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TheKidUpstairs
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This was one of my reading spots for the past week. We were at a cabin in Ontario's Near North, with essentially no internet or phone connections to the outside world. I spent a lot of time on the lake, and a lot of time reading on rocks. 6 books down for the week, all great reads, tagged was one of the best. Reviews to come!

squirrelbrain Perfect! 😍 1d
TheBookHippie Lovely! 1d
ShelleyBooksie Beautiful spot 1d
rabbitprincess Ahhh that sounds like a great time! 1d
sarahbarnes Sounds lovely!! 19h
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LisaBam
Noontide Toll: Stories | Romesh Gunesekera
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Pickpick

Written from the perspective of a van driver, this books tells the manifold stories of Sri Lanka‘s people: returning exiles, aid workers, entrepreneurs, tourists and many more. The novel beamed me right back to 2012 when I first visited. I could see the places in front of me, smell the smells and remember all the great conversations I had with people about the war, the tsunami, the Chinese and the future. What a perceptive and fantastic read.

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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 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 2w
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Lesliereadsalot
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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. 🤣 4w
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 4w
BarbaraBB Sounds great! I‘ll definitely read it after this review! 4w
Lesliereadsalot It‘s one of those books where you really feel like you‘ve read something. I know you know what that means. @BarbaraBB 4w
BarbaraBB I certainly do, thanks for the recommendation 🩵 4w
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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 🎊🎂🎁📚📚😍😍 2mo
AmyG Happy Birthday 🎂 Sounds like a great day. 2mo
Ruthiella Happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 2mo
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dabbe HB! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
squirrelbrain Great #camplitsy haul! 😝 Have a great birthday! 2mo
BarbaraBB Happy birthday Jen! You‘re all set for #CampLitsy25! You‘ll love Wild Dark Shore! 2mo
Suet624 How fun! Happy birthday! 2mo
JenP @squirrelbrain it is 😂. I also just finished Audition which isn‘t pictured. 2mo
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 2mo
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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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. 2mo
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Vansa
A Married Woman | Manju Kapur
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“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.