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#HasAuthorNotes - a lot! And a Tasmanian connection....
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

repost for @Dabbe

#BookedInTime2026 @Cuilin

Hey, Littens! Theres a new #BIT spreadsheet for 2026! Link is below. 🤎

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UsFSR1ZgeL5yJj_1YyFS2GvzmgRNg77uTq-T7GCR...

Well, I haven‘t finished a book yet this year, but I have purchased two! My therapist is encouraging me to journal more, which I took as an excuse to get The Book of Alchemy. And then the tagged just sounded interesting.

#2026Book1

Fabrice was a natural comic, but the kind who'd had the good sense not to ruin his life by trying to become a comedian.

Most meat-eaters console themselves with the fact that they're consuming a creature that they wouldn't recognize. I wonder what percentage of us would be vegetarians if we had to kill and eat the very animal that we'd been feeding and nurturing for months.

However, when the moment of truth does arrive and we are able to look back over our lives, there's one thing we can be sure that we won't be saying: 'You know, my biggets regret is that i didn't worry a bit more. I had so many opportunities to be more uptight about things and I just didn't take them. Oh, how I wish I had.'

One of the frustrations of life is that however much time we spend planning our futures, we are always potentially just a moment away from a piece of news that can shatter everything. We have but a brittle hold on our own lives, let alone those of others.

This is a tough read. A novelization of Louis' growing up gay in a poor, bigoted family in a small rural French village. If you have read any of his nonfiction you will see all of his past in these pages and it is hard to see how the family treated each other, knowing it is mostly true. There are some interesting side stories (his cousins arrest and run from law for one) and in general his writing is (as always) heartfelt and gorgeous

Starting a long-awaited reread of the first book @WanderingBookaneer and I read together. 💜💜💜

Perfect #NewYearsEve 🤓🫶🏼