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Recently: #babel (RF Kuang).
•🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
•Outstanding
•A powerful, captivating genre bender of a saga
•sophisticated, accessible
•great character development
•explores power, privilege, colonization, idealism
•for language lovers, histfic/dark academia/sf/fantasy fans

#booksky #bookrecommendations
photo: a black-and-white covered copy of Babel sits atop a white bookshelf, and against a white window frame and white wall a black shadow cuts diagonally across the book cover.
February 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Recently finished an advance copy of WILD DARK SHORE, by Charlotte McConaghy, releasing March 4. Absolutely phenomenal. Completely immersive, enthralling, unputdownable, AND deeply wise. 5 stars.
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🌿 #climatechange #books #booksky #litfic #bookrecommendations #wilddarkshore #charlottemcconaghy
February 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A snowy view from my reading spot today.✨

🌿 #snowonsunday #books #booksky #bookishBsky
A book sits open on a white window ledge next to a clear drinking glass and a white vase... a snowy view and winter branches through the window.
February 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Recently finished & recommend THE INHERITANCE, by Trisha Sakhlecha.

New release, psychological thriller, U.S. debut, twisty, centers a wealthy Indian family gathering on a private Scottish isle, murder, a final page that packs a big punch.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookrecommendations #thrillerbooks
February 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Book nook closet, yes please✨

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #beautifulbookspaces
February 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Cover reveal - KATABASIS, by RF Kuang. Out this August.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #rfkuang #katabasis #coverreveal
February 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Thrilled to have received an advance readers copy of my most anticipated 2025 release: WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy.

🌿: #books #booksky #bookishBsky #wilddarkshore #charlottemcconaghy #oncetherewerewolves #migrations
February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Out today, a book I've been anticipating & that was just announced to be Feb's Reese's Book Club pick - ISOLA.

“Allegra Goodman’s latest novel is a feminist castaway tale about love, faith, & self-actualization.”—Time, “Most Anticipated Books of 2025”

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #isola #litfic
February 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Yes please.

🌿 #beautifullibraries #beautifulbookspaces #books #booksky #bookishBsky
February 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Currently reading THE LIGHT EATERS: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, by Zoe Schlanger.

Published 2024.

A Best Book of the Year (New Yorker, Scientific American), A Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (Time)

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky
January 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Recently finished and highly recommend SULA, by ✨Toni Morrison. Her second novel. Set in the early 1900s in a small town, explores community, social norms, individualism, and centers female friendship.
~190 pages

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #litfic #sula #tonimorrison
A paperback of Sula - open to a title page - lies on a white window ledge next to a white vase and a window revealing a snowy exterior with branches.
January 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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“In this sweeping family saga, Berest illuminates opportunities for kindness & betrayal in wartime France & the long echo of the Holocaust’s atrocities...will appeal to fans of All the Light We Cannot See & The Book Thief." -Booklist

Hope to get to this one soon.

🌿 #booksky #bookishBsky #litfic
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Highly recommend EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT, Benjamin Stevenson. A standalone sequel even better than the 1st. Clever, witty, sharp, a fresh take on your classic mystery.

Have you read it?

🌿 #books #booksky #bookrecommendations #bookishBsky (Bk 1) Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
January 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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My current read is BABEL, by RF Kuang.

Have you read it? or anything else by Kuang?

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #babel #rfkuang
A black and gray-covered copy of Babel is held in a gray-mittened left hand against a backdrop of white fallen snow
January 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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"Through struggle & discipline, persistence and faith, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped move this country forward. As we honor his legacy today, let’s remember the lesson he taught us: that even in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can help change it."

~Barack Obama, today
January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Saturday shelves.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky
January 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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My current read:
SULA, by Toni Morrison.

What books have you read by Morrison?

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #sula #tonimorrison #litfic
The book Sula, by Toni Morrison, facing forward with its emerald green cover and gold script, atop a bright white ledge against a bright white backdrop
January 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A few 2024 book releases I'm excited about (below), including WILD DARK SHORE (Charlotte McConaghy) and MY FRIENDS (Fredrik Backman).

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #litfic #histfic #2025bookreleases
January 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Lots of fascinating events happening in the cosmos and visible from Earth this month! Interested in nonfiction reads about the cosmos?... Really enjoyed ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY, by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #nonfiction #bookrecommendations
January 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It's Japanese Literature Month. Highly recommend CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN, by Sayaka Murata. A gem of a novel at 176 pages and winner of Japan's most prestigious literary prize.

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #translatedlit #conveniencestorewoman #sayakamurata
January 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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^^The Wolf Moon

#wolfmoon
January 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Speaking of the environment, tonight's January full moon is called The Wolf Moon (my photo in comments) which calls to mind the incredible novel Once There Were Wolves, by Charlotte McConaghy. Have you read it?

🌿 #books #booksky #bookishBsky #litfic #oncetherewerewolves #charlottemcconaghy
January 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Am fortunate to belong to a fantastic book club. Pics below from our discussion earlier this week. A beautiful spread of deliciousness, & mini glass apothecary bottles filled w/ lavender by our hostess.

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern, by Lynda Loigman.

🌿 #bookclub #books #booksky #bookishBsky
January 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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What's happening in L.A. is devastating. Am on the search & below are 2 nonfiction climate change books I'm eyeing. What NONfiction climate change books do you recommend? A focus on education &/or solutions would be great.

🌿 #climatechange #books #booksky #bookishBsky #nonfiction
January 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM