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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones | Charles M. Blow
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A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award �Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.� � Washington Blade �[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.� (…more)
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OriginalCyn620 Good choices! 5y
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Excellent. Must read.

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Quite an opening as I squeeze in a few minutes to start this before leaving for work. Man blazing down the road to kill his cousin. I think I might fly through this memoir.

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MicheleinPhilly
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SUPER SALE ALERT!

This one is fantastic. HIGHLY recommend.

8little_paws Yes!!!! Thanks for the heads up!! 8y
LauraBeth Why have I never even heard of this?! 8y
Christine My thoughts exactly, @LauraBeth. Can't wait to read this one - thanks Michele! 8y
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MicheleinPhilly @8little_paws @LauraBeth @Christine It's not an easy read but it is so very good. 8y
8little_paws @MicheleinPhilly I read it from the library when it first came out and I completely agree. I've been waiting for the right time to buy. 8y
8little_paws @theshrinkette this is the book I recommended to you at the book cellar 8y
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I had a great month of reading in February! Favorites were definitely Difficult Women, You Can't Touch My Hair, Beasts of No Nation, and Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

TrishB Great pic😀 8y
kristinshafel @TrishB Thanks! I made it with picmonkey 😊🐵 8y
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Last day of #Riotgrams, day 28: #BookishConfessions. I've had so much fun with this month-long challenge! So I'm not sure this is a confession so much as a quirk, but what I do with every book I read is see how many pages there are total, then find the middle of the book and look at it. Every book, every time. I even do the math in my head with ebooks and audiobooks (how much time = halfway).

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diovival I do this a lot too! 8y
Donna_sBookMinute Great idea! I read with two bookmarks -- one to mark the page I left off on and one to mark the point I want to reach by a certain time. 8y
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones | Charles M. Blow
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Catching up, #Riotgrams day 15: #BooksAndTreats. Worst picture ever, but that's my read for my International Book Club with my bestie back in KC (it's a club of just us two...) and oreo brownies I made for my honey for valentine's day.

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Blow writes with a beautiful sense of place. He takes us through his small-town, just-making-ends-meet upbringing to growing into himself as a man. It's always a gift when someone lets you see the world through their eyes, with all the good and bad bits that make us all human.

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"Tears flowed out of me from a walled-off place, from another time, from a little boy who couldn't cry." #firstlines #tuckedin #bedtimereads