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My top three books, out of 16 completed, would have to be:

Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese (Bingo: last year’s TBR or Your Choice)

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby (Bingo: memoir or NYT NF)

Both of those were brilliant and a third pick…

BitterSweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make us Whole by Susan Cain (Bingo: Oprah, fave author recommendation, or NYT NF bestseller)

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All of these sound interesting -- I’ve had Bittersweet on my radar too. I’m still trying to narrow down my NF pick!!

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Well ya can’t go wrong with any of these 😂 As you can see I’m keeping my titles flexible as to where they land. I got a bit crazy after committing to your book bingo and added 2 other challenges 🙈 I don’t even read enough in a year to fulfill them all. But I’m proceeding with curiosity and seeing how many challenge categories I can fill even if a single book covers several-- which they inevitably do!

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😂😂 I do the same thing so often! Go crazy and overcommit. As long as I’m having fun, though, I think that’s perfect fine! 😃

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🙈🥰😜

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by Shinjini

I loved The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams, and an ARC called The Right Wrong Number (Katie Warren).

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The story line of The Right Wrong Number seems somewhat similar to the promos of a movie releasing next month called Love Again. Reminds me of something Elizabeth Gilbert wrote about ideas and how they travel in Big Magic.

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My favourite recent book is English Pastoral by James Redbanks I also enjoyed the first two volumes of the

Raven and Fisher novels- the way of all Flesh and the art of Dying by Ambrose Parry

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Raven and Fisher sounds very intriguing -- I’m going to take a look see.

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They are murder mysteries set in Victorian Edinburgh. Many of the characters and events are factual with a story woven around them.

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I love everything about this!

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The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

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Ooh! Some very interesting titles and authors I haven’t heard of. I’m going to check all of these out. Thanks for sharing!!

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by Shinjini

30 Things I Love About Myself by Radhika Sanghani, Stealing like an artist and Show your work by Austin Kleon

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Steal Like an Artist is a great little book! I have Show Your Work on my TBR; plan to dive into it soon!

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