Litsy

Thanks @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag! 🤗

1️⃣ I have always wanted to go to The Galapagos. 💙💚💙

2️⃣ This book is partially set there & in my #TBR 🐢💚

Anyone want to join in? Consider yourself tagged! 🤗

Eggs Great choice! 4d

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GirlNamedJesse

Gone Wolf | Amber McBride

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Wow, what a gut punch of a book! I was enthralled with the first part and how it re-examined events that actually happened with a slight refocus. It was captivating and left me sitting with my mouth hanging open more than once. I liked the first part better, but I was equally as devastated with the second. 🐺

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Blueberry

The Sentence | Louise Erdrich

#SetinBookshop. #AboutaBook

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 💛❤️🩵🖤 3w

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Eggs

Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult

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Listened to this today. Diana and Fin are set to vacay in the Galápagos Islands, but when C-19 hits, Fin (a doctor) can‘t leave but he wants Diana to go, which she does. Of course quarantine is enforced there so her stay turns into months, while Fin works with C patients dawn to dusk, and so many die…Well written

#ReadAway2024

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DieAReader 🥳Great! 3w

Eggs @DieAReader 🤗🥰 3w

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BarbaraBB

Life Without Children: Stories | Roddy Doyle

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Roddy Doyle used to be a favorite author of mine, back in the days, when he wrote the Barrytown Trilogy and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
He‘s written this short story collection in 2020 and connections to the pandemic are unavoidable.
The Charger, the longest one, is my favorite. It‘s a story about the lockdown and how it could be so cozy at times and frustrating, lonely and frightening at others. It all came back to me while reading this.

ImperfectCJ Stacking this one. I talk to a lot of people who just want to forget lockdown (and the whole pandemic), but I find myself craving art that addresses it. It feels...validating, maybe? Like, this happened, right? And it was crazy but also kind of good sometimes? Maybe it just feels less lonely when it's a shared experience. 3w

BarbaraBB @ImperfectCJ I know what you mean. It feels so far away already while it had such a huge impact on us back then and I sometimes want to remember how it was and how it felt, good and bad things. (edited) 3w

vlwelser If anyone can write an accurate book about conflicted lockdown feelings, Doyle seems like a great pick. 3w

BarbaraBB @vlwelser It‘s a real Doyle book with characters that are very human! 3w

Suet624 The title made me sad. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙁 3w

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rachaich

Burntcoat: A Novel | Sarah Hall

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Well, not what I expected and again, very different to her other books.
Interesting style, and uncertainty of present or past. I thought it was Covid but maybe not?

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OneCent76

Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult

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This book takes us back to 2020 when Covid hit the world. It started off kind of slow but I got into the story and then everything I thought was happening flipped. This was a pretty decent book. I enjoyed it.

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bthegood

Tom Lake: A Novel | Ann Patchett

#Two4Tuesday Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView -

I went to Universal just a few years ago and I am going to Kings Island Friday for my grandsons 4th birthday - no books at the amusement park 🙂

Finished 2 books at end of July - so here is my updated #BookSpinBingo - thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks -

Make a great day everyone 🎢 (I think that is a roller coaster emoji 🤣)