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Happy Birthday Colm!! Look who you share a birthday with @dabbe

The only change I would make is swap out The Testament of Mary for House of Names. I haven‘t read Long Island yet. Great list!!

I forgot to post my #WeeklyFavorites for April.
~The Lioness of Boston (Isabella Gardiner)
~Witness
~Jane Kenyon‘s Collected Poems
~Watching the Perseids
~Man in the Brown Suit
4 books are #shelfsweeper #4Elizabeth

#weeklyforecast
#sundaybuddyread #LaneWinslowMystery #Naturalitsy #ReadYourKindle

#25Alive!

I can‘t choose just one #AuthorYouLove so I am going for 5 authors that over the past year or so I have “discovered” & now love. I‘m on a quest to read all of their work or if I have, I‘ll continue to read any new work they put out. 📚📚📚

-T.J. Klune
-T. Kingfisher
-Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock Series)
-Richard Osman
-Abby Jimenez

#daysdevotedto #kindness

A dysfunctional family story which is apparently a retelling of James‘ The Ambassadors, which I haven‘t read. I mostly enjoyed reading about the interplay between these characters who, although they are family, are essentially strangers, but end up wreaking all kinds of havoc in each other‘s lives.

Once again, I've been away & I'm back. ☺

It's been a busy season - in May, my older daughter graduated from Boston University & my younger daughter finished her freshman year at Dean College. I'm teaching a summer course right now which is keeping me quite busy, but in two weeks I will have much more time on my hands! I've missed you, Littens! Here's to being more consistent on the beat social media platform ever! ♥

Wild Nights is JC Oates' collection of stories on the final days of five American authors (Poe, Dickinson, Samuel Clemens, Henry James & Hemingway). Oates frequently explores the disparity between the public perception & the real life of the author (esp in the case of Clemens & Hemingway where they are performing the parts of Twain & Papa in public). There is also a great deal of ambiguity in each story. The first one, Poe Posthumous could (CONT)

Il primo romanzo breve della raccolta, "The turn of the screw", non mi è dispiaciuto, anche se anche in questo caso (come per "The Haunting of Hill House") ho preferito decisamente la serie di Mike Flanagan rispetto al libro che l'ha ispirata. "Washington Square" invece mi ha fatto passare la voglia di finire il libro.
I didn't mind the first short novel contained in the book, "The Turn of the Screw", but in this case too [...]

#bookspin Haunting of Lamb House #january2024