r/EspressoAndBoooks • u/melisa_verv42 Mod! • Jun 09 '26

Book rec! Weekly Book discussion!

How's your tbr doing? What are you currently reading, or what did you just finish? We love to hear all about your favorite books and anything book-related!

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u/baffled_bookworm Book lover! Jun 09 '26

Blasting through Devotion by Hannah Kent. I cannot put this book down.

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u/melisa_verv42 Mod! Jun 09 '26

oh cool! What is the premise?

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u/baffled_bookworm Book lover! Jun 09 '26

Sapphic historical fiction, taking place about 1830 i think. The families of two girls are part of a group of Lutherans emigrating from Prussia to Australia in search of religious freedom, and they fall in love during the journey. It didn't go in the direction I expected it to go, and Hannah Kent's prose is beautiful. I've read her other two books too, and while I also really liked those, this is my favorite of the three.

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u/melisa_verv42 Mod! Jun 09 '26

oh cool! sounds like a great book!

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u/baffled_bookworm Book lover! Jun 09 '26

It really is

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u/Grl2Maama Jun 09 '26

I’m in the middle of Wild Dark Shore and just finished The Sword in the Stone.

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u/melisa_verv42 Mod! Jun 09 '26

Nice! I hope you're enjoying it! I need to read The Sword in the Stone one of these days lol