RemindsYouOfYourHappyPlace

I managed to finish #booked2019 this year! Yay! Here are the books I completed during the final quarter:

#FemaleDetective: Murdered, My Sweet
#RemindsYouOfYourHappyPlace: The Overstory
#IndigenousAuthor: Future Home of the Living God
#MuslimAuthorOrMC: Amina‘s Voice
#ComicOrGraphicNovel: We3
#PublicDomain: The Turn of the Screw
#PoliticalIntrigue: The Testaments

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

shadowspeak17 Thanks for putting together such a fun challenge @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaratheBibliophage ! I‘m easing up a little on challenges next year, but I am looking forward to participating very casually in #booked2020. 😊 5y

Cinfhen Fantastic 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼So happy you‘ll be back for #Booked2020 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage 👊🏻♥️📚 Great job! I think The Overstory is in my top five for 2019. Still deciding ... 5y

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shadowspeak17

The Overstory: A Novel | Richard Powers

so-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️
I thought the first part was really good. The introductions to the characters and how trees played into their individual histories had me like 😍🌲 But then the rest was very up and down for me. After their great set up, I thought the characters felt pretty meh after that and things moved at a pace that felt too slow in some places and too fast in others. ⬇️

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

shadowspeak17 I‘m using this for #booked2019 #RemindsYouOfYourHappyPlace because I love being around trees. 😊

#catsoflitsy #Phoenix 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Great pick for that prompt! 👊🏻♥️📚 5y

Crazeedi Purrrfect pic!!😸 5y

Cinfhen Exactly how I felt about this book!!! After such a careful and beautifully crafted introduction (about 200 pages) this book became a CHORE to get through. Our bookclub all felt similar. 5y

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JanuarieTimewalker13

Grayson | Lynne Cox

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A distance swimmer and a lost baby whale. Set near Seal Beach and Catalina Island, Ca. 5⭐️. Such a feel good read. If you love the ocean and marine mammals, read this.

JanuarieTimewalker13 #booked2019, #Remindsyouofyourhappyplace @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Aww. Sounds good! 🐳 5y

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rockpools

Our Souls at Night: A novel | Kent Haruf

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A beautiful little book about love and friendship in later life. And other people. Other people are the worst 💔

Thanks for sending me this @kaysworld1 - it was lovely to read it again.

kaysworld1 No problem, have you watched the movie on Netflix yet? 5y

rockpools @kaysworld1 I haven‘t yet - I‘m very bad at films - but I will 😊 5y

ClairesReads It‘s divine isn‘t it 5y

Cathythoughts I loved this too. Read it for #remindsyouofyourhappyplace #booked2019 5y

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mrp27

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel | Robin Sloan

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#booked2019 #remindsyouofyourhappyplace

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Over the weekend I had a lovely day at one of my happy places, the beach, with my mom and sister. While enjoying the sea breeze I finished Penumbra which is about another one of my happy places, the bookstore. I enjoyed it and Sloan certainly has a distinct style but I liked Sourdough better.

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

Cinfhen I love a beach day too! I bailed on this book, though 😛 5y

readordierachel Sounds like a lovely day! This was 3 stars for me too. Some good parts but overall I didn't love it. 5y

mrp27 @Cinfhen Sloan is definitely not for everyone and hopefully this was just one of many beach days to come this summer! 5y

mrp27 @readordierachel It was! I totally agree, some good stuff but as a whole I couldn't really connect with it. 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I loved them both and wish I was headed to the beach soon. 👊🏻📚✔️ 5y

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KarenUK

Our Souls at Night: A novel | Kent Haruf

#juststarted this one over breakfast..... I loved the first chapter so much!!! I have a really good feeling about this one....
#booked2019 #nightorientedtitle
#pop19 #abookpublishedposthumously

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

Cinfhen Its sooooooo good!!!! Just get your tissues 😢😢😭😢😭 6y

Cathythoughts I did this for #Booked2019 too for #remindsyouofyourhappyplace such a lovely book 👍🏻♥️ 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Love loved this one!! 6y

erzascarletbookgasm Loved this one too! 6y

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Canndor

The Wild Robot | Peter Brown

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Super cute and touching story of a lost robot who learns to be wild and a mother from the creatures of the forest.
#Booked2019 #remindsyouofyourhappyplace #nature

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emilyhaldi

Elysian Fields: A Novel | Sally Savic

After 4 years at Tulane I will always hold New Orleans #closetome 💚💛💜 My Mom ( @Mdargusch ) went to High school and Tulane with the author of this book! So I chose to read it for #booked2019 #remindsyouofyourhappyplace. Savic really captured the peculiar essence and eccentric personalities that make up NOLA but the story left me wanting more... #anglophileapril

Cinfhen, Reviewsbylola

Reviewsbylola I didn‘t know about this one but I recognize the name! 6y

Mdargusch It‘s also a debut novel if you need a book for that prompt. 😁 (edited) 6y

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SLibrarian5

The Truth About Forever | Sarah Dessen

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I read “The Truth About Forever” for the first time when I was seventeen. I loved it just as much then as I do now, on the eve of my 30th birthday.

I love the writing style, the well-written characters, the emotion behind the storylines and romances. Wes is still one of my all-time favorite book boyfriends. Most of all, I love how reading any of Sarah Dessen‘s books is just like coming home.

#booked2019 #reread #remindsyouofyourhappyplace

Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, alisiakae

Cinfhen Beautiful review and happy birthday 🎊🎂🎁 6y

SLibrarian5 @Cinfhen Thank you! 6y

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valeriegeary

Piano Tide: A Novel | Kathleen Dean Moore

Okay so I've never been to Alaska (where this book is technically set) but I do love the Pacific NW. Plus, Moore is my favorite nature writer so I'm going to go ahead & pick this one for #remindsyouofyourhappyplace. It's filled to the brim with nature. Forests, oceans, storms, animals. Toss in a few quirky characters, a piano, and I'm happy as a clam. #booked2019

@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

valeriegeary Also counting this one for the #mmdchallenge as a book I bought for the cover! 😍😍😍 6y

Cinfhen Nice choice 💙that piano surprised me 😂😂beautiful cover 6y

valeriegeary @Cinfhen have you read this one? 6y

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Cinfhen No, but I‘m highly intrigued 6y

valeriegeary @Cinfhen a mysterious woman shows up in this small seaside town and the first scene she's dragging this upright piano off the ferry.... That's trouble waiting to happen, if you ask me. 😄🎹 6y

Cinfhen I‘ll say...and how‘d she get that piano onto the ferry??? That‘s some heavy lifting 😉😂 6y

valeriegeary @Cinfhen they tell you how she gets it off the ferry but not how she got it on...... 🤔 6y

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