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The book itself wasn‘t to my liking, but I did enjoy very much the alternative universe aspect✨

Rainy days + reading✨

Thanks @ramsfan1963 for the tag!

1. Dessert although not a fan of pumpkin flavor
2. Cozy mysteries

#two4tuesday
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#BookSpinBingo. Got A BINGO! And read my #bookspin and #doublespin. 😊✅✅✅📚

In the mood for some YA tonight

Here we go! Ready for June. #BookSpinBingo

I‘m not a huge fan of multi-verse stories in general, so I‘m not opining on that part. All the rest was deep, very deep, and well done.

...stretch open the universe until it was...

🐳🐳🐳🐳 for Adelaide discovering love and forgiveness and sense of possibility. Lockhart‘s writing about people‘s inner selves is a note perfect gut punch.

Anxiety nails and a read that gets you in the gut in a good way

Lockhart writes such strong stories about flawed people. It‘s a love story that isn‘t a love story. A family story. And a story about possibility.

What makes Lockhart's version of alternate universes so affecting is that it's not about Adelaide finding the right universe or making the right decision to save her romance. From early on, it's about Adelaide facing & coping w/her own unhappiness. I occasionally found the jumps between universes confusing to track; however, it's such a real portrayal, esp. of unhappiness as a teenager, that it touched my heart.

While it took me a while to get used to the quick rewinds indicating multiple possible interactions for situations, Lockhart‘s style is what makes this more than your average YA romance/ family tragedy. In addition to great characterization + parts that made me cry, there are additional hooks for me: multiple dogs + descriptions of contemporary art installations + a project for a set design class. A surprising #audiobook narrated by Tavia Gilbert.

“Tragedy is a pinnacle of human experience,” Kaspian Lee went on. “Not that any of us want to experience it. But we like to think about tragedy quite a lot. That‘s why Shakespeare wrote tragedies, and the Greeks. It‘s why we like Fool for Love, the doomed romance.”

The teenager in this novel wonders what her mother means every time she adds a 🐳 emoji to her communication. Finally, she asks. Communication skills!

Lunchtime reading companion 🕷

With the “thousands” of possibilities offered in this story, it was too hard to care about any of them because any of the possibilities could be something else so there was nothing to risk and no reason to care also hard because I truly didn‘t like any of the characters in any of their lives

#ReadYourSign #virgo

Prompt 12: Read a book by a virgo author.

This came out in 🇦🇺 today I think. I want to talk about it on the radio on Sunday night, so it‘s a bit hurry! Hurry! #curentlyreading #youngadult #contemporary #slidingdoors #romance #family #friendship Plus colourful #cordyline

#MayWrapUp! I managed to sneak in one last book in the nick of time, which is why so late. A lot of books I enjoyed this month! Anything you've particularly liked?