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❄ 5 Winter Mustache on Cover: Truth or Beard

🌸 7 Spring Title Includes Library/Librarian: The Library at Mount Char
🌸 8 Spring Translated into Your First Language: Hadriana in All My Dreams

🌞 18 Summer Latinx Author: The Dead Girls

🍁 22 Fall #HiddenGem Underrated or Lesser Known Book: The Midnight Palace
🍁 23 Fall New in 2021: People We Meet on Vacation

#Booked2021 #Q4Recap @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Just finished my last fall book for #booked2021 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Jewish author - tagged book
Characters are frenemies - Local Woman Missing
Book of poetry - You Can Not Burn the Sun
#HiddenGem - Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
New in 2021 - Cloud Cuckoo Land
Heart in title - The Heart's Invisible Furies

Completed my summer and winter prompts for #Booked2021
#TitleIncludesLibraryorLibrarian: The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu
#Translated: NoFriendButTheMountains
#UNPeacekeepersAre: Salt Houses
#MusicalInstrument: ComingThroughSlaughter
#Hear/Here:
#Anti-Racism: Caste
#Poetry: Here In Harlem
#Frenemies: Butter Honey Pig Bread
#Jewish: Where the Jews Aren‘t
#Blackjack21: Open Heart
#NewIn2021: Missed Connections
#HiddenGem: Chop Suey Nation

Loved this book...insights into many of the ways “Chinese food” has been defined in Canada through the author exploring diverse experiences of restauranteurs, mostly in small towns,on a cross-country trip. This is interesting enough, but greatly deepened by Hui‘s own story of engaging with her aging parents and learning things she had never known about her restaurant-owning family‘s history in China and Canada.

#Bookspin
#Nonfiction2021 #Family

Definitely my #hiddengem for #booked2021 - so hidden that I had to add it to the GR database myself! This is a book of photos born from the pandemic... portraits of dogs on doorsteps.

@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

4 ⭐

#hiddengem (lesser-known book) #Booked2021 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaratheBibliophage

#bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Who knew a book about someone‘s vagina being a portal to another world could actually be heartwarming. As usual, you never know exactly where his stories will take you but you can trust that the journey will entertain, surprise and delight you.

At only 90 pages I‘m using this for #Booked2021 prompt under 150 pages

Book 7 on #BookSpinBingo

Set in 1970s #Afghanistan, amid the West‘s attempts to eradicate the poppy fields used for opium and the beginnings of a Communist takeover of the Afghan government, The Opium Prince is a twisty thriller that alternates between the tales of two men whose lives becomes entwined. The story is engaging, with twists I didn‘t anticipate (and one or two I did), and I highly recommend the audiobook version of this. #readingasia2021

Booked 2021 Winter - 6 prompts completed... but 😬 I‘m all over the seasons!!
#mustacheoncover Dead in the Garden- Dahlia Donovan
#AuthorsfirstnamestartswithABorC The Immortalists- Chloe Benjamin
#Titleincludeslibraryorlibrarian The Library Book- Susan Orlean
#translatedintomyfirstlanguage A Nearly Normal Family- M T Edvardsson
#Hear/Here The Postscript Murder - Elly Griffiths
#hiddengem The Marlow Murder Club - Robert Thorogood

Bk2 of March is done. This is a beautifully written novel about the murder trial of a Japanese/American man, accused of killing a white man on a small Puget Sound island after WWII. It‘s also about the teenage love between a Japanese girl & the reporter that‘s now covering her husbands trial. But mostly, it‘s about race relations at that point in time & how hate can blind you. #Booked2021 #UnderratedBook #LitsyAtoZ2021 #LetterG #PennyPerPage #416c