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nitalibrarian
The Fox Wife: A Novel | Yangsze Choo
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Put up a new display at work. This one features some the best books of 2024 according to different publications, like Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, NPR, etc.

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1d
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rachelsbrittain
The Fox Wife: A Novel | Yangsze Choo
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Here are my picks for the 5 best historical fiction published this year. Are there any others you would add?

https://bookriot.com/the-best-historical-fiction-of-2024/

Vansa Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon might be my favorite book this year, not just in historical fiction! Cannot recommend enough 2d
AllDebooks @Vansa Yes, absolutely unique storytelling 1d
rachelsbrittain @Vansa @AllDebooks I'll have to check it out! 22h
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LitsyEvents
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repost for @TheBookHippie:

January #CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2025

2025 schedule https://bookhippie.com/index.php/2024/10/01/childrens-classic-read-2025/

All welcome let me know if you want to be newly tagged or removed 🤍

#BuddyRead

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BookwormAHN
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 5d
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Kshakal
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Eggs Pretty 😍 6d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️💚❤️ 6d
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GingerAntics
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Bailedbailed

I‘m sorry. I just can‘t bring myself to read another sentence. A lot was promised, none of it was delivered.
#CarolynMcVickarEdwards #TheReturnOfTheLight #unpopularopinion #DNF #bail #couldntdoit

GingerAntics Of the 12 stories, only 6 can be readily found independent of the book in any form. Of those 6, three are either misnamed or given the wrong location, and a fourth is heavily changed, to the point of being a different story. The final story is part of Epiphany celebrations in Italy and nothing new to Catholic school pupils who had creative religion teachers. 7d
GingerAntics The “solstice” songs at the end are Christmas carols she changed some of the words to. The activities are slightly augmented Christmas traditions from around the world. She has sources, but even those don‘t come up for half the stories, so she‘s either changed them beyond recognition or combined multiple stories. 7d
kspenmoll Great review! 6d
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AllDebooks
The Fox Wife: A Novel | Yangsze Choo
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Pickpick

This has been a standout read of the year. I absolutely loved everything about it. The narrative is told alternately between Snow, the fox wife, and Bao, the private investigator looking for her. The setting is China at the end of Empress Cixi's reign, as modernity and Western culture start to infiltrate China.

It's heavily interlaced with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean folklore.
Highly recommended 5⭐️

TheBookHippie Did you read this of hers, it‘s very good as well- 1w
AllDebooks @TheBookHippie No, but I do have it on Kindle. I hope to read it in the New Year 1w
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TheBookHippie @AllDebooks typically I don‘t read this type book but I very much enjoy her writing and background history in her books. 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures ✅ great job! I keep seeing this at the bookstore, need to pick it up, I love the cover. 1w
AllDebooks @TheBookHippie I thought she did a great job mixing the history, folklore, culture, and politics into the narrative. 1w
AllDebooks @ChaoticMissAdventures it is beautiful 😍 1w
kspenmoll This was gifted to me from @rachelsbrittain For Litsy‘s #StuffedStockingSwap I have heard wonderful things from her about the book. Now your review is making me want to read it this month! 5d
AllDebooks @kspenmoll @rachelsbrittain has good taste. It's the perfect winter read. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 5d
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