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Looking forward to starting my November pick. October‘s book was a good read.

Hey Team #Flerken, I finally finished a book this month!
This was my first by Ann Patchett and I‘ll definitely be reading more by her. This was an excellent story of grief, hope, resilience, love, and MAGIC. The characters seem so real to me. I even feel like I‘ve held the rabbit.
Read if you like unconventional relationships, found family, the American dream, and women uplifting women.
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#HauntedShelf

🎩 I started this yesterday for my book club on Saturday. That‘s the 5th book I‘ve read part of this month, and I have finished 0 for various reasons.
🪚 Sorry team #Flerken! If there were points for starting a book, reading part of a book, dnfing a book…I would be killing it! 😅
🐇 Enjoying this one so far anyway!
🪄 Taken today in line at a new-to-me vegan bakery that was very cute but medium yum.
#hauntedshelf #alwaysbringabook

A story about love and family in all its forms. I really liked these characters and their unusual family dynamics. Patchett always creates such vivid, specific, interesting characters and relationships.

Another ARC that‘s been on my shelf for years. Thanks to #ReadOrDonate I‘ve read it and gave it to my daughter to read.
Stella is in witness protection and is struggling with her secrets and her new life. Something needs to change. She has some tough decisions and choices to make.
#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin #ReadOrDonate #readyourTBR #Roll100

Published in 1930, this closed room murder mystery is set in the Sandhills of Nebraska. The author does a good job of making the atmosphere claustrophobic as nothing is as bleak as an isolated hunting lodge unreachable by civilized society die to an unrelenting blizzard. The characters were introduced in bulk and weren‘t unique as individuals. The mystery was a bit convoluted. A decent mystery but not a fantastic one.

Inspired by the 7 tornados that struck Grand Island, NE, in 1980.

#Bicycle

#SchoolSpirit

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘ll be choosing one of these from my book tree for October‘s #ReadOrDonate book.

I'm on the prairie in the Nebraska heartland.
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Sugar-sweet, folksy, Midwestern charm drips off of every page of this atrociously bad novel, one in which every character enjoys a happy ending, like something out of a shitty Disney movie. This novel is about the Guinness Book of World Records, and the reader can't help but feel that Sherwood is trying to get into the record book for writing the corniest novel of all time. #2024Book30