Litsy

Random Acts of Heroic Love | Danny Scheinmann

so-so

This book is a bit of a mess. I have no idea why I bought it in the first place but that was in 2008 so a few years ago 😀

It is about grief and the First World War and quantum physica and animal sex and traveling in Latin America. Well, it fits the #SomePlaceCold prompt for #FictionalTraveler2025!

julieclair

LeahBergen 😆😆 I have books on my shelf like that, too! 1mo

sarahbarnes I also have books like that I bought years ago and never read, and then I don‘t enjoy them much when I finally do. 😆 1mo

julieclair I must admit I‘m intrigued as to how all those topics fit into one book… 🤔 1mo

Suet624 @sarahbarnes yes, exactly. 1mo

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BarbaraBB

Random Acts of Heroic Love | Danny Scheinmann

#WeeklyForecast 03/25

I am reading the unputdownable The Wedding People. Super curious to find out where the story goes. Next will be the oldest book on my tbr (the tagged one) for #FictionalTraveler. Maybe there‘s time for another Banana Yoshimoto as well 🤞🏽

Melismatic The Wedding People was just chosen for my next in person book club. Glad to hear you‘re enjoying it! 1mo

BarbaraBB @Melismatic It seems like everyone is reading it at the moment! Enjoy! 1mo

KarenUK Just started this too! 1mo

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BarbaraBB @KarenUK and are you unable to stop reading too?! 1mo

GinaKButler I am halfway through listening to The Wedding People and I love it! 1mo

AmyG Enjoy! This book took me by surprise in the most wonderful way. 1mo

BarbaraBB @GinaKButler You too! It‘s really popular and I hope to finish it today! 1mo

BarbaraBB @AmyG I have a 100 pages left and can‘t wait to see how it ends! 1mo

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Princess-Kingofkings

Between Shades of Grey Signed Edition | Ruta Sepetys

Thanks to Litsy encouragement, I surpassed my goal of reading 12 books. Started the tagged book on Monday ~ the writing is easy to read while the content is heartbreaking. 🩶

MemoirsForMe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2w

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ju.ca.no

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands | Sarah Brooks

Halfwayr through with this one and so far it‘s very intriguing- the eerie wasteland makes me think of Vandermeer‘s Annhilation/ Southern Reach novels which I also enjoyed lots!

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marleed

Cilka's Journey | Heather Morris

It‘s hard to explain my giddy pleasure when I pull a grid together, gather my ratings (back of index cards) and discover the book languishing on my shelf won the grid😀

5* = Loved It, want to shout out loud about this book! I do/will own/keep a physical copy. A+
4*= I liked it, would love to discuss. Solid B
3*=Meh, no need to discuss. Avg C
2*=Nope D
1*=DNF F

AnnCrystal 📚👏😉👍💝. 2mo

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marleed

Cilka's Journey | Heather Morris

pick

This book lingered on my shelf following controversy from the first book about who has the right to tell Cilka‘s story. I‘m glad I read it and felt the author well-defended in both preface and afterward her effort to write and her wish to honor the memory of the real life Cilka. But female rape survivors of Nazi war camps were subjected to chargers of sleeping with the enemy an sentenced gulogs in Siberia. That‘s so wrong.

Dec #DoubleSpin

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2mo

CoverToCoverGirl It‘s very hard to believe that they were prosecuted! No words.. 2mo

marleed @CoverToCoverGirl every time I get to thinking about WWII HF can‘t teach me anything I haven‘t already read, I stand corrected. I had no idea camp survivors were charged with crimes for the ways in which they survived (as if submitting to multiple rapes to survive is a crime) and sent to prison camps in Siberia for an obscene amount of years. Heartbreaking. 2mo

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marleed @TheAromaofBooks one more book (Huck Finn) all I‘ll close out 2024 having read all 24 bookspin and DoubleSpin books. Thank you so much for hosting this challenge. It truly inspires me to shop my own shelves for previously published books at least a couple times a month. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks That is really fantastic progress!!! It sounds like the categories vs. specific books has really worked for you this year!! 2mo

CoverToCoverGirl Agreed! I stand corrected with you. Imagine being so cruelly punished just for surviving the unimaginable. 😢 2mo

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