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Planning best walks for my mums visit :)

I'm posting one book per day from the ever growing unread stacks in my personal library. No description or explanation, just books I own and plan to read. #tbr

Day 60 (Audible edition)

This was a whirlwind! I liked it, but I‘m sure happy to live alone. All that activity was crazy and would drive me insane! I like my quiet life. There was humour mixed in here and there, as well. This is a local author to me, so it‘s always fun to read about places I know in my city.

I don't normally like to bail on a book once I've started it, but this audio is not holding my attention at all. If it wasn't so long I'd just suck it up, but time to move on.

For fun, I am going to post one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 1 #bookstoread #tbrpile

#stillTBR #bookshamed

I‘m so happy this new YA novel by Ali Bryan will be published by Dottir Press - they are a super awesome feminist press in New York and this book is also super awesome ❤️

An okay read. A story of a normal family with normal problems, struggling to stay somewhat sane. The best part is it is by an Alberta author and set in Calgary.

I love quirky family stories, but I didn‘t like the writing style here. It didn‘t feel realistic with its timing. For example, the family would sit down for dinner and after three lines of dialogue they would all be done eating. Or a character would go out of the room to do a project and in half a page come back with it completed. I don‘t think it was an intentional choice though. Maybe just amateur writing? I gave up.

A brilliantly insightful novel about what makes one's life meaningful, and how to pick up the pieces of your life when all your dreams have been shattered.

This is the favorite book of one of my good friends, a former elite athlete, who sent it to me a few months ago, but resonates with athletes & non-athletes alike. It's universal - when your identity has been dominated by one thing, you will reach a point when you need to reinvent who you are.