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charl08
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This book should be subtitled 'and add them all to your wishlist.'

Ruthiella I love books like that (despite the dangers)! 😃 now
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Megabooks
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This is my #top24of24! I was a bit stingier with the 5⭐️ this year, and only 8 received that (upper left quadrant plus Dead Bastards and Cue the Sun in bottom right). The rest are 4.75⭐️ and 4.5⭐️. Nine of these are nonfiction, which is about normal and pretty close to my reading NF/F split. Can‘t wait to see even more of these as the year winds up! 👏🏻📚

squirrelbrain Great list! ❤️ 2d
MallenNC I really liked Margot, Small and the Mighty, and The Husbands. The only other one I‘ve read is The Wedding People, which I liked but the audiobook didn‘t completely work for me. I think I should have read it. I still need to get to James and Cue the Sun. They‘ve been on my TBR. (edited) 2d
Deblovestoread Fantastic list! Screenshot for TBR explosion 📚 2d
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AmyG I still have a few of these to read. Great list…..but then, I expect nothing less. 🙌🏻 Ha! Yes @Deblovestoread (edited) 2d
Suet624 Screenshot!! Thanks for putting your list together. 2d
BarbaraBB I am happy to see the Piñeiro here and am I now extra looking forward to The Wedding People and Playground and Model Home. The ones I haven‘t heard of I need to check out. Great list Meg, screenshotting! 2d
Chelsea.Poole As always, I love your list and we are pretty much in sync! Several you have here will make my list and the ones I haven‘t read I‘m already on hold for 👯‍♀️ will soon start Wedding People, loved Keanu and on hold for 1d
Chelsea.Poole Ooh and LOVED The Husbands and Margo…not as familiar with the Widows, need to fix that apparently! 1d
Megabooks @MallenNC Both were great. Cue the Sun was especially interesting for me because I always have reality TV on in the background during the day. I just kind of let it run. Right now I've got on Teen Mom: Next Chapter. My reading taste is definitely more refined than my TV! 1d
Megabooks @Deblovestoread Yay! Enjoy! 1d
Megabooks @AmyG Thank you! 1d
Megabooks @Suet624 Awesome! Hope you find one you like. 1d
Megabooks @BarbaraBB Yes, thank you so much for A Little Luck! It was really fantastic! I hope you like Wedding People. So serendipitous that it was on the ToB short list! 1d
Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole I think you'll love Widow's! By far the best memoir I read this year. Heat was interesting reading in concert with my Bourdain year because the author originally went viral with an indictment of Mario Batali and his being called out in #MeToo. Bourdain disavowed him publicly despite their long friendship. They also shared an assistant who has a memoir coming out in April! Exciting! 1d
BarbaraBB I think you have a sixth sense for that. Are you feeling better yet? 🩷 1d
Megabooks @BarbaraBB Maybe, but I was surprised by that one! I am feeling a bit better. I'll write you and Cindy soon. 💜 💜 21h
Centique Oooh what s good list. It will take me ages but ill get to some of these! Im reading Wedding People right now and loving it! 19h
BarbaraBB 🤍🤍 17h
youneverarrived So many on my tbr 💜 3h
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BarbaraBB
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Just two weeks until the end of the year, it‘s time for our tradition to share our #Top24of24.

This is mine so far. And yes, if you look good it are actually 25 books 😉.

I‘ll tag a few people to get things started, please share your favorites and tag a few more 💝

Soubhiville I‘ve been thinking about what may have made my list 🙂. Looking forward to compiling it! 2d
Soubhiville I also loved the warehouse! So many on here I want to read. These end of year lists always build my TBR up! 2d
Vansa I should do this too! This is motivational! 2d
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BarbaraBB @Soubhiville @Vansa Can‘t wait for yours! Like you said, so good (or bad?!) for our TBR! 2d
BarbaraBB @Soubhiville The Warehouse has been so underrated, I hope many more people will read it! 2d
Suet624 So many great reads here!!! Now I have to make note of the ones I haven't read so I can scour the Vermont libraries for them. Delighted to see how many of them we share as top reads of the year. 2d
sarahbarnes So many good ones here! And some I haven‘t read and want to especially knowing they made your favorites list. ♥️ I will definitely be making my list soon! 2d
sarahbarnes I loved Safekeep, Pew, Sorrow and Bliss, and All Fours. I have History of Sound in my stack right now. I‘m going to stack Warehouse now. And some of these are already on my TBR! I‘m really excited to read that Everett one of these days! 2d
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes @Suet624 We have been so in sync this past year, I am super excited to both your lists to see which of your favorites I have missed! 2d
AmyG Great list. 2d
Bookwormjillk I am still delusional enough to think I am going to finish the 25 unread books from my December TBR in the next two weeks. I'll get back to you 😂 2d
Librarybelle Great list. I think I need to screenshot this to put some of these on my tbr list (if they‘re not already!). Thanks for the tag. I‘ll have to think about this for a bit and then post! 2d
BarbaraBB @Bookwormjillk 🙌🏽 I hope you‘ll share yours too after finishing those 25 😊 2d
BarbaraBB @AmyG Thanks. I hope you‘ll share yours too! 2d
Megabooks Great list, and I‘m really happy to see two gifts from me on there!! 💜💜 i haven‘t gotten to Cherry Blossoms yet from Hooper, so I‘ll have to move that up. 💯💯 screenshotted this! 2d
Deblovestoread Not surprised to see some of my favorites are yours as well. Some I need to move to the top and some new to me that I need to check out. Fantastic list! 2d
BarbaraBB @Megabooks Many others were recommended by you 🩷. Are you feeling my better? 2d
AmyG I will eventually get around to sharing mine. 🤣 2d
BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread I‘ll feel the same about your lists I‘m sure. I hope you‘ll share it too! (edited) 2d
squirrelbrain Some of these will be on my list, and some were on last year‘s list I think! ☺️ I‘ll have a look at mine over the weekend, if I get chance! 2d
BarbaraBB @AmyG 😀😀 2d
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain I hope so but Gin comes first I guess, at the end of the year 😉😘 2d
Ruthiella Thanks for the tag! 2d
youneverarrived Thanks for the tag 😘 a few here I really want to read! 2d
squirrelbrain You make me sound like I‘m doing nothing but *drinking* gin! 🤪 Hmmmm, maybe I should consider it. 🤔 2d
Suet624 Oh, and I just got my copy of The View on the Way Down from a Kentucky library (go figure) and The Warehouse is waiting for me at the local library. Excited to read both of them. 2d
BarbaraBB @Suet624 The pressure 😱😊 2d
Cathythoughts Great choices Barbara. I loved The Safekeep and Pet too. Reading Is Mother Dead at the moment, really good. 😊 2d
BkClubCare Fun!🤩 what is the Percival Everett? I don‘t recognize that cover 2d
Hooked_on_books Great list! Only you accidentally put All Fours on there, so if you fix that error, then you‘ll be at 24. 😉 I expect The History of Sound to be on my list and Black Butterflies was a favorite for me last year. And I‘m thrilled to see The Warehouse! I‘ll definitely be making a list but waiting until the true end of the year. I always worry I‘ll read something amazing and wish I had included it. 😬 2d
BarbaraBB @BkClubCare It‘s an oldie but real good 2d
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books 😂😂 All Fours! I may make changes of if I am reading another 5⭐️ before the end of the year! 2d
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I am looking forward to your thoughts. I will be reading her newest soon 2d
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - you had me searching non-US covers for all his books! Ty 2d
CarolynM Interesting choices! I‘m not sure if I‘ve read enough to have 24 books that deserve the recognition, but we‘ll see😆 1d
TrishB Having a look at mine at the moment! But I‘m nowhere near 24 🤷‍♀️ 1d
BarbaraBB @TrishB No 24 good reads? You read so much!! 1d
Chelsea.Poole Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this! Isn‘t it satisfying to see all the year‘s best reads in one place? ☺️ 1d
BarbaraBB @Chelsea.Poole I love this time of year even though it messes with my TBR. Can‘t wait for your list! 1d
TrishB I have 17 so far on the best of list and then a lot just below that! We have 2 the same this year!. Though some of yours would appear on my previous years. One of yours would also be the worst book I read this year 😉 I‘m with @Hooked_on_books 1d
BarbaraBB @TrishB Hahaha it‘s definitely a love or hate book 😂😂 1d
Centique Oh i love this time of the year! Awesome list and i know i will like so many of them because we often like the same books. I loved Sorrow and Bliss too. Adding lots of these to my TBR 😍 12h
BarbaraBB @Centique Yes we do love many of the same books. I hope you will post your favorites too! 9h
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Blueberry
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Blueberry
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Your 'year of reading' from Goodreads has a different look this year.
Edit: 😆, it doesn't. It's the same at the website.

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Blueberry
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5⭐

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EadieB
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#TheBookshop #EvanFriss #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations. This was an interesting book about the history of bookstores.

EadieB I enjoyed it very much and if you like stories about books you will enjoy this book too. Highly recommended!
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TheSpineView Fantastic! 3d
DieAReader ❤️‍🔥🤓Sounds wonderful! 📚Stacked 2d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2d
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Robotswithpersonality
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Chalk this up as another book doing battle with its own subtitle 'a monument to the book as object', based on the introductory discussion of The Thing periodical, it's clear that non-traditional formatting is key in the minds of those putting together the magazine. So when they decided to make a book, what you get is partly an exploration of books, their components, the way they tell stories, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? but also partly an art object, something to engage with rather than read.
There are a number of written pieces I find interesting for different reasons, but I'd argue there were an equal number of entries that I can't review because I didn't interact with them as I do with a book. As little as I might find myself qualified to discuss the merit of a book, that dwarfs my readiness to talk about the relative values of art.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/? Regarding the written works that I perceived and enjoyed as short stories or essays, my favourites:
Footnotes by Jonathan Lethem, yep, the entire text of the essay is in the footnotes. Terry Pratchett would be proud.
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? The Artist as Bookmaker by Gwen Allen, a short history of other objects introduced as books, and artists making books that were art first, nad where that blurred line might be going in the future. Loved delving into the creative minds of the past, a little worried about the implications of the conclusion. 3d
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Robotswithpersonality 5/? A Note to My Students by Andrew Leland, cheeky commentary, the role of academia in determining textual value meets the wide-eyed wonder that is realizing how much can be done with text to make stories. 3d
Robotswithpersonality 6/? The Fire This Time: Razing the Book by Andrew Hultkrans, could be dismissed as a product of its time diatribe against ebooks, but I think the concern around information retention threated by format viability and licensing is a perennial concern it's always good to add more well-spoken voices to. 3d
Robotswithpersonality 7/? Endnotes by Rick Moody, a tad surreal, but I happily floated along, again, once you realize the author is choosing to tell some kind of story entirely in end notes it's just fun to bounce about in the creativity for ten pages 3d
Robotswithpersonality 8/? Questions for a Reading Group by Starlee Kline, reading group questions feel like a ripe format for creativity and parody, and the author makes a short narrative that seems to poke fun at how off topic a reading group might get, how provocative or awkward questions might get, how nitpicky they can get, but also how a person might approach a work written by someone they know, and how people can be petty, and the good old standby 'divorce/having 3d
Robotswithpersonality 9/? an acrimonious ex means you might start blurting out grievances regardless of the time or place
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Robotswithpersonality 10/10 ⚠️ The Hearing Trumpet: A Character List, big warning on this one, among the dated language used is a particular transphobic character description; while telling a tale solely through a character list and accompanying descriptions is a neat premise, it's not so great that you can't skip it to avoid the harmful sentiment (may just be a result of being published in 2014?) 3d
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britt_brooke
Book Love | Debbie Tung
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I just have to share this text exchange because it totally made my day! A friend and I started an IRL book club 3 years by creating a fb group and opening it up to moms in our county. We have maintained a core group of about 10 members including this amazing woman. Books bonding people and changing lives. She‘s become one of my closest friends, too. 🩷📖✨

Ruthiella Love it! 🤩 4d
LeahBergen That‘s wonderful! ❤️ 4d
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squirrelbrain Fabulous! ❤️ 4d
MaureenMc 🥰 4d
Leftcoastzen That is wonderful! 3d
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Nicki_K
The Honeymoon Trap | Peter Swanson
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Imagine being on your honeymoon and finding a book that mirrors your current life's everyday exactly. This was how this book started and I was dying to see how it would unfold, but then,... I hate having to write reviews for books by one of my favourite authors when they have written something which in my opinion missed the mark of his usual writing. it felt like it kind of fizzled was the ending so abrupt because word count had been reached? ⭐⭐