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Centique
Four Squares | Bobby Finger
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We follow Artie, a gay writer in New York, with alternating chapters when he is 30 yrs old in 1992 and in 2022 when he is 60. In the first timeline Artie is starting a relationship and has a bunch of friends - in the second he is feeling very alone. There‘s a lot to love in this book - found family & wonderful insights & reflections - but i felt it was trying to fit in a lot of characters & didnt have the space to make them all feel fully formed⬇️

Centique One of those books where it has all the ingredients but felt a bit misshapen. 3.5 stars from me - but if you need a book with a movement from melancholy towards new beginnings this is quite sweet and thoughtful. 7mo
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Nutmegnc
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Really charming picture book illuminating the life of activist Clive Jensen and his plan for what would become the NAMES project and the AIDS Quilt. 5🌟(Also, he‘s still alive, living in San Francisco, and he contributed to this story!)

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Bookwormjillk
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Verghese wrote two of my favorite works of fiction so I had to read his memoir about his time as an infectious disease specialist in Johnson City, TN during the early days of the AIDS crisis. His perspective as an immigrant was really unique I thought and the stories of his patients were very touching. This was another Verghese five star read for me.

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Bookwormjillk
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Just realized the $3 copy of this paperback I got from Thrift Books is signed!

Ruthiella Wow! 🤩 11mo
vivastory Nice find! 11mo
KadaGul I love ❤️ these kind of gems💎 #GreatFinds 11mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 👏🏻 11mo
AnnCrystal Epic! 🤩👍. 11mo
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peanutnine
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This was another well done children's book about LGBTQ+ history. It details the life and activism of Cleve Jones, who worked with Harvey Milk and came up with the concept of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. There is a really moving poem comparing stitching a quilt to building a community and a movement, which was threaded throughout the book nicely
#LGBTQ2024 @Kenyazero

TheBookHippie I have read this for story hour many times. Still can‘t do it without crying. 11mo
peanutnine @TheBookHippie oh I can't imagine. I teared up 11mo
Kenyazero This sounds very moving and beautiful! 11mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Started this #BlameItOnLitsy read last night

TheBookHippie One of my favorites! 13mo
TheBookgeekFrau @TheBookHippie It was one of those books that no one had a bad thing to say about it. Since that happens so rarely, I knew I had to read it. 13mo
eskoch28 Ive been debating on this one fore a while and I have no idea what the hold up is for me. Glad to see a good rec @thebookgeekfrau 13mo
TheBookgeekFrau @eskoch28 I'm not very far in yet, but it's living up to its "no bad things to say" Litsy reputation ? 13mo
eskoch28 Love that 🙌🏻 13mo
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alecia3dixie
Everyone is Watching | Megan Bradbury
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I really liked this one. I thought it was a really fun time. It's just super chatoic the whole time. I liked the game ascpet and the action just kept coming. This isn't like a hard-hitting crazy thriller. It's just a fun time. 4/5

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MamaGina
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“I think New York was the perfect place for Toby to live because it was maybe the only place he would never run out of new restaurants. With Finn you had places. Horn & Hardart, The Cloisters. Places we went back to so many times that they started to feel like home. Toby was loose. Attached to nothing. Except maybe to Finn. That's what I started to figure out. Without Finn, Toby was like a kite with nobody holding the string.“
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Tamra I really enjoyed this and bought a paper copy to read again. 😁 1y
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