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Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury
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Tamra
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🌞 Each chapter is a time capsule of a summer day, like each bottle of dandelion wine. Simply lovely nostalgia.

Highly recommended for a seasonal read as a reminder to RELISH 😉 summer.

Note: do not go into this book expecting a traditional plotted novel. Each chapter is a vignette with overlapping characters and setting.

Tamra Oh, and now I want to try dandelion wine! 6mo
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Tamra
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 7mo
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Tamra
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Aside from Fahrenheit 451 in another lifetime, I don‘t believe I‘ve read anything else by Bradbury. This is the choice for my next IRL bookclub; one of the members rereads it each spring. 🤞🏾 I‘m not usually too keen on child protagonists, but I have read in reviews the language is enchanting.

KathyWheeler The language is enchanting. I listened to it, which I think enhanced that part of it. 7mo
AlaMich I love his short stories. I‘ve never read his novels; I should fix that. 7mo
Tamra @AlaMich this “novel” is a series of connected short stories about a boy‘s summer. Maybe give it a go! (edited) 7mo
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Blueberry
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I'm going to give this a try. I've been having a hard time settling on a book to read.

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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Wine 🍷 #LuckyInLove 💋👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻💌💘

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Eggs Perfect 🌼👌🏼🍷 10mo
vivastory High-Rise! 10mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome cover 💚🤍 10mo
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Bookish_Gal
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I was so confused like 75% of the time, yet I couldn‘t stop listening. The ways the words flowed together was poetic. Bradbury has an incredible way with words, in a way that feels deep. Deeper than a usual way, though sometimes too deep to understand. This story was about a boy going through an intense summer. Between the happiness machine, an old love waxing and waning for the next life, and something about grief.

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Eggs
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1* “Energy or matter can neither be created nor destroyed”, ergo it seems unthinkable that the end is really the end. Or at least we console ourselves with that thought. The finest, most lovely description of after-death I‘ve ever heard is in the tagged book in the chapter about great grandmother ‘s death.
2* Reincarnation v time travel-compatible or synonymous???
3* Is it possible to function without ego?Can one be successful without it?Are we⬇️

Eggs …born with it? How much ego is enough? That‘s more like 5 questions 🤔 #TLT curious about… 10mo
Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! 10mo
TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!💜🏷 10mo
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Velvetfur Oh that fascinates me about energy - the only thing animating this collection of bones, muscles etc is electrical impulses in the brain, and electricity doesn't die, so when we stop animating this lump of flesh surely we move on to somewhere else....? A new body, to start a new life all over again? That's how I think of it anyway! Thanks for the thought-inspiration for the day ☺️ 10mo
TheLudicReader My mom always used to say what you‘ve said in #1. ❤️ 10mo
Eggs @Velvetfur Thanks for your comment and insight 👏🏻👏🏻 10mo
Eggs @TheLudicReader ☺️🥰 10mo
dabbe #1: In one of the books I read that made me a doubter (50 REASONS PEOPLE GIVE FOR BELIEVING IN GOD), this idea was scientifically explained, and it made me feel so much better about death and my loved ones who are gone. Their energy is still here, just in a different form. That brings such solace to my 💜!
#s 2 and 3: #mindblown 🤩
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TieDyeDude I should give Dandelion Wine another try. I was listening on audio just after we moved, but I think I was too distracted with chores and tasks. I fluctuate between fascinated and apprehensive over the idea of death. 10mo
Eggs @dabbe Death v Life so mystical…again I defer to reincarnation/time travel so deftly handled between Bill Forester and Helen Loomis in 10mo
Eggs @TieDyeDude I think the audiobook has its merits but only after reading it slowly and imagining its scenarios. I hope you enjoy 😊 10mo
dabbe @Eggs 💜🩶💜 10mo
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Eggs
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1-Designs, Mom, things to make, places I‘ve loved, the past, the future, strategies, desserts, my husband RIP, ad infinitum….

2-The tagged makes me dream about simplicity, friendship, love, life, death, hope, forgiveness

Great questions Lisa ❤️❤️❤️

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

TheSpineView So many dreams! Thanks for playing! 10mo
Read4life Thanks for the tag! 10mo
Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! 💜 10mo
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dabbe Will do; thanks for the tag! 💜🩶💜 10mo
iread2much I daydream about hobbies I want to take up someday, about a new house, about trips I want to take, and sometimes about the books I‘m readings. Most fantasy books make me daydream, I like to wonder what it would be like to live in that world. 10mo
iread2much Thanks for the tag! 10mo
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Eggs
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This is book 1 of 3 in the Greentown series. Each time I read or listen, I find something new. Every piece of life‘s dreams, loves, fears, and even dying is celebrated poetically here. Reading this story about Greentown will make you feel fully alive!

#SeriesLove2023
#RushAThon Day 12
#Bookspinbingo

dabbe I must read this! I read SOMETHING WICKED last month and LOVED it. F451 is one of my all-time faves. When I introduced it as a young teacher (my 1st time teaching it to my 8th graders), I burned a real book in front of the class (an old beat-up one, but still!) And then I set the fire alarm off at the whole damn school. I had never asked permission; I just went ahead and did it. #oops 🤩 12mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 12mo
DieAReader @dabbe ❤️‍🔥😏😂 12mo
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Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏 12mo
TheSpineView Fantastic! 12mo
Eggs @dabbe Yikes 😳 📚🔥 12mo
Eggs @DieAReader 🤗🥰🤗 12mo
Eggs @Andrew65 🤗❤️🤗 12mo
Eggs @TheSpineView 🥰🩷🤗 12mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 12mo
GHABI4ROSES OOH! I dumped a Bradbury book, the one where the guy had to slap the lady a lot, a detective one. I could handle that but it was just so... black and white melodrama, I love that you are into this and I should try again. 12mo
Eggs @TheAromaofBooks 🩷🩷 12mo
Eggs @GHABI4ROSES What was the title? Not sure I know about the one you speak of 12mo
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GatheringBooks
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#HumbleHarvest Day 7: Dandelion #Wine. Ray Bradbury is a gift. Each time I read him, I look at the world through a poet‘s eyes. Everything is magnified as I taste Dandelion Wine and its summer energies filling every fibre of my being with sunlight and starshine. Salut. My full review of this unforgettable book: https://wp.me/pDlzr-5iL

Eggs Absolutely agree 💯!!! I read it every summer! Lovely photo🩷🩷 13mo
epsitawithane Wow.. looking beautiful. 13mo
GatheringBooks @epsitawithane awwww. Thank you! 💕 12mo
GatheringBooks @Eggs i should read more ray bradbury, clearly. 💕 12mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Wine 🍷 #HumbleHarvest 🍂☕️🧣🍁🥧🕯🍎

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful shelves 🍷 📚 13mo
Eggs Yay my pick too 🍷❤️🍇 13mo
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LiseWorks
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November 7 #HumbleHarvest Wine 🍷 I love dandelion wine, my mom made the best. I do t believe I have read this one from Ray Bradbury @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great choice! #greatminds 13mo
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Eggs
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LiseWorks My pick too! Love the cover if this one 13mo
Eggs @LiseWorks 🌼🌼 13mo
JuliaTheBookNerd This is a very popular pick today 🌼🍷😊 13mo
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Eggs @JuliaTheBookNerd 🍇🍷🍇 13mo
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank You 🙏🏻 I didn‘t have wine, so I used apple 🍎 juice! 13mo
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mdemanatee
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Today on YouTube I talk rereading my *least* favorite assigned reading for school.
https://youtu.be/6bCbkLdZeAU

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monalyisha
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Ignoring the specific prompts (sorry, @Eggs !), and just doing a sort-of catch-all Top 3:

1. “Stuff your eyes with wonder.” - Ray Bradbury

2. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still maintain the ability to function.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. “You can‘t learn the secrets of the universe on an empty stomach.” - Elizabeth: The Golden Age

#WondrousWednesday

Eggs From some of my favorite writers ✍🏻 👏🏻 1y
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SarahBookInterrupted
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It was very slow and read more like short stories. I think if it was a book of short stories I would have liked it more. I was waiting for the stories to come together in more of a clear plot. There were some real gems in this story. My favourite parts were the lawnmower, death at the ravine, the witch, love story of the old women, madam tarot, and great grandma‘s cooking. There are amazing and thought provoking parts in this book, so worth it.

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monalyisha
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Got a new keychain. Thanks, Ray Bradbury!

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bookaddict30
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Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was my first time reading a book by Ray Bradbury so i wasnt sure what to expect but i have to say i really enjoyed this one very much. The Characters were so interesting and intriguing to read about. I couldnt pick just one Character as my favorite since all of them were my favorite.

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bookaddict30
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Currently Reading
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.

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JessClark78
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September pick for #12BooksOf2022

Andrew65 Another popular book. 2y
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JessClark78
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Pickpick

This was a reread. A very enjoyable novel.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Eggs
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I‘ve read the tagged at least a dozen times over 30+ years. The writing is 🥰

I‘ve reread some of Jacqueline Woodson and Jessmyn Ward. As a child I reread Pippi Longstocking, Caddie Woodlawn, Betsy-Tacy books many times.

#LITTENSWANTTOKNOW @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

LeahBergen I read Pippi Longstocking SO many times. 😆 2y
Bklover Thanks for the tag! I loved Heidi! 2y
SilversReviews I have not read a book more than once. 2y
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fredamans The only book I've read more than once is The Bible. I've read it every day for 22 years, so I've probably read it 15-20 times by now. 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @fredamans ❤️❤️❤️ 2y
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sprainedbrain
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#ManicMonday

📖 Dandelion Wine, The Dutch House, Doctor Sleep

✍️ David Duchovny, Charles Dickens, Anthony Doerr

🎥 Dirty Dancing, Dead Poets Society

📺 Doctor Who

🎤 The Doors, Death Cab for Cutie

🎵 Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins), Dear God (Avenged Sevenfold), Desire (Ryan Adams), Don‘t Cry (GnR), Drive (The Cars), Dustland Fairytale (The Killers)

CBee Ahhhh Disarm is a favorite - never gets old 😍 2y
vivastory I've never seen a full episode of Dr. Who 😬 2y
Bluebird Ah! Dirty Dancing! How could I forget that one. Love it 😍 2y
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ravenlee
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I didn‘t really know what to expect, but I really enjoyed this. I‘m not a huge Bradbury fan, but so far I‘ve liked what I‘ve read. This is a vignette-centered story of the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. There‘s life, death, love, adventure, and some creepiness thrown in, too. I got this copy from my parents when they moved from OH to ID years ago. It‘s from 1969 and neither of them remember buying or reading it, but someone obviously did.

LibrarianRyan I love this cover. SO much darker then the covers usually are for this book. 2y
sprainedbrain Gosh I love this book. 2y
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JessClark78
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An excellent novel for summertime reading. One of my favorites by Bradbury.

#AlphabetGame #LetterD
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A book you‘d recommend whose title starts with the featured letter.

Tagging anyone who wants to play.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing! 2y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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This is a masterwork in the art of connected stories or vignettes. In the hands of Ray Bradbury, small-town America in the summer of 1928 comes alive. Kids run free and adults sip glasses of dandelion wine on their porches. But there‘s also an unsettling undercurrent of both evil and the inevitable passage of time.

Full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com #thebibliophage2022 #classicAmericanLit

sprainedbrain I love this book so much. 💛 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @sprainedbrain 🌼🌞 The essence of summer … with a twist or two! 2y
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AmandaBlaze
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Clwojick Great choice! ❤️ 2y
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Eggs
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Leftcoastzen Such a great cover & book! 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 2y
braddsibbersen Love the cover of this edition! It's such a purple, overwritten book... but still so good. 2y
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Eggs
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My favorite summer book ~ a magical summer in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1928! A Russian duo started work on a movie adaptation but were unable to finish due to lack of funds…
#Summer #BigJuneReadathon @Clwojick

#BecameAMovie #BookMoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Looks good 😊 2y
kyraleseberg My fave. I re-read every summer 💖 2y
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Eggs @kyraleseberg then you and I are kindred spirits ✨✨ 2y
Clwojick This movie looks so magical! I love the artwork style. I‘m adding the book to my TBR! ✨ (edited) 2y
Eggs @Clwojick Great! Let me know what you think 🤔 2y
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Eggs
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LiseWorks My mom used to make the best dandelion wine, it was sooooo good 3y
Eggs @LiseWorks How nice! I have always wanted to taste it! 3y
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rather_be_reading
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Todays project! This is my bookcase of Classics. I am going go to catalog them on my Goodreads. Wish me luck!

slategreyskies Good luck! You‘ve got this! 🙌 3y
Reign_5.0 Good luck 3y
aperfectmjk You'll feel much better once it's done! 3y
marleed You got this! 3y
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Kris10H
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I do this thing (up until now unintentionally) whereby is a name, or a concept, or a book comes up a few times in things I have read in relative succession, I figure it must be for a reason and I seek it out. A few books ago, Hilarie Burton-Morgan mentioned that Dandelion Wine is her favourite book, and now Joe Hill mentioned it as influential in the intro to Full Throttle. So I guess I have to buy this?

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Bailedbailed

Unfortunately these two books just weren't for me, they sounded so interesting but couldn't get into them. Dandelion Wine is my own book so will maybe try again another time.

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mobill76

No one has ever walked the fine line between poetry and prose any better. The similarities I have with the hero are now painful reminders that fictional characters don't have to age but I do and I have. But there is still a hope suggested by Bradbury that the memories of my own life can be pressed and bottled, to be enjoyed again when they've been forgotten as my own Dandelion Wine.

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emmaturi
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These will be the first three books in September. Today will finish Klara and The Sun. I will start Dandelion Wine tomorrow.

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Ruthiella
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“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”

#ThinkPositiveBePositive

Thanks for the tag @Areader2

Leftcoastzen Ray is awesome 3y
Ruthiella @Leftcoastzen I can‘t argue with his advice here! 3y
Cathythoughts This is good advice 😁 3y
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Ruthiella @Cathythoughts I agree! I apply ice cream regularly! 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great advice!!! 3y
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KatieDid927
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This was a lovely and nostalgic summer read. I can also see how this influenced some of Stephen King‘s own classics.

vivastory I read this last summer & I had the same thought re: King 3y
DivineDiana What a lovely cover! 3y
BiblioLitten I was going to unstack this book from my TBR and then I saw the reference to King. 🙂 2y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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It has been about 25 years since I read this, and wow it is different from my memories. I adored Bradbury as a teen, but this was a bit if a slog to get through. Slow and languid, the children are mean and each chapter is different to the point of disjointedness. I can see though why I liked it at the time, I was probably just getting onto magical realism (which I still love) and the pacing and style remind me of LuGuin and Kings Stand by Me

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Weekend reading goals

Serene cats looks a little freaked out that I will not be 💯 playing with her.

Soubhiville I love this photo! 4y
Bits Omgosh your cat is the perfect mix of gorgeous and derp in this photo 😂 so cute!! 4y
ChaoticMissAdventures @Bits 😂. She is a but cross-eyed, we had to see a new vet last month who kept raving about how utterly gorgeous she is and I was like, do you have the right cat? The screaming cross-eyed one? 😂. She LIVES photos though, so good for social media! 4y
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Librariana Serene! You cutie pa tootey! 4y
ChaoticMissAdventures @Librariana she thinks so! 😹 4y
TheNeverendingTBR Epic shot! 😂 4y
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tjwill
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Mehso-so

Definitely not my favorite Bradbury, but the way he sets up the life of the town is very interesting. There were just too many characters, and I didn‘t care about many of them at all. I was hoping to get to the second this month, Something Wicked This Way Comes, but it‘s still on hold from the library. #authoramonth

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Mehso-so

I‘m not sure what to say about this book. Now that I‘ve finished it, I can‘t really tell you what it was about. Needless to say it did not make a lasting impression on me. I didn‘t hate, but I didn‘t love it, I‘m not even sure if I really liked it or not since I didn‘t seem to absorb any of the story. Maybe I‘ll try it again another time. This is my last Bradbury for the month, total 5 read. #AuthorAMonth #AAMRB

Emilymdxn I feel that way after a book sometimes! Like you finish a book and the only thought you can manage is ‘well that‘s a book I read‘ haha 4y
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DHill
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Mehso-so

I liked this better in retrospect. The vignette style chapters were somewhat hard to follow on the audio, and I wasn‘t so much in the mood for nostalgia.

#AuthorAMonth
@Soubhiville

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Addison_Reads
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#3Books @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

One was recommended by a book club friend, one by a Litten, and one by my niece. All three I enjoyed.

OriginalCyn620 📚😊📚 4y
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a.bookish.byrd
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Pickpick

❤️ End of summer was the perfect time to read this little gem.

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Bookwormjillk
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Pickpick

At first I thought this book was going to go over my head, but once I got into it I enjoyed the magical nostalgic feeling it caused. I listened to this one on Libby and in a few years I‘d like to do a slow re-read on paper. #AuthorAMonth2020

sprainedbrain Love that book ❤️ 4y
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Eggs
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Pickpick

Listened to this one ☝️ Such a gem 🌼🍷

#authoramonth2020 @Soubhiville

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

KathyWheeler I loved the audio of this book. 4y
TooFoo Love this book! I‘m rereading it right now! 😊 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
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Eggs @KathyWheeler @TooFoo It‘s magical right?!? 4y
TooFoo @Eggs Yes! 😊❤️ 4y
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dariazeoli
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I‘m listening to this one for #AuthorAMonth, but I‘m having trouble getting into it. Wrong book at the wrong time? 🤔

I have another half to decide.

BarbaraJean I loved Dandelion Wine, but I think you do have to be in the right mood for it. It‘s very episodic and a bit slow—which I found perfect for leisurely reading, outside on summertime lunch hours. 4y
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