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What happens when you can‘t stand your brother‘s best friend, you antagonize each other since childhood, you don‘t see each other for years while you go through some tough things, and then you find yourselves drawn together? What if? This was lovely, sad, and tense. A lot of work going on with our characters and their mental health in this one. Eddings is a talented author and I really loved these 2. #MarvellousMay @Andrew65

#MarvellousMay

Finished this wonderful book last night. Such fantastical storytelling by a master of his craft. These last words actually took my breath away.

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Busy week (my daughter graduated from college yesterday) so fitting in reading as I can but took me a few days to post. This book is excellent! I loved the writing, the care took with the characters, the Chicago setting, and the nods to Little Women. Mental health, grief, and challenging family dynamics all are addressed thoughtfully and this book has earned all the hype. 5 ⭐️ from me! #MarvellousMay @Andrew65

Finished the tagged as a bonus for #MarvellousMay as well as
Started The language of butterflies, which is incredible, btw. #Naturalitsy
Continuing with Walden & making progress with the Count of Monte Cristo for #Rereadtheclassics
Enjoying Cranford for #Pemberlittens

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45/150 While I thought the books premise was wildly creative, I found the execution lacking. The books pacing was a problem for me, it was erratic, jumping for fast paced actions scenes and chases to chapters where not much happens. Also trips to the "afterlife", an alternate realm when "ghosts" of people who died on or near the highway lived, was never clearly explained. 3.25/5
3rd book finished for #MarvellousMay @Andrew65

44/150 One of the best non-fiction books of 2023. It's an amazing story of courage, resilience, honor and betrayal. The Wager was wrecked while sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, leaving the survivors stranded on a desolate part of Patagonia. What they went through, and what they did to survive was tragic, at times inhumane, but ultimately inspiring. 5 🌟
TW: cannibalism, animal cruelty
2nd book finished for #MarvellousMay @Andrew65

This Caturday, I'm heading to Cranford to play catch up with the #Pemberlittens @BarkingMadRead

First book started for #MarvellousMay readathon @Andrew65

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo #Wardens2023 #SeriesLove2023 #ReadMyRoom #BackListReadathon #ThingsInCommon #MarvellousMay #20in4

My May list🪄 Roughly put together but, I‘m happy with it.

Gonna try to stick to this list all month excluding anything unlisted that I‘ve got open or will open for therapy/self-help readons.

This YA fantasy about a young bruja from Brooklyn was delightful! Filled with ghosts, monsters, friends, and family, it is creative, magical and fun. I would love to see this as a movie or series. Great on #audio while cleaning the house! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #marvellousmay #readathon @Andrew65

A sad but beautifully written memoir. The author will share her experience of her mother tragic death, how both of them suffered from racism and domestic abuse. You can see so well the domestic abuser mind schema (if that is the correct word) in those phone calls transcripts. Could her mother‘s death have been prevented?
😢😔5⭐️