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I’m managing to find this extremely boring somehow since all that’s happening is plot. I LOATH, detest, and hate the refusal to use quotation marks! It makes the dialogue confusing and a drag. 🥱

Even the town where the hospital is “West Ashley” is named after Anthony Ashley, OG Colonizer sent by King Charles II to kill the indigenous people and bring slaves from Barbados! FTF!

I also learned that the bridge I drove over is named after a previous senator who is OPENLY RACIST as fuck and refused to lower the confederate flag! His son is on Southern Charm (Thomas Ravanel) and is also evil and nasty! 🤮

Wow this book is really sad and impactful! Part of my books set where I travel for work series and this spotlight is Charleston!

Already learned that the clinic I visited (which was in Rutledge Tower) is named after Edward Rutledge, a found father of the colony, a slave holder and someone who influenced Thomas Jefferson to exclude enslaved people from the constitution. 🤨

Really good! Excited to read this for Kentucky book this week!

Absolutely loving this book! It’s quirked up and irreverent and clever! It’s my latest installment of reading books set in whenever I’m traveling for work so this is the SF selection! Read about half of it on the flight so I need to save some to aura maxx the reading experience in context!

This book is just god awful, the writing is horrible, the dialogue is soooo stiff and I’m painfully bored. Struggling to find a redeeming quality because even the escape from prison plot has managed to feel stale.

I’m trying but there is an aapprox 4% chance I read all 500+ pages. Let’s see if I can even make it to triple digit reading.

If Amy Dunn was Japanese and lived in DC and she wanted a house she can’t afford more than she wants to frame her husband for murder

A “just for fun” read while inching through the message

Really interesting and dynamic - in journaling while I read it so I can let my brain ponder and wonder on the topics surfaced. Making slow progress, it’s a reading experience reminiscent of Morrison where I deeply appreciate it and yet I know it might not be “for me” in the truest sense so I’m absorbing and holding what I can!

Gonna be slow and sad I think! Liking it though, very atmospheric and pensive, I don’t anticipate much plot!

Ripping through this audio book because my paper copy hasn’t come in the mail yet! Lowkey gonna finish the audio book before it even arrives!

The audiobook is really engaging and feels like someone telling a great myth / story so it’s really captivating!

I knew the ending was gonna be absolutely devastating and have some ironic / tongue and cheek twist but yeah wow

How is it already horny hahahah

Oops I’m already obsessed and sick!!

Plot: 26 year old daughter moves home to the Adirondacks to care for her 74 year old Dad who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

My Reading Setting: Reading this book as a 27 year old woman with my 71 year old dad, in his childhood “home” in the Adirondacks!

LR;DR: this experience might wreck me but I’m ready for it!!

Knew my dad would LOVE this book based on the plot and a podcast I listened to about it so we’re buddy reading (aka both reading it at the same time but different copies) while we are on vacation.

He’s a bit ahead of me (like 50 pages). We’re both enjoying it and it feels like a book we’re on first read you only get 30% of what you’re meant to understand. Will require rereading!!

Getting twisty

Loving it

Picked up this book in a local bookstore in London, author is London based and seems to be a lesser known writer but I loved the prose when I perused in store so I’m excited to read this!!!

Super informative my brain is soaking up sooo much info! In my non-fiction era!

Odd so far, feel like I need to sit down and sink my teeth into it