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Hot Mess Kitchen: Recipes for Your Delicious Disastrous Life | Gabi Moskowitz, Miranda Berman

#WinterGames2024 #xmaschacha #ChristmasChapterChasers

This is what the kitchen looks like. Gifts received, decorations thrown on the table, half done trees, gifts to be wrapped.

StayCurious

dabbe In other words, LIFE. 💚🎄💚 1w

AnnCrystal “Life is messy, embrace the chaos and find beauty in the imperfections.“ -unknown

😉👍💝. 1w

CrowCAH @dabbe totally 💯%! In the end, everything will get done and on time for whatever event it‘s needed for. 1w

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CrowCAH @AnnCrystal you got it! I‘m okay with living with clutter. Soon enough all will be clean and items in their rightful place. 1w

dabbe @CrowCAH #amensista 💙❄️💙 1w

AnnCrystal @CrowCAH true 🥳🪄🎄💝. 1w

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Sace

The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum | Kirsten Weiss

“I‘m happiest when I don‘t indulge in outrage.”

dabbe So hard to do during this political season. 🖤🧡🖤 2mo

Sace @dabbe or when working in a public high school 😂 2mo

dabbe @Sace #amensista! 🧡🖤🧡 2mo

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CoffeeNBooks

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday

As an English and AP Literature teacher, some of these banned books have been part of our curriculum. I love my i read banned books shirt!

I've read all three of these books several times over the years:
📚 The Awakening- this is one of my all-time favorite books!
📚 Of Mice and Men
📚 The Handmaid's Tale

And honorable mentions go to:
📚 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
📚 all of Stephen King's books

@Dabbe

dabbe #amensista! I have a shirt that says \“I teach banned books\“, and I\'d proudly wear it on the first day I\'d introduce a book like HUCK FINN or OF MICE AND MEN. We\'ve got to keep fighting the good fight, right? P.S. Your pic is adorable. Thanks for playing and sharing! 🧡🍁🧡 3mo

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Resident Patient: Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheResidentPatient

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

Daisey, erzascarletbookgasm, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Aimeesue, Larkken, Librarybelle, mom2bugnbee, Read4life, StayCurious, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, eeclayton, dabbe, IndoorDame, kelli7990, TheAromaofBooks, 5feet.of.fury, Tineke, Blackink_WhitePaper, RayHallucinogen, Pageturner1, PageShifter, AllDebooks, AnnR, kimrenee, aroyse, CrystalE02

IndoorDame The 5am thing was especially bizarre 🙄🤔 5mo

dabbe @IndoorDame I know this is fiction, but I thought the same thing! And I wanted to ask him, “Where did you get that so-called fact?“ If only we could talk to the characters! 😂 5mo

IndoorDame @dabbe I know!!! I would be yelling my head off at all my books if the characters could could actually hear me 😂😂😂 5mo

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dabbe @IndoorDame #amensista! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo

Read4life The 5am thing was mine. I actually stopped reading and sat there for a few minutes. Really? 5mo

dabbe @Read4life I did, too! 🤩😂🤗 5mo

Bookwomble You'd be surprised at the things some British police officers are prepared to overlook in the cause of improving case completion rates 🫠 5mo

Librarybelle The 5am thing for sure! 5mo

CogsOfEncouragement Honestly, I figured they had friends in low places who would have kept tabs on him

I don't watch hardly any real crime shows - but my husband and I just watched three. Two recent cases, one in the 1980s and yeah, I believe an investigator would absolutely act like Lanner. Sad but true. 5mo

Cuilin @Librarybelle @IndoorDame @read4life so the 5 AM thing led me down dark rabbit hole. I always thought more suicides would occur during the dark winter/holidays but I was wrong and more occur during the spring on Mondays and Tuesdays. I doubt they kept records of this during Victorian times. (edited) 5mo

Librarybelle @Cuilin That‘s sad but interesting. I would have thought the dark winter and holidays as well. 5mo

Aimeesue I usually just blaze right on by the odd things Victorian police officers think/say, tbh. Criminal investigation as a science was new and pretty iffy at that point. 5mo

dabbe @Bookwomble Possible coercion within a police force? And only British? Shocking! 😱😂😊 5mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement It seems to be only our head detective/main character/hero is the one who truly gets to the bottom of things in any of these stories. 5mo

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dabbe

The Iliad | Robert Fagles

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1. Translations make all the difference. Robert Fagles' translation of THE ILIAD made me appreciate what I hated in high school.
2. THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: by far my favorite Arthurian story.
3. SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson: to remind me that EVERY story is essentially a hero's journey, and it doesn't have to be “super“ or “epic“. It just has to feel real.
All are welcome to play and tagging as many as I can! 😍

mcctrish, BarkingMadRead, iread2much, AmyG, TheBookHippie, Texreader, Aimeesue, TheLudicReader, julesG, Eggs, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, TheBookgeekFrau, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, CBee, IndoorDame, Enchanted_Bibliophile, bthegood, lil1inblue, KateReadsYA, julieclair, AnnCrystal, WildAlaskaBibliophile

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!😘💜🏷 10mo

Enchanted_Bibliophile Thanks for the tag 😄 10mo

CBee #3 - I agree wholeheartedly! I‘d have to mention the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and of course the Hobbit - heroes come in all sizes ♥️ 10mo

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dabbe @TheSpineView 😘 10mo

dabbe @Enchanted_Bibliophile 😘 10mo

dabbe @CBee Thank goodness! I had a hard choice between RINGS and OAFK. 💚💙💚 10mo

AnnCrystal Thank you for the tag @dabbe ☺️👍. 10mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 😘 10mo

julieclair Thanks for the tag! I need to step up my hero quest reading game, because the only one I can think of is Harry Potter. But I do have a 3-list Hero Quest TBR: 1. Percy Jackson 2. A Court of Thorns and Roses 3. The Hobbit (hard to believe I have never read this). 10mo

iread2much Thanks for the tag 1. The Redemption of Althalus, 2. Silver on the Road, 3. Tailchaser‘s Song. 😊 10mo

dabbe @julieclair That's kinda why I ask these questions! I'm always looking for new books--even though I have too many on the TBR as it is. I guess you could call it my book quest! 🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 10mo

dabbe @iread2much I need to read more fantasy! All on the TBR now. Thanks for sharing. The Redemption of Althalus, 10mo

julieclair @dabbe I‘m right there on the book quest with you. There is no such thing as too many books on the TBR! 😉📚📚📚📚📚💙 10mo

dabbe @julieclair #amensista! 🤩😍😃 10mo

iread2much @dabbe my husband and I both love that book, it was one of the books that was featured in our wedding cake 🎂 (it was a stack of books) 10mo

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CatLass007

The Rachel Incident: A novel | Caroline O'Donoghue

bailed

#LitsyToB24 I listened to the audio version and the narrator had a lovely Irish lilt. I think that‘s why I listened for as long as I did. But I felt like I‘d already spent more time than I ought on a book that just didn‘t interest me. I hope other people are getting more from reading this than I could.

Megabooks, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB

AmyG I am reading now and waiting for the damn incident. I almost bailed a few times. 11mo

CatLass007 @AmyG I actually listened to about 75% of the book and I just couldn‘t listen anymore. I can‘t figure out if it‘s because I didn‘t like the story or maybe I‘m just too damn old. 11mo

AmyG I have been feeling a bit too old for this story, too. But I am sticking with it. 11mo

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CatLass007 @AmyG I enjoy reminiscing with friends about college or moving to New York. But I‘m not getting the feeling that she‘s reminiscing so much as dwelling on and regretting. 11mo

dabbe #hailthebail! 🖤🩶🖤 11mo

CatLass007 @dabbe I think the first book on which I ever bailed was 11-22-63 when it was first released in 2011. It felt like such a sacrilege. But when I joined Litsy (I think it was in 2017) it was the first time I felt that I‘d been given permission to bail. I realized I was giving myself the gift of time. 11mo

squirrelbrain It‘s great how we all like / dislike different books - I loved this one! 😃 11mo

BarbaraBB I loved this one, but I always encourage bailing when you don‘t 😉 11mo

dabbe @CatLass007 #amensista! 🤩🤗😍 11mo

Megabooks Sorry this didn‘t work for you! 11mo

CatLass007 @Megabooks @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain Y‘all do such a great job!! I‘ve tried a lot of new authors because of #LitsyToB24. Some books I‘ve loved, some books I didn‘t. There are authors I know I will add to my favorites list and others I might give a second chance. The great thing about using my Audible credits is that I can return a book within 365 days of purchase and get my credit back. It‘s a win/win. 11mo

BkClubCare @CatLass007 - huh, I have not had any luck getting Audible to accept a return lately. Wonder what I am doing wrong. Sad this one didn‘t work but it‘s great if you could return for another that does work for you. 😊 11mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare How are you trying to return it? I always have to call customer service. 11mo

BkClubCare @CatLass007 - oh. Haven‘t tried that option. 😂 It used to be a button right next to the title! The last one I tried to send back, I was told the option was no longer available 🤷🏻‍♀️ 11mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare They must accept returns within 365 days of purchase. That‘s per the lawsuit they lost. I don‘t think that button has been available for quite a while. You definitely should call customer service directly. I don‘t have the number on speed dial but I call it frequently enough to have it saved in my contacts. 888-283-5051. At first they had to accept all returns, both those purchased with “cash” and credits. (cont)⬇️ 11mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare Now they only have to accept the returns purchased with credits. 11mo

BkClubCare @CatLass007 - great, thank you! 11mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare You‘re welcome. I hope you get the return made easily. 11mo

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#WeirdWordWednesday
@CBee

“You're a mountweazel!“

“No, you're a mountweazel!“

Note to self: do NOT be a mountweazel! Or be hoodwinked by one. 😃

CBee The “Flags Up!” exhibition though 😂😂😂 11mo

Purpleness 😂 11mo

dabbe @CBee 🤩😂😍 11mo

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dabbe @Purpleness 🤩😂😍 11mo

Aimeesue 😂😂😂 11mo

Amiable Oh man, I want to be immortalized as a definition in the dictionary! But not as a mountweazel. 😄 11mo

dabbe @Amiable #amensista! 🤩😂😍 11mo

willaful Supposedly Georgette Heyer did this to show Barbara Cartland was ripping her off. 11mo

dabbe @willaful Ooh, interesting! I'll have to read up on that! 🤩😍😃 11mo

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dabbe

Dave Barry's Greatest Hits | Dave Barry

For me, the year cannot truly end without Dave Barry's Year in Review. IMHO, his satire is, as always, spot-on.

If interested, here's a link to read it for free:
https://www.adn.com/opinions/national-opinions/2023/12/31/dave-barrys-2023-year-...

Ruthiella I‘ll have to check this out. I used to read his column in the newspaper years ago and found him very funny! 😄 12mo

Kimberlone Funny the link you shared is from my local city newspaper! 12mo

AnnR Thanks for the link. ? In summary, as Charlie Brown would say, "Good Grief." ? 12mo

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dabbe @Ruthiella It's the only way I can redo the news from the year! 🤩😍😃 12mo

dabbe @Kimberlone How cool is that? 🖤💙🖤 12mo

dabbe @AnnR #amensista! 🖤💙🖤 12mo

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Deblovestoread

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A friend shared this on FB so I thought I would share here.

Thanks Littens for lovely year of book talk, smiles and kindness. Litsy is the best place for all these things and more. ❄️❤️❄️

Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 12mo

dabbe #amensista! 💙❄️💙 12mo

JenReadsAlot ❤️ 12mo

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AnnR 😍🎄👍 12mo

TheBookgeekFrau 💚❤️💚 12mo

Meshell1313 ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 12mo

bthegood 💕 💕 12mo

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