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Windigo Island: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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Pickpick

Another optional read for Christmas break before grad school starts back up. I think this is 14 in the series and like always it was the same in the right ways and yet unique in its own ways too. This one painfully looked at sex trafficking crimes involving young girls. Heart breaking. Good story concerning a painful subject.

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Larkken
I Cheerfully Refuse | Leif Enger
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I really liked this, thanks #tob2025 longlist! I was avoiding it based on the blurb, which made it sound like Rainy is pursuing a runaway wife through a dystopian landscape both twee and surreal. This is misleading, as Rainy‘s wife dies 80 pages in, and the surreal elements are mainly due to the unknown and therefore somewhat terrifying motives of others and not to an anthropomorphized Lake Superior.

Larkken It explores themes similar to Station Eleven and features some very beautiful sentences. 3w
Kitta @Larkken I loved station eleven - would I enjoy this too? 3w
Larkken @Kitta I think so! There‘s huge parallels to SE‘s discussion of art and community to this book (MC is a bassist, his wife a bookstore owner). This book has more of a slow-decline into the end of civ vibe rather than a traumatic pandemic, which was nice to me, and I found them both to be rather similarly intrinsically hopeful. Hope that helps! 3w
Kitta @Larkken yes! Thank you! I like post apocalyptic books, especially pandemic and quick destruction books but maybe a change of pace of the end of the world would be interesting. 3w
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fredthemoose
I Cheerfully Refuse | Leif Enger
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was on the #ToB2025 long list, but it didn‘t really work for me. Set in dystopian version of the Great Lakes, MC and his wife take in a boarder who it turns out is on the run and that sets off a chain of unfortunate events. My issue was that it wasn‘t clear what the MC wanted other than avoiding bad things, so not really compelling. And the resolution seemed to come out of nowhere. 🤷‍♀️ Glad when it was done.

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Windigo Island: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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And…as usual, I couldn‘t put it down. Another great installment in which Krueger once again demonstrates he‘s exceptionally good at writing setting and character. Only six more books until I‘m all got up on the series. I keep telling myself I need to slow down but it‘s not working…😬😂

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Windigo Island: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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Rainy day today…perfect for staying inside with a good book…

bookandbedandtea Sounds like a wonderful day! 2mo
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Gissy
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Super late post but it‘s not midnight yet here 😜

#BookScavengerHunt prompt- night sky 15 pts
#BookRecommendation 30 pts

#HauntingShelf #FreightClub team @Jadams89

935 pts (previous) + 45 pts (current) = 980 pts

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JessClark78
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Sully1
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Fantastic read! Surprising angles and ideas!

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Laughterhp
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This book is set in the summer but was pretty spooky. Brynn stays in a small town in a little hotel where she finds the support she needs. She‘s grieving the loss of her mother and trying to get her life back together. I didn‘t really know what to expect from this book but really liked it.

#hauntedshelf #flerken #31by31 #spookoween #roll100

TheSpineView Fantastic! 3mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 3mo
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Purgatory Ridge | William Kent Krueger
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Every bit as good as the first two books in the series and I raced through this one just as fast as those two. Great setting, memorable characters, plenty of crime with lots of twists and turns before you get to the solution, and fantastic writing are what you want in any book and this series has all of it and more. I don‘t know how I missed this series when it first came out but I‘m definitely making up for lost time now. Great read!