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#Top24of24
Here are my favorite reads from 2024. This overlaps 83% with my #AuldLangSpine list, but I still want to memorialize another fantastic reading year. The top 4 spots go to Winterson's The Passion, Butler's Kindred, Awad's Rouge, and Murata's Convenience Store Woman. I read 3 of those 4 in the first three months of the year, so hopefully that means I'm due for some early favorites in 2025🤞🤞

My first thought for this prompt was My Dark Vanessa, but then I remembered this one!

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Misty, thank you so much! 💙💙💙 You are so generous ❤️

This book looks really good & (of course) I love the stickers, pin and flip flop line markers. 🩴🩴
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Current situation 💐❤️😻

“For as long as I could remember, I always had been drawn to the darkness.”

Happy Monday everyone!

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May 13, 2024

Roses from the hubby! 🌹🌹🌹

This one is really good so far! #Aardvark

Happy Mother‘s Day!

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Starting this one today. I chose it randomly this morning before work. Really odd that it has similarities with “The Rachel Incident” that I just bailed on! We will see how this one goes! 🤞🤞

#BreakfastandBook

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. My favorite authors are mostly dead or otherwise out of commission. I guess Ishiguro, and maybe Patrick DeWitt (although I still haven't read The Librarianist).
2. Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
3. Raymond Chandler for his Philip Marlowe books and Wodehouse for the Jeeves & Wooster books. And, as I was obsessed with Dune in high school, Frank Herbert.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

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“A riveting, surprising thriller that contains much more at its heart, The Favorites is a ferocious commentary on the nature of justice, and the gulf between what is right and what is legal. Gripping, emotional, and at times profound, I raced through this in an evening.”
– Kate Collins, author of A House for Good Children

#aardvarkbookclub #thefavorites #suspense

A few tweaks would‘ve changed this from okay to great. Jessie‘s sister had an affair with a professor when he is in Dublin for a semester. Shortly after, Audrey runs to Central America and dies. Jessie goes to his school in Philly to take him down. Major plot hole: how did the professor, in the age of smartphones, not know what his gf‘s sister looked like? The addition of some of Audrey‘s journal entries would‘ve helped me understand her better.

#aardvark bookmail!

I wasn‘t super impressed with this month‘s #aardvark picks, but a slow month lets me pick up some backlist titles! I chose The Favorites because I love dark academia. I wanted their pretty edition of Rouge even though I‘ve already read it. Desert Creatures has been on my radar for months, so I pounced while it‘s still around. 🤩🤩

Some updated November #Aardvark possibilities based on new clues! 🕵️🏼‍♀️