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Celebrating Independent Bookstores

Celebrating Independent Bookstores

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 LiteraryJo Reviews2 Comments

Let’s celebrate and support independent bookstores today!

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Happy Friday, bookworms! It recently occurred to me that I didn’t include THE FRIEND on my list of favorite books I’ve read so far this year... and I think I should have! So today I thought I would share some thoughts on this short little book that packs a major emotional punch. I read THE FRIEND back in June after picking it up at @paginationbookshop.airbnb and I adored it. It is fantastically written—at just over 200 pages, Nunez says exactly what she wants to say with every single word and manages to be both funny and heartbreaking. It’s a story about a woman taking in a dog she didn’t want after the loss of a good friend—it’s also a novel about grief, loneliness, and mental illness, as well as love and friendship and our relationship with our pets. It is beautiful and moving and written with the perfect voice. I highly recommend it! 🐾 • Have you picked up this National Book Award winner?

Another good looking summer reading stack courtesy of @booksparks and their Summer Reading Challenge! #src2019 #partner • I spent a chunk of yesterday evening reading out here on the deck and it was exactly what I needed—and I have a feeling any of these titles would make for excellent porch reading companions! Any of them catching your eye?

@doubledaybooks nailed it with this bookmark they sent along with this gifted copy of THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD because it is turning out to be such 👏 a 👏 page 👏 turner! • Every time I pick it up I have to physically tear myself away again to go about my day... and I’m a little bit mad at myself for not starting it the second it arrived on my doorstep. Claire Lombardo expertly juggles the large cast of Sorensen family characters... making them all feel completely relatable and human, even with all their quirks and drama. I’m 100% addicted and I’m very very glad it’s a 500 page books so I have lots of time to spend with this family! • Did anyone else have trouble going about life while reading this book? And if you haven’t picked it up yet, I know I’m not even halfway through but I am already recommending it!

Late post with a fairly accurate representation of my current tbr... 📚📚📚 • BUT I feel like I am finally making some progress as I finished up THREE WOMEN over the weekend (and wow) and am finally diving into THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD (thanks to @doubledaybooks), a book I have been excited to read for months. I have heard how compulsively readable it is and that’s already proving to be true—I’ve been reading between points at tennis matches, squeezing in a few extra minutes before work and at lunch, anywhere I can find the time! It officially has me hooked. • What’s the last book that completely drew you in from the very beginning?

Book and breakfast... and adding in the Wimbledon championship today. Any other Federer fans out there? 📚☕️🎾 • My reading goal for the weekend, which was simply to finish a book — any book — is going well too. I finished A FATAL GRACE, the second book in the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny (which I’ve been listening to on audio). And I am just about finished with THREE WOMEN... just 50 more pages to go!

Spent a few minutes reading with a cup of coffee this morning in an otherwise busy day (and week) and felt very grateful to slow down and get through a few chapters. • My goal for the weekend is to FINISH A BOOK. I don’t care which one of multiple I’m reading—I just need to buckle down and finish one. So that’s my goal. Someone keep me accountable please. 😅

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