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The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life | Al Silverman

I cracked and got the North as my #BOTM because I REALLY wanted the add-ons.
Plus I had a lot of FOMO that I didn‘t grab Wild Dark Shore earlier. And everyone I‘ve talked to about it loved it. With my #aardvarkbookclub picks that‘s 6 books bought today. I need to slow down. 📚

Avanders 🫢 I know the feeling… haven‘t yet figured out how to slow down… 🤔 2d

janeycanuck If you figure out the slow down thing, let me know! 11h

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Liz_M

All the books of my life: a bibliobiography | Sheila Kaye-Smith

@Lcsmcat Are you trying to find something like this? LibraryThing has the best stats/graphs. And they are super-customizable -- you can choose a specific read year or only look at books in a particular collection. On the actual page, I can click on the bar for the 8 books with “no date“ to see which ones they are.

Lcsmcat I‘d like something like that - but I don‘t want to migrate to LibraryThing. (I‘m still cleaning up from my migration to StoryGraph 😀) I can do it with tags, I was just hoping someone knew a shortcut. 3d

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CSeydel

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount

What are your favorite genres?
- Fiction: Literary, speculative, mystery
- Nonfiction: history & science

What are a few of your desert island reads?
- Robinson Crusoe maybe? a guide to edible plants?

What‘s your go-to reading snack?
- cheese, crackers & apple slices; or chocolates

Weirdest or most interesting place you‘ve read a book?
- halftime at NWSL championships
[cont‘d 👇]

#bibliologistbio @monalyisha

CSeydel What do you do when you‘re not reading?
- I write for science magazines 1w

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sdbruening

The Quotable Book Lover | Ben Jacobs, Helena Hjalmarsson

so-so

The formatting of the book was pretty blah. I feel like the presentation could have been nicer. The categories of quotes made sense. I don‘t know much about publishing, so that was over my head. A lot of quotes on writing. More than reading.

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vivastory

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount

*Favorite Genres: Horror, lit fic, fantasy, non-fiction, mystery
*Desert Island Reads: Poe's Collected Tales & Poems, LOA Shirley Jackson collection, Complete Shakespeare Plays, LOA Le Guin Hainish Novels & Stories, Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Baldwin's collected essays
*Go-to Reading Snack: Iced coffee
*Weirdest/most interesting place I've read a book: I often bring a book with me when I go to a concert to kill time between acts: (CONT)

vivastory due to my job I have read at nearly every ER waiting room in the KC area.
*What do you when you're not reading? Wish I was reading.
#Bibliologistbio 2w

monalyisha Smart choices for your desert island reads; quantity and quality. 😉 And I don‘t actually know what your job is! 2w

monalyisha Perfect answer to the last question, too, by the way! 2w

vivastory @monalyisha Thank you! I'm the lead health coordinator for a non-profit that provides IDD services for adults. I help supervise & coordinate routine medical care, but also assist with urgent situations. Love my job. 2w

monalyisha @vivastory Thanks for explaining! 💓 2w

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AnneCecilie

The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists | Alex Johnson

Still important today

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kspenmoll

The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists | Alex Johnson

Today‘s fun fact.

Lcsmcat, AnneCecilie

Lcsmcat 😂 He should have worried more about

The Trumpet of the Swan

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AnneCecilie I must confess that I‘ve never read any E. B. White and I hadn‘t even heard of him before Litsy. 1mo

kspenmoll @Lcsmcat My son‘s elementary class listened while their teacher read aloud

Trumpet of the Swan

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kspenmoll @Lcsmcat Now I must check out those worries! (edited) 1mo

kspenmoll @AnneCecilie He also co authored a classic book on writing

Elements of Style

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kspenmoll https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style 1mo

Lcsmcat Yes, I was aware of his role in Elements. I don‘t think you need worry about Trumpeter. My kids liked it even as they thought it was too weird (and my husband and I speculated on just what drugs White was taking when he wrote it!) 1mo

kspenmoll @Lcsmcat 😂😂😂😂😂 1mo

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kspenmoll

The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists | Alex Johnson