pickLoved my #bookspin book for March!!!! It's a middle grade memoir of a girl growing up in Bosnia just before the war. She is just about the same age as me, so even though it was in a different country, it felt nostalgic. It was a perfect blend of personal, family, and national issues. I love how her culture was portrayed and was saddened by many turn of events. Now I need to read her YA account of the war years...
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pickA quite enjoyable book about characters finding themselves after horrible situations and a search for the lost bookshop. It was a good mix of magical realism with some historical fiction blended in. I do think the characters were a bit surface level and I feel like more could have been done with the magical portion of the plot but it was a good escape from the world at this current time.
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The life of a well-meaning upper-class English woman, from her childhood in the 1870s through the very different world of the 1930s. I think I wasn't the audience for this; Streatfeild's writing is engaging as always, and her characters relatable, but I found the story so dour and depressing overall.
(CW for homophobia; also, the digital edition is full of mistakes.)
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bailedWell unfortunately I got about 2/3 through and was just not interested in the rest. I read through a bunch of reviews and many folks said it started strong and weakened in the middle, without a clear or strong conclusion.
It‘s about a Latina reader writing to an older Latino writer she admired greatly and had a confusing relationship with 10 years prior, after being contacted by a reporter about said author being charged with sexual assault.
so-soI really hope this is the last time Death Star plans are stolen, a Death Star is built, and a Death Star is destroyed 🥱
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pickAnd that's my #BookSpin finished! It was a fairly cute romance, though the numerous mistakes and misunderstandings of Quimby (not to mention Nattie and Clem) were pretty embarrassment-squicky.
And here's a #BookSpinBingo update, too. I hadn't planned to use manga this month, but it's been an awful time so far, and I don't see it suddenly becoming a lot easier, so I might as well.
pickEnjoyed it! I always like reading why the characters want to time travel.
#bookspinbingo - this is my #bookspin for this month
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#pop25 - a book that is considered healing fiction
pickI‘m not sure exactly what I was expecting, I think probably one of those “see the world through the eyes of a neurodivergent protagonist, and realize that ‘strange‘ is in the eye of the beholder” type books. This was not that - it was a crime thriller, and a lot darker and more graphic than I expected.
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I‘m actually still working on a book from the February #bookspin so I‘m picking short reads for this month‘s numbers.
My prompt #1 is “A First”.
My prompt #12 is “Paperback Crush”.
As always, thank you @TheAromaofBooks ! I hope the move is going ok.
