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youneverarrived
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So I checked the shortlist for the year this book won the #baileysprize and it won over A Little Life?! 😲🤯

It should have gripped me - dark, gritty, set in Ireland, flawed, messed-up characters - but it just felt... pointless 🤷‍♀️ great first chapter & characters were ok but I wasn‘t invested in them at all. Completely overwrought. I wouldn‘t have missed out if I‘d bailed tbh.

readingjedi Agree ☺ 7y
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youneverarrived
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I‘m on an unintentional #baileysprize kick. Third book in a week or so I‘ve read that‘s been nominated for the award. Let‘s see if this is as bleak as the other two 😆 #socksunday #marchinbooks

Cathythoughts I‘m about to start this book ! As soon as I finish The Winter Queen. It‘s our Bookclub choice this month...... I‘m going to start it tomorrow.... it comes highly recommended by a book club member & I have seen mixed reviews on Litsy. Exciting! We can compare notes. 👍🏻❤️❤️ 7y
youneverarrived @Cathythoughts ohh fab!! 🧡 Definitely have to compare notes. I‘m 11% in and it‘s gripping me. The first few pages I was a bit unsure but I‘m liking it now. 7y
Cathythoughts Hi , I‘ve had a very busy week. Only read a few pages of Glorious Heresies. I know it will be tomorrow before I start properly...... it‘s my bookclub read , so the pressure is on. I hope you are making better time with this one than I am 😁😉. Chat soon 7y
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youneverarrived @Cathythoughts when do you have to read it by for your bookclub? I haven‘t actually read any more of it since I posted this 😬 but I‘m nearly finished the other book I‘m reading so I‘ll be concentrating on Glorious Heresies soon. It‘s written from different character perspectives and books like that usually keep me turning the pages 👍 7y
Cathythoughts Our Bookclub is not till March 23d. But I‘m a really slow reader. Even if I get started tomorrow, it will take me a good week. If I was on Holliday, I‘d read a book in a couple of days ..... but in a normal week , I‘m very slow 🙄. We can keep in touch. The Litsy reviews are varied , & the woman who recommended it for bookclub loved it .... we shall see 😉 7y
youneverarrived @Cathythoughts it‘ll be fresh in your mind for bookclub then 👍 I‘m a slow reader too. I‘ve read mixed reviews on it, so far I‘m liking it though - I like the mix of characters. 7y
Cathythoughts I‘m struggling with Glorious Heresies. Started off well , but the violence is trying me. Im not sure I‘ll make it. But I will give it my best shot for bookclub. Taking a break with Tell The Wolves I‘m Home , for now. I wonder how you are finding it .....?!!! 7y
youneverarrived @Cathythoughts sorry only just seen this! 🤭 I‘m struggling with it a bit too. Great start but kind of gone downhill. I‘ll finish it but 🤷‍♀️.. Nothing special I don‘t think. I like Maureen a lot though! I think if it stayed written from her perspective I might have liked it better.. even though I do generally like multiple perspective books. How far into are you now? 7y
Cathythoughts To be honost I‘ve been skimming a bit 😬🤫never a good sign. Bookclub is this Friday night , I‘ll fill you in on what people thought .... 💕 7y
youneverarrived @Cathythoughts haha no not good. I‘m ready to be finished with it now. Yeah let me know 😊 be interesting to hear what they say 👍 7y
Cathythoughts I‘ve just an hour left of reading time in this book & I‘ll be finished. ...., I‘ll make it easily for tonight. I‘ll let you know how it goes. Just read your review... this won over A Little Life !!!!?!! Unreal. 7y
youneverarrived @Cathythoughts oh have fun 📚🍷 can‘t wait to hear what they think. I have a feeling it might divide people? And I know 😲😲 no idea how!! 7y
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jhod
Autumn | Ali Smith
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Thanks @emily_m_tubb and @BarbaraBB for tagging me in #fivestarpredictions. My current read (my first but definitely not last Strout!), two more #manbookerlonglist reads (am most convinced I will love Autumn), a true life crime and a remaining #baileysprize shortlisted book. So many great books in the world :-)
If you haven't been tagged already I nominate @bookloo @Wbabdullah @Aleida

Aleida Thanks for the tag! Do they have to be new releases? 7y
jhod @Aleida no, whatever you like! 7y
bookloo Thank you so much for the tag! ☺️ Also, great choices! I can't wait to dive into 4 3 2 1 and First Love! ❤️ 7y
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Wbabdullah @jhod this is my first time being tagged for a challenge!! 😍so you guessed right! And for real--they can be any book?!? Not just recent, new or upcoming releases?!! 7y
jhod @Wbabdullah Yep any books from your tbr that you think will be five star reads! 7y
Wbabdullah @jhod ok! I'm on it! Thanks! 7y
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rachelwill
Hag-Seed | Margaret Atwood
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Book 20: The Tempest is one of my favourite Shakespeare texts. Filled with otherworldliness and magic, desire and betrayal, washed away, captive on a remote island. Atwood retells the tale from inside a prison, with a wronged and exiled director keen to find his revenge in the ultimate play within a play. A playful and imaginative reimagining - anyone read others from this Hogarth Shakespeare series? #readwomen #baileysprize

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CaroPi
The Power | Naomi Alderman
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Best way to start the day... #pancakes #kusmitea #paperback #baileysprize #womanwriter #feminism Really enjoying this book.

Lauredhel Oh, I love the cover in that version! 7y
MrBook Mmmmmm! 7y
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CaroPi
The Power | Naomi Alderman
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Had an ankle injury. So more time to read 😃 while I recover started the latest #baileysprize winner. And already loving it. Hope all the book is this good. May not be my most beautiful picture but it really shows what I am doing....

LauraBeth Oh no! Hope it heals quickly! 7y
CaroPi @LauraBeth Thanks a lot! I also expect the same.... 7y
MrBook Positive vibes sent your way for a quick and smooth recovery! 7y
CaroPi @MrBook thanks a lot! 7y
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rachelwill
The Gustav Sonata | Rose Tremain
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Book 19: Soared through this one - a well crafted story, powered with music and memory and the secrets history hopes to keep hidden. Travelling through time with our two protagonists, we move from pre-WW2 on the Swiss border to modern day, with all its ghosts. But family skeletons have a tendency to emerge in unlikely ways...History sometimes gives its own perfomance. #readwomen #baileysprize

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rachelwill
Lesser Bohemians | Eimear Mcbride
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Pickpick

Book 18: Having struggled through A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, I was hesitant for round two. With nods to similar subject material as the first, this tale weaves in more sensuality and emotional growth. With a leading man far too familiar to one who in my own history, McBride captures that breathless and all-encompassing love, nay, compulsion of young love. Stick with the lamguage style - you'll fall into it. #readwomen #baileysprize

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rachelwill
The Dark Circle | Linda Grant
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Book 17: Sent away from East London (and a street just down the road from my flat!) to recuperate their TB inflicted lungs in the fresh air of Kent, two twins find themselves in unfamiliar but fascinating company. As some of the first patients of the NHS, entitled to free healthcare, it's an intriguing look at how this change affected all those involved. But there's more comedy than tragedy in this sanitorium #readwomen #baileysprize

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rachelwill
The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry
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Book 16: What a wonderful welcome back to reading after the harrowing A Little Life. The hype behind The Essex Serpent is completely deserved. Superstition and intrigue, tradition and community and even some politics - all with strong women at the helm. A historic tale with a modern spin - such a great novel. Will be looking up Perry's earlier novel asap. Also - bonus points for beautiful cover! #readwomen #baileysprize