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Starting my last from the #Booker2024 #longlist. This is my first book after drowning in Faulkner‘s Absalom, Absalom! for 20 hours at 4-minutes a page. So, this one is so far crazy fast and clear

Suet624 It's always fun to read a fast book after slogging through your last one.
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BkClubCare My next audiobook! 2w

BarbaraBB And what did you think of the Faulkner? I still have it on my shelves but 4 minutes a page doesn‘t sound encouraging! 2w

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BarbaraBB Also I read your comment on LT, thanks! 2w

Graywacke @Suet624 it helps! 🙂 2w

Graywacke @BkClubCare cool. I hope we both enjoy. (I loved the 1st fight) 2w

Graywacke @BarbaraBB that was the hardest Faulkner i have read, by far. It‘s important and interesting. It‘s just difficult to follow the five-page paragraph you might currently be reading. 2w

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Graywacke

Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett

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My 12th from the #Booker #longlist. One more to go.

A sensitive thriller? A low-level violent drug-deal abduction, that becomes very interested in the sensitive nature of its characters. The pacing is careful but controlled. When we want it to move on, it holds its course. Be patient dear reader. I enjoyed it.

#Booker2024

Graywacke @rmaclean4 @squirrelbrain @Leniverse @JamieArc @BarbaraBB @jlhammar @AnnaCecilie @JenP @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @BookishTrish @Suet624 4w

Suet624 I liked this one too. Great review. 😊 4w

Graywacke @Suet624 thanks 🙂 4w

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Cathythoughts Great review. I enjoyed it too. 4w

Leniverse I've waited so long for this to be available from the library, I was starting to lose interest. But I guess I'll keep my hold after all. 4w

Graywacke @Leniverse you won‘t regret meeting Dev, Doll and Nicky 4w

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Graywacke

Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett

See, collar off. 🐕

Starting my 12th from the Booker longlist.
#booker #booker2024 #longlist

Leftcoastzen 👏🐶 1mo

dabbe And more beautiful than ever! 🖤🐾🖤 1mo

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Graywacke

Playground | Richard Powers

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My pup is out of this lion costume collar now. Surgery went well, recovering largely done.

Powers is an author determined to make quality fiction out of pertinent science. Here he tosses us a red herring, when a social media leader, author of AI-based Playground, suffering from a disease that affects his mind, looks at the oceans. I was waiting for the environmental hammer, but his focus is different. Thought-provoking. Not subtle.

Graywacke @rmaclean4 @squirrelbrain @Leniverse @JamieArc @BarbaraBB @jlhammar @AnnaCecilie @JenP @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @BookishTrish @Suet624

#booker #booker2024 #longlist 1mo

Ddzmini I saw this book at the book fair and almost bought it now I‘ll have to get it 🤗📚 1mo

AllDebooks Beautiful pup 😍 1mo

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Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 1mo

DogMomIrene Glad your pup is healing. Those soft collars are such a great alternative to the cone. 1mo

AlaMich I‘ve never seen a collar like that! It‘s adorable! However, my pencil-neck greyhound would probably be able to worm his way out of it. 1mo

Leftcoastzen Awww , cute !🐶 1mo

squirrelbrain Aw, such a cute collar - glad pup is feeling better. As for the book, I enjoyed it but also felt it was rather heavy-handed in places. 1mo

ShelleyBooksie What a cutie! So glad that surgery went well and that recovery is going well ♡♡♡ 1mo

dabbe Such a beauty! So glad surgery went well and that she's healing! 🖤🐾🖤 1mo

Graywacke @AllDebooks @Ruthiella @DogMomIrene @Leftcoastzen @squirrelbrain @ShelleyBooksie @dabbe she says thanks to each of you. And she wants you to that she‘s much better looking without the pillow. Her words. 🐕 1mo

Graywacke @Ddzmini hope you can get a copy of 1mo

Graywacke @DogMomIrene @AlaMich that pillow collar was a huge hit it doesn‘t get in the way of her eating or getting up on couches. It‘s clearly much more comfortable. And she like to use it as a pillow 🙂 They come in different sizes 1mo

Graywacke @squirrelbrain yeah, heavy handed 😇 1mo

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Graywacke

Playground | Richard Powers

Another book i started last week. Slowly making way through. Joy of discovery mixed with drama of the characters lives. Fun stuff so far. #booker #booker2024 #longlist

BarbaraBB Looking forward to your review and to this book! 2mo

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jlhammar

Stone Yard Devotional | CHARLOTTE. WOOD

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I so loved this quiet novel. A masterpiece of interiority.

#Booker2024 #NunLit

BookishTrish, JenP, AnneCecilie, TheKidUpstairs, Deblovestoread, Leniverse, charl08, rmaclean4, squirrelbrain, JamieArc, BarbaraBB, Graywacke

BarbaraBB Hear hear 🤍 3mo

JamieArc Looking forward to getting to it! 3mo

Graywacke Yay! It‘s still my favorite. ( @JamieArc Hope you enjoy it!) 3mo

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squirrelbrain I loved it too! ❤️ 3mo

Suet624 💕💕💕 3mo

Deblovestoread About half way and enjoying. 💜 3mo

Leniverse I want this one or James to win. 3mo

rmaclean4 Can't wait for it to come out in the US. 2mo

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Graywacke

Held: A Novel | Anne Michaels

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What an interesting book. I‘ll have to reread this. It‘s a splintered narrative and I tried to focus on where and when and who, enjoying the romantic touches and the drifty feel, overlooking the mechanical and scientific commentary … until I saw two chapters titled “River Orwell…1984”. Then I started to look for something dark. It‘s a little buried and quiet, but pieces line up. A striking condemnation of our destructive society is built in here.

Graywacke #booker #booker2024 #longlist #shortlist 3mo

Graywacke @rmaclean4 @squirrelbrain @Leniverse @JamieArc @BarbaraBB @jlhammar @AnnaCecilie @JenP @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @BookishTrish @Suet624 3mo

BarbaraBB Another great review. It is an exceptional Booker year don‘t you think? 3mo

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Suet624 My goodness. You‘ve made it sound quite intriguing 3mo

Graywacke @BarbaraBB thanks… but no, I don‘t think it‘s a good longlist 🙈 I feel i read several meh books and all soft or imperfect prose. But i like that my four favorites are on the shortlist - this, Held, James, and SYD. 3mo

Graywacke @Suet624 it is intriguing! 🙂 3mo

BarbaraBB @Graywacke I haven‘t read the whole longlist but I really love the shortlist except for the Kushner that I haven‘t read 3mo

Graywacke @BarbaraBB i have three on the longlist to go - Playground, Wild Houses and Headshot. I was mixed on CL 3mo

squirrelbrain I‘m going to start Playground soon too…. 3mo

Leniverse I didn't even notice the Orwell reference 🤦🏻‍♀️ I was so frustrated and bored by that point. This one just didn't work for me. 3mo

Graywacke @Leniverse what part do you think made it boring or frustrating? 3mo

Leniverse It was just too disjointed for me. The ghost thing was frustrating because it was introduced and then abandoned except for some woo woo musings by later characters. Because we jumped around so much I had trouble working out how some of the characters were connected, and I didn't feel invested enough to put effort into it. ⤵️ 3mo

Leniverse I get that the whole thing was snapshots from a family album, and that ties in with the photographer theme, and it's all very clever, I'm sure. I think if the book works for you, you probably get a lot from it. I can recognise that. But to me it was just paragraphs, polished to be very pretty with overblown language, and no connecting matter. 3mo

Graywacke @Leniverse Thank you for sharing. Very interesting. i‘m still pondering the ghost thing. My thought at the time was that it‘s kind of silly. Or that his assistant was doing it. But it might have a good reason to be there. I didn‘t think of the photo album relationship. I like that idea. I was thinking she was jumping around to create reader detachment (from our real world) and to create associations. 3mo

Leniverse There was a thread of mysticism and lingering ancestors throughout that made me think the ghost photos were real (but probably also allegorical in some way), and because they're highlighted in the blurb I didn't expect that whole narrative thread to be abandoned. I felt detached, alright, but from the story. After we left photographer John I only felt invested once - the story where the woman goes back to a war zone and her father & husband wait. 3mo

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Graywacke

James: A Novel | Percival Everett

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I found this so bold. And he pulled it off. It‘s a terrific book. Critical of Twain‘s classic, while deeply honoring it. And provoking the reader. Making us uncomfortable. Confront us with this alternate world take. It‘s a brilliant book.

#booker #booker2024 #longlist #shortlist

Graywacke @rmaclean4 @squirrelbrain @Leniverse @JamieArc @BarbaraBB @jlhammar @AnnaCecilie @JenP @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @BookishTrish @Suet624 3mo

BkClubCare 🌟 (Have you read The Trees? ) 3mo

Graywacke @BkClubCare hi. I have. Terrific book. But, whoa. I haven‘t read anything else by him. I want to read

Erasure: A Novel

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BkClubCare @Graywacke 👍 I haven‘t yet read Erasure. Have enjoyed So Much Blue, Telephone, and Wounded. I own I am Not Sidney Portier but … it‘s here somewhere 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo

Graywacke @BkClubCare you‘re a definite fan! I‘ve heard a little about all of these, except Wounded. 3mo

BkClubCare @Graywacke - he seems to have wiggled his way onto the must-read list 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo

Graywacke @BkClubCare I‘m feeling some of that now. More so after this book, although i think most readers find The Trees more powerful. I found this one really sharp in ways I could follow. Very insightful for me. 3mo

Suet624 @Graywacke I love your review. I thought he couldn‘t write something more powerful than Trees but I was wrong. This one, like you said, is so bold. And in that it is just as powerful. 3mo

Graywacke @Suet624 thanks! Different than the trees, and less funny. But just a satirical and challenging to the readers comfort. 3mo

squirrelbrain I haven‘t read many others yet, apart from The Trees. I‘ve read Dr No, which I think you‘d like. 3mo

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Held: A Novel | Anne Michaels

My last left from the #shortlist - I just started this morning and I‘m have The Sound and the Fury and Tinkers vibes. But it‘s also totally different. #booker #booker2024 #longlist

CatLass007 😻 3mo

Jari-chan 😻😻😻 3mo

dabbe Those mesmerizing green eyes! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo

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Graywacke

Orbital | Samantha Harvey

Starting my next book

#booker #booker2024 #longlist #shortlist

Itchyfeetreader That is a fab cover 3mo

Enchanted_Bibliophile #CoverLove 😍 3mo

Leniverse Curious what you\'ll make of this one. I thought it was slooow, but beautiful. But basically just alright. I read it six months ago and it has stayed with me since, and grown in my estimate. I think I might have to re-read it 3mo

Graywacke @Leniverse 16 orbits can get old quick. Will see. I‘m on page 8 ☺️ 3mo

Graywacke @Itchyfeetreader @Enchanted_Bibliophile it is quite a pretty cover. 3mo

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