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—november wrap up— 🎧 The Measure Have I Told You This Already? The Cloisters White Out 📖 Moonstruck at Midnight Ghost Town Fav= The Measure!! How was your reading in November? What was your favorite book? https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmPgnnvTIK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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—happy tuesday— Happy day from some (not all 😫) of the ARCS I haven’t read. Does anyone have ARCS show up and you don’t remember ever requesting them? Because I must have signed up but I never remember I did? 🤔 P goes back to school today after literally a whole week off… I think it’s gonna be tough to get back on track and then we have our winter break in just a few weeks which will throw us all off again! ��� you’re lucky I even knew it was Tuesday today. https://www.instagram.com/p/CljBbU8ruCU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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—what this week— Hi it’s me! 👋🏼 how are you? 😫 I’ve had very little motivation as you know. But also it seems like engagement is super low anyway. I’m not sure who even sees my posts anymore 😂😂😂 Anyway what’s going on this week for me? 📖 •She Went all the Way (my last travel book benefit of having your besties book last I can give it to her late 🥴) •Undertaking of Hart & Mercy finally reading this as a buddy read after Meg gifted me a copy! 💖 •The Venice Sketchbook is my IRL book club pick I may not get to it this week! Thanks to my SIL for the loan. I hope I love it as much as she did! •The Girl who Drank the Moon 🎧 🎶 •prob TSwift per usual and Christmas Music. And I’m doing some musical therapy right now so I will prob do my •👯‍♀️ 🥳 My bday is Saturday so I’ll be celebrating that for at least a week if not more! 😅 #sagittariusseason 📺 It’s no surprise but I watch way too much tv 😫 I finished •1899 and holy 🐄 please everyone watch it I had so much fun and hope they make season 2!!! Do NOT have your settings to dub it all in English. This is a multilingual show and just turn on subtitles. •Dead to Me I’m finishing this one up, I’ve been around since the beginning I’m so sad it’s ending. •Wednesday we just started this and I’m loving it! 🤷🏼‍♀️ •Spirited we will be watching a slew of holiday movies but I hope to watch this one this week! Any recs for me? https://www.instagram.com/p/ClgpPx0r__P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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—book tour— Thank you @pridebooktours & @europaeditions for this copy of “Ghost Town” what an amazing and complicated story that was also difficult for me to read at times (heavy content esp animal cruelty) This is told from multiple perspectives in a single day which is a very cool approach. This cover is beautiful and the writing reminds me a bit of Lincoln in Bardo which was a little over my head honestly. 😂 However, the story was intriguing… the only thing I wanted more of was Keith… although he’s the “MC” we don’t get quite as much as I’d like from him. 📖 blurb {“Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family’s village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there. As the story unfurls, we learn what tore this family apart and, more importantly, the truth behind the murder of Chen’s boyfriend. Told in a myriad of voices, both living and dead, and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town weaves a mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.”} This book was recently translated and is now available in English! ❓Have you ever read a translated book? https://www.instagram.com/p/ClbYBFFLjI6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=