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Feb 22, 2022Liked by Elizabeth

I'm two books into the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers and they're wonderful. I think I fell in love about 50 pages into the first book. They'll forever have a home on my shelf!

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I keep hearing great things about these. Maybe they'll be my foray into sci fi.

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Feb 23, 2022·edited Feb 23, 2022

For sure. I’m terrible at describing things but they’re an easy to understand and follow sci fi…comforting and home-y, if that makes sense. Some in the genre feel too big and over my head but these just clicked.

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Looking forward to everyone's recommendations. I think the last series I read was A Series of Unfortunate Events with my kids 10 years ago!

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My favorite series (besides Anne of Green Gables) is Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries. So good, so delicious, so homey.

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I love these books! So comforting for being books about murder.

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Love this!

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This was a great issue, Elizabeth! I am a huge fan of mystery series and just put The Widows of Malabar Hill on hold at the library -- I've never heard of the Perveen Mistry series and am excited to see if I like them.

Also, Mother Bruce -- YES!

Also, also, I'd read anything Olivia recommends -- she's awesome and really knows her stuff. If you know anyone who has middle-grade kids in their lives, I can't recommend her newsletter enough.

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The only two good things about this February is that it is going by pretty quickly, and this newsletter! Thank you for the shout out today. It's a HUGE honor!!!!

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Aw, I'm blushing.

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Yes, yes, yes! The Brown Sisters series is basically perfection. I think I’m with you on Chloe’s story being my fave.

Alisha Rai’s Modern Love series is another good one with smart, vulnerable women and very excellent spicy scenes.

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Sorry, it's not in english, but it's a Weekly Series about true love: https://byyourside.substack.com/

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