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text 2020-06-26 19:33
TBR Friday Library Reads: June 26, 2020

I removed the hold I had on a JK Rowling book. I refuse to read any of her past or future books.

 

Trans women are women.

 

-Blue

 

Borrow (6):

 

Cover image for After I'm GoneCover image for The ScarecrowCover image for HideawayCover image for The Mystery of the Blue Train

Cover image for When They Call You a TerroristCover image for Trail of Lightning

 

Hold (10):

 Cover image for Aru Shah and the Tree of WishesCover image for CastlesCover image for The World That We KnewCover image for Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Cover image for The Titan's CurseTitle details for Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King - Wait listCover image for Meet Cute Cover image for Party of Two

Cover image for Fair WarningCover image for The Fifth Season

 

 

Read (2):

 Cover image for The StrangerCover image for One Good Turn

 

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review 2020-06-25 02:58
The Paragon Hotel - Lyndsay Faye
The Paragon Hotel - Lyndsay Faye

Let's mourn only for our losses. And never for the things we haven't lost quite yet. We already have an entire language that would be dead if you were.

 

Let's make it last.

 

 

 

 

This just might be one of my favorite final lines (Fine. Technically two lines.) in any book every. So good. Ugh. Lyndsay Faye is rapidly climbing my list of must-read authors. 

 

Everything about this book was just. so. good. The characters were brilliant, complicated, hot messes. The interwoven story lines about the struggles of the Paragon Hotel residents and Nobody's time with the Mafia kept me on my toes. More than once I had to force myself to only read two chapters so I wouldn't get lost in this book. I actually had places to be this week. 

 

And then there was that end. I've gotten pretty good at predicting how things are going to end. Wow was I wrong. I did not see that end coming. 

 

 

 

Read 6/14/2020-6/24-2020

Book 41/75

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text 2020-06-23 15:06
Reading progress update: I've read 186 out of 432 pages.
The Paragon Hotel - Lyndsay Faye

"We go through our lives, so many of us, as fractions of ourselves, with all the other puzzle pieces buried where no on can see them. But there's the paradox and do forgive me for flights metaphorical - we're all of us fractured jigsaws, but we're also the entire picture no matter how far away we walk from what's hidden." 

 

This book is a hard read. Not because it's not well written or because the characters aren't lively, emotional human beings. It's hard because it's too relevant. The book takes place in 1921. However, the way people of colored are being treated by the world around them? It doesn't seem all that historical. 

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text 2020-06-19 17:04
TBR Friday Library Reads: June 19, 2020

Borrow (4):

 

Cover image for After I'm GoneCover image for The StrangerCover image for One Good TurnCover image for The Scarecrow

 

Hold (13):

 Cover image for Aru Shah and the Tree of WishesCover image for CastlesCover image for The World That We KnewCover image for Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Cover image for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanCover image for The Titan's CurseTitle details for Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King - Wait listCover image for Meet Cute

 Cover image for When They Call You a TerroristCover image for Party of TwoCover image for HideawayCover image for Fair Warning

 Cover image for The Mystery of the Blue Train

 

Read (6):

 

Cover image for The Last BoyfriendThe Perfect Hope - ebookCover image for Suicide RunCover image for Angle of Investigation

 Cover image for Unexpected StoriesCover image for Unnatural Causes

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review 2020-06-14 23:26
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

First of all, I need to thank Themis for recommending this masterpiece of a story. Themis is also the person who shall be blamed for the expansion in my TBR as I add all of Marquez's work. 

 

In the hands of another author, this story would have been four times as long, drawn out, and boring. Marquez manages to capture so much in so few pages. It's quite a feat. I had sworn to myself I wasn't going to just binge through this book in a day. Chalk that up to yet another promise I've broken. Oops.

 

 

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