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monalyisha
From the Dust Returned | Ray Bradbury
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Every first Tuesday, our favorite local bookstore hosts Tunesday with a musician‘s circle. You can regularly hear the mountain dulcimer, banjo, tin whistle, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, limberjacks, violin, cello, Chinese erhu, & more!

My favorite part is the Celtic dance & clogging. And the books, of course. This month was also a Wassail celebration. And I drank a literary-themed Blood Meridian cocktail. Anyway, I‘m back now!

monalyisha P.S. I‘m really excited about the weird tagged Bradbury book! The Ernest Cline is my husband‘s. It‘s rare he shows interest in reading something, so of course I snapped it up faster than he could say “Never mind…” 😅 3w
PathfinderNicole My son is a cellist and he was so excited to point out the cello in the background of your pic 😂 3w
monalyisha @PathfinderNicole The cello‘s high on my list of instruments I wish I‘d learned how to play as a child! I know it‘s never too late, and my husband *is* a musician…but given my tap-dancing background, I think if I were to learn to play anything in my adulthood it‘d be drums. Or the aquaphone! That last part‘s sort of a joke and sort of not. 😅 3w
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TheKidUpstairs Crow Lake is so good! 3w
monalyisha Disclaimer: I‘m home but I have IRL (virtual) book club. We‘re meeting about the tagged. More matches after the discussion‘s done! 3w
BarbaraJean I have a copy of that same edition of the weird tagged Bradbury book! And I bumped it up on the TBR after my IRL book club read October Country and I learned that two of the stories in it connect with the characters in “From the Dust…” Although by “bumped it up on the TBR” I mean I might maybe read it in 2025 😂 3w
AnnCrystal 👏🎶📚💝. 3w
monalyisha @BarbaraJean See? This is why I matched us! Including that “bumped it up” logic. 😆 3w
Chelsea.Poole This looks and sounds so cozy! Our library hosts Acoustic Night twice a month on Tuesdays also. 3w
monalyisha @Chelsea.Poole That‘s a fun thing to do! Send me the website? (edited) 3w
BarbaraJean @monalyisha Yessss! Compatible TBR logic is an important Auld Lang Spine match consideration. I must add: I also own that same edition of Bird by Bird. Also still unread. 😂 Also also: my husband is a musician and would have loved that musician's circle! Once upon a time I checked Armada out of the library for him because he loved Ready Player One. I think he read it and liked it. Hope your husband enjoys it! 3w
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dabbe
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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Catsandbooks Yay! 👏🏼 ❤️ 2w
dabbe @Catsandbooks 💙❄️💙 2w
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dabbe
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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CSeydel Nice bracket! 3w
dabbe @CSeydel Thanks to you! 🤩 3w
CSeydel 😆 I meant, nice book selections! 3w
CSeydel … but I‘m so happy people are enjoying the bracket graphic ☺️ (edited) 3w
dabbe @CSeydel I know, but I still had to compliment ya! 😘 3w
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Kenyazero
The Halloween Tree | Ray Bradbury
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Pickpick

I finally read this book (and in time for Halloween! I'm just a little behind in reviews). I grew up loving the movie and have been planning to read the book for a while. It was great fun reading lines that are word-for-word in the movie. The movie has slightly better storytelling. Bradbury does an amazing job as the movie's narrator. #Halloween #BookToScreen

Kenyazero Used for #OwlHouseReadathon Caleb: involves a spiriting away; and #GottaCatchEmAll mimiky: reread a favorite book (I counted it since it's a favorite story) @PuddleJumper 3w
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BarbaraJean
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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Pickpick

This collection of Ray Bradbury‘s short stories was just the right amount of unsettling—a perfect read for October! Bradbury is a master, and there are some gems here. The stories I found the creepiest were creepy for entirely different reasons: “The Next in Line” and “Skeleton.” I loved “Uncle Einar,” “There Was an Old Woman,” and “The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone”—and honestly, those were probably the least unsettling of them all. ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Other favorites: “The Small Assassin” and “The Man Upstairs.”

This was my IRL book club pick for October, my October #BookSpin, and my 1955 pick for #192025. @TheAromaofBooks @Librarybelle
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Librarybelle Nice! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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dabbe
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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October country is a place where autumn is the permanent season. Daytime wanes rapidly; night lives on endlessly. These short stories are full of some of Bradbury's most macabre writing, both bizarre and terrifying. They also contain underlying philosophical truths about humanity and what we need to achieve happiness. Originally contained in the limited edition of DARK CARNIVAL, Bradbury spruced up these tales and added some as well. Riveting.

lil1inblue What an excellent review! 🤩 2mo
dabbe @lil1inblue Thanks! You just made my day! 🤩🤗😘 2mo
Texreader So glad you liked it! I wasn‘t a big fan. 2mo
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dabbe @Texreader His writing was so different from F 451 and more like SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. Books hit us at different times, sometimes positively, sometimes not. I think I was in the mood for his total out-thereness. And some of those stories were out there! 🤩 2mo
Texreader @dabbe no kidding! Yes 451 was quite different. How can someone not like that book? 😉 2mo
dabbe @Texreader Agree 💯! 2mo
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Chittavrtti
The Halloween Tree | Ray Bradbury
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Happy Halloween! I dressed up as a fanfic character from The Mirror Visitor series. This is a picture of the almost completed Ophelia scarf I wore.

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dabbe
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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#weeklyfavorites
@Read4Life

Good-bye, October. C'mon, November! 🧡🍁💛

Read4life Yes!!! 🧡🎃🧡 🧡🍁🧡 2mo
dabbe @Read4life 🖤🎃🖤 2mo
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Texreader
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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Mehso-so

This book is a prime example of why I‘m not a short story fan, especially in this genre of supposedly spooky or scary tales. There are apparently “gotcha” moments that just went straight over my head. Still, there a few stories I did like—those with Uncle Einar were the best, and The Scythe was thought-provoking.

#hauntedshelf #hexesandcrows @Catsandbooks @PuddleJumper

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🐦‍⬛💜 2mo
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Texreader
The October Country | Ray Bradbury
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I finished the tagged audiobook on my afternoon drive. I found five #wordsearch words (75 points), #bookscavengerhunt #mist & #monochrome (30 pts), #wickedwhispers #monster (short stories Uncle Einar and Homecoming) and many #halloweenatoz letters with 19 short stories. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#hauntedshelf #hexesandcrows @Catsandbooks @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Brilliant! 2mo
Eggs Fantastic 👌🏼 2mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 2mo
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