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#LoveNeedsNoDisguise
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DivineDiana
The Beauty and the Beast | Gabrielle-Suzanna Barbot de Villenueve
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Well, it happened again! I thought of a book for the challenge days later! 🤔 #loveneedsnodisguise #nuyear #slowbrain

Suet624 😀👍 6y
Cinfhen Well done!! 6y
TrishB Better late than never 😁 6y
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rockpools
The Usborne Spy's Guidebook | Lesley Sims, Colin King
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#LoveNeedsNoDisguise... but it never hurts to be prepared!

I loved this book as a kid - though my copy really did self-destruct/totally disintegrate in the end. I can't actually remember what the advice on disguises was, but I'm sure it involved turning up your collar and wearing a fake moustache!

@Cinfhen @TrishB #nuyear

Cinfhen Love it ❤️ 6y
TrishB Perfect disguise 😂 6y
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andrew61
Hide | Matthew Griffin
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#loveneedsnodisguise #NUYear
At the beginning of 2017 i listened to shawn on reading envy recommend this brilliant book- the story of two elderly men confronting their mortality at the end of their life together in which they have had to hide their love. One of my 5* readsof last year.

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TrishB
Birthday Letters | Ted Hughes
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#loveneedsnodisguise #nuyear
I think Ted spent most of his life disguising his thoughts and love for Sylvia - blown out of the water when this collection was printed. He starting writing this collection not long after her death and over the next 30 years or so added to it. To me, this is the companion to Ariel. It‘s wonderful.
Ted however, not so much. A life long cheater who was always juggling 2 or 3 women.👇

TrishB He was with another woman when he died (ie not his wife) and this was covered up very quickly. I love some of Ted‘s poetry and am fascinated by his life. But don‘t think I would have liked him much. I was lucky enough to get a ticket to his memorial service in Westminster Abbey. That was something!! As for the actual song - it‘s wonderful ❤️ (edited) 6y
LectricSheep You went to Ted Hughes‘ memorial service??? 😮 that is too cool. 6y
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Cinfhen Whoa😮 everything about this post is incredible 😍🙌🏻 6y
jillannjohn I agree he was very interesting. Your post has me wanting to reread this. Any books about Ted you can recommend? 6y
TrishB @LectricSheep 200 tickets were kept for members of the public - the first 200 requests received by post by the Dean of the Abbey would get them and I got lucky!! Couldn‘t believe it and it was wonderful to go to. 6y
TrishB @jillannjohn the Bate biography is the best thing I‘ve read about Ted. I spent one Christmas Day literally unable to put it down. Also , Ted‘s letters have been published and these give a great insight into how his mind worked. 6y
Leftcoastzen He just makes my head explode 6y
TrishB @Leftcoastzen how did they all just put up with him? 6y
jillannjohn The biography looks great. Thank you! 6y
DeborahSmall I loved this, need to look it out for a reread 😘 6y
JaclynW I have been fascinated with Sylvia Plath, which of course includes Ted. I am positive I wouldn't like him either. I need to read more poetry by both (and more about them). I think they were both quite talented. 6y
TrishB @JaclynW there is definitely a lot out there to read! 6y
Reggie I think his other wife killed herself also, yes? 6y
TrishB @Reggie the woman he was cheating on Sylvia with and then with after her death then went in to kill her self and their daughter. In later years, Ted and Sylvia‘s son also killed himself 😢 6y
JaclynW @TrishB Oh my goodness! I didn't know that about their son or his mistress! The tale just keeps getting more intriguing. And sad!! 6y
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arlenefinnigan
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#LoveNeedsNoDisguise
Unless your mum's a mad Christian fundamentalist. Then it might do. A little bit.
#NuYear @Cinfhen @TrishB

Bibliogeekery Love this book! 😍 6y
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batsy
Mrs. Caliban: A Novel | Rachel Ingalls
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I haven't read it yet; it went straight to the TBR when I heard about it. As per the blurb, "a tender, clandestine" love affair between a seven-foot-tall lizard man and a woman.

#LoveNeedsNoDisguise #nuyear @TrishB @Cinfhen

DivineDiana All I can say is WOW!!! 6y
batsy @DivineDiana Me too, I'm sure it's a tricky thing to write about well. I'm intrigued! 6y
Cinfhen Um, this would probably work for #booked2018 #unconventionalRomance 🤓 6y
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REPollock This book is weird but sweet. It‘s a quick read, too. 6y
batsy Totally, @Cinfhen ! 6y
batsy @REPollock That's great to know! Weird but sweet is probably one of the hardest things to do without being twee. 6y
Lacythebookworm Yes!! I want to read this one, too!! 6y
RohitSawant Now Eliza and the creature from The Shape of Water have someone to go on a double date with. 6y
batsy @Lacythebookworm It sounds really good 😊 6y
batsy @rohit-sawant 😂 I haven't watched it yet, have you? 6y
RohitSawant @batsy I'm dying to! I absolutely love del Toro. It has yet to be released in my corner of the globe. I've been looking forward to it since I saw the trailer, and more so after Joe Hill described it as kind of a sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon written by John Steinbeck and directed by Truffaut. 6y
batsy @rohit-sawant I'm really keen to watch it as well and it's not here yet, either. I think we're only getting it in March. That's a fabulous description and makes me think I should re-watch Black Lagoon ahead of this. 6y
TrishB Wow ! What a choice 👍🏻 6y
readordierachel I mean, what more could you ask for? 6y
batsy @ReadOrDieRachel Precisely 😊 6y
saresmoore You are the photo challenge champion! 6y
rubyslippersreads @rohit-sawant 😂 6y
Suet624 Excuse me? 6y
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Kalalalatja
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#Loveneedsnodisguise, but for one reason or another, the characters in these books all feel the need to hide their love and disguise it, so no one will learn its true size, shape or form.

#NuYear

TrishB A fab pile there 👍🏻 I‘m still thinking! 6y
Cinfhen ❤️ 6y
Hollie Lovely stack! 6y
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Cathythoughts
A Time to Love ... a Time to Die | Prince Leopold Loewenstein
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#NuYear #LoveNeedsNoDisguise @Cinfhen @TrishB A Time To Love A Time Die. It‘s all so brief , so I say forget any disguises, just love ❤️. Feeling philosophical on this Sunday morning of our little holiday. Going home tomo. So my reading plan is FD for the morning. Then finish Authority for the afternoon (maybe even start Acceptance) How lucky am I today 🎉happy Sunday reading Littens.

TrishB Great pick 👍🏻 enjoy the rest of your day 💜 6y
Cathythoughts @TrishB 👍👍✨ 6y
Cinfhen I agree, enjoy the rest of your holiday 6y
Cathythoughts @Cinfhen 👍💕💕 6y
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Reggie
People Like Us | Dominick Dunne
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#NuYear #LoveNeedsNoDisguise especially money. Elias and Ruby are new money in NYC high society. That‘s ok though, because they‘ve managed to turn their millions into billions and money talks. The tragic part is at the end Elias goes away to jail telling Ruby the reason he did what he did was because he was afraid she wouldn‘t be with him without the money. Then she tells him that she loved him DESPITE the money. Dunne‘s books are all great.

Cinfhen Dominick Dunne is such a good writer...I can‘t remember if I read this one....#stacking 6y
Reggie I read this one and the one about the OJ Simpson trial. That one was crazy. @Cinfhen 6y
TrishB Don‘t know this author. Great summary 👍🏻 6y
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Reggie @TrishB he passed away in 2009. His daughter in real life was the older sister in the first poltergeist who was an aspiring actress but sadly gets killed by her jealous and abusive boyfriend. 6y
Cathythoughts Never heard of this author either. But sounds interesting 6y
Reggie @Cathythoughts he worked for Vanity Fair for over 2 decades. His books read like a bunch of gossip that gets made into these great stories. Give him a try. 6y
TrishB That‘s sad 😢 I‘ll keep him in mind! 6y
Cinfhen I don't think I read the OJ one, although I'd love too...I've read a ton of his Vanity Fairs features , An Inconvenient woman & 6y
Kaye Good review Reggie. I have yet to read a few of his. I think I‘ve read all his NF. So far I really liked the fictional account based on the Martha Moxley murder best. (edited) 6y
Reggie @Kaye does his NF read like his fiction where he gets invited to brunch and the gossip/facts just pour into his lap? 6y
Kaye In a way.. I think it was just the lifestyle he lived. He knew so many rich and famous people and was notoriously known to love to gossip with and about that set of folks. The nonfiction is very good. He concentrates quite a bit on murders within the rich communities. In fact, his own daughter was murdered, so I‘m not sure if that had an effect on his writing or if he was already interested in the subject before his daughter was killed. (edited) 6y
Reggie @Kaye I think his daughter‘s murder was huge on his writing because in the middle of his fiction books the MC will take off to go to a parole hearing to speak against the guy who strangled his daughter getting out early. In one of the books I think he actually shoots the guy. In another he stalks him and tells the new gf what the guy did to his daughter. You could feel the pure hatred he had for the guy. And the extreme sadness. 6y
Kaye Yes it‘s understandable. I can‘t remember a lot about the case, although in one of his books, he devotes a long part of the book solely to his daughter‘s murder and the trial afterwards. I don‘t remember what sentence the boy got, but it was either not severe enough or Dunne didn‘t think it was. It‘s been so long since I read those books. There‘s a newer one out about Dunne‘s life. I guess I should read it sometime. 6y
AmyG Dominick Dunne‘s brother married Joan Didion, if I‘m correct. I remember reading about the murder of his daughter. So tragic. And his son, Griffen, is also an actor. He wrote wonderful books...those who haven‘t read them should pick one up. 6y
KimHM John Gregory Dunne was indeed married to Joan Didion and when he died suddenly (while their daughter was in a coma)she wrote (edited) 6y
Reggie @AmyG @KimHM I knew about Griffin Dunne but I had no idea about the uncle. I‘ve never read Joan Didion either. Maybe I‘ll give her a try. Such a tragic family. 6y
KimHM Tragic, yes @Reggie but oh how they mined it for art. Start with Didion‘s collections of articles in either Slouching Towards Bethlehem or The White Album. (edited) 6y
TNbookworm I love all his books! 6y
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