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Strawberries and cream or blueberries and lemons?

@this.catreads put up a darling 🍓&🥛 stack the other day, and tagged me to do the same (I’m always happy to be tagged, by the way). Her post was a response to a tag from @craigsreads to post a 🫐&🍋 stack, which she gave up on.

I understand why! It was much more difficult to come up with blue and yellow book spines than red and cream. I managed, but not very successfully. 👉🏻 Swipe to see.

📸 I’ve read and enjoyed all the books in both these stacks. Some I loved and all I liked enough to keep around.

Zoom in to see if you can spot any favorites. 👀

I tagged a few people to play along to come up with one or both of these stacks or a different summer fruit stack. But if this looks fun to you, please join in!

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BOOK TAG: #ChooseMyNextRead

@hannahd_reads and I recently had a conversation about the books we KNOW we're going to love, but for whatever reason (I'm blaming stress over potential disappointment) have left sitting on the shelf for literal years. From this conversation a deranged hashtag has been born: #BooksIveAccidentallyBeenAvoidingDueToThePressure

I've tagged some beauts to hop on the nascent bandwagon but, a la Hannah, I'm also asking booksta pals to vote on which of these long avoided books I should read first. Off the record, I will try to get to all of them at some point this year but I wanna know what the running order for these should be 😇

THE BOOKS:

• Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
It's giving emotional neglect evolving into codependency and toxic love. It's Jade coded.

• Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovitch
Short stories centering the female experience and lapsing desires. Exactly my cup of tea.

• Consent by Annabel Lyon
Two sets of sisters' see their lives devastated by one predatory man. This seems like it'll head in a revange route, and a vicarious journey of female rage and power reclamation might be exactly what I need rn. Unless it ends in disaster for them, then I'll be throwing the book out the window xox

• Conversations on Love edited by Natasha Lunn (gifted by @vikingbooksuk)
Everyone's emotional reactions to this one back in 2021 made me scared to read it lol. I don't know if I'm at the point where I'll be receptive to all the lessons I'll find here, but then maybe reading it could be the first step.

The poll is below, pls let me know which of these you'd rec/most want me to read and review and tysmia xox

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#ActsOfDesperation #ObjectsOfDesire #Consent #ConversationsOnLove #book #bookstack #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookblog #bookblogger #booktag #bookcommunity #tbr #readingchallenge #booklover #bibliophile #igbooks #igreads #goodreads

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🍀 Bilan de mars 🍀

J’ai eu un excellent mois de lecture, plein de lectures communes avec des amies aussi folles de romances que moi 😉

Voici un petit aperçu de mon top 3 :

🥇 Fangirl Down de Tessa Bailey (en anglais seulement)
Wells est un golfeur qui a connu la gloire il y a quelques années et est sur une pente descendante depuis. Il approche dangereusement du fond du baril, quand il se met à dos sa dernière et plus grande fan : Josephine. Par un concours de circonstances particulier, elle se retrouve à être sa caddy pendant un tournoi de golf, et sa présence a un effet des plus… motivants pour Wells.

Dur à expliquer pourquoi j’ai autant capoté sur ce livre, mais je l’ai dévoré et j’ai passé tout mon temps à glousser comme une bonne. J’étais déjà fan de Tessa Bailey, mais je l’ai trouvée plus comique et coquine que jamais dans ce livre. Trop hâte au tome 2! (voir plus loin dans le carrousel pour ma réaction à chaud dans Storygraph)

🥈 Bride d’Ali Hazelwood (en anglais seulement)
Misery et Lowe entrent dans un mariage de raison pour cimenter l’alliance entre les vampires et les loups-garous. Tout semble d’abord les opposer, mais leur chimie est indéniable.

Encore une fois, j’ai été conquise par cette nouvelle parution d’une de mes autrices de romances préférées 😍 Les intrigues d’Ali commencent à devenir redondantes, mais l’aspect paranormal était bien réussi et la romance était hors de ce monde!! 😳

🥉The Dry de Jane Harper (v.f. Canicule)
Aaron Falk revient dans la petite ville où il a grandi pour les funérailles d’un de ses amis d’enfance. Celui-ci aurait assassiné toute sa famille avant de s’enlever la vie — mais le doute plane.

Adoré ce roman policier assez classique, dont la force réside dans son ambiance étouffante. L’histoire se passe en Australie, dans un village de fermiers, alors qu’une canicule s’abat sur la région depuis plusieurs années. Les tensions sont palpables et les souvenirs du protagoniste reviennent le hanter durant son enquête. Très contente d’avoir écouté le livre audio, le narrateur avant un accent délicieux!

Je serais curieuse de savoir quelle a été votre meilleure lecture de mars! 🤓

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Pour trouver une excuse pour publier une photo de ma bibliothèque, j’essaie le tag #lastbooki, un peu en retard!

Le dernier livre que…

J’AI ACHETÉ 📚
Mes derniers achats remontent au solde du livre des bibliothèques de Montréal! J’en ai acheté 11, dont Au péril de la mer de Dominique Fortier et Roux clair naturel de Fanie Demeule.

J’AI EMPRUNTÉ 🤓
Je viens d’emprunter Secretly Yours de Tessa Bailey sur ma Kobo! Prochaine lecture commune épicée avec @andreeannek ❤️‍🔥

QU’ON M’A OFFERT 🎂
J’ai été super gâtée à ma fête en mai et j’ai notamment reçu Cleopatra and Frankenstien et Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow. Vais-je être capable de les lire pendant qu’ils sont encore hypés??

J’AI DONNÉ À QUELQU’UN 🎁
J’ai donné Still Life de Sarah Winman à ma mère pour sa fête… et je me le suis acheté en même temps 😇

J’AI COMMENCÉ 🤏
A Sinister Revenge, le plus récent tome de la série Veronica Speedwell, que je lis avec @lucywithruby. J’ai été un peu déçue par les 2-3 derniers livres, mais celui-ci commence en force!

J’AI TERMINÉ ✅
The Glass Castle de Jeannette Walls, que j’avais dans ma PAL depuis 2018!

J’AI NOTÉ 5⭐️ ❤️
Encore The Glass Castle! Je ne m’attendais vraiment pas à aimer autant, mais je suis renversée. Quelle vie, et si bien racontée!

J’AI NOTÉ 2⭐️ OU MOINS 💔
C’est quand le bonheur? de Martine Delvaux. Si vous avez vu passer ma critique, vous savez que j’ai trop été rebutée par un personnage pour apprécier ma lecture!

J’AI LU EN FORMAT AUDIO 🎧
J’ai fini Heartbreaker de Claudia Dey récemment, et j’écoute A Sinister Revenge en ce moment! La narratrice joue Veronica Speedwell à la perfection, mais elle a un peu de misère avec les voix d’hommes… Stoker, qui est censé avoir la voix la plus grave et sexy qui soit, sonne comme un ogre 😅

Merci à @viclitdeslivres pour l’inspiration! Je tague quelques personnes, si ça vous tente de partager vos lectures récentes 😊

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@juliemichellereads tagged me to show the reads for which I consider myself #latetotheparty, so here they are:
Bolano’s 2666, which Julie kidnapped me and took me to her online book chat to read with her. My book arrived about 3 weeks after they started, and I have decided to wait until I finish my June buddy read to start it. (Anyone who has buddy-read with me knows that kidnapping me to read a book would end like The Ransom of Red Chief, so they dodged a bullet there!😅)

I am going to buddy read Miss Brodie soon with @solitaryreader06 but only after hearing it much lauded here. I can’t wait!

The Magnificent Ambersons and The Quiet American have been on my #tbr for this year because I have the movies recorded to watch. But I’m glad to set aside my personal reading goals for collective ones because I joined #bookstagram to have a reading community. ☺️

Do you have any books that are jumping off your #tbr since entering your radar?

#bookstagrammers #tbrlist #classicscommunity #boothtarkington #murielspark #grahamgreene #robertobolaño

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📚 Les Bookstagrammeuses sortent en ville 📚

Résumé de notre conversation à la librairie :
Oh ce livre! Je veux le lire, il paraît que c’est bon!!
Oh ce livre! J’aime mieux l’autre édition!
😂😂😂

Un très bel après-midi 💛

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I was tagged by @_clicking_away_ at the beginning of February for #spellthemonthinbooks challenge. I waited for a month with a shorter name. 😅 (I still had to cheat because I have no books that begin with the letter H.)

I hope March brings Spring flowers🌷
and world peace. 🕊☮️

#bookstagrambookstack #readersunite #springtime #classicliterature #march #peaceonearth #nyrb #classicscommunity #bookstackchallenge

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Un dernier petit bilan... ✨

Au total, j’ai lu 85 livres cette année, dont 25 en français (c’est bon pour moi, mais j’aimerais tranquillement me rapprocher de la parité!).

Comme j’ai du mal à résister à l’appel de la bibliothèque, une bonne partie de ces livres étaient des emprunts, mais voici ceux qui sont toujours en ma possession! Reconnaissez-vous des titres que vous avez lus?

Pour finir, j’aimerais remercier toutes les personnes avec qui j’ai fait des lectures communes cette année (dont les merveilleux membres de mes clubs de lecture)! J’ai eu tellement de fun avec vous et j’ai hâte qu’on remette ça! 🤓 Et bien sûr, je suis toujours ouverte à en faire avec de nouvelles personnes 😉😉

Bonne année tout le monde 🥳

#instalivre #bookstagram #littqc #canlit #romancenovels

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A million thanks to all you fabulous readers who have made “The Witches of New York” a seasonal pick! Here are a few reader photos of the book in the wild from 2020’s Season of the Witch...
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Hard to believe it’s been four years since I was on a magical booktour to launch Eleanor, Adelaide and Beatrice into the world. ✨🔮✨.
Wishing you an enchanted Halloween filled with strange wonders and beguiling magic.
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Featured posts (clockwise, starting top left:) @booksaremagicbk @noveldestinations @arrows_and_alchemy @scotland247 @theshelf_edit @e.m.bennet_
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#thewitchesofnewyork #witchesofnewyork #bookstagram #magic #halloween #witchesofinstagram #gildedage #historicalfiction #Perdu #witchnovels #gratitude

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🌿 Thank you for the #midyearbookfreakouttag @ceallaighsbooks ! I tagged a bunch of people but if you see this and want to do it, consider this your invitation. This is going to be a long one so here goes...
1. Best book you’ve read so far— Either The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, or The Five by Hallie Rubenhold.
2. Best sequel you’ve read so far— A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin.
3. New release you haven’t read yet but want to— Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
4. Most anticipated release of the second half of the year— Piranesi by Susanna Clarke!
5. Biggest disappointment— The City & the City by China Mieville.
6. Biggest surprise— The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor was really good but not at all what I expected.
7. Favorite new author— George R.R. Martin, Hallie Rubenhold, Ray Russell, Thomas Cullinan, and Robert Marasco.
8. Newest fictional crush— Emery Staines from The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton.
9. Newest favorite character— Asha Greyjoy from A Clash of Kings.
10. Book that made you cry— The Ghost Notebooks by Ben Dolnick.
11. Book that made you happy— Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. It’s one of my favorites and always makes me happy.
12. Favorite book to film adaptation you’ve seen— It’s a show not a film but Game of Thrones.
13. Favorite review you’ve written— Hmm nothing’s coming to mind.
14. Most beautiful book you’ve bought/received this year— The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey or Ghostland by Edward Parnell.
15. A book you need to read by the end of the year— The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
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#book #books #bookworm #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #reading #reader #bookish #bibliophile #booklove #booklife #igreads #bookaddict #booknerd #bookphotography #bookblogger #instabook #instaread #booksofinstagram #bookchallenge #midyearbookfreakouttag2020

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Voici quelques séries qui sont dans ma pile de livres à lire. J’aime quand les séries sont longues car quand j’aime un auteur, j’aime qu’il y ait beaucoup de livres à me mettre sous la dent. Par contre, ça prend du temps à compléter et j’aime varier mes lectures alors c’est rare qu’une série est vite terminée. J’aimerais être plus assidue et les lire plus rapidement, mais c’est la vie... Si je ne me souviens plus exactement où j’en étais dans l’histoire, il y a toujours quelqu’un sur internet qui fait de bons résumés. 🤷🏻‍♀️ * Le Pouvoir par Hilary Mantel
* L’égarée par Donato Carrisi
* Anne d’Avonlea par L.M. Montgomery
* Sous la glace par Louise Penny
* Wundersmith par Jessica Townsend
* Leah on the offbeat par Becky Albertalli
* Violence à l’origine par Martin Michaud
* La Croix de feu par Diana Gabaldon
* Une colonne de feu par Ken Follett
* La sorcière par Camilla Läckberg

Il y a d’autres séries dans mal PàL, mais je ne les ai pas en ma possession pour le moment. Et vous, avez-vous beaucoup de séries à terminer dans votre bibliothèque ? ⠀
J’ai été taguée par @e.m.bennet_ pour le TAG #booksinseriestbr . Je vais taguer quelques personnes, mais si cela vous dit de participer, allez-y ! ⠀

#bookstagram #booksinmytbr #bookseries #livreaddict #lecture #pilealire

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Meet the Bookstagrammer - Part Three

It’s been six months since my last intro post - time does fly! There are some new friends here, so I thought it was time to hop on with some fun Kerry facts.

The Basics: I live in Toronto with my husband and our sweetie pup, a Lakeland terrier named Gryffin. He has his own insta because he’s cool like that (go see: @gryffgram ). I’m an elementary school teacher, and my past jobs include baker, children’s bookseller and freelance harpist.

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1. I grew up on a farm north of the city. It was a hobby farm - cats and horses only! My sister and I had 100 acres to ramble around, a pond for skating on, plenty of trees to read under, and every night, so many stars in the sky… basically paradise. While I’ve come to love city life, a piece of my heart will never leave the country.
2. This year I’ve tried a bunch of new things I’ve had on my list for a while, including: Afro fusion dance, improving my French language skills, and joining a choir. It’s sometimes felt nerve-wracking to go outside of my comfort zone ( #introvert ), but at the same time I feel refreshed and more open to all of the possibilities, big and small, that are out there at the edge of our everyday routines.
3. I am a great swimmer. I’ve been a water baby all my life. I could go to the Olympics for floating.
4. In another life, fantasy jobs might include: Cirque de Soleil clown, florist or gardener, art teacher, coffee shop owner, ballet dancer.
5. While I’m mostly gluten free and low sugar these days, a girl still likes to treat herself. Faves include: flourless chocolate cake, a great cocktail (I just discovered Aperol spritzes - thanks Heather 😘@mlleboaz.bibliophile ), and iced coffee (Swipe to see me taking a well-earned hydration break. The life of a booksta-model is incredibly demanding).
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And FYI, the books in this stack represent my picks for #tenonmy5star . I was tagged by @e.m.bennet_ last week and I decided to make all of my selections Middle Grade or YA, just for kicks. Consider yourselves tagged! While you’re here, tell me something you’d like to find the courage to try, fantasy jobs, fave treat, or something we have in common...

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