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My number 6 read of 2025

#12Booksof2025 I wanna play ! January book. Sofie , an intern at a Stockholm publishing house catches the interest of a senior editor, Gunnar because they shared similar insights and passions for books . The book focuses on the dynamics that always comes into play , is publishing more about art or commerce? I found it quietly fascinating. Sofie is on her way up , the more commercial staff think maybe Gunnar‘s time of relevance has past.

I listened to 2.5 hours of this 25.5 hour audiobook and it just wasn‘t doing anything for me. I hung onto it for a few days, but I have no interest in going back to try to keep going. Thanks to @Suet624 for helping me know bailing was the right choice for me! #TOBlonglist

This almost felt like a book of short stories about four women. They are connected through their friendship and years together. Like most short stories, some of the chapters worked more than others. I didn‘t love the ending, which dampened my overall impression. I did love a book centered on friendship.

I do like her writing, even when from 1977!
It was such a different era, yet within my memory.
This looks at how history plays out, our wavering perspective and how it changes with adult views. Morality and the right thing.

Sent from India to find new lives in the US, Sunny and Sonia‘s paths nearly collide but not quite. Instead Sunny loses his sense of self, Sonia spirals into loneliness. We watch this unravelling and at times this was excellent reading - charming, funny, tender. However the meandering story slowly began to lose me. The ending was satisfying and tear inducing, yet how we got there was not so much, for me. And at 670 pages, this felt LONG!

Do you ever appreciate what a book is doing without necessarily enjoying the reading experience? This is the situation here. A book about identity (namely sexuality and race), both personal, and America as a nation. There‘s a boxing gym and phone sex and a retirement community…but mostly there‘s a large cast of characters that all crash together nicely but I was over it by the time it happened. Pick, with reservations.

I‘m not sure this was a book for me.

It‘s said to be about Helm, a wind in the Northern England. I was surprised by how little we heard from it. In this book of 340p, maybe 20-30p

And also we followed a lot of different people in different time periods, and I had a hard time knowing where I was unless their names popped up. The writing was the same no matter what. Maybe because of Helm, but I don‘t know

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 This was beautiful. I finished a few weeks ago and remembered thinking maybe it didn‘t need to be quite so long, but thinking back on it I don‘t mind the length at all. Story of Sonia and Sonny, Indian young adults trying to make their way in the US and navigate family dynamics in India. It‘s a slow burn but worth the time.

I loved this

A book about loneliness, as the title suggests, but also of its consequences

The young girl who finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older male artist that thinks everything is allowed in the name of art

The man that finds his best friend pushing him out of his life to find a wife

Two families that faces their own challenges, an aunt that left her husband, a mother that leaves her husband

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