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ReviewsbytheMrs

Joined January 2018

Library lover 📚 Desert dweller 🌵Pastor‘s wife ⛪️ Mama of 3 💜💙💚 Baking boss 🍰 Writer of honest reviews 👩🏻‍💻
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Forever Friday: A Novel | Timothy Lewis
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1. Rude people
2. Cake 🍰
3. Mandy
4. Science fiction
5. 💜💜💜

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Such a cheesy picture but an amazing book! I read it while working the front desk and made a bit of a spectacle of myself; crying at the sweet relationship between father and son. Not overly political but gave a new perspective to events during the previous administration. So glad I got back on the waitlist after having to return it unfinished the last time I got it.

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Thoughts about how to survive the server merger...I got nothing! J/k, I am on the west coast so it should all be done by the time I am at my desk in the morning. We can do hard things, Littens 💜😉

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Shatter Me | Tahereh Mafi
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Grabbed this audiobook from Hoopla but after about 75% I bailed. What I felt was really poetic in the beginning of the book began to feel a bit melodramatic. 💜#themrs

LoverofLit I felt much the same way. I made it through and was intrigued by the premise and direction at the end, but not enough to have picked up the second in the series almost a year later! 7y
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Today Is Monday | Eric Carle
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1. 🍎
2. Kindle Paperwhite
3. Hoopla (thanks to all the Littens suggestions!)
4. All of the above 📱💻🖥⌨️

JoScho Love my kindle. Thanks for playing 💙 7y
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Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden
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@YouReadMyEyes what an absolute delight your Easter basket was! As a Pastor‘s family, this week has been incredibly busy. Tonight as my house settled into quiet, I was able to open this sweet gift and was reminded again what a beautiful community Litsy has created. Thank you for your thoughtful gift and sharing some of your beloved books with me 💜#themrs

YouReadMyEyes You‘re welcome! 😊 7y
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Glass Sword | Victoria Aveyard
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Great audiobook! Perfect way to make Saturday morning chores a little more enjoyable 💜#themrs

Coco I really enjoyed this series!!!! 7y
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You've Got Mail: Don't Write Off the Letter | Kelsey Hurwitz, Shannon Robb
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Putting my #lmpbc package in the mail 📬 So excited for this @KisforKechell @Coco @jillannjohn

Coco I‘m mailing mine out today too!! 🎉 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @Coco I‘m so excited to read everyone‘s picks 💜 7y
jillannjohn Yay! So exciting. I‘m still trying to finish mine! Hopefully it‘ll go out Monday! 📚📚📚 (edited) 7y
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Forever Friday: A Novel | Timothy Lewis
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1. Frozen Free Fall 💜❄️⛄️
2. Historical fiction
3. Cadbury mini eggs 😍
4. My man 💏
5. I have received so much love from the whole Litsy community that it would be impossible to pick just one!

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An American Marriage | Tayari Jones
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A power piece of literature rich in thought provoking moments and diversity. It feels like a novel with such poignancy that I actually bought it (and that‘s big!) 💜 #themrs

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The Easter Basket | Beth Harwood, Susanna Ronchi
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My box is on it‘s way to you @YouReadMyEyes I had so much fun participating in my first swap! Thanks @JoScho for organizing it. 💜#themrs 🐥🐰💐👒

JoScho This one was organized by @JoeStalksBeck 😊 (edited) 7y
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JoeStalksBeck Haha no worries! 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @JoeStalksBeck thank YOU for putting it all together! It was my first swap and I had a great time getting to know another Litten 💜 7y
YouReadMyEyes Yay 😁 thank you I‘m super excited! 7y
YouReadMyEyes I got my box today! Is it Easter yet??? 😝 10 more days! 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @YouReadMyEyes hooray!!! I had to put mine out of sight as to not tempt myself 😉💜 7y
YouReadMyEyes @ReviewsbytheMrs 😂 that‘s so funny, I put mine in the cupboard! 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @YouReadMyEyes great minds!! 😂 7y
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Say Goodbye | Lisa Gardner
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1. Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner; it has some scenes with child abduction and I had just had a baby so....😱
2. Any of the paranormal type movies. I stay away from them 🎈
3. My daughter was stung by a scorpion and had a reaction 🦂
4. Tag! You‘re it!
#tuesdaytidbits

julesG Your #1 reminds me that I was spooked much more easily during the first weeks after having a baby. 7y
JenlovesJT47 Regarding number one that makes sense, I'm trying to avoid watching/reading things right now that have anything negative to do with babies. 3 weeks to go for me!!🤰🏻 7y
LoveToReadLiveToRead There‘s a couple of books I‘ve avoided since having my little boy just over a year ago too. I‘ve heard the latest Jodi Picoult is really good but it includes the death of a newborn and I don‘t think I‘d manage it. PS good luck @JenlovesJT47 !! 👶🏻 7y
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JenlovesJT47 Thank you!! ☺️ 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @julesG so true! This was back before Litsy and Goodreads so I didn‘t know about any “triggers” in the book. And of course my emotions were all over the place already 😉 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @JenlovesJT47 good plan! Rest up and enjoy your time! Can‘t wait to see pics of your new little love! 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @LoveToReadLiveToRead it amazes me how our perspectives change after kiddos. What used to not faze me at all now can hit me square in the face! 7y
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The Kill Switch | James Rollins, Grant Blackwood
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1. Tucker Wayne series by James Rollins features Kane, a military dog unlike any other. I am always super tense reading those novels because I am so worried for Kane!!
2. I have 3 and they are all rescues 🐶🐶🖤
3. ELEPHANT 🐘 😍💜
4. My cat 💤

JoScho Adopt don‘t shop! That is my motto too. At one time we had 3 cats and 4 dogs because they just keep finding me. 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @JoScho that‘s exactly right! That is how we got a cat, she just showed up on our porch and stayed 🖤 7y
JoScho @ReviewsbytheMrs yep! All of our cats were found outside. Two dogs were going to the pound and I intervened and the other one I found by the side of the road. They are the best though! 7y
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An American Marriage | Tayari Jones
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Thought provoking 💜

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1. ☀️🌷👱🏼‍♀️👦🏼🧒🏾🚴🏼‍♂️🎟📚🤧🤒
2. Umbridge
3. Over
4. Yep! 👗
5. #friyayintro 😘😍💜

Cathythoughts Feel better soon ❤️ 7y
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It‘s here @YouReadMyEyes So excited to open it on Easter! Yours will be going out in the next couple days 💜

YouReadMyEyes Yay! I‘m so happy it arrived and so excited about doing this swap 😊 7y
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Craft Cocktails | Brian Van Flandern
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Love a craft cocktail 🍸 and it helps that my brother owns a cocktail bar 💜#themrs

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Look for Me | Lisa Gardner
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“Look For Me” by Lisa Gardner. Perfect read while my kids are on Spring Break! It is latest in the DD Warren series and also includes the reoccurring character Flora Dane. Both women are trying to find a missing teenage girl who‘s family was murdered. I love the strong female characters and how they relate to one another. A great page turner! 💜#themrs

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Glass Sword | Victoria Aveyard
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I‘m sick 🤧🤒 and the kids are on Spring Break. Luckily they were content to lay low today and I found this series on Hoopla that I totally forgot about. Now a detox bath 🛀🏻 and then some rest! 💜#themrs

AmyG Feel better. 7y
CouronneDhiver Oh dear - feel better soon! 7y
tammysue Hope you feel better soon! 7y
cobwebmoth Feel better soon! 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @AmyG @CouronneDhiver @whatshesreadingnow @cobwebmoth thanks friends! I am feeling much better today 💜 7y
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The Color Purple | Alice Walker
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💜 my water cup
🍫 chocolate
💍 my wedding ring
👗 no uniform
📥 nope and I need to get cracking!

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1. Hogwarts or Prythian
2. Pursuit of Happiness
3. I started dating my man 19 years ago 💏

JenlovesJT47 💚💚💚 7y
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1. Teacups ☕️
2. Naked 😊
3. The library 💜 #themrs

MelAnn Love teacups! 🌷Thank you for sharing! 7y
[DELETED] 3803335244 Teacups! So cute 💕 7y
Karkar I totally did not look at the picture and the word naked jumped out at me and I was all like 😱 but then I saw the picture and was like 😜 duh Karin ...lol 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @Karkar 😂😂😂😉 7y
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Look for Me | Lisa Gardner
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“Say, gunfire.” 😂😂😂😂💜#themrs

2BR02B "Her feet found purchase, planting into something warm and shifting and hard, like muscle, like skin." My love life involves a lot of ass kicking apparently. 7y
MelAnn “A gun,” Alice repeated. (The next sentence describes my life) Nothing could have shocked her more ... 7y
MelAnn @2BR02B love it! 7y
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MelAnn I see mine follows your theme of guns ... 🤣 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @2BR02B oh sometimes it couldn‘t be more true! 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @MelAnn I literally laughed out loud when I read it! 7y
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Monday, Monday: A Novel | Elizabeth Crook
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1. Regency Era Romance
2. Babysitting
3. Part time teacher and personal assistant. Volunteer receptionist.
4. Book reviewer 💜
5. Coffee with some sweet cream
#manicmonday #themrs

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Look for Me | Lisa Gardner
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For family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 💜#themrs #bookdedication

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Because only for a really great cause will I get this dressed up, socialize this much, AND carry a purse that is too small to carry a book!!! But my man and I had a great night (even if he mocked my photo opp) 😍💜 #themrs

julesG That's a cute picture. He seems to have a great sense of humour. 7y
HOTPock3tt ❤️🎉 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @julesG thank you! He definitely keeps me on my toes 😉💜 7y
britt_brooke Love this!! 7y
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Forever My Girl | Heidi McLaughlin
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Mehso-so

Spending the day working in the yard with my man, but thanks to all you Littens I am still getting some book time in! Thanks for telling me about Hoopla! Grabbed this audiobook because my tween daughter wants to see the movie...guessing the movie is much different than the book??

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📕📗📘📙Fear Street series by R.L. Stine during junior high 📕📗📘📙
🙅🏻‍♀️The Starbound Trilogy and a Tri-Stone Trilogy🙅🏻‍♀️
🔄 Pass it on! 🔄
🙋🏻‍♀️ I have been in a book club for 8 years and they are the most precious women! #weekendchat

JoScho It was Fear Street for me too! So much nostalgia love there 💛 7y
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As Bright as Heaven | Susan Meissner
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So glad I endured late fees to finish this work of historical fiction! Beautiful tale about how we endure with loss and the repercussions from our coping. 💜#themrs

AmyG I am really enjoying this book. 7y
SilversReviews What a gorgeous photo....love how you designed it. The book is FAB. 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @AmyG I am so glad! Are you participating in the buddy read? 7y
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ReviewsbytheMrs @SilversReviews thank you ☺️ I have several glass pieces from that era and they are some of my favorites 💜 7y
AmyG I am participating in the buddy read. 👍🏻 7y
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🤩Idris Elba🤩
💜purple💜
📙The Great Alone (464 pages)📙
🤔any 4 of the supporting characters from the Throne of Glass or A Court of Thorns and Roses series...Manon for sure!🤔 #friyayintro

Dragon Luther 💕 7y
Cathythoughts Idris ❤️❤️❤️ 7y
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Look for Me | Lisa Gardner
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I should say that the multiple books have to be from different genres. 💜#themrs

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As Bright as Heaven | Susan Meissner
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💚green smoothie in a mason jar so I can jump in a big cup of coffee ☕️ mug is a gift from my husband who knows I sometimes (always) love a sassy joke!
I just added Heroin(e) to my Netflix list
Tagged book and yes!
Bright and sunny 😎
No tattoos. I removed all my piercings except for my ears 💜#themrs #humpdaypost

readordierachel Excellent mug 😂 7y
2BR02B That mug. 😍 I NEED it. 7y
KarynGood Mug ❤️ 7y
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As Bright as Heaven | Susan Meissner
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Frantically trying to finish As Bright As Heaven before it is due tomorrow but Boo is just loving this Spring weather...and all the birds in the tree 😏 💜🖤#themrs #catsoflitsy

SandyW What a beauty. 😻 7y
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I enjoyed this book but not quite as much as her first novel, The Dry. I think I just lost a bit of interest in the characters and all of the side stories. But I still thought it was pretty good; maybe just a half step up from “so-so.” 💜 #themrs

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Late afternoon pick me up; my classic reads for March and a peach green tea! 💜#themrs

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To all the heroes 💜 #themrs #bookdedication

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Ok Littens, many of you use audiobooks but I was wondering how you get them. Libraries? Subscription to audible or ????

Coleen I‘ve lately been using Hoopla a lot. I also have a ton of audiobooks that I swap on PaperBackSwap and BookCrossing. And sometimes the library or Libby/Overdrive. 7y
JoScho I am trying to get more into audiobooks. I do use my library so OverDrive but I also signed up for a two month trial with Scribd. They have a pretty great selection. 7y
Morr_Books My library has free access to Hoopla, Cloud Library and Overdrive, so I have a lot of free audiobook options. 7y
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ofbooksandme I do the non-legal option 7y
GripLitGrl From library using Libby and hoopla 7y
theresidentromantic The NY public library has a ton in their online system. If you're non NY resident, I think you pay a fee but then you can get a card to borrow online. Every so often I pay for audible, get a bunch of things I really want and can't find and then quit it again for a while. 7y
LoverofLit I use the overdrive app which uses the public library system. You just pick your library, enter your library card and away you go. 7y
Eggbeater I use Audible but I only listen to a couple books a month 7y
PandaPanda I get them from all over the place. Audible (especially when they have big sales), Libby, and more recently Google play books 7y
Phlamboyant @theresidentromantic Really? I must look into this NY public library thing. Our selection is fairly limited in my library's system, which is a grouping of mostly small Idaho towns. 7y
Phlamboyant I had been using Overdrive with my local library card, but recently switched over to Libby. As far as I understand, Libby is Overdrive with a nicer interface/look/whatchamacallit? 7y
britt_brooke I use Overdrive and Audible. 7y
[DELETED] 3803335244 I use audible and audiobook.com love them both ❤️ 7y
Lreads Hoopla and Overdrive through my library. Audible for those books I know I'll listen to over and over. 7y
theresidentromantic @Phlamboyant I'm from Brooklyn and this is the website. It's also through overdrive, you can just add it to your library list. Just look for "apply for ecard" Not sure how much it costs, but even if it's 50 for a year, audible is 40 in two months for four audiobooks https://www.bklynlibrary.org/use-the-library/borrow 7y
cathysaid Library using overdrive and hoopla. 7y
sprainedbrain All of the above! I use the library (Libby app) whenever I can, but also Audible and Playster. I‘m planning to cancel Playster for a month and try Scribd. 7y
theresidentromantic @Phlamboyant Happy to help! I should actually PSA that info, now that I mention it. 7y
Redwritinghood Library via Libby and Hoopla. 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @theresidentromantic thank you so much! I am going to look into getting an NYC card 💜 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @Coleen @JoScho @Morr_Books @GripLitGrl @LoverofLit @Eggbeater @PandaPanda @Phlamboyant @britt_brooke @ForeverNerdy @QuietlyLaura @cathysaid @sprainedbrain @Redwritinghood I knew I could count on the Litsy community! I am going to look into these, especially the ones linked to my library. Thank you SO MUCH 💜 7y
Kaye I‘ve been in and out of Audible.. the main reasons for joining are their selection and lots of times if it‘s a book I‘m very impatient for and the wait list is like 6 months at the library, then I use Audible. I need to try going back to only using Libby ( a much nicer and user-friendly app than Overdrive ). And Hoopla, which has quite a wide selection of unusual books not found on my Libby page. Audible can get quite expensive ! 7y
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Friday's Child | Georgette Heyer
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The Great Alone 🌲and Keep Her Safe 💪🏼
5 for me and my husband has 5 as well
“Ant”
A big cup of coffee ☕️ but I am hoping for a brunch date in a bit 💜
👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
#friyayintro

laurieluna Hey! 👋 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs Hi @miralunasbooknook Nice to meet you 💜 7y
kezzlou85 👋 7y
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eanderson 🖐🖐🖐 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @kezzlou85 happy Friday! 💜 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @eanderson 🖐🏼🖐🏼🖐🏼 have a great day! 💜 7y
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How can I pick between waffles and pancakes?!?! I like a little spice but not too much. And I am a night owl forced to be an early bird so 🤷🏻‍♀️ 💜#themrs #thisorthat

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Barely got this little guy finished by my “end of February” deadline. This one just made me sad; the characters were just so lonely. But I am glad I read it and I still love Steinbeck as an author 💜#themrs

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Sick kiddos this week 🤢but this was a perfect read in between playing mom and nurse! I love this simple sweet series and it‘s sassy heroines. 💜#themrs

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The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah
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Simply superb! What seems like a simple story about survival is anything but; it‘s complex and explores the ideas of love, loss, guilt, shame, mental instability, and co-dependency and how to survive those emotional elements. It‘s one of those stories that has you hinged page by page, waiting with bated breath only to finally finish and continue to think of these characters. 💜 #themrs

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The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah
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To all the warrior women 💜💪🏼#themrs #bookdedication

Ashley_Nicoletto Yessss. 🙌🏼❤️ 7y
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The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah
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“A thing can be true and not the truth,” 💜

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The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah
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Read! And hopefully a date night with my man 💜
5‘5
4 and a half years 🏡
The Great Alone
🤳
#friyayintro

lynneamch The Great Alone is soo good! Hope you enjoy. 7y
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Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams
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#libraryhaul for the day! That is a great stack of books 😊 The audiobook of Little House on the Prairie is because my little guy‘s school is big on literature but he is a reluctant reader and was less than thrilled with this lit pick...audiobooks for the win 💜#themrs

Reviewsbylola I‘ve been excited for the new Jane Harper. 7y
Reviewsbylola Also, I really enjoyed As Bright as Heaven. 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @Reviewsbylola good to know!! I think As Bright as Heaven will be the last I read from this haul since it has the shortest wait list. 7y
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My nonfiction book for the month is being returned without me being able to finish it 🤦🏻‍♀️ The Type A in me cant stand that! Back on the list I go...I‘m now number 14 😏

BookaholicNatty This is on my TBR! Was just telling someone about this the other day! I was born in raise in Delaware so Biden was someone I always respected. 7y
bibliobliss Oh I‘m sorry, I hate when that happens. Also, getting bumped back down the holds list is no fun 😞 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @BookaholicNatty his compassion toward families battling cancer is just so inspiring 💜 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @Readage NO FUN! I actually went on and requested it in multiple formats so finger crossed 🤞 things will move quickly! 7y
bibliobliss @ReviewsbytheMrs Sending good book vibes your way! 7y
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Arizona 🌵
Historical fiction 📚
American Terrorist
TACOS 🌮
3 🐶🐶🖤

Kaye Thanks for replying. Welcome ♥️ 7y
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Secondborn | Amy A Bartol
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A dystopian novel set in a world divided into Fates (think districts from Hunger Games) where Roselle is the daughter of the Fate of Swords and is basically a celebrity but also a second born. Firstborns rule the entire Republic while secondborns spend a life in slavery and servitude. She is clearly the better choice to rule her Fate but Roselle would not necessarily like to the rule the Fate but rather revolutionize the entire Republic. 💜#themrs

ReviewsbytheMrs Next book in this trilogy series is set to release in April and might be free for Kindle Unlimited users! 7y
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Silence of the Lamb, Gone with the Wind, The Godfather I and II
3. The Young Victoria and North and South
4. Popcorn with white cheddar seasoning and a cherry coke
💜

dsfisher Love North & South 7y
JessClark78 Popcorn with the white cheddar seasoning is so good 😊 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @dsfisher YES! 💜 So glad I am not the only one 7y
ReviewsbytheMrs @JessClark78 SO GOOD! The movie theater we go to has an assortment of seasonings but I stick with white cheddar 7y
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