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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?

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PuddleJumper The usual Heroes of Olympus book. I've got someone waiting for me to finish the series so she can have the books 🤣 14h

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

Going Zero

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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...

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Karisimo

Sea Wife: A novel | Amity Gaige

#coverstories #sea @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 🌊 3d

Eggs Looks good🩵 2d

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Kshakal

Making Waves | Cassandra King

#waves #coverstories @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 📖 🩵 🌊 1w

lil1inblue Such an inviting picture. 1w

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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) 2w

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. 2w

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. 2w

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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. 2w

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. 2w

kspenmoll Kudos to you- not sure I could read this although it sounds good. 2w

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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. 2w

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. 2w

Centique Wow those are some horrifying stories 😱 Im glad someone is telling them they deserve better! 2w

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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👇🏼 2w

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. 2w

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. 2w

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. 2w

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. 2w

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. 2w

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. 2w

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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! 😍🙌 2w

AmyG Oh wow! 2w

BarbaraBB That‘s such a cool mug! 2w

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). 2w

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CarolynM

Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso

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Once I started I could not stop reading. I found the story compulsive and kind of suffocating. The husband was so appalling - so self righteous, so unreliable, so unappreciative - I kept thinking “how dare he?”. I was beyond anger and into claustrophobia. While her relationship was outside my experience (and I recognise more than ever how lucky I am in mine) the description of caring for a small child was very relatable. #ToB2025 👇

Jas16 Wasn‘t he terrible? This was definitely a book that gets under your skin. 4w

CarolynM ☝️Would I have voted for this over The Wedding People if I‘d read it in time? I‘m not sure. I liked the broader range of TWP and the fact that it incorporated a little humour, but this is a very powerful book and I‘ll be interested to see how far it gets in the official tournament. 4w

CarolynM @Jas16 Yes, truly terrible! And I liked that there were specific examples of his behaviour so you weren‘t left wondering how reliable her version of events was. 4w

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Tamra I think I started this on audio, but I quit thinking it would be better in print. 4w

BkClubCare Intense 4w

Hooked_on_books I think “suffocating” is the perfect descriptor for this book. 4w

thecheckoutstack I flew through this one too 4w

squirrelbrain I agree with ‘suffocating‘. I did vote for this over TWP - it felt more like a ToB book to me. 4w

BarbaraBB Well said. I felt that way too. 4w

Cathythoughts Great review! Stacked. 4w

Rissreadswithcats I have too much menopausal feminist rage for this book at the moment! I‘ll stack it for the future when I‘m feeling calmer. (edited) 2w

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Jas16

Liars: A Novel | Sarah Manguso

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I read this in a constant state of fury. The story of a woman in a marriage who gives up her career and her sense of self to man who belittles her and refuses to acknowledge her contributions to their lives and his own neglect. My blood was boiling but I couldn‘t look away . I saw so many things in Jane‘s marriage that I have observed in relationships around me. Another book I wouldn‘t have picked up without the #tob25.

CarolynM I‘m reading it at the moment and I‘m beyond angry - it‘s making me feel kind of claustrophobic with frustration. I‘ve always appreciated my husband, but this is making me appreciate him even more! 4w

Leftcoastzen Wow 4w

BarbaraBB I love when a book has such an effect on me. I was so annoyed - by him mostly but by her too 4w

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AnneCecilie

The Coast Road: A Novel | Alan Murrin

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Early on in this novel one of the female protagonists says in relation to marriage and divorce: “And if it‘s too easy to get out of, who‘d bother trying? […] In my day the worst thing you could imagine was being unmarried - you just went with the first fellow who asked you.”

This is a character study of what happens when marriage is the only option. How does this influence the women, the men and their children?

An amazing read

Leniverse This book is proof that it's possible for a man to write authentic and complex female characters. I genuinely had to stop halfway through the book and double check that the author was in fact a man. 4w

Suet624 Stacked! 4w

TrishB Loved this one ❤️ 4w

Jess861 I loved the writing in this book! 4w

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