith was good, but not better than The Night Watch. I didn't want the latter to end. 7y

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RealLifeReading

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

I just so happen to be reading two books set on islands: The Dew Breaker is set in Haiti (and also New York); Moving Sideways Like A Crab is set in Trinidad. Just right for #junetunz #laislabonita (and also #onemoretry at actually continuing posting for #junetunz 😀)

Cinfhen

Cinfhen Yay 😊 love when you pop in!! I recently read Moving Forward...I thought it was ok, good for #PrideMonth 8y

Cinfhen And tomorrow is #scars looks like your current read will work again 💟 8y

batsy Thanks for mentioning the Danticat book, I didn't know about this one. Whatever I've read by her I've loved. 8y

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Oftencantdecide

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

I went to the library today to return a whole bunch of books. I told myself I wouldn't take any books outs today, since I don't want to distract myself from reading Middlemarch.

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I ended up with this small #LibraryHaul. It's only three books though, so at least I left with fewer books than I came in with.

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ReadingEnvy

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

Reading Envy 079: Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard with guest Rima Abunasser http://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy079

saresmoore 👍 8y

Lindy This is my favourite Reading Envy podcast so far. I hope you will have Rima on again sometime. You talked about 3 books that changed me: Dewbreaker; When Women Were Birds; & Please Look After Mom. The Queue was already on my TBR & now I've added Our Lady of the Nile. 😀 8y

ReadingEnvy Thank you Lindy. I really want to read Dewbreaker! 8y

andrew61 I listened this morning and was hooked as soon rima started speaking- what a brilliant guest, one of those episodes as ever where i wish i was sat with my pint able to join in your discussion. I read ' claire by the sea light' which was very good, similar narrative form to dewbreaker but i really want to read that now as are all the other books mentioned. Thanks as ever for intelligent listening. 8y

ReadingEnvy @andrew61 Thank you! I am so lucky to know her! Her husband Darin was a guest back in 2015. (I realized we never mentioned this; that's feminism for you!) 8y

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RealLifeReading

The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat

#readjanuary day 15: #publishedinthe2000s
It's rather late in the day and the sun is setting and I better post this before the day is over. It's mid-Jan! How are your bookish resolutions and TBRs going?

And for today's prompt, #publishedinthe2000s here are some that I have yet to read. Have you read any of these? Which would you recommend?

Mtroiano Moloka'i ❤️ 8y

Megabooks Agreed @Mtroiano ! 8y

BeckyRoy Moloka'i for sure 8y

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suvata Moloka'i was spectacular. 8y

wen4blu Yup, Moloka'i. 8y

kspenmoll Alice Munro❤ 8y

EmilyM Moloka'i....Loved it! His other novel, Honolulu is very good, too. Enjoy! 8y

DebinHawaii I'll echo the Moloka'i love! 💜👍 8y

mandapants Alice Munro...💫 8y

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