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It was inspiring to hear from Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, and local candidates and activists in-person a few hours ago in Salt Lake City, along with 20,000 others. It's been 10 years since he first ran for President of the US and opened my eyes to the possibilities of democratic socialism. We're not surrendering to billionaire bullies! #FightOligarchy

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Here are my books for April #ReadYourEbooks. Three of them have been picked before and I didn‘t read them, so hopefully their time has come this month!

Here‘s my list for April #ReadYourEbooks. After months of ignoring them, I did read one from my list in March!, so I consider that a win! I look forward to see what numbers the spinners come up with tomorrow.

A beautiful little novella about connection, distance, familial love, the pull of home vs the joys and possibilities of independence. Thoughtful, lovely, bittersweet.

A daughter leaves home in Brazil to attend a small Liberal Arts college in Vermont. She speaks to her mother regularly over Skype, savouring those “blue light hours“, while beginning to picture the possibilities of a life in America, and asking how to exist in both lives at once

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A delightful little collection of essays and columns that were published on a weekly basis over the course of many years in Chris Bohjalian‘s local newspaper in Vermont. The columns are reflections on the unique idiosyncrasies of life in a small town while also recognizing its place in the larger world around it. I thoroughly enjoyed Bohjalian‘s nonfiction voice.

While I read this in two shirt sittings from the edge of my seat, the ending was not a satisfying one. There are many points of view all in one chapter, and somehow, you aren't ever lost as to whose part it is you are reading.

#MonthlyWrapUp #MonthlyStats Pretty good month. Favs: All the Water in the World, Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe, The Snowbirds; Disappointments: The Lost Bookshop, Cafe at the Edge of the World. Four backlist from my Kindle #ReadMyKindle. No #Series2025 this month, but did complete my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin ❤️🩷💜

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I hesitate to review this book only because there‘s so many complicated,unusual characters,whose characterization is imbued by the beauty of this VT farming country.It‘s 1969 & Dec.Warren moves to Bethany VT when offered a position with the state police Almost immediately an irascible farmer is found burned to death in his barn. Was suicide? Murder? An accident? As Warren delves into the investigation,assisted by his elderly enigmatic neighbor🔽