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Fishbowl | Bradley Somer

pick

🇨🇦 what an absolute roller coaster ride of a delightful book! We meet 5 people and a fish who live at the Seville on Roxy and follow the chaotic domino effect of choices they all make/have made leading up to the 30 minutes we spend with them and see how it all plays out. So much fun, what an adrenaline rush this story is

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CoffeeNBooks

Fishbowl | Bradley Somer

Sunday morning #coffeeandabook
I didn't like my #BookSpin or #DoubleSpin books this month, but I picked this one from my February bookspin stack, and it looks promising so far!
@TheAromaofBooks

mcctrish I have this in a long forgotten TBR pile 3w

CoffeeNBooks @mcctrish This has been sitting on my bookshelf for years. I think I picked it up at the dollar store because of the cover. 😁 3w

mcctrish I bought mine at a library book sale for the same reason 3w

TheAromaofBooks Such a fun cover!! 3w

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Robotswithpersonality

The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison | Mikita Brottman

so-so

Awkward. I was hoping for honest reflections on the role reading, engaging with books, can play in incarcerated people's lives, and that was part of the text. The awkward part was the author's realization that literature didn't play as big a role in their lives as in hers, that the book club was an escape that she seemed happy to be part of until confronted with its relative position in others' lives and ends on a self-pitying note. 1/4

Robotswithpersonality 2/? There's a real push pull between humanizing the incarcerated, something society needs more of, and focusing on the author's own feelings, experiences. Maybe it's just trying for honest, in which case the unflattering personal portrait is an accomplishment of truth. 1y

Robotswithpersonality 3/? I think my personal bias factors in, because formal schooling emphasizing grinding away at a dry, incomprehensible text in faith that there is hidden brilliance is similar to the experiences that sent me into a decade long reading slump, reading behaviour that I now heartily reject. Reading her inflict that on the group intermittently between more savvy book choices is painful. 1y

Robotswithpersonality ⚠️animal death, mention of SA 1y

Robotswithpersonality On the plus side, I found a memoir for my TBR actually written by an incarcerated person, Sentence: Ten Years and A Thousand Books in Prison. I'm hopeful the shift in POV/author will make for a more focused read on the subject matter. 1y

Larkken Sounds like a nf version of the tagged with a side of saviorism, sorta

The Devil in Silver

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TheEllieMo

Fishbowl | Bradley Somer

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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