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L’s 2025 Year in Books
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L.J. Engelmeier
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L Engel
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| My thoughts on this book are scattered. The MC and her quirky humor weren’t for me (the audiobook made this worse). Her comedic tone turned this southern gothic into more of a middle school “what goes bump in the night” read but with adult characters ...more | |
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L Engel
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| There aren’t a lot of physical descriptions in this book, especially of locations, which made it difficult for me to immerse myself in the story. The prose tends to act like we should just fill in all the blanks. Paraphrasing, but there is a moment a ...more | |
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L Engel
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L Engel
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| There aren’t a lot of physical descriptions in this book, especially of locations, which made it difficult for me to immerse myself in the story. The prose tends to act like we should just fill in all the blanks. Paraphrasing, but there is a moment a ...more | |
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L Engel
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L Engel
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L Engel
rated a book it was ok
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| Interesting, but more of a character study of the family than anything else. The death of Lydia is secondary to this biography of the family, which at times feels like sprawling exposition. Also, the excess of “like” and “as if” is distracting once y ...more | |
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"There’s nothing scarier than loving a child and not understanding what they’re trying to tell you—” There's not enough room in the house for both Hanna and her Mommy! Seven-year-old Hanna would be so much happier if Mommy would just disappear so " Read more of this review » |
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L Engel
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| Not entirely sold on the very last scene but I couldn’t put this book down. | |
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| 3.7 rounded up. Predicted the ending about halfway through but it was engaging enough I wasn’t bored on the journey to see if I was correct. | |
“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”
― Demon in My View
― Demon in My View
“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
― Imajica
― Imajica
“Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
“Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.”
― Galilee
― Galilee
“That which is imagined can never be lost.”
― Weave World
― Weave World
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