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Ahh, that‘s better. (Sighs with the relief of having taken quiet refuge in a delightful, absorbing reading experience).

Marriage, or any long term romantic relationship, is hard. This cleverly written and uniquely structured short novel explores one such relationship.

A most excellent read.

BarbaraBB I adored this when I read it years ago 6d

sarahbarnes Yes! I loved this one too. 5d

Reggie Ooof the part where she goes to his work and he uses the word “us” with the affair partner. Ughh 5d

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julieclair

The Wife: A Novel | Meg Wolitzer

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Nope… not for me. My April #ReadOrDonate book is going straight to the donate pile.

#HailTheBail #BetterBooksAhead

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TheBookgeekFrau

The Script: The 100% Absolutely Predictable Things Men Do When They Cheat | Elizabeth Landers, Vicky Mainzer

#DynamicDs #Dots

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Clever👏🏻 3w

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julieclair

The Wife: A Novel | Meg Wolitzer

I have no idea where or when I acquired this book, so I think that makes it a perfect #ReadOrDonate candidate! What will everyone else be reading?

Julsmarshall, BarkingMadRead, Cuilin, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, OriginalCyn620, BethM, gossamerchild, Booksblanketsandahotbeverage, Read4life, rmaclean4, BookwormAHN, CoffeeNBooks, Allylu, TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper, willaful

PuddleJumper The usual Heroes of Olympus book. I've got someone waiting for me to finish the series so she can have the books 🤣 3w

TheAromaofBooks I literally just reach in a box and grabbed a book 😂 Looks like April's pick is

Going Zero

julieclair @PuddleJumper Nothing like a little friendly pressure, right? It‘s a great motivator. 😘 3w

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Sounds like a great method to me! 😂 3w

Reggie Ughhhhh the husband in this book. Booooooooooo! 3w

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oddandbookish

Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 1, 1 | Kenjiro Hata

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This was such a cute and sweet manga!

The story is very interesting to say the least. Essentially, the main character, Nasa, gets saved by a mysterious girl named Tsukasa. He immediately asks her out and she says yes on the condition that he marries her. This volume primarily explores the very early days of their marriage.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/review-fly-me-to-the-moon-vol-1-f...

oddandbookish #book #booklover #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookobsession #bookish #bookreviewer #booktok #doublespin #serieslove2025 #coverstories #roll100 #bookspinbingo #manga #romance #graphicnovel 3w

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Karisimo

Sea Wife: A novel | Amity Gaige

#coverstories #sea @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 🌊 3w

Eggs Looks good🩵 3w

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Kshakal

Making Waves | Cassandra King

#waves #coverstories @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 📖 🩵 🌊 1mo

lil1inblue Such an inviting picture. 1mo

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Reggie

Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso

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This was a well written but hard to read book. I love that the author has her nameless MC say she always wanted to write a book length poem and the book is written in these stanzas that effectively reflect a moment, an idea, but also move the book forward. The MC recounts her 14yr plus relationship with John. And you are right there, living the abuse, almost none of it physical, with the wife. I felt awful. It made me think of friends I‘ve 👇🏼

Reggie lost (not dead) to people like John. A hard pick. (edited) 1mo

Jas16 Yes. This book was hard to read but hard to look away from. and as frustrating as it all was so much of it was easy to relate to in relationships you have witnessed if not also in relationships you have had. 1mo

Reggie @Jas16 yeah, I had a friend who was pregnant and she got cheated on by her chef baby daddy, waitress texting at 3-4 in the morning while he was asleep. I had another friend who got choked while he was drunk and she stayed until he left her for a lookalike. And then he OD‘d. They were both smart and brilliant I just never knew why they would stay. Anyways, thanks to you and 2 others for making me wanna read this book. 1mo

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Centique Im (hopefully) bringing up both my kids to know that you dont accept disrespect/cheating/abuse/controlling behavior. You dont forgive it. You get out. They can learn how to be a better person by themselves. I also make them read articles about how to spot a narcissist! They are all over it thank goodness. 1mo

thecheckoutstack I agree, the relatableness of the relationship dynamic was the hardest part for me too. We all have either been in or know someone who has stuck in this cycle. 1mo

kspenmoll Kudos to you- not sure I could read this although it sounds good. 1mo

nikamavrody An audiobook version of this would be like candy to me. 3w

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Reggie

Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso

I‘m halfway through this book and I don‘t know if I can finish it. Has anybody listed to the John Delony Show? I listen because I think as a reader I‘m drawn to the drama but just like this book he has women who call in and ask-I found out my husband was sexting 9 other women and he doesn‘t think it‘s cheating, but we‘ve compromised so that he‘s only sexting 3 now-what should I do? Another woman-My 10yo daughter came home from a play date 👇🏼

Reggie sobbing because she saw her father, my husband making out with the mother of her friend. They were both drunk so maybe it wouldn‘t have happened if he was sober-what should I do? Deloney always ask them why do you think so little of yourself. Where‘s the self esteem?????? This is all I can think about as I read this book. 1mo

TrishB I think you‘ve probably answered it yourself. They have no self esteem and think (because it‘s what they‘ve seen growing up) that staying married is the number 1 goal. It‘s very difficult for a myriad of reasons to get out of this mindset, not least financially for some women. A man judging me would not help me either. I could go on. 1mo

Centique Wow those are some horrifying stories 😱 Im glad someone is telling them they deserve better! 1mo

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Reggie @TrishB my grandma has dementia and the other day she asked me if my mom told her what happened last night. A friend of hers, Elia, took her to the Gomez(the local bar for all the rural ranchers and farmers). She saw my grandfather there dancing with another woman. She stood at the doorway and he turned around and his jaw dropped seeing that she saw him. Elia tells her to go stay at her place. She then told me that you can have and raise their👇🏼 1mo

Reggie kids and clean their house and make sure they have dinner and they‘ll still fck around on you. Well that‘s it, I‘m divorcing him and kicking him out. The truth is Elia‘s been dead for 10 years and my grandpa for going on 25 years. She stayed with him and I wonder if the reason that memory is so prominent is the regret of the road not taken. She had 3 kids at the time and how was she supposed to manage. Idk. 1mo

Reggie @Centique yeah, he‘s pretty empathetic with them. There was one where the wife discovered her husband was having an emotional affair and because he‘s in business with her father, the father has told her it‘s not really cheating. That was a rough one to listen to. 1mo

TrishB 😢 exactly. The whole thing of a man tho telling women what they should do when a man behaves badly doesn‘t sit right with me! Who‘s telling the men to behave better. 1mo

thecheckoutstack I think when you‘re being hurt in these massive unfathomable ways one way to deal with it is to downplay it for yourself so you can pretend the hurt isn‘t so extreme. It‘s a trauma response to help preserve your self esteem. Accepting that this wound is so painful also means you have to accept all the wounds leading up to it that you ignored and doing that would mean accepting you‘ve been letting yourself be degraded for years which is not easy. 1mo

thecheckoutstack That‘s why you see people downplay or pretend it didn‘t happen. They can‘t accept how bad it is without destroying their sense of self. Super sad. 1mo

Reggie @thecheckoutstack one of my biggest fears is being that woman on the ID channel. The woman who came home to find the police swarming her house. She asks why and they say your husband is the guy who killed 29 women. And she laughs because she‘s thinking HERhusband? But then reality sets in and she feels so stupid and you start to doubt yourself, like I totally get it. That last section of the book is her being so angry. I get that. 1mo

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ImperfectCJ

Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso

I'm really enjoying this year's #ToB! I got myself a mug to commemorate finishing the whole shortlist (as I did in 2023). Today's decision and commentary---between Liars and The Book of George---are particularly interesting, and I enjoyed reading them while enjoying decaf from my official mug.

Meshell1313 Love it! 😍🙌 1mo

AmyG Oh wow! 1mo

BarbaraBB That‘s such a cool mug! 1mo

ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB Isn't it? And it's HUGE (I probably should have guessed from the listing on the ToB site, but it still surprised me...it's bigger than the 2023 one). 1mo

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