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BarbaraTheBibliophage
Slippery Art of Book Reviewing | Mayra Calvani, Anne K Edwards
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Hey Littens, @GatheringBooks has a new idea. Make a post and share the best book reviews you wrote in June. Or the reviews you wrote for the best books you read. Use the hashtags above. Mine are:

#FictionReviews Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman http://litsy.com/p/anNDOFIxQ1h2

#NFReviews A Higher Loyalty by James Comey http://litsy.com/p/WXBYQUplSDV2

#MGReviews The Secret Garden http://litsy.com/p/WUNuRzRRU2F3

GatheringBooks awesome!! 😍🧚🏼‍♀️📚 6y
CaitlinR #FictionReviews Best, also the last I read. HE by John Connolly. Incredible. 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @CaitlinR Awesome — I hadn‘t heard of it. 6y
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LitsyHappenings
Slippery Art of Book Reviewing | Mayra Calvani, Anne K Edwards
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Repost for @GatheringBooks :
For months now, I have been mulling over what I can do for my book tribe. Voila! Think of it as a database of best monthly reviews. You don‘t have to share your best reviews across ALL genres, it could only be those that interest you, but this is a way of gathering them all together conveniently at the end of each month. You can share titles or Litsy URL (more laborious, but easier to find it). #June18BookReviews

LitsyHappenings - do join in, if you are able to! :) Share your fave Litsy reviews for the month of June. I gave a tutorial on FB on how to share Litsy URL, but titles will be fine too.
#YAReviews - Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
http://litsy.com/p/VWdBZVNIQXdj
#KidLitReviews - On A Magical Do Nothing Day http://litsy.com/p/akJXTDBkT3VJ
#FictionReviews - The Animators http://litsy.com/p/WWhHUERmZlVE
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GatheringBooks thank youuuuu! you are awesome!! 6y
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GatheringBooks
Slippery Art of Book Reviewing | Mayra Calvani, Anne K Edwards
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#June18BookReviews - do join in, if you are able to! :) Share your fave Litsy reviews for the month of June. I gave a tutorial on FB on how to share Litsy URL, but titles will be fine too.
#YAReviews - Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
http://litsy.com/p/VWdBZVNIQXdj
#KidLitReviews - On A Magical Do Nothing Day http://litsy.com/p/akJXTDBkT3VJ
#FictionReviews - The Animators http://litsy.com/p/WWhHUERmZlVE

BarbaraTheBibliophage I‘m intrigued. Is the idea to share anyone‘s review you liked? Or the best of your own reviews? 6y
GatheringBooks @BarbaraTheBibliophage that‘s a good q! the best of your own reviews for the month. :) 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Thanks! I‘ll play along. 😎 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I wish the Litsy links had clickable URLs in them. I‘ll have to suggest that on your FB post. Anyway, this is a great idea. Thanks!!! 6y
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CSeydel
The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro
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I unwisely finished this book just before going to a birthday party and now I‘m all mopey and emotional. I loved everything about this book. A beautifully written portrait of a man near the end of a distinguished career who contemplates his core values and what his life‘s purpose has been. He wrestles with doubts and regrets, his identity as an Englishman of a certain stature, and the true expression of dignity. Poignant, honest, and complex. 5⭐️

MrBook Aww. Great review! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻 7y
HeatherBookNerd Wonderful book indeed. 7y
LiteraryinPA I agree with @MrBook ! 7y
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CSeydel @MrBook @LiteraryinLititz ☺️ aw, thanks. Major book hangover now... (edited) 7y
jb72 Great review! I am waiting on the book from the library. But I know what you mean - sometimes I felt drained from a book and it made it difficult to work. 7y
AceOnRoam @Agnetta are you going to read this one too? 7y
AceOnRoam @CSeydel great review! 7y
JaclynW Great review! I think I have this on audio. I need to check. It's been on my list for years. I'm glad our group picked it. 7y
ArteMitch So glad you liked it! 7y
Jess_Read_This Great review!! I still have this on my radar to get to... and your review really makes me want to get to it! 7y
CSeydel What wrecked me was the sharp contrast between the strong emotions and the understated expression of them. Throughout the book Stevens never lets his carapace of professionalism crack, not once, and since the story is told from Stevens‘s perspective, often the emotional content is only obliquely observable, reflected in the reactions of others. Which means the reader is led somewhat unsuspectingly to the final gut punch 👇 7y
CSeydel “Indeed, in that moment - why should I not admit it? - my heart was breaking.” 7y
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