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KCofKaysville
Mehso-so

OK stories about NYC people. Barkeepers, old people, runaways, and others. Mostly right after 9-11. Best for native New Yorkers probably.

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BaBaBaBillyAndTheBooks
Blue Ruin: A novel | Hari Kunzru
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Mehso-so

Part of why everyone here annoys me, I think, is no one appears to have real responsibilities, even as COVID hits. Rob and Alice have a daughter they ignore, Jay‘s life has mostly been wading through an art scene while being high, and the art anyone does finally do feels pretentious and light. They have disappeared into their art, a major theme. People return when they connect with others, and mostly everyone here is too selfish to do that.

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Lillie
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January 2025 was a good reading month. Frankie by Graham Norton was the best of a good group of books

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Bookzombie
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Pickpick

This book about how Central Park was created is beautiful and I highly recommend it. I‘m pleased she included the forced removal of residents living where the park was built, even though this is a celebration of the park. The author ends by reminding us that the park was made for all of us.

Finished March 5, 2025.

Bookzombie This book came to my intention when Paul Castle, YouTuber/Tick Tock influencer and children‘s book author, posted about a bookstore owner pulling this book from their shelves and offering refunds to customers because there is tiny illustration of 2 males being married at the park. I‘m not sure I have all the words to express how much this shit angers me. 3w
Bookzombie Also, the book features Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Angel of the Waters, and OMG she was a lesbian (I might be labeling her and apologize if I am.) Emma and her partner, Charlotte Cushman, considered themselves married. 3w
PatriciaU Ugh about the bookstore pulling this. Takes me back to early days in my library career when idiots painted diapers on the naked little boy in Sendaks In the Night Kitchen. Cretins. 3w
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Reggie All this is lovely to hear except for the bookseller. Wtf man. Have they read a book?!!! 3w
Bookzombie @PatriciaU That is insane. 3w
Bookzombie @Reggie I know! 3w
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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! 1mo
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ImperfectCJ
Help Wanted: A Novel | Adelle Waldman
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I've enjoyed all of the books I read this week, but if I have to choose just one, Help Wanted it is! If I'd finished Moon of the Turning Leaves a day earlier, that would have been an easy pick for this week. We'll see if anything I read this week tops that title!

#WeeklyFavorites @Read4life

Read4life Your month is looking really good!! 💙📚💙 1mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel | Lauren Weisberger
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 💍 👠 1mo
Eggs Perfection 💎 1mo
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Amiable
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A day late (and a dollar short) for #weirdwordwednesday — but wanted to share anyway! I just finished the tagged book about the Dutch colony that first settled NYC. This section mentioned some of the Dutch words that were mutated into the English language and are still part of our lexicon 400 years later. As a word nerd, this type of stuff fascinates me!
@CBee

Ruthiella I nerd out on that kind of thing too! 😅 1mo
BarbaraBB So funny to scroll and come upon words in my own language! Two very old fashioned and ordinary names in Dutch are Jan and Kees. That‘s what they called the Americans back in those days. Hence the American word Yankees! Just saying 😀 1mo
Amiable @Ruthiella @BarbaraBB I love seeing how languages merge and intermingle! 1mo
CBee @BarbaraBB I had NO idea!! How cool is that? 1mo
CBee @Amiable thanks for sharing 😊 1mo
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Lunakay
Buddhaland Brooklyn | Richard C Morais
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🌉 👌🏻📚 1mo
Eggs Pretty ❤️🧡❤️ 1mo
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Gissy
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Mehso-so

January 2025 Book #3
I enjoyed this Christmas cozy mystery first book but didn‘t love it. Quite predictable, not at the beginning but in the middle of the story. Too slow but it is the first book in the series and I think it introduced well the characters. 2nd book in this series was chosen for #CBBC this year round so I decided to read book one first to continue with book 2😃👍 @Mommamanzi 2.8/3⭐️