my books of the year!

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i read double my goal this year & im feeling so accomplished! i got a Kobo for Christmas & have already read a whole book. So excited to see how my '25 reads go!!!

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another May read

THE CIRCLE - DAVE EGGERS

☆☆☆☆.⁵

"When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime - even as life beyond campus grows distant, even as a strage encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge."

My notes:

another book under the belt !!

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RED AT THE BONE - JACQUELINE WOODSON

"Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson’s. taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody’s mother, for her own ceremony– a celebration that ultimately never took place.

Unfurling the history of Melody’s family – reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 – to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they’ve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives–even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be."

R8: ☆☆☆☆☆