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I'm in a book rut! This book was terribly depressing with little to no point. I'm not even sure who to recommend this book to because it seemed like such a Debbie Downer.

This was a sad story about the life of two sisters, a lost mother, a lost child and different types of love woven through many lives. @ShyBookOwl #bookhunt

Lovely sad story of how sisters share a life filled with loss and hardships, and their love for each other. Focused mostly around Jane and Grace, and three unwanted pregnancies, twisting through time and parallels from the eyes of several characters. Loved it!

A family broken by a tragedy that changes the trajectory of their lives this story of motherless daughters covers a lot of territory and wraps up too neatly and out of character. Even so, the writing is beautiful. Full review at https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-accidentals-by-minrose-gwin.html

This started out good, but the last 150 pages seemed to drag on forever. It‘s somewhere between a pick and a so-so for me. 3⭐️

Ms Gwin is a wonderful storyteller; reading her stories reminds me of the beauty of language. Her characterization is fantastic. This is told with multiple POVs, including regular, everyday people that cross paths with Grace and June.

I‘m not sure that I liked this one quite as much as her previous book, Promise. These characters had tragedy after tragedy, and I still feel the weight of all that went wrong for them even after I finished the book.

I‘m book hopping again, can‘t quite settle into anything even though I‘ve got plenty started. I think I‘m looking for something to fill the void left by The Flight Portfolio. So I guess I‘ll try this one. The subject is interesting, it‘s all kinds of stuff that seems like a good book, let‘s see if I can stick with it.

Author signing & reading at Pass Books in Pass Christian, MS

Today‘s no-cook, cold & vegan is this “Best Gazpacho” — a Seville-style gazpacho, rich & delicious. It‘s way too humid to cook today—this soup just required some chopping, blending & chilling. It was lunch with a few chapters of this #ARC I am reviewing later this week.
Link to #soupersundays blog post with recipe is👇🏻

We got home late last night after 15 hours of driving. Things I should do now that I‘m home: find the terrible smelling thing in the fridge, wash the moldy dishes (apparently my husband and two oldest children are all incapable of running a dishwasher), wipe grotty counters, unpack car, return entire contents of my closet to said closet from the front room (closet collapsed right before I left), etc. What I‘m actually going to do: read this.