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dabbe
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#sundayfunday
@BookmarkTavern

My first read of 2025 about the freeing of Guard Dog in the comic strip MUTTS. 😭😭😭

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LitsyEvents
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repost for @BarbaraJean

Hello, Kindred Spirits!

Here‘s the schedule for the next few months of the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead—including a couple of #LMMAdjacent books, Vol. 5 of the #LMMJournals, and for #LMMReread, the beginning of the Emily books.

I‘ll include the tag list for each book in the comments below. All are welcome—let me know if you want to be added to (or removed from!) any of the tag lists.

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BarbaraJean
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Hello, Kindred Spirits!

Here‘s the schedule for the next few months of the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead—including a couple of #LMMAdjacent books, Vol. 5 of the #LMMJournals, and for #LMMReread, the beginning of the Emily books.

I‘ll include the tag list for each book in the comments below. All are welcome—let me know if you want to be added to (or removed from!) any of the tag lists.

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TheAromaofBooks I bought this volume of journals before we moved and now I can't find it!! Three weeks to do some serious crate rummaging 😂 6d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Oh nooooo! Hope you unearth it quickly! 6d
lauraisntwilder I don't think I'm going to end up reading Beautiful Joe. I'll be traveling right then and I already have my books for the trip picked out! 😄 Yes to all the others though, including Emily of New Moon, if you could add me to that one? I love Emily. Thank you!! 5d
julieclair I‘m going to bow out of Beautiful Joe. I didn‘t realize part of the story was about animal abuse, and don‘t think I‘m up for that right now. 💙 1d
BarbaraJean @julieclair Oof—I understand! I‘ll tag you back in when we get to Story of an African Farm. 1d
BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder Got it! I‘ll tag you for everything except Beautiful Joe. 1d
julieclair @BarbaraJean Thanks! 😘 4h
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BkClubCare
A Three Dog Life | Abigail Thomas
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Pickpick

#May2025 Book45 #Memoir #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge #FurnitureOnCover

Really good. 🤗 ♥️ 🐶 🛋️

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A Three Dog Life | Abigail Thomas
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We only have one dog at the moment and have never had three at a time; THIS USA “MOTHER” Day, I am thinking of all my kids, my canine kids; they are top of mind 💖 Reading this because…. I somehow love a good grief story. Pic is Copper with my “new” iris from a neighbor. #DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #WHPG #GriefLit

Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 2w
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BarbaraJean
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Hello #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead-ers! I‘m looking at a tentative schedule for the next few months:

Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders (2 weeks)
Journals Vol. 5 (2 weeks)
Emily of New Moon (3 weeks)
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (3 weeks)
Journals Vol. 5 (3 weeks)
Emily Climbs (3 weeks)
“The Lay of the Brown Rosary” & Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (4 weeks)

THAT takes us to mid-October & finishes Vol. 5 of the journals.⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Take a look and let me know where you‘d like to join in. I added Beautiful Joe right after Pollyanna, so we‘ll be reading two of LMM‘s fellow L.C. Page & Co. authors back to back.

Note: I added two books I forgot to put into our voting a couple months ago. LMM mentions Story of an African Farm multiple times in her journals (it‘s considered a feminist classic) and there‘s another reference to it in Vol. 5, so I added it here. ⬇
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Aurora Leigh is referenced in Vol. 2 of the journals and in Emily Climbs. It‘s also really long (350-400 pages) AND it‘s a novel in verse, which may not be everyone‘s cup of tea. If nobody‘s interested in either of those, I can pull them out and reconfigure things.

FINALLY: a preview of other potential adjacent books:
Ivanhoe—Sir Walter Scott
Life of Charlotte Bronte—Elizabeth Gaskell
More Tramps Abroad—Mark Twain ⬇
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) People voted for the above three books in our poll but they‘re each 400-600 pages, so I‘m going to parcel them out more sparingly. I might add Gaskell‘s Charlotte Bronte bio after we finish the Emily books, since there are a lot of parallel vibes between Emily & Jane Eyre.

After all of THAT… 😂 Let me know what you‘d like to be tagged for, and I‘ll post a finalized schedule soon!
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rubyslippersreads I had that copy of Beautiful Joe as a child. I read it over and over. 🐶 2w
kwmg40 I‘d definitely like to continue with the #LMMReread books (the Emily ones from this list). Thanks! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I'm down for any/all of these. Like @rubyslippersreads I had a copy of Beautiful Joe that I read so many time growing up. It has very Black Beauty vibes. I'm a little scared of Aurora Leigh but am willing to give it a try if everyone else wants to read it 😂 2w
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads It's such a sweet cover! @kwmg40 I'll make sure to tag you for the Emily books! @TheAromaofBooks Knowing your feelings about poetry, I was definitely thinking of you when I said Aurora might not be everyone's cup of tea 😂 I'll give it a few more days to see who else weighs in, but I think I'll start with a schedule for the summer and we can revisit interest in Aurora when we get to August and Emily Climbs! 2w
rubyslippersreads Ivanhoe is also a #BetsyTacy adjacent book. 🙂 2w
julieclair I‘d like to read all of these except the journals. I‘m a bit hesitant about Aurora Leigh, but I‘d like to give it a try! Thanks so much for organizing all of this for us, @BarbaraJean ! 💙 2w
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads I have never read Betsy-Tacy! 😱 Maybe I need to read it when we get to Ivanhoe 😄 @julieclair I'll put you on all the lists except the journals! I'm thinking I might pre-read some of Aurora Leigh, see what it's like, and report back. I love the “Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God“ quote, but that's really the extent of my familiarity. @TheAromaofBooks 2w
TheAromaofBooks Ohhh you would probably really like Betsy-Tacy!! It's a series that starts out for and about younger readers, and the books get more advanced as the characters get older - Betsy is married by the end of the series!! They're super cute. 2w
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Bailedbailed

I thought the story would carry the weird writing style. I thought wrong. #HailTheBail

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May #BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBRs #Reading2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader #Next 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 2w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2w
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"It was dusk on a winter day, and from high on the mountain came barking, drifting down above the snow like peals of a bell, one, two, three, four, more, just to say the light was leaving, but that was all right: here I am, I'm a dog, all is well."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheBookgeekFrau
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Starting my May #BookSpin

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TheBookgeekFrau
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 3w
ShelleyBooksie How have I never heard of this book? Sounds excellent ♡ 3w
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