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KCofKaysville
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Starting a book found at a thrift store. Looks interesting to me about New Yotk City life.

Ruthiella That does look interesting! 5h
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GatheringBooks
Making Waves: Essays | Mario Vargas Llosa
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#CoverStories Day 25: #Waves - a recent book haul from Big Bad Wolf in Dubai.

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booklover3258
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Pickpick

What a funny and wonderful audiobook from beginning to end. Loved listening to him talk about... of course ... food, and other things.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/r9xq0dFz7k8?feature=share

Enjoy!

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Born.A.Reader
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My birthday 🎂 #bookhaul. Left is from my FOTL bookstore, right is a combo of bookmail and B&N, spending the 🥳 coupon they sent me.

Graciouswarriorprincess Happy birthday! 14h
Read-n-Bloom Happy Birthday 🎂🎉🎈! 13h
dabbe HB! 🤩🤩🤩 12h
Ladygodiva7 🥳 Happy Birthday!! 🎈🎊🎉 11h
TheBookgeekFrau Happy Birthday! 🎉 11h
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MemoirsForMe
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This description of Pat Conroy‘s stunning writing style says it all. 😍
#BookishMonopoly
@AkashaVampie

AmyG He is a favorite for sure. 1d
CSeydel I‘ve had the Great Santini on my shelf for years - need to read it 1d
MemoirsForMe @AmyG Indeed! I may have to read his bio. 1d
MemoirsForMe @CSeydel I‘ve only read his nonfiction and have been so impressed. I remember seeing The Great Santini movie. Tough but good. 1d
AmyG I loved The Great Santini (book). It‘s what got me started reading his books. 23h
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Robotswithpersonality
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Pickpick

Completely lives up to the hype.
Incredible writer, the poetic skill with which he shifts from what might be considered a more mundane approach to a mind-altering one. Like picking up a music review only to realize you're actually going on a journey with the author, into his life and into commentary about society and the music business. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Subject matter shifts somewhat as you get further into the collection and the essays get longer, though there is still a heavy presence of music, and also of addressing racism.
As such I might advise spacing out the reading experience, depending on your personal sensitivty to the subject matter, as the discussion regularly involves not just racism but racist violence.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/? Personal stand outs:

The Night Prince Walked in Water
The Return of the Loneliest Boys in Town
Brief Notes on Staying // No One is Making Their Best Work When They Want to Die
Fall Out Boy Forever
There is the Picture of Michael Jackson Kissing Whitney Houston on the Cheek
February 6, 2012
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? In the Summer of 1997, Everyone Took to the Streets in Shiny Suits
Nina Simone Was Very Black
August 9, 2014
Serena Williams and the Policing of Imagined Arrogance
They Will Speak Loudest of You After You've Gone
Johnny Cash Never Shot a Man in Reno. Or, The Migos: Nice Kids from the Suburbs
Surviving on Small Joys
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Robotswithpersonality 5/5 ⚠️Mention of suicide, racist violence, misogyny, death of parent, mention of child death
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AlaMich
Meaty: Essays | Samantha Irby
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#sundayfunday

Samantha Irby at a signing here in Chicago, years ago. I had loved the blog she did before her books and loved “Meaty.” She had also been an assistant at our vet‘s office and she remembered me! I definitely fangirled at that!

BookmarkTavern Wow! Getting remembered by an author sounds amazing! Thanks for posting! 1d
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Robotswithpersonality
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Gleefulreader
England Your England | George Orwell
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This was a purchase while in London and I am just finishing the final piece in it - The Lion and the Unicorn. “England cannot possibly be allowed to remain as a sort of funnel through which deadly ideas from the Atlantic flow into the police states of Europe.” Whew - as a Canadian this is hitting hard looking to the rhetoric from the south these days. Some dated language but many ideas are still so relevant here.

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Trashcanman
Bluets | Maggie Nelson
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“I‘m not interested in longing to live in a world in which I already live”

Someone please hit the reset button.

mcctrish I‘m all for a reset button 3d
Trashcanman @mcctrish Hi Patricia! How have you been? 3d
Deblovestoread If only …. 😬 3d
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Trashcanman @Deblovestoread If the world isn‘t worth flooding now I can‘t imagine the way it was back then when that famous story said the angry “man” flooded the earth. 3d
mcctrish I‘m so happy to see you post! You are always on my mind. Right now I‘m happy to live in 🇨🇦 although a federal election is being called tomorrow so ….. 3d
Trashcanman @mcctrish I wish I lived in Canada. The shit over here is disturbing, embarrassing, and cause for despair. 3d
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