*update* way too slow. I couldn‘t engage.
Just checked into my hotel… ready to read and drift off 😴
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Count the Ways: A Novel | 
*update* way too slow. I couldn‘t engage.
Just checked into my hotel… ready to read and drift off 😴
Quick! Buy this and read it before the sequel drops in June. 📚
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My favorite book in March was also from my 2023 #AuldLangSpine from @Amiable
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The tagged book was the best of the bunch. There was some repetition and it was a bit long but a great story of family, how we fall apart and ways we come together. Another fine #AuldLangSpine pick. 4.5 🌟 Memphis was another good story of family 4 🌟. I think I would have gotten more out of Homesick in print rather than audio.
Slogging through In Dubious Battle only because it‘s a favorite of my dad and a brother.
pickThis book was AMAZING. The story of Cam & Eleanor- falling in love and then out of love and all the messy moments in between. A story about family and loyalty and making hard choices and the sacrifices you‘re willing to endure. Such GORGEOUS writing! A tad long at times but totally worth the journey. Above are some photos from my nephew‘s wedding. Such a magical night🫶🏼🪄✨🥂
#AirportRead - Enjoying this book that my IRL bookclub is reading this month💚 Heading to NY for family wedding on Sunday but first a whole weekend of festivities 🥂🍾🍻
What are the odds that the book im currently reading and the book im listening to on audio each have a female character named Bodie??? I don‘t think I‘ve ever come across that name before!!! #BookishCoincidence / By the way… I‘m really enjoying this book!!!
pickEleanor raised her three children, Alison, Ursula and Toby in a modest and traditional family. Their father Cam started an annual tradition for the family to create “cork people“ which they named before setting them off in the river. Over the years, the kids go in their own very different direction after their parent's divorce. The story is complex with characters,mixed emotions given the themes of gender identity, family values, and forgiveness.
so-soThis is the story of a family both as it works and as it comes apart. It‘s about the challenge and imperfection of love. Maynard has a way with words but the characters and the choices they make here are incredibly frustrating. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2022/07/review-count-ways-by-joyce-maynard.html
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Listening to Count the Ways, my first Joyce Maynard novel, left me surprisingly despondent. The author writes motherhood with clarity and such relatability. Eleanor, an only child of parents that didn't want to be parents, grew up, bought a farm, and created the family she'd always hoped for.
1. I enjoyed how empathetic I could feel for the main character, I was on a journey with her.
2. Forgiveness and accountability, maybe not in that order.
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pick⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 I was totally engrossed in this story of a family, their origins, and their unraveling and finished it in 2 days. But as it went on, especially in the last 1/3 or so, I had problems accepting the fundamental premise of how the story unfolded and that detracted from it for me.
This one has been on the shelf forever. Now‘s it‘s time. Gatsby is so unexcited she‘s snoozing rather than paying attention to me trying to get a picture.
pickI tore through this book in less than 48 hours. It‘s sad and wistful and poignant and infuriating and heartbreaking and absolutely real. In a nutshell, it‘s life.
When you finally get home from work and can sink into the couch with a fleece blanket, a cup of tea and your current library book. Ahhhh … 🥰
8-13-21: My 83rd finished book of 2021! What a sag this one was. A beautiful story about Eleanor, a young artist, who buys a farm in the mid 70s, falls in love and creates a family. So much happens in the lives of her and her family, there isn‘t enough room to recount it all here. Let‘s just say there were some surprises and some tears. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍🏼📖#️⃣8️⃣3️⃣
