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Blueberry

Richard Scarry's Naughty Bunny | Richard Scarry

#Naughty. #ChristmasCheer

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cute!! 3w

Eggs We love Richard Scarry😅 3w

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Coffeymuse

What Do People Do All Day? | Richard Scarry

Today's odd reading trio: noir thriller graphic novel, nonfiction about the evangelical church, and Richard Scarry kids book. Such an odd combo!

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Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World | Richard Scarry

Tom Gauld gets it! 🍎

Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣 Awesome Richard Scarey homage too. (edited) 8mo

LeahBergen 😆😆 8mo

lil1inblue 🤣🤣😍 8mo

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RaeLovesToRead YES!!!!! 8mo

RaeLovesToRead It does concern me a little that the pig is riding a hotdog car.... 8mo

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @RaeLovesToRead, vegan 🌭? 😅 8mo

RaeLovesToRead I like the darker interpretation 🤣🤣 haha 8mo

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Eggs

Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World | Richard Scarry

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I read this to the grands ages 9 and 6 today and we all laughed out loud😃🤣😂

#OutstandingOctoberReadathon Day 5
#RushAThon Day 18

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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1y

BookwormAHN I used to love these 🧡 1y

Eggs @DieAReader 🥰🥰 1y

Eggs @BookwormAHN There are so many Scarry books 📚 !!! 1y

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rockpools

The Worst Helper Ever | Richard Scarry

Help!

I need recommendations for biographies/autobiographies which are good on audio, short (ideally under 8 hours. Shorter=better), not celebrities, quite light-hearted or up-beat & (VERY importantly) not a total miseryfest.

The lady asking is in her 90s, and we are really struggling to find her anything to read! I am Malala went quite well. I would totally go with Born a Crime if I could get it on cd… I am stumped!

Thanks in advance.

JamieArc Frances Mayes has a newer one that is 8 hours and not a misery fest. More memoir of places she has lived than autobiography.

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

rockpools @JamieArc That absolutely could work. We‘ll try it. Thank you! 1y

Itchyfeetreader I M not a great audio book person but coming in on audible at under 6 hours there is a Roal Dahl book at 5 hours called Going Solo which sounds intriguing and potentially of interest to someone in that age bracket. Celeb but also of potential interest might be Dick Van Dykes ‘keep Moving‘. One of my issues with audio is that they are so long! 1y

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Megabooks So I was looking through memoirs I‘ve read this year, and not sure if either of these would be appropriate but both are under 6 hours and not bleak.

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Megabooks And

Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Megabooks Tagging fellow memoir queen @Chelsea.Poole 👸 1y

sblbooks How about

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

BkClubCare Twain‘s Feast narrated by Nick Offerman was really interesting. 1y

BarbaraJean My caveat is that I don't know how any of these are on audio! But I think @Itchyfeetreader has a good suggestion with Roald Dahl's Going Solo. Dahl also has a memoir called Boy, about his childhood, which would be fantastic on audio if it has a good narrator! Steinbeck's Travels with Charley might be of interest, too. And the tagged book could be a possibility. It's not lighthearted, given the subject, but I thought it was fascinating & inspiring.

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

fredthemoose What about Stanley Tucci‘s book? A little under 7 hours and I remember it being charming on audio.

Taste: My Life Through Food

fredthemoose I‘ll put a few more in the comments. I‘m guessing most won‘t work, but just in case…

The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

fredthemoose Not a biography but features Queen Elizabeth as the main character, so feels like it could be. And only a couple of hours.

Uncommon Reader

fredthemoose Charming on audio of not too much of a celebrity

How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

fredthemoose

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick A bit more of a memoir about his work with animals and his travels, but this wasn't a misery fest and rather enjoyable.

World Wild Vet: Encounters in the Animal Kingdom

rockpools @Itchyfeetreader @BarbaraJean Thank you both! These are absolutely worth a try! I‘m often looking for shorter audio myself (39 hours is just unacceptable!!), so I might well try them myself as well. Roald Dahl sounds like it could work really well. Thanks! 1y

rockpools @Megabooks Brilliant - thanks Meg! You may well see those popping up in my own feed at some point 😁 1y

rockpools @sblbooks That is a really good idea. And I can probably convince the library to buy a cd copy. Thanks you 😊 1y

rockpools @BkClubCare Nice! I‘d not heard of that - I‘ll see if I can track it down. Thank you! 1y

rockpools @fredthemoose Ooh. I think you might have cracked it. Thank you. I LOVED a Shepherd‘s Life, and I reckon Alan Bennett might be the tone we‘re going for, even if it‘s not biog. And I can get both of those straight away on cd. Thank you so much. 1y

rockpools @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I think memoirs might be more likely to work as shorter audio, so that‘s probably the way to go. I‘ll look it out. Thank you 😊 1y

Chelsea.Poole Thanks @Megabooks 😊 I‘m a misery reader apparently…every single one I think of couldn‘t be considered “happy” 😂 I did find this link from the Seattle Public Library https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/86922331/201137603 1y

Chelsea.Poole Here‘s a few that might work…?

Inciting Joy: Essays

Chelsea.Poole A bit sad but I wouldn‘t consider it “misery fest” lol

Smile: The Story of a Face

Chelsea.Poole Kind of about dolly but also really focused on the author, so I don‘t know if it‘ll work because of the celebrity aspect but

She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Chelsea.Poole LOVED

Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

Chelsea.Poole

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

fredthemoose @rockpools glad to help! Let us know how it goes! 1y

rockpools Thank you so much @Chelsea.Poole ! Wonders and Butterflies sound amazing - I think I‘ll stack them myself. Smile could actually work, though, if she‘s ok with medical stuff… I‘m tending to look at ‘cosy‘ stuff but I think she‘d prefer something a bit edgier/more interesting if it was hopeful. Hmm. We‘ll see what we can find. Thank you so much! 1y

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Jerdencon

Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories | Richard Scarry

Life has been busy but managed to put up a few points for #teamslaughter
Got to get back in the game!
Can someone remind me of the team movie and book please??? @Clwojick

Bookwormjillk Scream is the movie and the book is

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Jerdencon @Bookwormjillk thank you! 2y

Clwojick The second book option is

False Witness

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Amiable

Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World | Richard Scarry

#BookwormProblems

Leftcoastzen 👏😄 3y

AlaMich 😂 Richard Scarry‘s are the first books I remember from childhood. 3y

CoffeeNBooks I loved the Richard Scarry books when I was a kid! I still have them, somewhere up in our attic. 3y

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vivastory 😂 😂 3y

Tamra 👌🏾 3y

kspenmoll Love Richard Scarry. Always a big hit in a preschool i worked in. 3y

batsy The accuracy 😂 3y

BookBabe 😂 I loved these books as a child! Thanks for reminding me, so I can share them with my little daughter! 3y

Amiable @BookBabe My sons loved them when they were kids, too. 🙂 3y

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Ruthiella

Richard Scarry's the Rooster Struts | Richard Scarry

Hey reading friends! Shortlist is UP! https://themorningnews.org/article/the-2022-tournament-of-books-shortlist-and-ju... Thanks for the tip @BkClubCare !

Turns out I read the “wrong” books from the longlist. 😆 No matter. My TBR now is set. I‘m just a little disappointed that so many are known to me (Erdrich, Rooney, Groff etc.) Interesting that No One Is Talking About This made it despite losing on the Summer Camp tourney. Whadda ya think?

Flaneurette, Simona, KarenUK, Megabooks, Cinfhen, cariashley, Well-ReadNeck, Kalalalatja, azulaco, emilyhaldi, AnneCecilie, MicheleinPhilly, AceOnRoam, Suet624, batsy, Readerann, vivastory, Chelsea.Poole, kwmg40, squirrelbrain, Cathythoughts, BarbaraBB, sarahbarnes, rsteve388

Chelsea.Poole Thanks so much for the tag. I‘m unfamiliar with quite a few on the list and I, too, read several from the long list that didn‘t show up here. I‘m interested in Trees and still need to read Klara 3y

Ruthiella @Chelsea.Poole I‘m really also looking forward to

The Trees: A Novel

AceOnRoam Thanks @Ruthiella 🐓 3y

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AceOnRoam I have read a total of..... 1 😁 3y

Ruthiella @AceOnRoam it‘s a start! 😂 3y

Megabooks Well, I‘ve read 7, have 1 in progress and bailed on another. I‘m surprised Everett made the shortlist two years in a row, but he‘s a very ToB-style author. Now to plan logistically how to read them.😁😁😁 3y

Ruthiella @Megabooks I‘m surprised too about the Everett. They probably threw us a curveball on purpose! 3y

BarbaraBB I am very pleased with the Everett on the shortlist. It‘s gonna be my Zombie! I‘ve read 5 so far, so my tbr is clear now too! 3y

Suet624 Thank you for letting us know about the shortlist. I hadn't heard. Well, I've read three and I have a fourth in my possession. So away I go to read! I adore the TOB. 3y

Ruthiella @BarbaraBB Good idea for the zombie vote! It‘s a tough call when one hasn‘t read all the books yet to know who to vote for! 3y

Ruthiella @Suet624 You‘re welcome! I‘ve only read 4 of the 18, so my work is cut out for me! 3y

BarbaraBB It‘s a wild call indeed but they always need the zombie vote quite soon. And it‘s GOOD

The Trees: A Novel

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Ruthiella Tag for#TOB and #ToB2022 (edited) 3y

sarahbarnes It happened so fast! And I‘m excited for The Trees too! Just got it from the library this week. (edited) 3y

vivastory It's an interesting list. I've only read a couple. I have a couple more on my immediate TBR. I don't think I'll be following along as closely this time 3y

Ruthiella @sarahbarnes I know! It caught me by surprise! 😅 3y

Ruthiella @vivastory There are some interesting outliers for sure. If I want to be a completist this year, I‘ll probably end up buying a few since my library doesn‘t carry them. 3y

BkClubCare @Ruthiella - I am already trading a few but if I break down to buy more, I‘ll throw 1-2 your way. I can‘t believe I managed 5 from the longlist and NONE move on. And I gave them all 5 stars ✨ 🤣 3y

Ruthiella @BkClubCare I know! 😂 My shortlist prediction skills were equally poor. But at least you had five 5 ⭐️ reads!!! 3y

Lindy Six books I loved are on the shortlist, so it looks good to me. Especially happy to see Patricia Lockwood‘s get another chance. And there‘s one that I bailed on, so I look forward to reading the judge‘s takedown of that one. 😉 3y

Ruthiella @Lindy I didn‘t love the Lockwood (though I did really like her memoir) but it‘s definitely telling that it‘s on the shortlist despite already going through the summer competition (and the Women‘s Prize). It could go all the way and win it! 3y

Well-ReadNeck This definitely makes me rework my TBR!! But I did pretty well - read 12 and will probably read all of the rest except the Sally Rooney 😜 Once again, in agreement with @Ruthiella — didn‘t care for the Lockwood. Not yet sure which will get my zombie vote. 3y

Well-ReadNeck Ok, @BarbaraBB going to read The Trees this weekend, in case it needs to be my 🧟

The Trees: A Novel

Lindy @Ruthiella I am always looking to be surprised, and to encounter an unusual voice or style; Lockwood delivered all of that. 3y

Ruthiella @Well-ReadNeck 12 out of 18 is outstanding! In keeping with our mutual reading alignment, I WILL read the Rooney, but frankly am not looking forward to it. I don‘t dislike her but her books do nothing for me. 😅 3y

batsy I've read three 🎉😅 I'm so glad to see When We Cease to Understand the World in there; one of my favourite contemporary books I've read recently. A weird melange of science, philosophy, and fiction that takes you out of the present into different worlds. 3y

Ruthiella @batsy I‘m really looking forward to that one and am glad it made the cut! I first heard about it on the podcast Bookfight. Something makes me think it will enthrall me similarly to a previous ToB contender

Sudden Death: A Novel

batsy @Ruthiella I have a copy of Sudden Death and I've been meaning to get to it! 3y

Cinfhen Ha, only one of the longlist books I read made it onto the shortlist BUT it‘s ECHO WIFE, which I really liked!!!!! So I‘m very pleased about that!! I‘ve read 7 books and own one, which is the Everett!!! I‘m really glad to see the Lockwood but disappointed to see Rooney & Ishiguro, of course not surprised.

The Echo Wife

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Ruthiella @Cinfhen I‘m looking forward to reading The Echo Wife. Klara and the Sun had a guaranteed slot due to winning the Summer Camp competition, but I‘m disappointed by the Rooney title too. On the other hand, the love/hate for her books does make for good commentary. 3y

Cinfhen Ugh, I forgot Klara won 🤪 3y

Cathythoughts Thanks must have a look. I have the Echo Wife ordered & I‘m looking forward to it 👍🏻 3y

Ruthiella @Cathythoughts You are welcome! I just read the first two chapters of The Echo Wife - very intriguing! 3y

squirrelbrain I too read the wrong books! I‘d read so many off the longlist, but only 4 from the shortlist! I‘m halfway through Libertie though, and also had to bail on the Meruane due to the subject matter. I think I can get hold of most of them…. 3y

Ruthiella @squirrelbrain I really liked the historical fiction part of Greenige‘s debut novel, We Love You Charlie Freeman, also read because it was on the TOB shortlist in 2017). Libertie sounds intriguing. 3y

BkClubCare @Well-ReadNeck WOW!! Looking forward to your thoughts on The Trees 🌳 I saw some zombie chatter for it on goodreads. No wonder I never remember my zombie choice- I usually don‘t have one. Not enough time 3y

KarenUK @megabooks I‘ve read 7 too, and about to start Our Country Friends which is our B&N bookclub currently. I‘m surprised I‘ve read so many already, not like me at all! 😂… thanks for the tag @Ruthiella 3y

Ruthiella @KarenUK 7 books is an excellent start! I‘ve always wanted to try Shteyngart. I thought I‘d start with Super Sad True Love Story but I guess now it‘ll be instead

Our Country Friends: A Novel

Flaneurette Thanks for the tag! I guess I‘m gonna have to finish the Rooney. At least the Franzen and the Powers can go on the back burner. I‘m going to have to buy the Everett bc there is long wait at my library but I have most of the others. I thought I had another week or so before this came out! 3y

Ruthiella @Flaneurette I does seem like it came out on the heels of the longlist announcement! I‘m glad the Franzen didn‘t make it. I kinda wanna read The Corrections and call it a day for him as an author. 3y

Readerann @Ruthiella Oh dear. I‘ve read…1 (Klara). I just finished Bewildered and am currently reading Hell of a Book (I like them both.) I have 6 longlistees (?) on hold at the library, only 2 of which made the shortlist. I think I‘ll go ahead and read those 6 and see what else I get to. Looks like I won‘t be a completist this year! 😙 3y

Ruthiella @Readerann I‘m shocked that Hell of a Book didn‘t make it. The NBA winner is usually a shoe-in! As is the Booker winner, which also got skipped. I have a bunch of shiortlisters on hold-hopefully they won‘t all come in at once (but they probably will!😆) 3y

alisiakae I‘m going to join in #tob this year if you could add me to the tag list! And my wagers were pretty off. I have 3 books from the library right now, only 1 made the shortlist. 3y

Ruthiella @4thhouseontheleft Always happy to have another TOB fan in the mix! My shortlist predictive skills were also poor! I will be sure to copy you as I review the shortlist books I read. 3y

Centique Hi @Ruthiella I feel bad that I‘ve held you up with reading that EL Doctorow book! We‘re out of lockdown now but I also have a lot of things to get through for 2021 and you probably do too with TOB. Don‘t let me hold you back though if you wanted to read it now. I will look for a copy after Christmas 😘 3y

Ruthiella Let‘s read Doctorow in 2022! I have PLENTY to read in the meantime . 😆 3y

Centique @Ruthiella excellent, 2022 it is 👍 3y

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