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Bookzombie
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Pickpick

This book about how Central Park was created is beautiful and I highly recommend it. I‘m pleased she included the forced removal of residents living where the park was built, even though this is a celebration of the park. The author ends by reminding us that the park was made for all of us.

Finished March 5, 2025.

Bookzombie This book came to my intention when Paul Castle, YouTuber/Tick Tock influencer and children‘s book author, posted about a bookstore owner pulling this book from their shelves and offering refunds to customers because there is tiny illustration of 2 males being married at the park. I‘m not sure I have all the words to express how much this shit angers me. 7h
Bookzombie Also, the book features Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Angel of the Waters, and OMG she was a lesbian (I might be labeling her and apologize if I am.) Emma and her partner, Charlotte Cushman, considered themselves married. 7h
PatriciaU Ugh about the bookstore pulling this. Takes me back to early days in my library career when idiots painted diapers on the naked little boy in Sendaks In the Night Kitchen. Cretins. 6h
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KCofKaysville
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Starting a book found at a thrift store. Looks interesting to me about New Yotk City life.

Ruthiella That does look interesting! 1w
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ImperfectCJ
Help Wanted: A Novel | Adelle Waldman
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I've enjoyed all of the books I read this week, but if I have to choose just one, Help Wanted it is! If I'd finished Moon of the Turning Leaves a day earlier, that would have been an easy pick for this week. We'll see if anything I read this week tops that title!

#WeeklyFavorites @Read4life

Read4life Your month is looking really good!! 💙📚💙 1w
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TheBookgeekFrau
Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel | Lauren Weisberger
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 💍 👠 1w
Eggs Perfection 💎 1w
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Amiable
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A day late (and a dollar short) for #weirdwordwednesday — but wanted to share anyway! I just finished the tagged book about the Dutch colony that first settled NYC. This section mentioned some of the Dutch words that were mutated into the English language and are still part of our lexicon 400 years later. As a word nerd, this type of stuff fascinates me!
@CBee

Ruthiella I nerd out on that kind of thing too! 😅 2w
BarbaraBB So funny to scroll and come upon words in my own language! Two very old fashioned and ordinary names in Dutch are Jan and Kees. That‘s what they called the Americans back in those days. Hence the American word Yankees! Just saying 😀 2w
Amiable @Ruthiella @BarbaraBB I love seeing how languages merge and intermingle! 2w
CBee @BarbaraBB I had NO idea!! How cool is that? 2w
CBee @Amiable thanks for sharing 😊 2w
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Lunakay
Buddhaland Brooklyn | Richard C Morais
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🌉 👌🏻📚 2w
Eggs Pretty ❤️🧡❤️ 2w
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Gissy
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Mehso-so

January 2025 Book #3
I enjoyed this Christmas cozy mystery first book but didn‘t love it. Quite predictable, not at the beginning but in the middle of the story. Too slow but it is the first book in the series and I think it introduced well the characters. 2nd book in this series was chosen for #CBBC this year round so I decided to read book one first to continue with book 2😃👍 @Mommamanzi 2.8/3⭐️

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Amiable
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Pickpick

Fascinating account of New Netherland, the Dutch colony on the island of Manhattan that predated the Pilgrims. After the English took control of the colony in 1664, the narrative shifted in favor of the “victor” and much of the Dutch history was lost. This book draws on a research project at the New York State Library that included the translation of thousands of original documents from the 17th century.

ferskner Oh wow, I hadn't heard of this book at all! Thanks for the rec. 2w
Amiable @ferskner This book was published 20 years ago. He just came out with a new one that picks up the history of NYC in 1664 after the English take over the colony: 2w
ferskner Oooooo adding that one too! 2w
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marleed
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Pickpick

I noticed this title by Graham Norton and entertained by his interviews thought it would be fun to give it a St Paddy‘s Day go - and bonus, he narrates the audio. What a fun way to commemorate the day🍀. I loved the way in which the feisty octogenarian Frankie told her fascinating life‘s story to Damian. Would that we all have a Damian when we are 83 to find our lived experiences so compelling 💕

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ImperfectCJ
Help Wanted: A Novel | Adelle Waldman
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Pickpick

My mom and my brother both worked at a major discount retailer in a rust belt city for several years, and Waldman captures well the feeling of being trapped---by corporate indifference, by an economically bifurcated community, by the accident of birth and privilege---that those years highlighted for our family (and that led me to boycott the retailer for 25+ years and counting). This is a well written but depressing novel from the #ToB25 longlist.

ImperfectCJ Photo: Camille recharging with a sun bath. 2w
ImperfectCJ The choice between a job at the retailer and the call center was especially poignant to me. 2w
BarbaraBB Great review. Have you read 2w
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ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB I have not! I'll have to check it out as dystopian fiction is really appealing to me right now (in contrast to dystopian real life). The description reminds me a little of 2w
Leftcoastzen 😻👏 2w
BarbaraBB It‘ like a combination of Help Wanted and The Circle indeed, and it‘s very good! 2w
DogMomIrene @BarbaraBB Just read the description and this sounds disturbingly fantastic! 2w
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