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15.17 B7 Best Books: rating is 4.0 or better (currently 4.31)The Book Woman's Daughter. Kim Michele Richardson
This book was a page turner for me. When Honey Lovett's parents are arrested and taken away for miscegenation (her mother is blue, her father is not), she travels back to her family homestead in Troublesome Creek to avoid being taken away and put into a children's prison herself. She takes up the mantle of providing library service to people in the hollers, and shows herself to be courageous and resourceful.
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15.16 N42 New release: pub'd in 2021 or 2022Adult Assembly Required. Abbi Waxman
Laura leaves NYC to start life fresh on the west coast after suffering a traumatic accident two years ago. Her family and ex-finance are anything but supportive, but she makes a group of friends that help her find her way back to her confident self. She even finds love along the way. I particularly liked the way the relationships developed over time, and how several of the characters were featured in earlier books.
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15.15 B5 Biography, Autobiography or MemoirThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. Meghan O'Rourke
This was a hard one to rate. On the one hand, I feel for people who suffer and have no answers, for whom just making it through the day is an accomplishment. On the other hand, some of it made me skeptical. Also, it felt too all over the place.
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15.14 B1 Title has 1 wordGeekerella. Ashley Poston
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15.13 B15 Boxall's 1001 Books (any on shelf)This was my carryover book from the spring challenge.
A Prayer for Owen Meany. John Irving
I loved this book, even though it was literary fiction, which I normally don't enjoy because I don't understand much of the symbolism. This is full of symbolism, and is beautifully written, and well worth a second read.
If I had no complaint, it would be that Owen's narrative in the book is written in all-caps, which I found exceptionally difficult to read. I got around it, though, by alternately listening to it on Aubible, and reading it in print.
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For G46, Geekerella has the GR Setting: Charleston, South Carolina (United States)Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Will this work?
15.12 N32 Neighbors - on another GR group's bookshelf This is a group read for The Seasonal Reading Challenge group
The Hidden Life of Trees: what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world. Peter Wohlleben
In the past few years, I've read several books (A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, and The Seed Keeper) that have changed the way I look at the natural world. This book falls into that category. I realized that much of what I thought I knew about trees pertains to commercially grown trees and old growth trees are a totally different species. For example, I didn't realize that trees live to be hundreds and even thousands of years old, and that at age 80, they might only be a few feet tall. However, parts of the book felt too anthropomorphic, I have trouble believing trees feel pain, that they intentionally support one another. But there is probably some degree of truth in what he says. All in all, it was an interesting read.
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15.11 N33 Title has 3+ Ns The Unhoneymooners. Christina Lauren
This was okay, it would make a good beach read. The main characters were twin sisters, one who seems lucky at everything, including winning a dream wedding and honeymoon, that turns into a nightmare. The maid of honor (her sister) and best man (the groom's brother) end up going on the free trip to Hawai'i and while they are there, fall for each other - hard. But things get complicated when troubling stories are innocently told...
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10.10 G52 Goodreads Choice Award winners and nomineesGoodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2017)
The Alice Network. Kate Quinn
This joins the growing collection of women wartime heroes books that I've been reading over the past few years, including The Book of Lost Names, The Nightingale and Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler, to name a few. This book tells the story of Eve, a member of the Alice Network of women spies during World War I, who contributed valuable information on enemy movements and plans, while posing as an unassuming innocent. I enjoyed this book, the dual timelines of WWI and post WWII worked well, the characters were well researched and believable.
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Is there a link to the Readerboard somewhere? Thanks.
10.9 B9 MPE Page count 100-199Christmas at Harrington's. Melody Carlson
This was a nice break from some longer, heavier books that I've been tackling. Melody Carlson is one of my favorite niche authors. She writes primarily inspirational, holiday, Christian fiction, and although I may only read a few of these a year, they invariably lift my spirits when I do.
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10.8 O61 Opposite words in title(Rise/fall)
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. Stephen Brusatte
Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about dinosaurs, including their evolution, family trees, where they started and where they ended up. The author is a renown paleontologist who teaches at the University of Edinburgh and has traveled the world seeking out (and finding) new species. He writes with authority, sharing the timeline not only of the dinosaurs themselves, but of the important researchers throughout human history, and goes into detail about the "day the dinosaurs died" (except for those who are still with us today). While the subject has only a passing interest for me, the book was well written and I would not hesitate to recommend it to someone with a deeper interest in the topic.
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10.7 G50 Author born in the 50s, any centuryMercedes Lackey was born on June 24, 1950.
Arrow's Flight. Mercedes Lackey
4.0/5.0 - Talia's story continues in this book. She has completed her training as a Herald and goes with her mentor, Kris, on the circuit as an internship. It seems that she has more to learn to control her gift, and she grows into it throughout the book. While there isn't a lot of action in the book, it does advance our understanding of this important character.
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10.6 G48 Title has Go, Going, Gone, Grow, Growing, GrownNewspaper, Pennies, Cardboard, and Eggs--For Growing a Better Garden: More than 400 New, Fun, and Ingenious Ideas to Keep Your Garden Growing Great All Season Long. Roger Yepsen
4.0/5.0 - A summer doesn't go by without me reading a new gardening book. This one, from Rodale Press, gave me a dozen new ideas to try, from making a spray from tansy or garlic scapes to use on cabbage worms, to instructions on how to smoke some of my peppers for chipoltes, and using sweet woodruff at the base of our trees (to cut down on weeds) to reusing the winter protection framework for summer bean trellising. Time to go try out some of those new ideas!
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10.5 O62 On another RwS Member's shelf (Rebekah)Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books. Jenny Bond
4.0/5.0 - Besides reading books, I love reading about books, their authors and their readers. I love to know why people read or write a certain book, what makes them tick. This book does just that. It is laid out chronologically, starting with Fiction (Pride and Prejudice) in 1813 and closing that category with The Da Vinci Code in 2003. It then goes on to Nonfiction, from The English Dictionary in 1755, to A Brief History of Time in 1988, but with other interesting entries that include Emily Post's book on etiquette, and Sir Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship. I have read many of the books, but reading more of the background on the authors, the times they lived and wrote in, and their influences makes for interesting reading!
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Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 17Kim wrote: "10.3 - G56 Get the giggles: HumorFour Aunties and a Wedding. Jesse Q. Sutanto
4.0/5.0 - This is Janet Evanovich at her best (interesting to n..."
So sorry, this should be The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
10.4 N31 New to me authorThe Cartographers. Peng Shepherd
4.5/5.0 - Loved this book that takes place in the NYPL, and a tiny town in upstate NY. A group of cartographic students meet their freshman year at the UW, form a tiny friendship that lasts throughout their academic career, and spend the summer after their PhDs in a small town in the Catskills, after which their lives are never the same. Highly recommend!
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10.3 - G56 Get the giggles: HumorFour Aunties and a Wedding. Jesse Q. Sutanto
4.0/5.0 - This is Janet Evanovich at her best (interesting to note, she is the single author listed). It is a new series featuring a well-to-do 30 year old woman who is a recovery agent, and travels all over the world as a freelancer. A hurricane has devastated the small town her family lives in, and her grandmother tells her the ancestral ghost "Annie" has a plan to get the money to rebuild the town. The plan reunites Gabriela with her ex-husband, Rafer, and they set off on an adventure that is zany, dangerous, and fun to read about. Sparks fly, as do the bullets. Worth seeing what the next book in the series brings.
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10.2 - I17 Title word ends in -ingFour Aunties and a Wedding. Jesse Q. Sutanto
2.5/5.0 - This wasn't as good as the first book, Dial A for Aunties, but was an acceptable quick read to start the summer. I thought the middle dragged too much and was overly complicated. I didn't see the plot twist coming at the end, and that redeemed it somewhat. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone, though.
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