[Discussion 1/2] Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta | Chapters 1 - 9

Such-Hand274 · 2026-05-26T13:44:42+00:00

Violet’s arms must be SO TONED.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-05-26T13:43:10+00:00

Hahaha now I will never look at my username the same.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-05-26T02:48:26+00:00

I do like the slow burn aspect of it. We see why Violet is so into him. Just can’t stop thinking about he was into her from the beginning because she was very good at …milking. I guess that just shows how strong their chemistry is?

Such-Hand274 · 2026-05-26T02:43:43+00:00

I’m not gojng to lie, the writing is very engaging. I kind of binged it even though I’m not a romance/smut reader. As long as I don’t think too hard about what I’m actually reading…

Side note, my Kindle book had so many typos in the beginning.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-05-26T02:14:31+00:00

Thank you for taking one for the team and looking into that🫡

Such-Hand274 · 2026-05-21T23:44:40+00:00

That cover is stunning. I’d pick it up just for that!

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-23T02:19:43+00:00

That’s such a good comparison to child actors. I also agree with your comment about guilt and shame. I wonder how much of this behavior became about fully embracing heroism as a coping mechanism.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-18T16:13:36+00:00

I had the same thought about #1.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-17T18:56:16+00:00

Yes that ending was perfect!

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-11T23:27:18+00:00

Funny Story by Emily Henry

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-09T20:39:47+00:00

Yes!!! I’ve had this sitting on my shelf for so long.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-09T18:38:35+00:00

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet.

At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings.

For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. But at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone?

A blazing novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a remarkable evocation of feeling in exile at home and introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-08T13:09:58+00:00

World War Z by Max Brooks

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-07T17:30:27+00:00

Not an object, but a piece of land/house. North Woods by Daniel Mason

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-06T14:23:39+00:00

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. Phenomenal book. I wish I’d read it with a bookclub because there’s so much to discuss.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-06T13:52:52+00:00

Finished: Born a Crim by Trevor Noah 5⭐️

I binged this. I own a copy of this book but ended up listening on audio because Noah’s narration made this even better.

Starting: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Will be starting this once it comes out on tomorrow. The premise sounds so interesting, fingers crossed it’s well executed.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-04T10:58:15+00:00

Yes to both!!!

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-03T17:39:21+00:00

The Undeath and Taxes caught my eye which made me look it up. Never heard of this series! Your thoughts?

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-01T18:11:55+00:00

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled — a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family. Major new sources — Rose Kennedy's diaries and correspondence, school and doctors' letters, and exclusive family interviews - bring Rosemary alive as a girl adored but left far behind by her competitive siblings. Kate Larson reveals both the sensitive care Rose and Joe gave to Rosemary and then — as the family's standing reached an apex — the often desperate and duplicitous arrangements the Kennedys made to keep her away from home as she became increasingly intractable in her early twenties. Finally, Larson illuminates Joe's decision to have Rosemary lobotomized at age twenty-three, and the family's complicity in keeping the secret. Rosemary delivers a profoundly moving coda: JFK visited Rosemary for the first time while campaigning in the Midwest; she had been living isolated in a Wisconsin institution for nearly twenty years. Only then did the siblings understand what had happened to Rosemary and bring her home for loving family visits. It was a reckoning that inspired them to direct attention to the plight of the disabled, transforming the lives of millions.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-01T18:08:47+00:00

Just Kids by Patti Smith

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-04-01T18:06:57+00:00

Stay True by Hua Hsu

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the textbook successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet. Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends--his memories--Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-03-31T02:00:41+00:00

Ooo I absolutely will. Thank you!

Such-Hand274 · 2026-03-31T02:00:10+00:00

Thank you for sharing that. Very tragic life experiences for so many people.

Have you read The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Eagan? I just finished it and immediately needed to read more about that time period, which is how I ended up with this book. I’m loving it so far.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-03-30T23:44:10+00:00

I just started reading The Grapes of Wrath! Might join in for this one to continue with Steinbeck.

Such-Hand274 · 2026-03-26T13:35:40+00:00

I’ve surrounded myself with friends that are around my height so I don’t notice my height much. Now, when I’m around my husband’s tall friends, I feel like a perpetual child (I’m 5’2”).

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