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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Up next for #SheSaid!

Get your books ready & steel your nerves. I am so tired of victims telling us again & again what is going on & being ignored while those of power or celebrity can just do whatever they want with little or no consequences. Our society is deeply broken, but the only way to make a better one is to learn all the tough bits & make a better future with better laws & guardrails, and we cannot fix what we do not know or understand.

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DGRachel I bought the hardcover and audiobook but I will not be able to read it. 6h
Bookwormjillk I just got my library copy 6h
Julsmarshall I just finished this (became available earlier than expected). I look forward to the discussion though the topic is tough. 6h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DGRachel to tough a subject or just real life commitments? 6h
DGRachel @Riveted_Reader_Melissa The subject matter. I know what I experienced is nowhere near what Virginia and the other Epstein victims suffered, but as a CSA survivor I don‘t think I can bear to hear the details of what she and others went through. (edited) 6h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DGRachel ok, do you want me to pull you off the tag list this month so it does not pop up in your notifications? 6h
DGRachel No need for you to do anything, but thank you for asking. ☺️ 5h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DGRachel you are very welcome. I wanted to make sure the tags wouldn‘t bother you as they pop up. 49m
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid. Everyone finishing up this book this weekend or by new year‘s?

Happy Holidays everyone, I hope you are all well and you did not get any germs for Christmas (like me 😂, worst presents ever 🤣).

Let me know what you thought in the comments as you finish up, and if you are carrying on to the next in the trilogy.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid! I know it‘s a busy holiday & family month….so don‘t worry if you (like me) are falling a bit behind with this one. Enjoy the ride as it takes you. And enjoy the holidays no matter how you spend them.

Drop in the comments as you finish this week‘s section or at the end.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

How are you this week? I‘m shoveling to much snow and wishing it was spring already! 🫠

Drop in as you finish this week‘s section and let us know how it is going.

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LitsyEvents
Fifth Season | N K Jemisin
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Hello #SheSaid!

I hope this week has been treating you well and that you enjoyed the break/catch-up month. We are back this week with the first section of The Fifth Season! It is a reread for me, but I have to say I still feel as lost in the beginning this time as I did then, even though I know it all makes sense later… how are you making out with this week‘s section?

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

I hope this week has been treating you well and that you enjoyed the break/catch-up month. We are back this week with the first section of The Fifth Season! It is a reread for me, but I have to say I still feel as lost in the beginning this time as I did then, even though I know it all makes sense later… how are you making out with this week‘s section?

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LitsyEvents
The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin
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Updated schedule for #SheSaid!

We had 1 book with 5 votes (Wild Swans) and 4 with 4 votes. I added them all to our schedule for 2026 along with our 2 fiction reads. I did bump Wild Swans back to March, so we could read it and the follow-up book by the author after (and hopefully 🤞 when the hold lines at the library are not so long 😬). Then there were about 12 books tied after that…so new vote this summer.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Updated schedule for #SheSaid!

We had 1 book with 5 votes (Wild Swans) and 4 with 4 votes. I added them all to our schedule for 2026 along with our 2 fiction reads. I did bump Wild Swans back to March, so we could read it and the follow-up book by the author after (and hopefully 🤞 when the hold lines at the library are not so long for a new release 😬). Then there were about 12 books tied after that…so new vote this summer.

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AllDebooks
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I've been forgetting to post my #BookspinBingo lists lately. 😅

Here's my December list. I have a multitude of christmas or winter books to choose from, so I'll go with mood reading for this month.

I have buddyreads for #NaturaLitsy #VirginiaBloomsberries #BookedInTime #SheSaid #AAM #LosersClub #HashtagBrigade #QueerBC 📚

Starting with the tagged. 🙂

@TheAromaofBooks @Cuilin @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Soubhiville @BarkingMadRead @PuddleJumper

BarkingMadRead Love this! 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4w
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DebinHawaii
Life with Picasso | Franoise Gilot, Carlton Lake
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#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction #SheSaid

Finished this morning for #SundayBuddyRead this was a engaging memoir about an amazing woman. A gifted artist & writer, this book focuses on her time with Pablo Picasso & could be titled “Surviving Picasso” who was a giant ass hat man baby. It‘s hard to separate the frustration with the man from his art, but the real interest in book is Francoise‘s perspective on his art & her own. Thanks to the fabulous ⬇️

DebinHawaii … hosting & research of the wonderful Christine @thebookhippie the book was even better brought to life & I learned so much about Gilot & the other artists of the times. Therese background of this review is one of my favorites of hers, Paloma à la Guitare, a picture of her daughter Paloma. Truly a fascinating book. 1mo
TheBookHippie I loved it so much. 1mo
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
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vlwelser That's a great painting. I really like her stuff. I was maybe a little surprised that she seems to have basically imitated other peoples styles for quite a while. But she was also 40 years younger than this creepy old man. I'm guessing this one is from later on. 1mo
DebinHawaii @vlwelser Sotheby‘s says it was painted in London in 1965. 1mo
vlwelser After she went on her own path. Good for her. I approve. 1mo
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