Sommer in Maine | 
Love the promise of a new month! Maybe I‘ll read all of these! (I average about 7 a month so probably not🤪) #BookSpinBingo@
Morning in Maine!
so-soThere are zero likeable characters here and this is not a happy read, especially if you like to keep HGTV on while you read! (Property Brothers all day! 😉) This very short story packs in a lot of detail: Katie & Damien's unhappy childhoods; their slide from young love to utter contempt; the utterly depressing glimpse behind the scenes of their makeover show; and their complete ineffectiveness as parents. Somehow thought this was going to be a ⬇️
Just got back from a long weekend in Maine. This is my new favorite picture of me.
(Shockingly,) I picked up a book zero times over the past 3 days. But don‘t worry! I‘m currently flopped on my bed, making up for it now.
pickThoroughly enjoyed this multi-generational story of a Boston family. A summer home in Maine centers the story and shows how they interact with one another and react to each other and how this has shaped their lives. I‘ve seen reviews that found the characters unlikeable but I felt they were real flawed people and I could understand them. Also goes back in time to slowly reveal how the family matriarch came to be the person she is.
Enjoying digging into this older book of Sullivan‘s after loving A Saint for All Occasions. Seattle lives up to its rep as a coffee town. This one is wonderful.
"As far as she had seen, what made people and pleased them, and threatened to ultimately ruin them, was love. Not romantic love necessarily, but the love of something, the thing that defined your life."
It's not spring until the first pedicure of the season. Indulging during my last day of spring break with a book about a stressful family vacation.
so-so2 stars. Serious lack of character development in this book. Lots of references to AA and lots of family dysfunction. Not the light, airy beach read I thought I was getting.
I collect quotes from books I‘ve read, & I thought, instead of just letting them live in a journal, why not share them? I read Maine back in 2011 & wrote down a lot of quotes from it. I bet a lot of people can relate to this one ...
“You could do everything right, and still, things might not turn out the way you imagined.” #bookquotes #quotestagram #quotes #bookishquotes #ireaditinabook #literaryquotes #quoththeraven #quote
Found these on my library's sale shelves! The tagged book is written by the author of Saints for All Occasions, so I'm looking forward to it. I've never read Daniel Silva, but The Heist is about art forgery, so that's promising. Love history, so the book about Jefferson had to come home with me, and I've never read The Orphan Train. Also found several music cd's. All for less than $10. 📚📚#bookhaul #nosuchthingastoomanybooks
This book! Has me thinking because it is FULL of unlikeable characters, but I LOVED it! Maybe because they were quite believable. Can't quite put my finger on it but will update when I do. Special shout out to Arlo and Rhiannon. (The only likable characters). I had to laugh out loud a few times at the way this fam spoke to each other! Also anyone else super annoyed at "little Daniel"?
pickThis book! Has me thinking because it is FULL of unlikeable characters, but I LOVED it! Maybe because they were quite believable. Can't quite put my finger on it but will update when I do. Special shout out to Arlo and Rhiannon. (The only likable characters). I had to laugh out loud a few times at the way this fam spoke to each other! Also anyone else super annoyed at "little Daniel"?
so-so4 women, 3 generations and lots of dysfunction all set on the coast of Maine- It had so much potential. It just seemed to take an above ground look at the lives of the women in the family and never went deep to try & resolve the dysfunction that continued to linger. Lives didn't change much. The larger relationships remained unmended for the most part. I guess I was looking for healing and redemption of family and didn't find it.
so-soTime to catch up on reviews! I was not much of a fan for this one. I love family relationships, especially between women, but this one felt more mean-spirited than necessary. Also, the entire thing was pretty much backstory with very little action. Still, some of the writing was beautiful.
A pretty standard beach read--a drama about four female relatives all coming to the family beach house, where old wounds are reopened and family secrets are revealed. I enjoyed it because each chapter was narrated by one of the four so you got to see the same events from multiple views. It was a great commentary on how the events that shape a family can be seen in a variety of different ways and have a different impact on each person involved.
Perk of the (librarian) job: nabbing books we withdraw. This one came back super water damaged. It's on my TBR list, so I just ripped off the ruined cover ('twas starting to mold, eww!) and brought it with me on this trip.
Hard at work at Print Bookstore in Portland, Maine. Grand opening on Dec. 3rd!
#booktober #WishICouldBeThere I've never been to Maine but I've heard it is absolutely gorgeous in all seasons. Plus I could raid @Liberty 's library. ☺️
pickGreat beach read!!! Family craziness ensues. I picked this book for my mom and I to read based on a BOOKRIOT podcast! They always give great book advice!!!
Reading this book on vacation in Key West with my mom. Perfect reading!!
so-soHmm..thought I was getting a beach read. While the story WAS about the beach and the dysfunctional group of women that summer there I just never saw a redeeming connection between them. AND while I did finish the book I felt a little cheated with the ending. Sorry, but I wouldn't recommend this one.
