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blessed is the sun, and blessed am i to be in its grace.

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my books of the year!

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i read double my goal this year & im feeling so accomplished! i got a Kobo for Christmas & have already read a whole book. So excited to see how my '25 reads go!!!

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frozen fingers & watching my breath. happy solstice.

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another May read

THE CIRCLE - DAVE EGGERS

☆☆☆☆.⁵

"When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime - even as life beyond campus grows distant, even as a strage encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge."

My notes:

black mirror-esque, culty. This book makes me wanna read more books. ended how i thought, but not the way i thought it would??? Also loved the vocab. Some of the drama tho I'm like???????? But the other drama I was there for.

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creekin again

but this time i ate a few too many mulberries

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lovettesville, va

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another book under the belt !!

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RED AT THE BONE - JACQUELINE WOODSON

"Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson’s. taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody’s mother, for her own ceremony– a celebration that ultimately never took place.

Unfurling the history of Melody’s family – reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 – to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they’ve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives–even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be."

R8: ☆☆☆☆☆

i love all the perspectives u gain thru the book - it provides such an honest connection to the story. The second half of the book really stuck with me, though I was hooked from the beginning. A perfect quick read.

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virginia in bloom

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current read:

salvage the bones - jesmyn ward

"A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fifteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting."

current r8: ☆☆☆☆

end r8: ☆☆☆☆

beautiful poeticism, setting, & plot. ending moved quickly, a little too quick for me. But overall, not my typical genre & I loved this book.

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a gift, and i love him