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I really enjoyed this one. The characters were all interesting and believable. I loved how the idea of genetics and science was woven through but not a focus (don't be dissuaded if you are not into science). This book seems to tackle so much- generational family drama, coming of age, college life, all in a harmonious way.
My only note is that the author had a strange way of putting sentences together and I often had to reread them.
#weeklyforecast
Finishing the tagged today
ARC - One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This
Overdue at the library -need to start I Cheerfully Refuse
#BookedInTime & #25in25 starting Wolf Hall
Today in the US it is Martin Luther King Jr Day.
I wanted to share 6 books of his/about him that I thought were excellent:
The tagged by Eig is brilliant. 5 ⭐ My review - Eig gives us a detailed, well researched, and balanced look at King's life. The good and the bad. His health struggles, his misogyny, his hope and his commitment to the cause
I will tag the other 5 in the comments below!
pickI really enjoyed this, but I liked Fresh Water better which was annoying as I kept thinking about that one and how it compares. Both of them have super short chapters which I am not a fan of. This one felt like it jumped around a lot more. Many storylines going at the same time, while each are interesting I never felt like I could completely fall into one. Almost felt like the book itself had ADHD 😂. Overall I enjoyed the stories and characters
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18/20
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If nothing else has gotten me to read that tag this is going to work. 🤐🤨🤢
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17/20
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"Between us was a small graveyard, marked with moss stones. Most of its inhabitants had died young in the 1800s, which was oddly reassuring to me. Their ghosts were babies, and babies most likely didn't know enough to be vengeful."
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15/20
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Sent to me by a friend I am not sure the source
Box has a box set of Kant 🤣😂🤣
"She isn't afraid, but he is."
#FirstLineFriday
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I have a 4 day weekend and I have been not really in a reading slump but just super distracted. I have got to finish the tagged (it is overdue at the library) I am hoping to make a dent in the other 2
One Day Everyone Will Have Beed Against This (ARC)
Forgotten On Sunday
so-soA little gay YA romance, Stevie has amnesia and has to remember Norah and their relationship. This was a bit too YA for me - a bit too much cheese and dramatic teens but that is on me I bought this last year on a stop over in Edmonton, I also thought it was Canadian but about half in I realized they were in Philly, so I just fully picked up the wrong book apparently and it didn't really work for me. Overall though it was fine just not my taste
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14/20
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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.
8/20
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#20Covers
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.
8/20
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#20Covers
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.
8/20
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#20Covers
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.
8/20
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#20Covers
pickI am so glad I didn't let her Wolves novel deter me from picking this up, I enjoyed this much more! Even though I thought the twists were predictable, there was still enough intrigue and appreciation for her onion peeling writing to keep me reading. It is horrifying how much her world is just like ours but with barely any animals, sometimes you can go pages having forgotten. Great work.
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8/20
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8/20
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so-soOh man I wanted to like this so much more than I did. I really, really struggled with the language SGJ has chosen to use throughout. I am reading the ARC so it is possible a solid edit could bring this to a more coherent modern place. Or maybe I am just not smart enough. I really struggled with one of the characters being called Etsy every time I thought it was the marketplace website 🤣
The concept and characters are fantastic though.
“So it goes“
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7/20
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pickThis probably wasn't best in audio format for me. I think it would have been more impactful physically reading it. But overall a great narrative of the recovery of genocide victims remains. I spent most of the book hoping these experts will be able to recover Palestinian victims.
Heartbreaking stories well explained about the Guatemalan and Argentine genocides.
"If anyone wanted to commit murder and get away with it, they should come to Guatemala,"
"Work during the day, cry at night" - Clyde Snow
I am glad Hagerty has chosen to write this important book, I cannot help but wish Snow had written an accessible book instead (o/also) Hagerty 's experience as a student is interesting I think a lot of people will connect w/ her internal struggle to handle what we often see as gross body bits of 5the dead
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6/20
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Okay so first I am absolutely obsessed with how good this cover is.If this was in a museum I would buy a print for my office
For inside - I enjoyed this but it is too long. I thought the world building is exceptional, all of the characters are really complex and rich. Saint is way more complicated than I thought she would be from the blurb. She will make you uncomfortable. And sometimes you will fully be on her side. 👇
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4/20
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#WeeklyForecast
Finishing the tagged (have a little over 100pgs to go) Reading SGJ's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (I am about 75 pages in already and loving it)
Starting Real Americans which is due back to the library next weekend (#ToB), and Still Life With Bones (#NFReads)
"Not much for notable sins. Ever since he made Ours home, he had seen only a couple scuffles. One over a pig invading a neighbor's garden and another between two men over a woman who wanted nothing to do with either."
Isn't that the way it often is?
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2/20
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2/20
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New year, same me 😂
#FirstLineFriday
“Nearly two centuries before the boy who was shot dead at the intersection of First and Bank stood up in his own blood and spoke his name as if it were just given to him, there was a town named Ours, founded by a mysterious and fearsome woman right where the boy had been shot. “
Committed!
I pulled 25 books from my TBR bookcase that I am excited about and determined to read this year.
I keep moving things around and losing track so here is a solid list of my #25of25
Lots of classics, lots of things that have been lingering for a long time, a few newer ones thrown in!
I thought I had taken Ours off the main #Bookspin List, so I guess that changes my draw of that. Hunting down another 500+ book to read...
Fresh clean board!
#BookspinBingo
Here we go!!
I have already started Ours so that is my chunkster for the #Bookspin
I am super excite to get a push on my first Ann Leckie book!
2024 #Bookspin by the numbers!
I read 20 of the spins and #DoubleSpins (DNF'ing one of those)
And I had 24 bingos.
I love this game thank you so much @TheAromaofBooks for hosting!
January 2025
Let's go!
#MonthlyTBR
I started the tagged a bit ago but go distracted by library books hoping to get a good jump on the years page goals with it out the gate.
pickThis was my last book of '24 Pub Date Jan 14 '25
I think this is going to be so big this year! What a gorgeously written and magical story. Hana is taking over her family's pawnshops and her first day her dad goes missing and the shop is tossed over. A man from the normal world stumbles in and they traverse Hana's magical world together. This reminded me a bit of What Dreams May Come, and a bit Ghibli
Beautifully written & something for everyone
okay I did it! Once I took out my favorite pure fun books and my favorite nonfiction I have my 12 favorite fiction books of 24.
So many amazing books - a few older ones Talented Mr Ripley really blew me away, along with The Little Friend.
I have mostly US based books, but also New Zealand, Sri Lankan, Netherlands and France.
I read so many fantastic nonfiction books in '24!! These 7 are my favorite and I think worth everyone's time. I am so grateful for the new Women's Prize NF contest, I wouldn't have known about Some People Need Killing, or How To Say Babylon without it and both of them blew me away.
Saying It Loud almost tied with the tagged for my favorite, incredible storytelling. And then my deep dive into rugby lead me to these 2 S. African books amazing.
Going through my '24 reading, I do not read many “fun“ books - my story graph mood chart is heavy on the dark and dreary. but here are 6 reads from this year that I thought were a ton of fun (even if some of them tackle a bit heavier topics)
pickI probably did this book a disservice by racing through it on the last day of the year but what a gorgeous book.
I learned so much about living through the Sri Lankan civil war between 7 Moons and Brotherless Night. This is a perfect pairing if you have read one. 7 Moons is beautifully told, I love the concept and the character of Maali was well chosen.
4.25/5
🎯🎯🎯
Trying to decide on my favorites of the year.
I never think 10 is a good number for those of us who read way more than the average
I definitely have some standouts and some are "I cannot believe that was this year"
Normally I choose an author to focus on throughout the year, but I couldn't decide on anyone so I am just going to let it come to me naturally
These are not anything outstanding, they are very similar to my '23 and '24 goals. I struggle with NF and books over 500 pages so we will see how '25 goes with those!
#BookGoals25
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