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The Moon by Night | Madeleine L'Engle

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dabbe 💙🩵💙 #amen 😂 2h

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Murder Road | Simone St. James

JULY and our SIMONE! YAY!!
We do so love our reads with her!!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD 🖤

Librarybelle I‘m so excited for this! 11h

FlowerFairy Really enjoyed this one! 11h

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A Scatter of Light | Malinda Lo

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD JUNE 🏳️‍🌈

Schedule coming soon
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷

slategreyskies Oh, I‘m looking forward to this one! I‘ve already got my copy! 15h

willaful I'd like to join! 15h

AmyG Yay! 10h

TheBookHippie @willaful 😊 yay! 8h

Read4life I‘ve got my copy and have been (im)patiently waiting 🤓 5h

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Hygge: Cozy Winter Notebook Writing Journal Composition Book, Wide Ruled, (8. 5 X 11 Large) | Joy Tree Journals Staff

Winifred and me out by the fire for #HYGGEHOURREADATHON

Such a pretty night 🤍🐾

Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

KadaGul I know exactly how you are feeling. I am soaking up all the nice Chicago weather. It's been a bit unpredictable, though, with three 3️⃣ days of nice 😎☀️ weather followed by two ✌️ cold 🥶days, but now it's sunny 😎🌞 again.#CHICAGOWEATHERBRR 18h

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5h

AnnCrystal 💕🐕🍃😍💝. 5h

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Untitled | Untitled

Pretty sure my people will put this on my gravestone… 👩🏻‍🍳 DID•YOU•EAT 👀

GingerAntics And no one will see it, because all of your students, all of your former students, will pile rocks all around it. They better take a picture when they place it. lol 23h

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics 🤣♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 23h

vlwelser That is so cute. And so accurate. 23h

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slategreyskies This is me too. It must be part of my love languages or something. I‘ve always been that way. I rarely actually tell anyone I love them, but I ask them every day if they‘ve eaten. ♥️ 22h

TheBookHippie @slategreyskies ♥️♥️♥️ my grandson comes in either with his order - which he sometimes calls me with 🤣- or says Yes Nana I ate before I ask 🤭🙃🤣He‘s 10. Most ppl walk in take the plate I hand them 🤣🤣🤣🤭👩🏻‍🍳♥️ 22h

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie that‘s just the mental image I have. It doesn‘t matter how pretty they make your headstone. It‘s ultimately going to be the base upon which the rocks build upon. lol 21h

rwmg Taken one step further in Japan: What Did You Eat Yesterday? https://www.netflix.com/id-en/title/81199260
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TheBookHippie @rwmg oh I love this! And it‘s a book too! 19h

rwmg Yes, I believe the TV series was based on a manga but I don't know if it's been translated into English 18h

julesG Not Jewish, but definitely one of my daily questions. 11h

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Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture | Justine Picardie

#HYGGEHOURREADATHON #LITSOLACE 🤍

I‘m so glad this is a part of my week!

All welcome!

jenniferw88, Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Kate Wiggin

Fun find #CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qCmBGPFYw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_of_Sunnybrook_Farm_(1917_film)

https://marypickford.org/filmography/rebecca-of-sunnybrook-farm/

https://silentology.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/thoughts-on-rebecca-of-sunnybrook-f...

https://www.silentera.com/video/rebeccaSunnybrookHV.html

Sace I never realized how old the “which is better the book or the movie” debate was! 1d

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The Manhattan Girls | Gill Paul

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I personally know too much of Dorothy to not see the timeline changes, people left out of the story, I‘m not sure this is her- rolling with it. And I‘m enjoying it. I cannot imagine being a woman in the 1920s and I hope we don‘t go all the way back there.

Happy Sunday All!

*If this day is awful for you I‘m sending so much love and a big hug. If you love this day I hope you enjoy it. If it‘s complicated I get it (I hate it.)

Librarybelle My knowledge is limited to Dorothy Parker and her group, so thank you for sharing there are gaps and people missing! I like that historical fiction can introduce you to a topic or a person and then act as a springboard to research more information. 1d

IndoorDame This isn‘t really my image of Dorothy Parker either, but I know less about her than you so it‘s easy to roll with the book, and I‘m totally enjoying the story for what it is. Turning all the way back to the 20s is a terrifying thought! Thanks for that image 🤣 and I‘m sorry you hate this day, sending love ♥️ 1d

Sargar114 I‘m surprised there wasn‘t a discussion about the suicide scene. It felt incredibly irresponsible for the author to be as graphic as she was. I know nothing about Dorothy Parker so this was surprising, but more so just because of the level of detail. I‘m taking this with a grain of salt. It doesn‘t seem like the author paints her in a very flattering light though compared to her friends. 1d

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IndoorDame @Sargar114 I totally agree that so far the author isn‘t painting Dottie in a particular flattering light compared to the others, which I was really surprised by, and I‘m extremely curious to see if that changes by the end of the book. But I actually didn‘t find the scene with her suicide attempt at all graphic, so maybe it just depends on your background and perspective. 1d

TheBookHippie @Sargar114 I thought it was highly irresponsible as I posted earlier in the week. As I‘m grieving someone who just took their life I just didn‘t have the energy for it today. It is problematic to write of it the way she did. 1d

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie 🤍🤍🤍🤍 1d

Sargar114 @TheBookHippie I‘m so sorry to hear that. Hugs lady ❤️❤️❤️ 1d

vlwelser I hope you have a lovely and relaxing day. Try not to think about this book too hard today if it's not bringing you joy. 1d

AmyG @TheBookHippie I am so very sorry for your loss. 1d

AmyG As for Dottie….I know nothing about her life so like @IndoorDame it‘s easy for me to go with the flow. Again, I think (according to the book) she is an alcoholic and has some mental health issues (obviously) that pushed her to attempted suicide. She needs real help which I am not sure she will get being it‘s the 1920‘s. 1d

AmyG I am also….really enjoying this book alot more than I thought. 1d

mcctrish I feel like this book travels at light speed, it reads so fast for me. The subject matter is very heavy and while I know some of DP‘s famous lines I thought her life was much easier than this besides the usual woman in a man‘s world shit. I‘m not not liking the ease of this read but it‘s a disservice to the heaviness of the topics. 1d

mcctrish Christine I am so sorry for your loss 1d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish it does read quickly. I keep reminding myself if someone followed me 7-28 I wouldn‘t read much differently -although I abhor drinking to this access and was more fiercely independent than Dottie. I have quite a bit of compassion for all of them. Trauma is just hard. I‘m with @AmyG in 1920s not much help for any type of mental health, outside of institution. 😵‍💫 1d

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie it‘s odd how much of a NY upper class/Intelligencia thing that kind of drinking is. I naturally gave it up when I left NY because it‘s essentially social drinking, but if I go back for a weekend I definitely drink more 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I agree. It‘s definitely a thing. 1d

slategreyskies Just a quick note to say that I‘m still following along, but I didn‘t really have much I wanted to say about today‘s reading. Mother‘s Day is a tough day for me, and I didn‘t want to touch the topic of suicide with a ten foot pole, so I‘m just gonna coast on past it and hope to contribute more in next week‘s discussion. 🤍 1d

TheBookHippie @slategreyskies I hear you. I hate this day. I just try to get through it. And I‘m coasting this week. Fair warning IRL Dorothy attempts twice. Shouldn‘t be in this timeline but the author isn‘t really following one closely. 1d

Karisa @slategreyskies @TheBookHippie 🤍🤍🤍 21h

mollyrotondo I don‘t like that this focuses so much on Dottie‘s weaknesses. I love Jane‘s storyline with her work as a reporter and I love Winifred‘s storyline with her acting career and the monster stalking her. I wish Dottie‘s story focused more on her writing. Peggy feels like she has no story. 19h

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I agree! I don‘t think she likes her😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫. 19h

mollyrotondo @TheBookHippie I am so sorry to for the loss of your loved one❤️ 19h

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The Manhattan Girls | Gill Paul

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Peggy should she have called Dotties husband?👀

Also Poor Dottie
Get it together girl
Ask for HELP

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170605-dorothy-parkers-stunning-wit-and-tr...

“I wish I could have met her, just once, held her hand and whispered, “I understand.”
https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-707770

IndoorDame I felt super weird about Peggy calling her husband! It seems like overstepping in a major way. Also he was awful! And opening that door again is almost guaranteed to backfire. 1d

Librarybelle Totally agree, @IndoorDame ! I was not a fan of her calling Dottie‘s husband. I think that was overstepping. 1d

Sargar114 This was so weird!!! This is where Peggy took a step down in my opinion. A terrible husband is NOT better than no husband. Dottie needs to learn how to live on her own. 1d

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vlwelser I think Peggy was desperate and didn't have any better ideas about keeping her friend safe. She may have just thought he would send more money. 1d

AmyG I felt Peggy overstepped a bit but I also felt SHE felt she was helping. Dottie is one hot mess. She is lucky she has such devoted friends. 1d

mcctrish Dottie couldn‘t be left alone. Neysa was away so the easiest of quick check ins was off the table, moving to Jane‘s house should have been insisted on - not only the animals. But Dottie refused, so what‘s left ? There are 2 men responsible for Dotties mental duress and one of them needs to stand up. Just take care of her for a month or 2 (edited) 1d

mcctrish @Sargar114 she does need to learn to live on her own 1d

Sargar114 @AmyG agree that Dottie does have wonderful friends. She is incredibly lucky and I like seeing them all step up for her in different ways (even if I don‘t agree with how). I also like that they step up regardless of their personal beliefs, but because a friend needs them. Love women helping women! 1d

Sargar114 Especially cause the men in this particular subgroup are terrible 1d

TheBookHippie @Sargar114 So terrible. 😵‍💫 1d

AmyG @Sargar114 I agree, the men are awful. Reminds me of the men in The Golden Notebook. 🤣 1d

TheBookHippie @AmyG 🤣😵‍💫🤣 1d

kspenmoll @Sargar114 I so agree- Dottie seems like a dependent child. I keep thinking was she really like this ?! (edited) 1d

Karisa @mcctrish That‘s what I think it came down to too. Peggy just realized that Dottie was not safe and needed help. I didn‘t think he would come back either @IndoorDame I thought at the most he‘d just send more money. It was like he was just waiting for that call (probably thought it would come from Dottie though) 21h

mollyrotondo I thought Peggy was overstepping but I also understand that she wanted to help her friend and Neysa wasn‘t going to be around. Just feel like calling in the men isn‘t necessarily the best idea 20h

BarkingMadRead This shocked me. He left her. Why would calling him fix anything? This has to be temporary, I can‘t imagine him sticking around for long! 8h

julieclair @BarkingMadRead Agreed. And I was also shocked by his reaction. He started sobbing? What? After all he had done to her? 8h

Read4life @BarkingMadRead & @julieclair I agree. It definitely wasn‘t the reaction I expected. 5h

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Janes huge party 👀
Interesting food choices ?

Helen Hayes https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/h/ha-hn/helen-hayes/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Hayes

Edna Ferber http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20419

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-works-of-edna-ferber-gwkvku/

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ferber-edna

Librarybelle Sounded like a huge celebration, but wasn‘t it also the food that Alec wanted to see??? 1d

IndoorDame @Librarybelle I think it was all the food he wanted. At some point she‘s gonna figure out that pandering to him doesn‘t work and save her energy for something more fun, right? 1d

Librarybelle I hope so, @IndoorDame ! 1d

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vlwelser Chinese food would have been amazing. I hate that Alec makes all the choices but makes no contributions. 1d

AmyG Alec is a bossy, arrogant known-it-all. Iam surprised Jane puts up with him. 1d

mcctrish Jane is trying to kill Alec with kindness but he just thinks it‘s his due. He can buy his own house and plan all his own fucking parties. @vlwelser I thought Chinese food sounded amazing too !! Alec doesn‘t have to do any work ever, he makes my blood boil 1d

TheBookHippie @vlwelser @IndoorDame @vlwelser @AmyG @mcctrish not sure the author knows and since most of our characters are Jewish and in NYC https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-secret-history-of-jews-and-chinese... 1d

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie that‘s awesome! Thanks! We definitely grew up with that attitude towards Chinese food and kashrut in NY, and we always went out for Chinese on Christmas (plus like basically once a week 🤣) but I never knew there was any explanation to the Christmas tradition beyond nothing else was open. 1d

mcctrish @TheBookHippie I absolutely thought when I read about the Chinese women cooking up the food “this is the beginning of it all!” 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I love that the Chinese Diner here does the same thing it‘s all us “misfits”. Such a lovely history. 1d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish YES!! 1d

kspenmoll It was totally ridiculous that Jane catered to Alex‘s demands that the Chinese chiefs cook traditional ( in his white male mindset) dishes he wanted to eat. Thanks for the article about Chinese food/Jews. (edited) 1d

Karisa It reminded me of the Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas documentary on PBS https://pbs.org/video/dreaming-of-a-jewish-christmas-vk2hD9?source=social 21h

mollyrotondo Alec is awful and I don‘t know why Jane still thinks she can pander to him and that will keep him happy. So far nothing keeps him from being an ass 20h

julieclair Great links! I was delighted to see Helen Hayes appear in the book… all I could think was that one day she‘d have a theater named after her. And the Jewish tradition of Chinese food on Christmas - like @IndoorDame , I always thought it was just because those were the only open restaurants. 8h

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Christmas
Peggy takes Dottie home.
Oy the phone call
Peggy is very kind about being a fool in love…

IndoorDame Sometime around this phone call she‘s starting to veer off towards too naive for me to find believable. For a while that kind of infatuation really is all consuming. But it‘s been months, and all her friends have told her what she should expect, and she got pregnant and he didn‘t care… someone doesn‘t need to actually tell you they‘re never leaving their partner, and/or they‘re never going to stay with you for you to know that. 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Exactly. 1d

Librarybelle The phone call made me shudder. I like your point about Dottie seeming to be a bit naive at this point, @IndoorDame . 1d

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Sargar114 It‘s hard to see things you don‘t want to see. The phone call was so cringe 😵‍💫 1d

vlwelser Dottie is coming across as a fool. But we all do stupid things sometimes 1d

AmyG Dottie is a self-posessed fool. Honestly, I don‘t like her at all. She is desperate and just makes bad, bad choices. I also think she may be an alcoholic. 1d

mcctrish @AmyG I am with you on this. While I totally understand her broken family life has made her crave a family/love for her own AND that the heart wants what the heart wants, she is living in NYC a semi non-traditional lifestyle for a woman of that age/era. She needs to pick a lane. They also ( the 4 women - 5 if we include Neysa) need to talk more amongst themselves. Dottie is a train wreck and you don‘t fix that yourself 1d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish Right?! They need to talk TOEACHOTHER 😵‍💫 1d

kspenmoll Dottie is a “train wreck”, seems totally self absorbed, drinks too much, etc. 1d

Karisa Yeah, I was so glad her friends were stepping in to help care for Dottie, but she just couldn‘t seem to leave it alone. Neysa spelled it out for her early on but Dottie could not hear it. As the book mentions, Parker was full of contradictions but @vlwelser says maybe it just makes her depiction more true to life in this part. 22h

mollyrotondo @IndoorDame agree with you completely. I mean we all act foolishly sometimes but this was just so self destructive. To call him? When he left you to be with his WIFE on Christmas? Such major reasons to let him go. I also find it interesting how much marriage seemed to be a loose committed amongst so many. It just seems like a lot of people in this group found it normal to be married and to have other relationships instead of labeling it cheating 21h

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo As divorce wasn‘t really an option or legal really and many marriages still “arranged” affairs were “normal” in this time frame …Reports in the 1920s indicated that 28% of American men and 24% of women were adulterous at some point after wedding. I‘m thinking it was higher. 😵‍💫👀 19h

BarkingMadRead Ugh how can someone so smart make such poor choices!! 8h

julieclair Dottie is totally consumed by insecurity. It‘s so hard to watch the poor choices she makes as a result. She is a train wreck for sure. 8h

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Winifred
I rather like her
She takes good care of Dottie too
I love her street smarts
But the gangster… yikes

I hope we get more of her story…
Although IRL I‘ve not found much on her.

IndoorDame I really like her too! The explanation for why she knew where to go for a therapeutic abortion was unbearably sad. I also thought it was interesting that the author made a point of including details to show us that there really had been a friend before, and she wasn‘t talking about herself euphemistically. Like as readers we couldn‘t handle thinking of her being used in that way, even though we already know there‘s some unnamed abuse in her past. 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Yes the underlying subtle not subtle feelings of the author are pushing through or the author is incredibly sheltered or ignorant or religious? 😵‍💫🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ or all three😱 (edited) 1d

Librarybelle I‘m curious how the storyline with Winifred and the monster will progress. I feel something is going to happen - you cannot keep saying no to a monster without some sort of repercussions. 1d

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Sargar114 @IndoorDame that‘s an interesting point, I didn‘t even think that it could have been Winifred. Probably me being oblivious, but can totally see that. I do wonder what will happen with her and the mobster. Did he find out about her because of Jane? 1d

vlwelser She's fierce and a good friend. I'm concerned about the gangster business 1d

AmyG Yes, I wonder where the gangster “stuff” plays into the story with Jane and Winifred. I like her but it seems she had some sort of abuse (?) in her past…maybe we find out. 1d

mcctrish @Librarybelle I‘m quite apprehensive about that story line. I really like Winnifred, she‘s got good clear boundaries now which she put up obviously thx to something awful happening. I think the 4 girls need to talk/share and learn from each other 1d

Librarybelle @mcctrish Yes…I agree. 1d

kspenmoll I like her too, her compassion,boundaries. 1d

Karisa The gangster with the flowers every show and not taking no for an answer is so creepy. It reminds me of a biography I read about Hedy Lamarr‘s that included the story of her Nazi munitions business husband. He also kept flooding her with flowers and stalking. Controlling and frightening 22h

mollyrotondo @Karisa I read the fictional book about Hedy Lamarr and was very shocked that was her backstory. So happy she was able to get away and come to the U.S. 21h

mollyrotondo I also like Winifred a lot. I also find her storyline really intriguing. I hope nothing terrible happens to her with this gangster. It‘s interesting because actresses are still targets of stalkers today. It‘s not safe always being in the spotlight. And issue that I don‘t think gets seriously addressed. 21h

TheBookHippie @Karisa YES!! Exactly. Scary controlling. 19h

BarkingMadRead Love Winifred, super stressed about the gangster, they don‘t like the word no! 8h

julieclair I give Winifred so much credit for turning the mobster down as many times as she has. But she can‘t keep doing that forever. And the mobster obviously won‘t take “no” for an answer. Very worrisome. 8h

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Jane interviewing the mob
I love it
She‘s very brave
And her case MYSTERIOUSLY disappears…

Not sure what to think of her marriage.
But I like her attitude. 🙃

IndoorDame I was so impressed! It takes something special to charm a mob boss, but it takes something really special to charm one of those guys when 20 minutes ago you were scared to walk into a room and talk to them. And I know her character says she doesn‘t want to owe anything to him, but the woman she‘s based on becomes a player in the NY world, and in those days that didn‘t really happen without at least the mob‘s blessing if not their support. 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I had the same thoughts about the mob. No way you‘re running a paper either. 1d

Librarybelle I think this shows Jane‘s bravery. Good thoughts on the mob and the paper, @IndoorDame @TheBookHippie ! I would not be surprised… 1d

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Sargar114 Agreed she‘s incredibly tough. This was a no win scenario and she made the best of it. She‘s a bit naive to think she can get out of it without the mobs help but maybe that‘s our ability to have all the information. Her marriage with Harold is interesting. Unsure if it‘s based on love or mutual respect or just an image to uphold. 1d

mcctrish I love Jane. 1d

vlwelser She's my fav 1d

AmyG She is an awesome woman…strong, brave, modern. She seems to have a good marriage.i keep waiting for a fight or so ething but they seem solid. 1d

kspenmoll She is fabulous!!!! 1d

Karisa I like Jane too. She‘s talented, brave, giving, and hardworking. I‘m waiting for her to kick Alec out! 22h

mollyrotondo I love Jane! And I love her storyline! It‘s so interesting and she‘s such a strong person! I know in real life she divorces Harold and I can understand if the marriage doesn‘t last in the book either. He‘s not great. He‘s sort of all about himself. I don‘t love him. I think Jane could do without him. 21h

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I have the exact same knowledge and thoughts! 19h

BarkingMadRead Not a huge fan of Harold, I‘m not sure why Jane even married him! 8h

julieclair I admire Jane. I think Harold is not in her league. And it really bothers me that Harold doesn‘t stand up for her against Alec. 8h

Read4life I keep wondering if Harold doesn‘t support Jane when it comes to Alec because he‘s just doesn‘t care or because Alec has something on him. 5h

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead me either. 5h

TheBookHippie @Read4life 🤷🏻‍♀️ 5h

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Alec
I assumed he hated women
So he apparently wanted Jane
And now wants Neysa
I don‘t see it
I do think he‘s evil.
I would not let him live in my house.
Yikes.
And telling Dotties business at Christmas in a crowd.
He‘s just mean.
I would kick him out so fast.
He makes me uncomfortable
Then he irritates Jane talking about her marriage
Trying to start trouble
Then telling Dottie‘s abortion to her husband
⬇️ Interesting

TheBookHippie https://longreads.com/2014/04/30/the-odd-couple-alexander-woollcott-and-harpo-ou... 1d

IndoorDame He‘s so awful! I hate that she‘s living with him! I was totally on board with the theory that he was in love with Harold and lashing out and causing trouble because of that, (still hated him, but also felt somewhat sympathetic)… until he outed Dottie‘s abortion, which I can‘t come up with any personal motive for except he‘s just an unhappy, unpleasant, awful person 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame 💯💯💯💯💯 1d

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Librarybelle Was he this awful in real life? I‘m not as well versed on Alec. Thanks for sharing this link! 1d

TheBookHippie @Librarybelle Anything I‘ve read alludes to a bitter man. Most gossips say he was closeted and miserable. 1d

Sargar114 He would have been out of the house the second he outed her abortion!!! I suppose Jane wasn‘t privy to that info at that time, but as soon as it was confirmed how can you continue to associate with someone willing to do something like that!!! He is a terrible human being!!!! 1d

Librarybelle Good to know, @TheBookHippie ! 1d

mcctrish @Sargar114 he‘d have been out of the house as soon as he threw Jane to the prohibition police! And then out of the Gonk too! Harold is on the wrong side of this ( truthfully I wondered if he wasn‘t gay too and it‘s all a front for them and Jane is collateral ) 1d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish BRILLIANT this is perfect sense!!! 1d

AmyG My thoughts were he is gay. And what a horrid, angry, jealous man. @TheBookHippie YES…a bitter, closeted, miserable gay man. If he was unhappy…he was going to make everyone else unhappy, too. (edited) 1d

Sargar114 @mcctrish ahhhh good point!!! 1d

vlwelser He seems closeted and bitter about it. I don't understand why they keep him around. I suppose this is a setback to writing about real people. You can't just ditch them out of the story when they annoy you. 1d

IndoorDame @vlwelser 😂😂😂😂😂😂 1d

IndoorDame @mcctrish that never occurred to me! But it makes the whole setup start to make way more sense!!!! 1d

TheBookHippie @vlwelser can we make this a thing… “I‘m sorry I‘ve written you out of the story” so using this IRL 🤣🤣🤣🤣 1d

mcctrish @TheBookHippie @vlwelser PERFECT!!!! 1d

kspenmoll @IndoorDame Totally yes to all that! Despicable, mean, bitter- & letting Jane take the rap for the raid on her house- just yuk. I too thought he was closeted & Jane was right in her thinking he loved Harold & hated that they were married. 1d

Karisa To have him in the house would be the worst. It‘s one thing to have a person you can‘t always avoid when out and about or at work, quite another to have them live with you. Even dictating the holiday menu! Petty! He stores up sensitive info like ammunition. How does he still have so many friends??? 22h

mollyrotondo I had also thought that he was in love with Harold lol it makes more sense to me because he always seems to try to hurt Jane. He never tries to hurt Harold or put ideas in Harold‘s head. I do hate this character but he makes for a great antagonist in a book lol but I agree with @Karisa he stores up people‘s personal info as ammunition to use later when he gets mad at them 22h

Karisa @mollyrotondo Just imagine what he would‘ve done with social media! 😱 21h

mollyrotondo @Karisa oh my gosh he would be the type to ruin people through social media. See times don‘t change, just the technology 🤦🏻‍♀️ 21h

TheBookHippie @Karisa OH MY WORD. He would have been one of those types that leak everyone‘s secrets!!! 19h

BarkingMadRead Alec is a nightmare, I don‘t understand why they keep him around! 8h

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The Manhattan Girls | Gill Paul

This post contains spoilers

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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD

Dottie
Everyone trying to warn her
Neysa especially
Pregnancy/Abortion
Love starved open wound
Think this is an accurate portrayal of Dorothy
Winifred to the rescue
Lenox Hospital
Peggy tells Charlie off
And makes him visit Dottie
Then he comes back again
With an ugly scarf
What a tool

🤍I do not think the descriptions needed to be that vivid. It felt like an agenda. Abortion is personal, it has also saved my life, twice.

IndoorDame So agree about the abortion portal!!! I know too many women who genuinely believe you cannot have an abortion without it being a fraught decision that haunts you for the rest of your life, and portrayals like this really contribute to that perception. 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I agree. Made me so mad. 😵‍💫 1d

Librarybelle Good riddance to Charlie. This was an emotionally charged passage, and I was surprised by the details shared by the author, especially during the procedure. 1d

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Sargar114 I appreciated having Dotties‘s perspective during this scene. Having never been through this experience, I‘ve always presumed it wasn‘t pleasant or easy. I didn‘t think of it as problematic, but maybe that‘s because I‘m a woman and realize the complexity in a decision like that or have had the “what would I do in that situation?” thought. Definitely gives me something to think about. 1d

Sargar114 @Librarybelle I was surprised as well and it seemed excessive, but I guess we‘re discussing it so maybe that was the point. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 1d

Librarybelle Maybe, @Sargar114 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d

TheBookHippie @Librarybelle I‘ve been through the procedure twice -once though I was put under for a long time as I was bleeding to death from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. But the other time I was further along than this (the baby had already passed and wouldn‘t let go) and the procedure was quick and I recovered in a few days. Bleeding a few weeks normal, 2007 different than 1920 but not by much. @Sargar114 🤷🏻‍♀️ I always think of this ⬇️ 1d

TheBookHippie ⬆️ Doctors considered midwives, who attended births and performed abortions as part of their regular practice, a threat to their own economic and social power. The medical establishment actively took up the antiabortion cause in the second half of the 19th century as part of its effort to eliminate midwives. 1d

mcctrish @TheBookHippie both of your experiences sound so scary and heartbreaking 1d

Librarybelle @TheBookHippie ❤️❤️❤️ 1d

mcctrish This part reminded me of the book “Looking For Jane” but that is set several decades closer to our time now. I‘m still amazed the hospital did the abortion- only in New York City I‘d bet 💔 but still the doctor is male and somehow it‘s always the woman‘s fault #ittakestwototango 1d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I think abortion is healthcare -no matter how you use it. If I lived in any of the states here in the US that ban it I‘d be dead. It‘s infuriating. But yes, it was scary. Broke my heart, but it‘s mended. Grateful to the nurses who saved me. Who were actually nurses who shadowed me at my job when I was nursing, so they listened. The doctor in ER did not. My doctor was called in to save me. ER doc didn‘t believe in abortion. 😵‍💫 1d

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie I‘m so glad you were able to get safe skillful abortions, since those don‘t sound like easy, routine procedures. I hope access to that continues for women 🙏 1d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish A lot of abortions were scheduled as DNC and performed at so many city hospitals but even here an hour away they did -but get this in the basement of the hospital!!! We learned this during nurses training. Blew my mind. 1d

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Me too. Scary times. 1d

AmyG I found this part fascinating…that you could walk into a hospital and complain about the “stress” of it all….and be offered an abortion. But I also think…only in NY. There was alot of money there and alot of men who got women “in trouble” so I wasn‘t surprised. As for having it be a difficult decision? There are all kinds of people, with all kind of mental states…it doesn‘t surprise me that there are people who just want it over with. (edited) 1d

AmyG Dottie seems very self-possessed. I had no clue about her at all. And @TheBookHippie I am sorry you had to go through with those. Abortion IS health care. In the Jewish religion the life of the mother is most important. Oh please, don‘t get me started. 1d

vlwelser I didn't like how nonchalant they seemed about the whole thing. And then the doctor scolds her about lying. And the whole thing is about lying to even get one. This seemed a little crazy to me. 1d

vlwelser I am glad you are safe and healthy. 1d

Sargar114 @vlwelser the lying part AND the scolding felt the most realistic. I imagine that still has to happen today sadly. Agree that abortion is healthcare and it‘s terrible that women and girls don‘t have access to that. I swear if he made viagra illegal cities would burn! 1d

vlwelser @Sargar114 sadly the old white men are still in charge. So Viagra stays. 1d

TheBookHippie @vlwelser the whole lying thing is demeaning to the women and I think on purpose. Last I checked men can make women pregnant every time they ejaculate. 👀🤣🤷🏻‍♀️🤭 They shoulder none of it. 🤬 1d

mcctrish Abortion is absolutely health care! 1d

AmyG @TheBookHippie To shoulder any of it would mean loss of control, power. 1d

TheBookHippie @AmyG Exactly why they ban it. It‘s a war on women. And the degree these men hate women.. whew. Unreal. 1d

kspenmoll This is so relevant today, sadly to say. I am so naive; I never thought I‘d see the day when basic healthcare rights would be taken away after Roe v. Wade. I got pregnant when I was 17 & for various reasons did not want to have the baby. As my friend said “you found yourself a nice Jewish doctor to set it up in NYC” where it was legal, unlike CT. I was lucky- I was working part time so I had $, my boyfriend was responsible- contributing to the🔽 1d

kspenmoll 🔼 cost, going on the train to The City with me, & the clinic, etc. when I went for my annual Gyn appt 6 months later when i turned 18, my doctor told me how concerned he had bern due to my being underage. At the time He had tried to talk me into telling my dad, a fellow physician whom he knew, but both my parents were devout Catholics- so No! I am forever grateful to my then Gyn. 1d

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 1d

julieclair I know nothing about this author, but I do feel the level of detail was unnecessary and designed to provoke. Abortion is a totally personal decision, and different for every woman, based on their circumstances, their faith, family situation, their health, etc. @TheBookHippie I‘m thankful you were not denied a medical procedure that saved your life twice. And @kspenmoll I‘m so glad you were able to choose the healthcare that was right for you. 💙 24h

julieclair This portrait is so revealing. Dottie looks sad, vulnerable, fragile and a bit lost. 24h

Karisa This was a tough section to read with so much judgement heaped on Dottie. It felt like even some of her friends were blaming her for Charlie being such a jerk and having to go through it all. What a tough decision! I also found myself wondering how true to Parker‘s experience it actually was. 22h

Karisa @kspenmoll @TheBookHippie Glad you both had access to the care you needed. Can‘t believe that abortion access is being questioned by so many today. 22h

mollyrotondo Abortion is HEALTH CARE!!! 22h

mollyrotondo @TheBookHippie so happy you were saved by responsible doctors. @kspenmoll so glad you were able to make your own healthcare decision and had a doctor you could trust. Thank you both for sharing your personal experiences ❤️ 22h

mollyrotondo I was also getting a little twitchy about how this author was handling Dottie‘s situation. I wasn‘t sure if I was reading too much into the comments about the regret and the guilt Winifred was feeling bringing Dottie and “pushing” her and the more horror movie descriptions of the procedure. But if others here also felt like the author was portraying it in a conservative leaning way then it makes me a little leery of this author 😬 22h

mollyrotondo I hated that Peggy insisted Charlie come see Dottie. I actually thought it was the worst thing for Dottie. He‘s a complete jerk and I don‘t think Dottie‘s friend should be trying to convince a guy that is bad to her to try to work things out with her. It bothered me. I love the love of the friends in this book but this was a friend misstep in my opinion. 22h

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I know!!! I‘m LEARY!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 19h

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I think the women should have cared for her. Taken shifts. Not the idiot married dude. 19h

TheBookHippie @Karisa People have thrown their own feelings into it when writing about it. However anytime Dorothy spoke it was just the multilayered thing that it is. After this event is when she really became political, outspoken, pushing for social justice. Could it be because she was treated horrifically, shamed and victimised by a doctor and the fact that it was all illegal? She did not want to be shamed and silenced so she spoke up and out. 19h

Karisa @TheBookHippie She was such an amazing person. I hope that the book shows that side of her as well. So far Dottie is not the strongest character in the book. I feel like I need to read more of her essays—Jane‘s too. 17h

Karisa @mollyrotondo Agreed! The author seems to be interjecting a bit too much. At the least trying to placate any right-leaning readers. 😕 Also, I agree that Charlie should have just exited the building if he wasn‘t going to really be there. It was false hope. Peggy (if she did all this) is such a product of those times running to the men to “fix” Dottie instead of helping her feel more empowered. 🥴 17h

mollyrotondo @Karisa 💯💯💯💯 you put it perfectly! Peggy is a big product of her time. I hope she grows too by the end of this book. And Charlie was done with Dottie and he should have stayed gone. 11h

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Celebrating Summer Solstice: Customs & Crafts, Recipes & Rituals for Midsummer, Kupala, Ligo, San Giovanni & Other Summer Holidays | Waverly Fitzgerald

#Litsolace Summer will run daily June 1-30

I‘ll be hosting and posting ☀️🌞

Let me know if you want to be tagged ☀️
#naturalitsy

Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

IndoorDame Definitely! 2d

DestinyMorna Count me in! 2d

KadaGul I loved 😍 all the previous card swaps, and I'm eagerly looking 👀 forward to Summer 😎 Solstice. It's going to be amazing! 😎🌺🌻🌞🌅#Litsolace #naturalitsy 2d

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julieclair Yay! I‘m in! 2d

dabbe Yes, please! 💙🩵💙 2d

kspenmoll Can‘t wait! 2d

Read4life Yes please. 2d

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Gilmore Girls: The Official Cookbook | Elena Craig, Kristen Mulrooney

Friday Night Dinner 🍽️

Steak and six baked potatoes

Delicious

We eat steak about once a year. If that. Both of these recipes involved delicious butter mixes. 🧈

DestinyMorna That looks so yummy! 3d

Abailliekaras I didn‘t know there was a Gilmore girls cookbook! My daughter will love this. 😆 3d

Tamra Yummy! We only do steak in the summer when the grill is available. I want to try butter sauces. 3d

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mabell Oooo love the idea of butter sauces! 3d

TheBookHippie @Abailliekaras look back I‘ve been cooking every Friday night and posting since 2024 began. 3d

TheBookHippie @Tamra I used my cast iron pan. 3d

Tamra We‘re doing “boring” tonight - breakfast for dinner. The only bright spot is I used my first sourdough starter for sheet pan pancakes. They are super fluffy! 😃 3d

TheBookHippie @mabell for the steak 4 tablespoons butter, softened
1 packed tablespoon thyme leaves, stemmed and chopped Pinch of red pepper flakes 3d

TheBookHippie @Tamra yummmm 3d

TheBookHippie @mabell potatoes salt
½ cup (1 stick) good quality unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon chives 3d

Tamra @TheBookHippie that sounds amazing! 3d

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#5JoysFriday

1. Wildflowers I planted are pushing through the dirt
2. Planted beans with my grandson
3. Voted an extremist out by petitioning getting a new candidate and voting Tuesday -a years worth of work and a victory!
4. Birthday greetings starting to arrive LOVE
5. Coffee on the back patio with Mr BookHippie this morning as he arrived home a day early got up and made my pour over coffee

DebinHawaii

IndoorDame 🗳️✊🏼 congrats!!! 3d

Mimi28 Birthday? 🥳 have a great one in advance!! 🤗🙏🏽😊🩷🫶🏽🎁🎈 3d

BarbaraJean Congrats on # 3!!!! 🗳️🎉 And a happy almost-birthday! 🎂 3d

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TheBookHippie @Mimi28 MAY 28 3d

Mimi28 Awesome 😎 exactly 3 months after mine I am February 28th!! 3d

wanderinglynn Yay for wildflowers & happy early birthday! 🎉🌻 3d

DebinHawaii A lovely list of spring joys! 💛💛💛 Wildflowers are especially joyful! 🌸 Thanks for sharing & for spreading the joy! 🤗 3d

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The Manhattan Girls | Gill Paul

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD

Sorry folks, although I know Dorothy‘s real life I wasn‘t sure what we would read. Or what the author would write. I should have alerted triggers.

988 https://988lifeline.org/

As with any author I‘m sure her opinions have seeped in. Not every detail of real life is always shared is a good reminder. This is fiction many people and facts aren‘t told here is a good reminder. The author chose what to share.

Til Sunday 🤐🤐🤫

Sargar114 The author was quite graphic (regardless of fact or fiction), that‘s not on you 😘 4d

TheBookHippie @Sargar114 purposeful for her point of view on the subject matter I think 😵‍💫🤐OY. Unnecessary. 4d

Read4life I agree, @Sargar114 . Definitely not on you, @TheBookHippie 💙 4d

Librarybelle I‘m reading this week‘s section soon, so even before reading it, I know this is not on you. Discussion facilitators don‘t always know where or how the story goes. ❤️ 3d

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Tulip time | Dirk Gringhuis

It‘s hell week here or Tulip Time for tourists
I always think the long train of buses of the elementary kiddos is cool Kinderparade today. No I do not go to any of it. Construction has closed a main highway and a freeway and 350,000 ppl descending on a small town 😵‍💫
Glad to be on the lake/north of town enough to not be affected, video is fun. 🚌
I have participated for decades Im just old enough to say no thx now! 🎉 Teachers draw straws.

TheBookHippie 🚌 https://www.instagram.com/westottawaschools/reel/C6wX3ldLLSF/ 4d

Bookwormjillk Seems like poor planning on the highway construction front? As a 20 year survivor of the DC cherry blossoms I feel your pain. 4d

AmyG I live in a resort area-I get it. Lay low until everyone is gone. 4d

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk RIGHT?!?! What were they thinking?! Oy. 4d

wanderinglynn I feel your pain. I live across the street from the National Zoo. It‘s bus central starting in late April until after Labor Day. 🚌🚐🚌🚐🚌🚐🚌🚐🚌🚐😤 4d

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@dabbe 71 🎉
#TLT
Some of the books I refuse to read so there‘s that 🤭

My brain is mush this week so I‘ve no other suggestions off the top of my head 😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♀️

dabbe You are a bildungsroman goddess. 🤩🤩🤩 4d

TheBookHippie @dabbe Many of those are required reading so that and I read all the time and everywhere. 4d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Don't sell yourself short, m'dear! You kicked ass PERIOD. And my ass especially! 💙🩵💙 4d

TheBookHippie @dabbe 😘 4d

AmyG Whoa. Good job! 👏🏻 4d

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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 (Updated) | Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle

👩🏻‍🍳 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZZFMTK/

A fun sale #mtcookbook it doesn‘t take space !!!

mabell Oh that‘s tempting! To supplement my physical copy, of course 🤣 4d

IndoorDame Oooh, way too good to pass up! Thanks for sharing! ♥️😊 4d

TheBookHippie @mabell My exact thoughts. 4d

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TheBookHippie @IndoorDame 👩🏻‍🍳♥️👩🏻‍🍳 4d

Tamra 🤣 good one! 4d

AlaMich I made my dad order that from BOTM when I was a teenager, having zero idea what French cooking entailed. Needless to say, I don‘t think I ever made one recipe. 😆 4d

TheBookHippie @AlaMich 🤭 probs not the time to tell you I‘ve cook 95 percent of the book👀. 4d

AlaMich Color me impressed! 4d

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Celebrating Summer Solstice: Customs & Crafts, Recipes & Rituals for Midsummer, Kupala, Ligo, San Giovanni & Other Summer Holidays | Waverly Fitzgerald

Seasonal CARD SWAP TIME

Sign up until May 15

✉️ https://forms.gle/BFALXbGUdSvvERpT9

Summer is on the way!

To celebrate the Summer Solstice~ with a theme of what summer means to you.

Be creative~ Picnics: send a favorite menu or recipe, Wildflowers: tell us your favorite flower, Gardening: what type of garden, Hiking: where you go. You can also add your favorite summer read (ing).

#litsolace #naturalitsy

Liz_M @LitsyEvents 5d

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The Joys of Yiddish | Leo Rosten

In Yiddish, "mishegas" (also spelled "mishigas" or "mishugas") refers to craziness, silliness, or foolishness. It can also refer to a situation or behavior that is irrational or absurd. The term is often used humorously to describe something that is chaotic or nonsensical.

Daily truth ? #weirdwordwednesday

CBee

AmyG A word used often around here. 5d

IndoorDame #welcometotheworldtoday 🙄 5d

CBee @IndoorDame agreed 💯 5d

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The Mailbag | United States. Department of Agriculture. Radio Service

#litsylove headed out this morning ✉️📬

30 envelopes 🏆✉️♥️

Have a great day littens! 💙

LiseWorks Wow! That's so cool. 5d

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💜💜💜 5d

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The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality | Thomas Borstelmann

🎵🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0hJCEhFCk

🎵🎶 #TUESDAYTUNES

More 70s @dabbe

TieDyeDude

TieDyeDude Doo dodo do do 😁 Thanks for sharing! (edited) 6d

dabbe It's been ages since I've heard them! Gotta check 'em out! 🤩🤗😘 6d

TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude 🙂🙃🙂 6d

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Deblovestoread Boy did this take me back! 💜🎶💜 6d

TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread 🙂 6d

Suet624 Way back machine. 6d

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The Matchmaker's Gift: A Novel | Lynda Cohen Loigman

1. I have never been wrong about a person I‘ve met and my first impression … ever. In my entire life. Even when I wanted to be wrong. It is a bit unnerving at times. It is also why I make ppl uncomfortable Mr BookHippie says. My daughter says it‘s as if I hold up a mirror showing people who they really are. 🤷🏻‍♀️😬

2. Tagged 🙃🙂🙃 #TWO4TUESDAY

TheSpineView

lil1inblue #1 is a superpower in my book! I've always had a good gut instinct, but I haven't always listened to it. 😂 6d

willaful Damn! 6d

TheBookHippie @willaful I know 😳😬😅 6d

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TheBookHippie @lil1inblue 😆 6d

TheSpineView Wow, that's some talent. Thanks for playing 6d

TheBookHippie @TheSpineView 😅 6d

Suet624 That‘s fantastic. 6d

TheBookHippie @Suet624 🙃 6d

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💜💜💜 6d

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5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food | Jamie Oliver

Library borrow.
Many good quick recipes that I copied down
Many recipes with food that is not available here
Many nut and fish ingredients which I can‘t do for my whole family due to allergies.
It is laid out very nicely and it is simple.
So not buying but may borrow again #mtcookbook

Cortg Yummy. I just places a library hold 😊 6d

Tamra Yay for the borrow strategy! 6d

IndoorDame OMG! You are the coolest!!!! I just got a surprise from you in the mail and I don‘t think I‘ve smiled this much in weeks! 💜💜☮️💜💜 6d

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TheBookHippie @IndoorDame 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂 6d

TheBookHippie @Tamra RIGHT? Need to do more of it! 6d

willaful I have this from the library too. I expect I'll have similar issues, but I'll enjoy looking at it. 6d

mabell I have the original 5 Ingredient, but I haven‘t seen the Mediterranean version! Cool! 6d

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Frenchman's Creek | Daphne Du Maurier

Just arrived

#LMPBC
#GroupO
@BookWormJillK
@ElizaMarie
@bookandbedandtea

Looks good.

CrowCAH I‘ve been wanting to read this one for some time! ⛵️ 1w

Bookwormjillk Promising cover! 1w

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk 🤞🏻 1w

tpixie Oh! I haven‘t read that one. Enjoy! 7d

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A Flower A Day | Miranda Janatka

#Hyggehourreadathon

I focused on my flower a day as I‘ve fallen behind..
It‘s hard to focus in the still while we are grieving and your child is grieving and there are not words.
As I said Friday a dear family friend-a very young woman took her life in the early hours Friday. It‘s just difficult. It is still raw, and just a shock. Anyway happy for flowers to look at and admire the beauty and frailty of it all.

Text 988 here in USA
Stay ♥️

AnnCrystal 🥀🫂💝. 1w

Bookpearl Sending love, light and peace to you and your family! 1w

Ruthiella So sorry to hear that. ❤️❤️❤️ 1w

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JenReadsAlot I'm so sorry for your loss ❤️ 1w

mrsmarch 🫂 1w

batsy So sorry ❤️ 1w

Sace So sorry for your loss. Thinking of you. 1w

julieclair Oh Christine, I am so sorry to hear this. Grieving the loss of your dear family friend, while also feeling sadness for the pain and hopelessness she must have been suffering, is heart wrenching. And you are trying to comfort your grieving child as well. May you be blessed with the strength you need, my friend. And I‘m thankful for the flower book, which is giving you a small bit of joy in the midst of all your sadness. 💙💝💙 1w

TheBookHippie @julieclair 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @Bookpearl 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @Ruthiella 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @JenReadsAlot 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @mrsmarch 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @batsy 🤍 1w

TheBookHippie @Sace 🤍 1w

Mimi28 It‘s so hard to see how everyone reacts when something like this happens. I honestly have been on both sides many times 😢This helps in ways you will never know 😊 I don‘t want to break my mom‘s heart like this. God bless you and your family and community 🤗🩷🫶🏽🤗😊😉 1w

TheBookHippie @Mimi28 ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 1w

Smrloomis So sorry to hear this. Sending you and yours support 💕💕💕🙏🏽 6d

kspenmoll Love love love. So sorry for your heartbreak. 20h

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A Flower A Day | Miranda Janatka

#hyggehourreadathontime
#hygge
#litsolace

Everyone welcome 🤍🤍🤍🤍

dabbe I need this tonight. 💙🩵💙 1w

kspenmoll This was so necessary for me. I actually fell asleep with Poe on me- finished my book. Will post tomorrow. 1w

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Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence | Jonathan Sacks

We‘ve lost nuance and empathy
And gained hatred and othering
Again
Daily reminder that two truths can be held and humanity is just that - human.

Read both sides, read against your confirmation bias, read to learn to not use as a weapon or avenue to hate.

Ted talk Sunday sermon food for thought musings.
Life is too short to be consumed by hatred and the ego of I am right ..
Divide and conquer is oldest trick in the book- don‘t fall for it.

Karisa 💗 1w

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At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl | Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sophie-scholl-and-white-rose

🕯️ Yom HaShoah

AmyG Never forget. 1w

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War and Me: A Memoir | Faleeha Hassan

#readyourkindle AKA insomnia May reading 📖

CBee

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When Life Gives You Lemons

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Abroad: A Novel of Cross-Cultural Encounters

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Diary of Bergen-Belsen

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JamieArc I just stacked Abroad. Tag me in your review if you do one! 1w

TheBookHippie @JamieArc I will!! Doesn‘t it sound fascinating ?! 1w

CBee Looks great 😊 1w

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Here‘s another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3-3-SPW-A

I think we‘re going to have a fun ride! 👀

Happy Sunday 🤍

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Librarybelle This is a fun story! 1w

mcctrish Love the links and I‘m going to learn so much 1w

Karisa So much to dig into here! What a fun read. 😊 Did not picture the Algonquin that way! Fancy! (edited) 1w

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IndoorDame I didn‘t know The Algonquin had a hotel 🐈!!!! 1w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame yes you can visit him. 1w

AmyG Good choice! I am enjoying this one. 1w

vlwelser I love it so far. Glad your birthday month book is turning out this good. 1w

TheBookHippie @vlwelser 😅😅😅😅WHEW… 1w

kspenmoll I am loving this book! 1w

DebinHawaii Looks like a fun video—I‘ll go back & watch more of it later. Enjoying this one so far & looking forward to where it goes. 🤗 1w

slategreyskies This is a really enjoyable book so far! I flew through today‘s section, and I‘m looking forward to next week‘s discussion! 🤍 1w

julieclair Loving this books and loving the links! 👍😘 7d

mollyrotondo Definitely enjoying the book so far! 6d

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I am too!!! Whew!!! 6d

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Dotties marriage
Dottie husband not same since the war
Yikes
Her eye 😵‍💫
Dottie & Winfred head out together
Dotties husband leaves she finds a playmate 🤭
Her friends are worried about her rose colored glasses and new playmate…

Winifred
Poor thing PTSD
RUN RUN RUN GIRL

Our story is set!!!! WHEW!

Librarybelle So much happening! I feel sad for Dottie regarding her marriage. 1w

mcctrish I do feel bad for Dottie in terms of her marriage although they barely knew each other and hadn‘t been married long before Eddie went to war. She seems pretty caustic to me, her witticisms seem like barbs most of the time and her humour the kind where you say something mean and call it a joke ie someone is always the butt of it. Eddie‘s accidental/on purpose punch was brutal as was his non-acknowledgement of it. 1w

mcctrish Dottie‘s latching on to Charlie seems desperate. She needs a man? She does nothing traditional around the house/home? She feels like a train wreck 1w

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Karisa @mcctrish Yes! The new boyfriend thing was just so fast. She‘s using him to bolster her own self confidence after Eddie maybe? I don‘t trust Charlie yet though 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I think she liked sex, 🤭😅 and I‘ve always thought if it were a man behaving like this and writing like she did no one would say a word. @Karisa (edited) 1w

mcctrish @TheBookHippie it‘s more than liking sex (Neysa likes sex ) and if Dottie needs more than sex that‘s cool too. But she needs to figure her shit out first 1w

mcctrish @Karisa me either. He just wants to have sex but he‘s wrapping it up in a prettier package and Dottie is dropping everything to run home 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I agree she‘s a hot mess express. 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish youth oy.. lessons to be learned. 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish Neysa is so cool. 1w

mcctrish Maybe that‘s my problem, maybe I‘m comparing Dottie to all the other women 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🙃 1w

IndoorDame Love that Dottie does what she wants and is unapologetic! But right now she‘s lying to herself a bit about Eddie and about the new man. Not sure if that‘s the author‘s vision, or the time in her life, but I hope either way she gets stronger and her inner life actually matches her caustic barbs. 1w

mcctrish @IndoorDame I do love that too - Dottie being Dottie - but she needs to sit with herself but the links show why being alone is not something she wants to do ☹️ 1w

AmyG I think it wasn‘t uncommon during that time period….men going off to war and coming back changed. In that I feel bad for Dottie. Butshe seems to make poor choices in her personal life. Makes her human. 1w

vlwelser That was a lot of action for the beginning of any book. I hope it keeps this pace. 1w

kspenmoll She is a hot mess. I was naively shocked that she was so dependent on her husband- smart women who knew nothing about bills, etc. sad. 1w

Sargar114 I think her friends were right to be concerned about Dottie and the fling with Charlie. She‘s still recovering from her marriage and the abuse, she wasn‘t even able to admit that Eddie hit her to her friends which is how you know that she even knew it was wrong. And she was in such denial about the abuse that she was devastated when he left. I also think she sees herself as a “kept” woman so always has to have someone to take care of her. 1w

TheBookHippie @Sargar114 I think her being in a childhood that was fraught with people leaving probably didn‘t help. No one ever took care of her as a child she‘s still searching for it 🤷🏻‍♀️ It‘s sad no matter what her underlying reason. 1w

DebinHawaii Definitely a hot mess. I am good with her sowing some oats with Eddie being such a jerk & the abuse but it does seem like she is falling for Charlie too quick. She needs to get herself settled before jumping into something new. 1w

slategreyskies I think it‘s awful that Eddie came back from the war with what sounds like a fierce case of PTSD. I know someone that happened to, actually more than one someone, and they each handled it in their own way, but for both of them, heavy alcohol use was their drug of choice. However, it seemed to me to go beyond that in Eddie‘s case. I don‘t think they were a good fit, and I‘m glad he left. I do think Charlie is not a good choice, but ⬇️ 1w

slategreyskies (Cont.) when we‘re hurting or life shakes us up, I know a lot of people reach for the quick feel good choice rather than the smart one. 1w

julieclair @slategreyskies Excellent point about her reaching for the quick feel good choice. I sure do hope Charlie doesn‘t end up damaging her even more. 7d

mollyrotondo Eddie has severe PTSD but that doesn't mean Dottie has to put up with his abuse. When he hit her so badly her eye was swollen for days he didn't even notice he hurt her. That's how drunk he was. He needs help and Dottie should have been the one to walk away. But instead she clung to him until he dumped her basically because he wanted a stay at home wife (see not a good marriage regardless of the drinking and PTSD) and clinging to a new man. 6d

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Jane & Dottie visit the building
Revenge of Oedipus
Jane & Harold get the building start planning
Then Alec arrives

THEN

The party and ALEC..
WHAT?!?!
Jane is fierce

https://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-haunts/47th-st

Librarybelle I think I exclaimed aloud over what Alec did at the party! The nerve! Ugh! 1w

mcctrish I HATE AW! He‘s a manipulative piece of shit and I hope bad things happen to him 1w

Karisa Alec is horrible! It‘s interesting that these places still are around 100 years later. Feels like a literary tour can be set up just focused on this group. The author has really done their homework! 1w

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TheBookHippie @Karisa There are a few!! 1w

IndoorDame Jane is fierce! She‘s so unfazed by getting arrested, she actually knows who to call to have a lawyer meet her at the precinct. This had better be enough to quash the idea of Alec living with them! 1w

AmyG My first thought was….how much is this house worth today? 🤣 Alec is a loathsome character. I hope we get to read about him getting what‘s due to him. 1w

vlwelser I love Jane. Alec seems like a giant douche canoe. 1w

kspenmoll Alex is despicable!!! Jane is such a wonderful character! 1w

Sargar114 @AmyG that‘s what I keep thinking about too!!! 1w

DebinHawaii The mushrooms growing from the ceiling in the house. Yikes! And yes, Alec is awful! 🤬 1w

slategreyskies Add me to the Alec haters group. Ugh. I‘m actually a bit worried about what will happen to Jane in court, though. I‘m hoping she won‘t get in a lot of trouble. 🤞 1w

julieclair I was shocked and disappointed at Alec‘s behavior. Surely he won‘t be permitted to live with them now. 7d

mollyrotondo When Dottie went with Jane to check out the building, I was stressed lol I was on Dottie's side. I admire people who can turn a dump into something wonderful to live in, but I don't feel like I am one of those people lol And Alec is horrible! He just seems thoughtless. I hope he doesn't turn into more and more of an antagonist. I want him gone for the plot now lol 6d

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Leech

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/margaret-leech

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/230665.Margaret_Leech

Peggy & Winfred at the bar
“There‘s a subset of guys who feel inadequate in the company of clever women ….”

Peggy what do you think! Love that quote..

Librarybelle Great quote! I‘d like to see her grow in this story. She‘s caught between the past and the changes in social mores. 1w

mcctrish I love her! She deserves to have it all! That quote is perfect and I hope she gets what she wants - the man grabbing her breasts like he was owed 😡 I want her to spend more time with Winnifred so she can fight her own battles 1w

IndoorDame She‘s the least interesting to me so far because she‘s so focused on men and relationships. I hope she gets what she wants, but secretly I hope what she wants expands beyond just a husband. 1w

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AmyG Oh, Peggy. Things have not changed. 🤣 1w

vlwelser I look forward to her coming into her own. I think the other women will help in their own disorganized ways. 1w

TheBookHippie @AmyG 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🤣 1w

kspenmoll I too hope she cones into her own. Hooked on this book 1w

Sargar114 While she‘s incredibly intelligent she seems to want the most conventional life (husband, kids, etc) I wonder is most of that is because of her limited experience in the romance field. I can definitely understand her even if I think she is much more deserving of more 1w

DebinHawaii I really felt for her in that bar scene. I‘m glad Winifred slapped the jerk. Hopefully we see her with some growth. I hadn‘t heard of her or her books so I want to know more. 1w

slategreyskies I was so angry in that bar scene. I had someone do that to me when I was about 15, and I‘ve never forgotten it. Some people are so cruel. 1w

julieclair I like Peggy. I think that, of all the women, she is the most typical of her time. 1w

mollyrotondo @IndoorDame I agree. I also find her the least interesting because she's so smart and so interested in all kinds of subjects but she's focused on being someone's wife. She isn't like Jane who married but retained her independence. She seems to want to be a man's wife and just write while keeping house. But I also think @julieclair is right that she's prob the most typical woman of that time trying to throw out the old ways and keep up with the new 6d

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Winifred (not my bulldog 👀😱🤭)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Lenihan

https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2018/07/peter-lenihans-daughter.html

I had no knowledge of her hope to find more.
I like her chutzpah in the story so far. Just wow.

Librarybelle I was not familiar with her either. It sounds like she had to grow up quickly. Very strong. 1w

mcctrish I like Winnifred, she‘s faced some things but she‘s kind, considerate and setting boundaries. Something bad happened I think, maybe we will find out in section 2 1w

Karisa Winifred is so strong too. All four seem both of their time and ahead of it. Maybe because they are in New York. Winifred is compelling and so independent. 1w

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IndoorDame She has such an inner strength that shines through even without much having been revealed about her yet. All the women are compelling, but Winifred seems the most like the New Yorkers I grew up with. 1w

AmyG I like all the women. They are completely different, yet have a bond. They are strong and smart as hell. I had never heard of Winifred and like her a great deal. I look forward to reading and learning more about them. 1w

vlwelser She takes things in stride. I appreciate that. She somehow manages to come out on top despite being surrounded by predators. 1w

kspenmoll The only woman in this book I knew of was Dorothy Parker. I love meeting these new to me smart, strong, courageous women. 1w

Sargar114 I like that there is more to Winifred that meets the eye. It seems like a lot of people underestimate her and try to take advantage of her. I love her willingness to fight and stand up for herself and her friends. 1w

DebinHawaii I like Winifred so far. She seems smart & strong. It will be interesting to learn more of her backstory & what has shaped her. There‘s something dark in her background. 1w

slategreyskies I‘m not looking forward to hearing about Winifred‘s past. From her reactions, it seems to me like it‘s somehow related to sexual assault or something along those lines. 1w

julieclair I like that she‘s a realist, and tough when she needs to be, but not all the time. 1w

mollyrotondo Winifred is probably my second favorite. I also sense that she has a dark past, but whatever happened she seems to have a level head and has not allowed her past to hold her back. She has also been proving to be a good friend to Peggy. These women stick by each other's sides which i love! 6d

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Dottie

https://poets.org/poet/dorothy-parker

https://dorothyparker.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWcFCFZFB50

https://dorothyparker.com/book-shop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker

How do you like our flawed main character ?

Librarybelle Our section ended with her coming to terms with so much turmoil. I think we‘ll see some growth as the book progresses. 1w

mcctrish No. 1w

Karisa I had no idea her early life was both so difficult and so spoiled. The video link you shared paints her as so difficult 😂 She really was alone from a young age. That had to have shaped her. 1w

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TheBookHippie @Karisa Yes and she had to make her own way . I fell in love with her because she was difficult. She was very forward thinking for her era. She wasn't bigoted, she wasn't racist, she believed in women's rights. She took lovers if she wanted to. She lived flawed on her terms. No matter what anyone said or thought. 🙃 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤭 1w

IndoorDame The picture we get of her in this early section isn‘t especially likeable, but there‘s such a tendency to idealize famous women instead of portraying them as fully human, that I‘m keeping an open mind about all 4 of them. 1w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame ⬆️ my reply to Karisa 1w

mcctrish I realize that in this era not being a racist, a bigot and championing women‘s rights is really good but if that‘s the bar for me liking the character 😳 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 14 year old me held her close and I‘ve never given her up 🙃 1w

mcctrish I get that @TheBookHippie I wonder if I‘d see her differently if I‘d read her/about her then - I knew about her and I thought it was awesome that there were women as part of the gang but not enough to look closely 🤷🏻‍♀️off being my own train wreck I guess 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I‘ve always found it interesting that young women who‘ve had traumatic childhoods and are activists that are flawed themselves are drawn to her and her outspoken ways and wit. A psych major could right a fun paper on us flawed people and why we like her. 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I‘m quite happy to not be that age anymore 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🤭 1w

mcctrish Absolutely 💯 1w

AmyG I tended to idealize her….we forget sometimes that the famous are just people like the rest of us. 1w

vlwelser Funny but that's the poem I know her for. Very witty. 1w

kspenmoll You said it perfectly re: flawed characters , traumatic childhoods, & activism. Trying to make the world right. 💜 1w

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll ♥️ 1w

TheBookHippie @AmyG 🙃 1w

Sargar114 She‘s been extremely frustrating even though there‘s reason for that. She‘s flawed and it‘s book throwingly frustrating to see how she is leaning into her flaws 1w

DebinHawaii She is a difficult person to get to know. It seems like she is more “on stage” than Winnifred with always having to come up with a perfect line or comeback. I do realize there are a lot of reasons for that but TBH, I‘m not liking her much yet. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1w

slategreyskies I like her, and I‘m interested in learning more about her. So many links and info! I have a lot of catching up to do! 1w

slategreyskies @DebinHawaii I agree with you about her being “on stage.” I kinda feel like she feels like that‘s the role people expect of her, so she just keeps giving them what they expect. It must be hard on her to have to keep up a wall all of the time, though, because isn‘t that kinda what all the humor is? Just a wall or a mask to hide behind? 1w

BarkingMadRead I like Dottie. I hate Eddie. I hope Charlie doesn‘t turn out to be an ass 1w

julieclair I keep thinking how radical that poem must have been for the times! I admire her wit, but I feel a bit sorry for her. 1w

mollyrotondo Dottie's unhappy life makes her character understandable. She's always “on“ because she's hiding behind her wit. I just want her to not cling to a man. Eddie left and she quickly fell into Charlie's arms. I want her to stand on her own because she can! Hopefully we see growth throughout the rest of the book. 6d

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JANE https://csws-archive.uoregon.edu/about/jane-grant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Grant

https://expo.uoregon.edu/spotlight/jane-grant/feature/the-legacy-she-left-behind

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAjane_grant.htm

Thoughts on Jane?
I like her!!!

Librarybelle Great links again! I like her too. Tough, but she has to be as she makes her mark in a male dominated profession. 1w

mcctrish I like her ( I knew it would be The New Yorker ❤️) she is fierce, she‘s got the big picture of what she wants and breaks it down ( her gin recipe sounds delicious) 1w

Karisa Jane is so talented and tireless. I can‘t believe she went along with renovating that house—what an undertaking! Alec is quickly becoming the villain in this story pushing his way in to stay there and setting her up for arrest. What a jerk he is! But she just rolls with it all and keeps her sense of humor. 1w

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IndoorDame I like her too! In some ways it seems like this is shaping up to be Jane‘s story more than Dottie‘s. She‘s the maternal figure we‘re supposed to like. She‘s the most on top of both marriage and career. But she‘s not a pushover, she just got herself arrested. And we see the outline of her future, as she steers her husband towards establishing The New Yorker which is an amazing legacy. 1w

AmyG What a life! I like her, too. She remains a strong woman in a man‘s world. 1w

kspenmoll Jane is an amazing woman, especially given the times. I so enjoy reading about her & birth of New Yorker. @Karisa Alex is a jerk! I love how the end of ch 13 ended, showing us jis true colors. “Thank you for selling me down the river,”… To her surprise , there was no word of apology or explanation, just a long, hard stare.” (edited) 1w

vlwelser I like Jane the most so far. I love that she steers the husband down a path of her design. She is pretty fierce. I love how she treats being taken in by the police. 1w

Karisa @vlwelser @kspenmoll I could never be so calm about it all! Jane is a force. Alec better watch out! 😂 1w

TheBookHippie @vlwelser me too. She‘s fierce. 1w

Sargar114 @vlwelser @TheBookHippie mine too! I also enjoy her relationship with Harold. She obviously cares about him and they respect each other which seems unconventional for the time. 1w

Sargar114 Also, how much do you think that brownstone is worth now!!!! 1w

DebinHawaii I like Jane too & she seems to have a good relationship with Harold although I wish she hadn‘t caved about that jerk Alec moving in & pushed back more. 😠 1w

slategreyskies I like Jane as well. She seems levelheaded, and her marriage seems to have a good balance, which is not always common. 1w

BarkingMadRead I love Jane, I hate Alex. I don‘t think Harold is that bad looking, I don‘t get why everyone thinks he‘s ugly 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1w

julieclair Jane was absolutely a woman ahead of her time. So impressive! This is why I love historical fiction. I had never even heard of her. (edited) 1w

mollyrotondo Jane is my favorite so far! She has goals and is doing everything she can to reach those goals. She doesn't let her marriage stifle her. I hate Alex but I thought it was so interesting that Jane's arrest showed how little anyone took the police seriously when it came to alcohol laws and the consequences. Jane just found it to be an inconvenience. I also don't understand why Harold Ross wasn't considered attractive. His pic looks so modern. 6d

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Neysa & things said at the first bridge game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neysa_McMein

https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/neysa-mcmein

ISBEN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
Favorite of mine
AAMILNE - yes POOH- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dover_Road_(play)
BIJOU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijou_Theatre_(Manhattan,_1917)

🙃🤭 lots of backstory 😅

Librarybelle Thanks for the links! The 1920s has so much going on 1w

mcctrish I enjoy Neysa‘s character and she did so many things 🤯 I had no idea there was a McClure‘s magazine 1w

Karisa I‘d love to see more of Neysa in the book. What a cool and talented person! Did not know that Milne was a playwright! (edited) 1w

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IndoorDame I‘m hoping we get to know Neysa better too! I‘m completely under her spell right now, but I‘d love to get a peek at the real woman. 1w

AmyG Neysa is a fascinating character. I, too, would like to know more. 1w

kspenmoll Neysa seems so self possessed- I too find her intriguing. Illustrated Betty Crocker, I love that!!! 1w

vlwelser Neysa is an interesting character. I never heard of her before. 1w

Sargar114 I agree with everyone. Neysa is quite interesting and would love to have her perspective. 1w

DebinHawaii Yes, right now I find Neysa one of (if not the most) the most interesting characters. 1w

slategreyskies Wow, Neysa‘s got style! Very cool. 😎 I‘m loving the pics. 1w

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii her art is amazing!!!! She is as well. @slategreyskies 1w

BarkingMadRead I think they all want her because they can‘t have her! 1w

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead Isn‘t that always the way. 1w

julieclair Thanks for all these links. So fascinating! 1w

mollyrotondo Thank you for all the information! She had so much work throughout her career! I wish the book would highlight that more. I love her as a character but she is mostly portrayed as someone who throws a party every night and has men all over her. I wish we hear more about her work life. It's my one problem with the book so far. 6d

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So the four women decide to have a reoccurring Bridge game.

♠️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge

And our story of our four women is set

Deviled eggs https://www.chefjessicabright.com/classic-deviled-eggs.html

Corn bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL_5Utu6xgs

Celery with Roquefort https://www.wkndreditions.com/journal/blue-cheese-stuffed-celery

Librarybelle How different they are too! It would probably be a fascinating bridge group to observe. 1w

mcctrish My mom played bridge but I have no idea how it works ( I did play euchre for years and it seems a bit like that ) I think it‘s weird when grown ups don‘t know how to cook, I get some people enjoy it more than others but everyone should be able to make a few basic recipes 1w

IndoorDame Never understood why bridge is supposed to be a more acceptable ladylike game than poker! Though I don‘t totally understand bridge, so maybe if I did?… I do like that the author has imagined Dottie is terrible at it 😂 1w

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Karisa I like how they rotate from home to home. The game is bringing unlikely friends together. I wonder if it‘s true to history or just fiction. Love deviled eggs! So yummy 1w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame this book helped me appreciate Bridge

The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir

TheBookHippie @Karisa the game and players are true history 1921 bridge group of New Yorker founder Jean Grant, Broadway superstar Winifred Lenihan, brilliant aspiring novelist Margaret Leech and, obviously and of course, iconic satirist Dorothy Parker. 🙃 1w

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie stacked! 1w

kspenmoll I adore deviled eggs!!! 🥚 1w

AmyG They are basically a book club…..but bridge! My parents played this every Sunday. I have no clue. 1w

TheBookHippie @AmyG my grandma and her ladies played weekly. 1w

vlwelser I love this group of fierce women hanging out without the guys. 1w

AmyG @TheBookHippie If they were in NJ…mah jong! 🤣 1w

TheBookHippie @AmyG Now that I can play!!! 1w

Sargar114 It‘s a delightful excuse for girlfriends to meet up, I enjoy it. I also like how they rotate and you get different perspectives of their lives. 1w

DebinHawaii I have never played bridge. It always looks so complicated. But bring on the deviled eggs & celery stuffed with Roquefort! 😋 1w

slategreyskies I love that they decide to start a bridge group and learn to play together. I admit that it makes me a tiny bit jealous. What I wouldn‘t give for a group of women I met with regularly and just got to hang out and be myself with. Although, I do kinda wonder sometimes how much Dottie feels like she can be herself and how much is her keeping a mask up so she doesn‘t have to be vulnerable. I mean, I get that, if that‘s what‘s happening. I mask too. 1w

slategreyskies Add me to the lovers of deviled eggs group! Back when I used to go to potlucks, I was always the one who brought the deviled eggs, and they always all got eaten. 1w

TheBookHippie @slategreyskies I‘ve not had deviled eggs in so long!!! Now I need them. So yummy. 1w

slategreyskies @TheBookHippie agreed! I keep making hard boiled eggs and eating them before I can make them into deviled eggs. 🤣 1w

BarkingMadRead I love deviled eggs! 1w

julieclair I still make deviled eggs - my family loves them and they always disappear at potlucks. My recipe is very similar to the one you posted, but I omit the hot sauce and add sweet pickle relish. 1w

TheBookHippie @julieclair my grandma used relish too! Just yum! (edited) 1w

mollyrotondo I love that the women form their own group separate from the men. And they are all so different from one another but still form this close bond. I love that! I also find it so funny how Dottie stinks at the game lol the bridge group is also the perfect setting to use in a book for important discussions lol 6d

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Women right to vote
Right to maiden name
Right to name on property

https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/articles-and-essays/historial-t...

Interesting backdrop with prohibition ?

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition

A lot going on in these times I‘ve never thought about the two together.

Librarybelle It was such a crazy time! Such big changes, and yet you‘re right - not really discussed how these two eras coincided. 1w

mcctrish I have to laugh at how obsessed everyone is with alcohol - the opposite of the intent. @Librarybelle it is a crazy time and one I have no desire to visit ( cuz time travel could be possible in my brain 😆) 1w

Librarybelle @mcctrish I‘m so surprised there was enough votes to put Prohibition into law. Also, glad it was repealed 😂 1w

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IndoorDame I was somehow equally surprised that a rookie reporter could be so ignorant of the 19th amendment and the entire women‘s rights movement, and that women were able to own or at least co-own property at this time 🙃 1w

IndoorDame I think there actually is a connection at least with the backlash to prohibition, that galvanized women to take risks, get out of the home, question authority, become free thinkers, join the counterculture… 1w

Karisa It was such a time of change and the book illustrates it well. I‘ve been on a Downton Abbey kick and it‘s been a fun contrast to think how different life is for the two sets of people (UK vs. New York/rich vs. middle class vs. servants). Cora‘s mother (played by Shirley McLaine) and brother could fit right in with Dottie‘s set in New York! 1w

Karisa @mcctrish Yes! Just made so many more problems trying to keep everyone away from alcohol. I think it‘d be fun to visit a speakeasy still though and hear all these types talking. 1w

mcctrish @Karisa drinking from tea cups 🤣🤣 although the descriptions of how this swill tastes makes me wonder how fun it was 1w

mcctrish @IndoorDame the rookie made me mad but also realize shit doesn‘t change - he‘s a guy and couldn‘t care less about women‘s rights so why would he be aware 1w

AmyG Prohibition…laws of the righteous. The minute you can‘t so it…everyone wants to. I laughed at the horrible alcohol people were making and the tea cups. 1w

TheBookHippie @AmyG it had to taste AWFUL 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish @AmyG I‘ll never look at tea cups the same again. 1w

vlwelser I like that these are all thrown together. It paints a clear picture of the time. 1w

Sargar114 I was under the impression that a big reason why prohibition came to be was because of the passing of the 19th amendment. I just presume that the alcohol of the time tasted like rubbing alcohol. 1w

TheBookHippie @Sargar114 Control for sure. And yes blech … I always thought cheap perfume 🤭😅 1w

slategreyskies The right to keep your maiden name was the one that hit me more than the others. I suppose I hadn‘t really ever thought about it, about how recently it was that it was required for a woman to change her name when she married. It really wasn‘t that long ago. 1w

TheBookHippie @slategreyskies The crap I get to this day 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 also I‘m the only one I know in my circle who did. 🤯 1w

slategreyskies @TheBookHippie I know very few women who kept theirs. I can think of one right now, but I think I actually probably know someone else whose name I‘ve forgotten. It‘s uncommon. I changed mine once when I married my ex and then again when I married my current partner. I might‘ve kept my maiden name if it was interesting to me, but I was often mistaken for someone else, since my maiden name was so common. It was a relief to change it. ⬇️ 1w

slategreyskies @TheBookHippie I actually went to school with someone who had my same name (first and last, but not middle), and we were in the same classes in the same grade. Any rumor that went around about her went around about me and vice versa. It was not fun. 🤣 1w

julieclair My grandmother divorced my alcoholic grandfather in 1931, when my mother was 2 years old. Reading this book really puts in context for me how courageous that was of her - and she was a sweet, mild mannered woman. It also supports the book‘s depiction of how readily available alcohol was - at least in New Jersey. My grandfather couldn‘t have been an alcoholic if he couldn‘t obtain alcohol. 1w

TheBookHippie @julieclair it was so readily available !!! 1w

TheBookHippie @slategreyskies 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫OY. 1w

TheBookHippie @julieclair isn‘t it amazing how resilient our grandmothers were!!! Makes us love them more, even if they‘ve passed already. 1w

julieclair @TheBookHippie The older I get, the more I appreciate my grandmother‘s strength. 💝 7d

mollyrotondo I was surprised that women needed the right to use their maiden name. I just thought it was an expectation for wives to use their married name, but I did not think it was a legal right to fight for. I don't know why it shocks me but it astounds me how humans keep one another down in such trivial ways. I also don't always connect prohibition with the same era as women gaining the right to vote. 6d

mollyrotondo I also didn't know that the federal mandate against the manufacturing of alcohol really started because of WWI and trying to save the production of grain for food. That makes a lot of sense. But the “moral crusade“ against alcohol that began before the war and continued in some states after the war is a reminder how people's “moral crusades“ against things in this country can still take over like people's “moral crusades“ against women's rights 6d

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The Manhattan Girls | Gill Paul

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Dorothy Parker🤍
Do you know about her?
How do you feel reading about real people fictionalized?

Dorothy getting fired for upsetting a prominent person seems like that could happen today !?!

https://www.ny1920.com/jan-11

Librarybelle I know a little bit about her, but I‘ve never read a biography on her. As to fictionalizing real people - I think it‘s important to keep as true to the character as possible but not overwhelming the reader with details. This can be used as a starting point for someone who wants to learn more about someone or an event. It‘s then up to the experts to provide the best information about the subject. Not every historian agrees on that…⬇️ 1w

Librarybelle ⬆️ …Many of my classmates and professors abhorred fictionalizing people and events because they were not accurate. But, I think it‘s a way to get someone who is not interested in history interested. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So, I‘m fine with it, as long as the characterization is respectful. 1w

mcctrish I knew of her and the Algonquin meetings. I don‘t have a problem with fictionalized real people ( I am reading Wolf Hall ) I like to read fiction more than non-fiction because of how story telling works/flows in fiction (there are some stellar non-fiction writers who tell their tales with a narrative bent) 1w

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IndoorDame Dorothy Parker is sort of a hazy figure for me. I know the legend she left, a bit of her work, and the barest details of her life, but I won‘t know how close this book gets to reality without some background reading. 1w

IndoorDame I find fictionalizing real people intriguing. It can obviously be problematic if it‘s not done right. But I‘m reading a fictionalized super internal account of Frida Kahlo‘s life right now that doesn‘t really line up with my perception of her essence, but is giving me a lot to think about in comparing my vision of her to this author‘s. 1w

Karisa I‘ve know of her poetry and have taught her poem “Penelope”. It‘s been one of my favorites for many years—the students don‘t get it at first. Then they see with the rhyme schemes and ironic last line—it‘s just brilliantly clever (as she‘s portrayed in the book). Bringing someone back to life in fiction is so tricky, but it does give them extra staying power. Like Shakespeare‘s Julius Caesar. It‘s what many know now of him. 1w

Karisa Penelope by Dorothy Parker https://allpoetry.com/poem/8497855-Penelope-by-Dorothy-Parker 1w

Karisa @IndoorDame Oooh, like the Picasso book. Such a different view of him too. Would you recommend the Kahlo book? Always found her fascinating! 1w

IndoorDame @Karisa I haven‘t gotten far enough to have quite made my mind up yet, but I think I‘d recommend it

Frida's Bed: A Novel

kspenmoll I read her years ago- she is fascinating! As to fictionalizing real people, it‘s fine with me as ling as it‘s billed as fiction & the author includes notes/ bibliography of any works consulted. @Karisa Love her poem Penelope - we always included it at the end of the Odyssey unit which sparked thoughtful discussion. (edited) 1w

kspenmoll My mom was born in 1924 to two strictly teetotaling parents. They stayed that way throughout their lives. Both were for women‘s suffrage but led traditional lives at home. Yet my they made no difference between their 2 sons & 2 daughters, all received a college education. They all worked post college, my 2 uncles a doctor & banker,my aunt a teacher( who was allowed to keep teaching throughout her 11 births) my mom was a model for a local 🔽 1w

AmyG I read some of her work years and years ago…brilliantly witty. I don‘t mind fictional writing about famous people. I have to keep reminding myself that it‘s fictional, though. 1w

kspenmoll Department store & also sang on radio. She planned to continue after marriage but my dad worked ( he was ROTC for free college/ med school) & they moved around during his tenure making it difficult.Thanks for listening to my family saga that relates to those times. My dad went to NYC to Cornell & my mom spent weekends visiting- they both cane to love the city. 1w

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll @Karisa I love that poem as well. Dorothy is too risqué for school here… ?‍? 1w

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll My grandma worked as well in Department stores modeling and working the counters. She also worked as a dancer in dance halls, married late and was so forward thinking. 👀🎉 1w

vlwelser I know a little but not much other than she's an icon from this era. I'm pumped to learn more even through fiction. 1w

Karisa @TheBookHippie So strange that many are more conservative today than in the past! 😵‍💫😂 1w

TheBookHippie @Karisa RIGHT😳 WTAF?! 🤭🤷🏻‍♀️😵‍💫 1w

Sargar114 I don‘t know anything about her. So thanks @Karisa for sharing the poem. I agree with @kspenmoll @Librarybelle that as long as it‘s done right and respectfully I don‘t have a problem with fictionalized historic figures. In fact can be a decent introduction to new people. 1w

DebinHawaii I only know a little about her so this will be interesting. I am good with fictionalizing people as long as it‘s done well with research. 1w

DebinHawaii @Karisa @IndoorDame I liked this Frida book

The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo: A Novel

Karisa @DebinHawaii @IndoorDame Thank you! 1w

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii I don‘t mind it either especially when it helps an unknown be known. 1w

IndoorDame @DebinHawaii thanks! I was actually just looking at that title today and wondering about it! 1w

slategreyskies I don‘t know much about her. I know her name and maybe a bit or two, but I‘d be more comfortable just saying that I don‘t know anything about her. I just checked this book out from the library on kindle this morning and only just now finished reading today‘s last chapter. I‘m looking forward to catching up with this morning‘s questions. 1w

BarkingMadRead I don‘t know a lot about her so I‘m enjoying the learning! 1w

julieclair I recognize her name as a famous New Yorker, but that‘s it. I think fictionalization of historical figures is a good way to introduce them to people, and help readers see them as “real people”, not just a collection of facts. But the onus is on the reader to remember they are reading fiction. 1w

mollyrotondo I knew about the Algonquin meetings, but I don't know a lot about Dorothy Parker. I love historical fiction centered around real people. It helps me learn so much more than I would have ever known about figures in history. 1w

TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I agree. 1w

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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Graphic Novel Adaptation | Alessandro Ferrari

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Celebrating Summer Solstice: Customs & Crafts, Recipes & Rituals for Midsummer, Kupala, Ligo, San Giovanni & Other Summer Holidays | Waverly Fitzgerald

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TheBookHippie Everyone welcome 1w

Sace I think I might have filled this out twice. Sorry! 1w

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TheBookHippie @Sace no worries 1w

dabbe Yay! So excited! Thanks for spreading the love! 💙🩵💙 1w

julieclair Yay! 💗 1w

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Gilmore Girls: The Official Cookbook | Elena Craig, Kristen Mulrooney

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER
HOT FUDGE SUNDAE
With Grapefruit on the Side

Ya'll I do not eat grapefruit it's actually not allowed with my beta blocker...
The funny is -see that tiny thing under the grapefruit? It's sold as a grapefruit bowl...

l actually do not know the last time I had a hot fudge sundae. Dairy and I are not really friends...

This was fun and easy and a nice treat after a long week and a trying day.

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TheBookHippie 🩺I take beta blockers for migraines, my anxiety and familial tremors(essential tremor). Three in one bonus. 1w

Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ The sundae looks good 1w

Sace Yummy! But how is a grapefruit supposed to fit in that? 🤨 1w

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TheBookHippie @Sace Gilmore girls episode… 😵‍💫🤭 1w

Tamra That‘s an “interesting” combo and makes me wonder what grapefruit flavored ice cream would taste like. 🤔 1w

5feet.of.fury Seems like it‘s particularly not an ideal dinner. (& yeah that is an “orange bowl” at best 😂) 1w

mcctrish @5feet.of.fury orange bowl is what I thought too ( grapefruits interact with a lot of meds ☹️) I can‘t remember the last time I had any kind of sundae - lactose is a struggle for me 1w

TheBookHippie @5feet.of.fury When it arrived with my grocery order we laughed so hard. I‘m not sure what they think is going in there … berries maybe. 1w

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I assume I will pay for this indulgence but so far I‘m okay…🤞🏻🤞🏻 1w

TheBookHippie @Tamra I imagine good. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1w

TheBookHippie @Librarybelle It was really tasty! 1w

willaful @Tamra I love grapefruite flavored soda, so I think it could be good! 1w

mabell Well this was definitely a unique one 😂 1w

TheBookHippie @mabell 🙃🤣 there are some really interesting ones. 1w

Tamra @willaful me too re: soda! 1w

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#5JoysFriday
1. Green leaves on tree
2. Lilac bush is awake
3. Strawberries survive the frost
4. Beautiful pink sunset
5. Making pickles with grandson

This was hard to do this morning as I‘m heartbroken with the news that a young person I loved took her own life in the night…. Her name was Rainn and we loved her very much. But we have to hold onto joy, it is essential to life. If you‘re struggling please hang on, please reach out. 988 ⬇️

DebinHawaii

TheBookHippie https://988lifeline.org/ 1w

IndoorDame I‘m so sorry 💔 1w

Jari-chan So sorry to hear that... 1w

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Mollyanna Keeping you in my thoughts 💔 1w

Librarybelle So sorry to hear 1w

Read4life I‘m so sorry. 1w

xicanti I‘m so sorry about your friend. 1w

bookandbedandtea I'm very sorry for your loss 💜 1w

Deblovestoread 💔 I am sorry. 1w

Susanita 💔😢 1w

Billypar I'm so sorry 💙💙 That 988 number is so important to spread the word about - thanks for sharing here. 1w

mrp27 I‘m so sorry…. Sending you thoughts of peace. 1w

Mimi28 I‘m sorry 😢 that‘s good that you could find something to be grateful for despite your friend 😊I need to do that also 1w

TheBookHippie @Billypar 💙 As someone who understands way too much this feeling and pushed through and as a mentor of youth, I‘ve been to way too many funerals of kids aged 12-34 that I personally mentored to not post it anytime I mention taking ones life. 1w

TheBookHippie @Mimi28 🤍 1w

quietlycuriouskate Oh, that is so sad! 💔 I hope your joyful things bring you some solace. 1w

dabbe *gulp* So sorry to read this ... holding you in my thoughts. 💙🩵💙 1w

slategreyskies I‘m so sorry, Christine. That‘s devastating. 💔 🫂 1w

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Oh no! I‘m so sorry 💔 1w

curiouserandcurioser @TheBookHippie Im so very sorry💔 hugs and peaceful thoughts. An important number to share💜 1w

TheBookHippie @slategreyskies 🤍 It is devastating. 1w

DebinHawaii Oh Christine, I am so very sorry. I am sending you all the strength and positive energy I can. 💜💜💜Thank you for sharing the joyful moments you had this week too. I hope they help you through this time. 1w

TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii It‘s a gut punch. I think we‘re still in shock. Spending loads of time outdoors this weekend grounding myself. 1w

kspenmoll Christine I cannot begin to find words of comfort for you. I am sending you love. 💕 1w

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll ♥️ 1w

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#TLT 178/187

👀ALLLLL IN THE THEATER!!! In the 80s

For 3 dollars 😱

dabbe YOU DA WINNER! 🤩🤩🤩 2w

wanderinglynn You rock! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉 2w

IMASLOWREADER omg awesome 🙌 1w

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