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Valentines | Ted Kooser
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For Valentine?s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote ?Pocket Poem? and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women all over the United States. Valentines collects Kooser?s twenty-two years of Valentine?s Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. Kooser?s valentine poems encompass all the facets of the holiday: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing. Some of the poems use the word valentine, others do not, but there is never any doubt as to the purpose of Kooser?s creations.
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DebinHawaii
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Thank you for all of the lovely #ValentineCardSwap cards & also the many accompanying stickers, bookmarks & other fun treats. They were a pleasure to look at & hang up at the end of a long workday Valentine‘s Day! 💕💖💕

 @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @quietjenn @dabbe @kspenmoll @BookwormAHN @Texreader
@Cuilin @Crazeedi @KadaGul @Deblovestoread @WildAlaskaBibliophile @Laughterhp

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 💞 9mo
Texreader Happy Valentines Day!! 💝 9mo
BookwormAHN 🤍💕🤍 9mo
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TheBookHippie 💕♥️💕 9mo
Cuilin 🩷🩷🩷 9mo
Crazeedi The swap was awesome 💝💝💝 9mo
dabbe 💟💟💟 9mo
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peaKnit
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1. I did send and give a few to friends and my daughters. I gave cookies in heart bags to my friend, @JenReadsAlot and the fam. My college kid got a nice care package today.
2. No, I think there are many people out there you never meet so one soulmate seems stingy, limiting :)
3. Knitting and reading all day with a nice dinner in, followed by pinball or other adventure.
@Eggs - thank you, I look forward to this every week🥰 #wondrouswednesday

Eggs Thanks for playing and I hope your day was great♥️ 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 💞 9mo
JenReadsAlot The cookies were delicious!! 9mo
peaKnit @JenReadsAlot thanks! Not sure it was smart to make during a sugar detox lol. But I‘m grateful people were willing to take them off my hands❤️ 9mo
JenReadsAlot I would be more than willing to take those off your hands anytime!! 9mo
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Texreader
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TheBookHippie ♥️💕♥️💕♥️ 9mo
dabbe Shoot, mine'll be late! 🩷 9mo
Eggs ♥️💞❤️💞🩷 9mo
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BookwormAHN 🩷🤍❤️ 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 💞 9mo
Cuilin 🩷🩷🩷 9mo
Crazeedi 💝💝💝💝 9mo
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Texreader
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I‘ve been collecting my litsy mail to open today! I‘m so excited!! #valentinescardswap #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie 💕♥️💕 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 💞 9mo
Crazeedi I did the same, had a great V day opening and savoring from my dear friends here 9mo
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dabbe
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Crazeedi ❤️❤️❤️ 9mo
TheBookHippie 💕💕💕💕💕💕 9mo
dabbe @Crazeedi 🤩😍😘 9mo
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dabbe @TheBookHippie Thanks for organizing this, Christine. As I've said before ... #yourock ❤️💜🩷 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 🩷 9mo
dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You, too. 🩷 9mo
BookwormAHN ❤️🤍❤️ 9mo
Eggs ♥️💕❤️💕🩷 9mo
Cuilin 🩷🩷🩷 9mo
dabbe @BookwormAHN 💟💟💟 9mo
dabbe @Eggs 💟💟💟 9mo
dabbe @Cuilin 💟💟💟 P.S. I emailed you back! 🤩 9mo
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dabbe
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#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs 😘

1. Yep ... quite a few, both ecards and snail mail cards.
2. I believe in all kinds of possible connections, and not necessarily just the passionate-love kind.
3. My #weirdword of the day: BED ROTTING with Matt + the pups. 😍

Anyone want to play? All are welcome! ❤️💜🩷

Eggs Bed rotting 🤣😂 Thx for playing ♥️ 9mo
dabbe @Eggs 🤩😍😂 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love it! Bed rotting! 😂 9mo
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Mimi28 Thank you for the Valentine‘s Day e-card and physical card! You are so sweet 🩷🩷🫶🏽🫶🏽 9mo
dabbe @Mimi28 💟💟💟 9mo
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Tamra
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Here is an example of the line drawings by Robert Hanna, a Great Plains artist, that are included in Valentines. Kooser is from Nebraska.

I love the prairie landscape and to see how nature reclaims homesteads. ❤️

dabbe One of my fave poets. ❤️💜🩷 9mo
Tamra @dabbe he‘s wonderful! 9mo
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Tamra
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Ted Kooser is a wonderful poet! He writes a lot about the natural world and the simplicity of his writing makes his work accessible. Here is a poem from his little Valentine volume.

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ElizaMarie
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💕🦞

Crazeedi Happy Valentine's day to you Eliza!💝 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day!! 9mo
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Leftcoastzen
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Maybe you have a date with your special person or maybe you have a date with a bookstore,or both!
Happy Valentines Day , everybody !❤️❤️❤️📚🎁

vivastory Happy Valentine's Day. Hope it's a good one 🙂 9mo
AmyG Happy Valentine‘s Day! ❤️ 9mo
Ruthiella Happy Valentine‘s Day 💘 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 💞 9mo
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LiseWorks
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AmyG Happy Valentines Day! ❤️ 9mo
Eggs Happy 🩵 Day Lise❣️ 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💕💕💕 9mo
bthegood 💕 💕 9mo
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Susanita
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🩷 Not this year
🩵 Maybe?
❤️ A road trip to a nice country inn for dinner
#wondrouswednesday

Eggs Thanks for joining in🥰 9mo
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julieclair
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#LitsyLove valentines went out yesterday. Fingers crossed they arrive by tomorrow! 🤞💌📪💖

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KLyn1
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1. Celebrate my dog's 2 year "gotcha day" - no real specific celebration until Saturday
2. Hmmm, nothing specific to recommend - maybe a Katherine Center, Emily Henry, or Abby Jimenez book ?

@TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! Happy Valentine's Day 9mo
KLyn1 @TheSpineView - ty, you too!! 9mo
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dabbe
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#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

1. We might go to lunch, and we're exchanging cards. 😍
2. From the Nebraska Press: “For Valentine‘s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years ... ⬇️

dabbe ... Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women all over the United States. Kooser‘s valentine poems encompass all the facets of the holiday: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing.“

Hence the tagged book, VALENTINES. ❤️💜🩷

Play? @TexReader @CBee @AmyG
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IndoorDame How cool! I had no idea! 9mo
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AmyG Thanks for the tag! 9mo
TheSpineView Thanks for playing and have a wonderful Valentine's Day 9mo
dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️💜🩷 9mo
dabbe @IndoorDame 🤩😍😃 9mo
dabbe @AmyG 😘 9mo
dabbe @TheSpineView You, too! ❤️💜🩷 9mo
AnnCrystal 👏how awesome, thank you for sharing about this one ☺️👍. (edited) 9mo
dabbe @AnnCrystal He's one of my favorite poets. ❤️💜🩷 9mo
AnnCrystal @dabbe I checked into this a little last night, and I gotta say, his wife had patience...wow 📝☺️💝. 9mo
dabbe @AnnCrystal 🤩😍😂 9mo
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WildAlaskaBibliophile
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The first of my #ValentineCardSwap Valentines have arrived, and I was very excited to bust out my handmade Valentine bag from last year to put them in. I'm going to wait until Valentine's Day to open them all. 🥰💓💌📮@thebookhippie

robinb Love your bag!!! 💙 9mo
TheBookHippie Yay!!! How fun!! 9mo
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Texreader
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Valentines going in the mail tomorrow!

#valentinecardswap #litsylove

Deblovestoread Adorable! 10mo
Daisey Look great as always! 10mo
Gissy 😍👌 10mo
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ElizaMarie Such talent! 10mo
AmyG Those are just lovely! 10mo
TheBookHippie Yay!!! So pretty! 10mo
Eggs Beautiful❤️❤️ 10mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous 💗💗 10mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 10mo
julieclair So pretty! 10mo
peanutnine These are SO cute! 😍 10mo
Sleepswithbooks You are so talented!!! 10mo
Texreader @Deblovestoread @Daisey @Gissy @ElizaMarie @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @dabbe @julieclair @peanutnine @Sleepswithbooks Thanks so much y‘all! These were especially fun to make and I love that I get to share them with my Litten friends! ❤️❤️❤️ 9mo
Eggs How beautiful 😍 9mo
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peaKnit
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#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1. Every year my dad gives me a large heart filled with chocolate and I love receiving it, the tradition of it. 🩷I love to give treats to others for Valentines/Galentine‘s - I‘m so caught up in red and pink, I miss helping my kids make their valentines boxes 🩷
2. I love a good coming of age story, The Body by Stephen King which Stand by Me was based. Chris and Gordy.
Thank you for the tag @Kshakal

Tamra Ted Kooser is a wonderful poet. ❤️ Your post reminds me to reread his collections! I was just asking my teens if they miss school valentines & boxes. I miss it more than they do! 😭 (edited) 10mo
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 10mo
dabbe Ted Kooser is a FAVE! ❤️💜🩷 10mo
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dabbe
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#ValentineCardSwap

Cards going out tomorrow! Thanks for putting this together, @TheBookHippie! #allyouneedislove #ofanykind #passiton 🩷❤️💜

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 10mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie ❤️💜💜 10mo
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LiseWorks
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#LitsyLoveBingo @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Mailed the first Valentine card today. Another bingo spot for this month's bingo.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome!! 👏🏻 10mo
julieclair Hooray! 💖 10mo
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dabbe
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I signed up! You should, too! I can't tell you how happy the #wintercardswap and #MidwinterSolsticecardswap made me feel! This activity is guaranteed to make you feel 💜🩶💜!!!

Reposting for @TheBookHippie
#VALENTINECARDSWAP

Sign up until January 30
List goes out January 31

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdv65jgsKdN7oQm7KQ-lOASd5j06v28wntPHn2w...

💌everyone welcome ♥️

Texreader I‘m going to try to squeeze in signing up tonight 10mo
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WildAlaskaBibliophile
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I've signed up! Will you? #Valentinecardswap hosted by @thebookhippie ❤️💌📮🌹
Sign ups at: https://forms.gle/rJAo6LuBW48Xk2sd6

TheBookHippie Thanks for the repost!!! 10mo
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bcncookbookclub
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I just received some of the lovely cards I'm waiting for🤩 both of them so sweet and with a handmade touch...

So thanks, @catsandbooks @chrissyreadit @staycurious
#valentinescardswap

Chrissyreadit Im glad it got there! This was the oddest mail experience. 2y
Catsandbooks Glad it got there! 💕 2y
bcncookbookclub @Chrissyreadit I hope it was in the good way!!! 😅 Your card it's so cute! 2y
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SheReadsAndWrites
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I love my #muglove2023 mug - thank you so much! @Pigpen_Reads 💖

curiouserandcurioser @SheReadsAndWrites such a pretty mug!💜 2y
Pigpen_Reads I'm so glad you like it. I thought it was so pretty! 🥰 2y
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Mitch
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Oh @Crazeedi look what came today. I love it ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Crazeedi You are very special to me 💗 2y
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Tamra
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The cosmos is giving me some Valentine love for lunch today. 😍

Wishing everyone care & kindness today! 💕

Tamra P.S. Kooser is a wonderful poet! 2y
LeahBergen Happy Valentine‘s Day! ❤️ 2y
AmyG Ha! Happy Valentine‘s Day ❤️ 2y
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Ruthiella Perfect! Happy Valentines Day! ❤️ 2y
Christine Nice one, universe! 💝 2y
erzascarletbookgasm Haha! Cool! ♥️ 2y
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MittenGirlPeach
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Happy Valentine‘s Day, dear littens. It was a tough night in my beloved Michigan. Our loved ones are safe; thinking of those who aren‘t. But it was a gorgeous sunrise, and here we are. 🧡

dabbe Thinking of all of you in MI; my husband and my whole family is from there. 💔 2y
MittenGirlPeach @dabbe thank you so much! 🧡 2y
kspenmoll Thinking of you during this tragic time. Sending 💜💙💛 2y
MittenGirlPeach @kspenmoll 🧡🧡🧡 2y
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BarkingMadRead
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TheSpineView 💞💞💞 2y
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MittenGirlPeach
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I‘m in! I fell down on the last couple of readathons—grrr—so I‘m gearing up for a good second half of February. My goal is finishing my current read (Jerusalem Inn) + two more: And Justice There is None & Other Birds.

Andrew65 Great to have you with us, good luck ❤️ 2y
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Texreader
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Thank you Jennifer for my first Valentine of the year! Yours is on its way. #litsylove @jdiehr

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m behind!!! ❤️❤️ 2y
jdiehr 🥰 2y
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MittenGirlPeach
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Your packages have shipped, @Littlewolf1 ! Mine should be there Thursday (pictured) and your other package should arrive this week too. It‘s coming from an Etsy shop in Kansas. #MugLove23

Cinfhen Super exciting!!!! Thanks for the update ❤️ 2y
Littlewolf1 I revised it today… yours should be there by Monday 2y
MittenGirlPeach @Littlewolf1 I‘m so glad you received it! I‘ll look for mine; that sounds great. Your other package should be to you on Monday as well. 2y
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ChelseaM6010
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Catsandbooks Hooray! 💖 2y
Pigpen_Reads 😊🩷 2y
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Catsandbooks
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Another adorable valentine arrived! ❤️ Thanks Chelsea!
#Valentinecardswap

peanutnine Can I ask what your coffee cup says? I'm so curious 😅 2y
ChelseaM6010 You‘re welcome! 🙂 2y
Catsandbooks @peanutnine if you're referring to the marker it says "I've got my chai on you" which is the name of a special drink for Valentine's Day that has Chai and raspberry. If you're referring to the sticker on the coffee collar it's my local coffee shop that I love- Caffe Paradiso. I can take a better picture of it next time I'm there. Which will be next week cause I'm there at least once a week ? 2y
peanutnine @Catsandbooks I was referring to the marker. I love a punny name!! 😂 Sounds like a great local place ☺️ 2y
Catsandbooks @peanutnine me too! They do fun stuff for every holiday and season! 2y
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LiseWorks
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Lots of Valentine's going out today to my LitsyLove Friends. @StayCurious @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I am so blessed by this group

StayCurious Wow! 2y
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Graciouswarriorprincess
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My February display at the library. I love doing the displays and my job!

ChasingOm I love the conversation heart puns!! 😂 2y
Graciouswarriorprincess @ChasingOm It was fun coming up with the puns! 🤣 2y
Clwojick The puns! 😍😍😍 2y
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Catsandbooks
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The first cards to arrive! #Valentinecardswap 💕
So cute! And thank you for the stickers!

TheBookHippie ♥️💌♥️ 2y
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StayCurious
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@Catsandbooks I‘m sending several of my cards out in the mail tomorrow for #Valentinecardswap - the rest will go out on Tuesday as they‘ll require a bit of extra postage and I need to go to the post office. 💜♥️❤️

Catsandbooks Terrific! 💖💌 2y
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ChelseaM6010
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Sent out my valentines yesterday for the #ValentineCardSwap 🙂 I went with cute/goofy cards 😂🙂

Catsandbooks Fantastic! 💖💌 2y
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Catsandbooks
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I've always wanted to try a mystery book date!
Thanks for hosting @Rachel.Rencher 💕
#bookishcouplevalentine

Rachel.Rencher 🥰🥰🥰 2y
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robinb
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Thanks so much for the sweet Valentines card @jenniferw88 ! It made me smile. 😊

#ValentineCardSwap

@LibrarianRyan

LibrarianRyan Yeah. Hey @jenniferw88 I got mine this weekend too! 3y
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jenniferw88
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Cards, stickers & bookmark received so far - thank you all so much! #valentinescardswap. Mine finally went out today!

@DebinHawaii @Butterfinger @LibrarianRyan (your watercolouring is MUCH better than mine, so don't apologise! 🤣) @aroc @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @Christyco125 @Chrissyreadit

Not pictured: @Sleepswithbooks @TheBookHippie .

And we're still finding ❤ everywhere - it's like glitter at Christmas 🤣🤣🤣 ⬇️

jenniferw88 ⬆️ I'm not complaining but it's driving Dad up the wall, so it's quite funny! 3y
LibrarianRyan Yeahh.. Glad people are finally getting my mail. Heck I just got mail last night for the first time in 2 weeks. 3y
Chrissyreadit ❤️ 3y
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bookish_wookish
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Thank you for all the Valentines and stickers and tea! #litsyvalentineswap

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Christyco125
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They keep trickling in. I ❤️ it. Such a welcomed surprise in the mailbox.

#VCS #ValentineCardSwap

Avanders 💖💖 3y
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RamsFan1963
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♥️ Sadly, no. I'm on a #bookbuyingdiet so no purchases for myself, and no Valentine to buy one for.
♥️ I avoid romantic tropes when possible.
Wanna play? @BookLineNSinker @llwheeler @coreyanne @AmandaBlaze @Kyndrill @Bookwormjillk @paperwitchs @sarahbellum @audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

RaeLovesToRead My friends laughed at me when I said I was on a "money diet"... I'm glad to find someone else who uses the phrase! (As with all my diets, my book buying diet starts.... tomorrow!) ? 3y
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 3y
Bookwormjillk Thanks for the tag! No books for me, maybe I should buy myself one! 3y
RamsFan1963 @Bookwormjillk I think you should, it definitely falls under the category of self care. 3y
sarahbellum Not big into Valentines Day, so no new books here. Also not a big romance fan, so no favorite troupes either haha 🙃. Congrats on the Rams win! (edited) 3y
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