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#10beforetheend - completed! 😊

This list was also all the National Book Awards longlisted books that I still had left to read. Thanks (I think! 😝) to Holly for getting me involved in reading this list. There were 30 books across 3 categories (Fiction, NF and Translated) and I read 24 in total.

Favourites were Raja The Gullible and The Wilderness (Fiction), For The Sun After Long Nights (NF) and Calculation of Volume III (translated).

#UnpopularOpinion because most people seem to rave about this book, but on balance I found it just OK. There are some beautiful moments - the relationship between Dodo and “Monkey Pants” moved me to tears. But there are too many diversions from the main story; in some cases we get the full life story of minor characters. There‘s a great story here, but I felt like it struggled to get out

Book 10 #10BeforeTheEnd 🎉
Book 104 #Read2025

Cher has had an incredible career, spanning 7 decades. You‘d think her biography would be a great read.
Sadly, Cher needs to either sack her editor, or her ghost writer, or her own verbosity. This memoir focuses far too much on unnecessary detail. There also seems to be little responsibility taken for her own actions; I don‘t really like the Cher of this book.

Book 9 of #10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures
Book 103 #Read2025

Up next…excited for a thriller/mystery after a slog!

#bookspinbingo
#10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures

Three grown up sisters and their families are on holiday and lots of drama unfolds - some of it a bit farfetched but it made a compulsive, enjoyable read. Each of the sisters have their own things going on and they were all as interesting as each other. Most chapters in the present but some going back in time to when the girls were little, from their perspectives and their mother‘s. #10beforetheend

Hello, fellow Littens. It's time for another readathon. #TheCandyCaneReathaton theme is for when we go out to Christmas Parades or shopping, maybe even just being at home enjoying our hot chocolate with candy canes and a book just to relax and recharge. What book will you read during this time? A low-key readathon where you can tag me @Liseworks your choice of books and your progress

Have done a decent amount of reading this week. I've got 2 1/2 #10BeforeTheEnd books to go.

#SnowyDecemberReadathon
@LiseWorks

On Saturday, I went round the bookshops looking for Fontamara, which I had planned on reading and was on my #10BeforeTheEnd list. Didn't find it, but bought other books anyway 😊. And all my library holds came at once, so here's my pile of books:
- Tagged Italian cookbook: read, liked it;
- Graphic work by Zerocalcare: read liked it;
- Ibn Khaldun anthology: 60 pages still to read;
- Boccace's Decameron: will probably be a year-long read;

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