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I’m back to share more fabulous reviews of The Pumpkin Bride! All of your kind words have been making me feel so warm and cozy this fall 🍂🥰 If you love The Princess Bride, Shrek, and Beauty and the Beast, you should consider picking up my book!

#ThePumpkinBride #ReaderReviews #FallReads

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Orange & blue stack 💙🧡

Orange & blue is such an underrated color combo 😍💙🧡 I absolutely love it! And my two little buddies look so cute together, don’t you think? 🤭

Tagging some of my besties, I want to see your orange & blue stacks! ✨

#bookstacks #booksbooksbooks #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookaholic

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October, you were too good to me

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In the Seas of ÆDZJĖ.
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In the Weavings Of EEE.RRR.WEEENNN.
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Bien des.
WEAVINGS.EEERRRWEEENNN.
BAD SPELLINGS.
XPRÈS.
SPELLINGSAUPLURIEL.
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L. a en L. bien des personnages POINT POINT DIT POINT ÉCRIT POINT DACTYLOGRAPHIÉ POINT FINAL POINT FINI POINT. AUSSI POINT. Point fini final aussi et plus de point

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#owenmeany (meanymi.or.me.e.or.i.e.or.i.)
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It’s Gorgeous Grandma’s Day and there’s no better way to celebrate than by spending the day at the Palm Meridian Retirement Resort - a utopian home for queer women who want to revel in their twilight years. 👵🌴☀️🍹

(You should also call your own gorgeous grandma today.)

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Kristin Koval’s debut novel, Penitence, is a powerful story of forgiveness, family bonds, and the secrets that we keep close to our chest. I was first introduced to this book back in the fall at a Celadon reader event. As you know, it’s not my typical genre that you see posted here but when I was asked to be a part of Celadon’s Read Together program where they partnered me with @saraplanzreadz @tammyreads62 @heyjudereads and @k2reader , I knew I had to take a chance. I’m so thrilled I did because this book was incredible. Imagine learning that your youngest child has murdered her ill older brother with her father’s work issued handgun and confesses to it. The family was already under stress providing medical treatment to their son so when they must hire an attorney and the only one in town is about to retire and not well versed in this type of law, she calls in her son, Julian. There was a tragic past accident involving him, Angie who was his high school girlfriend (and mother of both the victim and murdered children) and her sister while skiing that sends him across the country. Now he returns to his childhood town in Colorado from is life in New York City to build a case to defend her daughter. I want to thank @celadonbooks and @macmillan.audio for a gifted copy, as well as aranging an author zoom. WHAT BOOK IS CONSTANTLY ON YOUR MIND? @kristinkovalwriter @celadonbooks @macmillan.audio #littlefreelibrarybythebeach #penitence #kristinkoval #celadonbooks #celadonreadstogether #buddyread #debut #readerlife #authortalk #reader #happypubday #readersofinstagram #readersofig #newbook #readersofinsta #bookstagram #bookstsgrammer #booksuniteus #fiction #literaryfiction #readtogether

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“She’d searched him intently, her eyes peeking from behind the bangs she kept intending to get trimmed, the said, “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done.” In one fell swoop, she bestowed a forgiveness on Julian he’d been trying - and failing - to find for twenty-five years.” Kristin Koval, Penitence

🎉🎉 Happy Pub Day 🎉🎉

Thank you @celadonbooks #partner for this advance copy of:

Penitence by Kristin Koval
Pub date: 1/28/2025

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This powerful read combines guilt, family, forgiveness, love, loss and plenty of ‘what ifs’ to fill a stadium. So much pain, so much history - what’s the way out? The only way out, is through.

“Some of the defining moments in life are nothing close to moments. They are instead the accumulated debris of personal history that reaches a tipping point, debris that weighs too much and topples over, or extends too high in the sky and simply falls back to the ground, brought down by gravity or hubris or simply the knowledge thta this is the wrong place in the universe.”

DESCRIPTION:
For readers of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitence is a poignant exploration of love and forgiveness. It’s a suspenseful, addictive page-turner filled with literary insight that compels readers to consider whether each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Thanks to the group of readers I enjoyed the ride with in this story!

@k2reader
@tammyreads62
@littlefreelibrarybythebeach
@saraplanzreadz

#celadonreadstogether #booksbooksbooks #penitence #kristinkoval #celadon #celadonbooks #heyjudereads #justbooksbookstagram #debutnovel #buddyread #buddyreads #reading #readingbuddies #alwaysreading #readtogether

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Thank you @celadonbooks #partner for this advance copy of:

Penitence by Kristin Koval
Pub date: 1/28/2025

DESCRIPTION:
For readers of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitence is a poignant exploration of love and forgiveness. It’s a suspenseful, addictive page-turner filled with literary insight that compels readers to consider whether each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn’t just legal counsel—she’s also the mother of Angie’s first love, Julian, a now-successful New York City criminal defense attorney. As Julian and Angie confront their shared past and long-buried guilt from a tragic accident years ago, they must navigate their own culpability and the unresolved feelings between them.

Spanning decades, from the ski slopes of rural Colorado to the streets of post-9/11 New York City and back again, Kristin Koval’s debut novel Penitence is an examination of the complexities of familial loyalty, the journey of redemption, and the profound experience of true forgiveness.

Thoroughly enjoying this read with all my book friends below:

@k2reader
@tammyreads62
@littlefreelibrarybythebeach
@saraplanzreadz

Interested? This hits shelves 1/28/25.

#celadonreadstogether #booksbooksbooks #penitence #kristinkoval #celadon #celadonbooks #heyjudereads #justbooksbookstagram #debutnovel #buddyread #buddyreads #reading #readingbuddiesr #alwaysreading #readtogether

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We’re loving these photos of our latest Book Club pick on your bookshelves! Thank you for all the support we’ve received thus far since our announcement. Leave a 👋🏾 if you’ve watched our first episode of “Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks” featuring Claire Keegan! #ReadWithUs

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📸: @saraplanzreadz
📸: @but_make_it_fiction

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🎉📚Congratulations to the winners📚🎉
And a special "Woo-Hoo!" to the Grand Prize Winners!
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little recap besties 💗🦋💐✨🪻☀️🧁

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😱 Mid Year Freakout 😱

Thank you for tagging me in another awesome challenge @lauraslilibrary

📖Favorite books so far:
What We’ll Burn Last by Heather Chavez. Funny Story by Emily Henry. Grey After Dark By Noelle Ihli. This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

📖Best Sequel: This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan. Finlay Donavan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano

📖New Release you haven’t read: This list is endless and embarrassingly long.

📖Most Anticipated Release the 2nd half of the year: What the Wife Knew By Darby Kane

📖Biggest Disappointment: Never by Jessa Hastings

📖Biggest Surprise: The Last Murder at the End of the World. I didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did. It was good!!

📖New Favorite Author: Lucinda Berry

📖New Fictional Crush: none. I read so many thrillers. They’re the opposite of book boyfriends 😆

📖A book that made you cry: I don’t cry when I read but This Could Be Us pulled at my heart strings.

📖A book that made you Happy: Funny Story

📖Most beautiful addition to your shelf : The Head the Heart and the Heir by Alice Hanov. It’s so pretty!

📖Books to read 2nd half of 2024: The Return of Ellie Black, Bodies to Die for, The Family Experiment & Bad Tourists

QOTD : Answer any of the prompts above!

Using an old picture because it is 530 am and I have no clue what other picture to use 😅

#bookworm #bookchallenge #challenge #bookshelf #allthebooks #booksbooksbooks #midyear #lipsticktoliterature #bookstack

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