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therefugeofbooks · 3 months

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I finally read Nemesis and I think this has to be one of my favorite Christie novels so far! Thanks for the awesome rec @e-b-reads 🖤

#it's been a while since you recommended it #but i finally got to it #booklr #books #book photography #nemesis #agatha christie #books and candles #read in 2024 #the refuge of books

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poetlcs · 6 days

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books I’ve read in 2024 - no. 16

The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

#the sunshine court #nora sakavic #aftg #tsc #litedit #booklr #books #mine #read in 2024

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gem-isreading · 3 months

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Before the coffee gets cold // Toshikazu Kawaguchi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My review: I originally DNF'ed this book when I originally started reading it a couple years back. But a few days ago I decided to try it again, and now that I am finished I am glad I gave it a second chance. Although it wasn’t ‘perfect’ in my eyes, the twists and underlying messages in the book made me feel something whilst reading. And the ending is like a hidden life lesson in a nice little book.

My other thoughts:

This book has made me really interested in reading the other works by Kawaguchi. I am glad I managed to finish this book this year because, although I personally didn't rate it 5 stars, I think I can understand why many people would. The hidden message within the book and what it is trying to make us understand and realise was interesting to me. I think subconsciously that is what made me enjoy the reading experience this time round. When I originally tried to read this book, I was in a huge reading slump and this time round? I think I read this book when I really needed it.

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ninja-muse · 1 month

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I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko is an incredible book about terrible things. It's devastatingly sad. It's traumatic. It's enraging. It's terrifying. It's thoroughly real and absolutely necessary.

Every chapter of this book looks at another aspect of Russian life that doesn't make the official news or at a segment of society that's marginalized. Often it's both. Most of this is portrayed in real-time, memoir-style recounting so you're right there with Kostyuchenko as she's going places and talking to people. There's relatively little factual research outside her experiences and relatively little opining, but also there doesn't need to be. This is plenty powerful without that and her points come across clearly.

And the point is that life is Russia is awful for a lot of people. Kostyuchenko talks to street kids casually discussing abortion options at 13, spends a shift with a shack of sex workers, visits a toxic dump site and an Indigenous Siberian community with a high suicide rate, lives two weeks in a facility housing the disabled and mentally ill, and that's just some of it. It probably goes without saying, but there are a lot of content warnings in this book. It took me two weeks to read because I could only manage 20-30 pages at a time.

The other point is Russia is a country we should be worried about. There's a real sense here of how tightly wound and corrupt and apathetic the government is, of the complete distrust so many people have in it, of the double-speak and cover-ups to maintain control, of the ways all of it dehumanizes and disenfranchises people, of how hard it is to fight back and do the right thing in the face of it all. It's not a country anyone should want to live in, and a system too many countries are sliding towards. This book is a warning.

I want to recommend this book to everyone because it's important and it's excellent, but it's too emotionally difficult for that. Instead, I'll simply say please read it if you're interested and think you're up for it, and recommend it to whoever you can. It's also a book I'm breaking my usual habits for: this is a 10 out of 10, no question.

#books #book reviews #read in 2024 #nonfiction #journalism #russia #I Love Russia #Elena Kostyuchenko #my photos #book recommendations #adult booklr

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1introvertedsage · 2 months

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#Cicero #library #garden #quotes #read #grow #learn #heal #everything you need #reading #lha #1introvertedsage #read in 2024 #books #gardening #nature #poetry #healing #learning #reality #art

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fairyinpages · 3 months

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2024 reads ⋆ pride and prejudice by jane austen ♡

“you have bewitched me body and soul. and i love, i love, i love you. i never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”

for my honest reaction and rating, check out my goodreads.

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satin-carmin · 3 months

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I was the only person on God's cold, green earth who cared about him, who knew his speech and silence, knew his arms, and did not carry a knife.

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

#giovanni's room #james baldwin #queer lit #gay literature #classics #american literature #read in 2024 #love #love quote #love lexicon #black authors #black literature

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scorpioronanlynch · 1 month

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A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

“I love you,” I said, and stabbed him.

#acotar #a court of thorns and roses #read in 2024 #feyre archeron #fairydeclans

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mssarahmorgan · 22 days

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Book 22 of 2024: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

This was basically tailor-made for me. A P&P retelling where Lydia is a witch? And Kitty is a CAT?? And Wickham is an ancient demon but also hot??? AND Georgina Lambe from Sanditon is in this!! Sign me the fuck up, this was great, 10/10, no notes.

What to read next: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, for another historical fantasy that's just a delight from start to finish.

#books #books i've read #read in 2024 #fantasy #pride and prejudice #reading while parenting

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mccoppinscrapyard · 1 month

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Read in 2024:

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

❝ Damn the world. The world told you that you had to live the life it shaped for you, and you defied it. The world told me that I had to be as my father was, and I defied it, or am trying to. We can make our own world, Viola, with our own rules. ❞

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dare-g · 2 days

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Books 11-20 of the year 📖

#read in 2024 #ivan turgenev #mircea cartarescu #arkady strugatsky #boris strugatsky #laurent binet #bruno schulz #rink van der velde #edouard leve #antonio moresco #andrzej stasiuk #roque larraquy #talks

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therefugeofbooks · 1 month

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Currently reading Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

#books #booklr #book photography #agatha christie #elephants can remember #read in 2024 #books and plants #os elefantes não esquecem #the refuge of books

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poetlcs · 6 days

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books I’ve read in 2024 - no. 15

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

#the reappearance of rachel price #holly jackson #litedit #booklr #books #mine #read in 2024

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evelynhug0 · 29 days

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books i’ve read in 2024: the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle by stuart turton

"Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature."

picture credits: x x x x x x x x

#read in 2024 #the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle #the 7 deaths of evelyn hardcastle #the 7 1/2 deaths of evelyn hardcastle #vintage aesthetic #bookblr #books #booksta #reading #literature

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ninja-muse · 2 months

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In case anyone was wondering, this stuck the ending!

#reading copies #just finished #book reviews #upcoming releases #fantasy #epic fantasy #rebecca roanhorse #mirrored heavens #between earth and sky #read in 2024 #my photos

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readingoals · 3 months

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Going into this I was a little worried I wouldn't like it, that it'd feel too much like trying to copy or cash in on the success of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. But it didn't! It kept the tone and voice of the first book but was a separate story with new characters so I never felt like it was an unnecessary sequel. It will be interesting to see if he writes more though. I think he could get away with a few more but the way these mysteries are presented I think makes them hard to keep doing indefinitely.

Anyway, The characters were fun, the mystery was interesting, and I really love Ernest as a narrator. Also, another Aussie author, we love to see it! I had a blast with this one and ended up giving it 5 stars.

#booklr #everyone on this train is a suspect #benjamin stevenson #brigid speaks #read in 2024 #book update

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