Litsy

The River Why | David James Duncan

#NewYearNewBooks #WhyInTitle Haven‘t read it but sold a lot of copies back in my bookseller years .

Kimberlone This is actually a really good book! My high school English teacher who was really into fly fishing had us read this senior year 🤣 11mo

Eggs Well done 👍🏼 11mo

SamAnne David James Duncan is wonderful. This was the first literary book I read placed in “my country.” I grew up in the Oregon Coast range. Then read Sometimes a Great Notion. I‘ve ended up working with David on salmon, steelhead restoration efforts. He is funny, brilliant and emotional. I highly recommend The Brothers K and his essay collection My Story as Told by Water. I‘m just starting his new novel The Sun House. (edited) 11mo

Leftcoastzen @SamAnne wow , that‘s amazing! The only book I have read was the tagged one . It was recommended to me by a person of faith who also is a philosophical thinker who always questions some elements of contemporary Christian issues

God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

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SamAnne @Leftcoastzen I love that essay collection! David grew up Seventh Day Adventist. These days eastern religions seem to inspire him most. I love the way he write about his spirituality 11mo

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DebinHawaii

Why I Wake Early: New Poems | Mary Oliver

#NewYearNewBooks

Not a new book at all, but a book of poetry I love with #WhyInTitle (probably could have used it for tomorrow‘s #CloudCover prompt too!) 😉

“Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.” …beautiful 🌅

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sounds lovely! 🥰 11mo

Eggs Poetry can be so life-giving 🥰 11mo

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dabbe

Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It | Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

#NewYearNewBooks
#WhyInTitle
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Eggs LOL 👂🏻😂🗺️ 11mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💯 I am directionally challenged!! I‘m like the bird on the Progressive commercial “north is up ⬆️ “ 🤣🤣 11mo

Prairiegirl_reading I can read a map better than my husband but he definitely doesn‘t listen. 🫤 11mo

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dabbe @Eggs 🤩😂😍 11mo

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Matt and I are just the opposite of this title: I am uncannily good with directions, and he is the best listener I could ever hope to have in a husband, so much so that he usually want to solve my problems for me! Wonder how many Littens have hubbies like that? 😂 11mo

dabbe @Prairiegirl_reading 🤩😂😍 11mo

The_Book_Ninja Sorry, what?😉 11mo

Eggs @dabbe My husband-RIP-and I had a mapmaking business 🗺️ 11mo

dabbe @The_Book_Ninja 🤩😍🤗 11mo

dabbe @Eggs How cool is that? the mapmaking business, I mean--so sorry about your husband. 🩶🖤🩶 What was it called? 11mo

Eggs @dabbe Thank you🙏🏻 SIS Shipping Info Svcs. Sold to any company who shipped anything by truck or train in the US. Also published a few atlases of North America. Sold the biz when hubby got sick 11mo

dabbe @Eggs I always wanted to own a business, but I have absolutely zero business prowess. So cool that you and your hubby did, though! 🤩😍🤗 11mo

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lynneamch

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou

Have to go with a classic for #WhyInTitle. If it's #NewYearNewBooks for anyone, it's a must-read #poem from a treasured #poet and author. @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Absolutely 💯 11mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time | Michael Shermer

#NewYearNewBooks #WhyInTitle

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Looks so interesting 🥰 11mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs I was a whole other person when I read this back in the 20th century🤣😂 But from what I remember - it was very interesting! 11mo

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Eggs

Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life | Steven N. Austad

I think I need to read this…

#WhyInTitle

#NewYearNewBooks

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Me too!!! 11mo

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Gissy

Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher

#NewYearNewBooks Day 30 #WhyInTitle

I read this book a couple of year ago. So sad. Trigger: death by suicide It‘s not a spoiler, it is in the book blurb, “Hannah Baker...left several cassettes”....to Clay, telling him...”thirteen reasons she decides to end her life...”😢

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect choice 👌🏼 11mo

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