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txwhitedove

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2. Lovely day to you. Now reading a new author to me, Chris Whitaker, with a different cadence.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2025, 01:26 PM

Jun 1

We Begin at the End, had me hooked on first page. Spare but sharp, can it be like a Jackson Pollack painting, splat, dribble, wow? "Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids." Author is award winner and I'll be searching for more of his books.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? [View all] hermetic Jun 1 OP

I finished Isola by Allegra Goodman. mentalsolstice Jun 1 #1

I was pleasantly surprised hermetic Jun 1 #6

Lovely day to you. Now reading a new author to me, Chris Whitaker, with a different cadence. txwhitedove Jun 1 #2

That one sounds good! mentalsolstice Jun 1 #4

Any corporate owned US news paper I peruse in the library. nt ImNotGod Jun 1 #3

Horse/Geraldine Brooks cbabe Jun 1 #5

And then the ending... hermetic Jun 3 #7

Yes, the ending is very dark. cbabe Jun 3 #8