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Leftcoastzen

Joined June 2016

“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson
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Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
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My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
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My Dark Places | James Ellroy
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#DynamicDs #Dark James Ellroys mother Jean was found murdered in suburban LA , left by the side of the road , murderer never found , case closed . James was only 10. He feels that his obsession with his mom‘s memory is largely responsible for his crime novels set in L.A. This book is part memoir , part story of Ellroy working with Detective Bill Stoner to see if even so many years later there is something to be learned about the case.

Read-n-Bloom Sounds really interesting! 9m
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You | Caroline Kepnes
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Picking up an Emily Dickinson bust to use as weapon? It has to be “You” season 5 ! Netflix

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The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce
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#DynamicDs #Devil One from my mom‘s collection.

LeahBergen That‘s a pretty Folio edition! 4d
Eggs Beautiful 😻 4d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous ❤️ 2d
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Keep going everyone!

Librarybelle That‘s a great sign! 5d
TheBookHippie Oh I like that one!!! 5d
Leftcoastzen @TheBookHippie right?! Nice ! 5d
dabbe 🤣✊🏻♥️ 5d
BarbaraBB 👌🏽❤️ 5d
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Ruthiella 👍👍👍 5d
Jari-chan 💯 5d
Trashcanman 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💯💯💯 5d
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Susanita EXACTLY! 5d
lil1inblue ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 5d
dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 5d
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#DynamicDs #Doll
I love Ibsen, maybe time for a reread !

dabbe Love this play! 😍 6d
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 6d
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Thrifted today ! Escoffier is from 1941 no extra charge for the sauce splatters, Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book 1928.

Tamra So much love they‘ve seen! 1w
Leftcoastzen @Tamra Right ?! That is definitely part of the charm. 1w
TheKidUpstairs I LOVE old cook books! What great finds! 1w
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LeahBergen So cool! 1w
AnnCrystal 🤩😍💕📚💝. (edited) 1w
Leftcoastzen @TheKidUpstairs me too ! Fun to read the way culture changes , even if you don‘t make anything! 1w
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen couldn‘t resist 1w
Lcsmcat The splatters tell you which recipes are good. Or at least which ones were made the most. 😀 7d
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Book Gallery | Phoenix, AZ (Bookstore)
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Holmes ! Looking at you @dabbe 😁

TheBookHippie ♥️ 1w
dabbe You know I am #sherlocked! Thanks for sharing! 🤩♥️🤗 1w
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Ooh my , well feeling seen ! 😁 https://www.readyourcolor.com/take-the-assessment
Thanks @Ruthiella !

TheBookHippie I‘m blue as well!!! 2w
Ruthiella Awesome! I was 30% blue! 👍 2w
Aims42 Another member of the blue crew 💙 2w
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BarbaraBB I was 30% blue but to be honest very few of the 24 blurbs appealed to me 2w
TheLudicReader Thanks for sharing your results. I wasn‘t fussed by many of the blurbs either, @BarbaraBB & @CarolynM yet I still managed to get a colour that reflected my reading tastes relatively accurately. 😁 2w
Liz_M I thought the quiz was determining what genre you read -- romance, sci-fi, fantasy, self-help. My result was blue (the only blurbs that felt vaguely “regular“ fiction), but I am absolutely a purple reader. 2w
dabbe 💙 2w
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#WondrousWednesday on Thursday!
1.Daffodils! But I live in the desert southwest so the daffodils are here in Jan./Feb. Actually, the roses have already bloomed and are fading fast.
2.Grateful for my cats , friends,& baseball!⚾️
Thanks @Eggs for the tag!

dabbe Daffies are my fave, too! 🩵🌼🩵 2w
Leftcoastzen @dabbe great minds think alike! 😂 2w
Eggs Thanks for playing 🥳 2w
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Ok , who remembers this ? 😁

Avanders … did it work??? 3w
Avanders Crazy - I definitely could have benefited from something like that! 🫢 3w
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Leftcoastzen @Avanders they still make them . Looked them up !😁 3w
Avanders 😯 ooooh will have to check that out! 3w
dabbe 🎯💙🎯 3w
Leftcoastzen @dabbe I told my friend , she started telling me about her mom‘s Bedazzler ! Remember those ? 3w
Leftcoastzen @Avanders they have old ones on EBay , of course I‘d be asking if they work !😁 3w
vlwelser Um no but I sort of want one. 3w
dabbe @Leftcoastzen My grandma had one and make t-shirts for my sister and me! 🪩🪩🪩 3w
AnnCrystal 🧵🔘🪡🆒💝. 3w
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Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak
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#DynamicDs #Doctor Hello , captain obvious !😁

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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Waterstone's guide to books | Waterstone & Company
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From April 4th edition of Shelf Awareness. 😡

TheBookHippie Yup😵‍💫 3w
AnnCrystal 🥺 while I support local for eco reasons, I know that this all is going to be very difficult...and frustrating... (edited) 3w
LeahBergen I saw that Blackwells had the same sort of problem with US shipping, too. 😞 3w
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#DynamicDs #Dots so they aren‘t perfectly round , I think they still qualify as dots ! 😁

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🩶❤️ 3w
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#DynamicDs #Doorway I read this long ago . People read it a lot in the drug infused 60s Huxley wrote both in the 1950s.

Eggs Perfection 👏🏻👏🏻 3w
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dabbe 👊🏻♥️🎯 3w
Trashcanman I love Zappa! His music and his mind. I feel he was a genius. 3w
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Leftcoastzen @Trashcanman I agree. I shamelessly lifted this from Bluesky ! 🦋 3w
AmyG I agree @Trashcanman about his genius. 3w
BkClubCare Yikes 2w
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Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger
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#DynamicDs #DoubleLetterTitle An all time favorite!

Trashcanman One of my favorites too 3w
Leftcoastzen 😁I might have guessed! 3w
jen_the_scribe I read some of J.D. Salinger‘s work as a teenager and always loved it. Haven‘t read this one though, so stacked! 3w
Eggs Well done👏🏻 3w
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Thanks for the tag, @Eggs
#ThreeListThursday #TLT 73 of 100 ! Yay!
So many ! Gangs Of New York , Field Of Dreams, Goodfellas , Pulp Fiction, Sideways……

dabbe W🤩WZA! Fab choices, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵💙🩵 3w
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story | Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Company
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Time I get to this one . @Librarybelle suggested the tag #RealHistory @dabbe suggested #HonestHistory Remembering the sanitary history of my school days , I remember thinking, is this all there is? Doesn‘t seem some people, stories are left out ? Over the years there are more options available. Older ones below.

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Count My Lies | Sophie Stava
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Well , I didn‘t read it as fast as some of the reviewers, but I did enjoy this twisty thriller. Sloane lies about nearly everything, she had a rough beginning and uses her fibs to make her life more interesting than it is. She meets a handsome father with his lovely daughter at a the park, maybe a nanny gig ? Maybe something else ? Getting close to this family may be more than she bargains for !

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Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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#HashTagBrigade @BarkingMadRead
I wish it was a full set , it isn‘t ! Will read the first chapter tonight.

BarkingMadRead So cool! 3w
Bookwormjillk 😍😍😍 3w
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#DynamicDs #Detective #OldSchool The tagged book is a collection of stories , The Maltese Falcon brought us Sam Spade , The Big Sleep , Phillip Marlowe .
Humphrey Bogart played both of those roles , & as you can see from the cover , Robert Mitchum played Marlowe in a remake . Good stuff !

Eggs Excellent stuff 👏🏻 3w
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Education of a Felon | Edward Bunker
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#CoverStories #Prison Bunker has really done time & has written several books about crime & prisons.You may also have seen him as Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 3w
Eggs Great cover! 3w
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#CoverStories #Letter Playing catch up . Friend was in town, very busy . I treasure this set !

TheBookHippie Beautiful!!! 3w
LeahBergen Magnificent! 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 👏🏻 3w
Gissy Pricelss collection📚😍🙌 3w
Eggs Great collection👏🏻👏🏻 3w
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Librarybelle So awful 3w
Aims42 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 3w
TheBookHippie Just makes me so sad and sick. 3w
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Andrea313 I'm raging at this. 😡🤬 3w
AmyG 😞 3w
EKonrad 😢😢😢 3w
AnnCrystal 😢🙏📚💝...🤬. 3w
Lcsmcat 😡😡😡 3w
Scochrane26 I was just on a short trip to Kansas City where we went to 4 museums & took pics of the library‘s book spine exterior. This news just makes me so mad & scared. (edited) 3w
Tamra Senseless 3w
bibliothecarivs Thanks for spreading the word. 3w
Gissy What next? When it is going to stop? Is there anything to do to stop this in a peaceful way, reasoning way? I feel a sense of hopelessness of what is happening😢To understand it better, you have to be in their shoes...what would you do if you lose your job right now? 😔 3w
staci.reads Unbelievable 😡 3w
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Sophie loves #caturday !

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4w
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 4w
Gissy 🐈 🖤🖤🖤 4w
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Loved it ! Belongs next to these others that I have reread since Election Day. While some events outlined in this book have changed , it is still a relevant book as the playbook for dismantling democracy and running the grift never changes . Enlightening and depressing, so glad I read it

Kristy_K Just bought this! 4w
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#CoverStories #Barn Spin wool , make cheese, make bricks ,cure bacon! My grandparents could make almost everything, I have always been interested in the old folkways. If we keep going the dystopian way we all may need books like this !

sarahbarnes I‘ve always been interested too. And agreed. 1mo
Eggs I can totally relate - my parents were born in 1910 and 1913, and were old-school self-sufficient! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs people didn‘t have much of a choice back then , no money to pay for it even if you could find people to do it 1mo
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Eggs @Leftcoastzen I used to make soap, candles, bread, yogurt, clothing, slipper socks, scarves, quilts, grow gardens, can/preserve and more. But it‘s really rough on the hands and wrists!!! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs Wow , that‘s amazing ! Also, that‘s why people got worn out at a younger age . There wasn‘t alternatives . I helped my grandmother can , and we made butter together in a large jar size churn . Even she said , bread takes too much time ! I‘ll just buy it at the grocery store. Once it was readily available!😁 (edited) 1mo
Eggs @Leftcoastzen Awesome 👏🏻 4w
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#TransRightsReadathon late to the readathon & late to getting to this title that‘s been on my TBR for a long time. Might get to some trans nonfiction, my reading time hasn‘t been as much as I would like it to be lately.

Librarybelle I attended a virtual book discussion of this hosted by Cambridge University Libraries…fascinating discussion, and I placed it on hold at my local library! 1mo
Ruthiella I loved this book. 👍 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella I‘m enjoying it so far! 1mo
CarolynM Plenty to think about in this book. Loved it. 1mo
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#CoverStories #pastel Sunday treat! All gone!

dabbe LOVE Jr. Mints and York Peppermint Patties! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
AmyG @dabbe HA! Even I know that.! 1mo
Amiable YUM!! 1mo
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dabbe @AmyG They are my weakness. 🤣 1mo
Eggs Well played 🍫 1mo
Kerrbearlib I‘ve never seen those before. They look yummy! 1mo
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#CoverStories #Clock Haven‘t read this yet. Maybe looking back isn‘t that useful in the moment. I have always thought the republican downside really began with Reagan. This is the era of Rush Limbaugh who filled the airwaves with absolute lies. The era of Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot. The era where many conspiracy theories thrived and a segment of voters seemed to celebrate their ignorance. Hmmm , how did we get here? 🤔

Bookwomble I have no doubt that those things are intimately linked with the rise of neoliberalism as embraced by the Reagan-Thatcher alliance. 1mo
Eggs ❤️🖤💙 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Bookwomble agree ! I‘m in the hold line at the library. 1mo
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Hats, Hats, Hats | Ann Morris
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Ok , I have vintage hats , seldom wear anymore but haven‘t got rid of them. No more buying hats! Except this one , today!😂

Trashcanman That‘s beautiful. 1mo
tpixie Amazing! Such craftsmanship 🪶 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Trashcanman Thanks, I thought so . Rare to find something that old in a Thrift store anymore. 1mo
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Leftcoastzen @tpixie the good old days ! 😃 1mo
LeahBergen That‘s fabulous! 1mo
AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 1mo
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An impulse pick up at the library! I enjoy her music but didn‘t know that much about her , I‘d say fans that follow her would know this stuff but I enjoyed filling in some information on her .Photos throughout of her incredible fashion & performance looks.Towards the end tells of her singing at Bidens inauguration & her being honored w/a born this way rainbow painted street in West Hollywood. What a contrast to the lunacy of the U.S. right now 😡

sarahbarnes A contrast indeed. 😑 1mo
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The woman in white | Wilkie COLLINS
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What a wonderful read ! My first time reading with the #HashtagBrigade that added to the fun ! Great characters & many twists & turns ! Thanks to @BarkingMadRead for hosting ! Also qualifies for a #BitsyChunster for #ChunksterChallange2025

Ruthiella Such a wild ride! 🫣😃 1mo
Amiable You and @Ruthiella both loved it—I‘m stacking it right now! 1mo
Tamra One of my favorites! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Amiable it is so good ! Sorry I waited so long . 1mo
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de Profundis | Oscar Wilde
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Happy St. Patrick‘s Day . Gonna have me a Guinness & think about Irish writers ,like Oscar Wilde .
The etching is of the tower at Glendalough , county Wicklow ,from the 6th century.I was lucky enough to visit it once.☘️

Ruthiella 🍀🍀🍀 💚 1mo
Texreader 💚💚💚 1mo
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Definitely my favorite read this year so far . Imagine your life couldn‘t get much worse , husband gone, nothing going right , can‘t imagine moving forward.Phoebe is feeling she should end it all, go out in style, visit an elegant inn she always hoped to visit under happier circumstances. Come to find out everyone there is for a wedding, when Lila discovers Phoebe, who is this person who might ruin the wedding? Dark ,smart,funny & wise,grt story!

sarahbarnes Yes! I loved this one too! 1mo
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Running Blind | Lee Child
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#CoverStories #Running I read the first few , including this one . Fun reads , but now the show is ahead of the ones I have read .

Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻 1mo
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The current political climate is so cruel , this mug spoke to me , hope it will help me calm down a bit . A beautiful quote for many situations, right?
Etsy seller FedupFrannie

Ruthiella Love it! 1mo
TheBookHippie Love. 1mo
DGRachel I love that mug! Thank you for sharing! 1mo
sarahbarnes ♥️♥️♥️ 1mo
MemoirsForMe 😍😍😍 1mo
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It‘s also I‘m so angry at the government situation I must have doughnuts !

Aims42 I‘ve been “treating myself” so much since Election Day my bank account is like, “Plz Stop!” 😆 Nope, can‘t stop, won‘t stop lol 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Aims42 sometimes you just have to have something that brings happiness! 🍩 1mo
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It‘s #caturday Sophie! #catsofLitsy

AnnCrystal 😍💕😻🐾💝. (edited) 1mo
dabbe #sweetestsophie 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
AmyG Awwwww ❤️ 1mo
Darklunarose 😻😻😻 1mo
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There There: A novel | Tommy Orange
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#CoverStories #Feather I thought this was a good read , I have his second book on the TBR pile . 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday So many good ones !
1. Born Yesterday an all time favorite !
2.The Maltese Falcon Book & movie so good! Dashiell Hammett ,yay!
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy James Cagney , yes please
4.Gaslight so good and creepy!
Thanks for the tag @dabbe

TheBookHippie Gaslight creeps me out to this day 😵‍💫 1mo
Leftcoastzen @TheBookHippie yes ,indeed ! 1mo
dabbe Fab choices! I need to rewatch these! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵💙🩵 1mo
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I‘m 100 pages in. Smart, witty ,and engaging! Plus , Phoebe might finish Mrs. Dalloway ! Sshh , no spoilers please 😁

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I loved this one 💛 1mo
mcctrish I loved this too. Totally not what I was expecting 1mo
sarahbarnes I also loved this! 💙 1mo
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Silences | Tillie Olsen
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#WomensHistoryMonth A book that isn‘t referenced as much today ,I have never forgotten it. Creativity is not enough, Tillie was a creative person working regular jobs while raising 4 girls , despite her longing to write, a life so busy leaves little time to find a room of one‘s own. Lack of time,lack of money, lack of hope. To be taken seriously, to be considered,in her era of 1st wave feminism, most of the publishing gate keepers, old white guys

RJRobertson I haven‘t read this book in years. Thank you for posting this and reminding me. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @RJRobertson thanks for noticing! I believe it should be better known . 😄 1mo
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eclectic-reader Did you see Complete Unknown? 1mo
Eggs I want to see this film 🎥 1mo
Leftcoastzen @eclectic-reader I have not . A friend of mine saw it & loved it. 1mo
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Wow ! May 8th, 2025 🤩

Tamra Pretty! 1mo
Soubhiville Pretty! @Eyelit 🤩 1mo
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Liquid: A Love Story | Mariam Rahmani
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#BOTM because I have no #ShelfControl !
Everybody raves about The Wedding People, hope I love it .

LiteraryinPA I did love The Wedding People! 2mo
Leftcoastzen @LiteraryinPA so good to hear ! I want to start it soon . 2mo
Leftcoastzen @eclectic-reader 👋 2mo
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Absolutely couldn‘t resist! Maybe they can tell me if I should leave the country! Funny/Not Funny 💀

AmyG Grateful Dead tarot cards??? Wow!!! 2mo
Leftcoastzen @AmyG I did a double take , then I got them ! 2mo
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#CoverStories the #Stairs lead to the elegant townhomes around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village NYC . Henry Jameses family lived on Washington Place, just around the corner. The park has been a hub of the Village , as the society folks moved further uptown, the area drew artists, bohemians, and radicals. NYU is near by , it has been a place of meetings , protest , music ,and games of chess.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 2mo
Eggs Great cover and photo👏🏻👏🏻 2mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs thanks ! 2mo
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