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January
January | Sara Gallardo
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Elegant and forceful I couldnt put it down. Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas now in English for the very first time With echoes of Edith Whartons Summer, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way womens bodies and rights were perceived in 20th-century Argentina Perfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernauxs Happening, and Claudia Pieiros Elena Knows In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefers throat. Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells. Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there. She attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret. A radical feminist text, January was the first Argentine novel to represent rape from the survivors perspective and to explore the life-threatening risks pregnancy posed, in a society where abortion was both outlawed and taboo. With a narcotic musicality and voice scorched through with honesty, Gallardo hangs before us an experience that has been lived and ignored a thousand times over. Nefer closes her eyes. We careen to her and we see.
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TheEllieMo
January | Sara Gallardo
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Overloaded infographic! My spreadsheet suggest my reading has been far too straight white British so far this year!
9 books read (if you include the 90 page novella) in January. My favourite was The Goodbye Cat, though The Queen of Poisons was a close second; the worst by far was Love, Lies and Lemon Cake.

#JanuaryWrapUp
#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader 🥳Awesome! 10mo
monkeygirlsmama What do you use to give you your spreadsheet/graphs? 10mo
TheEllieMo @monkeygirlsmama it‘s a thing I set up in Microsoft Excel. 10mo
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monkeygirlsmama @TheEllieMo See I thought that's what it looked like, but I thought maybe you just superimposed the data over from someplace else. I'm too Excel illiterate to do more than basic spreadsheets. 😜 10mo
TheEllieMo @monkeygirlsmama I‘m an accountant by profession, spreadsheets are my tool of trade! I set this one up because I was curious to see if there were any unconscious patterns in my reading choices 10mo
monkeygirlsmama @TheEllieMo Such a clever idea! 10mo
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AudiobookingWithLeah
January | Sara Gallardo
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My January Recap! These are all the books I finished for January. I had 7 DNFs total for the month.

Fav book of the month: All The Dark Places (1/23 finish date) by Terri Parlato & Runner-up is Only If You're Lucky (1/17 finish date) by Stacy Willingham.

Fav cover of the month: Dreambound (1/8 finish date) & runner-up is This Wretched Valley (1/19 finish date)

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La_Cori
January | Sara Gallardo
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My January #wrapup
I read 8 books in total (~2300 pages + 15 hours)
1 comic, 1 audiobook and 1 nonfiction

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Foe by Iain Reid; The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne; Eragon by Christopher Paolini

#JanuaryStats #monthlywrapup

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BarbaraBB
January | Sara Gallardo
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#januarywrapup #JanuaryStats

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The one

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
The pachinko parlour
Sorrow and bliss

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Held
Crossroads
Mix Tape

⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Flights
We moeten praten (Dutch)
Sleep no more
North woods
The Heaven & Earth grocery store
My husband

⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
Same bed different dreams
The hole
Weasels in the attic
Lovesick blossoms
A frozen woman

Teresereading Love your grid, how did you do that? 10mo
maich You did so great👏👍 10mo
BarbaraBB @Teresereading It is a great app for tracking your reading, called Bookmory! 10mo
LiteraryHoarderPenny @BarbaraBB thanks for the tip! Off to look up Bookmory. 10mo
Megabooks Great month!! 10mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
January | Sara Gallardo
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#JanuaryWrapUp

I'm extremely please with the number of books I got to this month-Yay me! 😁

3 DNFs
#bookspin and #doublespin ✔️
1 #bookspinbingo
Best of the month: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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EadieB
January | Sara Gallardo
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#JoyousJanuary #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #ReadAway2024

I read 8 books and got 1 Bingo during January 2024.

DieAReader 🥳Awesome! 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!!! 10mo
TheSpineView Well done! 10mo
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MatchlessMarie
January | Sara Gallardo
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If you know me you know this is a tentative list but these are some hopefuls for #JoyousJanuary 4 of these are already in progress.

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LitsyEvents
January | Sara Gallardo
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Repost for @Andrew65

Believe it or not we are already rapidly approaching the mid month 9 day Pick Your Own Goals Readathon, #JoyousJanuary

Any one can join, just choose your own goals whatever they may be, and post your goals and / or the books you hope to read. All very flexible and very informal.

Please use the tag #JoyousJanuary and tag me in any posts.

Have fun with it, this is really the only rule.

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DGRachel
January | Sara Gallardo
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Now that the #bookspin numbers are out, here‘s my tentative January TBR - a nice combination of library books, #bookspin, and #auldlangspine. ☺️

But also, note to self, stop putting books on the bookspin list that you don‘t really want to read. 🤦🏻‍♀️ At least it‘s the #doublespin choice.

TheAromaofBooks Looks great!! And remember... DNFs count, so maybe this is your chance to jettison a book that isn't really going to work for you 😂 11mo
robinb Been there, done that. LOL I still have a few that I‘m “iffy” about but feel better about it overall. 11mo
Itchyfeetreader @TheAromaofBooks I love that idea 11mo
TheAromaofBooks @Itchyfeetreader - One time, I had a BookSpinBingo participant purposefully make her entire list of books she owned but thought she had a better than 50% chance of DNFing - she didn't make it through the whole list, but she did get rid of like 15 books that month! 11mo
DGRachel @TheAromaofBooks I kind of love that! 11mo
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EadieB
January | Sara Gallardo
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#January2024 #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

These are the books I‘ll be reading for January 2024

Andrew65 Some wonderful books! I‘d not noticed this new book by Glenn Cooper so thanks for posting it, it love his books. 11mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looks fantastic!!! 11mo
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MatchlessMarie
January | Sara Gallardo
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January #BookSpin also has selections for #AuldLangSpine / #TBRTarot / #AcquiredViaLitsy2024 @BennettBookworm thanks for creating such awesome list! Several not included here were added to my general TBR.

BennettBookworm Yay! 11mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11mo
CBee Woot! 10mo
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fredthemoose
January | Sara Gallardo
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It‘s been awhile since I‘ve done a #BookSpin Bingo board, but thought I‘d get back into it to organize some of my reading for #LitsyToB24 and #AuldLangSpine and to work through a few library holds that all came in together. Hope everyone‘s year is off to a great start!

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Chelsea.Poole
January | Sara Gallardo
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January #bookspin #doublespin and #bookspinbingo goals most are for #auldlangspine (top row) and #LitsyToB24 (bottom and half above)

I‘ve already started
🐝 Let Us Descend
🔺Wellness
🎈 The Birthday Party
and I‘m vibing well with each 🙌

monalyisha Ha! The perfect emojis. Impressive. 11mo
IndoorDame Looks like a fantastic month! 11mo
AmyG I am curious what you think of Wellness. (edited) 11mo
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Chelsea.Poole @monalyisha I‘m such a cheese ball with my emoji usage. 🧀 (edited) 11mo
Chelsea.Poole @IndoorDame I just downloaded the audio of 11mo
Chelsea.Poole @AmyG I‘m very much getting on with Wellness. Long but good. Did I see that you‘re reading it currently too? 11mo
IndoorDame @Chelsea.Poole nice! I just downloaded the audio of 11mo
AmyG @Chelsea.Poole I finished it and really enjoyed it. 11mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo
Megabooks So glad you‘re enjoying those, too! 11mo
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ChelseaM6010
January | Sara Gallardo
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My #bookspin list for January 2024!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo
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