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Liz_M
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#12Booksof2023 June was vacation month so I read A LOT of books and I had trouble picking just one. Both were variations on the mystery genre.

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BarbaraBB I loved the left one, so should read the right one! 3mo
Liz_M @BarbaraBB It's short! And if you like characters/situations that go off the rails (and don't mind a bit of violence), it's kind of fun in a Pulp-Fiction kind of way. 3mo
BarbaraBB Sounds perfect. And #NYRB 🥰 3mo
Billypar @BarbaraBB I read the first 20 pages of his other one Nada as part of a 'speed date' of library books and it seemed like it had already gone off the rails by that point. I should pick it up again - I was curious. 3mo
Andrew65 Some months are like that! 3mo
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Leftcoastzen
Boredom | Alberto Moravia
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Pickpick

It was nice to be in #NYRB world again. Dino , who‘s family‘s prosperity allows him to live a bohemian lifestyle, strives to be an artist.He is curious about the older artist in the building & his young model.When he feels he is failing, he is tempted to move home, his mother‘s attention drives him back to the simple studio.His boredom morphs into an existential crisis as his obsession with the model escalates.I was intrigued by it all.

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MicheleinPhilly
Nyrb Classics 10th Anniversary Complete Collection | Various, RANDOM HOUSE INC, New York Review Book
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Anyone else take advantage of the recent #NYRB sale? #bookmail #bookhaul

TrishB Ohhh shiny new books and Pickles 🐶♥️ 4mo
Tamra Oooooo 😍 4mo
Liz_M 🎶 One of those books is taller than the others 🎶 4mo
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batsy Pickles ❤️ 4mo
dabbe Hello there, Precious Pickles! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
jlhammar I was very tempted! I haven‘t read many of the books I got during last year‘s sale so thought I‘d better not. I have The Door and Loved and Missed waiting on my shelves. I‘d love to get to both in 2024. 4mo
squirrelbrain Pickles says ‘I don‘t think you needed any new books, Momma!‘ 4mo
MicheleinPhilly @squirrelbrain Like any of us do??? 4mo
squirrelbrain Henry said the exact same thing to me earlier, when I had 4 books delivered! 🤣 4mo
BarbaraBB So jealous! The sale doesn‘t work for me with all these shipping costs. I loved The Door and In a Lonely Place 4mo
MicheleinPhilly @BarbaraBB Sigh…Remember when Book Depository made all of our dreams come true?? 😩 4mo
Graywacke Those books look so good together. Great picture. 4mo
Suet624 I missed the sale??? !!! Shoot. Beautiful photo that I'm just a little bit jealous of. 4mo
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Megabooks
Crook Manifesto: A Novel | Colson Whitehead
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I‘m a bit late posting, but here‘s the shelf I‘m currently choosing from and my #bookspin and #doublespin. I‘ve started Crook, and I‘m enjoying it. Ray Carney is a fun character. I feel lucky to have found the #nyrb Simenon used because I think @vivastory said his books are out of print with them rn. It will be my first by him. Lots more to choose from if I enjoy it. 😁 Otherwise, I‘ll see where the month takes me!

Cinfhen Great looking shelf 😁 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 7mo
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BarbaraBB
Katalin Street | Magda Szabo
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The past is never settled in this unsettling novel by Magda Szabo.
The murder of young Henriette in WWII has a lasting effect on all of the three families that had been peacefully living closely together in Budapest until the. Her death is symbolic for all that happens in the book during the war and the communist period afterwards. In their complicated attempts to save one another, the characters are just as likely to destroy one another. ⬇️

BarbaraBB I have now read three of her books and all are fantastic. My favorite is 8mo
Ruthiella Awesome! I still need to read her. 8mo
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BarbaraBB @Ruthiella I missed out when the #NYRBBookClub read this one. But am glad I finally catched up! 8mo
vivastory There is a new one, recently published by NYRB 8mo
vivastory BTW I still can't decide if I liked this one or Iza's Ballad more 8mo
Catsandbooks Fantastic! 🇭🇺 8mo
Librarybelle Stacking! 8mo
BarbaraBB @vivastory I forgot about that! Have you read it already or heard good things about it? 8mo
vivastory @BarbaraBB I haven't read it. I received it last week in my NYRB order. Definitely looking forward to it. 8mo
batsy This was a pick for me, too! I think I prefer Iza's Ballad a bit more (these are the only two I've read). 8mo
Suet624 Szabo. 💕 8mo
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BarbaraBB
Katalin Street | Magda Szabo
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#WeeklyForecast 29/23

Another #NYRB for #FoodAndLit and two light reads. I am kind of enjoying The Gifted School and kind of hating The Worst Kind of Want. No final verdict though, I am in the midst of both.

Cinfhen Funny, I kind of hated Gifted School and kind of liked 8mo
Cinfhen Keep me posted 😘 8mo
squirrelbrain That‘s so funny, Cindy! @Cinfhen (edited) 8mo
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Cinfhen It really is funny but that‘s how it goes sometimes @squirrelbrain 🤪 8mo
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen Ha! I can see why you hated The Gifted School. I guess they are both not very good and depending on the mood we‘re in while reading them we can stand them more or less 😂 8mo
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen Just posted my review of The worst kind of want. The worst 😂😂 8mo
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BarbaraBB
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This basically is just the story of a young single mother, set in the first year after her baby is born. She struggles with combining motherhood and work, she has to redefine her position towards her parents and she meets a man. Nothing much happens but it is so Japanese. It feels like magic.

#NYRB #Roll100 #Booked2023 #SetInTheMountains #192025 #1980

Cinfhen The Japanese books never disappoint!! 😍 8mo
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen Never 😉 8mo
Librarybelle Hooray! 8mo
PuddleJumper Brilliant! 8mo
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BarbaraBB
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#WeeklyForecast 28/23

With the awesome discussion about Yellowface still in progress I‘ll be starting the next #CampLitsy23 read. We‘ve already got three winners in a row so I have high expectations of our fourth read (tagged).
First I have to finish yet another Lennon, super short stories which I am loving!
If time allows (my new career is demanding 😊) I‘ll start the #NYRB for #Booked23 and #Roll100.

Cinfhen Glad to hear you‘re busy! Have a wonderful week ❤️😘 9mo
squirrelbrain I‘ve just pulled HBB off the shelf to read too - have a great week Barbara! 9mo
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen @squirrelbrain You too, friends 😘 9mo
TrishB Have a good week 😁 9mo
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Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel | Adjei-Brenyah, Nana K
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Crazy #bookhaul day y‘all! I‘ve got two official #CampLitsy23 choices, Romantic and Birnam; two from the longlist, Chain (#aardvark pick) plus Unfortunates nominated by @MicheleinPhilly , who steered me right with Chrysalis; and Moon from #botm, another nominee!

Excited for Link‘s new short story collection. PLUS they had someone‘s lifetime #nyrb collection pristine as used books at the library!! I didn‘t have long but chose 4! 99 cents each! 🤯

Ruthiella Wow! The NYRB haul is awesome! I love it when the library sale delivers gems like that. 11mo
MicheleinPhilly Nice! Excellent haul! 11mo
squirrelbrain Wow - amazing! Camp is so bad / good for our TBR lists! ❤️ 11mo
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jlhammar What a find with those NYRBs! Love Mrs Palfrey. 11mo
Megabooks @jlhammar I always wanted to read a Taylor, so that was a lucky find! 11mo
Megabooks @squirrelbrain truth!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 but quite helpful when making decisions at the library! 11mo
Megabooks @Ruthiella yes! Our library always has interesting things! 11mo
Cinfhen That‘s a gorgeous stack of books!!!! 😍 11mo
BarbaraBB What a haul and what a library 😍 Of the NYRBs I loved (edited) 11mo
batsy What a haul! Those NYRBs 😍 11mo
Megabooks @BarbaraBB I wish you could‘ve been with me to browse them!! Too many to choose from and too little time to read the blurbs! You definitely would‘ve taken some back! 😁💜 (edited) 11mo
Megabooks @Cinfhen thanks, and I just realized I never shared my last BD haul! 11mo
Megabooks @batsy you would‘ve died too! They were just too perfect! 11mo
BarbaraBB That would have been so awesome!! 🥰 11mo
Megabooks @BarbaraBB I was back at the library today and got in one more #nyrb (pic soon) plus this from the CL long list. 🤫🤫 someday we‘ll go book shopping together! (edited) 11mo
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