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A few excellently spooky stories for October. It's Edith Wharton, so even the boring stories were well-crafted.

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This is such a beautiful read, and paints a vivid scene of a garden with people passing through it and feel I am there with how the scenes come alive.

After reading this I discovered the first edition included illustrations by Virginia Woolf's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell. I would have loved to have seen this book.

This is a weird little story about toxic algae blooms growing around Cape Cod.
I wish this story had been longer. It was really fascinating but ended quite abruptly 🦠

June is my Top 2 book of the year, a whole collection full of short stories by some of my favorite authors set in the world of The Stand by Stephen King, one of my all time favorite novels. There was not a single dud , and I loved getting new stories and perspectives on a familiar world!
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We visited Montreal last month, and this was one of my choices for a literary souvenir. I've not read Gallant before, but I liked these tremendously and will be looking for more!

So I know it's pretty early in the day, but I fully intend to sit in PJs and read/relax all day, so this #jolabokaflodswap package is an amazing way to do that. Thank you @Jess861 for the incredibly yummy looking chocolate, the Casey Plett book (I have wanted this for so long!) and even a bonus book! You are so incredibly generous - I hope you have a wonderful Jolabokaflod today 🎄😊📚

Using my paid time off to do the same thing I do every other day off. Dogs, coffee, book. 😂

#dogsoflitsy #coffeeandbooks

900 hundred pages of Faulkner is a lot. This is the 1951 National Book Award winner, but I didn‘t think it was good sample of Faulkner‘s stuff. It doesn‘t show, in my opinion, how could he can be. But it does occasionally show how frustrating he can be. Unfortunately I was beaten down by this. My favorite stories are at the end (some of which are his earliest stories), but i was kind of worn out by that point.

I just posted about*not* seeing Florence & the Machines, however I was extremely fortunate to attend a reading of Saunders the week he won the Booker for Lincoln etc. Saunders is the modern age Vonnegut, chronicling our #twilight with the attendant absurdity and humor it deserves. The tagged book, aside from featuring one of the more humorous and topical, titles in years is a good starting place & showcase of his absurdities/wonders.