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Jack of Spades | Joyce Carol Oates

#goldcover
#falling
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Beautiful 🤩 🧡🤗 13h

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Cuilin

Siegfried Sassoon | Max Egremont

#PoemADay #PoetryPals

@lil1inblue @dabbe

lil1inblue 💓🥰💓 Lovely! 4d

dabbe Love the alliteration in this one! 💜🩶🧡 3d

rwmg 1967! I had no idea. He's firmly linked in my mind to WW1 and the 1920s 3d

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Cuilin @rwmg Yes same, his WW1 experience is so interesting being one of the ones that got diagnosed with Shell Shock and sent to Scotland. He was then sent back to the front was injured but survived!! I think in his later years his poetry from that time embarrassed him. Personally, I think it‘s historically important. 3d

Cuilin @lil1inblue 👊 3d

Cuilin @dabbe 💛🤎🧡 3d

CarolynM I find him fascinating. He was always an odd chap. I think in later life he tried to distance himself from a lot about his younger self, whether it was embarrassment or denial. Have you seen the film Benediction? I don‘t think it gets him completely right, but it felt closer in spirit than some of the things I‘ve read. 2d

Cuilin @CarolynM Yes, I did see it. I need to see it again. I think there was a lot of repression and yes embarrassment. There‘s something about those World War I poets that I find fascinating. 2d

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cant_i'm_booked

A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967 | Rachel Cohen

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A work of entwined fiction and non-fiction, Cohen muses on the unsaid within interactions between the men and women heavily responsible for American cultural history. Spanning the century between the Civil War and Vietnam, Cohen allows us to “eavesdrop” on the great friendships/collaborations between artistic behemoths such as Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, Marcel Duchamp, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Avedon, Walt Whitman and Marianne Moore.

TheBookHippie Must read this! 1mo

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Colored Television (a GMA Book Club Pick) | Danzy Senna

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Senna does excellent work layering the texture with tension. First and foremost, there is Jane's own mixed-race identity and how it does/doesn't interact with both her personal and professional life. The book is more a tragicomedy than anything else, and the humor is sardonic. #TournamentofBooks2025 #TOB2025

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Leftcoastzen

Didion and Babitz | Lili Anolik

Someone had to be in a different space after 3 loads of laundry! Oops, bought some books!

Tamra Laundry deserves presents to self. Actually who am I kidding? Any chore suffices. 😉 2mo

Leftcoastzen @Tamra 👏😁Thank You ! 2mo

Graywacke They look gorgeous 2mo

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TrishB The Bates will make you 😢 and 😡. 2mo

Leftcoastzen @TrishB I actually started the Bates as a library book , it was on reserve so I had to return it . I was on chapter 4, decided I might want to keep a copy.😢😡exactly 2mo

Leftcoastzen @Graywacke it was good to have a wine 🍷 and read outside my house.summer in Phoenix, no outdoor reading for awhile! 2mo

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Jen2

Murder at the Bookstore | Sue Minix

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Love a good cozy mystery!

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Not in My Book: A Novel | Katie Holt

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Rosie is a student on the creative writing programme. Her favourite genre is romance. Aiden is in the same class and hates romance as well as Rosie, or so it seems. As rivals in the class, the professor, Ida, can only think of one solution - write a book together.
This was such a good read! The writing was easy to love, great pacing and brilliant characters.
The romance was well balanced and there were many cute moments. Highly recommend! 4🌟

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JulietteReadsALot

Revenge of the Librarians | Tom Gauld

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Fun little cartoon collection around the theme of books and literature.
Perfect palate cleanser for relaxing. Of course, some are better than others, but I'm always impressed by the imagination it takes to create so many vignettes.

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Cupcake12

Not in My Book: A Novel | Katie Holt