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ImperfectCJ

ImperfectCJ

Joined May 2019

books: https://imperfecthappiness.org voice acting: https://ctlvoiceover.com/ The Storygraph: imperfectcj, IG: @ctlvoiceover, Bluesky: @charitytl
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Flashlight by Susan Choi
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The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
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November #bookspinbingo card. I got my #doublespin, didn't get my #bookspin, but I scored a bingo, baby!

This format is oddly motivating for me, and I wonder if I can apply it to other areas of my life, like writing or household chores, or if it only works for something I'm already doing anyway.

@TheAromaofBooks

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Hot Milk | Deborah Levy
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I almost DNFed this one because it dragged in the middle, but I persisted, and I think that was the right choice. This scratched the itch for contemplative literary fiction that I've had after immersing myself in horror for a couple of months. It deals with familial relationships and the ways that we can manipulate others to meet our own needs and distract from our sense of mortality and/or feelings of powerlessness. So, uncomfortable but good.

ImperfectCJ Photo: Jellyfish at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, 2012. 7h
AnnCrystal 🤩💦💙🌊💙. 4h
Amiable That‘s in my neck of the woods! Mystic is only 20 minutes from here. 3h
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December #bookspin and #castthedie list. I might trade out one of these to put in Lion by Sonia Walger, but aside from that, this should pretty much be my list. Lots of #ToB26 longlist and my ever-aspirational #Roll100 titles.

@TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 16h
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Swamplandia! | Karen Russell
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Pond lights at the Botanic Garden's Lightscape exhibit. I could make a dozen posts just with photos of this outing, but I am exercising self control. #beautybreak

@anncrystal @dabbe @dilara @jessclark78 @amiable @tamra @originalcyn620 @sace @amyg @thebookhippie @kspenmoll @liseworks @uncommonlycozies @karisa @cuilin @jenlovesjt47 @monalyisha

TheBookHippie Oh so cool!!!!! 1d
JenlovesJT47 Wow this is gorgeous!! 💜🩷💚 1d
5feet.of.fury awesome! 1d
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monalyisha Very much into this! 1d
KT1432 I LOVE this!!! 1d
OriginalCyn620 Wow!! 🤩 1d
Cuilin Nope, I am not supporting this level of self-control. I want more 😆.Beautiful. 1d
dabbe W💜WZA! 🩵❄️🩶 1d
Karisa Looks like another world 😊 1d
ImperfectCJ @Cuilin I posted several more photos over on IG (ctlvoiceover). I'll probably sneak in a few here, too, if I can make them at least a little book-related. :-) 1d
AnnCrystal Pure fantasy 🤩🪄💝😍. I second what @Cuilin commented 🙋🏽💝💝💝. 1d
Amiable This is a fabulous photo! 1d
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According to Julia Cameron, I'm not the only one resistant to Artist's Dates. Hoping for inspiration (or at least more direction), I checked this book out on Libby. It's a quick read, and it did give me more ideas. More interestingly, it helped me see that I already routinely do things that I never considered Artist's Dates, like getting a massage or going to a park or baking a treat. So, yay me, I guess?

Suet624 Yay indeed 1d
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The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah
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I am so lucky to have a little sister who knows that my love language is Books. (She gave me the okay to open my b-day gift early.)(And she's not on Litsy and lives across the country, so I probably could have kept it a secret if she hadn't given me the go-ahead.)

BkClubCare Happy Birthday 🎉 🥳 I enjoyed Hello Beautiful 📚 2d
AmyG Happy Birthday! You are in for at least 2 treats with Nightengale and Hello Beautiful. 2d
Karisa Oooh, those are good ones too! Happy birthday! 😊🎉 2d
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳👍🏼🎂 Happy Birthday 📚🍰💝. 2d
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My family surprised me with flowers to celebrate the release of my first audiobook (tagged). Let me know if you'd like a promo code for a free copy. I have some for the US and the UK, and I would love to get some reviews (good, bad, or mixed)!

Email me or DM me on Instagram if you're interested: Charity at ctlvoiceover.com, ctlvoiceover on IG

AnnCrystal Beautiful 💐👏🏼🥳 Congratulations 📚💝. 3d
AmyG Oh Wow! That‘s amazing. 3d
ravenlee Congratulations! That‘s fantastic. 3d
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Tamra Yay for you!! 😍 3d
kspenmoll Congratulations!!!! 3d
Deblovestoread Congrats! 🎉 3d
Texreader So cool!!! 3d
Ruthiella Wow! Congratulations! 👏👏👏 3d
DaveGreen7777 WOO-HOO! Congratulations! 🙌 3d
dabbe 🙌🏻🧡🙌🏻 3d
Roary47 Congrats!! 🎊🎉 3d
CSeydel Congratulations! 3d
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 💐Congratulations!💐 2d
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Post-feast, pre-reading-and-pie-time sunset walk.

Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday, Happy Football, Happy Reading Time. Happy #beautybreak

dabbe ♥️🍁🧡 4d
TheBookHippie Lovely. 4d
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OriginalCyn620 Happy Thanksgiving! Great photo! 🧡 4d
JenlovesJT47 Gorgeous!! Happy Thanksgiving! 🤎🧡🤎 4d
AnnCrystal 🤩💝😍. 4d
AmyG Beautiful. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! 4d
Amiable Love the stark black image against the colors! 4d
Cuilin Oh so beautiful. 4d
Karisa 😊🌅 4d
ImperfectCJ @Amiable Thanks! I turn down the exposure so the colors come through better and aren't washed out, and the contrast between foreground and background is a cool side effect. 3d
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The Nightmare House | Sarah Allen
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A sweet and surprisingly alarmingly scary middle-grade horror. This is a genre that didn't exist when I was a kiddo, so in fifth grade I skipped straight from Beverly Cleary to Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. This novel has narrative interspersed with poetry and shares several features with Gaiman's Coraline. It's probably around the scariness of Poe.

Bette Looks 😳😬 4d
AnnCrystal This seems intriguingly fantastic 📚💝. 4d
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AnnCrystal Have a fun, safe, grand time👏🏼🤩💝😍. 5d
OriginalCyn620 Enjoy your family time! 5d
dabbe That color! 🧡🧡🧡 5d
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Dilara What flowers are these? 😲 5d
ImperfectCJ @Dilara I think it's an aloe vera blossom of some kind. 5d
ImperfectCJ @dabbe It was fantastic light that afternoon...the colors really popped! 5d
LiseWorks Cool, 5d
Dilara @ImperfectCJ Thanks! I now realise I've only ever seen potted aloe vera, and never in bloom! 4d
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We do not care that the gas pump is convenient and in the shade. If you're driving a Tesla, you should not be sitting at the pump when other people are waiting to fill up their tanks. Use one of the parking spaces, buddy. #WDNCW @dabbe

dabbe OMG, seriously? #theabsolutenerve!!! 🤣🤩🤣 5d
ImperfectCJ @dabbe Seriously! When I pulled up, I said to my son (who just got his learner's permit, so I narrate all of my driving choices for him), "oh, we'll just wait for this person to get done," but then I saw it was a Tesla, and I'm like, I don't even know how long to expect to wait for someone not pumping gas. ? 5d
AnnCrystal 🤨 Just rude 💝👸💝. 5d
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TheBookHippie Ooo something blooming with color!!! 6d
JenlovesJT47 ♥️💛♥️ 6d
dabbe W🧡W. 🧡🍁♥️ 6d
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Amiable Love the color 6d
OriginalCyn620 Pretty color! 6d
AnnCrystal Gorgeous bloom 🤩💝😍. 6d
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I am excited to announce that the audiobook edition of MURDER AMONG THE MARIGOLDS by Diane Scotland, narrated by *me* is now available for purchase on Audible! I'll drop the link in the comments.

The novel is a sweet cozy mystery that takes place during a small-town fall festival. There's some G-rated romance, a quirky best friend, and a cat and a dog who help spot clues when their humans get stumped solving the mystery.

ImperfectCJ https://www.audible.com/pd/B0G3QRXJ83?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_locat...

And I do have some promo codes, so if you'd like to review the audiobook for your booktube, bookstagram, blog, or booktok, drop me an email! charity at ctlvoiceover.com
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Kenyazero Very exciting! 1w
LeahBergen Congratulations! 👏 7d
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CarolynM How exciting! 🎉🎉 7d
AnnCrystal Exciting News! Congratulations 👏🏼🥳👍🏼📚💝. 7d
Jas16 Congratulations 🎉🙌🏽 7d
LiseWorks Wow! How good is that? 7d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! How exciting!!! 7d
PuddleJumper Exciting! Congrats! 7d
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Spread Me | Sarah Gailey
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This is a love story set in the midst of an in-progess global apocalypse. It's filled with lust, miscommunication, and attempts by one party to anticipate the desires of the other (and missing the mark, as so often happens). I'm not sure I *like* this novel, but I love Xe Sands's narration and the story definitely touches on some interesting ideas about love, connection, and mortality.

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This variation on a haunted house story combines elements of Poltergeist, Lovecraft, It, and The Shining, with a nod or two to Amityville Horror. Overall I enjoyed it, although the message is somewhat less subtle than I prefer in my favorite horror.

AnnCrystal This really covers the field 😂🆒😉👍🏼📚💝. 7d
Reggie Ughhhj I love her but the last book I read of hers was crap. Idk, idk do I try this?!! Great review! 6d
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TheBookHippie So fun! 1w
JenlovesJT47 Ooh I love it! ♥️💚♥️ 1w
5feet.of.fury Beautiful! 1w
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CSeydel Gorgeous! 1w
Cuilin So nice ✨✨✨ 1w
AnnCrystal Sweet, Beautiful Fun 🤩🎄😍💝. 1w
OriginalCyn620 So fun! ❤️ 1w
AmyG I love Christmas lights! So pretty. 1w
Amiable Nice! 1w
BarbaraBB That looks amazing! Where are you? 1w
ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB San Diego, California. We don't get snow, but we get pretty festive with lights. 1w
dabbe 💚♥️💜 1w
BarbaraBB I love it 🥰 1w
Cupcake12 Love this photo! 1w
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My Saturday night reading companion. Trying to make some progress on this book, but I keep getting distracted.

BarbaraBB Such a cute photo 🥰 1w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 1w
BookishMarginalia Awwwwwww! 1w
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willaful I liked this one. 1w
Leftcoastzen Awww!😻 1w
AnnCrystal 📚🤩😹💕😻💝. (edited) 1w
dabbe 🖤🐾🤍 1w
LiseWorks Look at that face 1w
Faranae That's a good distraction there 1w
Gissy 🐈‍⬛ 😻 1w
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Endling | Maria Reva
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This novel wasn't a complete hit for me, but I did enjoy the author's exploration of otherness and belonging, of watching tragedy over which one has little to no control unfolding in ways both real and absurd and not knowing the proper response. This novel feels almost existentialist or perhaps Stoic in the sense that it recognizes both the futility of action and how this futility makes our own storytelling and meaning-making all the more crucial.

sarahbarnes Great pic for this review! 🐌 1w
Leftcoastzen Wow photo 1w
ImperfectCJ @sarahbarnes @Leftcoastzen Thank you! I spotted these fellows congregating while I was on a morning walk a few years ago and loved the colors and the lighting. They're not exotic snails, but they're still pretty cool. 1w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🐌😍💝. (edited) 1w
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dabbe Beautiful colors! 🩷🧡💛 2w
TheBookHippie So pretty. 2w
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Cuilin Beautiful 2w
JenlovesJT47 Gorgeous sky 🩷🧡💛 2w
OriginalCyn620 Pretty!! 💛 2w
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I usually don't enjoy epistolary novels, but between the reviews and the fact that I know one of the narrators, I decided to pick this one up on audio, and I am so glad I did. It felt a little disjointed at first, but once I got the hang of it, I just loved it. Sybil's character arc is so moving and beautifully drawn. Now I feel like writing letters (I've already written notes to two neighbors to go with some treats we're giving them).

Cortg This has a long hold at my library! 50 copies and 237 ppl on the wait list to include me! 2w
ImperfectCJ @Cortg Wow! I managed to get the audio on Libby, but it took a while. 2w
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Discontent: A Novel | Beatriz Serrano
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I really felt this book, despite not being a full-time office worker for more than a couple of years in the past 20 years. Serrano's (or at least her translator's) tone blends well both the existential despair and existential ridiculousness of being a creative---or even just a conscious, discerning, aware human being---in a corporate environment. And oh, my, did she make me crave a trip to Spain in general and El Museo del Prado in particular.

ImperfectCJ Photo is the street near where we stayed in Madrid in 2017. My photos of the museum aren't awesome, and our favorite part of the trip was our time in northern Spain (Asturias, León, El Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa), but I really liked Barrio de las Letras where we stayed in Madrid. I'm listening to and reading the Spanish version of this novel, too, while the English translation is fresh in my mind, hoping to make progress on my Spanish. 2w
BarbaraBB Great post and photo 2w
Liz_M @Hooked_on_books also had a good review. It's now on my TBR. 2w
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#ARichLife #Pie

About 20 years ago, my spouse mentioned to my grandpa that he heard on the radio that the average American eats something like 5 pies a year. Grandpa insisted that this was far too low as he ate pie nearly every night (Grandma was big on making Jello Pudding pies). I don't make a pie every night, but between sweet pies, savory pies, and tarts, my family definitely hits the annual average.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Faranae Grandpa there really channeling Tumblr's “Spiders Georg“ huh? 😂 2w
ImperfectCJ @Faranae I had to look it up, but channeling Spiders Georg (or perhaps inspiring since the conversation with Grandpa took place at least 10 years before the meme?) seems about right. :-) 2w
Amiable My husband and youngest son are big pie fans. They‘ll eat pie for breakfast, and they each request a birthday pie instead of a cake. 2w
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Blueberry Pie! Fruit pie! Warm fruit pie with vanilla ice cream! 2w
Eggs I love leftover pie for breakfast❣️ hits all the food groups especially if you add ice cream or whipped cream LOL 2w
SamAnne All kinds of pie! And quiche! Tarts! 2w
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#ARichLife #Warm

The first thing I thought about for this prompt was how my cats follow the sun around the house during the day.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

JenReadsAlot Oh mine too! Lol 2w
Leftcoastzen Yep, looking for those sun spots!😻 2w
AnnCrystal Adorable 🤩🌞💕😻🐾💝. 2w
Eggs Love the way the sun rays hit their fur and whiskers! 2w
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#ARichLife #Spice #HomeCooking

We are big pumpkin pie fans at my house (and kind of pumpkin pie snobs). I make from-scratch homemade pumpkin pie three times a year: Thanksgiving, my birthday, and my elder kid's birthday. My version is dairy-free, gluten-free, and rich in spices (a variation on a recipe from Cooks Illustrated). I could have saved this for #Pie on the 16th, but I have other pies for that.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Karisa So pretty! Pumpkin pie is a favorite here too. Our son was born on Thanksgiving, and he wants pumpkin pie instead of birthday cake💗 2w
AnnCrystal That is a gorgeous pie 👏🏼🤩🥧😋👍🏼💝... homemade is always most delicious 💝💝💝. 2w
Chelsea.Poole Love the acorn and leaf details! 2w
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Amiable I don‘t like pumpkin pie but this one is gorgeous. 2w
Tamra Gorgeous! 😍 I recently made 3 layer combo of a pumpkin pie, spice cake, and pecan pie, topped with a cream frosting. It was scrumptious! I‘ve always wanted to make a pumpkin pie with a pecan pie topping. Maybe that will be next. 😄 (edited) 2w
Eggs That is a work of food art 🎃 2w
Blueberry I love a homemade pumpkin pie 🧡 2w
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This essay collection leaves me feeling seen. Like the authors here, I have loved horror from a young age, and in their essays I see many of the things that keep me returning to the genre. They also give me a sense of community as a horror lover, or at least the kind of connection that my father-in-law has with other Corvette drivers---a little secret wave that indicates our shared idiosyncrasy (or weirdness. I'm cool with being seen as weird).

AnnCrystal I like being seen as weird too 😉👍🏼. A neighborhood kid once told my mom and I, “your the strange ones,“ which perplexed us, but then made us laugh. We have officially achieved our goal of being seen as our neighborhood's “Addams Family“ household 😂🤣🤗🥳👍🏼💝. 2w
Reggie I loved this book. I loved the essay by Keene, Hendrix, and Demchuk. 2w
ImperfectCJ @Reggie There were several new-to-me authors (including Keene and Demchuk), and I added so many books to my TBR. This collection helped me to more fully embrace my horror-loving side. LaValle's essay about being tacitly dissuaded from genre fiction in undergrad writing classes resonated with me, too. And Due's family history...wow! 2w
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Invitation to a Beheading | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov
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Based on the title alone, this seems like an appropriate book to read after just finishing We Love You, Bunny.

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Shit, Actually | Lindy West
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My fave holiday movies:
1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Lindy West's timeless review of Love Actually: https://www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-...
We read this (swear-word-filled) review with our annual listen to David Sedaris's "Santaland Diaries."

@dabbe #TTT #TakeThreeThursday

dabbe Love all of your choices. #3 review: priceless. Thanks for playing and sharing. ❄️☃️❄️ 3w
Ruthiella I had not read that review before. Hilarious! 😂 3w
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've gotten through the first two paragraphs and I'm already willing to propose a group movie night with our friends followed by a very dramatic reading of this review by yours truly. Maybe I'll include that sorority letter that went viral like 15 years ago, too, just for funsies! 🤣 2w
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We Love You, Bunny | Mona Awad
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This is a long, meta meditation on the corrupting effect on artist and art when the focus is too much on outcome and not enough on process. Although I loved Bunny, I don't think I would have finished this very long follow-up without narrator Sophie Amoss guiding me through. Did I mention that the novel is long? Because it totally is, Bunny. It's worth it, but it would have been more worth it had it been a little shorter.

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rubyslippersreads 😻😻 3w
lil1inblue 😻 😻 😻 3w
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Leftcoastzen Awwww!🥰😻😻 3w
AnnCrystal 💕😻🐾😻💝. 3w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
Eggs Love Love 🐈‍⬛❤️ 🐾 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🤍🖤 3w
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Apt Pupil | Stephen King
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I first read this around the time I turned 10, so not only has it been a long time between readings, but the first time I read it I lacked much of the context necessary to understand what I was reading. Reading it nearly 40 years later, I think about this what I think about most King books: Really cool idea, should be shorter. Todd in the first half (not in the second half, fingers crossed), reminds me of several of the bros in power right now.

ImperfectCJ @BarkingMadRead I plan to read the rest of Different Seasons when my library hold comes in, this story just hit my Libby account first. #losersclub 3w
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#ARichLife #Table

Throwback to the time when Silo poked his head above the edge of the table only to find that we had already cleared Thanksgiving leftovers away.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

mcctrish Poor Silo 3w
kspenmoll Lovely. 3w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
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Eggs Aww poor Silo 🐾 3w
AnnCrystal 💕😸💝. 3w
ImperfectCJ @Eggs @mcctrish Silo has a lot of disappointment, mostly food-related. It's a tough life. 3w
ReadingRachael So cute!!! 🥰 3w
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#ARichLife #Fireside

Another photo from the archives, this one from a camping trip in Ohio about a dozen years ago. We used to stay at a KOA while visiting family, and it was a great opportunity for campfires and s'mores.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs This campfire reminds me of July in Texas LOL 😂 3w
ImperfectCJ @Eggs Ha! Having nearly melted when I visited Texas in late March one year, I believe it! 3w
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I really enjoy Samanta Schweblin's style in her novels and apparently in her short stories, too. Her characters are vivid and flawed and get into such bizarre predicaments that are somehow totally logical. As a bonus, two of the narrators of this audiobook are people I've met through narrator networking, which is fun.

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The Night Guest | Hildur Knutsdottir
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This is a quick, tense, haunting story about the weight of grief, the emptiness that remains after a death, and how some things refuse to let us logic our way out of them. The story is told from Iðunn's perspective and the author does an excellent job keeping us in the dark as much as Iðunn is.

Photo is from nearly as close to Iceland as I've ever been (the coast of Maine. I've been to PEI, which is even closer, but it doesn't look as moody).

BarbaraBB Beautiful pic and I loved the book! 3w
ferskner I loved this book so much! 3w
AnnCrystal Beautiful 🤩💝😍. 3w
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The Night Guest | Hildur Knutsdottir
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I just totally bombed at a piano recital, so I think I've earned a book and some cider. (If I'd done well (i.e., not completely choked on stage) I would also have earned a book and some cider. The book-and-cider was pretty much a given from the get-go.)

LeahBergen 😆 Oh dear! 3w
Eggbeater 🫂 3w
ImperfectCJ So far in the hour or so I've been reading this novella, I've searched "55 kilos to lbs" and "Panodil." And then imagined that I'm from a place where these would be the norm, and I'd have to search "121 lbs to kilos" and...whatever US brand names other countries don't use. I do wish that the US used the metric system, though. 3w
Ruthiella Sorry to hear that. Hope the book and the cider do the trick . ❤️ 📚 🍺 3w
AnnCrystal Totally needed 💝🫂💝. 3w
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#Bounty #ARichLife

From back when I used to have a decent (for me) vegetable garden.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

mcctrish I miss the garden harvest days 3w
AnnCrystal 😍🌱🥗🌱🤩. 3w
Eggs Lovely garden veggies 🥗 🍅 3w
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#Saints #ARichLife

The route to this prompt is circuitous. This is a view from our apartment when we first moved to Salt Lake City in 2008, while I was reading Wallace Stegner's The Gathering of Zion about the founding of the LDS church and the Latter-day Saints' journey(s) to what would become Utah. I was not yet in my "photographing reads" era, but I associate this view with the book and with the term "saints."

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 3w
AnnCrystal Refreshing 🤩💝. 3w
Eggs It says peace and tranquility to me, beautiful photo❄️ 3w
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#Souls #ARichLife

I wasn't sure what to post for this prompt, but this pretty window at a local church seemed to fit decently.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 3w
AnnCrystal 🤩💝😍. 3w
Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 🕊️👏🏻 3w
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Thank you, Mr. Connelly, for unlocking new fears for me about AI chatbots. Before, I was just incredulous that anyone would choose to trust one over an actual human, given all of the manipulation that can and does happen in programming AI. Now it seems clear that people will do and are already doing just that, not recognizing that they're interacting not with an objective machine but with a puppet set in motion for profit by all-too-human humans.

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I initially intended to read only the title story, but I'm glad I got hooked on the others during a long walk. Butler's stories and essays are thought-provoking and explore different ways that humanity might react to extraordinary circumstances in a manner that feels less like fiction and more like a guided tour of alternate realities.

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#ARichLife #Pumpkin

A felted pumpkin I bought on a whim this autumn and put on the mantel with a couple of mini cinnamon brooms. And that's about the extent of my decorating skills.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Suet624 You‘re my kind of decorator. 4w
GingerAntics Love it! 4w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🎃💝. 4w
Eggs I‘m a big fan of simplicity 👏🏻👏🏻 4w
Susanita So cute! 3w
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#ARichLife #Earthy When we lived in Massachusetts, my kids and I hiked the same trail each week for a year, and along with that, we followed this lovely book that goes through a New England year week by week. I've tried a couple others with a similar premise, but none has worked quite so well for me as this one.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs How inspiring! 4w
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For several years, my sister and I had a long-distance Sisters Book Club, so named not only because we are sisters but also because we (mostly) read books about sisters. After a hiatus during which I moved cross country, my sister had a baby, and we all had a global pandemic, we are renewing our book club with this book my sister picked. If you'd like to read along, let me know, and I'll tag you for the discussion at the end of the month.

ImperfectCJ My sister is on neither Litsy nor TheStorygraph...yet. I'm working on bringing her aboard one or both. If she joins TheStorygraph, I'll plan to start a buddy read there, too. 4w
Ruthiella That‘s a lovely bookish and sisterly connection. ❤️ 4w
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How does one get a title added to the Litsy database? There's an indie title I want to tag, and I'm wondering how to go about getting it added to the database (or if there are titles that can't, for whatever reason, be added to the database).

Dilara You can do it yourself! Start by trying to add it as usual. If it's not in the database, the message “Nothing found“ will appear, and right under the button Search harder, you will see “Can't find what you're looking for? Add a book to Litsy.“ Click on “Add a book to Litsy“ and fill in the form, then click Add Book. 😁 4w
ImperfectCJ @Dilara Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I realize I probably would have seen that if I'd been looking on the website instead of the Android app, and I really appreciate the instructions because it could have taken me a looong time to figure that out on my own. 4w
willaful Just be careful when adding books, because you can't edit if you make a mistake. Ask me how I know. 😳 4w
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ImperfectCJ @willaful Ha! I was super nervous about that. I *think* I got everything in there correctly. I'm guessing on Litsy we just use a single entry for all versions of a title (print, ebook, audiobook)? (Unlike TheStorygraph where there are separate editions.) 4w
willaful @ImperfectCJ yes, I don't think there's any distinction here. 4w
Dilara @ImperfectCJ You're welcome! 😁 4w
Faranae @ImperfectCJ You can add other editions, since they appear in search when it knows about them, but it doesn't serve any purpose as litsy operates on the “work“ level, not the “edition“ level. I guess if you make an egregious enough mistake you might bother adding another edition 😅 4w
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I realized while filling out my November #bookspinbingo board that I had The Correspondent on the list twice, so I did a quick swap and slotted in a MG horror title. I still have a fair amount of horror in general---carryover from October---which is just fine by me. I left my #roll100 titles for free spaces.

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 4w
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#ARichLife #Twilight

My teen has been talking to me about Nietzsche, so I'm dusting off my Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ from college. I made notes in it, so I know I read it, but I remember nothing from this book except that it wasn't what I'd expected when I was 19 years old.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs I‘ve not read a whole Nietzsche book yet, just excerpts… 4w
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Aside from a couple of very bizarre statements about sexual assault, I actually liked this Miss Marple mystery more than I expected to for a late Christie. The twists and turns are enjoyable, with just enough clues to keep me guessing. As always Emilia Fox's narration is excellent. And now I want to go on a guided tour of historic homes and gardens in England.

Photo: The same flowers in the book cover illustration, but growing in San Diego.

willaful I think she actually wrote both this and Curtain fairly early on, but had them published posthumously. 4w
ImperfectCJ @willaful This is a follow-up to A Caribbean Mystery (1964) and was published in 1971, so before her death. 4w
ImperfectCJ @willaful Maybe you're thinking of Sleeping Murder? 4w
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willaful @ImperfectCJ D'oh, you're right! 4w
ImperfectCJ And this is my #doublespin for November! 4w
AnnCrystal Love the flowers 🤩💝😍. 4w
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#ARichLife

November 3: #Grateful for so many things, including toe beans and a cat so relaxed that I can get a close-up of his paws.

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lil1inblue 🐾😻🐾 1mo
Bette 🐈‍⬛🐾💕 1mo
AnnCrystal 💝🤩🐾😍💝. 4w
Eggs Sweet 😻 4w
Leftcoastzen Beans!😻👏 4w
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Eggs Mmmmm 🤤 4w
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Catching up on #ARichLife (a photo challenge sounds fun for this month...we'll see if I can keep up!).

November 1: #Harvest from a Massachusetts October a few years ago.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Beautiful 🤩 4w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 4w
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