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Bit of a colour theme going on with my library #bookhaul!

3 of them are, of course, from the #ToBlonglist. I actually reserved Seduction Theory around 6 weeks ago and it‘s taken this long to come in - perfect timing!

I fully expected Heart the Lover to be on the longlist too. 🤷‍♀️ I‘ll have to read that one first anyway as it has multiple reservations against it, so I can‘t renew it.

Another winner. I had no idea what this book would be about but it grabbed me from the first page and I couldn‘t let go until I finished it with a deep, deep sigh. Lily King is such a master in writing about love and friendship. Wow.

📸 Nagoya Castle, Japan

It‘s been sometime since a book has made me cry like this one did. Heartbreaking, beware.
Jordan meets two male best friends in college. This starts out with some nice academia vibes. Life moves forward, as it does, and both men have an impact on her life. Loss of love, of friendship, but mostly loss of those important in your life or the threat of it permeates this slim book. I loved it but found it a bit unrealistic at the end, but spoiler.

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#ARichLife Day 14: #Spice among others. 🥰

Tate is in nursing school, working around the clock & living with her brother. When she stumbles into one of her brothers neighbors, miles, her heart skips a beat. They form a relationship that should have no future, but together they find healing& fulfillment in one another. Miles has a traumatic past he never wanted to expose to Tate, but in doing so he freed his pain. Lots of repetitive romance scenes but a feel good book that keeps you hooked!

This is a first edition copy from my library….that cover. Pub date 1976. I‘m glad I went into this book blindly bc you think you‘re just getting a coming of age book in the 1950s in the South but it‘s so much more than that. Covers the severe racial injustice that was going on at the time and the path of one young privileged white coed from slight concern for the plight of blacks to an a more evolved compassion and understanding. #Alabama

5 ⭐️- a tumultuous journey, coming of age. All of the feels of joy and intense grief. Excellent narration. It was very palpable for me and I felt acute pain at times but the story was worth that.