Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView! 🩵💚💙 #Two4Tuesday
1. YES! I love and hoard books faster than I can read them!
2. √. Some fave quotes from this one:
“Of course I loved books more than people.“
“What better place to kill time than in a library?“
“For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.“
Play? @wanderinglynn @mcctrish @TheLudicReader
bailedGot 100-200 pages in just didn't get anywhere fuming had to put it down 22nd March till today 31st March I tried 🤬😤😖🙈
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Really strong way to wrap up this duology. I think it's so impressive to add a new POV in the second book in a way that didn't feel confusing or disappointing. There was one point I had to put it down because I was so furious with the twist, even though I knew something like it had to be coming! And immersive storytelling like that is just so fun to get lost in.
I think these characters & this story will stick with me for a while.
pickI had only ever read Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel and they are very different novels from Jamaica Inn. Both of the former novels are what we expect from du Maurier, gothic type romance/pseudo ghost stories. Jamaica Inn is more rough and ready and the heroine is more self reliant. It also feels like quite a wild ride. I had guessed at the villain, and was surprised by the, I guess, first ending, but not by the final ending. 5⭐️
pickThis novel did not go in any of the several directions I expected it to, which was actually kind of delightful. It's a bizarre story of family systems, mourning, and discovering new ways of upholding responsibilities when the old ones no longer work. In a way, it's kind of a coming-of-age story for the painful growing up one does when our parents no longer carry us (literally and metaphorically), for whatever reason and at whatever age.
#CoverStories
Three #Lake titles from my stacks. I‘ve read the first only, the tagged & bottom book are in my Kindle TBR. 🌊
pickI don't particularly like fantasy OR dark romance, but this wasn't bad.
Phantasma was the only Book of the Year choice from BOTM that I hadn't read, so here we are!
**Husband took the photo. I just can't with snakes 🐍
We'll see if Silo and I can make some reading progress before this one is due back at the library. I have not had near as much reading time so far this week as I would prefer. Or as Silo would prefer.
