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Karisa
Winter in the Blood | James Welch
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Reading the tagged book for #SundayBuddyRead and the J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) for #AuthorAMonth this chilly weekend.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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sebrittainclark
Queen Demon | Martha Wells
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Pickpick

4/5

With a new theory of where the Heirarch's Well may be, Kai and his allies work to ensure that no new Heirarch will be created. In the past, Kai must work to bring the dust witches into Bashasa's army as they continue their fight to defeat the Heirarchs.

I love the ways the two story entangle. We know how the war ends, but the details of what truly happened are slowly revealed through both the past and present story lines.

#netgalley

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Deblovestoread
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#5JoysFriday on Saturday

1) #WinterNatureCardSwap cards were mailed Thursday @TheBookHippie
2) Shardlake goodies from @dabbe Really enjoyed this series and reading along with the group. A highlight of the year.
3) Christmas mail and goodies from lovely friends.❤️ @AmyG @TheLudicReader
4) Picking out new flooring! We might have restoration done before Christmas 🤞🏼
5) I have been picking up a book rather than my IPad more often. Goodbye funk!

dabbe You just made my day, week, month, year. ♥️💙💚 10h
DebinHawaii Wonderful joys! 💚❤️💚 9h
TheBookHippie ❄️🩶❄️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 So wonderful!!! 9h
AnnCrystal 🤞🏼🎄🤞🏼💝💝💝💝💝. 7h
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Graywacke
A Backward Glance | Edith Wharton
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Wrong time period, but at least she‘s in Paris 👆

A Backward Glance
#whartonbuddyread

Today:
IX The Secret Garden
X London
XI Paris

Dec 13: finish

On writing House of Mirth
“The answer was that a frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Its tragic implication lies in its power of debasing people and ideals.”

I‘m smitten all. What are your thoughts?

Lcsmcat I highlighted that passage too. Also “As a stranger and newcomer, not only outside of all groups and coteries, but hardly aware of their existence, I enjoyed a freedom not possible in those days to the native born, who were still enclosed in the old social pigeon-holes, which they had begun to laugh at, but to which they still flew back.” 14h
Graywacke @Lcsmcat Paris! How interesting 14h
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Graywacke A big thing i‘m contemplating is the world changing impact of WWI. Like how Cather said the world broke in 1922 (which is an odd choice of year). 14h
Lcsmcat I also added Enrique Larreta, Paul Bourget, and Howard Sturgis, to my TBR. I like reading what a favored author read. (edited) 14h
Lcsmcat @Graywacke I think WWI gave others the freedom that Wharton tasted as an outsider in Paris society. The classes and the expectations of one‘s place in society shifted so dramatically then. 14h
TheBookHippie @Lcsmcat I do too!! 13h
TheBookHippie I keep thinking about the importance of writing is art. You must do your art. The stories swimming inside her, oh to be a witness to that. But mostly I‘m just smitten with the prose and her observations. It is fascinating to me the shifting of “society”. 13h
Leftcoastzen I‘m not done yet but just finished rewatching Downton Abbey. They did such a good job illustrating how WWI changed so much . The youngest daughter Sybil, working as a nurse . The family turning their home into a convalescent center. 13h
Currey @Graywacke WWI was completely world transforming but I did find Wharton picking 1922 odd. I keep thinking about how I would tell others about my friendships and acquaintances. She just could really capture her friend‘s unique properties. 13h
Graywacke @Lcsmcat i didn‘t add those three 🙂 But I did find them fascinating. Howard - what a character! 4h
Graywacke @TheBookHippie she really has a way of making you interested in whatever she wants to tell about. That prose… 4h
Graywacke @Leftcoastzen I‘ve never seen Downtown Abbey. 🙁 That element interests. The show interests. The fact you‘re watching it a second time interests! 4h
Graywacke @Currey goodness, I could never bring anyone alive the way she does. It‘s so special. (It was Cather, not Wharton, who made the 1922 quip.) 4h
Currey @Graywacke Oh Cather made that remark. I am not sure I understand that any better but it does make more sense given Cather being in the US and Wharton in Europe. 3h
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Tamra
In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway
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Mehso-so

Bookclub pick. I enjoy short stories as a genre but I wasn‘t bowled over by the tagged collection. There is a nice arch to it and there are a couple of stories in the first half I got into. Overall though, the group discussion was more edifying than the actual reading.

In the pictured complete collection of Hemingway stories I reread “A Clean Well Lighted Place” and it is 5⭐️.

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Karisa
Winter in the Blood | James Welch
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Definitely a bleak start to this book for #SundayBuddyRead

I‘m getting Bukowski vibes 😅

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Aims42
Marley: A Novel | Jon Clinch
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#FridayHappyReadingHour is here 🤩🥳 Enjoying a 7&7 along with the tagged book. No snacks but dinner is crockpot orange chicken so we‘ll be eating shortly 😋

Feel free to use the hashtag to play along with what you‘re reading, drinking and snacking on 🤗

@kspenmoll
@tamara
@mcctrish
@thebookhippie
@BarbaraBB
@CathyThoughts
@dabbe
@Ruthiella

mcctrish Happy Weekend ( dinner sounds delicious) 1d
Aims42 @mcctrish Our oven broke this week so I‘ve had to get creative with different cooking/heating methods 😆 1d
mcctrish Oh no @Aims42 is there a repair person coming ? 1d
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kspenmoll Dinner sounds divine & so is your tree! 1d
Aims42 @mcctrish My husband watched a YouTube video and ordered a part. Fingers crossed that‘ll fix it! Wish it gave me more warning between working fine during my lunch to not working at all 5 hours later at dinner 🙄 1d
Aims42 @kspenmoll Thank you so much ☺️😊 I feel like I sorta just hung the ornaments and hoped for the best 😆 1d
mcctrish Ahh husbands and how to you tube videos @Aims42 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 1d
Aims42 @mcctrish Yep. A wild Friday night here 🤪 1d
dabbe ♥️💚💙 1d
BarbaraBB Looks fab 🤩 1d
Cathythoughts Dinner sounds gorgeous ❤️ 24h
Aims42 @BarbaraBB Thank you ☺️❤️💚 17h
Aims42 @Cathythoughts It was a late afternoon experiment and it worked!! Yay!! 17h
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kelli7990
Mermaids | Patty Dann
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I colored this picture and wrote this story about it.

#haiku #haikuaday #haikuhive

JenlovesJT47 🩵🩵🩵 🎶 Under the sea…🎶🧜‍♀️ 1d
AnnCrystal Mermaid Lovely 👏🏼🐝🧜🏼‍♀️🐝💝. 1d
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