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this is my sign to finally pick up enter ghost!

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very very worth picking up!!

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girl you’ve gotta do it

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W&T is also a fav of the year for me thank you Martha!! 🫶🏼

Yes I read educated and yes I felt it missed a few steps, excellent way of putting it I now trust you implicitly with all things - bang up job!! Can’t wait to see what you read in 2025 and cheers to another year accepting whatever technological crumbs Goodreads continues to give us because I just don’t understand why StoryGraph is so white (like white space on the page) 🍻

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my only wish for goodreads is that it never changes and continues to be deeply bad at recommending or selling me things.

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"I could, of course, simply read books and keep no records, live truthfully and freely in the universe." Keep that chaotic freedom away from me! I really enjoyed the attention to detail in this post. Different to other plonk it all down with no context list.

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thank you! i do live to give context to things (maybe part of the list-drive)!

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Lol! I guess I was wrong--it is possible to enjoy Small Rain even if you're not friends with the author and/or being paid to review it ;)

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ha! i can assure you there’s at least one (i haven’t read it to weigh in on the matter)

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I have a special fondness for short books so definitely going to add The Odd Woman and the City to my TBR for next year. Do you know of any similar books set in Toronto?

Also love the washi tape and how written-in and used your diary looks. That's how diaries are meant to be!

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i wish there were similar books in toronto! the first book that comes to mind is quality time by suzannah showler, which is not similar in content but is city-specific, capturing 2014 era toronto nostalgia (it has a surreal subplot i totally skipped tho)

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The blurb is interesting. Slotting it in the ‘might read one day’ pile. Gornick, however, is a definite.

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Seeing 3 (I won’t claim Intermezzo influence bc that would be… ridiculous) Martha’s monthly recs in your top favourites fills me with immense pleasure Laurel! We have 3 overlapping favs (enter ghost, intermezzo & W&T!!!) I’m not sharing my list till next year but I loved this. Your explanation of goodreads also really made me laugh - my god is it a shit site but it’s a loveable shit. Tell your v eloquent housemate she has sold Small Rain to me!!!! I’ve actually never bothered to read what it’s about before (that’s on me - I hate the title and the cover I’m ngl) but I am sold!

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heartened to be so Aligned on favourites!!! all three are so good. i need to get to small rain myself!

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