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ChaoticMissAdventures

Joined August 2019

Reading is my favorite sport.
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Well here we are!!

I know people are going to be annoyed All Fours is on here, I don't mind so much - I love a book that makes people incomfy and gets people talking.

Good Girl and Fundamentally I had waffled on both being on the prize.

I guess the judges this year I just don't jive with.but I am incredibly glad Adichie didn't make it. I think it is down to Safekeep or Strout for the win.

BarbaraBB I am rooting for The Safekeep (although I wouldn‘t mind All Fours either 😉) but I haven‘t read Good Girl. Did you read it? 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I enjoyed it! I think the same people who hated Fours are going to dislike Good Girl. but I think you will get on fine with it. She is one of those characters you want to shake - the drugs the bad choice in men, but she is also a bit endearing, and it was so interesting to read about Germany from an immigrant (or 1st Gen) POV.
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TheBookHippie I think one the reasons people do not like All Fours is because the population that believes that‘s how women are uses it to prove their point. I wasn‘t uncomfortable. I loathed it because it was hateful to women and a woman wrote it. Just my opinion. 😝🙃🤦🏻‍♀️ 1d
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Deblovestoread I have Good Girl sitting here from the library and will give it a go since it made the SL. All Fours was a so-so for me so we will see. 1d
Kitta @TheBookHippie totally agree, I hated it! 1d
AnneCecilie The wait list at the library for both Tell Me Everything and All Fours are insane, so I won‘t get to them before the winner is announced. Hopefully Fundamentally arrives sooner. I‘m glad The Safekeep made it 1d
BarbaraBB @ChaoticMissAdventures Thank you. I did like All Fours (sorry @TheBookHippie 😉) so maybe I‘ll like this one too. I don‘t like books about drugs though so I am still a bit hesitant! 1d
TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB I‘m with you on the no drugs. I‘ve buried too many kids I‘ve mentored. 1d
BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie That‘s so sad 💔 1d
TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB I don‘t know what‘s worse, the no hope or the drug. 24h
ChaoticMissAdventures @TheBookHippie interesting thoughts on Fours. I have not seen people use this to show women as hateful/bad I think that anyone who uses a piece of fiction to say something like that are silly people to not be taken seriously, or given oxygen. I read the book as a basic midlife crisis book, which I fully believe that women are allowed to have. Most of the complaints I have heard was it was overly graphic. I guess different circles and all that... 23h
TheBookHippie @ChaoticMissAdventures The graphic didn‘t bother me. They are using it here to preach from pulpits, different circles- yes. And to say don‘t give it oxygen- some people don‘t have that choice. It incites harm, painting this as all woman or even a woman, I loathed. Women are entitled to have any feeling or crisis they chose. I have been arrested many times fighting for that very thing. I just personally found it distasteful and hateful to women. 22h
TheBookHippie @ChaoticMissAdventures any book that gets people talking is primarily good for all. It helps us not live in a vacuum. It‘s why I‘m so against banning books. 22h
fredthemoose I was just casting about for what to read next, and finishing the shortlist is the best idea I‘ve come across… I read All Fours and The Safekeep. I haven‘t loved the Elizabeth Strouts I‘ve read, but the others sound good… 18h
ChaoticMissAdventures @fredthemoose they are interesting reads hope you find some things you enjoy. 17h
fredthemoose @ChaoticMissAdventures thank you! I started Fundamentally and am really enjoying it. I think my comment last night sounded unintentionally bratty—sorry about that! I was in a funk from scrolling and trying to figure out what to read for half an hour. 🙃 26m
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Oh this one hurts! RIP Iceman.

When Top Gun came out I was immediately obsessed, so much so my dad destroyed the VHS because he couldn't handle having it on one more time 😂

Be my Huckleberry - Tombstone

What is your favorite Val Kilmer?

Susanita One of his early movies: Top Secret! He didn‘t do much comedy across his career, but this one is ridiculous and hilarious. 2d
Ruthiella Awww. What a loss. 💔 I loved him in Real Genius, Top Secret, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, what a great actor he was. 2d
BarbaraBB I loved him in The Doors 2d
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JacqMac 😢 1d
Soubhiville I second the Doors, but also Willow. 1d
Read4life He‘ll always be Iceman to me. 💔 1d
TieDyeDude I always loved him as Madmartigan, and he was the first Batman I saw in theaters. We lived in Colorado for a few years near where Doc Holliday was buried, so there was all kinds of Huckleberry merch at Bullock's Western Wear 🙂 1d
dabbe Ice, Ice, baby! What didn't I love him in? Nothing. 😭 1d
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Trans authors you should read! This is a very American based list. I think it is very cool and important to read Sarah McBride now that she is the first Trans senator! Read her life in her own words as you see her making headlines for wanting to use the toilet at work....
Others to read who I love:
Akwaeke Emezi - Vivek is my absolute fav
Imogen Binnie
Nicola Dinan
Janet Mock
Aiden Thomas

JamieArc Sarah McBride ❤️ My husband worked with her when he was working for the Human Rights Campaign. 2d
ChaoticMissAdventures @JamieArc great...now I am jealous of your husband 😂. I have been a huge fan of hers since I first started following her career in maybe 2016-17. Just an extraordinary person, what we need so badly in politics. 2d
BookmarkTavern Loved Cemetery Boys! 2d
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ChaoticMissAdventures @BookmarkTavern yes!! Aiden lives in my town and I see him often at book events, he is so nice 😍 2d
BookmarkTavern Oh my gosh, I‘m so jealous! 2d
lil1inblue Vivek Oji was such an excellent book. 🩵 2d
Kristy_K I just bought Tomorrow Will Be Different! And this reminds me I‘ve been wanting to read Redefining Realness. 2d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Kristy_K I love Janet Mock, all of her books are very good. She is so impressive, and this first one of hers really tells you how she got to be where she is now (well 2014) I thought the book was very good. 1d
Suet624 Great post! Thank you. 💕 30m
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Yesterday was Trans Visibility day, and in the spirit of we should be reading trans author all year round I wanted to make a post for 6 books I intend to read this year by Trans authors!

I am SO excited for Disappoint Me, I loved her Bellies and I have the ARC I have already started, Stag Dance is up next I really enjoyed Detransition Baby and Peters latest interviews, I am impatiently waiting for Gentleman's Gentleman!

Who are you reading?

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Women's Prize For Fiction | Women\'s Prize For Fiction
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#WP25 short list prediction/hope

I thought this was not the best list I have seen from them, but then I went to make my predictions and had 8 I wouldn't mind seeing make it!

Thinking about the qualifications of the prize the book must show: excellence, originality and accessibility. From this I thought that the 6 above were my good guesses of what we might see tomorrow.

2 Books that I thought would be okay were Good Girl and Fundamentally

BarbaraBB I haven‘t read Amma, A Little Trickerie or The Artist. I might it they are shortlisted. In general I am disappointed after not liking The Dream Hotel, Nesting and The Persians much. 2d
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Book Club Journal | Sanne Vliegenthart
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Aarvark peeps!
I was thinking about signing up, and was checking out their IG and saw this. I would love to give someone a free credit!

If you are a user of this book box comment below and we will organize. (I can only subscribe once so sorry first person here gets it)

Sace I love Aardvark! 2d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Sace do you want a free credit? Email me at shawnamatthews@proton.me and we can organize to get you one. 2d
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Passiontide | Monique Roffey
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Tagging my favorite book of the month, one I was very disappointed was not on the Women's Prize Longlist.

March was a...do I have a mental illness or is my country a dumpster fire reading month. Some people cannot concentrate on anything, I cannot get enough stories. I read 18 books in March, no DNFs

Only 3 are Nonfiction, so I need to pick up way more of those in April.

Kristin_Reads I can identify! I also drown my fears and despair in reading. I‘ve almost read as many books in a few months as I did all last year! 2d
squirrelbrain I might get the John Green on audio, once I‘ve finished the prize list stragglers. 2d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Kristin_Reads totally! I am reading at least 2x as much as normal, I want to make sure i prioritize those things I really want to read before I crash out (or our entire system crashes and I have to spend my time foraging for food)! 2d
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I really appreciate John Green. He is so thoughtful and knowledgeable. Because he is so use to giving information to laymen his book is really easy to digest on audio. 2d
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This is really very good. Green reads the audiobook, which if you are a fan you will enjoy. I loved the mixture of history, little trivia facts, and heart wrenching personal stories. There is just enough levity here to not have the facts and heart of the book take you down. But the information is here and it is easy to see the urgency and why Green is so obsessed.
4.5/5

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#bookspin #doublespin and 3 #bookspinbingos

This was a good reading month!

Bring on April, I am ready to get past the Women's Prize books and read some fun things.

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A Little Trickerie | Rosanna Pike
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This was my most anticipated book of the #WP25 longlist, and once I got used to the writing I enjoyed it. I did think it went a bit long at the end, I started to struggle picking it up and it took me longer to finish then I would have thought, but overall I thought it was original, creative and a good read. I found the characters endearing (though Tibb needed some therapy, hearing how she blamed herself over and over was a bit wearing)
4/5

squirrelbrain Great review! 5d
BarbaraBB I am still on the fence about this one. I will read it if it makes the shortlist. I am curious about your favorite so far! 4d
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I don't know about a favorite for me .. this years books felt a bit weak. It isn't like other years where I am picking up multiple books I feel are 5⭐ The Artist I really enjoyed, but for me there are no Brotherless Nights or Demon Copperheads. I have 3 more to go so maybe one of those. 4d
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BarbaraBB I feel the same. The ones I liked best are the ones I read before they were longlisted. 4d
TheKidUpstairs @BarbaraBB me too. The Safekeep and All Fours were both great! 4d
BarbaraBB @TheKidUpstairs Yes! Those I mean too! 4d
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The Persians | Sanam Mahloudji
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A soft pick for this #WP25 book.
I think I am just a bit burnt out, I can see why the judges picked it, there are some really good scenes, and the characters are compelling, it was just missing something a little extra that I expect from Women's Prize books. I also had a hard time keeping the storylines straight and would pick the book up and be confused who the POV was on.
Good not great 3.5/5 ⭐

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5d
squirrelbrain I listened to a bit more of this yesterday and it‘s better than I initially thought it was, but I don‘t think it will make my shortlist. 5d
BarbaraBB I hope to finish this one today and feel the same about it as you do. But I have another 100 pages to read so you never know 😀 4d
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ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB I also liked it more than predicted, all the negative reviews on it had me curious and I don't really agree with them. I am not mad about it being on the list like I have been with some books other years (Remember Pod by Lalani Paul?) 4d
TheKidUpstairs I'm about the same place as @BarbaraBB with about 100 pages left. I like it, and there are definitely things I really appreciate about it, but I'm not falling in love with it 4d
squirrelbrain Haha - Pod is the worst book I ever read, I think! 🤣 4d
squirrelbrain I feel like that about a lot of the list this year @TheKidUpstairs - most of the books are good, but nothing outstanding. 🤷‍♀️ 4d
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain Agree. I am a bit disappointed 4d
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Women's Prize For Fiction | Women\'s Prize For Fiction
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The Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlist will be announced on Wednesday the 2nd of March, which is just days away!
I am finishing The Persians and Trickerie today, and have Strout queued up on audio I am trying to decided between Amma and Birding for my next read, has anyone read both? Which is a quicker read? It looks like I am not going to get to all of the books before the shortlist drops, but I will read enough to get a prediction out on Tue!

ChaoticMissAdventures For some reason I didn't order Somewhere Else, and it isn't available anywhere around me, I have heard really mixed reviews and didnt enjoy the bits Simon Savidge read on his vlog so I think I am going to skip it unless it is on the shortlist. 5d
Bookwormjillk Yay! A new list. 5d
BarbaraBB I have Somewhere Else lined up as my next read (after the Persians) so I hope to finish those two before the shortlist is announced! 5d
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Ruthiella Wow! You have made incredible progress! I‘m impressed. 🤩 5d
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I will be really interested in your thoughts. I have heard it is a bit repetitive. But I am willing to be swayed to order it. 5d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Ruthiella thanks! I am for sure running out of steam on it. I really wish we had more time between the long and short list. 5d
squirrelbrain I started Somewhere Else on audio (probably only listened to 10/15%) and it feels like a fairly standard family saga to me. I will continue with it even if it doesn‘t make the shortlist but it‘s not one of my favourites. 🤷‍♀️ @BarbaraBB 5d
squirrelbrain I would pick Amma over Birding - they‘re both quick reads but I preferred Amma. 5d
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I might read some of both just to start forming opinions, are you almost done? You flew through the nonfiction list! 5d
squirrelbrain I‘m reading the last 3 (Nesting, Persians and Dream Count). I won‘t finish them but should have read enough to form a judgement. Then I‘ll go back to Somewhere Else and the two unfinished NF books! 🤪 5d
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We laugh so we do not cry ......
#Libraries

dabbe 👊🏻♥️👊🏻 7d
julesG 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 😂😂😂 How thick can you be? Love her replies. 7d
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 7d
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Women's Prize For Nonfiction | Women\'s Prize For Nonfiction
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And the short list for Nonfiction is out! What does everyone think? I know a few didn't enjoy Cherry's book, I DNF'd What the Wild Sea Can Be but might try it again.

I think the winner will be down to the Heart or the Hare.

I still have some reading to do here... most of them actually.
#WPNF25

TheKidUpstairs I loved Cherry's book, so I'm happy to see it here. I also DNF-ed Wild Seas, but I'm pretty sure that was just my mood. I've got a new hold on it. Raising Hare is next up for me. Story of a Heart tops my list (of what I've read so far) so I'm really glad it's been shortlisted. 1w
Hooked_on_books Other than Neneh, I think this is a great shortlist! I still have 4 more to read from the longlist, which I will do, but I‘ve read all these. 1w
AnneCecilie I‘m so happy Raising Hare made it, I loved that book. Private Revolutions though me so much about a culture I knew nothing about 1w
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squirrelbrain @TheKidUpstairs - Story of a Heart is my favourite too. I think this is a great shortlist, from a wonderful longlist. 1w
Bookwormjillk I really liked the audiobook for What The Wild Sea Can Be 1w
fredthemoose I love the shortlist because it‘s all the books I‘ve read! I‘m part way through Zo and haven‘t started Wild Sea. Really enjoyed Raising Hare, but Story of a Heart will be tough to dethrone from its spot as my favorite. 1w
Chelsea.Poole I‘ve read three, and I will still read two of the others for this list. But I‘m sticking to my plan to skip Heart. I‘m looking forward to Sea (which is actually a book I‘m going to be presenting later this year to a literary club!) and also hope to get to Agent Zo soon. 1w
TheKidUpstairs @squirrelbrain it really was such a strong list! I plan to continue reading from it as more titles come out this side of the pond! 1w
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Bury Your Gays | Chuck Tingle
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You need to be prepped going into this, it is a Gay Horror Book, set in Hollywood. Our MC is a screenwriter who is mostly in the closet, but he has a boyfriend. Zeke, my boyfriend. The one thing I couldn't get past was how often his boyfriend was pointed out. The writing is not great, but the story is original and propulsive, I really grew to like and root for our MC. I thought the horror elements were brought in well, if a tiny predictable
4/5

ChaoticMissAdventures This will be my only book in Women's month not written by a woman, but I really needed a fun break from the Women's Prize for Fiction list. Back at it now 1w
BarbaraBB Good choice indeed for taking a break from the #WP25! 1w
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The Professor's House | Willa Cather
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This is a slow, quiet character study of a man who is supposed to be moving houses but cannot seem to make himself. The professor contemplates his life and how he got to where he is. I thought it was interesting, but maybe a bit too scattered I really enjoyed the bits about his time excavating Native areas in New Mexico but thought the jump from that to other topics was too abrasive.
Still enjoyed it, I always like Cather's writing

Ruthiella I found the jumps in this one jarring too. I loved the middle story, but the two that bookend it were just okay for me. 2w
TheSpineView ❤️📖❤️☕️❤️ 2w
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The Professor's House | Willa Cather
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#Weeklyforecast trying to finish up the #WP25 this week, not sure I can make it! The tagged is my #doublespin for this month should finish it today
I started Chuck Tingle yesterday and I am obsessed, then going back to A Little Trickerie which I was excited for but which has proven not as easy to get started on.
Disappoint Me on my Kobo for Trans Awareness Readathon

squirrelbrain Good luck! 🤞☺️ 2w
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The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I spent 10 years working events at Barnes and Nobles up and down the West Coast, and I now live in PDX with Powell's books so I have been lucky enough to meet and work with a few big names some are so terrible I don't read their books, some are utter delights!!
Some of my favorites: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (RIP), Angie Thomas, Jodi Picoult (who I still call Jodi Pickles in my head) Patrick Rothfuss, Aiden Thomas, and Curtis Sittenfeld

Suet624 You are a very lucky duck. 2w
squirrelbrain Lol! I call her Jodi Pikachu! (edited) 2w
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squirrelbrain And enquiring minds want to know the baddies too! 😬 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain Jodi is very kind about her name, she sat down and taught some of us before the event 😂 Let's just say I will never again be in a room with Mario Lopez and I would never pick up a book by Janet Evanovich (which in my mind I call something her last name something that rhymes but maybe replace the v with a similar letter, she was not fun) I did a couple of events with Neil Gaiman and we all know how he turned out.... 2w
squirrelbrain I saw Jodi speak years ago at our little theatre - she was lovely. I can‘t even remember which book she was promoting though 😬 - maybe House Rules. 2w
willaful I have an unpleasant memory of Anne McCaffrey, who was clearly not pleased that I was bringing my much loved paperbacks and not buying her new hardcover... I was a broke teenager! Talk about eating your seed corn.

Meeting Lois Bujold was much pleasanter. We bought her new book for my MIL's 80th birthday and it was so special to have it signed for her. We told her it was probably for her oldest fan. :-)
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ChaoticMissAdventures @willaful I hate to say it but their attitude when we meet can really make it break my relationship with their books. It is one thing if we meet in an airport and they are not having the best day, but at their own book event? You have to be kind to everyone that shows up! Sorry to hear about Anne what a bummer for a young reader. 2w
BookmarkTavern So many fun authors! And living near to Powell‘s would be so dangerous for my wallet! Thanks for posting! (edited) 2w
CoverToCoverGirl Meeting Diana Gabaldon was an amazing experience. Very engaging, informative and warm. 2w
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My first book for the #TransRightsReadathon is one I found in an article interviewing Torrey Peters on her recommended Trans books. It wasn't on my radar before.

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Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie
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I tried the audio and kept getting confused on the timeline. I liked this, I understand why it won so many awards. It is fresh and interesting. I think my expectations were set a bit too high. The writing is great, I liked Breq as a character, I just wanted a bit more action maybe. Where it is a lot about interpersonal relationships.
Still great read 4/5 ☀️

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Orbital | Samantha Harvey
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I haven't seen people talking about this new book prize, Climate Fiction Prize. This is the first year, and the shortlist was announced today
https://climatefictionprize.co.uk/2025-prize/shortlist/

ChaoticMissAdventures ** looking at their longlist the site doesn't say it is a women's fiction prize but all of the books on the longlist seem to be by women! Love to see it. 2w
monalyisha Thanks for bringing my attention to this new award! 2w
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The Power | Naomi Alderman
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This is interesting, if not at all surprising.
I remember the first time I was called a feminist - I was 10 or 11 and my cousin used it as a dirty word against me, I had no clue what it meant but the next 35 years I have really Leaned in 😂

I scored lower on cultural feminist I think because I believe that women can be just as brutal as men.... Thinking of the tagged

Thanks @Catsandbooks for this!

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🎉✊🏼🔥❤️ 2w
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Women's Prize For Nonfiction | Women\'s Prize For Nonfiction
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One week until the shortlist drops!!

Any you are hoping to see?

I am struggling to get things from the library off this list, but I hope the ones I bought are here - Private Revolutions, Tracker, Peepshow. Them being on the shortlist might push me to read them!

The online website is still struggling so my list for people to tag isn't coming up sorry about that!

squirrelbrain I‘m halfway through number 14, and going to start 15 & 16 this week, so I‘ve at least read some of all of them. I have a top 5 (Heart, Hare, Peepshow, Sister-in-Law and Neneh) and quite a few vying for the 6th place. 2w
AnneCecilie I haven‘t managed to get to as many as I hoped either. I‘ve read two. I‘m listening to a third now. I loved Raising Hare and hope to see it on the list. I‘m amazed by how many you have read @squirrelbrain (edited) 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain great job!! As soon as I am done with the fiction list I am reading Peepshow, even if it doesn't make the shortlist. So many books and all that. 2w
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squirrelbrain I‘m liking the NF list better than the fiction list at the moment! 😲 @AnneCecilie @ChaoticMissAdventures 2w
Hooked_on_books I‘ve read 10 and would frankly by happy to see any of them, other than Neneh, on the shortlist (that one was a dud for me). I loved Raising Hare and Agent Zo. Sister in Law is a banger, too. It‘s such a good list! (Helen, you‘re an overachiever! @squirrelbrain ) 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Hooked_on_books it does seem to be an exceptionally good NF list this year!! 2w
youneverarrived Neneh and Paul Gauguin from the ones I‘ve read. 2w
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Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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Book 9 #WP25
This is a low pick for me. The last 100 pages were a bit of a struggle, I didn't want to pick it up and read more about her self destruction, but I was still interested in her life as an Afghani-German and what it was like as a German immigrant with so much hate that we don't talk about.
The writing throughout is solid, and the perspective is one I don't see a lot of in English Lit so it makes sense why this was chosen for the WP

ChaoticMissAdventures I might have had more patience for this if I wasn't reading Nesting at the same time, so many terrible men.... 2w
BarbaraBB Great review. I‘ll wait a bit with this one. Nesting I do have on my shelves though 2w
squirrelbrain Great review - this has just arrived for me at the library so I‘ll pick it up in the next day or two. 2w
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The trans rights annual readathon is almost here!

March 21-31

I will be reading:

Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

DimeryRene Hell yeah!!! I‘ve done this the past two years. 🩷 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @DimeryRene yay! Do you know what you might tackle this year? 2w
DimeryRene @ChaoticMissAdventures No!!! But I have been looking at everyone‘s lists and seeing what I can immediately get at my library. 😆 2w
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Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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#WeeklyForecast
#WP25 I have 100 pages left of the tagged then I can start A Little Trickerie which I am super excited for
🎧This week's listen will be Ancillary Justice my January #DoubleSpin

Then hoping to sneak in The Coin which needs to go back to the library.

Ruthiella I loved the Imperial Radch trilogy. 3w
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Nesting | Roisn O'Donnell
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Book 8 #WP25
Phew that was good. Love a book where I can catch myself shouting at the characters.
This is a tense book. Ciara (pronounced K-ear-a which, glad I listened to this I wouldn't have in my brain) has left her abusive husband but it is a struggle, so many people probably do not see him as abusive but her fear is palpable on the page.
Great writing, and really eye opening about the housing crisis in Ireland
4.25/5

LeeRHarry I was definitely shouting at the characters many a time. 2w
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Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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"Yet the hymns, the hosannas and hevenu shalom aleichem, the psalms, the lessons of Genesis and Revolution, they did not remain. What remains is the searing loneliness I felt, the nights I stayed awake by myself, reading Wuthering Heights and Lolita, underlining everything, trying to forget the fact I was one of the only girls at school who had black hair.

#WP25

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Women's Prize nonfiction long list

I enjoyed this! It was a quick read, Cherry is an empathetic and understanding person. I love that her whole family and everyone in her orbit are true artists. I appreciate how she can see people's flaws and love them anyways
I thought she was a good storyteller, she reiterated issues she found important but always kept the story pushing forward
I honestly thought Eagle -Eye Cherry was a band name...
3.75/5

BarbaraBB I know little about her (and honestly am not that interested) but I love her song Woman! 3w
LeeRHarry Buffalo Stance was my anthem when I was 17/18 😆 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I just approached this as a biography of artists. The whole family is very bohemian and you can tell pretty cool people, I didn't recognize her name when I saw the book but like @LeeRHarry Buffalo Stance was a vivid memory. What a song! 3w
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#weekendreads are all about women, music, partying

Neneh Cherry - A Thousand Threads #WPNF25
Aria Aber - Good Girl #WP25
Maud Ventura - Make Me Famous #ARC

BarbaraBB Lucky you, the new Maud Ventura! Interested in your thoughts. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I am about 50 pages in, and I know I am going to be critical because My Husband is one of my favorites from the last few years. So it is hard not to compare, this one is a bit harder to get into initially. But I still have high hopes! 3w
BarbaraBB Ooh, exciting! 3w
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“If everything was amazing all of the time, I think we‘d all be speechless, and if you make that your starting point for creativity, you‘re going nowhere.”

I thought this was such an interesting take about creativity. About how you have to have downtime and sometimes some things that are not amazing are just as important as amazing things.

#WPNF25 Also I love this cover of her as a babe so cute!

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Oh no. Everyone loves this and I am struggling. This is taking me back to college where to get my chem degree I had to take some geology and biology classes and was bored outta my mind. I do love that she is using the Māori word Aotearoa for what we call New Zealand.
I hope I can get more interested in this as we go along but 2 chapters in and so far, not so good

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Home: A Novel | Marilynne Robinson
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Big news for our Marilynne Robinson fans!

Deblovestoread Loved Home! 3w
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Cockroaches | Scholastique Mukasonga
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It is impossible to judge a memoir of a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Mukasonga had escaped through Burundi, married a French man and was living in France when 27 of her family members were murdered. She is a survivor, and with that comes guilt and a desire to tell her story.
I think it is helpful to know about this time and place before going in, she does not attempt to explain the politics or landscape (I had a map open while reading)
4/5⭐

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The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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#WP25 book 7/15
This is very good. It has feelings of Handmaid's Tale to it while being wildly different. The story focuses on a group of women but we know women are not the only ones targeted. The crimes they "might" commit are hypothetical. If you were not paranoid about government monitoring before reading this you soon will be. Everything here feels horrifically plausible (thinking of Musks brain implants people are actually getting)
4/5

squirrelbrain Great review- looking forward to this! 3w
AnneCecilie Now you have me intrigued 3w
TheKidUpstairs I'm so looking forward to this. I loved Lalami's 3w
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Cockroaches | Scholastique Mukasonga
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Reading about how the Rwandan regime made the Tutsi people dig up food to plant coffee plants that the government would sell and keep the money from as I sit drinking coffee halfway across the world and 60 years later.
This is not a pleasant book but so important, especially today and thinking that I had believed that the '96 Genocide happened pretty much overnight but learning it was a 40 year battle.

Ladygodiva7 😟 4w
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The Artist | Lucy Steeds
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I think I like the name on the American publication best - The Artist and The Feast. It fits the story better.
At first I thought this was overwritten and I wasn't sure I would get along with it. But after a bit either she toned it down or I just got use to it and it didn't bother me. I loved how the chapters go from mostly Joseph's POV to mostly Ettie as we see more and more of her layers and she comes out from behind her uncle (The Artist)👇

ChaoticMissAdventures 4.25/5 for my book 6/15 #WP25 I really enjoyed this. 4w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4w
squirrelbrain Glad you enjoyed it! I felt like it wasn‘t really for me at first, but ended up loving it. 4w
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain same! I was really pleased with the one historically real person she decided to use as a character (Peggy) I thought that reveal was great. I didn't feel the surprise at anything, if some of her moves in the story meant for that. 4w
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The Artist | Lucy Steeds
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"Ettie has given herself a place at the table"

Wow! What a line so crisp and clean and holding a punch of meaning.

*Painting - Antonio Rasio. Autumn. 1685-1695.

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Women's Prize For Nonfiction | Women\'s Prize For Nonfiction
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The #WPNF25 nonfiction list has taken a total back seat to the fiction prize for me, but I do have Wild Sea, and Cherry's autobiography checked out from the library so I will be reading one of those as I wait for more fiction books to arrive in the mail.

So far I have read 2 - Autocracy and Fish. How is everyone else doing?

squirrelbrain You‘re gonna hate me 🤣 - I just finished book 11 from the list! 🤪 4w
BarbaraBB You‘re incredible @squirrelbrain , especially when I think of those working hours of yours!! 4w
BarbaraBB I have placed my first orders from the fiction list. I am more drawn to the International Booker longlist this year but will definitely read the fiction list too. 4w
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ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain wow!! Any real standouts? Do you have a winner in mind? 4w
squirrelbrain You know me @BarbaraBB - bit of a speed-reader! 🤪 4w
squirrelbrain My top 5 so far are: Story of a Heart, Sister in Law, Neneh Cherry, Peepshow and Raising Hare. 4w
fredthemoose Wow, @squirrelbrain ! I‘m on book 4. Really liked Story of a Heart and Raising Hare and am enjoying Private Revolutions. Will probably bail on Neneh Cherry (I generally like memoir but I‘m just not drawn into this one). I‘ll probably read a few more, but may not get them all. 4w
Chelsea.Poole Really enjoying this longlist! I‘ve read six and at the beginning of my seventh which is 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Chelsea.Poole I am finishing this one today! It is quite a quick read, she is a good storyteller and moves the book along 3w
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Women's Prize For Fiction | Women\'s Prize For Fiction
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#WP25
How are people liking the list? Are you able to get your hands on all the books you want?
I am doing pretty well from the jump on the fiction side. I will not be reading Adichie due to her transphobia, but I do think I have decided to read Strout even though I have only read one of hers and found it a bit boring.

I am finishing The Artist now (30pgs left) and have started Dream Hotel, now just to wait for the rest to come in mail.

ImperfectCJ I'll likely try as many as I can. Most are long waits at the library, and I don't think any are exciting enough to me that I want to buy them. I've read one Lalami that I loved and one that I disliked, so I'm a little hesitant about hers. Adichie's writing I like a lot, so I'll pick hers up when I can. Ministry of Time I already have out on Libby, so I just need to make time for it. Safekeep and All Fours I've already read. The rest are new to me. 4w
Jas16 There are a few I am excited about but right now I am mostly waiting on library holds. 4w
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squirrelbrain I‘ve read 5 and managed to get hold of most of them (I bought 2 so far) and I‘m waiting on 1 or 2 from the library, which I might buy if they don‘t come in quickly enough. 4w
BarbaraBB I have bought four or five but for some I‘ll have to wait until they‘re published here. I will read the Adichie. I‘ve been thinking about it and decided she has a lot of good opinions too and I learned a lot from her books 4w
Hooked_on_books I have 4 in my little claws and 4 more ordered from Blackwells plus one one hold from the library. I haven‘t started reading any yet beyond the 3 I had already read. 4w
charl08 Just finished A Little Trickerie, which I reckon has a fighting chance of winning. (Based on reading two so far.) 4w
fredthemoose Oooh… the lists keep coming! I‘ve only read All Fours and didn‘t like it (and can‘t wait for it to not be on every damn list!), but I‘m looking forward to The Safekeep, The Persians, and Fundamentally. I haven‘t cared much for Strout‘s earlier stuff and don‘t love those characters, so will probably skip it. Looking forward to hearing how people like the others and will pick more from there. (edited) 4w
Suet624 I‘ve read two already but like others have said, I need to try to get a bunch from the library. 4w
Chelsea.Poole I‘ve only read Safekeep and All Fours. I am looking forward to Crooked Seeds because I liked An Island from her last year. Also started The Dream Hotel but don‘t have time just yet to dedicate to it. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Chelsea.Poole I am finishing Dream Hotel today it is pretty intense - the topic. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @ImperfectCJ each year there are so many new to me books on this award list. I think I read there are 9 debuts this year. 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Hooked_on_books what would we do without Blackwells!! I just got Good Girl from them today. 3w
Hooked_on_books Nice! They have dispatched the first part of my order, 3 fiction, 1 non, so I‘ll eagerly await those. Not sure how long the shipping will take. 3w
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Star of the Sea | Joseph O'Connor
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I found this boarding pass in my used book!
John here is going from Shannon to London on the 29th of May (year unknown) and he is in the smoking section!

Amazing how an Ireland to England flight stub ends up in a used bookstore in Portland Oregon.

kspenmoll 😀 4w
LiteraryinPA Whoa! If there was still a smoking section in the plane, it was probably a while ago! 4w
TheBookgeekFrau This is great!! 🤩🤩 I love finding things in used books! 4w
Meshell1313 Soo fun! 4w
Suet624 Love this!! 3w
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Star of the Sea | Joseph O'Connor
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Found a nail in my tire as I was running errands, now patiently waiting the tire guys to clear me to drive, and this is why we never leave home without a book.
Starting this #bookedintime read so far it is a bit wordy for me but going to push through and hope I can get in the groove

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Fundamentally: A Novel | Nussaibah Younis
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Book 5 #WP25

I loved this!! The biting humor (jokes about Elizabeth Warren's 1/8 Cherokee claims, sandstorms being micro dermabrasion, and milkshakes for Nigel Farage) mixed with a more serious and deep ideas around the UN, aide workers, and extreme Islamists.
Younis worked in Iraq for 10 years as an aide worker. This unique perspective allows for the author to be one of the few who can accurately and compassionately tell this story.

ChaoticMissAdventures This truly is very funny, I laughed out loud a few times catching weird glances from people in my neighborhood 😂. I appreciate how diverse her characters are, she draws them realistically and lively. Her writing is straightforward but not stodgy and never cold. You can tell she cares very much for these women many of us rarely think of. 4.5/5⭐ 4w
squirrelbrain Great review! 4w
BarbaraBB Great review. I‘ll definitely read it too! 4w
TrishB Ordered this yesterday 👍🏻 4w
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Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck
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Book name drop on this week's Abbott Elementary which is all about something I know people here are passionate about - book banning.

If you gave not watched this show you need to it is amazing 😍

TheKidUpstairs Love this show! 4w
ncsufoxes My almost 10 year old loves this show 4w
sarahbarnes I love this show too - I haven‘t seen this episode yet but I love that they‘re taking on book banning. 4w
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Crooked Seeds: A Novel | Karen Jennings
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I think it is best to go into this not knowing much, I feel like I expected something a bit more crime based from the synopsis. But this is more of a character study of a VERY unpleasant woman in the middle of a South African drought. Props to the writing here it feels visceral - the dryness the smells, it is uncomfortable. I felt a bit at sea about when things were happening. Overall not a favorite Women's Prize read. #WP25

squirrelbrain Great review! I have this on audio and I can see it‘s really short… I hope to get to it soon after I‘ve finished Raising Hare and Wild Sea, both also on audio! 🤪 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I am interested in how this goes on audio. There is a change of POV and maybe of time that was a bit confusing. I have Wild Sea from the library just a sitting there on my coffee table. going to try to read it after The Artist. 1mo
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I didn't realize until the end how autobiographical this was. To the point that Ditlevsen doesn't even change any of her 4 husbands names. This is a sad story, without a happy ending. It was originally 3 short novellas Childhood (where Tove is told over and over how ugly and stupid she is) Youth (where she starts to write and come into her own & starts jumping from man to man) & Dependency (more men and throw in drug addiction) 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures If you want something uplifting this is not it. But it is considered a Dane masterpiece. The writing really keeps you at a distance, and I found it very interesting that she was a poet but her writing was not at all what we would consider lyrical. I can see why people esteem this but it was a bit too gloomy and doom for me. 3.75/5⭐ 1mo
BarbaraBB I‘ve been interested in this one as well but something keeps me from picking it up. Maybe the gloom & doom reputation! 1mo
sarahbarnes I do want to read these at some point! 1mo
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Glad I have a cat, because I am finishing these 2 incredibly bleak books tonight and will need some pet loves. I hope my next reads are a bit more fun.

Susanita Beautiful kitty! 1mo
Ruthiella Cats to the rescue! 😻😻😻 1mo
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Fundamentally: A Novel | Nussaibah Younis
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“I was asked by the Iraqi government to design a program to deradicalize ISIS women. It got me thinking about my years as a religious teenager. When I was seventeen, I studied with the cleric Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American preacher who was smart, charming and inspiring. He later joined Al-Qaeda. I‘d always wondered what I‘d have done, in those naïve teenage years, had he tried to recruit me.“

ChaoticMissAdventures I am starting this book now on audio, and a couple of chapters in I am hooked. I found this interview quoted above on this oxford site: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/spotlight-alumni-dr-nussaibah-younis

She is a doctor, she really did design a program to deradicalize ISIS women., and she is a globally recognized expert on contemporary Iraq.

How impressive!
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dabbe Wowza! 🤩🙌🏻🤩 1mo
TheKidUpstairs Thanks for sharing the article. I'm just about finished this one and love it. You can tell how deeply she knows these characters, and the grey areas of their lives. And she is freakin' funny! 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @TheKidUpstairs so glad you liked it! I have it on audio and just got a few minutes in yesterday, but it is gorgeous here today so I can do some neighborhood walk and listens! 1mo
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