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The vibes this book gives me already, I need to take my time reading this as I want to wrap myself in it like it’s a soft, warm blanket. Cat Sebastian is such a genius

This guy is narrating so fast I had to go check my audio speed 😳🙈

Reading the audiobook

So, since this is a little different from my usual reads (the being into space thing, not the mm romance of course), I have to trust my gr friends who love this book. Excited to dive in, nonetheless 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

“You know what the biggest problem is with this world?”
“Tell me,” she said quietly.
“Lucky people, thinking they earned it. Telling the unlucky that they should’ve just tried harder.”

Doing the audiobook of this well beloved tv series🥰

I had started this book a little while ago, put it aside since it didn’t really capture me. But I wanted to give it another chance, and now I’m hooked!

I just get so happy reading this book! Exactly the kind of happy that reading is supposed to make you feel😊

I love KD Casey’s mm baseball romances, and (finally!) having a new book by her where I got my hands on makes me one happy girl! And so far this feels very much like a KD Casey book and I’m giddy with anticipation!

A few pages in and I get the feeling I am happy that I have made an exception to request this arc. It feels very different from what I have come to expect from Fearne, though the writing is as good as ever

Hmmm…started skipping. I’m a little bored to be honest 🙁

I wish NR Walker would still write like this

I love it when a foreign author takes his mc to Amsterdam (my husband’s hometown and a place I truly love!)

Feeling really privileged reading 3 of my absolute FAVORITE authors at the same time, TJR in a hardcover version, John Boyne on my Kindle and Suanne Laqueur in my ears. Life can never be better than this 💖

I just can’t put this down. That’s TJR for me

I remember when I read this book many years ago that it was the first book that made me weep uncontrollably. I’m not far in yet and I still think it’s one of the better books about grief. It touches you deeply

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Only a few pages in I feel disgusted by the realisation that this was written in 1962, 100 years after the abolition, in a time that segregation was still a common practice, and it might as well have been published today. The majority of the people will never learn, and it’s maddening and shameful and awful sad at the same time.

Maybe I should stop having these high expectations when I read a blurb that seems so right for me. I love YA, but there are some things in this book that start to get on my nerves a little bit. Not giving up yet, though.

It’s been a while since I felt myself so invested in an mm romance🤗 it feels really good🥰

So far it’s been a bit disappointing in that that I expected to be blown away by this book and I am not, so maybe a case of expectations set too high 🤔

Seeing the year this was published (1959) I will probably need to look past the subjectives used to describe the Comache and Kiowa tribes that raided Fort Parker and captured Cynthia Ann and her brother John. But there’s no doubt how the author thought of them and I didn’t count on this kind of prejudice when I picked this book to read 😕

Another book from my past followed by an incredible, unforgettable movie.

While reading this I can’t help but wonder where we (and by that I mean the white people) apparently took the wrong turn somewhere. But we sure did.

Going slow, but loving this nonetheless. So many details about the life these Comanche tribes lived, it’s almost as if the author is recalling them from memory. Makes it feel very realistic

Doing the audio. This book is giving me such a feeling of nostalgia, back in the 90’s I loved it so much! And I adored the movie and now I can’t help but picture a young Scarlett Johansson, the beautiful Kristin Scott Thomas and handsome Robert Redford while listening.

NOOOO! I knew something bad was about to happen and I tried to put it off by reading at a snail’s pace, but then it did happen and just…NO! 😭😭😭 How could you do this to me, Fredrik Backman?!

“Our spontaneous reactions are rarely our proudest moments. It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?”

What is it with these books that I can’t stop reading? I really should just go to sleep but…just one more chapter! (Liar)