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Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live | Peter Orner

I went a little crazy on Better World Books so that I could get a discount from them. Even as I am proudly reading and removing books from my shelves I seem unable to stop bringing new reads in. I‘ll be spending the next few hours trying to remove those darn stickers.

Chelsea.Poole I want to read The Brothers K! 1d

squirrelbrain Great haul! ❤️ 1d

Suet624 @Chelsea.Poole that book might be my chunksterchallenge for 2026. 1d

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Suet624 @squirrelbrain you probably can‘t read the titles, but I‘m kind of on a Peter Orner spree right now. The ones in the pile are actually just a portion of the books I purchased by him recently. (edited) 1d

vivastory Fantastic haul 📚📚 What is the Everyman's Library edition? 1d

Suet624 @vivastory three novels by Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop, the Gates of Angels, and the Blue Flower. 1d

vivastory @Suet624 Definitely an author I want to read! Aren't the Everyman's & LOA editions just the greatest? 1d

Suet624 My only gripe is the type is tiny. 🔍 but yes. 😊 1d

Jeg Great haul. I‘m glad there is someone else like me. Trying hard to get through TBR shelf while adding to it. 22h

Suet624 @Jeg haha. 👯 22h

Ruthiella Awesome haul! Using a blow dryer to loosen up the stickum on the stickers usually helps to peel them off cleanly. 20h

squirrelbrain I‘ve never even heard of Peter Orner! 😬 I shall have to investigate….. 15h

Suet624 @squirrelbrain I can‘t vouch for any of the others, but the one I really liked by Orner was

Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin

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Suet624 @Ruthiella the hairdryer definitely got the stickers off, but there‘s still a lot of sticky glue there. Any solution for that? 12h

Ruthiella @Suet624 maybe a gentle application of rubbing alcohol? 🤞 8h

Suet624 @Ruthiella I‘ll try that. Thank you! 6h

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Merethebookgal

The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green

Whoops, forgot to post my last #12Booksof2025 😅 I love this collection of essays and highly recommend the audiobook!

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DMC_run8

I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays | Maris Kreizman

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My new favorite genre is essays/memoirs by people my age because of the nostalgia factor. I also identify with the shift left from neoliberalism. 4.5⭐️

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ChasingOm

I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays | Maris Kreizman

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I enjoyed this because Kreizman and I have seemingly led similar lives - growing up sheltered in a fairly homogenous place, being diagnosed with a chronic illness as kids, and starting to question the “natural” ways of things as we grew up and broadened our circles. She‘s only five years older than me, which also strengthens the parallels - her references were mostly age appropriate to mine. That being said, these stories weren‘t…

ChasingOm …earth shaking because they were so familiar. There‘s just a feeling of being seen that will linger for me. 💜 2d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick She's popped up on some of my socials over the years. I didn't know she wrote a book. I'll have to check it out. 21h

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monalyisha

So Sad Today: Personal Essays | Melissa Broder

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I picked this up on the personal recommendation of a bookseller, who loved it, and because the author‘s novel, Death Valley, was one of my favorite reads last year. All I can say is… this will not be one of my favorite reads this year. 🙈

I suspected it might be too much (and too gross) for me after the first two essays, about consuming your own bodily secretions and working for a tantric sex nonprofit, respectively.👇🏻

monalyisha Then, came the piece entitled, “My Vomit Fetish, Myself.” I finished the collection because Broder‘s writing *is* compelling and funny. But… hoo boy. I will not approach future writings by her so blithely. 🫠 2d

willaful 😳 2d

Christine Wow. 😬 2d

LiteraryinPA Yikes! 😳 2d

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Leftcoastzen

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never | Barbara Kingsolver

#celebrate #ChoseWoutBlurb This one can write . I resisted at first then read some and became a fan !

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 4d

lil1inblue I adore Kingsolver's writing. 4d

Suet624 Yes!! 4d

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vivastory Does Kingsolver live in AZ? 4d

Leftcoastzen @vivastory she did for part of her life . She was living here when her first novel was published , moved to Appalachia, not sure when . She left the country for awhile during first Gulf War, not sure how long before she came back. (edited) 4d

Eggs Fascinating 🫶🏻 4d

SamAnne I want to reread her early novels. 3d

Leftcoastzen @SamAnne me too ! 3d

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coffees

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights | Ashley Hope P�rez

This collection has been really interesting so far. A lot of books I haven't heard of, or have heard of but didn't know what were about. And #essays that really make you think #netgalleybacklog

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Chittavrtti

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

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BookmarkTavern

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose | Mary Oliver

Forgot to post this yesterday, but my pick for September‘s best book is the tagged newly published collection of poetry and essays by one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver.

Beautifully meditative, this was the perfect thing to read when I needed to slow down.

#12BooksOf2025 @TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo Sounds like a lovely way to relax 1w

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ImperfectCJ

One Man's Meat | E. B. White

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August: One Man's Meat by E.B. White. My teenage son says, "Pause," whenever I say the title, but I love this quiet, reflective book of essays by the author of Charlotte's Web (before he wrote Charlotte's Web).

@TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo This sounds lovely 2w

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