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Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Talia Samuels’s The Christmas Swap (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm)
Jen - William Gibson’s Neuromancer (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm)
Our Reading Challenges for 2024
Ashley's Reading Challenges -
M. Judson Challenge (Greenville, SC Independent Bookstore)
Jen's Reading Challenges -
Tournament of Books & Camp ToB
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
Biblio Lifestyle (maybe)
Other Mentions
Spotlight
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Bookish Check-in
Ashley was reading...
Talia Samuels’s The Christmas Swap (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm)
From the Publisher:
"Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect manor, and Ben gets a fake girlfriend for his holiday at home with his family.
"Upon arriving to the manor, Margot meets Ben’s sister, Ellie, who is suspicious of the supposed relationship right from the start. Ellie intends to get to the bottom of their relationship, not being able to see how the two of them work as a couple. As Ellie and Margot grow closer, will Ben and Margot be able to keep the charade up, or will Margot and Ellie risk the chance at something real?"
Jen was reading...
William Gibson’s Neuromancer (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm)
From the Publisher:
"Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
"Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations."
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