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ChaoticMissAdventures

Joined August 2019

Reading is my favorite sport.
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Powell's Books | Portland, Oregon (Bookstore)
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Another thing to love about PDX (Portland Oregon) we have Indie Bookstores. Many are Black and/or LGBTQ owned. One of ours is often considered the largest Indie Bookstores in the world (Powell's)

Happy International Independent Bookstore Day!!

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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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😂

Found on IG (Bookaholic)

Soscha Priceless!! 🤣 1d
TheBookHippie 😂😂😂😂😂 1d
Ruthiella 😂😂😂 1d
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Frankenstein | Mary Shelley
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39/100
You are at a huge advantage if you have not read a ton of Terry Pratchett or the UK children's writer Jacqueline Wilson, which I have not.
3 favorites:
Frankenstein
Atonement
The Forsyth Saga .....or Dorian Grey.

@dabbe #TLT

dabbe Could you believe how many titles of theirs were on this list? 😱 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙💚💙 10h
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Bailing 100 pages in. Scalzi is always hit or miss for me. I love the idea of this book - the moon has, in an instant, turned to cheese and no one knows why or how it what is next. Scalzi uses interviews, news reports and (for me) way too many pov. The book is creative but I have been sitting here for the last 40 or so pgs wishing I was reading Blake Crouch's Project Hail Mary instead so I am going to stop now

TheSpineView I get that with Scalzi. Loved Project Hail Mary! 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures @TheSpineView Scalzi writes women WAY better, but this one is so scattered, and at 100 pages you never hear from the same person twice, I think I just want something more tightly told then this. And impossible space missions just reminded me of how much I loved PHM. 1d
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The Most | Jessica Anthony
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I thought this was great. Kathy gets in the apartment complex pool one warm November day and refuses to come out. We then get her and her husband Virgil's versions of their courtship and marriage. My one complaint is I wish we had less of Virgil and more of Kathy. It is a fleeting character and relationships study, I can see why people would want more but I thought it was well written & well crafted. I'm going to look for more from the author.

BarbaraBB I wanted this story to go on longer because I enjoyed it so much! 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I would have enjoyed it longer, if there was more detail, but I also think it feels like a nice coffee chat book, like you just get some sketches highlights from each of them. I thought it was a great "things are coming apart" novella which I always enjoy. 1d
sarahbarnes Glad you liked it! 😀 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures @sarahbarnes I really did! I love a little woman melt down. I always find them so creative (and deserving) 1d
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The Most | Jessica Anthony
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"All around them was death, and Kathleen had never been more in love with Virgil in her life."

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Well. I have 2 days of jury duty. Let's see how much reading I can get done. We are currently one lunch during day 1 and I am finishing this one up. I am liking it way more than the GR reviewers.

sarahbarnes I liked this one too, and a quick read. 2d
TheKidUpstairs I really liked this one. Like @sarahbarnes said, it's quick, but very effective. A good distraction during all the waiting time! 2d
BarbaraBB I am always intrigued by jury duty. We don‘t have that where I live. How often do you have it? (edited) 2d
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Stag Dance | Torrey Peters
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This is fantastic. Peters knows how to weave a story. I find it so interesting how she placed the stories, there are a few stories that relate to one storyline and it is mixed up chronologically making for an onion layer reveal between that are strong stories and the one novella (title story). My only complaint is that novella was a bit too long.
TW for one brutal animal scene that is upsetting in a story called The Chaser.

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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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Yesterday some friends and I got together for lunch and a theater showing of the Keira Knightly Pride and Prejudice! This weekend is the 20th anniversary if you can believe it! We had a ball, I sometimes forget how incredible the cinematography is in this film, seeing it in theaters really shows you what an amazing job they did. And goodness everyone in this is gorgeous 😍

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Starting this one today feels serendipitous after the highly publicized "flight" this week. I have so many thoughts and feelings.

I was in the first grade when the Challenger tragedy happened and I still remember the shock of it all. I have heard good things about the this one and think it is a perfect time to read it.

Kerrbearlib I was in kindergarten that year. Did your class watch the launch? My class didn‘t. I don‘t remember that day, but I remember the aftermath on the news. Such a tragedy. 7d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Kerrbearlib I have a terrible memory. I feel like we watched it, but it is one of those times that so many people talk about it that I am not quite sure if the memory I have is true or just a compilation of stories that I made into a memory - does that make sense? 7d
DebinHawaii I just finished this one & thought it was really good! 6d
Suet624 I always remember that day. I was an assistant to Bernie Sanders when he was Mayor of Burlington. We had a small tv in the office and he and I sat together, stunned, watching the event. Such a tragedy. 6d
ChaoticMissAdventures @Suet624 wow what an amazing time for you! It was an awful day but being with Bernie? I hope he was a good boss. 6d
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I was turned on to this during wishlist talks for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction this year. Before this I had never heard of Pamela Churchill Harriman. What a fascinating woman she was! From a fat frumpy teen running around the Mitfords to the wife of Winston Churchill's son, to socialite and finally to a US democratic fixer. Told with an obviously great amount of research this story is captivating, Pam was a complex woman. 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures My only criticism is that Biden was brought up a weird amount of times for a book about a woman who died in the 1990s I do think anyone who enjoyed Agent Zo will like this, they used different skills but Pam and Zo were definitely patriotic women who did what they could for the war effort and who struggled with the word Feminist but wholly encapsulated it. 1w
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I found this book on lists of hopefuls for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction long list. and honestly so glad I did. If you want to dip your toes into who Pamela Churchill Harriman was there is an excellent New Yorker article about the book. I personally had never heard of her before -
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/23/kingmaker-sonia-purnell-book-revie...

TheBookHippie She fascinated me to no end. She just acted like men do in these situations. 😳🙃🫣 she was wicked smart as far as I‘ve read. I‘ve got this book in my TBR. 1w
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“Pamela, who lived and died in the twentieth century, believed that a superpower that did not protect the vulnerable was not worthy of the name."
She died during Clinton's term and I cannot help but wonder what she would think of us today.
Pamela is one of the few old school political people who enjoyed favor with both sides of he aisle, but she seemed to always (after her teens) have a firm moral compass.

Photo -Pamela 1995 from britannica.com

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Book 2 in the series, you really have to read these in order. Rosalie has been adopted into the Corbin family and she is quickly becoming the center of three men's lives.
This is much spicier than the first novel and I am still scratching my head and annoyed that Trump supporters are mad at Rath for her saying she doesn't want them near her (the reason I picked up the books)
Overall a great read - plenty of plot and character growth.

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I have read 65 (I am counting some series even if I only read the first)

Favorites:
P&P
Beloved
Sirens of Titen ties with Hitchhikers Guide

3 I do want to read:
Anne Green Gables
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Another Country (one of the only Baldwins I have not read)

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

dabbe The only one I've read from your list if P&P! And you kicked my butt! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures @dabbe how many did you get? I feel like a lot of these I read for school but I also just love a classic. I love seeing Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams with the likes of Austen and Bronte that all do amazing if different work. 1w
dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures I get so busy posting the original that I always forget to post my own score! 🤣 I got 45/100. I have some serious reading to do! 🤩 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures I looked at your post and thought, she keeps saying people are beating her but she will not say her number it must be so low 😂. 45 is good!!! You are beating many people 🎉 1w
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Harmon who? We know who the winner was in this situation.

dabbe Nothing patriarchal about that, right? 🙄 1w
lil1inblue I'm not sure if I want to laugh or roll my eyes. 😂 🙄 😜 1w
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Trying my luck with Pango, I started listing today, so if anyone in the US is shopping for some new to them books - often I get books then listen to them on audio so many of the ones listed have not even been read!

If any Pango sellers have any advice would love to hear it!

You can see the books here: https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/chaoticreadingadventures

ImperfectCJ Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who buys books then listens to them instead! It's great if it's a book I want to give as a gift, but I must not gift enough books because I've got a big stack to give away/sell now. I'll be curious to see how Pango works for you. 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures @ImperfectCJ I am terrible about buying and hoarding books. I like to say it is 3 hobbies - buying, organizing, reading. I am not super confident about Pango. I sold what I could to my local shop and these are the leftovers. I am really curious how shipping works. It looks like they control that part mostly. 1w
Aims42 Nice!! Just followed you 🤩 1w
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Who's this? New profile photo, same person. 😁

TheBookHippie What a fun picture! 2w
BarbaraBB Fab photo indeed! 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures @TheBookHippie @barbarabb thanks! It has been my photo on goodreads for a bit, and I am starting a Pango account to sell my books so wanted to get one photo across the board. 1w
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squirrelbrain Great photo! 🧡 1w
Bookwormjillk I like it! 1w
Suet624 The color is gorgeous 1w
Ruthiella Great picture! 🤩 1w
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I truly dislike this part of it. 😂

willaful This is why we have Litsy! 2w
CoverToCoverGirl Brilliantly said!🤓 2w
Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣 2w
lil1inblue 😂 😂 💀 2w
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The sun has come to Portland for the afternoon 😍☀️💗📚

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One of my favorite things about my neighborhood is spring, we have over a thousand cherry blossom trees and it makes my daily neighborhood walks a total pleasure.

Listening to the tagged, at the point where Pamela is making friends with Kick Kennedy and trying to stay clear of the gross Ambassador Kennedy. Would have loved to have seen him go through #MeToo

ChaoticMissAdventures The women around Pamela are brutal. The Mitfords loudly calling her fat, others spreading rumors of her being "fast" I am excited to see how she rises. 2w
Karisa 😍 2w
Bookwormjillk Love these cherry trees. Walking under them when they‘re in bloom is like walking through a pink tunnel. 2w
mcctrish Oh how I envy your spring flower walking ( I will get there at some point but it feels like forever ) 2w
kspenmoll Gorgeous!!! 2w
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The Strange Case of Jane O. | Karen Thompson Walker
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Wow. Fantastic! 4.25/5

This is everything I had wished that awful Alex Michaelides was. Jane is having a breakdown and her psychiatrist is lost on what is going on or how to treat her and the mystery keeps growing. The writing is spot on, I loved seeing everything from his notes and her journal. I don't want to spoil anything so if you had read and want to discuss spoilers below.

ChaoticMissAdventures I thought the part with the virus was so well crafted. Taking place in 2018 but with things we are well aware of from 2020 Covid was so well done - blending mystery and familiarity. I also loved how it ends with no resolution. 2w
BarbaraBB What awful Michaelides are you referring to? I read one by him and was extremely underwhelmed and annoyed 🤣 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB I read 2 and hated them. The Maidens and Silent Patient. SP has glowing reviews and I feel like I read a different book! Common trash, the plot had gaping holes, the mystery was so obvious I was rolling my eyes, and I think he thinks not having ethics is edgy. 2w
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Article from 2023.
Do you ever read a throw away line in a book and think "say what now?" I don't know anything about Bardot beyond her name and that she was an actor/model and somehow I missed that she is a god awful terrible person! This article from VF has me saying jezus multiple times. A supporter of Le Pen, Bardot encapsulates right wing bigotry and hatred.
I am glad I know now.

TheBookHippie Yikes!!! 2w
AmyG What happened to some of these older people. 😬 2w
dabbe 😳 2w
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"I wonder if accepting moral complexity is a sign of my poor standards"

I am in love with Dinan. This is her sophomore novel and I cannot decide which I liked more. I do know I will be internet stalking her waiting for her next book. Her writing is wonderful, I love her morally great struggling characters, and how their daily life is never boring even if I cannot concisely articulate what exactly the plot is.
4.5/5 ⭐ I love this.

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I fear these may be too obvious, but I would love to get to all 4 of these soon.

#CampLitsy25 @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks

ChaoticMissAdventures One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next. 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave. 2w
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ChaoticMissAdventures A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. She is such a beloved author! 2w
Ruthiella Oh! I also nominated ! 😁 2w
PuddleJumper I looked at the Emperor of Gladness but decided it would be too sad for me 😂 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @PuddleJumper my big thought... This is going to be too sad... but also beautiful.... let's do it! 😂 2w
BarbaraBB I‘ve been thinking of the Ocean too. And Wild Dark Shore is so good!! 2w
Deblovestoread These all sound fantastic! And WDS is soooo good. 2w
squirrelbrain Such good choices! ❤️ 2w
GatheringBooks I also nominated Okorafor and Ocean Vuong. Yayyyy! 2w
Megabooks Fantastic choices!! I loved Death of the Author! 2w
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I love a lil quiz! Purple Reader is The Unbound Innovator—a bold, unconventional thinker who thrives on experimental storytelling and genre-defying narratives. They read to challenge norms, stretch their imagination, and fuel radical creativity. After finishing a book, they want to feel intellectually awakened and creatively invigorated, as if they've glimpsed a new way of seeing the world

dabbe ♥️ 2w
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Every single time.
😂

sarahbarnes So true 😆 2w
TheKidUpstairs Yup. Every single time. 2w
RamsFan1963 That's my audiobook experience with Libby. It says I have 2 to 4 weeks to wait, and then Boom!! 3 are ready to be borrowed within a couple of days. 2w
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I think I am going to bail on this for now. I have read 30 pages and it isn't pulling me in. I know so many enjoyed it, but it is due back at the library tomorrow and so many people are waiting. There is no way I am going to push through it all today. And obviously I have plenty to read from the library.

BarbaraBB It took awhile to get into the book, I agree 2w
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😂😂

It's funny because it's true.

dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 2w
kspenmoll 😂😂😂 2w
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Flowers | Gail Gibbons
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Edited to add: Solabees in Portland Oregon, they have an Instagram if you want to see more of their beautiful work!

Not book related...but my best friend just passed her licensure for therapy and I have picked her up these flowers from my favorite florist in my town.

Are they not gorgeous 🥰

Bookwormjillk I love the colors 2w
Ruthiella Beautiful! 💐Congrats to your friend! 2w
CatLass007 Wow. I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen a bouquet of flowers so gorgeous. 2w
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TheKidUpstairs Stunning! Congrats to your friend! 2w
kspenmoll They are gorgeous! 2w
Suet624 Holy Toledo! Those are gorgeous! 2w
Deblovestoread Beautiful! 2w
dabbe 🤩🧡🤩 2w
BarbaraBB They are gorgeous! 2w
Centique Amazing! 2w
Meshell1313 Stunning! 🙌 2w
AmyG Those are just stunning. No wonder it‘s your favorite florist. 🙌🏻 2w
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I originally checked this out from the library, got 2 chapters in and ran to my bookstore and bought a copy. This book is amazing. It is written with such care and tons of research. The 5 women it focuses on each have small chapters woven into the narrative. Their struggles are glaring on the page, the way they controlled their bodies while struggling with so much racism and socioeconomic challenges.
4.5/5 this is wonderful.

britt_brooke Pretty photo! 2w
TheBookHippie I so agree. 2w
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“She wanted to be like her childhood heroes Ginger Rogers and Natalie Wood, emerging from limousines onto red carpets to snapping bulbs, the plot of her life playing out like one of the feel-good Million Dollar Movie films she loved to watch on her family‘s black-and-white television.”

Photo of the 5 beautiful ballerinas featured in the book

TheBookHippie I adored this read. 2w
Deblovestoread Loved this one, too! 2w
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The man behind the company.
The first Black dancer at the NYC Ballet.
Arthur Mitchell started the Dance Theater of Harlem. He is both a monster (yelling at the women for eating or not being loyal enough to him and the company) but also seen as a father figure. The women talk about how his death in 2018 crushed them. A complex and interesting look at a teacher relationship.

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While this book is about the women of Dance Theatre of Harlem, there is tragedy in how the men of the company were abandoned by government. They died of AIDS
“'I witnessed and entire male ensemble pass away.' Sheila Rohan says of the epidemic. She was working at Alavin Ailey in those years. 'These were our Black gods. Prima donnas of the dance world. And then you had to see them decline. At least 25, 30 of them, 1 right after another dropped.“

ChaoticMissAdventures “There was a big poster of them (the men) as you enter the hall of the school. Finally, we asked them to take it down because there was maybe one person, Dudley Williams I think left out of the whole picture. It made your heart sick.“ - Sheila Rohan 2w
Suet624 This is so sad. 😭 2w
Bookwormjillk Heartbreaking 💔 2w
Jas16 Oh that is devastating 2w
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Apartment Women | Gu Byeong-mo
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Mehso-so

South Korea
I had such high hopes for this, the synopsis was great. Unfortunately the storytelling didn't live up to it for me. The characters are annoying. What do you mean you move into an apartment building where you are required to have more kids and you are upset that you might be hearing sex noises? Then the character finds out it is a husband beating up his wife and she is annoyed they kept her up at night? Whiny and not flushed out.

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The Booker International shortlist is out!

Time to start reading! I have Big Bird and am reading it this week, are there any others people would recommend?

I am on a hold list for Leopard Skin Hat but my library hasn't received any copies yet.

RaeLovesToRead Just filmed my reaction video. This is.... not what I predicted!!!! 3w
AnneCecilie Unless my library gets Big Bird, I‘m saying away from that. I‘ve read one of her books before and don‘t feel like spending my money on her. I loved On the Calculation on Volume 3w
BarbaraBB I really enjoyed Perfection and Calculation. Leopard less… I am looking forward to Small Boat and am now reading Big Bird. Not sure about it yet. In general I am happy with the shortlist but I did like other books on the longlist too. 2w
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Ennui | Maria Edgeworth
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You logophiles and Francophiles might like this story:
I was at my coffee shop in this sweater today and the barista asked me what it meant
After I taught him to pronounce the word I say "Ennui, French for sort of morose..."
Him: "Isn't morose French?"
Me "It is but this is like, more so, but without the anger."
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Let me be your French teacher! I am on the ball

dabbe Merci beaucoup! 🤩 3w
BarbaraBB Good translation 😀 3w
Amiable I always thought ennui meant “a feeling of boredom.” Thanks for the lesson! 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Amiable it sort of is, I couldn't think in the moment, I have heard it described as a type of blues coming from listlessness and dissatisfaction. Where morose is more of an ill tempered dissatisfaction. But I am happy for a French person to correct me if I am wrong 😀 3w
Texreader ❤️❤️🐈‍⬛❤️❤️🐈‍⬛ 2w
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😂🤣😂 I feel this every day.

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 3w
Suet624 Oh boy, me too. 2w
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Strange Case of Jane O. | Karen Thompson Walker
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#weeklyforecast
I am feeling incredibly indecisive right now. So many books so little time.
I am finishing Disappoint Me this week (so good!) Under the Eye of Big Bird is due back to the library by Friday so need to get on that. Also chipping away at Swans of Harlem and I Captured the Castle.
For my daily walks I have the tagged

What are you reading this week?

dabbe Agree 💯 with you based on reading so many books with so little time! I'm currently reading THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, HEARTSTONE, LES MISERABLES, A RULE AGAINST MURDER, HIS LAST BOW, and NANCY DREW #18. 🤣 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @dabbe oh my goodness!! I hope you are enjoying them all 😂 3w
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ChaoticMissAdventures @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I really enjoyed that one, I thought it gave so much context to the story at large. 3w
dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures I'm trying! My brain gets a little befuddled at times. I just can't say no to these Litsy book clubs! #fomoaffliction 😍 3w
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Following up Agent Zo with another book about forgotten Women. These are 5 of the Black ballerinas that came before Misty Copeland

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@BookmarkTavern #sundayfunday

I don't read many books about heists, for some reason I would rather watch them. I LOVE heist movies - Baby Driver, Inside Man, Usual Suspects, but mostly the franchise I am obsessed with is Fast and Furious. People are often thrown off by this when they learn. I have a group of friends we all get together for cinema nights when they come out and text each other when we travel and one is playing on cable 😂

BookmarkTavern That sounds like a fun time! Thanks for sharing! 3w
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🎧 was not the best way to read this. Unfamiliar with Polish names and I struggled with keeping people straight. But. What a book. This is a feminist look at not only an amazing woman also war. I had never heard of The Silent Unseen - Polish paratroopers trained in Britain and dropped behind enemy lines in Poland Zo's story is both fantastical and frustrating as the Soviet punished Nazi fighters and men refuse to recognize women's contributions.

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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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Intense. Be careful going into this on, lots of TWs. It starts with a bang as narrator 1 decides and goes through a misoprostol abortion on her own, the last story that focuses on a best friend murder but is at its heart about femicide in Mexico was incredibly powerful.
My only criticism is that the voices of each narrator were the same, I would have liked to have seen more language and cadence variety.
You can tell a poet helped translate 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures The writing is beautiful even while simultaneously being raw, sometimes a bit crude and juvenile (many of the narrators are teens). Overall a very effective book about survival (or not) as a woman. A woman is murdered in Mexico every 3 hours. The author who is an activist takes this statistic head on. It is often hard to read but I thought she did a creative, interesting and beautiful job. 3w
BarbaraBB Very good review! 3w
sarahbarnes Great review. I thought this was beautiful and hard hitting, too. 3w
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Sunday reading with coffee and cats

(Cats- Mayhem, Calamity, Serene)

Bookwormjillk Lol which one is which and do they follow those rules? 3w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Bookwormjillk 😂 Mayhem is the all black, she is terrified of everything and it does cause mayhem. Calamity is top left she is everywhere all the time, my latest addition where I realized 3 cars was 2 too many 😂 Serene is the flame point Siamese, I named her that when she was so quiet at first then we realized she has kennel cold and that really she is the loudest most chaotic one. They are very good cats - when sleeping 😻 3w
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AmyG They each have their own designated spot. #cats 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @AmyG I am always so jealous of people who have pets that cuddle, mine want nothing to do with each other 😂 3w
TheBookHippie ♥️ 3w
Kimzey Ahhh, looks like the ideal home! Kitties, books, hot beverage, houseplants and cozy furniture! 3w
dabbe #coffeeandcats 🖤🐾🐾🐾🖤 3w
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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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This is a tough book. But also very poetic

"I was dead. Those fucking mayates had killed me. I held my bloody hand and cried for a while."

#BookerInternational

BarbaraBB Wow 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB it is a very intense book. 3w
BarbaraBB Looking forward to it. 3w
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I picked this up after a rant by Dr Rath on Tiktok where she told Trump supporters not to read her books, and I am very happy to find out I really enjoyed this! It is called a slow burn, I would call it a snail paced burn 😂 the book is 460 pages and there are 3ish sex scenes. I loved the character development and the scene, it is isn't really believable but it is fun!

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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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"But even though my great- grandmother, grandmother, and mother were all pioneers who broke the glass ceiling so women could hold the offices where decisions are made, amigui, I'm not really into public service or politics, myself. I don't want to wield power, I want to marry it. Know what I mean? Zero Angela Merkel, all Michelle Obama."

The point of feminism is that women have choices, but if she thinks MO had no power she doesn't understand

ChaoticMissAdventures **this is the character musing, I don't think the author doesn't understand that MO was a mentor at a high powered law firm 3w
willaful Yes, somebody needs to read MO's memoir... 3w
mcctrish She should channel that Kansas City kicker‘s wife if she wants zero power 3w
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Listening to the tagged on my neighborhood walk where the cherry blossoms are blooming

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3w
mcctrish I‘m so jealous 3w
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Penguins | Seymour Simon
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A poem for the poor tariff targeted penguins.

(Found on Blue sky)

Viva le pingüino!

Amiable 😄 3w
squirrelbrain 🤣🐧🤣 3w
dabbe 🤩🤣🤩 3w
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ncsufoxes There is a new account on Threads, penguinsagainsttrump, & it provided much laughs yesterday 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @ncsufoxes ahahaha amazing! We have to have some laughs as this ship sinks. 3w
BookmarkTavern 😂😂😂😂 3w
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Blackwells | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)
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And that is that. I used Blackwells all of the time to get UK books (because they were not yet available in the US or because I liked the UK cover better) I am glad I guess this happened after the Women's Prize, but just so bummed. It is a little thing compared to how much housing and food is going to crush us but I feel like we can still be sad about the smaller things that are being taken away from us.

kspenmoll Oh no! I use them all the time!😞 3w
Ruthiella Bummer. 3w
sarahbarnes 🤬🤬🤬 3w
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Jas16 Oh nooooo! 3w
Deblovestoread Not surprising, but so sad and frustrating! 3w
willaful I remember ordering from Blackwells in the 90s, to get Vrirago Modern Classics and it was like right out of 84 Charing Cross Rd. I think I just wrote them a letter and they sent me the books. Argh, this sucks! 3w
BarbaraJean 😭 😭 3w
CBee This just….. I don‘t even have words. I‘ll just echo @sarahbarnes and 🤬🤬🤬 3w
sarahbarnes @Texreader @CBee just one more thing to be furious about. 3w
BarbaraBB So sorry for you ❤️ 3w
squirrelbrain Oh no, I‘m so sad for you all. 😞 3w
CBee @sarahbarnes yep. Seems like every day it‘s something. Too bad we can‘t ban him 😂🤦‍♀️ 3w
ImperfectCJ And it's extra frustrating because it would be very simple to stop this whole thing if only the legislative branch would do its job. 3w
Susanita 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3w
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