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S3V3N
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

1. Portland Japanese Garden

2. Personal Librarian

Eggs Well played 🙏🏻🤩👏🏻 2mo
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janeycanuck
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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Pickpick

How incredibly fascinating! I love that Benedict partnered with a Murray to bring this story to life, it was a better book because of her perspective & expertise.

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dabbe
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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Eggs Me too!! 2mo
dabbe @Eggs 🩶🧡🩶 2mo
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Cuilin
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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#AboutABook #ByMultipleAuthors

I got to visit the JP Morgan library in May this year, and oh what a dream!!

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Amazing!! 🤩 3mo
Eggs My book choice too! Oh the library visit must have been awesome! 3mo
Cuilin @Eggs it really was. They had a wonderful Beatrix Potter exhibition too. 3mo
Eggs @Cuilin I adore Potter🩵🩵 3mo
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Eggs
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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“The deeper we each read, the more we understand of this world.”

#MultipleAuthors

#AboutABook

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Lovely 🥰 3mo
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank You 🙏🏻 🩵 🫖 3mo
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GidgetsTreasures75
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7-31-24: My 26th finished book of 2024! What a powerful story. When Kitty Karr passes away she leaves her vast fortune to her next door neighbors 3 daughters. Making the oldest, Elise, the executor, she leaves her not only money but her secret life story. Told in present day with Elise and from Kitty‘s perspective from the past, we learn of her humble beginnings, and her rise to fame as a screen icon. It‘s the back story that will shock the world.

GidgetsTreasures75 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 3mo
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HeyT
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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I read this for the book club I lead at work and was fascinated by Belle's life. I think the most interesting part about her though was her determined effort to erase her personal life from posterity. My only real hesitation about this is that in the notes at the end the authors stated how they did take some liberties with known fact. It's all well and good to use artistic license when there are gaps in the historical record but not when you know.

Nutmegnc My book club (of librarians) is getting ready to read this one! (edited) 3mo
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Princess-Kingofkings
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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I love a used book sale at a library. 📚 I found a bonus book for my friend @dabbe

dabbe #woohoo! Thank you! 🩵💙🩵 3mo
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sdbruening
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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Really engaging historical fiction novel about Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan‘s personal librarian, who was black passing as white. She‘s a force of nature to match Morgan and all the art and manuscript dealers to make the library a lasting legacy. Sometimes excessive storytelling to fill in the personal blanks, I think, but I supposed that‘s what makes it a page turner.

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Awk_Word_Smith
Passing (Revised) | Nella Larsen
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Sadly as telling now as it was when first published in 1929. Nella Larsen‘s own life as a mixed-race woman informed her writing, making her an important part of the Harlem Renaissance. American author Darryl Pinckney wrote of Larsen: “No matter what situation Larsen found herself in, racial irony of one kind or another invariably wrapped itself around her.”

Awk_Word_Smith “Passing” is a painful book dealing with issues of racial identity for two mixed-race African American women who were childhood friends, and how they each chose separate paths that came with separate struggles. Brilliant look into the psyche of racial identity and gut-wrenching ending as well. 6mo
kspenmoll Great review! 6mo
Awk_Word_Smith @kspenmoll Thank you so much 😊 6mo
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