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Gadolby
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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I assume this book is a metaphor for domestic abuse? If I look at it through that lens I like it ok. If not, then I really didn‘t. Characters are irritating, whole story line is boring, nobody evolves. I wish the bear was interesting in some way. If you don‘t want to read it, the mom dies and the sister gets eaten by the bear 🤷‍♀️. To be honest, I legit lol‘d at that second one 😆

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Christine
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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I was so bummed to not finish this in time during #CampLitsy and therefore was thrilled to see it on @monalyisha‘s #AuldLangSpine list; will now have to go back and read the discussion that I missed! I found this very emotionally engaging, and the writing had me vividly picturing characters, setting, and scenes throughout. Have the film rights to this been purchased? 🤔 Would be great on screen.

Christine And no, this doesn‘t take place in California. I just love my state. 2w
Suet624 I live in Vermont but love your state too. Have spent lovely sections of time there. 2w
monalyisha Disappearing Earth bowled me over. I was so excited/nervous for Bear — and so happy when I wasn‘t disappointed! 2w
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BarbaraBB Glad you‘re reading it, it was my favorite #CampLitsy read. 2w
Christine @Suet624 We‘re both lucky to live in such beautiful places. 🩵 1w
Christine @monalyisha I‘ve had DE on my TBR forever!! Must make time for it soon. 1w
Christine @BarbaraBB So good! Second only to James for me. 1w
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SilversReviews
A Wild and Heavenly Place | Robin Oliveira
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Historical fiction fans will love this one.

Thanks, @ChaoticMissAdventures

“20 Day Cover Challenge - As we start a new year and think about what we want in a book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” 16/20.

#20covers

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KLyn1
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First book of the year for me: the 4th in the Sloan Krause nanobrewery series - Sloan is continuing with her sleuthing, learning more about her past, and moving on to the next chapter in her life, post-Mac...

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mcctrish
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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OMG! I am just so frustrated with Elena and her stupidity! I would totally be Sam in this narrative and that‘s not fair. One description on the book jacket says “haunting fable” and that it is

BarbaraBB But it‘s good, right?! 4w
mcctrish @BarbaraBB it is. It‘s just a crazy juxtaposition of this beautifully described natural world against the chokehold poverty and illness has on the family plus the magic of this great bear and the spiral it produces 4w
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mcctrish
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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I‘m on page 147. This can not end well

ChaoticMissAdventures “This cannot end well“ should have been typed on the cover 😂 1mo
CSeydel Oh I just finished this one! And … you‘re not wrong 1mo
mcctrish @CSeydel someone in reviews back when everyone was reading this for camp Litsy said it felt magical until it didn‘t and I was thinking I have a completely different definition of magic and fairy tales 1mo
CSeydel Oof yeah, same here. I don‘t want to say anything to influence you while you‘re still reading it, but the magical/fairy tale mood didn‘t land for me. As a fable I found it lacking, but taking it literally didn‘t help either - Sam was too frustrating. 1mo
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mcctrish
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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Finally my library hold came in and I can finish #camplitsy 🤣🤣🤣

ChaoticMissAdventures Get on it before the next one! 😂 1mo
mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures actually my thoughts when I picked this up and why I may buy all the camp Litsy books next time 1mo
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Deblovestoread
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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#12DaysofChristmas

Read during #CampLitsy which added to the enjoyment of this book that didn‘t quite make my #Top24in24.

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Andrew65 Looks good. 1mo
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CarolynM
Bear: A Novel | Julia Phillips
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Catch up reviews from mid year 1/5

I didn‘t know what to make of this story when I read it & I still don‘t, but I remember the places and people quite vividly and the central theme of the different ideas about staying in the place you come from or seeking something better (realistically or not) elsewhere.

Read for #CampLitsy2024

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annamatopoetry
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Two thoughts: 1) very realpolitik that the two main places I've lived in my life has been shaped - and thus shaped me - my the glacial cover of the last glacial maximum.
2) it's kind of mind boggling how quickly Seattle has changed. All cities are engineered - the one I grew up in was half dug out of swamp land. But in Sweden that took hundreds of years (my hometown is over 800), Seattle is around 150, with a fire resetting to it 115 years ago.