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I‘ve wanted to read this for a long time so it was a great one for my #10BeforeTheEnd list this year. I really enjoyed it - three somewhat connected novellas set in NYC, revolving around investigative detectives and bizarre situations. I‘m not sure I could choose a favorite - they worked really well together and I never had any idea what was going to happen on the next page.

This was fun. I love the setting and it was interesting to hear about Merry‘s old life coming to Rudolph.

A well written and interesting book about the Barbizon Hotel, a refuge for ambitious women coming to New York. Many interesting and promising women found a safe place here between the 1920s and 2005. They arrived young and ambitious and had a chance to become self aware and successful career women. I knew nothing about this hotel and enjoyed learning about it.

#10BeforeTheEnd #2

#WeeklyForecast 43/25

I am reading off my shelves, finishing reading challenges and eagerly waiting for the ToB longlist to be announced.
For now I am almost finished reading Your Steps on the Stairs, a very weird read. Next will be The Children of Red Peak, that I meant to read last week but forgot somehow. The Barbizon I hope to start too.

from Annie Hall to
Annie Banks‘ mom, we will
miss you Ms. Keaton.

Always loved her, she was a great actress and had such a beautiful smile. She reminds me of my aunt. 💔

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #DianeKeaton

Many were moved by the dream of creating or recreating a radical Jewish culture that was leftist, diasporic, and queer.
p. 223

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Boris documented it all in real time in the haunting documentary Vu iz mayn heym? (Where Is My Home?), which is dedicated “in Memory of Bessarabian Jewry” and opens with a valedictory flip through the uniquely Bessarabian Jewish names in Kishinev phone book.
p. 218

#hauntedshelf #grimreaders @CSeydel

I‘ve been reading this for a month & It will take me another month to finish because it‘s dense with information. However, as a teacher of students learning English I find it so interesting. This is about an organization in New York City documenting the 700+ languages spoken there, and also their attempt to save some languages that are going extinct by recording people and cataloging words and grammar.
👯‍♀️ I‘m reading this with my book club.

Jumps around too much.

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