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Trilogia di New York
Trilogia di New York | Paul Auster
Pubblicati per la prima volta tra il 1985 e il 1987, i tre romanzi Citt di vetro , Fantasmi , La stanza chiusa , che compongono Trilogia di New York , sono diventati dei classici della letteratura americana contemporanea.
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Billypar
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RIP Paul Auster 1947--2024
After a move, I found my college syllabus, where I was first introduced to Paul Auster. It was a contemporary lit course that seemed to specialize in white male authors writing about violence. Auster's New York Trilogy couldn't have been more different from the rest, so it stood out, but it took years of reading more widely to understand how unique of a writer he was. While others from his generation were focused on 👇

Billypar male professors behaving badly, Auster's formula was to have no formula. He liked to write about people who were captivated by improbable coincidences or sometimes outright magical phenomena, but you could never predict what was going to happen. The novels could turn on a dime and go in completely unexpected directions. He once described his approach as trying to make sure each sentence was "propulsive" - it had to move the story forward ? 6mo
SamAnne A loss. 6mo
Billypar To me, they reminded me of short stories that used the extra space to have some more fun and see what they could become. He's not the kind of author you go to when you want a complex character study or dialogue that captures many different voices. But when you want a good story that sticks with you long after you finish, there are few better. 6mo
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Liz_M 😢 6mo
Ruthiella Great tribute. I‘ve only read The New York Trilogy and it was too abstract for me to enjoy, but I definitely want to try some of his other works, because as you point out, he was a versatile writer, always trying different things and styles. 6mo
BarbaraBB Great tribute indeed. I feel like I read him throughout all phases in my life and he always brought something different, unexpected. 6mo
batsy Intriguing tribute! I'm ashamed to say I've yet to read him (except for the City of Glass graphic novel that I enjoyed). I have The New York trilogy on my shelves; will start with that. 6mo
Billypar @Ruthiella @batsy For me, New York Trilogy feels different than his other work, like three short philosophical fantasies more in line with Borges or Calvino. He is a tough writer to compare to others. My top 3 are probably The Book of Illusions, Leviathan, and Mr. Vertigo. Still haven't had the courage to tackle 4321, but will hopefully try it at some point! 6mo
Billypar @BarbaraBB I read almost all of his books while in my twenties because I didn't know very many authors at the time, honestly. I hardly ever reread, but I should probably try it with one of his to see how the experience compares now. 6mo
BarbaraBB Yes I feel exactly the same! 6mo
batsy @Billypar Thanks for sharing your top 3. Taking a screenshot of this to keep in mind when I read Auster 🙂 6mo
sarahbarnes Beautiful post. Good to know your favorites. I‘ve only read 4321 and have wanted to read more by him. 6mo
Billypar @sarahbarnes Last night I was listening to this Fresh Air compilation with interview clips over the years - I highly recommend! https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1248686515/remembering-novelist-screenwriter-and-... 6mo
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Leftcoastzen
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Jari-chan That's a shock. RIP 🕯️ 6mo
Tonton So sad

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dabbe 💙🩵💙 6mo
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BaBaBaBillyAndTheBooks
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Mehso-so

In The New York Trilogy, three private investigations fail, or succeed in upending the lives of the investigators. In fact, the studied are frequently in control of the studier, much like an author guides a reader. Watching a mysterious character only leads to self-destruction—a strange feeling for someone who didn‘t quite love a book but didn‘t quit, and knew the only way out was to reach the final page.

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kwmg40
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Each of the three stories concerns a main character that becomes so obsessed with another person's life that it affects his own identity. I'm not sure I understood all the connections, but I did find the writing beautiful and compelling.

#1001books #BookCrossing #BookSpinBingo
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y
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yoavshai
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#BookCoverChallenge
Day 37.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

Leftcoastzen Great pick in my humble opinion. 3y
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gerry_mander
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Picked this up randomly because I liked the title and cover. Auster effortlessly describes the thoughts of a solitary man and the madness he can create, the webs that can be weaved, a life that can spiral into insanity. I found the first and last stories particularly great, but especially the first, City of Glass, I have my own theory on what was really going on in this story, but in the end, it doesn't matter and that's what's so great about it.

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Leftcoastzen
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#Top20series #20Series20days Day 7 I‘ve been MIA , back issues, life issues. Anyway , I adore this 3 book series, now available in one volume as The New York Trilogy.I read them originally in the 3 penguins up in the corner. Existential Noir is a good description, also among the 1000 books to read before you die. I do warn people to check out the reviews, as some people love these and other people , not so much.City of Glass is first.

Andrew65 New series to me. 4y
BarbaraBB I didn‘t know they were published separately! 4y
Leftcoastzen @Andrew65 I hope you like it.😀 4y
Leftcoastzen @BarbaraBB Back in the olden days .😆 4y
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mklong
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This is the sort of book that defies description. Auster kept me off balance, trying to puzzle out what exactly I was reading, but once I stopped trying to define it and just started to go with it, I really enjoyed It. I will be thinking about this one for a while.

ulyssesartmiller Auster is great. My favorite by him is Moon Palace. 4y
mklong @ulyssesartmiller Thanks for the tip. I would definitely like to read more by him. 4y
Kammbia1 Oracle Night and Leviathan are good ones too. 4y
mklong @Kammbia1 Thank you! I‘m not ready to tackle 4321 yet, so happy to have some less daunting options 4y
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Billypar
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#7days7books
Day 1
Seven books that made a deep impression and changed me.

Thanks for the tag @Cathythoughts

Tagging @Centique if you want to play.

vivastory Great choice. I need to reread at some point. 5y
Billypar @vivastory Yeah, I do as well. It's been (yikes) 19 years! 5y
Centique Thanks V. I will get onto it soon 😊 5y
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A haunting book that I realized I had already read when I was halfway through. No matter, the sense of deja vu only adds to Auster‘s narrative, drawing me in to his meta mystery; having me looking over my shoulder into my heart for the villain or the betrayal or maybe just the truth. A great book.

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Just wanted thank all the peeps for likes and stacks for me to end up with this fortuitous... ahem... infamous lit influence number... muwahahahahahahaha!😈

Mogoeg Once years ago, I ordered a burrito at a busy lunch spot during work. My autogenerated number was 666 and when they called it, everyone in the restaurant said 'Oooooooo' in a sort of hushed voice together. It was awesome. Such a proud moment for me as I stepped up - the sole claimant and rightful owner of the Burrito of the DAMNED! 5y
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Creadnorthey

This is a great book, but I feel like I‘m experiencing an incredible sensation of deja vu. There is a real hypnotic air to his storytelling and I‘m lost down the rabbit hole of my own memory- asking myself: did I read this all before?

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umbrellagirl
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Novelista71
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A great American author who distills the essence of the American dream in all its grubby detail... Brilliant!

Leftcoastzen 👏❤️❤️❤️👏👏 5y
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#WanderingJune

(Day 14 - #RoadToNowhere)

*I cannot think of a better literary representative for the “road to nowhere” trope than Paul Auster, particularly in his “New York Trilogy.” He writes quite postmodern “quest” novels, marking the (patrilineal) themes of Nietzsche‘s eternal recurrence of the same and Sartre‘s existential nausea. Huge oversimplification, I know—but the books are really good, if you‘re into that kind of thing. Have fun 📖!

BarbaraBB Good choice for this prompt. I am an Auster fan too! 5y
Cinfhen I tried reading one of his books last year but it was so darn intimating in heft that I gave it away 🙄😂 5y
gradcat @Cinfhen I bet @BarbaraBB would absolutely agree with me that he is not for everyone‘s taste...some of his books twist my mind in circles. I can‘t read him all the time—I have to prepare myself! 😂 5y
BarbaraBB I must say I haven‘t read that one yet @Cinfhen , it doesn‘t really appeal to me, but he wrote so many good ones. And I agree @gradcat it needs some preparation 😀 5y
gradcat @Cinfhen I haven‘t read that one, either, so I have nothing to offer about it. But I really did like the tagged books. But you know, they‘re from the 80s—maybe his newer stuff isn‘t as good...that happens sometimes. 😂 5y
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tina_b.ooks
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Brilliant! I almost lost interest halfway through the story, but I'm glad I continued. Paul Auster sure is an amazing writer and great thinker.
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Prettytears
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City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room, all complete 🌟🌟🌟🌟/🌟 I would've given it a perfect score if Ghosts didn't sour my love a little, it was my least favourite. Luckily, it didn't put me off entirely because after falling hard and fast for City of Glass, going through a rough patch with Ghosts, The Locked room reignited my romance for the trilogy and after the last sentence it felt like I lost something... in a good way. 💞

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Prettytears
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We all want to be told stories, and we listen to them in the same way we did when we were young..👆🏻👆🏼👆👆🏽👆🏾👆🏿

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Prettytears
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"...Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. My only hope is that there is an end to what I am about to say, that somewhere I will find a break in the darkness. This hope is what I define as courage, but whether there is reason to hope is another question entirely.” 2/2

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Prettytears
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"Only darkness has the power to make a man open his heart to the world, and darkness is what surrounds me whenever I think of what happened. If courage is needed to write about it, I also know that writing about it is the one chance I have to escape. But I doubt this will happen, not even if I manage to tell the truth..." 1/2

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Prettytears
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“He was the one who was with me, the one who shared my thoughts, the one I saw whenever I looked up from myself.
But that was a long time ago. We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart. None of that is very strange, I think. Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.”

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Prettytears
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“Lying is a bad thing. It makes you sorry you were ever born. And not to have been born is a curse. You are condemned to live outside time. And when you live outside time, there is no day and night. You don‘t even get a chance to die.”

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Prettytears
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"...For man is a fallen creature— we know that from Genesis. Humpty Dumpty is also a fallen creature. He falls from his wall, and no one can put him back together again—neither the king, nor his horses, nor his men. But that is what we must all now strive to do. It is our duty as human beings: to put the egg back together again. For each of us, sir, is Humpty Dumpty. And to help him is to help ourselves.” 2/2

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Prettytears
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“Humpty Dumpty: the purest embodiment of the human condition. Listen carefully, sir. What is an egg? It is that which has not yet been born. A paradox, is it not? For how can Humpty Dumpty be alive if he has not been born? ... For all men are eggs, in a manner of speaking. We exist, but we have not yet achieved the form that is our destiny. We are pure potential, an example of the not-yet-arrived..." 1/2

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Prettytears
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"...The world was outside of him, around him, before him, and the speed with which it kept changing made it impossible for him to dwell on any one thing for very long... By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere." 2/2

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Prettytears
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“Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within..." 1/2

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Prettytears
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"... It is imprecise; it is false; it hides the thing it is supposed to reveal. And if we cannot even name a common, everyday object that we hold in our hands, how can we expect to speak of the things that truly concern us? Unless we can begin to embody the notion of change in the words we use, we will continue to be lost.” 7/7

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Prettytears
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"...In general, people do. At the very limit, they will say the umbrella is broken. To me this is a serious error, the source of all our troubles. Because it can no longer perform its function, the umbrella has ceased to be an umbrella. It might resemble an umbrella, it might once have been an umbrella, but now it has changed into something else. The word, however, has remained the same. Therefore, it can no longer express the thing..." 6/7

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Prettytears
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"... A pencil is for writing, a shoe is for wearing, a car is for driving. Now, my question is this. What happens when a thing no longer performs its function? Is it still the thing, or has it become something else? When you rip the cloth off the umbrella, is the umbrella still an umbrella? You open the spokes, put them over your head, walk out into the rain, and you get drenched. Is it possible to go on calling this object an umbrella?... " 5/7

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Prettytears
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"....You see a kind of stick, with collapsible metal spokes on top that form an armature for a waterproof material which, when opened, will protect you from the rain. This last detail is important. Not only is an umbrella a thing, it is a thing that performs a function—in other words, expresses the will of man. When you stop to think of it, every object is similar to the umbrella, in that it serves a function... " 4/7

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Prettytears
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"...But words, as you yourself understand, are capable of change. The problem is how to demonstrate this. That is why I now work with the simplest means possible—so simple that even a child can grasp what I am saying. Consider a word that refers to a thing—‘umbrella,‘ for example. When I say the word ‘umbrella,‘ you see the object in your mind..." 3/7

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Prettytears
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“...And yet our words have remained the same. They have not adapted themselves to the new reality. Hence, every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent. It‘s made a mess of everything..." 2/7

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Prettytears
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“You see, I am in the process of inventing a new language....”
“A new language?”
“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things were whole, we felt confident that our words could express them. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos..." 1/7

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tina_b.ooks
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Going for an #audiowalk in order to reach my daily goal of steps 🏃‍♀️🎧

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SavannahtheSith
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Paul Auster is a fantastic writer. He's earned a place in my favorite Author List.

Without giving too much away, read it all the way through.

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First book finished in 2019. Three interlinked short novels: the first ("City of Glass") was too much like an undergraduate philosophy essay but I really liked "Ghosts" and "The Locked Room".

Also qualifies for #booked2019 #NewToMeAuthor.

#lifetimereadingplan #postmodern

Cinfhen Congrats on completing your first prompt🎉🎉🎉tagging my cohosts @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft 6y
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Reviewsbylola
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My #firstsnowonbrooklyn is courtesy of Paul Auster‘s The New York Trilogy. I haven‘t actually read it, but it‘s the Folio edition so it looks cool on my shelf. #winterwonderland

TrishB It does look very nice 😁 6y
Tamra Nice! 6y
Cinfhen Very nice, indeed ❄️❄️❄️ 6y
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CarolynM Perfect! 6y
Leftcoastzen Wow! Nice edition, I‘m a huge fan of New York Trilogy! 6y
batsy Oh, that's lovely! 6y
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ValerieAndBooks
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More book haul — I came across these two Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions at the used bookstore the other day when dropping off several books. Couldn‘t resist 😍!! Tagged book is a #1001Books.

BarbaraBB And a good one it is! 6y
Lcsmcat ❤️ O‘Hara, although I haven‘t read that title yet. 6y
LeahBergen Great covers! 6y
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Leftcoastzen New York Trilogy is on my all time favorites list! 6y
DivineDiana I would not have been able to resist either!😉 6y
Cinfhen Hi Val!!! Happy Thanksgiving 🧡🦃 I haven‘t seen you in ages. Hope all is well 6y
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Emilymdxn
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I can see why my friend says this is her favourite book ever. I loved how intricate, profound and meta it was, but never pretentious and I never felt like it was trying to confuse me for the sake of it. I loved spotting the little connections between plots, and the writing style. I‘ll be thinking about this book for a very long time

Ms_T I really like the sound of this. 6y
Emilymdxn @Ms_T I really recommend!!! 6y
Ms_T @Emilymdxn I‘ve purchased it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention 😘 6y
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Pamwurtzler I‘m definitely checking this out! 6y
Emilymdxn @Ms_T I really hope you like it! 6y
Emilymdxn @Pamwurtzler hope you enjoy!! I always worry people won‘t like books I rec, it‘s such a responsible position to find yourself in lol! 6y
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Emilymdxn
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This is a friends favourite book of all time so I‘m very excited to read it, I‘ve never read anything by Paul Auster before. #1001books

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Tamarity
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When you find your favourite book by your favourite author in your favourite city (I love you, Florence). And your bf asks if you‘re going to buy it...like you have a choice!!!🤷‍♀️

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Kristelh
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#1001 #tbrtakedown @JenP #reading1001 fun to read this and see Siri‘s name. Postmodern detective story. In search of identity?

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Wilkie
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Day 6 #Riotgrams Duologies, Trilogies and more

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Reviewsbylola
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This was the obvious choice for this prompt as I looked over my shelves this morning. I haven‘t read it but it is one of my few #folio books so I love looking through it. ♥️ The illustrations are so vibrant. 🚕 🗽 #aprella

Kalalalatja It is so pretty! 7y
Mdargusch Great illustrations! 7y
VioletBramble Love those illustrations 🚖 7y
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emilyhaldi Great choice!! This is definitely my favorite Folio ❤️🏙❤️ 7y
BarbaraBB Great graphics! The stories are good as well! 7y
britt_brooke So pretty! 7y
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HannaPolkadots
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#manicmonday @JoScho 😀
1. Android.
2. Nope - I need that paper to scribble and draw in the margins, and I don't get the same feeling with e-readers.
3. Instagram. So much.
4. Laptop. Mostly use it for work though.

JoScho Thanks for playing 💙 7y
Jess7 Just a reminder @litsy will be offline for scheduled maintenance from 3 am to 11 am EST. Checkout @kgriffith for details about a chatroom on LT you can join during the downtime. 7y
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HannaPolkadots
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It's still freezing here, but I couldn't resist breakfast on the porch swing. Am so enjoying this book!😀 Has any of you read it?

andrew61 Yes , i think I've read it twice and enjoyed the different tales both times ( one was adapted into play last year but i missed it) and it lead me to reading a few Auster subsequently but i haven't read him for a while. I've got 4321 ready ti read at some point this year. 7y
HannaPolkadots @andrew61 - 👍! I think it will also lead me on to more Auster- have heard great things about his newest novel too. 7y
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