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October results, finished the #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge, favorite is the tagged and secures Pooley‘s spot on my favorite author list.

(Bette Davis as Mildred; no Of Human Bondage cover found when making my pic collage.)

#Oct2024 ~44k Litfluence

Aims42 Clare Pooley‘s books are all delightful, but this one was my favorite 🤩🥰 3w

BkClubCare @Aims42 - I can‘t argue with you 😄 I probably would vote for Iona Iverson due to it being my first of hers I read. 💖 I will read her next and I hope it will be soon. 3w

Aims42 @BkClubCare Awww, I really enjoyed Iona Iverson too ☺️👍 I hope Clare has another book soon!! 3w

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Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham

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What an interesting book, truly. Ah yes, a classic. But I honestly was so annoyed at the MC and his … predicament? That‘s not the right word. 🧐 Anyway, I didn‘t listen to this straight through; very happy I had the Cliffs Notes (ahem, written in 1963!!!) and almost maybe wish this could be a college level course exploring the author, this dang book AND the films 🎥 of which I hope to see someday. Might be a tough sell to Hub. 💖
#Oct2024 Book97

BkClubCare AND Book98 (why yes, I *am* counting the Cliffs Notes) #OfHumanBondageReadalong 3w

BkClubCare And no, the squirrel 🐿️ doesn‘t have anything to do with the book. 3w

plemmdog I loved it, but yes, you want to shake the narrator. I saw an amazing stage production of this in Canada a few years ago, and even the audience groaned each time Philip caves in to Mildred. 3w

BkClubCare @plemmdog - well, he redeems himself in the end, it‘s just a tortuous HEA 3w

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America | Heather Cox RICHARDSON

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I didn‘t read every word and turned it back to Libby because 3 people were waiting for it. I will keep reading her letters, but overall? Right now it is too stressful to focus on right now. #Vote 🗳️🇺🇸

#Oct2024 Book95

willaful I know what you mean... 1mo

kspenmoll Yup. Well said. 1mo

BkClubCare @willaful - AND! I want to send out positive vibes to restore Positivity 🌟😃 1mo

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BkClubCare @kspenmoll - I will probably buy it in mid-November- no matter what. 1mo

Suet624 Thank goodness for Heather. 1mo

Christy2318 I bought this as part of seeing her at an event last year on her tour and I read her letters most days. But I haven‘t been able to bring myself to read the full book. Instead I‘m binging on my stress relief: romance books, thrillers, and Asian drama. 1mo

KadaGul @Christy2318 What a great combo for decompressing: Romance ❤️➕Thriller 😱🟰Stress Free 🆓 1mo

BkClubCare @Christy2318 - yes! 😍 Romance for me please! HEA 1mo

BkClubCare @KadaGul - I just downloaded Red White and Royal Blue but only 5% on my iPad so I have to read

Mystery Lights

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BkClubCare @Suet624 - yes. YES PLEASE 1mo

lynneamch I will keep this on my bookshelf forever as a record of history. HCR is genius. So important to understand that today's Republican Party is not the party that fought against enslavement. 2w

BkClubCare @lynneamch - Today‘s HRC is great.💙 2w

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The Seven Year Slip | Ashley Poston

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I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I‘m thinking that I just might need to go off on an all romance reading all the time binge. #LemonPie #LitPie #CaresBooksandPie #CopperBopper #DogsofLitsy

#Oct2024 Book96

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo

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How to Age Disgracefully | Clare Pooley

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This book is so much fun (and welcome distraction from US politics) 🤩

#Oct2024 Book93 #LitPie #HumblePie #donotgoeasyintothatgoodnight #LOLfunny

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Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham

I don‘t really have a quote to share but wanted to post that I am at the halfway mark and our MC is not the easiest guy to cheer for right now. Also, am listening, as well, and have started thinking in an English accent - kinda weird?

Philip has fallen hopelessly stupidly in love with Mildred and honestly, it is annoying to be in his head right now. Ugh

#Oct2024 #SugarPumpkins4Pie #OfHumanBondageReadalong

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Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America | Cody Keenan

“The man loved pie.” 🥧 🥰😋🤩

#Oct2024 Book91 #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge category history

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A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America | T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong

The #AsheCoNCReading Challenge has 50 categories. I am SO CLOSE!! I especially want to support Ashe County with all that has happened there with Hurricane Helene.
This satisfies the True Crime category. Confession: I do not enjoy (if that is the right word?!) reading True Crime. I feel that this is such an important issue and concern for women.

(Photo is of my shower!! At late dusk time.)

BkClubCare #Oct2024 Book92 1mo

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Untamed | Glennon Doyle

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Apparently I never took a photo of my copy of this (AND WHY is the cover not in Litsy?!?!) Anyway, …. This was okay and also not at all what I was expecting AND yes, full of surprises. I tagged and read/reread the chapter on how abortion became a “hot” Christian Nationalist Extremist issue and fuels my determination to fight for women‘s rights. 💙🌊

#Oct2024 Book90 (Photo of basil.🌿)

tpixie Lovely basil! 🌿 I just harvested all of mine, blanched them & frozen them in ice cube trays. 1mo

BkClubCare @tpixie - OOOoooooo! Thx for another idea! I have abt 30 cubes of pesto in bags in the freezer already. 1mo

tpixie @BkClubCare yum pesto!! I didn‘t have the ingredients and couldn‘t get to the store so I just did basil and olive oil, but I hope to make pesto later when I thaw them!! 1mo

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All Fours | Miranda July

I have Grace on loan from a friend, All Fours Libby/eBook came off hold (of course 🙄), picked up the Heyer yesterday from the library, and have had Untamed on my shelves for awhile - something made me grab it today 🤷🏻‍♀️

I STARTED EACH TODAY! I am supposed to read Atwood‘s The Robber Bride for a club meeting next Wednesday and Kaleidoscope is my current audiobook. #OhDear #WhereToFocus #Overwhelmed #Distracted

* Had a job interview a.m. 😢

BkClubCare Thanks for asking; nah, not sure but I think I presented as a desperate inarticulate loser. #ohwell 2mo

BkClubCare #Oct2024 Book89 Ended up skimming thru to read the end and … I am ambivalent. 1mo

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