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What beautiful words 😭

After nearly losing my mother earlier this year and my father‘s passing this month, I picked up this book and it is really hitting. Just 25 pages in, I want to get a copy for every mother and everyone I know who has a mother.

Day 4 of #12Booksof2024

@Andrew65

Quietly touching.

A mother tells her daughters about dating a famous movie star (before he became a star.)

Usually, this kind of slow-paced, deliberately heartwarming, nostalgic type of storytelling is not for me. I steer away from the saccharine.

Ann Patchett creates a wonderful sense of place, her characters are believable, and her writing is lovely.

By the end, I did have an emotional response and it wasn't the one I was expecting.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ while the start of this book was a little slow, once the story got going I couldn‘t put it down!

Thank you very much @Cupcake12 for my #jolabokaflod treats! Merry Christmas and thanks so much for organising @MaleficentBookDragon

I‘d been ambivalent about the Kristin Hannah books I‘d read before this one, but I couldn‘t quite resist a bit of Russian history and the suitably wintery cover. And it was a good one! Moving between the present in an American apple orchard and the 1941 siege of Leningrad, I was thoroughly pulled into the family dynamics and awful backstory. Yes I cried. Easy yet gripping reading, a great one to hunker down with in a storm.

⭐️⭐️💫

I enjoyed the cozy spice shop setting in Salem and liked learning more about Ayurvedic practices. I also appreciated Tulsi‘s journey to learn more about herself and her family. It just felt overly long to me and fell a bit flat. #amazonfirstreads

1* I like to put up the tree by mid-November and leave it until Epiphany in January.
2* tagged. I can‘t focus on tangible books right now so I borrowed some audiobooks yesterday from Libby.
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

Play? @Deblovestoread @Vansa