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This Is Why We Lied | Karin Slaughter
Pickpick

This may be my favorite installment. I also appreciated her subtle plug of Uncle Nearest.

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kezzlou85
This Is Why We Lied | Karin Slaughter
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#12Booksof2024 Day 6: June. Easy this one. I love Karin Slaughter, love her Will Trent series and loved this book.
@Andrew65

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merelybookish
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What a delightful #jolabokaflod package! Thank you so much Danielle!! I am so pleased to have the Hardwick collection (love a NYRB edition) and Toffifees are a favourite! Also loved the card & paper.
It is a very snowy Christmas eve day in my part of the world (40+ cms expected ❄️❄️❄️❄️). Guess I'll have to stay at home and read. 😀
@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @MaleficentBookDragon

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego H💚 H❤️ H💚 3w
MaleficentBookDragon Happy Jólabókaflóð! Yay snow!!! ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ 3w
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Enchanted_Bibliophile
This Is Why We Lied | Karin Slaughter
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Pickpick

I almost gave up on this book in the first 30%
But I'm happy I stuck to it.

I'm a big slaughter fan, in fact I re-read the entire Grant County and Will Trent series before I picked up this one. So there wasn't a year gap of me trying to patiently wait for the next book. And I think that makes a difference.
I was in this Slaughter flow and this book just wasn't what I expected to be next in the flow
👇🏼 Continue 👇🏼

Enchanted_Bibliophile It did however turned out brilliantly as all Slaughter's work does. My problem was that I just couldn't care less about Mercy and the McAlpine family. I still don't really do, and that's weird, because Slaughter usually makes me care even when I don't feel like it.

I am however very happy with all my other favourite characters showing up and growing into more lovable people all around.
I'm curious to see where Slaughter will take us next year
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sarahbarnes
The Convalescent | Jessica Anthony
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Mehso-so

Book 6 for #TenBeforeTheEnd and another one I‘ve had on my shelf for at least a decade. It was interesting and a creative merging of two timelines and some magical realism, but I didn‘t love it. I realized this is by the author of a new book, which I do still want to read - The Most.

ChaoticMissAdventures ✅ great job! 2mo
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MidnightBookGirl
This Is Why We Lied | Karin Slaughter
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Listening to tagged book and enjoying some Christmas ambiance before work this morning. Anyone know if there‘s a #holidaycardswap this year? I signed up for a lovely winter themed one, but I really enjoyed the Christmas one I did last year. Litsy is my cozy holiday home.

PuddleJumper @LitsyEvents is keeping track of things happening. I think that's a winter card swap 2mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie is the lovely host of the Winter Solstice Card Swap. Head to her page for details. 💚 2mo
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LibrarianRyan I‘m working on it right now. @TheBookHippie 2mo
TheBookHippie @LibrarianRyan no worries. Peeps keep tagging me 😂no hurry either. (edited) 2mo
LibrarianRyan I‘m working on it right now. @TheBookHippie 2mo
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charl08
Ellis Island: A People's History | Malgorzata Szejnert
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Pickpick

Loved this book, a mix of oral histories from migrants and the memories of those who worked on the island.

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charl08
Ellis Island: A People's History | Malgorzata Szejnert
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"The British gave the most trouble..."

Karisa Just toured the immigration detention center at Angel Island where Asian immigrants were kept typically for 2-3 months but European immigrants 1-2 days. Poetry, mostly in Chinese, is carved on almost every wall from detainees. 2mo
AlaMich @Karisa I went on a few school field trips to Angel Island (many, many years ago) and I don‘t think we were even told about its history. I just learned about the carvings from reading your post and doing a little googling. It‘s fascinating. 2mo
charl08 @Karisa @alamich you might like this book. Lots of voices of "ordinary people" 2mo
quietlycuriouskate Ugh, British entitlement syndrome (I'm British)! This paragraph strikes kind of ironic now, though, since "we" put paid to our freedom of movement in Europe with that bloody Brexit vote. 2mo
charl08 @quietlycuriouskate I thought also of the attempts to control "our" borders: "we" can travel everywhere, but "the other" can't come here... 2mo
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charl08
Ellis Island: A People's History | Malgorzata Szejnert
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.... they both look down on the crowd....

[H.G. Wells asks] "You don't think they'll swamp you?" I said. "Now look here," said the Commissioner, "I'm English-born Derbyshire. I came into America when I was a lad. I had fifteen dollars. And here I am! Well, do you expect me, now I'm here, to shut the door on any other poor chaps who want a start with hope in it, in the New World?

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The_Book_Ninja
Ex-wife | Ursula Parrott
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Bailedbailed

They‘re certainly pushing this novel of a 1920s divorcee. It was in the thriller section in WH Smiths. However, the blurb made it sound like something else. In both seller and buyer, confusion reigns but I thought maybe it was an edgy, impossible to categorise, rediscovered curio plus I have a soft spot for women behaving badly stories so I took a punt. Sadly I can‘t get past the first 30 pages. It‘s American Psycho without the murders or irony

bthegood “ It‘s American Psycho without the murders or irony“ 😂 (edited) 2mo
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