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Too much fat shaming for a story that is supposed to "subvert harmful anti-fat beauty standards".

I thought I would need to get out the marker board when the About Summary started with "Nine Americans in Paris". At 20% I'm finding them easy to keep track of without a guide!

This is my book club's BotM for August.
Not sure if I can make through the graphic violence and torture.

I'm feeling like Dolly and Nora are cut from the same cloth.

"Death has a beauty to it. We don’t see it because we don’t want to. And that makes sense. Why would we want to focus on something that takes us away from everything we know? How do we even begin to understand that there’s more than what we see?”

World Building and Character Building is front and center. So slow getting to any points.

I love all the characters and want to move to Mercy Island

I have dibs on the Duke

Not a spoiler – Eleanor Oliphant is NOT completely fine.

Narrator Lameece Issaq jumped right off the page in Chapter 1. WOW.

I just received a little dose of horror that I wasn't expecting!
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Yikes!!!!!

“You don’t ever lose the sadness, but you learn to love it because it becomes a part of you, and bit by bit, it fades. And eventually you’ll pick yourself back up and you’ll find that you’re okay. That you’re going to be okay. And eventually, it will be true."

So twisted. Lisa Jewell are you okay?!?!?!

So many smile out loud moments!

So good that I don't want it to end! Savoring the last 20% hinging on every word!

I'm so mad at Vanessa right now! 🧐😏

She had me at plot twist! 😱

At 50% the cast is not at the quilter's retreat. The first line in the About is "The cast of a smash TV show arrives at a quilter’s retreat". At 50% she's just now trying to convince them to go.
I don't dislike the story, its just not what I was expecting.

Both timelines are enjoyable BUT... the pace is slow. At the 65% mark I was shocked to see I still have 3.5 hours left til the end.

*So*Good*

25% in and still no SNAFU with the diaries...

1/3 of the way in. *Oh*My* 😱😬

Only at 8% in the audiobook and I'm already in LOVE with Caz.
Narrator Caitlin Davies for the win with this talking Spider Plant. Yes, Spider Plant.