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While on a relaxing trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior last week, I took three books to read and somehow (?) ended up with five new books -- two from a locally owned bookstore, two from local "touristy" stores and one from a national park gift shop.

Of the ones I took with me, I read only "Surfacing" by Kathleen Jamie, which I bought because it was recommended by Delia Owens, whose "Where the Crawdads Sing" I stumbled across (and loved) before it was a movie. "Surfacing" refers to itself as "an incredible blend of memoir, cultural history and travelogue" and follows Jamie from Alaska to Scotland and places in between.

Due to my backlog of unread books, I am now deleting all incoming emails from bookoutlet.com, without even opening the always-tempting offers.
 
Callender Girl said:
Due to my backlog of unread books, I am now deleting all incoming emails from bookoutlet.com, without even opening the always-tempting offers.
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Yeah, I have to be dilligent about how many I buy from BookBub for my Kindle. I still check the daily email, because there are some books that I really want.
 
Callender Girl said:
While on a relaxing trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior last week, I took three books to read and somehow (?) ended up with five new books -- two from a locally owned bookstore, two from local "touristy" stores and one from a national park gift shop.

Of the ones I took with me, I read only "Surfacing" by Kathleen Jamie, which I bought because it was recommended by Delia Owens, whose "Where the Crawdads Sing" I stumbled across (and loved) before it was a movie. "Surfacing" refers to itself as "an incredible blend of memoir, cultural history and travelogue" and follows Jamie from Alaska to Scotland and places in between.

Due to my backlog of unread books, I am now deleting all incoming emails from bookoutlet.com, without even opening the always-tempting offers.
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Sounds like I have a new book to add to my tbr😁
 
Haha worth it
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Most of the books fit in my carry-on. Just need to carry two by hand which ain’t that bad.
 
ManueB said:
Now I'm back to easy fantasy, reading the sword of kaigen, by M.L.Wang, 2019 SPFBO winner, it's rather good up to now.
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It was a real let down. While it had great characters, the second part of the story made so little sense that I had to check what the author said about her book. Turns out it was written as a prequel to a book serie she is never going to write, because she made up the world as a teenager and realises now that it doesn't work 😬.

Then I read (translated in my native language French) "padre padrone, my father my master" by Gavino Ledda. I loved it, it's autobiographical about a sardinian child taken off school by his father to be a shepherd in the 50s.

Now I’m re-reading the border trilogy, Cormac McCarthy is another of those authors who died recently that I’ve only read translated to french, so I want to read his books in english. And i’ve also began a dark urban fantasy novel, Low town by Daniel Polanski.
Enjoying both for now.
aart said:
I read 4-5 books a week, many not worth mentioning.
But this months book group pick was good.
The Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig.
Gonna check out another by him here soon.
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The story sounds like something I could enjoy, I might give it a try !
Callender Girl said:
Of the ones I took with me, I read only "Surfacing" by Kathleen Jamie, which I bought because it was recommended by Delia Owens, whose "Where the Crawdads Sing" I stumbled across (and loved) before it was a movie. "Surfacing" refers to itself as "an incredible blend of memoir, cultural history and travelogue" and follows Jamie from Alaska to Scotland and places in between.
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Did you like it (Surfacing) ?
 

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