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Finally reporting my books read for March. This was a long-book month, and I was only 2 days away from finishing Cashelmara, which will show up in my April books read. I tagged my favorite book this month. Challenge update:

#foodandlit #Nepal (from last month) 2 (Katmandú Killers & Eight Mountains)
#foodandlit #Ireland 3+ most of Cashelmara
#foodandlit #Italy #Jubilee 1 (Eight Mountains)
#authoramonth (Bardugo) 2+ 1/2 of Wonder Woman

Soubhiville, Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks I love Ninth House! I still have to read Hell Bent 4h

Texreader @Catsandbooks I was so surprised I liked it so much. I immediately borrowed Hellbent after I finished it. It was just as good imo 3h

Catsandbooks @Texreader glad to hear! 3h

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Dilara

Ce que murmurent les collines. Nouvelles rwandaises | Scholastique Mukasonga

About to start 1 of the few books by Scholastique Mukasonga I haven't read yet. They're short stories & I expect most of them will be set in #Rwanda but won't be about the genocide, which is good because as important as the genocide is, Rwanda should not be reduced to it.
#FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇷🇼 4h

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Maggie4483

April Showers | Holly Jacobs

This month I‘m catching up on #Roll100 #Bookspin and #FoodAndLit (although I added two books for April‘s Food & Lit country because I couldn‘t decide). And one of the books on my list was picked as a nod to the birthday I‘ll be celebrating in a couple of days. Any guesses which book and how old I‘ll be?

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d

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Texreader

Cashelmara | Susan Howatch

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60-year-old Englishman Edward DeSalis marries 18-yo Marguerite, an American girl he meets during a trip to the states just prior to the civil war. He owns several homes but the one she likes the least is Cashelmara, a great estate in Ireland. The story begins with Edward then Marguerite and continues to be told by their descendants and their significant others. This is an epic story (700+ pages) of the DeSalis family that suffers some tragic ⬇️

Catsandbooks

Texreader acts, including murders of both good and evil characters. At the same time the early English generation treats the Irish in much the way one would expect—as lesser people, mere peasants—although that viewpoint changes significantly over time. There‘s also some Scottish characters and how they are seen by the English and the Irish is very interesting. This is quite the saga. Very long but certainly kept my interest throughout. #foodandlit #Ireland 3d

BethM The cover is beautiful! 3d

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇮🇪💚 2d

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kspenmoll

Dark Fires | Rosemary Rogers

March stats. Total:27 books
Row 1: Buddy reads & Kindle #sundaybuddyread #foodandlit #Ireland #bookedintime #Irishfamine #CrosswickJournals #MadeleineLEngle #studentbuddyread #readyourkindle
R2: #memoir #poetry #MatthewShardlake #DIBanks #IcelandicMystery
R3:#CommissarioBrunetti #RoyalSpynessMystery #Bookinabook #MartiniClub #GideonOliverMysteries
R4: #LaneWinslow
R5: #Spyness #PatrikHedstromMysteries #audiobooks #serieslove2025 #Storygraph

TheBookHippie, Librarybelle, Andrew65, TheSpineView, CBee, dabbe

dabbe Wowza! You are awesome! 🤩 3d

Librarybelle Incredible! Congratulations on a great reading month! 3d

Bookwormjillk Looks like a good reading month! 3d

TheBookHippie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3d

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Dilara

Harvest of Skulls | Abdourahman A. Waberi

This essay collection was written as part of the “Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Memory“ 1998 initiative involving writers from various African countries (so, not Rwandan, but not Western). They were invited to Rwanda for 2 months to produce literary texts “outside of Western narratives“. These essays feel quickly thrown together. They require a decent amount of knowledge re the genocide to fill in the blanks (not a criticism, just an observation).

Dilara Pic is a montage of covers of 5 of the books written thanks to this initiative, found on https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20190407-rwanda-genocide-romans-hutus-tutsis-bouba... , an article on books about the Rwandan genocide (in French). I have read and can recommend (as long as you don't mind clunky writing) Murambi, The Book of Bones (Murambi, le livre des ossements).
#FoodandLit #Rwanda
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Murambi, The Book of Bones

(edited) 4d

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DebinHawaii

The Star Of The Sea | Joseph O'Connor

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#Read2025

Finished this weekend for #BookedInTime & #FoodAndLit #Ireland This book is set in 1847 against the backdrop of the Irish famine where a ship of many souls (over 450 with steerage, First Class & crew) sets out from Ireland to New York trying to escape the Great Famine & survive. There are lots of secrets revealed & a murder that take place on the month-long voyage. This was tough to read due to the subject matter & many characters ⬇️

Cuilin, DieAReader, Texreader, Catsandbooks

DebinHawaii …to keep track of as well as the sometimes convoluted writing & back & forth in time, but it‘s a good book & well worth the effort.

(I‘ll do a separate #FoodAndLit post with the Irish food I ate.) 4d

Texreader Great review. 4d

DieAReader 🥳Excellent! 4d

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Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇮🇪💚 4d

Bookwormjillk Love your review. I think this is one I‘ll need to read again to understand it fully. 4d

Cuilin Fabulous 4d

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DebinHawaii

The Star Of The Sea | Joseph O'Connor

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Cuilin, DieAReader, Texreader, Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 🇮🇪💚 4d

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