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Fences | August Wilson

I think it is going to be a great reading month. Can't wait to get to some of these! #readjanuary #thismonth'stbr

Lacythebookworm Just finished A Gentleman in Moscow ❤Despite its length it moves along pretty quickly. Enjoy! 8y

Reviewsbylola Looking forward to Books for Living! 8y

akfreeborn @Reviewsbylola I loved the End of Life Bookclub. I used my Christmas gift card to get this one! 8y

akfreeborn @Lacythebookworm Towles is at the top of my list! 8y

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ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled

Death with Interruptions | Jos� Saramago

This is all Im stacking for January's TBR. The rest is serendipity! Can't clip these wings, man! I will not be bound by planning 😂 #thismonth'sTBR #readjanuary

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BookishMarginalia 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 8y

tricours Have you read anything else by Saramago? I've only read one of his books, but it earned him a solid spot on my hate list 😁 8y

bookishkai @tricours hahaha, I'm with you! I read Blindness for a book club and everyone else thought it was all kinds of wonderful and I just sat there thinking "oh my god, every page was like torture". 8y

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tricours @bookishkris I hated that book so much! 😤 8y

BookishTrish I'm the other way, I adore Saramago's writing. Blindness was much bleaker than his other titles. I adore

Baltasar and Blimunda

RealLifeReading Oh yeah I am so bad at sticking to plans. I make a TBR stack and never read it 8y

maximoffs The Mothers is great! 8y

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled @tricours @bookishkris Oh no! I just picked it up because it sounded interesting! Ive never read him before. Now Im curious if you both hate it - and I wanna see why @BookishTrish likes it! Controversy! Ooooo!! I have Baltasar and Blimunda in my tbr too. 8y

bookishkai @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com if I remember right, Blindness was stream of consciousness, which in general makes me crazy. So I had a really hard time getting into the story. But I do remember wondering at the time if some of my issue was because it was translated. I've had similar disconnect with other translated books, where the writing just feels . . . distant. 8y

tricours I felt the characters in Blindness were all without substance, especially the women were poorly written and the story had this constant aim of slight misogyny or lack of understanding of women about it. And I just hate moralizing books that are supposed to teach you something "deep" that is really just obvious from page 1. I remember being so furious when I wrote my Goodreads review of that one ?@bookishkris 8y

Flaneurette I really loved All the Names but could not finish Blindness

All the Names

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Hollie

Drinking in America: Our Secret History | Susan Cheever

#readJanuary #thismonth'sTBR
I'm currently reading A Certain Age, but am anxiously anticipating Love Warrior and The Mothers which I've got a hold on at the library. I'm #2 and #3 so hopefully soon!! Drinking in America I hope will put me back in historian mode in the beginning of the semester, or perhaps my new students will drive me to drink, whichever. All of these are on my list for #LitsyAtoZ

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