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Forgot to post this yesterday, but my pick for September‘s best book is the tagged newly published collection of poetry and essays by one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver.

Beautifully meditative, this was the perfect thing to read when I needed to slow down.

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August: One Man's Meat by E.B. White. My teenage son says, "Pause," whenever I say the title, but I love this quiet, reflective book of essays by the author of Charlotte's Web (before he wrote Charlotte's Web).

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November #wrapup

I was pleasantly surprised with the short stories and articles in the tagged title and it was my favorite of the month. I dnf‘d Tom Hanks, too dense and boring and Fahrenheit was a reread.

June was a slow reading month, but Lauren Markham's thought-provoking essay on a disconnect between our language and our historical moment, has lingered in my thoughts.

Honorable mention to Asimov's “Foundation,“ which held up better than I expected.

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You know how some books just shock & delight you? I picked this book up because it‘s written by a Vermonter who teaches at Dartmouth. I knew nothing else about him. These are very short essays that alternate between stories of his life & stories of famous authors. I was googling while reading to discover more about some of the authors. I‘ve moved on to another book now but I keep going back to this one to read it again. I need more of his books.

This book is a memoir of sorts, written by a Dartmouth professor. It‘s interspersed with thoughts on other authors. I‘m really enjoying it.

It‘s been established already that this father was a tyrant and one that the mother and children had left behind. I love this imagery of how they dealt with him.

I started reading on Nov 5. Each letter or essay had to be analyzed carefully before moving to the next. As an Algerian born Frenchman, he fought for equality in his homeland, he fought for humanity, but was forced into exile. He stated how the indigenous Algerians fought for France during WW II so they should not be abandoned. He stood up for the minute communities and their differences, and how the new government should reflect the differences.

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Christmas is still spooky season. I will fight you over this.

I checked the tracking my #jolabokaflodswap shipment, and it's slowly making its way across the US. ETA is December 22nd. I dropped it off on the 13th. 🫠

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Is it just me or are there issues with Litsy not letting you post photos right now 😑 I‘ve tried on the app and on the browser and I can only post without photos.