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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisition:

📖 A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner

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TrishB
The Boy from the Sea | Garrett Carr
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#bookhaul
Happy Valentine‘s to me ❤️ off hubby.

Deblovestoread 😍😍😍 4w
squirrelbrain Loved The History of Sound, and liked The Boy From The Sea! Well done hubby! 4w
julesG That's nice of him. 4w
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TrishB @squirrelbrain @julesG he‘s not bad 😉 4w
LeahBergen William Marshal‘s Wife! That sounds good! 👏 4w
Cathythoughts Very nice. ♥️ Valentines ♥️ I have The History of Sound , looking forward to it. 4w
TrishB @LeahBergen it definitely does! 4w
TrishB @Cathythoughts me too ♥️ 4w
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lil1inblue
The Green Crow | Sean O'Casey
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Today's #25alive prompt, #laughter, is the perfect excuse to use my favorite picture of me and my paternal grandfather. He always made me laugh. ❤️
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

AmyG What a joyful photo. ❤️ 1mo
Jas16 I love this ❤️ 1mo
Mollyanna That‘s a wonderful photo! 💕 1mo
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kspenmoll 🥰🥰 1mo
Eggs How beautiful 💙🩵💜 1mo
bthegood 💕 💕 1mo
lil1inblue @AmyG It always makes me smile. 😍 1mo
lil1inblue @Mollyanna I think it's just fantastic. My uncle took it. I think he's got an excellent knack for photography, but he always downplays it. 1mo
lil1inblue @Eggs 💞 1mo
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Bookbuyingaddict
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Pickpick

Finished this delightful short read , set in the v wild Wild West a tale of two forlorn lovers , a hapless young poet a “doper” attracted to the shady side of life but somehow a loveable rogue who you want to seeturn around, falls for the captain of the local towns mine new bride & so they run away with a stolen horse and lots of stolen cash ,the bounty hunters and sheriff close down on them. Would never have picked itup bookclub pick, fantastic!

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kellock
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Next Kindle read . . . And last read of the year, taking me to 50.

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Suet624
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Pickpick

I see this only received a 33% rating on Litsy. I completely understand that people may not like it but upon finishing this book I immediately fell into a deep dive into all it had/still has raised within me. A love story, an escape into the deep woods of Montana, the writing, I was hearing the cadence of long lost relatives, the story-quick & to the point-has all the makings of a Western but it's completely Irish. Tom and Polly. The 10,000 (cont)

Suet624 Irish who left Ireland to work in the mines in Butte, the mystical connection Tom has access to.. something about this book and its lyrical writing has opened a portal to the past for me. Just shows that just because folks don't like a book doesn't mean you won't like it. :). A 5 star for me. (edited) 3mo
Suet624 If you'd like to hear him read some of the book, I enjoyed this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5agriAsyYo 3mo
Tamra I‘ll see if I can check out the audio. 😄 3mo
LeahBergen I‘m happy to read this good review as I bought it as a Xmas gift for a “literary western” loving friend! 3mo
Suet624 @LeahBergen I hope they appreciate it as much as I did. It was the Irish aspect of it that I really enjoyed. 3mo
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AnneCecilie
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Pickpick

It‘s doesn‘t seem like Litsy have the entire title: “Missing Persons. Or: My grandmother‘s secrets”. It‘s also interesting that the Norwegian title has switched the sentences.

So what is this about?
In her 20s Wills is told about a cousin she never knew about. Apparently her uncle Jack fathered a child in the 50s. Since he and the mother didn‘t want to get married, the mother was sent off to a home to give birth.

How could her family accept

AnneCecilie this? And the woman‘s family? And what does it say about the 50s society? Wills looks at the social changes from the Great Famine and how that changed the society. Poor people dying or living for America, increasing the church power. She also looks at all the bureaucracy that was involved. This was an eyeopener. And in the process, Wills also discover that her grandma had some secrets 3mo
BookmarkTavern Sounds very interesting! 3mo
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MatchlessMarie
Christmas Tree | Jennifer Johnston
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We put up my son‘s Crocsmas tree 😅 #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

dabbe 🤩🎄🤩 3mo
ShananigansReads My school's library has this tree. It's so cute.
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Hooked_on_books
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Bailedbailed

This is my second attempt with Barry and I have to conclude that he‘s not for me. I read 30 pages and it‘s choppy and nonsensical and I have no desire to continue.

#TOBlonglist

Anna40 I bailed on this one too 3mo
BkClubCare Oh. I am now realizing that I was thinking this was Kevin Wilson. Ooops 3mo
BarbaraBB @BkClubCare I prefer Wilson to Barry too 😀 3mo
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squirrelbrain I finished it but that‘s only because it was short and I struggle to bail. 🙄 I really disliked it. 3mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain I actually find that validating. I‘m even happier now that I bailed! I used to be how you‘re describing (and can still be), but I‘ve gotten better about admitting to myself when a book isn‘t working for me. It‘s hard! 3mo
squirrelbrain Thank you Holly. ☺️ I found it choppy too but also rather distasteful and unpleasant. I was reading it with a face like I could smell something bad. 😬 3mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain 😂 That‘s hilarious! I‘ve learned to try to read my facial expressions to help me bail. If I have the face you describe or if I‘m rolling my eyes a lot I tell myself it‘s time. It doesn‘t always work, but it often does. 3mo
Megabooks Good to know!! 3mo
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