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SusanCoulby

SusanCoulby

Joined March 2016

Drinking tea and reading stuff!
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Every Frenchman Has One by Olivia de Havilland
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52 Ways to Love Your Body by Kimber Simpkins
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52 Ways to Love Your Body | Kimber Simpkins
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Two down, 50 to go!

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BOOK CLUB AND CHILLED last night with this audiobook, which I enjoyed except for the singing of the chapter titles and the parts where I could tell the author was TRYING to be funny (instead of just being funny) or THOUGHT she was funny (but really was not so much).

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Every Frenchman Has One | Olivia de Havilland
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Looking forward to reading this newly updated edition after enjoying the original many years ago!

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Before the Fall | Noah Hawley
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Next up!

SusanCoulby A very good read with great character studies. Four stars! 8y
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Lilac Girls: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly
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So disappointed with this! I did learn about an aspect of World War II unknown to me, but the writing was so superficial and the action so contrived that its abundant details failed to evoke the depths of feeling that such a story should have. I wish the author had written this as non-fiction.

Lauraelise42 Completely agree!! The main female characters were unrealized and the surrounding female characters were total negative female stereotypes 8y
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My favorite type of mail! Adding this to the TBR pile!

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Hoping to break many bad ones and start/maintain some good ones!

SusanCoulby A lot of take-aways from this, several of which I've already put into action. Most valuable overriding lesson, though, was the idea of working WITH your tendencies, etc. to improve yourself instead of just condemning yourself for not having what society deems to be the "right" tendencies, etc. 8y
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Because I'm working with my Junior League chapter to pass Erin's Law in Delaware!

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The Awakening | Kate Chopin
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Since I never read this in high school or college!

SusanCoulby OMG, I have been stalled on this for weeks. It's only a novella, but I can't slog through -- only on page 39. 8y
SusanCoulby So glad to be done with this. A few resonant moments, but largely meh. 8y
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My next book club selection!

SusanCoulby Kept me reading but I feel that some of the characters and dialogue were too pat and that too many situations were too over the top. Some subtlety would've been appreciated. 9y
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The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster
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Never read this as a kid, so I'm checking it out now!

SusanCoulby I so wish I'd read this when I was a kid! Now I understand why it's beloved :-) 9y
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Just checked this out of the library!

kdwinchester Love Lauren Groff. Enjoy! 9y
SusanCoulby I liked a lot about this, but some aspects were just ... off. And the constant stinky-smell-relating was distracting and off-putting. A near miss. 9y
SusanCoulby And, seriously, hallux??? If you're talking about a big toe in a non-medical setting, just say "big toe." 9y
SusanCoulby A potentially elegant examination of two lives intertwined junked up by pretensions and trope-ish "twists" that were unnecessary and detrimental. 8y
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Little Bee | Chris Cleave
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April book club book starting now!

SusanCoulby Conflicted about this one. Great writing, unexpected humor, emotionally evocative, but plotting issues. 9y
Biljana I just made a post about the same book! :). Started it last night and love the humour. 9y
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Started reading this yesterday.

SusanCoulby I love how amid the seriousness (I'm only on Chapter 3) there are these little bits of humor to alleviate the bleakness and pleasantly surprise! 9y
SusanCoulby So hard to read due to the situations/subject matter, but such beautiful writing. SO GOOD! 9y
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Be Frank With Me: A Novel | Julia Claiborne Johnson
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Next up!

SusanCoulby Loved the Old Hollywood references in this one! 9y
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The Nest: A Novel | Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
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So far, so good!

SusanCoulby Some surprises and satisfying resolutions resolutions all around. Would love to see a prequel for more about growing up Plumb! 9y
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A Little Life: A Novel | Hanya Yanagihara
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Bracing myself for all the feels to come.

squibblesreads I'm reading this too and I have to take breaks to fully digest it... I'm also reading The Nest and that cover is GORGEOUS! 😍 9y
SusanCoulby One chapter down on "ALL," and nine down on "TN." We will have to compare notes! 9y
SusanCoulby And, yes, love that cover for "TN"! 9y
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SusanCoulby Writing is fantastic but plotting/length could've used some serious pruning. Would've loved to have seen this minus some incidents, a couple characters and about 150 pages. The great that's in there is diminished by what's not. 9y
SusanCoulby By what's not great. 9y
SusanCoulby Elegant prose that would have benefited from equally elegant plotting. 8y
tkingsanchez A LOT of feels! 8y
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The Happiness Project | Gretchen Rubin
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SusanCoulby Good guidelines for some self work. Majors points for honesty on the author's part, admitting the annoying/whiny parts of herself. 9y
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The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah
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Working on my March book club book!

SusanCoulby Tropey meh. 9y
SusanCoulby Takes dramatic potential and degrades it to OH, THE DRAMA. 8y
Jellybeanbon I truly enjoyed this book. 8y
SusanCoulby She lost me when she wrote that the Parisians escaping to the countryside on foot were "dazed" and "confused." One shouldn't evoke a Matthew McConaughey movie in the middle of a WWII saga! Lazy and sloppy writing -- and editing -- to do so! 8y
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Just started this, written by a fellow Delawarean!

SusanCoulby This would've been better as two books, one about Harriet and one about Eleanor. 9y
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Just started reading this last night, and I am in love. A page-turner that flows seamlessly back and forth in time and among characters WITH gorgeous writing that is both insightful and viscerally stunning. Did I say I am in love?

SusanCoulby Five stars! 9y
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