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Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

This is my #top24of24! I was a bit stingier with the 5⭐️ this year, and only 8 received that (upper left quadrant plus Dead Bastards and Cue the Sun in bottom right). The rest are 4.75⭐️ and 4.5⭐️. Nine of these are nonfiction, which is about normal and pretty close to my reading NF/F split. Can‘t wait to see even more of these as the year winds up! 👏🏻📚

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squirrelbrain Great list! ❤️ 3d

MallenNC I really liked Margot, Small and the Mighty, and The Husbands. The only other one I‘ve read is The Wedding People, which I liked but the audiobook didn‘t completely work for me. I think I should have read it. I still need to get to James and Cue the Sun. They‘ve been on my TBR. (edited) 3d

Deblovestoread Fantastic list! Screenshot for TBR explosion 📚 3d

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AmyG I still have a few of these to read. Great list…..but then, I expect nothing less. 🙌🏻 Ha! Yes @Deblovestoread (edited) 3d

Suet624 Screenshot!! Thanks for putting your list together. 3d

BarbaraBB I am happy to see the Piñeiro here and am I now extra looking forward to The Wedding People and Playground and Model Home. The ones I haven‘t heard of I need to check out. Great list Meg, screenshotting! 3d

Chelsea.Poole As always, I love your list and we are pretty much in sync! Several you have here will make my list and the ones I haven‘t read I‘m already on hold for 👯‍♀️ will soon start Wedding People, loved Keanu and on hold for

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Chelsea.Poole Ooh and LOVED The Husbands and Margo…not as familiar with the Widows, need to fix that apparently! 2d

Megabooks @squirrelbrain Thanks! 2d

Megabooks @MallenNC Both were great. Cue the Sun was especially interesting for me because I always have reality TV on in the background during the day. I just kind of let it run. Right now I've got on Teen Mom: Next Chapter. My reading taste is definitely more refined than my TV! 2d

Megabooks @Deblovestoread Yay! Enjoy! 2d

Megabooks @AmyG Thank you! 2d

Megabooks @Suet624 Awesome! Hope you find one you like. 2d

Megabooks @BarbaraBB Yes, thank you so much for A Little Luck! It was really fantastic! I hope you like Wedding People. So serendipitous that it was on the ToB short list! 2d

Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole I think you'll love Widow's! By far the best memoir I read this year. Heat was interesting reading in concert with my Bourdain year because the author originally went viral with an indictment of Mario Batali and his being called out in #MeToo. Bourdain disavowed him publicly despite their long friendship. They also shared an assistant who has a memoir coming out in April! Exciting!

Care and Feeding

BarbaraBB I think you have a sixth sense for that. Are you feeling better yet? 🩷 2d

Megabooks @BarbaraBB Maybe, but I was surprised by that one! I am feeling a bit better. I'll write you and Cindy soon. 💜 💜 2d

Centique Oooh what s good list. It will take me ages but ill get to some of these! Im reading Wedding People right now and loving it! 2d

BarbaraBB 🤍🤍 2d

youneverarrived So many on my tbr 💜 1d

Megabooks @Centique thanks Paula! That‘s such an enjoyable book. I loved (and rooted for) those characters. 18h

Megabooks @youneverarrived fantastic!! I always love seeing what you‘re reading. 18h

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Robotswithpersonality

Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10) | Terry Pratchett

so-so

1/? I have a feeling someone's going to read this and accuse me of lacking a sense of humour. Know that I find some of Pratchett's writing hilarious, AND I have issues with some of it.
I regularly appreciate how Pratchett weaves social commentary into fantasy comedy, but upon reread I'm not sure that method was successful in this book.

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I think maybe the awe for old Hollywood 'magic' might have gotten in the way of telling a less adventurous, more hilariously critical tale. Maybe Hollywood being so shallow makes even the commentary seem shallow, especially post SAG-AFTRA strike, and this many years after the start of #MeToo. Going into detail about the ugliness of Hollywood, about dreams that can seduce people into accepting unreasonable behaviour, it all leaves a bad taste. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Exploitation, film execs vs creative people, not paying actors well, and historically, animal abuse:
He's the canny yet oft neglected jester figure of the story who always lands on his feet regardless of whatever life throws at him, but Gaspode permanently being used and cast aside just makes me sad. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I normally can enjoy the melding of modern institution with ye olde fantasy especially if it's turned on its head, but Pratchett's ultimate message in this book is not that the institution is corrupt but the idea is sound and you need to do the best you can to confront it and make better individual and communal choices, like the City Watch books; instead it's that the institution represents a power that's better at the bottom of the sea. 1w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? It feels less like the momentary triumph in an ages-long battle against moral decrepitude and more the author, after presenting all the dazzling aspects with a sense of wonder (and foreboding), washing his hands of an industry that has no redeeming features to offer. Upon reflection, possible correct, not in respect to the creative medium of film, but the modern film industry, which is a depressing conclusion. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? And then there's the elephants motif running though as a message of excess and further greed and danger and exploitation, basically everything about the characterization of the people from Klatch and the made up foreign figures (probably a mirror for how they were historically depicted in early films) is winceworthy. I want to put it down to Pratchett's aforementioned fun with puns, and sharp satire, but overall it seems like a bunch of lazy 1w

Robotswithpersonality 7/? jokes and timeworn stereotypes about 'foreigners' while simultaneously attempting to make elephant traders sound like small town British businessman. The line between commentary on and reinforcement of racism and xenophobia is a little too blurred for my taste. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 1w

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 Oh, and it's probably just a function of being published in the 90s, but the heteronormative nonsense with Ruby and Detritus, not to mention Victor and Ginger, did not improve my impression of this story taking a little too much inspiration from early 20th century film. 🙄 (edited) 1w

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Mpcacher

Bury the Lead: A Quill & Packet Mystery | Elizabeth Renzetti, Kate Hilton

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This is a lighter mystery featuring Cat, who is a journalist with a small town paper. When a famous actor dies on stage during a performance, Cat (who was already doing a piece on him) investigates. The story has humour, parental angst, lots of small town doings and some #metoo drama. I enjoyed it and look forward to the next in the series. Thanks to NetGalley for digital advance reading copy. 3.75/5 stars.

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dabbe

Kiss in Space: Poems | Mary Jo Salter

#poetrymatters
#carole
@TheSpineView

#wintergames2024
#holidaybookdragons
@StayCurious @LiseWorks
+20 points (10 for photo, 5 for post, 5 for also being a fab book!)

Time to rewatch THE THIN MAN. 🖤

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe love The Thin Man movies!💜 3w

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser #metoo They are so adorable together! 🤩 3w

TheSpineView Great choice!😍😍😍 3w

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willaful Her husband sounds like my kinda guy. 3w

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe they are! Some of my very favorite movies;)💜 3w

dabbe @willaful Especially on New Year's Eve! 🍸 3w

dabbe @TheSpineView 💙❄️💙 3w

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dabbe

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#poetrymatters
#visible
@TheSpineView

TheSpineView 😍😍😍 1mo

kspenmoll Love this! 1mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 🧡🤎💛 1mo

dabbe @kspenmoll #metoo #greatminds 🧡🤎💛 1mo

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Read4life

Cozy Winter Vibes: A Blank Lined 120 Page 6X9 Journal for the Winter | Paige Paige Cooper

#SeasonalSpiritShare #SSS @dabbe

Snow. Warm drinks. Cold, crisp weather. Books. Fireside reading. Gingerbread everything. Family.

I love winter and the calm I feel when there‘s snow on the ground, a coffee in one hand and a book in the other.

dabbe #metoo It is the most wonderful time of the year. I need snow, though! 😂 Thanks for sharing. You're on the #sss list! 🤎🍁🧡 1mo

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dabbe

All the President's Men | Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern

I have always been fascinated by the Watergate scandal, and this book reminds me of the days of excellent reporting and research in the search for truth. Every time I read it, I learn something new.

TheSpineView I read this in high school. 2mo

dabbe @TheSpineView #metoo! And saw the movie. I've read it multiple times since (and seen the movie ... #hubbahubba RR!) 2mo

TheSpineView @dabbe I loved the movie. 2mo

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peaKnit Loved this movie, we picked it apart in my college White Collar Crime class. 2mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 🧡🍁🤎 2mo

dabbe @peaKnit Where was this class when I was in college? I would have loved to have taken it! 🤩 2mo

BookmarkTavern I‘ve seen the movie, but I‘ve never read the book. I definitely should do that. Thanks for answering! 2mo

Bookwormjillk @dabbe my neighbor took us on a boat ride today and we went past the Watergate. The urge to re-read this is strong right now! 2mo

dabbe @BookmarkTavern It's so good! YW! 🤩😂🤗 2mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Okay, how cool is that? Perfect timing for a reread, too! 🤩😂🤗 2mo

peaKnit It was at UW-Whitewater (Wisconsin) I had a criminal justice minor. I wish true crime podcasts were invented in the early 90‘s, I was true crime before it was cool 🤣 2mo

dabbe @peaKnit My fascination with true crime goes back to Ted Bundy. Who killed multiple women, including two of them at Chi Omega Sorority at FSU. I was a Chi Omega at U of A in the mid 1980s. We all had to sleep on a sleeping porch together BECAUSE of TB. We weren't allowed to sleep alone. Ever. 😱 2mo

DogMomIrene @peaKnit Want to audit that class! 2mo

peaKnit Omg, Ted Bundy sparked my interest in crime. I feel like I know everything there is to know about him and get so excited when I learn a new nugget. How scary though being in college, and the same sorority that was victimized, at that time, he was absolutely unhinged when he went to Florida. The most complete psychopath I have ever learned about. Have you read Bright Young Women? (edited) 2mo

dabbe @peaKnit Nope. It's now on the TBR! 🤩 2mo

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LiteraryinPA

The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel | Neil Gaiman

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I understand why this is such a beloved book. Strange, beautiful, grotesque, contemplative… for a book that was under 200 pages, it will stay with me for a long time. 💗

Awk_Word_Smith Amen. 2mo

Soscha I hate to even mention this as Gaiman is such a great & beloved writer but he‘s got some #metoo issues. I won‘t link but you can look that up. 😕 2mo

LiteraryinPA @Soscha Oh no! I‘m really glad you mentioned it, though. I‘ll read up on it. 2mo

Shemac77 Loved this book! 2mo

Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes I love Neil Gaiman, but I didn‘t like this book. Maybe I need to read it again. 🤔 2mo

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marleed

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

The proportion that one month holds to the entirety of my life has become minuscule. I‘m sitting here thinking can I somehow attribute this to climate change, something, anything 🧐 Yes, aging 🤣🥴. Ah well.

November 2024 #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

dabbe 🎯!!! #metoo 2mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo

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dabbe

Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson

#HauntedShelf
@PuddleJumper @Jadams89 #FrightClub
#BookScavengerHunt
#purple

My fave as a child. 💜

Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes I still love Harold. 🙂💜 2mo

dabbe @Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes Oh yes! #metoo 💜💜💜 2mo

Graywacke A big hit with my kids and, well, me. (edited) 2mo

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dabbe @Graywacke So imaginative ... that 💜 crayon took Harold anywhere he wanted to go! 2mo

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 2mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🖤🧡🖤 2mo

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