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Memory is like a cat. It comes and wraps itself around you when you least desire it, and the moment you seek it out, it disappears. (Pg 194)

This is an older one, but I really liked the way the author blended a past/present Romeo and Juliet storyline, along with some mystery and action.

“Memory is like a cat. It comes and wraps itself around you when you least desire it, and the moment you seek it out, it disappears.”

A book letter a day game!!

The book went back and forth from the 1300's to present day using the story of Romeo and Juliet as the main plot and as the main characters unraveled family and life-long mysteries…https://tinyurl.com/2wsbj2r9

@author.anne.fortier

#AlphabetGame #Letter J
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Beatrice takes over her late brother's research & discovers 1- there may be a sinister reason the Plague hit Siena much harder than surrounding towns & 2- she is strongly drawn to a painter who lived there in the mid 1300s. She (somehow) travels back to that time & finds friendship, a new career, & love, while thwarting crimes committed against her beloved & solving the Plague mystery- though unable to prevent the devastation. #BorrowNotBuy

#6thbookof2021 #12booksof2021
@Andrew65

I loved this! Matar becomes fascinated by the Sienese school of painting and decides to spend a month indulging in this fascination. It‘s a beautifully quiet book, part memoir, philosophy, travelogue and art history that I didn‘t know I needed or wanted so badly.

#Junestats #JulyJourneys
@Eggs. @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

So hard to put down. I stayed up until 4:30 in the morning trying to finish it. 5 of 5 stars.