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A Spool of Blue Thread
A Spool of Blue Thread
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February 26, 2015
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Why we're reading this
Written in 2015. Another lovely, quietly quirky book by Anne Tyler.

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last updated Dec 16, 2014 09:22AM
Free copy of Proximity Factor this July, no reviews required. Just enjoy.
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Melle
Oct 25, 2016 rated it it was ok
Shelves: copyright-2015, adult, fiction, read-in-2016, family, family-dynamics, grandparents, storytelling, wentworth-bookends, dakota-county-library-book
Admittedly, not my thing nor a book I would have chosen on my own. I can see why people like Anne Tyler's writing -- she has the eye, ear, and insight for capturing those small moments and tensions between white, middle-class family members, and this is a white, middle-class family drama that will resonate with basically anyone who has a white, middle-class family that looks happy-ish on the outside and has a lot of complications on the inside (which is pretty much all the white, middle-class fa ...more
1 like ·   · see review
Sarah
Feb 10, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: tournament-of-books
Families are complicated things, and nothing is ever really as it seems.
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Jessica Haider
Nov 10, 2015 rated it really liked it
Nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Women's Fiction Prize.

4 generations of 1 family....centered on their Baltimore home. ...more
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Jana
Jan 29, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Maria
Jan 29, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: library, kindle, 2015
1 like · 
Lori
Feb 15, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
David Abrams
Mar 03, 2015 marked it as to-read
Maria
Mar 03, 2015 marked it as to-read
Heidi
Mar 12, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: baileys2015
Lua
Mar 29, 2015 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Sara
May 01, 2015 marked it as to-read
Alaina
Jun 16, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Emily
Aug 03, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: manbooker2015
Terri
Sep 25, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: tbr-owned, booker-prize
Martha
Nov 29, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jenny
Dec 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
Nicole
Dec 20, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Candice
May 27, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Monica
Jan 16, 2016 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: rooster, 2016
Rhiannon
Feb 02, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: literary
Lia
Apr 22, 2016 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Sarah McKenna
Aug 19, 2016 marked it as to-read
Lisa
Feb 14, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Arianna
Jan 01, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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