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Bookwormjillk
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Back to spending evenings on the porch with Not My Cat. Summer is here!

(Started this book tonight on the recommendation of a sometimes questionable co-worker. Has anyone read it?)

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
Leftcoastzen Love not my cat! 6mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 6mo
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Aims42 Yay! I‘m hoping for more Not My Cat adventures this summer 🥰 6mo
Yuki_Onna Not My Cat and a Sometimes Questionable Co-Worker made my day a bit better!!!👏😂
Wow too for summer being there where you are! For the last few days, it has been April-y here again - about 54 degrees and rainstorms...
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DebinHawaii
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Thank you @TheSpineView for the #WhatsNewWednesday tag! 🤗

Had our last meeting session in Maine today & arrived in Boston where we fly back tomorrow morning to Hawaii. What‘s new is I am going to a ⚾️ game at Fenway Park because while I‘m tired, old & introverted, I need to bond with the Execs. I‘m sure it will be fun & not something I‘ve done before in my previous Boston trips.

TheSpineView 🥰🤩🌞 6mo
Bookwormjillk Wow! Enjoy! 6mo
KadaGul @DebinHawaii All of this looks 👀 so satisfying and relaxing 🥰 6mo
Read4life ⚾️💙⚾️ 6mo
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Amiable
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I decided to mix it up and use a different template for my NONFICTION reads in #2024ReadingBrackets because why not? 🤷🏻‍♀️ February‘s pick was this detailed biography of baseball legend Ted Williams. And I don‘t have to pick between it and January‘s book by Jamie Raskin, which was also great. Winning! 🏆

CatLass007 I read Ted Williams autobiography, My Turn At Bat, years ago. I probably still have the copy of the book packed away in a box. Now you‘ve got me wanting to read The Kid. 8mo
Amiable @CatLass007 It‘s really good, and shows how very complicated Ted was as a human being. 8mo
CatLass007 I think My Turn At Bat also shows how complicated he was, although it‘s been so long since I read it that I only remember how he felt when BoSox fans booed him and after that he refused to tip his hat no matter how loudly he they cheered. 8mo
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Amiable
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Pickpick

Completed my “Chunkster” read for #ChunksterChallenge2024. This biography of Red Sox great Ted Williams is well-written and very readable. A lot about baseball, yes —but also much about Ted‘s childhood, his troubled personal life —and all the gory details you can handle about his head being frozen for posterity. 😳 Definitely recommend, @GinaKButler !

#Nonfiction2024

GinaKButler It‘s on my list!!! Thank you! 8mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 8mo
MemoirsForMe 😳🥶😵‍💫 8mo
Amiable @UwannaPublishme Right? It‘s weird and cringey—you almost can‘t believe it‘s true, but it is! Ted‘s head is in a deep-freeze container somewhere in Arizona. 😬 8mo
MemoirsForMe Very creepy! I had no idea! 😬 8mo
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Amiable
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Where are my fellow journalist peeps? I‘m reading a bio of Ted Williams and came across this paragraph, which made me laugh out loud. My husband wanted to know what was so funny, so I read it to him. He still didn‘t get it. I told him, trust me — if you are a journalist, it‘s funny!! 😄

rubyslippersreads I‘m not a journalist, but I get it. I think there‘s another joke in there about the dog being on a lead (lede). 😄 10mo
Amiable @rubyslippersreads Ha ha, that works, too! 😄 10mo
thebacklistbook *snicker* I may just have to read this for myself. Not a journalist either, still got the joke. 10mo
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Amiable
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Finally settled on my “official” book for #ChunksterChallenge2024 — a biography of baseball legend Ted Williams, written by newspaper legend Ben Bradlee, Jr. At 864 pages, it‘s a bit shorter than my usual annual chunkster picks. But this year I‘m taking my cues from @GinaKButler and @Kelly326 and aiming to read several large chunks throughout the year. Viva la chunkster! 🙂

Bookwormjillk Good pick! 10mo
GinaKButler Ohhh…let me know how this one is!! I live baseball and so does @Kelly326 10mo
Amiable @GinaKButler I‘m hopeful that it will be good because it‘s written by Ben Bradlee! 10mo
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Pikathulhu
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While a naturally enjoyable tale of the breaking of one of the sports world's longest-standing curses, I ultimately found this one hard to get through. This was thanks, in large part, to the proliferation of - pardon the pun - inside baseball that ran rampant through the pages. The frequent use of jargon made the action difficult to follow. Despite this, King and O'Nan are engaging writers, and their disbelief and eventual joy are palpable. 4/5

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Suet624
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Mehso-so

I‘m not surprised that I‘m the first person to review this book on Litsy. I picked up and put down so many books during my recent 3 week illness. This one at least held my interest in between naps. The book was written immediately following the fantastic 2004 Boston Red Sox season which resulted in a World Series win. My family will always remember this season. Damon‘s recounting of events brought up so many memories of a great bunch of players.

Ruthiella Sorry to hear you were ill. Hope you‘re doing better now. ❤️ 13mo
BarbaraBB Three weeks illness, that sounds tough. I hope you‘re on the mend now ❤️‍🩹 13mo
Bookwormjillk Sorry your weren‘t feeling well. I re-read the Stephen King/ Stuart O‘Nan book about that season every few years. 13mo
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jlhammar Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well. Hope you're through the worst of it. 13mo
squirrelbrain Hope you‘re feeling better now. 13mo
dabbe Hoping you're on the mend. 🖤🧡🖤 13mo
Suet624 @dabbe @squirrelbrain @jlhammar @BarbaraBB @Ruthiella thanks everyone. It‘s been quite the ride. I am definitely on the mend and my interest in reading is starting to ramp up. 💕 13mo
Suet624 @Bookwormjillk oooh, I know I have that book on a shelf somewhere. I need to find it! 13mo
batsy Hope you're feeling better, Sue 💐 13mo
Suet624 @batsy Thanks so much. Slowly but surely ... 13mo
sarahbarnes I‘m sorry to hear you‘ve been ill and am glad you‘re starting to feel better. 🌸 13mo
Suet624 @sarahbarnes thank you! Now it‘s just my rib cage that‘s a mess from all the coughing. Soooo painful. Thankfully I think the cough has mostly gone away. 13mo
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Eggs
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Updike, in his fluid prose, writes a stunning piece after he attended Ted Williams‘s last game at Fenway Park in 1960. ⚾️ ⚾️ Wonderful, as if you‘re sitting right there with him

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
#20in4Readathon @Andrew65 Day 2: 1 hour

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1y
Eggs @Andrew65 Thanks 😊 1y
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Cuilin
The Boys of Summer | Ciarn West
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I think our evenings may be similar. Lol.

#SoundsofSummer #baseball #RedSox #Readinglife

dabbe Ours, too! Our game was early today. 😆 1y
Cuilin @dabbe do you get interrupted too? Luckily I like baseball. 1y
dabbe @Cuilin Did you see that strike? He hit a homer! Yes, I get interrupted by the hubby and the dogs. I like baseball, too. 🤩🤣😍 1y
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