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Join the fun (and mysteries) at Tita Rosie‘s Kitchen!
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pickRumors have a lot of power once they‘re generated and spread. Alice is slut-shamed at HS bc of rumors made up about her. The resolution was unusual but okay. “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the ‘truth‘” is called the truth-by-repetition (TBR) effect.
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pickSweet picture book that is a Coretta Scott King award winner; shows that family love is comforting and all around us in nature too.
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pickIsabel is so connected to trees and plants and gardens - her ‘green‘ life is a metaphor for how she survives, both physically and emotionally. She has learned from her Lolo and Lola that no matter where you live, a garden can thrive. “Bloom where you are planted.”🌿🪻🌺 MG novel in verse💚💚
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Little Bear almost 9 months old!
My Belinda‘s Dream rose after rain ☔️ 🌹
Flower within a flower!
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Happy Wednesday! Happy May! Everyone can play🩷
🎈Mud!!
🌺 tie between Void Moon (Michael Connelly) and Heroes (Alan Gratz)
🎉 a HS graduation, a piano recital, 2 family birthday celebrations, Mothers Day with my daughters🩷
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Tagging a few to get the party started🥳
DebinHawaii, wanderinglynn, Mimi28, iread2much, Kshakal, Gissy, TheLudicReader, TieDyeDude, Deblovestoread, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, Andrew65, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, Princess-Kingofkings, BookwormAHN, Sleepswithbooks, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, dabbe, Cupcake12, lil1inblue, LiseWorks, julieclair
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Repost for @TheSpineView :
Enjoy poetry! Participate in a month of prompts for poems, quotes, songs etc
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Haven‘t read this one! But it‘s definitely a #SkiResort setting ⛷️❄️ 🏔️
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pickI had my own little Readathon today..
HF: Newark, NJ, 1930s Tommy and Benjy have grown up inseparable! Never mattered that Benjy is Jewish and Tommy is of German descent. But since Hitler took power, Tommy‘s joined a Nazi youth camp. So Benjy creates a group called Newark Minutemen , an anti-Nazi vigilante group. This will not bode well…
Based on factual events~
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pickMG novel: Tully Birch has one huge goal - to swim across Lake Tahoe to break the record for the youngest person ever to complete the famous “Godfather swim.” She‘s sure if she completes it, it will bring her mom back. But it‘s so hard….
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pickClever and suspenseful!! Fifteen year old, Jo who is a skilled con artist, assumes the identity of a same-age girl who‘s been missing…When you understand Jo‘s nontypical previous life, you can see how she got to this point. Tense and twisty!
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pickI just can‘t put together a meaningful summary of this gem of a book-the most beautiful poetic prose I‘ve read in a long time. Hard to find language to describe how I feel after reading it. It will stay with me for a long time. What more could one ask for in literature? It has the tone of Wharton, the power of nature component of E. H. Kirkland (Love is a Wild Assault), and the magic of R. Serle and perhaps K. Center. So much to love about Zorrie~
“Nobody wants to know why Indian women leave or where they go. Our bodies walk across the highway from the dances of our youth into missing narratives without strobe lights or sweet drinks in our small purses, or the talk of leaving. The truth of our leaving or coming into the world is never told.”
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#LitsyLoveBingo April - 10 Bingos
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I‘m putting April to bed 🛌 ….
271 books YTD
28,133 pages YTD
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“After the year of fire
vines rise up
through the rest of our lives
of smoke
of flame
of memory.
As if to say
We're still here.
As if to say
Remember us.”
#FaveBkOfMarch
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so-soAudiobook: novel in verse. The lyrical, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all external forces.
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pick“…every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don‘t know where they‘ll go, or who they‘ll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too.”
The crushing tragedies of adolescence require patience and trust and solid friendships characterized by unconditional love 💕
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More #LitsyLove going out ❤️📬💌💙
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pickNovel in verse: 17 yo Chloe Brooks and her mom live the high life in Kentucky, thanks to her dad‘s businesses. Servants, mansions, lavish catered parties, all the best that $ can buy. Chloe‘s dream is to go to LA, get a recording contract and all the fame that goes with it. Until the morning her dad gets arrested for fraudulent activities. All is lost/bankrupt…who are you when all your $ and possessions are stripped from you?
pickA memoir from a woman who started drinking at 13 and kept on drinking for another 25+ years. She added to the mix ecstasy, cocaine, prescription painkillers, crack and whatever else wasn‘t locked down. As a high-functioning alcoholic, she maintained jobs, but couldn‘t survive friendships or romantic relationships. Once sober, she got to know herself again ❤️🩹
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pickFascinating story of Mark, camping in the desert alone, who awakens to a powerful light that transports him to another time and place. Survival instincts compel him to defend himself and prove his strength.
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“Everyone knows that the human body is a miniature version of the universe—the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.”
#Secret
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pickBetween pick and so-so. I loved Rosie‘s introversion and bookishness, and the bittersweetness that comes with losing her mom so recently. Poston has written many books and more than 2 series. I‘ve read 1 and 2-now on to 3.
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pickAngeline is 8 yo and wicked smart. Her mom died when she was very young and her dad is not sure how to talk to her. But she meets a few 6th grade classmates who befriend her; thank heaven for that bc her teachers are mean and have no empathy. Angeline just wants to be herself and be happy.
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On their way to: @iread2much @AmyG @geodynamical_nonfiction @TheSpineView
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pickLove Tony Abbott! Past, present and future in St. Petersburg Florida. When Jason‘s grandmother dies, his mom puts him on a flight to help his dad get things in order in FL. But Jason and his new friend Dia find themselves in a puzzling mystery that dates back to WWII…
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“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
From The Road, a Pulitzer Prize #Poetic novel. Graphic novel of same coming in September.
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Five days until May😳 What happened to April? Did it fly up into the attic of the wind? Like lost balloons, or socks with no mates, or spent flowers and vintage love notes… join us for #StorySettings starting Wednesday May 1! Post a poem, quote, song, book, film or ? that expresses the daily prompt 🩵💚🩷
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pickI‘ve started reading Meet the Austins to my 10 yo granddaughter bc this has always been a favorite series, in addition to the Murrys and O‘Keefes of the Wrinkle in Time series. At some point in the chronology there is a mingling of the 2 families, and I hope to work on both series over the next 12-16 mos.
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pickByron Graves‘ debut novel is a winner! HS sophomore Tre loves basketball and plays his heart out in honor of his brother Jaxon who died last year. It‘s hard for his mom and dad to “see” Tre when they are still grieving their older son. Tre is a strong protagonist - he is partly based on the Ojibwa author‘s life in Minnesota.
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pickNovel in verse by the author of Everything Blue: Thirteen yo Claire is an only child caught in the middle of an emotional standoff between her parents. But while the 3 are on vacation, her mom suffers a ruptured aneurysm-suddenly nothing matters except health and recovery…❤️🩹
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pickThis the background for the HF novel The Dollhouse (nickname for the Barbizon Hotel) by Fiona Davis - the temporary home for the likes of Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Grace Kelly, Betsey Johnson, Eileen Ford models, and many more in the 1950s/60s.
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“Speak these truths aloud, for it is only in silence that horror can persist. The courage to call a thing by its true name galvanizes the human spirit to address it.”
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