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#OverbookedClub The discussion for I Was Anastasia will be on Sunday, June 28th at 4pm. The ebook is on sale today for $1.99 via Kindle. Grab your copy, everyone welcome! #readalongs2020
@thereadingowlvina @CoffeeNBooks @Chrissyreadit @rubyslippersreads @BookNAround @BookishMe @megnews @shellleigh33 @marleed @Readswithcoffee @Mitch @Roary47 @Kdgordon88 @Tracyantoon @SaturnDoo

thereadingowlvina Excited to start this! 🙂 5y

Tracyantoon June 28 is a Sunday. So is the discussion on Saturday or Sunday? 5y

sblbooks @Tracyantoon Thanks for pointing that out. I corrected it. It's on Sunday. 5y

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sblbooks

The Memory of Light | Francisco X. Stork

My April TBR #Bookspin list. With 1 starting in the upper right and 20 being our #OverbookedClub pick next month. If you like #YA join in by tagging your reviews with #YAApril, or by discussing the tagged book at the end of the month. #BuddyRead
#Readalongs2020 @megnews @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great list!! 5y

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sblbooks

Free Lunch | Rex Ogle

The #OverBookedClub selection for March is free lunch. If you enjoy #middlegrade books please join us. You have a month to get your copy. We will be reading middle grade all March, more info later. I'll tag some I know like middle grade, but everyone is welcome! Let me know if you're interested, and I will tag you in posts. @megnews @SaturnDoo @Readswithcoffee @Chrissyreadit @Coffee Books @Lmstraubie @Daisy and any fellow #MGBuddyread folks.

sblbooks @Roary47 @Littlewolf1 @Kdgordon88 @LitsyHappenings #Readalongs2020 5y

sblbooks @TheBookHippie @kspenmoll @thereadingowlvina 5y

TheBookHippie Oh wonderful !! 5y

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sblbooks @CoffeeNBooks I tried to tag you the the post, but accidentally erased your middle initial 5y

Butterfinger Im interested. 5y

megnews @Butterfinger glad you‘re joining us! 5y

Peddler410 I‘m interested! I‘ve already read this one and I was so excited to see it win an ALA Youth Media Award last week 😊 5y

sblbooks @Butterfinger @Peddler410 Welcome! 5y

kspenmoll Love your collage within a collage! 5y

Roary47 I‘m interested 5y

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

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Overall, this book was a fun read! I dub the last chapter as "the one where we aren't sure why we spent so much time deciding who should go in the first place". I greatly enjoyed doing the #fellowshipoftolkien chapter a day readalong. My school semester has started, so I'll have to take a slower pace for the next book. #lotrchapteraday #readalongs2020

JazzFeathers Really? Instead l appreciated the doubts and indecisions. It's more realistic and feels less like 'So since this is the story, let's do this as soon as possible' 😉 5y

Kenyazero @JazzFeathers The doubts and indecision was important. It was the point of this chapter, I'd say! It was just a very long chapter. It made Bilbo's complains about not getting lunch feel more realistic too 😆 5y

JazzFeathers 😂 5y

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

Did anyone else feel like this description was poorly thought out? We saw a weird creature with eyes!
👁👄👁 Very alarming! #fellowshipoftolkien #readalong #readalongs2020

Chrys I would think a weird creature without eyes would be more alarming 👀 5y

Kenyazero @Chrys I agree! 5y

Linsy Good point! Almost makes you wonder if he meant to put a descriptor before eyes and it got left out. (edited) 5y

Kenyazero @Linsy that seems likely! 5y

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Lcsmcat

Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro | Irving Stone

Pissarro‘s work is maturing, but his life is still a roller coaster of instability! Did the Impressionists help or hurt themselves by mounting their own shows? Was Eugene Murer their best friend, or did he exploit them? (Pictured are Murer‘s portrait and Murer at His Pastry Oven.) And how are you feeling about Stone‘s writing/treatment of the subject matter? #depthsofglory #readalongs2020 @Kdgordon88 @smilingshelves

smilingshelves I found the crowd's reactions to their shows just crazy. Riots? Just because of a new art style? It's not like the paintings were profane or anything. Why were the ridicule and anger necessary? @Kdgordon88 5y

Lcsmcat @smilingshelves Me too, but then I thought of how some people reacted to abstract art in a more recent era. Not riots, but certainly contempt. And the Soviets under Stalin killed artists of all types for the “wrong kind” of art. 5y

smilingshelves That's true. There were riots at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Art is polarizing in all eras, I guess. Goes to show how important it is to us as humans. And so important on the individual level that Pissarro would live in poverty nearly his entire adult life just so he could continue painting. 5y

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Lcsmcat @smilingshelves Yes. Even in concentration camps where all one‘s energy went into survival, people made art. It does seem to be necessary to human life. The Stravinsky riots, however, had a slightly different cause. There was inadequate time for rehearsal and (it‘s a difficult piece with lots of meter changes) the orchestra wasn‘t together. So the dancers couldn‘t lock in to the music and it was basically a mess. 5y

smilingshelves Although even when the Stravinsky piece is together, it still sounds like basically a mess. 😄 5y

smilingshelves As far as Stone's writing style is concerned, I find it interestingly distant. Some events that he covers in a paragraph could have been made into an entire book by a different author. I know he has to cover a long timespan in 600 pages, but sometimes I don't understand why he spends pages on some important events and sentences on others. 5y

Lcsmcat @smilingshelves Can‘t agree about Stravinsky (I wrote my senior music history paper on him and as an oboist love to play him) but totally agree on theStone front! It almost seems like he had research left over from a book on some other artist and was looking for a way to use it. 5y

smilingshelves Brahms and Beethoven are my favorites, but I can see why you would enjoy playing Stravinsky. 😊 I wondered about that, too. Did he ever write a book on Monet? He seems to include a lot of details about his life. Or maybe he started researching Monet and decided focusing on Pissarro would be a better way to cover the Impressionists? 5y

arubabookwoman I just read Zola‘s The Masterpiece, his fictionalized account of the late 19th century Parisian art scene, so I‘m stacking this. Although none of Zola‘s characters closely track real artists, I‘ve seen comments that his main character may be based on Cezanne. 5y

Lcsmcat @arubabookwoman Zola is mentioned a lot in this as a friend of the Impressionists and a schoolmate or childhood friend of Cézanne. 5y

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

Many beautiful descriptions in today‘s chapter. My favorite was the cloaks they were gifted. But the world wants to know: will Sam ever learn the elf art of rope making? #fellowshipoftolkien #readalong #readalongs2020 #quest

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

Another lovely chapter. I've always loved the idea of a City in a giant tree. #fellowshipoftolkien #readalong #readalongs2020 #tree #elfcity #whimsical

Daisey I‘ve been having a very low key week due to some snow days and I‘ve truly enjoyed reading and savoring these chapters without feeling rushed. 5y

Kenyazero @Daisey That sounds like an amazing situation! 5y

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

A lovely, safe chapter to follow the one before. I love the descriptions throughout. Tolkien portrayed their awe at the magical land they're now in quite well. Aragorn really showed strong leadership in this chapter too. #fellowshipoftolkien #readalongs2020 #readalong

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

The chapter where everything goes downhill in a hurry, and not because they're descending into Moria. #fellowshipoftolkien #readalong #readalongs2020 #flyyoufools

Riveted_Reader_Melissa So True!! 5y

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