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    Review: The Peacock by Isabel Bogdan

    by Catherine June 24, 2022
    by Catherine June 24, 2022

    Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands, add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a team building trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook, get Lord and Lady Macbeth to try and keep it all together, and top it off with all sorts of animals – soon no one will know exactly what’s going on.

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    Review: The Wedding Party by Liu Xinwu

    by Catherine November 30, 2021
    by Catherine November 30, 2021

    Synopsis WINNER OF THE MAO DUN LITERATURE PRIZE Liu Xinwu’s work, which includes novels, short stories, and children’s literature, focuses on the common people of Beijing who live on the margins of society. He is one of the earliest proponents…

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    Book Review: Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity

    by Catherine September 8, 2021
    by Catherine September 8, 2021

    An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.

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    5 books to read for Women in Translation Month 2021

    by Catherine August 1, 2021
    by Catherine August 1, 2021

    It’s that time of year again! August is here, bringing Women In Translation Month 2021 with it. I’ve got 5 books by women in translation that I think you’ll love this year!

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    Review: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

    by Jessica August 24, 2020
    by Jessica August 24, 2020

    The Summary Nana the cat is on a road trip. He is not sure where he’s going or why, but it means that he gets to sit in the front seat of a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru.…

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    Women In Translation Month August 2020

    by Catherine August 1, 2020
    by Catherine August 1, 2020

    Women In Translation Month is an anual event which takes place each August and brings together women writers from around the world.

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    Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

    by Catherine June 30, 2020
    by Catherine June 30, 2020

    The Summary Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman follows Keiko Furukura, a 36-year-old woman who works part time in a convenience store. Keiko likes working at the convenience store as it lets her observe the “normal” people she works with and…

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Little free library jackpot 🪙! Somebody is going to love finding The Candid Life of Meena Dave in my LFL 😄. I enjoyed this one! It was a light read with some real depth of characters and feelings. These kinds of books always seem to get a little too cute towards the end, and this one did too...but I expect that now and just enjoy them anyway 🤷‍♀️. Did you read this one? Thoughts?

In other news, my LFL now has bookmarks, pencils, patriotic erasers, and temporary tattoos 🤩. It's so fun to delight some kiddos!

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When it's a bazillion degrees outside, you wait til the sun goes down to read outside. And then still sweat 😂. Loving this forthcoming @kevinwilsonauthor book so far! Having a hard time putting it down 🤩.

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I should definitely leave on vacation and come back to #bookmail more often 😜. More on these to come!

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As far as bookstore locations go, this one's got to be one of the very best 😍🌊. @drurylanebooks you are amazing!

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We are currently at the cabin on Lake Superior! We've been working here for the week, but tomorrow my husband and I are both off work to take our daughter up to Grand Marais. We're kind of thankful for "nature's AC" (Lake Superior)...the highs for the next 3 days there are in the 60s! And it's getting hot everywhere else in the state. So although we won't be wading in the lake, it'll be beautiful for walking around. Hopefully our next trip up will feature reading in the hammock 😊.

Is it getting hot where you are? Do you love the heat or not so much? I'm in the not so much camp, hence living in Minnesota 😄

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I interrupt our normal feed of nice book pictures to tell you two BIG things!

1. I made a very extensive list of the best books set in Ireland. I dare you to scroll through without expanding your TBR by at least 5. Link in bio.

2. See that pretty purple mauve color? I'm excited to tell you that LQ glowed up today 🤩 and that's our new logo color! I loved that sweet pastel pink when I created LQ back in 2016, but my tastes have changed over the last 6 years. So, it was time! You'll now find the mauve color, plus a darker blue and a lighter blue for accents on the site. I hope you like it as much as I do 😊.

Thanks for being here with us on this wild book blog ride!

- Joli

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💕 #10ivereadandloved challenge 💕

Apparently I have a tendency to like blue books 🤔🤷‍♀️

☆ All the Light We Cannot See
☆ Dear Edward
☆ Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
☆ Ways the World Could End
☆ A Piece of the World
☆ Nothing to See Here
☆ The Seed Keeper
☆ My Life in France
☆ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 
☆ Outlander

Are any of my loves pictured here on your love list? 

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The Physicists' Daughter was published this week, and my fellow WWII fiction lovers will love the intriguing home front tale! Strong female characters anchor this mystery story and remind us of the strength of women working together. - Becky

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Justine is proud to be an outsider, raised by her late physicist parents to think outside the box. She’s a welder and a scientist at heart, even if right now all she can do is work in a monotonous assembly line at an Allied factory in New Orleans – until mysterious, frequent machinery failures put the lives of her coworkers and the entire war effort at risk. Justine doesn’t know what she helps construct in that factory. She doesn’t know who can be trusted, including her unpleasant boss, her colleagues, and the two charming men vying for her attention. But she does know she must expose and thwart the Axis saboteur to prove her worth, honor her parents’ legacies…and save her country.

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