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Ok, #PersephoneClub friends - here's your next slate for voting! Sort of seasonal, for those who like that, but not overtly so (I think?). Can't wait to see what you vote for!

@LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads @elkeOriginal @Cathythoughts @Caryl @sisilia @Tamra @andrew61 @willaful @julieclair @Aimeesue @Gissy @Bookbuyingaddict @daena

Okay, posting the options before I overthink it! I've no reasons to offer, just going with my gut! 😆

#furrowedmiddlebrowclub

I can‘t believe we‘re already choosing books for 2025! Here are my picks for January.

The first is the latest FM book published, and the title of the second is a slight nod to the Wicked movie coming to theaters soon. 😄👠

#FurrowedMiddleBrowClub

Audiobook ☑️. A very funny listen 😊 📖 🎧

I almost bailed 20 pages in. Glad I didn't. Is the prose excessively elaborate? Definitely. But once you settle into the narrative it works. The stories are so uncomfortable and brutal in content that plain language would render them too stark to bear. And the magical realism/SF combo allows for each idea to be followed to its extreme, but it also allows for hope. This book is female pain/love/rage/friendship/vengeance. But never despair.

I can see the value in this book, but at 25% I was still not connecting and decided to give up.

It‘s Party Time!! 🎈

Please join the #birthdayfairies in wishing @TheAromaofBooks a very, very Happy Birthday today!!

Hope you feel the #birthdaylove all around you on your special day. ♥️

Happy Birthday, Sarah!!!

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And so, this politician of petulance and infant spite, this Grande Toddler King, had stamped his small feet until the whole world rippled around him. He closed all the borders to the country, and at first the algorithmic majority cheered, waving flags of tabloid front pages. It was too late by the time we realised that it meant we could not leave either.

"Gangs are a kind of grief. They begin as friendships and end as funerals. (...) Where there is poverty and cruelty, there will rise a gang. But they are chiefly cannibals, who target their own and eat their families, their girlfriends, their neighbours, their old classmates. They rarely attack those who are the cause of their sorrow."

So many people have raved about this book. I just started it and it is... Weird. Which normally I like, but this is both SF and magical realism, and it's not so much conceptually weird as poetically weird on a sentence level. On practically every sentence. I looked up the author bio and yes, she's a poet. Also a Spoken Word Artist. I don't know 😬 I don't tend to do well with poetic novels.