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Book Review: And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Author: Fredrik Backman Rating: 5 stars Book Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, and Anxious People comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even…
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Currently Reading: 1/31/2023
So I had a lot going on in the past two weeks as far as family obligations which has affected my reading. I did finish a re- read of Murder in Mayfair which I gave 3.5 stars. I won’t give it an in depth review because it’s a re-read. It was enjoyable. I recommend it.…
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Book Review: Someone Else’s Life
Author: Lyn Liao Butler Rating: 2 stars Book Blurb: A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance studio goes bankrupt. Her mother and beloved…
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Short Story Review: Signal Moon
Author: Kate Quinn Rating: 3 stars Book Blurb: Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up…
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Book Review: Better Than Before
Author: Gretchen Rubin Rating: 3 stars Book Blurb: Most of us have a habit we’d like to change, and there’s no shortage of expert advice. But as we all know from tough experience, no magic, one-size-fits-all solution exists. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the…
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Book Review: A Guide to Being Just Friends
Author: Sophie Sullivan Rating: 3 stars Publication Date: January 17th, 2023 I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind. Get By the Cup salad shop off the ground. Do literally everything possible to make it a success. Repeat.…
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Book Review: The Woman in White
Author: Wilkie Collins Rating: 5/5 Stars Book Blurb: “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.” Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious…
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*** Currently Reading! 1/3/2023 ***
These are the books I am starting off with this year. I picked Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin because in this book she examines habits and what makes them stick from the standpoint of compiled science. I thought this was appropriate being I just made all these reading and personal goals and want to…
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******READING GOALS FOR 2023**********
Well here’s to a clean page, a fresh start and sitting mindfully and thinking about my reading goals for 2023! Let’s get down to business: READ 100 BOOKS IN 2023 That’s about two books a week, so it’s not a terribly hard goal to reach. I waste entirely too much time doom scrolling before bed…
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Book Review: The Bookstore Sisters
Author: Alice Hoffman Rating: 3 stars Book Blurb: Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again.…
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