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I'm back from vacation and in unpack/laundry mode...and also reading mode, because book club is Monday night and I'm 27% into the book 😅. I always mean to read more on vacation! Someday I won't have a 4-year-old who needs to swim 24/7 😜. ANYway, I brought STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman along with me. The cover is just gorgeous and I've been intrigued by the synopsis, so when I saw it avaliable at the library, I grabbed it. Unfortunately I won't get to it this time before it's due, but I'm hoping we meet again 😄.

Synopsis:
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amongst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades.

As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parrot -- a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics -- he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills.

With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a richly drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

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Vacation all I ever wanted...🤩. We're on vacation this week, Monday through Friday. My husband's company pays for 3 cabins at a resort year-round, and there's a lottery for signing up for either a weekend or week. Annnd it's finally our week!! I'll throw up a story tomorrow of our lodging...it's fantastic and definitely larger than my house 😂. I'm trying to make sure I get some good reading in on the porch 😄. Current read: WE ARE THE LIGHT by Matthew Quick (author of The Silver Linings Playbook). It's quirky and heartwarming, but I'm also not sure about some parts. Will have to make a final review when I'm done. Thanks @netgalley and @avidreaderpress for the chance to read this one!

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🥳 Today is my birthday 🥳 and here are some books I've added to my shelves lately! And man, I am so out of practice with taking book pictures. And let's not even talk about reels 😅😂. Oh well. Have a lovely day on this birthday of mine 😊.

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Oh HEY!! My busy summer is turning into less busy fall, which means...back to 'grammin! I am currently trying to decide how my LFL is going to dress up for Halloween this year 🎃👻🦄🧛‍♀️🦇. Any ideas??

Nice to be back 😊
- Joli

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I just started Last Summer on State Street last night and almost stayed up too late. I couldn't put it down! Happy to have nabbed this one in a @goodreads giveaway.

Synopsis:
Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild.

Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes. It’s the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence. But when Fe Fe welcomes a mysterious new friend, Tonya, into their fold, the dynamics shift, upending the lives of all four girls.

As their beloved neighborhood falls down around them, so too do their friendships and the structures of the four girls’ families. Fe Fe must make the painful decision of whom she can trust and whom she must let go. Decades later, as she remembers that fateful summer—just before her home was demolished, her life uprooted, and community forever changed—Fe Fe tries to make sense of the grief and fraught bonds that still haunt her and attempts to reclaim the love that never left.

Profound, reverent, and uplifting, Last Summer on State Street explores the risk of connection against the backdrop of racist institutions, the restorative power of knowing and claiming one’s own past, and those defining relationships which form the heartbeat of our lives. Interweaving moments of reckoning and sustaining grace, debut author Toya Wolfe has crafted an era-defining story of finding a home — both in one’s history and in one’s self.

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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 🤩😍! 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 😁.

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