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Aug 12, 2026 04:13PM
What are your past five star reads?
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My last 5 star read was Archer's Voice and Before the exhale. Both had some deep emotions but worth it.
My last YA 5 star was Warcross by Marie LuI gave 5 stars to Grace of the Empire State by Gemma Tizzard which is a historical new adult about a young woman who disquises herself to do her brother's job as a riveter building the Empire State building after he is injured.
Last 5-star Read — “The Man Who Planted Trees” by Jean Giono with woodcut illustrations by Harry Brockway.This one is super-short and drop-dead gorgeous
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Andrea
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Jean Giono
Audrey wrote: "He tried to rape a girl and made his boy students fight against each other 😬"oh... at least the book was good 😭😭
Last 5-star ReadAllen Levi’s “Theo of Golden” tells the story of Theo, an elderly, compassionate gentleman from Portugal. He visits Golden, GA from his home in New York City. He is alive to beauty: be it nature, art, music, and/or human beings. He makes an immense mark on the people of Golden.
Regards,
Andrea
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Allen Levi
My latest 5-star reads were The Girl from Space by Monique
Rockliffe.
And Griffyn Stone by M. Kennicott
The Unexpected Afterlife of Salon RoseMy latest 5 star read was billed as a 'murder mystery, coming of age while dead, afterlife love story' and it was soooo good!
Truly unlike anything I’ve ever read. I laughed and cried and got hit with all the feels AND the murder mystery aspect is such a page turner. The way the author mixed a murder mystery with such an emotional and heartwarming story is so impressive. Loved Salon and all the characters, especially Liv! Highly recommend to everyone, even though it’s YA i think it’s a book anyone who’s ever lost anyone needs to read.
Brain chemistry altered:)
Sounds like a winner, Charlotte!. I will definitely keep that book in mind. If you’d like a non-fiction book recommendation in return, I thought John Green’s “Everything I Tuberculosis” was really gripping. Check it out.Regards,
Andrea
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John Green
Well, Rosedall, I must warn you: unlike “The Fault in Our Stars,” which was a semi-happy book about CANCER, this one pulls out all the stops on the history of that dread disease, CONSUMPTION (a.k.a., TUBERCULOSIS). The Brontes died of it; John Keats died of it; if Percy Bysse Shelley hadn’t drowned, he would have died of it; and it kills loads of people around the world who can’t afford the drugs that cure people who have what is called DRUG-RESISTENT TUBERCULOSIS.Regards,
Andrea
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Charlotte Brontë
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John Keats
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️My latest read was an easy five stars; click here to read my review on the masterbook Understanding Comics by the renowned Scott McCloud!
Another fantastic five-star read, this time a DRC of The Business of Storytelling from Netgalley in exchange for a review. With a mix of narrative structure and human biology being discussed, Yaeger has written an essential playbook for any aspiring communicator. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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