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    Review: The Guncle by Stephen Rowley

    by Joli August 6, 2022
    by Joli August 6, 2022

    Want to read a book that’ll steal your heart? The Guncle is a great choice for that! The Guncle came highly recommended and, therefore, was a highly anticipated read for me. The verdict? It didn’t disappoint.

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    Review: War and Me by Faleeha Hassan

    by Joli August 4, 2022
    by Joli August 4, 2022

    This story had me just rapt the whole time. I wasn’t prepared for just how harrowing Faleeha’s tale would be! I think I (and most of my fellow Americans probably) have no idea how the war impacted the people of Iraq. This was such an eye-opening book,

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    What We Read in July 2022

    by Joli August 1, 2022
    by Joli August 1, 2022

    What do you read in the summer? What qualifies as a beach read to you? I’m not really into contemporary romance, so my reading choices don’t change a whole lot between the seasons.

    Anyway, here’s what some of us read in July! What was the best book you read last month?

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    4 YA Books Set in the Middle Ages That Defy Gender Stereotypes

    by Joli July 29, 2022
    by Joli July 29, 2022

    So much Young Adult Fiction published in the last three to five years takes place in the time of Camelot, Vikings and Charlemagne. What’s not to love about castles and kings, knights and the possibility of a magical being?

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    Review: The Boys by Katie Hafner

    by Joli July 26, 2022
    by Joli July 26, 2022

    The Boys is one of those books that’s going to stick in my head for a long time. It’s also a book that I’m going to be recommending to my friends and family! In fact, my mother-in-law already read it, couldn’t put it down, and loved it.

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    Book Feature & Excerpt: Finding Grace by Maren Cooper

    by Joli July 19, 2022
    by Joli July 19, 2022

    When I got an email about this book, I knew it needed a feature here on Literary Quicksand. It’s written by a local author here where I live in Minnesota, and is set by Lake Superior, which is where I…

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    Review: A Dress of Violet Taffeta

    by Joli July 11, 2022
    by Joli July 11, 2022

    Welcome to the book tour for A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen! This was a very interesting 2022 historical fiction read that I think you’ll enjoy reading about. The Summary Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She…

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    Review: Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

    by Joli July 8, 2022
    by Joli July 8, 2022

    I felt so lucky to have been approved on NetGalley for Now is Not the Time to Panic after having read and loved Nothing to See Here. I actually saved this one for a time when I felt like I needed a really good book…it was so highly anticipated for me.

    I’m very happy to report that I was not let down at all. What an incredible story! It was just so captivating.

    Honestly, this is going to be a hard book for me to review because I just loved it, but I’ll do my best!

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    What We Read in June 2022

    by Joli July 6, 2022
    by Joli July 6, 2022

    Whew! Summer is in full swing, and I don’t know about you, but I’m finding less time to read! Summer fun is like a full-time job sometimes 😅. At any rate, here’s what a few of us read in June.…

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    5 Funny Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels: Humorous Reads You’ll Love

    by Joli July 3, 2022
    by Joli July 3, 2022

    There’s just something special about a sci-fi or fantasy novel that delivers all the action you’d expect from the genreâ€Ķ mixed with a hefty pinch of humor. If you also appreciate some laugh-out-loud moments in your sci-fi or fantasy reads, this list is for you!

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Breaking my summer hiatus for this fantastic memoir! It was so very good. It reads like immersive fiction, and I was so invested in Faleeha's life. I can't believe some of what she went through, and how she's been able to put it all into words. This book is so unique in that I've not read any other accounts like this of life in Iraq during the war and subsequent embargo. 

The whole thing is fascinating, brave, and inspiring. I highly recommend War and Me! 5 full stars.

Put it on your TBR now! It did take me a chapter or two to get used to the translation, but it worked. Just pick this up, her story will have you rapt.

Thank you so much to @otrpr for having me on the War and Me book tour!

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Look look 👀 at what someone left in my Little Free Library today ðŸĪĐ😍! The Vanishing Half has been on my TBR list for ages!! I better try to read it soon so I can put it back in there 😁.

#littlefreelibraryfinds #littlefreelibrarystewards #littlefreelibrary #bookstagram #thevanishinghalf #amreading #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #readreadread #bookish #bookishlife #readinglife #tbrlist #tbr #bookworm #bookwormlife
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My library started keeping a big shelf area of newer releases and it gets me juuuust about 90% of the time I'd say 😅. I remember seeing GOD SPARE THE GIRLS on bookstagram and being intrigued ðŸĪ”. Anyone have read it or nah feelings on this one?

Synopsis:
A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover a dark secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community—a coming-of-age story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception.

Luke Nolan has led The Hope congregation for over a decade, while his wife and daughters patiently uphold what it means to live righteously. Made famous by a viral sermon on purity co-written with his eldest daughter, Abigail, Luke is the prototype of a modern preacher: tall, handsome, a spellbinding speaker. But his youngest daughter Caroline has started to notice the cracks in their comfortable life. She is certain that her perfect, pristine sister is about to marry the wrong man—and Caroline has slid into sin with a boy she’s known her entire life, wondering why God would care so much about her virginity anyway.

When it comes to light, six weeks before Abigail’s wedding, that Luke has been having an affair with another woman, the entire Nolan family falls into a tailspin. Caroline seizes the opportunity to be alone with her sister. The two girls flee to the ranch they inherited from their maternal grandmother, far removed from the embarrassing drama of their parents and the prying eyes of the community. But with the date of Abigail’s wedding fast approaching, the sisters will have to make a hard decision about which familial bonds are worth protecting.

An intimate coming-of-age story and a modern woman’s read, God Spare the Girls lays bare the rabid love of sisterhood and asks what we owe our communities, our families, and ourselves.

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Historical fiction lovers, I've got one for ya! A Dress of Violet Taffeta was full of Gilded Age fashion and history, and reading about fashionista Lady Lucy Duff Gordon was a blast. My full review is on the blog - link in bio!

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Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, fabric, and texture in ways few other people do. But is the world ready for her? A world dominated by men who would try to control her and use her art for their own gain?

After being deserted by her wealthy husband, Lucy is desperate to survive. She turns to her one true talent to make a living. As a little girl, the dresses she made for her dolls were the envy of her group of playmates. Now, she uses her courageous innovations in Belle Époque fashion to support her own little girl. Lucile knows it is an uphill battle, and a single woman is not supposed to succeed on her own, but she refuses to give up. She will claim her place in the fashion world; failure simply is not an option.

Then, on a frigid night in 1912, Lucy’s life changes once more, when she becomes one of 706 people to survive the sinking of the Titanic. She could never have imagined the effects the disaster would have on her career, her marriage to her second husband, and her legacy. But no matter what life throws at her, Lucile will live on as a trailblazing and fearless fashion icon, never letting go of what she worked so hard to earn. This is her story.

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I cleaned off my desk (which fits in a corner and has shelves) and made a shelf just for my @theglossbookclub books ðŸĪĐ. It's fun to be a host and give away a book at every meeting 😊. 

July: The Guncle
August: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
September: The Messy Lives of Book People
October: The Bohemians

Are you reading anything awesome for a book club?

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Well this book is just stealing my whole gosh dang heart, and today is its pub day!! I highly suggest adding this one to your TBR, book friends, if you're into quirky, big-heaeted, character-driven stories. I have only about 50 pages left and can't wait to see how this ends! The writing is superb, too. Thank you so much to @katiehafner, @spiegelandgrau, and @ehpmarketing for the ARC of THE BOYS.

Synopsis:
When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with providing a perfect life for them. But instead of bringing Barb and Ethan closer together, the boys become a wedge in their relationship, as Ethan is unable to share with Barb a secret that has been haunting him since childhood. Then Ethan takes Tommy and Sam on a biking trip in Italy, and it becomes clear just how unusual Ethan and his children are. This hauntingly beautiful debut novel—a bold and original high-wire feat—is "a treat with a surprise inside” (Publishers Weekly).

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Little Free Library find alert! Two Nights in Lisbon by @chris.pavone is now available! Thank you @littlefreelibrary for the opportunity to share this hot recent release with my community ðŸĪĐ! Won this #thriller in their giveaway 😄

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📚 A few new books to hit my shelves lately 📚

Well, I had the best of intentions to post about books this week, and then my daughter got sick...and then I got it ðŸĪŠ. It hasn't been the worst cold, just annoying. So anyway, books! These are the newest ones on my shelves ðŸĪĐ. 

📕 The Messy Lives of Book People - book club book
📘 Night Road - won in a giveaway
📙 War and Me - I'll be reviewing this one on the blog in August
📗 Woman of Light - Goodreads giveaway win!
📓 The Two Lives of Sara - an ARC from @parkrowbooks that looks great ðŸĪĐ

Planning to post some book reviews this week 😄. Happy weekend!

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