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Leftcoastzen

Leftcoastzen

Joined June 2016

“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson
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Ghost Story by Peter Straub
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My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
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Happy Halloween Everybody!🎃🧛👻🧙🏻‍♀️🦇

LeahBergen Happy Halloween! 🎃🖤🎃🖤 1h
Ruthiella Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 1h
AnnCrystal Happy Halloween 🥳🎃💃💝. 1h
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The Fight to Vote | Michael Waldman
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AZ. has early voting, I voted today with a heavy heart . I am one of the holdouts that loves to vote in person ON Election Day. I hate that I had fears of people acting up or worse at polling places , that I might be disenfranchised on the day. If you had told me a couple decades ago that thoughts like this were even possible, I would have said no. This is a big one, please vote .

AmyG That we are even at this point…blows my mind. 3h
Leftcoastzen @AmyG me too ! I voted as soon as I was old enough, I always thought it was important, some of my friends thought it was nerdy or old fashioned. 😄 2h
AnnCrystal 💝🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲💝. 1h
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I have nothing in common on policy with Liz Cheney and don‘t get me started on her dad . In this moment, where she picks country over party she‘s my hero. A well written book with a bullseye view on the dangers of not defending the constitution & details of January 6th that could only be told by her. A memoir & a warning indeed! Go VOTE 🗳️

JenReadsAlot I completely agree with you! 4d
AnnCrystal well said 👏🇺🇲🦅🇺🇸🙏. 4d
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AmyG Agree on all of that. VOTE! 4d
DogMomIrene Agree! Voted by email (overseas) and Arizona, a state that loves to purge their rolls, has confirmed my vote is in batch XYZ for counting📧 3d
Leftcoastzen @DogMomIrene yay for your votes , boo for the purging! 3d
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Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino
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#WickedWhispers #Trick A book still on my TBR

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 4d
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4d
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As I clean the guest room so it is suitable for guests I had to take a small bookcase out (never fun) I still am obsessed with these little Booksellers stickers they used to put inside the books. How can there be so many books in a small bookcase ? 5 boxes ? Really?

LeahBergen So cool! 2w
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Ghost Story | Peter Straub
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#WickedWhispers #Haunt My current spooky read . Slow build, liking it so far .

LeahBergen I read that “way back when” and hardly remember a thing about it. 😆 2w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2w
AnnCrystal 💕👻💝. 2w
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Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen I didn‘t read it in the old days . I think the hot horror before was The Other, Rosemary‘s Baby & Exorcist. Straubs writing more gothic , influenced by Hawthorne & Henry James . King said he was a much more poetic writer than himself. 2w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love your ghost 👻 2w
Leftcoastzen @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks thank you ! Extra special, my mom gave it to me. 2w
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The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates
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#Bookmail is the best mail!👏😄📚

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The Forgotten Arts and Crafts | John Seymour, Gillian Emerson-Roberts
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#WickedWhispers #Lantern This DK book is loaded with self sufficient skills that people like my grandparents were familiar with. That is why they saved everything, you might be able to fix it or use it as parts to make something else. I swear Grandpa could fix almost anything with duct tape and baling wire !

AnnCrystal 👏💝💝💝. 2w
Eggs That knowledge and skill is a lost art 👏🏻 2w
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Enough vacuuming! We need to relax it‘s #caturday night ! Dusty is just gonna sit on the cord!
#CatsOfLitsy

dabbe YES! 🖤🧡🖤 3w
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 3w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
bibliothecarivs Our cat is a Dusty, too (but a mackerel tabby). 🐈‍⬛️ 3w
Leftcoastzen @bibliothecarivs I think it‘s a good name!😄 2w
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The Dark Half | Stephen King
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#WickedWhispers #Dark A King I haven‘t read.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 3w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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Dearest | Jacquie Walters
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#BookMail #BOTM book mail is great mail! I am kinda surprised I picked this one ! 😄🤷‍♀️

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Ghost Story | Peter Straub
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#SundayFunday Unfortunately, I seldom seasonally read . I just have too many books going to make a plan for a holiday book. But even with my reading droughts this year I‘m gonna try to get to the tagged book that‘s been around since 1979 and is considered to be top notch in the scary category! 😁😬👻

Suet624 Good luck! 4w
BookmarkTavern Looks interesting! Thanks for answering! 4w
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These bums have convinced me to start the weekend a little early. 😁😻

Bookwormjillk Aww what cuties 😻😻😻 4w
Ruthiella Cats rule: weekend starts now! 😹😻 4w
AnnCrystal 💕😻😻😻💝. 4w
dabbe YES! Enjoy! 🖤🐾🐾🐾🖤 4w
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The Bat | Jo Nesbo
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#WickedWhispers #Bats I read this first in the Harry Hole series and enjoyed it . I haven‘t gone on with the series probably because I‘m in the middle of several series right now.

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4w
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#WickedWhispers #Gruesome McNamara was obsessed with this case . So unfair she didn‘t live to see him caught .

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 1mo
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#WickedWhispers #Pumpkin Though the weather is NOT turning to fall in Phoenix, some new additions to the Halloween decor! A dear friend got me the 2 pumpkins , cat & pumpkin was a Home Goods find!
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Sace I love those pumpkins!!! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love these 🧡🎃 1mo
AnnCrystal 💕🎃🐈‍⬛🎃🤩🎃💝. 1mo
Gissy So pretty 🎃🧡🧡🧡 1mo
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#SchoolSpirit #Lunch In high school we still had a cafeteria, but we also had a walk up window fast food style with picnic benches outside. Not sure if it was made by Deli Express back then but it would be embarrassing to know how many of these Chuckwagon sandwiches I ate while in High School!😂

britt_brooke Looks pretty good 😂 1mo
Eggs It does look good 👍🏼 1mo
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Creation Lake: A Novel | Rachel Kushner
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#Booker an odd one ,but I liked it?A bit of a thriller w/ a woman for hire infiltrating a eco-terrorist group. Kushner adds so many ideas, philosophy, anthropology, w/ the main character having a hey, I‘m just doing my job kind of attitude.The scene that recalls a character finding a dead German soldier, taking his helmet, inherited his lice was intense. I can see why people bail, many layers in this one. I thought Flamethrowers was overrated.

BarbaraBB I didn‘t like Flamethrowers indeed (not the Mars Room) and haven‘t read this one but I love your review. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @BarbaraBB 😊 thank you! 1mo
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Cats on Instagram | @Cats_of_instagram
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Happy Caturday! Sophie contemplating how it can be 114 in Phoenix in October!😡😬🔥
#catsofLitsy

Pageturner1 Wow! we‘re getting soaked in Kentucky 1mo
AnnCrystal 💕🐾😻🐾💝. 1mo
dabbe I\'m with you #sweetsophie! 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
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#SchoolSpirit #paper An oldie but a goodie. Why we need good journalists who go beyond the obvious, beyond the propaganda.

Eggs Great choice👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
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Absolutely sick ! The fans turned out , despite the anger & pain . John Fisher SELL! Son of the Gap founders and Bay Area native, SHAME ON YOU!

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Having a bad reading year , a tough year in general. I don‘t need Goodreads making me feel bad about my reading goal so I reduced it! Thanks for the suggestion @dabbe months ago ! I feel better already! A different kind of #hailthebail

sarahbarnes ♥️♥️♥️ 1mo
Amiable I set my GR goal at 1 book every year. I don‘t want or need the pressure to hit a specific target, either. Enjoy reading—that should be the only goal! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Amiable great idea ! Next year it‘s gonna be 1! 1mo
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Lcsmcat ❤️ 1mo
Jas16 Good for you! 1mo
dabbe #yahooyou! And I adore @Amiable\'s idea of just 1 book a year ... this is all of our main pleasure, and that\'s what it should remain as--PLEASURE! I don\'t want no Goodreads telling me I\'m ___ books behind! (double negative intended!). And I hope your years ends well and that 2025 kicks ass in all good ways possible! 🧡🍁🧡 1mo
LiteraryinPA Good for you! 1mo
AmyG I am sorry to read you are having a tough year. Sending a hug. Read what you can and consider each book an accomplishment. 1mo
Hooked_on_books You definitely don‘t need that kind of pressure! Even if you don‘t set a challenge goal, it will still keep track of how many books you read in a year, if that helps for future years. I stopped doing their challenge a while back and I still get a wrap up at year end from them. 1mo
Bookwomble ♥️ 1mo
youneverarrived Sorry you‘re having a tough year ♥️ I always set my goal purposefully low now for this reason. 1mo
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I have yet to finish his Septology series , my reading brain is finding it hard to finish anything so took in this slim volume. I liked it the first grouping is very much like what stands out in a child‘s memory. A middle section about a dog is fantastical tw below. The 3rd segment about a boy & girl 4 & 3 how they get in trouble, much from the point of view of the 4 year old brother. Powerful descriptions.

Leftcoastzen Violence against dog 1mo
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101 Famous Poems | Roy Jay Cook
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#SchoolSpirit #Poems This book of poems has been in print since 1916. I have fond memories of it from grade school, a teacher selected it to expose kids to poetry, see if they were interested in exploring more. I don‘t think it‘s ever been out of print, most libraries have at least an e book copy. It‘s also in the Internet Archive.

Eggs I think I would LOVE this🥰 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs it‘s a sweet little volume , many different covers available since it has been reprinted often. 1mo
BarbaraJean I have three different editions of this! My mom had the same edition as this picture, and I read it so often in jr. high and high school that she eventually bought me my own copy. Twice—because she forgot she‘d already bought one for me! She passed away two years ago and now I have all three—can‘t bear to part with any of them. 1mo
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Eggs Stacked! 1mo
Eggs @BarbaraJean What a bittersweet memory😌 1mo
Leftcoastzen @BarbaraJean yes , I saw your post , lovely and instantly brought back my memories of this wonderful volume. 1mo
BarbaraJean It really is such a wonderful collection—there‘s a reason it‘s been in print for over 100 years!! 1mo
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Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson
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As seen on X aka Twitter! 😁

Bookwomble I'd have to have that sticker, too, if I drove one of the vehicles his employees conceived, designed and built, and which he takes credit for. 1mo
AlaMich That‘s the best! 1mo
ShelleyBooksie Awesome sticker 1mo
Ruthiella 😂😂😂 1mo
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Intermezzo | Sally Rooney
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I‘m in a reading slump yet I run out & get this right away. So not in love with the cover. My excuse to go to the bookstore was Halloween card shopping!🎃

RaeLovesToRead Yeah, I prefer the UK cover for this one.. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @RaeLovesToRead wow ,just looked up UK 🇬🇧 cover , much better! 1mo
RaeLovesToRead Less... fawn! Lol 1mo
sarahbarnes Yes!! Can‘t wait to get this (despite the cover 😁). I‘ve been holding onto a gift card for this! 1mo
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#SchoolSpirit #Play A selection of plays from my collection. I was straining my brain trying to remember what plays were performed in my high school, I got nothing! 😁

Liz_M I 💜 The Balcony (just a guess, but I don\'t think it was performed at your high school or any US high school ever 😂) 1mo
Eggs 🖤 🎭 🧡 1mo
Ruthiella I was in a production of “The Bad Seed” my senior year. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Liz_M agree!😁 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella wow ,The Bad Seed! I remember the movie 1mo
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#SchoolSpirit #Team John Irving was a wrestler in prep school, he also coached. An example of how your real life can inform your fiction, several of his books have characters who wrestle. Playing catch up , busy week!

Eggs 🖤🤼‍♂️ 🩶 1mo
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#SchoolSpirit #Band my dad LOVED marching bands ! Me, not so much . Still , brings happy memories thinking of him. https://youtu.be/bl6U3QATtoc

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 1mo
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1.tagged ! well, cheating a bit, I finished it July 31st & liked it more than anything I read in August .
2.Paper though do read ebooks , like my audio mostly while driving.
3.Mysteries & literary fiction. Mood reader , I‘m all over the place.
#WondrousWednesday
Play , people, play!😁

Eggs Will be reading #1 🔜 1mo
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#SchoolSpirit #Essays I love Virginia Woolf ! There are many fiction writers who earned a lot of their living writing essays for magazines & journals.

Eggs True! I think it‘s quite an art writing stories/essays 👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
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😡🙄😬😑🔥

wanderinglynn 😳🤯 Glad it‘s “cooling” off for you?! 😬🥵 1mo
Leftcoastzen @wanderinglynn yeah , it‘s a nightmare. If I had the choice I‘d say be out of Phx from about May 10th to September 27th. 1mo
dabbe Hall-a-f*&(-ing-lu-jah! Today was a cold front! Oh, but next week is supposed to be back up into the 100s. 🧨🧨🧨 1mo
lil1inblue This is why I live where the cold hurts my face in winter. Blech! 1mo
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American Graffiti: A Screenplay | George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
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#TuesdayTunes when American Graffiti came out it was some young people‘s first exposure to 50s & early 60s music .The film had bit parts for the then not well known Harrison Ford & Suzanne Summers. What stands out from the Big Chill, Rolling Stones “You can‘t Always Get What You Want” could be considered a key song in the plot. Not uncommon in that era for a group to allow it in film but not the soundtrack. To garner sales for their album?

TieDyeDude Interesting. I didn\'t know that about the Stones. Big Chill was a big soundtrack for us growing up. It was one of my dad\'s favorites. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @TieDyeDude rights to music can be tricky. I heard that they never issued the complete Drew Carey Show because of music rights. Some artists are ok with it appearing in a show or movie but not cool when it turns marketable by units , like albums & DVDs . 1mo
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Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding
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#schoolSpirit #Diary fun read , fun movie.

Eggs Great choice👏🏻 1mo
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Portrait of a Spy | Daniel Silva
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#SchoolSpirit #Paint Gabriel Allon is an international spy , but let‘s not forget his other job as a gifted art restoration specialist! 🎨

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🕵️ 🎨📚👍🏻 1mo
Eggs Sounds so good 👏🏻 1mo
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My friends mom made me these adorable bookmarks! She still spends a lot of time with her needlework well into her 90s.

5feet.of.fury That‘s so sweet! 2mo
AmyG Those are wonderful! 2mo
Melismatic So cute! 2mo
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Texreader Awww!! 2mo
AnnCrystal 👏🤩💝. 2mo
Deblovestoread Adorable! 2mo
Meshell1313 Love! 😍😍😍 2mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
LeahBergen That‘s so sweet! 2mo
Gissy 😍👌 1mo
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Reading buddies Sophie and Tom Tom ! Thank goodness it‘s #Caturday #CatsOfLitsy

dabbe #sweetsophie #terrifictomtom 🖤🐾🐾🖤 2mo
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 2mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻🐾😻💝. 2mo
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I got this book when it first came out but since it‘s short stories , easy to read one or two then set it aside. I liked some more than others, one is more a novella. What always charms me about King ,he‘s always a craftsman with his writing, and delights in the details that bring characters and places alive.Long live the King !👑 This is the first day in months that Phoenix hasn‘t suffered record heat , it‘s almost driven me mad .

AmyG Ugh…I can‘t imagine that hear for so long. 2mo
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Someone was bad on Bookshop.org . How is that downsizing going? 🙄😬

TheBookHippie Mine is going the same 😅 2mo
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The Mystery Roast | Peter Gadol
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#Two4Tuesday
1.That‘s hard ,love all museums !
MOMA NYC , The Art Institute Of Chicago
2. Tagged title. a fun book about coffee, friends, and a little artifact that gets lifted from the museum.
Everyone play !

KadaGul @Leftcoastzen, are you from the Midwest?#Chitown 2mo
Leftcoastzen @KadaGul originally Cleveland actually! Have Chicago friends & love New York ! 2mo
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2mo
KadaGul Most people on the East Coast go to NY and MA, while those on the West Coast go to CA, and the Midwesterners go to the Art Institute of Chicago or MI 2mo
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Democracy Or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps | Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
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I don‘t think anyone could put more good information in a fun & entertaining package than the guys from Pod Save America! Valuable tools about being a more informed voter, becoming a volunteer, canvasser, phone bank person, or even being a candidate. Went to the show in Phoenix Saturday, fantastic! https://youtu.be/p60qbA9iWv4

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#SchoolSpirit #BoardingSchool I watched this fairly recently. It uses a common scenario, people finding themselves stuck , nowhere to go for the holidays, but find they may actually have more in common than they think and may have things they could learn from each other.

CBee I LOVED this movie ♥️♥️ 2mo
Leftcoastzen @CBee I loved it too! 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Looks good! 2mo
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AmyG I loved this movie, too. 2mo
mcctrish This was a great movie 2mo
Eggs I like Paul Giamatti👏🏻 2mo
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Criminal | Karin Slaughter
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Wow! This is #6 in the Will Trent, along with evil acts perpetrated on women you might assume nobody is looking for ,you learn more of Wills background.Also, it flashes back to Evelyn Mitchell & Amanda Wagner in the 1970s trying their best to be good police officers when women basically were not wanted by the old boys club of policing. So much going on in this one .

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Love in the Library | Maggie Tokuda-Hall
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#SchoolSpirit #Library a challenged book about two young people who meet and fall in love in a Japanese internment camp. It‘s a wonderful book .

Eggs Perfect 🤩 2mo
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Librarybelle Oh no! 2mo
Ruthiella I‘ve never read any thing from her. Recommendations? 2mo
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella I‘ve only read the first 6 of the Gaslight Mysteries, the series begins with 2mo
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella why I like them is the main character leaves a Wharton society type situation to be a midwife. Thompsons descriptions of New York in that era are vivid . 2mo
Deblovestoread Sad to hear this! I love the series and just recently finished the latest one. 2mo
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Lute!: The Seasons of My Life | David Fisher, Lute Olson
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#SchoolSpirit I was living in Tucson at the time Lute Olson turned UofA into a #college basketball powerhouse! Still on my TBR , may get to it before the new season.

Eggs How fun! 2mo
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Dangling Man | Saul Bellow
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The postage for 3 Ounce mail is Saul Bellow !

Ruthiella His novels are not my thing, but literary postage is awesome! 😎 2mo
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#Two4Tuesday
1.Good friends & family. Also, meditation ,I can tend to add stress to situations,often I recognize the need to pause .
2. Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird.
Consider yourself tagged if you want to chime in.

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway
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#SchoolSpirit #Bell always liked the look of this cover

Eggs I‘ve not read this yet…have you? 2mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs yes I have! I remember liking it but I read it long ago. 2mo
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The list in real live newsprint rather than online!

Suet624 I‘d prefer a paper copy too. 2mo
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