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Kyra802

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  • Project Hail Mary
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    I am going to miss them so much! I can't articulate my thoughts and feelings on this book yet. I'm still processing the entirety of it. I need a reread immediately 😭 it's wholesome, wonderful, and amaze amaze amaze! The ending was such a heartwarming scene! Now I can't wait for the movie! I can't get enough of our duo, they're the cutest 😩 The first and only book I read this month, it gave me enough time to bond with the characters. I really took my time reading this. The first ever heavy sci-fi i've read. I can never forget about this.

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    Dude wth

    It's good or whatever, my face is leaking. Help?

    Just sobbing for like 10minutes trying to explain to my gf what happened in the book

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  • The Nightingale
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    I keep thinking about the format of the book i have, cause it‘s so tiny! It‘s adorable. The funny thing about that tho, is that in german we call soft cover books „Taschenbuch“ (literal translation: pocket book) and i can actually fit that book in my pant‘s back pocket. I just think that‘s adorable and wanted to share :3

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  • The Favorites
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    Currently reading The Favorites by Layne Fargo & Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I thought it was a coincidence that there were similarities between the names of characters & plot…come to find out The Favorites is a Wuthering Heights retelling. I swear I had no idea about this. I wanted to read Wuthering Heights before the movie came out, and I’ve been wanting to read The Favorites for a while now, but since the olympics are starting soon, I figured it would be the perfect time to pick it up.

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  • Without doxing yourself, what is the best small (edit: small business) book store you've been to?

    I love to find local bookstores and libraries (and a brewery and a coffee shop), especially when I'm traveling. I'd love to hear of small book stores that are doing the Lord's work out there, providing a community of readers a space to explore and find their next story!

    I'd like to shout out two: The Purple Couch in North Andover, Massachusetts - literally can spend hours here and love their community projects. Treat Yo' Shelf Books in Mountain Home, Arkansas - drove by while I was visiting my mom out there and went in on a whim. The owners were a lovely couple and it's just the type of place that community needs.

    Edit: I also thought of another one that really deserves some love. Felixology in Maynard, Massachusetts. It was opened by a woman, Libby, in honor of her son, Felix, who passed away at 29 years old from mesothelioma. The first time I visited, I spoke with her for a half hour about Felix and it was truly moving. He was an artist, and the store is gorgeously painted and decorated by his family and friends. Going in that store is like getting to meet him personally.

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    Simon Books giveaway

    Family Drama

    Family Drama

    Rebecca Fallon

    A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano. It’s 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother’s body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star Susan Bliss. Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It’s impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does—hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan’s two-paneled life, an unconventional, jetlag-filled arrangement that takes her back and forth between her home in New England as a wife and mother to young twins, and the bright lights of soapy Los Angeles. In the present, Susan’s twins grow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian, a sensitive artist, cleaves to her memory, fascinated with the artifacts of her starry past. Viola, resentful of her mother’s torn allegiances, distances herself from the memories of her. But when Viola runs into her mother’s old costar Orson Grey—now a renowned Hollywood star—she finds herself falling deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a mother she never really knew. Sharp, assured, and beautifully written, Family Drama is a story told in double-helix, with intertwined timelines that explore the different versions of ourselves we share with the world and with each other.

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  • The Luminaries
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    The language in this book is so dense... must persevere

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    The language in this book is so dense... must persevere

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