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Deblovestoread
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Tag you‘re it, @Tamra

You posted a review of this book that‘s on my shelf.

Find a book and a post and play along.

@Chrissyreadit

Chrissyreadit 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 5h
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Lesliereadsalot
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Pickpick

I loved this book. Meet Bud, an obituary writer with a wry sense of humor and an amazing circle of friends. He‘s all about life and death, living and dying. I even wrote down this quote “We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom.” Did I mention that I loved this book? I cried through the last 50 pages. I even loved the author‘s note and the acknowledgments!

AmyG Well, now I have to stack it if you cried. 🤣 2w
Lesliereadsalot I loved the characters and you will too. It‘s not high literature or anything, but a very compelling story of one schlubby guy. @AmyG 2w
BarbaraBB Sounds great! I‘ll definitely read it after this review! 2w
Lesliereadsalot It‘s one of those books where you really feel like you‘ve read something. I know you know what that means. @BarbaraBB 2w
BarbaraBB I certainly do, thanks for the recommendation 🩵 2w
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JenP
Antidote | Karen Russell
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Birthday hall plus the tagged book which just so happened to arrive on my birthday from the Harvard first editions signed book subscription. My daughter and I are playing hooky from school and work to spa, eat fancy foods, and read 🥳

Mimi28 Happy Birthday 🎊🎂🎁📚📚😍😍 1mo
AmyG Happy Birthday 🎂 Sounds like a great day. 1mo
Ruthiella Happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 1mo
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dabbe HB! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
squirrelbrain Great #camplitsy haul! 😝 Have a great birthday! 1mo
BarbaraBB Happy birthday Jen! You‘re all set for #CampLitsy25! You‘ll love Wild Dark Shore! 1mo
Suet624 How fun! Happy birthday! 1mo
JenP @squirrelbrain it is 😂. I also just finished Audition which isn‘t pictured. 1mo
JenP @BarbaraBB ooh, that‘s good to hear. I‘m very excited about most of them. Just finished audition and looking forward to that discussion 1mo
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Pickpick

I saved the last hour of the audiobook for my walk home and end up crying so hard that I had to stop walking until I could blink all the tears clear. So - 5 stars, no notes!

Tbh, I wasn‘t sure about Bud in the beginning, if he was a character I wanted to spend time with - but then he hit submit on his own obituary and well, I was hooked.

I keep stumbling into books that explore grief in its many manifestations ⬇️

thegirlwiththelibrarybag and I really appreciated the journey that this book took me on -not just Bud‘s but everyone whose life overlapped with his - most notably his landlord/best friend Tim. 1mo
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Vansa
A Married Woman | Manju Kapur
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Pickpick

“Astha was brought up properly, as befits a woman, with large supplements of fear. One slip might find her alone, vulnerable and unprotected. The infinite ways in which she could be harmed were not specified, but Astha absorbed them through her skin, and ever after was drawn to the safe and secure.”This excellent opening paragraph just gets more excellent.Can't recommend enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7083955636

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Mattsbookaday
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I See You‘ve Called in Dead, by John Kenney (2025)

Premise: After a drunkenly posting his own mock death notice, a New York obituary writer looks for the meaning of life and death.

Review: This is a fun, moving, and insightful book. I particularly appreciated how it held certain truths out for us without laying it on too thick; death is after all a mystery that‘s really impossible to write about well. It‘s also a really great New York book. Cont

Mattsbookaday My one complaint is that there was a bit of a mismatch between the timeframe (set in 2019) and the generations described, but this was only a bit jarring. Come for the Gen X slacker humour; stay for the warmth and insight.

Bookish Pair: This reminded me a bit of The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer (2023)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2mo
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bio_chem06
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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I read three bangers in a row but The Antidote was the best book this year, absolutely incredible. I personally did not enjoy The Long Island Compromise.

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Nebklvr
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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Mehso-so

This was interesting but not engaging. The characters resembled game pieces. If there was a plot, it was vague enough to escape notice. The author‘s descriptions of the dust storms were the most visceral and true of anything in the novel.

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intothehallofbooks
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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Panpan

After 43 days, I am calling it. I can‘t push myself any further. I tried the digital arc that I received, then I added the audio, then I added a print copy, in hopes that I would be able to push thru. I love this period of US History, but the slow meandering plot just did me in. Also, at this part of the book, some things were added to the story that I felt just slowed it down further and didn‘t make sense with where things were going. I read 👇🏻

intothehallofbooks the last few chapters and, honestly, I wish I‘d have stopped trying weeks ago. Many people love this one, so don‘t take only my word for it. It just sadly wasn‘t the book for me. Thanks to Knopf for allowing me to read this one. I love Dust Bowl stuff and it stinks that this one didn‘t work out for me. 3mo
Ruthiella She‘s not for me. hated her debut 3mo
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bookaholic1 At least you tried right..there's alot of books to read out there than continue reading one you can't get into 3mo
intothehallofbooks @dabbe @bookaholic1 I should have bailed sooner! 3mo
intothehallofbooks @Ruthiella I was curious about her other books before trying this one, but now I don‘t think I‘ll be picking them up 😬 3mo
dabbe @intothehallofbooks Well, next time a book doesn't hit you in just the right way, #hailthatbail and get outta there! 🤣😍🤩 3mo
Aims42 Thank you for the honesty. I was next in line on my library‘s wait list for this, but it does not sound like what I want to read right now. I canceled my hold, hopefully the person behind me is excited now 😄 3mo
intothehallofbooks @Aims42 You can always go back to it if the mood strikes you! 2mo
Aims42 @intothehallofbooks That‘s exactly what I thought too 😁👍 2mo
Nebklvr If I hadn‘t paid full price, I would have ditched it happily. 2mo
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SaraBeagle
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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Pickpick

It doesn‘t always work out when authors try to wrap up everything beautifully with an explanation of the deeper meaning, but she does this wonderfully! I loved the ending!

Also loved reading about Genoa, NE, my grandparents‘ old stomping grounds 🥰