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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life | Suleika Jaouad

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs (😍 for the tag!)

1. Tagged: THE BOOK OF ALCHEMY; it just came out. I learned about the author from an intriguing article in the NYT and just had to have it.
2. I keep two records of books I've read: #1: a journal where I write down favorite quotes that will hopefully help me remember the story and #2: a Litsy review. I love the required shortness of words; you have to really choose your words wisely.
You're all tagged!

Suet624 I agree with you about enjoying having to be brief in reviews. 1d

dabbe @Suet624 What an exercise to try to teach my students! Write a literary analysis in less that 150 words! They're like 😳! Succinct word choice is so important! 🤩😍🤣 1d

Suet624 What a great teaching opportunity. 1d

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shortsarahrose I loved Suleika‘s first book (tagged) and have followed her newsletter for a couple years. Her new one is on my TBR, but I haven‘t gotten it yet!

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

peaKnit The author is incredible and married to John Batiste, hello, power couple of amazing humans. 1d

BooksandCoffee4Me @dabbe Love this! Oh, if I was still teaching. 😊 1d

dabbe @Suet624 🎯🩵🎯 1d

BooksandCoffee4Me My husband and I each have kept chapbooks of quotes. In fact,, I made a Pinterest “chapbook” board for digital reading quotes. 1d

dabbe @shortsarahrose Ooh, thanks for this! #stacked 1d

dabbe @peaKnit How did I not know this? Love even more! 😍🤩😍 1d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me 🎯🩵🎯 I'm not either, and I miss this kind of teaching most! Grading essays and ornery parents? #notsomuch 🤣 1d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me I'd love to see it if you wouldn't mind sharing the link! 😍 1d

BooksandCoffee4Me @dabbe I refer to it on Pinterest as a Commonplace book - similar purpose: https://www.pinterest.com/?boardId=126663876958866610 1d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me LOVE it! Thanks for sharing! 💜💚💜 1d

Eggs Thanks for joining in 💛🧡💛 22h

dabbe @Eggs 💛🩷💛 19h

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ElizaMarie

The New Hot: Cruising Through Menopause with Attitude and Style | Meg Mathews

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpinView (thanks for the tag)

1. I tend to drop books on my face, so I kinda have to read sitting up.
2. I love how honest this book is. The amount of information and normalization of what is happening to our bodies is something I really needed. So a #PerfectTiming type of book (not in menopause yet, but premenopausal).

Come play: @Aroyse @ElaineReadsNRambles @Morr_Books

TheSpineView My Dad used to do #1 all the time. It was funny. It brings back good memories! Thanks for playing 3d

dabbe Dropping books on your face? That's hysterical! 🤩🤣🤩 Probably painful, though, too! 💚💜💚 3d

ElizaMarie @dabbe It was way worse before I had eye surgery and had to wear glasses to read. Bonking yourself with a book while wearing glasses can leave some marks! Ha! 3d

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Lesliereadsalot

The Perfect Divorce | Jeneva Rose

1. Definitely laying down. I like to stretch out and get comfy.
2. The Perfect Divorce, a beach read from the first page. Old murder, new missing woman, lawyer vs soon to be ex husband lawyer…the usual. This book is #1 on the New York Times best seller list?

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

ElizaMarie Been interested in this one! I am glad you are loving it. I will have to bump it up on my #TBR 3d

TheSpineView Sounds interesting. Looking forward to your review. Thanks for playing 3d

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DebinHawaii

May Day/Lei Day | Minako Ishii, Jeffrey Kent

Joining late to @dabbe ‘s #HaikuADay
This one is for Thursday, May 1 Which rather than May Day, is called Lei Day here. Each island has a flower & color. Oahu‘s is golden ilima. 💛

Day #1

You call it May Day,
in Hawai‘i it‘s Lei Day
Aloha is love

dabbe That is just lovely that your state does this. And what a gorgeous flower! 💛🌼💛 6d

TheBookHippie Love this!!! 5d

AnnCrystal Lovely 💝💝💝. 5d

DebinHawaii #HaikuHive @dabbe @thebookhippie @TheSpineView @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 4d

JenlovesJT47 🌸🌸🌸💜💕 4d

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TheLudicReader

Untitled | Untitled

#truth

DogMomIrene Authors on speed dial! Definite dream😂 6d

ShelleyBooksie Accurate! 6d

IuliaC Absolutely! 😂 6d

dabbe I can‘t wait to see it. That‘s #1 on the “what to do” list! 😍 6d

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AudiobookingWithLeah

[Brackets] | David Sloan

My only 5-star book this month was Don't Tell Me How To Die.

Currently, Sunrise on the Reaping will be #1 for the first half of the year. I also feel it could easily be my #1 for the entire year.

5feet.of.fury SOtR was SO good! 1w

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dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView

#wealth

My #1 favorite poem of all time. 🌼

lil1inblue 🌥🥰🌥 1w

dabbe ☁️🌼☁️ 1w

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Librarybelle

The Man in the Brown Suit | Agatha Christie

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3. We also meet Colonel Race in this novel. Race appears in later books--Cards on the Table, Death on the Nile, and Sparkling Cyanide--when he works alongside his friend Poirot. Interesting we meet him without Poirot! What did you think of Race? Why do you think Christie decided to make him a recurring character in her novels? #ChristiesCapers #AgathaChristieClubR3

willaful Can't waste a perfectly good Colonel. 😂 2w

suvata @willaful 🤣😂🤣😂 2w

suvata I think Christie brings Race back because he‘s so adaptable, slotting into any story, unlike Poirot with his brainy quirks or Miss Marple‘s village life. His adventurous vibe and cool-headed charm let him hop from story to story because he‘s a steady and likable character, but he never hogs the spotlight. (edited) 2w

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willaful @suvata makes sense! 2w

TheAromaofBooks @suvata - I totally agree!! Race is such a versatile character. He brings a pile of life experiences, government connections, and a canny brain to the table, all wrapped in a cloak of “strong and silent type“ that keeps him from being painted into a quirky corner. I like that it also gives us this feeling that all Christie's characters coexist 😂 1w

MariaW I was already wondering why my version of the ebook was marked as „Colonel Race #1“. I kept on wondering how he would get away as the villian and why Christie would write more novels about a master criminal. 🙈 Of course I was proved wrong. He is somewhat portrayed as a stereotype British nobleman being entangled in the secret service and because being so taciturn taken as the villian. But again I fell for it. 🙈 (edited) 1w

MallenNC I thought he was a fun character and I‘m interested to see him with Poirot. I haven‘t read the ones he‘s in. 6d

BarbaraJean Race was fascinating to me. I really liked his character, and having read the later books where he works with Poirot, I spent a lot of time wondering how in the world he could be innocent! (I‘m with you on that @MariaW!) He‘s so much in the background here and there are so many little hints about his background that aren‘t fleshed out—it makes sense that Christie brought him back to develop his character a little more! ⬇ 1d

BarbaraJean I agree with @suvata and @TheAromaofBooks—he‘s really versatile, and his calm-but-adventurous demeanor make him easy to add into other stories. 1d

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TieDyeDude

5-Minute Gratitude Journal: Give Thanks, Practice Positivity, Find Joy | Sophia Godkin

#5joysFriday @debinhawaii

- I passed my CHAA exam
- We got first place in bar trivia for the first time
- Papa Murphy's has dairy-free cheese options
- @wildalaskabibliophile made me a Sazerac, and it was a freakin' delight! I had been gathering ingredients but hadn't made one yet.
- Words cannot describe the joy that Dick Van Dyke exudes. Found this on Instagram from a few days ago https://www.instagram.com/p/DIsBYq_zWWo/

AmyG #1….Congrats! 🎉 2w

AmyG And #2 🤣🎉 2w

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉YAY!!!!! Congratulations!!! What a wonderful week! 2w

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Ruthiella Congratulations on your victory! 👏👏👏 2w

Susanita Congratulations on a great week! 💃🏽🪅🥂 2w

Deblovestoread What a fantastic week! 🎉🎉🎉 2w

Aims42 Congrats on passing your exam and all these other joyous things!!! 🎉🎉🎉 2w

dabbe Congrats! 🤩🤩🤩 2w

ShelleyBooksie Congrats on passing your exam! 2w

mcctrish Congrats on the exam and my kids go to trivia and have come in first once and it‘s a BIG deal so all the 🎉🎉🎉 for that win 2w

MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 2w

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