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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin 🩵🩶🤍 3d
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dabbe
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin 🤨😖😠 as she looks at ma! 4d
dabbe @Cuilin I typed this one myself and fucked up the last line. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 4d
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dabbe
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin Hope‘s a killer comes to mind. 😢 2w
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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin Beautiful “I want someone to look at me that way” should be parent goals for some. These poems are 💗 4w
dabbe @Cuilin 🧡💜💛 4w
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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin 🌧️ 1mo
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dabbe @Cuilin You don't have to read if you don't want to, my friend. It's a heart-wrencher, but the best book I have ever read about the Dust Bowl period. 🩵🩶🩵 1mo
Cuilin Oh I‘m “enjoying” it. So many people have said it‘s very depressing, but Goodreads describes it as a “tribute to hope and inner strength”. I‘ll continue. For now anyway. Plus, I plan on reading the Grapes of Wrath, in Nov with the #HashBrigade. Same time period, correct? 1mo
dabbe @Cuilin Yep. The Joads in that book are like Livie's family; they move west to get out of the dust. 1mo
Doll8455 Read the Grapes of Wrath. I‘ve read it several times in my 82 years. At 20 at 50 at 80. It makes all problems disappear when you realize how good we have it now. 4w
dabbe @Doll8455 LOVED that book. This one is a solid companion to it. And, yes, we do have it so much better now in many ways. 4w
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dabbe
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin 😔 nothing but dust. 1mo
dabbe @Cuilin IKR? 😞 1mo
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Hooked_on_books
Antidote | Karen Russell
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I wasn‘t a Swamplandia fan and thus initially passed this one up, so I‘m glad the #NBAlonglist for fiction got me to read it. I found this unique Dust Bowl historical fiction with some fantastical components to be fully engrossing. The characters are great and I like that we hear rotating perspectives from them, which helps keep the book moving. I really liked it!

Aims42 Ooo, awesome review! I have this on my TBR pile, I‘ll put it towards the top now 👍 1mo
squirrelbrain Great review! I just started this…. 1mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain I‘m so interested to see what you think of it! 1mo
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dabbe
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin 🫶 1mo
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Chelsea.Poole
The Antidote | Karen Russell
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The Antidote is so different: it‘s historical fiction but felt fresh. The point of view is constantly changing so the action is slow and even feels a bit repetitive but I think that is actually a good thing for this novel. There‘s also Wizard of Oz vibes, weirdly. I hadn‘t encountered that in other reviews I‘ve read, but the town is Uz, and there‘s a scarecrow. Stolen lands, a collective misremembering & willful ignorance, it‘s America!

squirrelbrain Great review! I borrowed this from the library but didn‘t bring it to Gladstone‘s- now I wish I had! 1mo
Chelsea.Poole @squirrelbrain thanks! There‘s so much going on in The Antidote, it‘s one I didn‘t exactly love while reading but the meaning of it all and thinking back on it makes me appreciate it. If you try it I hope it works for you. Also, I love the Gladstone‘s trip each year. I stalk everyone‘s accounts to see the photos you all post. Have a great weekend! 1mo
squirrelbrain You should try to come to Gladstone‘s one year! It‘s such a long way for you, I know, but you‘d love it! 1mo
Hooked_on_books I just finished this and totally had the Oz vibes, too. Especially as there‘s also a witch! I kept trying to figure out who the lion and tin man were. 😬 1mo
vivastory Your Oz reference has me really intrigued! I've been reading the series and I love Russell, a bit of a no-brainer 2w
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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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Cuilin Playing catch up. I got the book at the library too as my eyes have a hard time right now on my phone screen. 1mo
dabbe @Cuilin 🖤🩶🖤 Once you read it, you won't be able to stop. (edited) 1mo
dabbe @lil1inblue 🖤🩶🖤s 1mo
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