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Babycakes
Babycakes | Armistead Maupin
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"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."--New York Times Book ReviewWhen an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. "Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."--Ian McKellen"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop." --Denver Post"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on." -- New York Times Book Review
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GidgetsTreasures75
Babycakes | Armistead Maupin
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2-3-21: My 12th finished book of 2021! Book 4 of the Tales of the City series. Back on Barbary Lane in San Fran with Mrs. Madrigal and her tenants/family in 1982 at the height of the AIDS crisis. Mary Ann and Brian are thinking of starting a family while Mouse takes a trip and finds old and new friends. I love this series! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #babycakes #armisteadmaupin 👍🏼📖#️⃣1️⃣2️⃣

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Blueberry
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Just finished #4 of the Tales of the City series. Not sure if it's even more fun because I live close to the city. 💙

ChasingOm Oh, I love the spines all together! 4y
Blueberry @ChasingOm I do too 🧡 4y
CarolynM ❤️❤️❤️ 4y
KVanRead I love this series so much! 💕💕💕 4y
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TheQuietQuill
Babycakes | Armistead Maupin
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Starting our own little book for our precious little guy who is due December 13. I can‘t wait to meet my son and introduce him to the world of reading and books 📖

Lel2403 That is sooo lovely 😊 6y
Tanisha_A Congratulations! 😀 6y
Maewyn Congratulations🏖 6y
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CarolynM All the best to you💕 6y
Jas16 So exciting! 6y
TheQuietQuill Thank you! ❤️❤️ @CarolynM and we are very excited and are counting down the days! @Jas16 6y
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SarahMillerBooks
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monalyisha Looooove the blanket! Great pic. 🌈🤗 6y
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Eggs
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Day #28
This little guy is 8 months old today!!
#novemberbythenumbers

MrBook Happy birthday, kiddo!!! 7y
britt_brooke What a cutie! 😍 7y
Texreader What a darling!! 7y
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Eggs @MrBook @britt_brooke @texreader Thanks for the lovely comments! He is a very sweet and even keeled tiny human-my youngest grandchild 👶 7y
AceOnRoam What a cute kid 💜 7y
Avanders 😍😍 7y
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LindaGrace812
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My one and only niece just had her baby! I can‘t believe our baby girl has her own baby girl!

WhatDeeReads Squeeeeeee!!! Welcome to the family #LittleLitten. 7y
LindaGrace812 Thank you! ❤️ 7y
Laura317 So precious and sweet!💕 7y
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PNWBookseller85
Babycakes | Armistead Maupin
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The baby and I exploring a new bookshop the other day. I stole the pic from my husband's instagram. 😁

LeahBergen 💙💙 8y
britt_brooke So cute!! 8y
Michelle_mck The shoes! 😍 8y
Texreader Adorable!!! 8y
MyNamesParadise Awwww!! So cute!! I'd scoop him up! Just kidding!!! 😊😊 id just want to read to him! 8y
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ValerieAndBooks
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I recently found a used copy of Babycakes to "fix" my #booknerdproblems of having one spine not matching. Still need to add/find the last two in The Tales of the City series. #coolspines #riotgrams

wonga beautiful! 💕 8y
Reviewsbylola Lol, I can totally see why that bothered you! 8y
Lmstraubie I would be right there with you! Matching is important 😆 8y
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Cinfhen It would drive me crazy too🙃 8y
LeahBergen Whew!!! 8y
Wife Oh my goodness! I'm not the only one! I feel so much better now. 📚 8y
ValerieAndBooks @wonga @Reviewsbylola @Lmstraubie @Cinfhen @LeahBergen @Wife 😊😊😊I don't mind mixed spines in general but this particular edition/set really needed it all. Definitely less jarring now! 8y
Pelican71 I've never heard of this series. Thank goodness for Litsy. Going to look for the first one to see if I like it @ValerieAndBooks 8y
ValerieAndBooks @Pelican71 it's kind of a quirky series, hope you enjoy the first book at least 😊 8y
AlaMich Ooh, yeah, gotta have matching spines, and these are awesome. I read The Tales of the City books and loved them a long time ago. ❤️ 8y
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ValerieAndBooks
Babycakes | Armistead Maupin
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Ok one more #booknerdproblems from me!When my son (15 yo) is also a book nerd and regularly reminds me that I need to replace that one book in a series. (And I think there is one more to add at the end -- I still have yet to read the last couple here). @RealLifeReading

britt_brooke Love it! 8y
bookishkai There's two more after Michael Tolliver Lives: Mary Ann in Autumn and The Days of Anna Madrigal. I love your collection with the redesigned covers! 8y
LauraBeth I so loved reading this entire series ❤️ 8y
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erinreads I'm a little annoyed because the last book in the series doesn't match the other spines, so the street doesn't continue and it bothers me every time I see those books on my shelf. Maybe that's one of my #booknerdproblems hahaha 8y
Gleefulreader Oh, I love the covers. But a lack of continuity would make me nuts! 8y
ValerieAndBooks @britt_brooke @gleefulreader I do like the continuity in the spine design (or supposed to be)! @laurabeth I remember when it was serialized in the paper as a kid growing up in CA! @bookishkris @erinreads I knew about the Mary Ann one but not the Anna Madrigal until now! Good to know. it's too bad if I will never have a perfectly matched set 😞. I looked on amazon; looks like Babycakes in this particular design will be hard to find anyway! 8y
bookishkai @ValerieAndBooks I'm SO jealous you got to experience it as a serial (now I'm having a #booknerdproblem)! I think that's what makes them such readable books, and they're SO good on audio, too. 8y
Hobbinol I really enjoyed the new Anna book when the characters all meet up at Burning Man. My favorites are the earliest books in the series. 8y
ValerieAndBooks @bookishkris well "experiencing" it as a serial for me actually meant occasionally coming across it whenever we happened to have the SF chronicle on hand (I grew up in Sacramento). I was pretty young when it was a newspaper serial. I remember thinking that Armistead Maupin was such a cool name!! I had started replacing the older titles with these to match the rest but Babycakes has been elusive so far! 8y
ValerieAndBooks @Hobbinol I agree -- the older ones are better. I need to pick back up on this series again. Need to read "Sure of You" and the rest! 8y
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