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Bookticle Club, Now with 100% More Murderbot

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Re-read for Bookticle Club, March 2021: what a diametric opposite to the book I am currently reading, Hurricane Season. I’ll say that I noticed two things in particular this time. I read this entire thing at a stretch very late at night, and was definitely falling asleep a bit towards the end but it had nothing to do with my enjoyment! I will also note that this was my choice, and I had originally said we’d do a romance novel, and this is…not that. First was […]

Kate Quinn Has Cracked the Code for a Great Read

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a triumph.  A wonderful historical fiction with a little bit of everything – history, humor, romance, and  mystery.   The pages come alive with a mix of  great fictional characters, alongside real historical figures.  The plot centers around Bletchley Park during World War II, where mostly women worked as codebreakers trying to crack the German and Italian codes.  Today we know that their work was critical to the allied victory, but back then their work was strictly classified and […]

Bookclub re-read: were we ever this young???

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

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I have had this book for years now, evidentially procured from some sort of bookstore or library because there’s a sticker on the spine. I’ve read it and re-read it many times while home. This time, I re-read it in preparation for book club, theme of which is “a book from your childhood/young adulthood which talked about adulthood which, now that you are an adult, reads very differently.” Which is a long winded way of saying, things aren’t always what they seem when you were […]

Bingo! (CBR12Bingo 2: Book club)

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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I was wondering how I was going to make a book club pick twice, as I’m not much of a joiner and my coworker book club basically meets every six months once we ask for extensions … and more extensions … and plan to get together and cancel those plans…. so no way we were going to have the next pick ready in time. And I am going to do my level best not to use the reader’s choice square, because this is a challenge […]

“Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives”

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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I don’t know, really, what I was expecting from this book and I’m also not sure that whatever those expectations were that they were met. I was able to watch an author discussion between Mandel and Isaac Fitzgerald hosted by the Greenlight bookstore in the spring when this book was released and I left that experience knowing that the book featured a Ponzi scheme and focused around the 2008 economic collapse, and that a main character died and also that estrangement of many types was […]



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