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Swapping out my #DoubleSpin #MonthlyNonfiction2025 for a #BookSpinBingo nonfiction because mood reading 😂

Random book from our home library:

📖 George Orwell: The First Complete Biography by Bernard Crick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘m a casual SNL fan and really enjoyed this. It‘s a biography of Lorne Michaels and also a history of Saturday Night Live. It‘s long but moved quickly, interweaving a close look at the creation of one full modern episode with the longer history of the show overall. The description of the last few hours leading up to the taping was fascinating. Strong pick.

Thorough biography of Katharine White, fiction editor at the New Yorker magazine for decades. Her 2nd husband was E. B. White. This 21-hour audiobook contained much more information than I needed to satisfy my casual interest, but her career was interesting

A very short biography. I appreciated his message of humility serving the poor. In Argentina and throughout the world. I'm glad I took the time to read it. #Italy #FoodandLit #Jubilee @Texreader @Catsandbooks Also P #LitsyAtoZ

If I could rate this book infinite stars, I would.THe opening lines of Emily WIlson's translation of 'THe Odyssey', “Tell me, O Muse, of a complicated man“would not go amiss as an epigraph for this.Read if it you're not a fan of Kipling(I wasn't,I'm now a devotee),or if you're a fan.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578201795

Clearly I couldn't be trusted in the Anne Frank Huis book store haha

My father who‘s a (vintage) Ford fan had talked about this book during a visit, so I thought I‘d give it a go and did not expect much.
While I didn‘t agree with all his views, I enjoyed much of it, especially the insight into the period of the American auto industry and his critiques of Reagan. His essays on tariffs and protecting the US auto industry were informative to my ability to critique current times. Shelf alongside High Output Management!

I am weirdly fascinated by Thomas. This was a great listen.

Went to visit my grandma at the cemetery for Mother‘s Day this past weekend. 💚

I feel your presence
as the breeze gently blows by.
A whisper of you.

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry