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Snowbound Books | Marquette, MI (Bookstore)

#bookhaul #indiebookstore

📚 Seven Social Movements That Changed America by Linda Gordon - Impulse Buy
📚 Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi - on #mounttbr
📚 Women Who Run With Wolves - an easier to read used copy for $10
📚 The Shadow of Quetzalcoatl by Merilee Grindle - Impulse Buy
📚 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - because 3 copies is not enough and it's pretty
📚 We'moon 2026 calendar - because I get it every year

lil1inblue #readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #readingisresistance #bannedbooksweek #letfreedomread 7d

AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🥳💝. 6d

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💖 💖 💖 6d

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kspenmoll

Cold Island: A Novel | Peter Colt

I have too many books going at once,no wonder I feel scattered! I am putting the Georgette Heyer biography & her mystery book on hold.I seek a Kind Person is a library book, so I need to continue reading it. WWRWTW #wildeomen & WWK are buddy reads. #readingispoliticsl #overcomingevilempires
What‘s left are CI #readyourkindle & AFPM #audiobook. I have finished the Frances Perkins #sundaybuddyread. #weeklyforecast

TheBookHippie, ChrisBohjalian, CBee

dabbe I feel the same! I need to reassess and get over the #FOMO disease! 💛💜🧡 3w

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lil1inblue

On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems | Jayne Cortez

News of the possible lynching in Mississippi has sent me over the edge today.

Excerpts from There It Is by Jayne Cortez
Full poem: https://spare.poems.com/poem/there-it-is/

#poemadayish #poetrypals #overcomingevilempires #readingispolitical #antifabookclub
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Cuilin And there it is!!! I‘m so tired today, so sad, resting to fight another day. 😞 4w

dabbe I. Can't. Even. P😢WERFUL. 💛💜🧡 4w

lil1inblue @Cuilin #ditto 😓 4w

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AnnCrystal 😢 this just can't be happening again...✊🏼🥺. 4w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💔😓 💔 4w

Reggie Also because I‘ve been on YouTube rabbit holes. There‘s been Black truckers who have gone missing near West Virginia and North Carolina. One was found hanging and same thing. It was ruled a suicide. 4w

lil1inblue @Reggie 💔💔💔 4w

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Chrissyreadit

Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence | Gabrielle Giffords

NPR had a 2022 article and because Children in Evergreen Colorado had to face the horror of a school shooting yesterday i am sharing some books related to ending gun violence.
#overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub

AmyG “Gun deaths are the cost of Liberty” - Charlie Kirk 1mo

ImperfectCJ I asked my 16yo how he was doing in the wake of yesterday's violence in Utah and Colorado, and he said, "It's just the same old, same old, you know?" It about broke my heart. 1mo

DinoMom @ImperfectCJ what a horrible feeling it is as a parent to hear how today‘s children and youth recognize this as just “same old , same old”. My heart goes out to all the families but also to just all the youth that this has become the state of the world they live in 1mo

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AnnCrystal Thank You for sharing this post 👏🏼🫂💝.

None of this craziness should be understood as normal, we have to work to correct this 😢🇺🇲🫂🇺🇸✌🏼. (edited) 1mo

kspenmoll Thank you.💔❤️ 1mo

Bookperson96 😔🥺💔 Have to agree with you. @ImperfectCJ and @DinoMom So true @AnnCrystal 4w

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lil1inblue

A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn

An earlier edition of this book sat on my parents' bookshelf for most of my life. I'm finally diving in. 😅

#realhistory #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #readingispolitical

dabbe I can't wait to read what you think about it. I've read bit and pieces but never the whole. People at my high school tried to ban it. And this was before the #cheetosatan years. 😵‍💫 1mo

lil1inblue @dabbe I got through Chapter 1 last night. I have a feeling I'm going to be posting about this one a lot. And I am unsurprised, though saddened, that people have tried/are trying to ban it. It challenges our savior narrative. 😏 1mo

dabbe @lil1inblue 🩵🎯🩵 1mo

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ChrisBohjalian

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany: An Oral History | Eric A Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband

I am deeply alarmed by the state of the U.S. Many of you are, too. So, let‘s learn about fascism — a book club, perhaps. But, if nothing else, book suggestions. Let‘s start with WHAT WE KNEW: TERROR, MASS MURDER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY.

Amiable Thank you for speaking out! And for the book suggestion—requesting it from the library right now. (edited) 1mo

charl08 You might also be interested in a fictional exploration of the same topic

Once the Deed Is Done

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TheKidUpstairs A short, but impactful novella:

Address Unknown

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marleed Stacked!📖 1mo

Deblovestoread Thank you! I will check out the book. 1mo

Chrissyreadit #antifabookclub #overcomingevilempires Just adding some hashtags so this post can pop up in more places. @LitsyEvents 1mo

Chrissyreadit I will try to get this book as well. 1mo

TheBookHippie It‘s so so good. I just read it. 1mo

kspenmoll I will try & get the book as well. 1mo

Dilara The hashtag #readingispolitical might also be of interest.
I've been reading a lot of non-fiction about fascism, nazism and authoritarianism in the last couple of years, but not in English and not necessarily of direct interest to US readers, so I'll probably lurk rather than participate... 1mo

Bookwormjillk Just requested it from the library. Thank you for the suggestion. 1mo

Lcsmcat Just added it to my Kobo. 1mo

BookwormAHN I'm in, I just downloaded it 1mo

Graciouswarriorlibrarian Just requested it. 1mo

Liz_M book suggestions: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Fascism: A Warning 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa This is the book club I need right now. Add me to tags too 1mo

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lil1inblue

The National Value of Art | Aurobindo Ghose

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/24/nx-s1-5511241/smithsonian-white-house-art

https://www.utrgv.edu/claa/exhibitions/rigoberto-gonzalez/index.htm

https://www.rair.org/rigoberto-gonzalez

https://www.utep.edu/rubin/exhibitions/past/baroque-on-the-border.html

#haikuhive #haikuaday #antifabookclub #overcomingevilempires

JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 2mo

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AnnCrystal

To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Moniquill Blackgoose

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I wish this kind of read was available when I was a teenager!

As a book about a girl and her dragon, this book was splendid fun. As a book about an indigenous island girl and her endangered species dragon, this is the kind of book I've been waiting for...as an indigenous reader, this fantasy is a treasure 📚🐉💖.

I prefer books without battles, but some may find this a bit slow paced.

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AnnCrystal This was like a journey log from the MC's POV, with plenty of drama mixed into the storyline.

I was trying to keep away from books that capture some of the darkness that is now our crazy, chaotic reality.

If this book would have been available before these dark times, I wouldn't have been as disturbed by the unjust society that Anequs and her dragon Kasaqua must journey through.

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AnnCrystal Reading this now, during these dark times that we're all experiencing, I found this to be an unsettling read.

Unsettling, yet beautiful.

This world was well developed and incredibly detailed. All the characters were crafted with care and respect.

I would have liked more time on the island and learning more about the traditions there. Perhaps in the second book.

The MC Anequs held the resilience and dignity from real life Native Nations.

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AnnCrystal I've read books with lesbian or gay characters. This is the first with a bisexual character (Anequs). I liked how this gave a unique chance with two possible love interests for Anequs...although, I don't believe I cared for the polyamorous. At this point, I'm not sure who I like better for Anequs. I like both Liberty and Theod...but I'd prefer for Anequs to truly fall for one or the other, not both at the same time (that's just me).

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AnnCrystal The magic system was just beginning to be truly explored at the end of the book, so I'm hoping the next book shows more.

I am also hoping that we readers get to travel to the unconquered lands, meet the tribal people there, and learn more about the indigenous methods of working with Dragons.

This storyline is incredible.

There are 511 pages divided into 87 unmarked chapters.

#nampeshiweisitreviewedbyanncrystal

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AnnCrystal
@Chrissyreadit
#antifabookclub
#overcomingevilempires

@Amiable:
#ChunksterChallenge!
#ChunksterChallenge2025

@julieclair #AllergicToChunksters

#SeriesLove2025
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Amiable Excellent! 🎉🥳 2mo

AnnCrystal Thank You @Amiable 🥳📚🐉💖. 2mo

Chrissyreadit Wow! Stacking!! We need these books in hard times to remind us we will persevere ❤️ 2mo

AnnCrystal Well said @Chrissyreadit 👏🏼🥳🐉📚💖...it became difficult at times, yet I liked that Moniquill Blackgoose kept this clean 😉👍🏼🐉📚💝. 2mo

BookmarkTavern The sequel is coming out next year! 2mo

AnnCrystal @BookmarkTavern 👏🏼🥳👌🏼 Fantastic! I hope this is long going series 📚🐉💖. 2mo

julieclair Excellent, thoughtful review. 👍 2mo

AnnCrystal Thank You @julieclair 🥳👌🏼📚🐉💖. 2mo

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AnnCrystal

The Giver (Essential Modern Classics) | Lois Lowry

I never heard about this book or movie. Sci-fi, and especially Dystopian stories, rarely interest me.

We had an opportunity to watch the movie this week...and I wasn't surprised to learn that the book has faced bans.

Is this what Little t and his administration aspires to transform Our America into?

This movie is both beautiful and horrifying.

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AnnCrystal It centers on a world without love, empathy, independence, music, color, faith, hope, nor anything that causes feeling or stirs your senses.

Jonas is chosen to become the next Receiver of Memory. Each day he receive the history of humanity from the Giver in an exclusive library at the very edge of the community.

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AnnCrystal Jonas quickly learns that in order to learn history, he must experience empathy. But Jonas was born to be more than just the next Receiver of Memory, and the Giver has been waiting for him.

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AnnCrystal In my opinion, this story is only an issue for those seeking to oppress democracy.

#moviesnseriesreviewedbyanncrystal

#TheGiverreviewedbyanncrystal

@Chrissyreadit
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dabbe The book is outstanding; I loved teaching it to my students. 🩶🖤🩶 2mo

AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit ✊🏼🦅💝. 2mo

AnnCrystal @dabbe 🆒👏🏼🤩✊🏼📚💝. This story definitely needs to be taught to students, it is a powerful masterpiece. 2mo

Amiable A world without love, empathy, independence, hope, compassion or history is exactly where we are headed. 😖 2mo

TieDyeDude I highly recommend the book. It has been a constant re-read for me since middle school. The movie was an admirable attempt (Jeff Bridges wanted for years to make it with his dad Lloyd, but it didn't come to pass, and he made it with some concessions during the YA dystopia craze), but the book is on a whole other level, IMO. The graphic novel was also well done. 2mo

AnnCrystal Truth 🫂 @Amiable 😢 oh gosh, that's exactly what my mom and I just talking about. We really need to encourage empathy, teach it in any way we can ✊🏼🦅✌🏼💝. 2mo

AnnCrystal Thank You @TieDyeDude 👏🏼🤩 there's even a graphic novel! Where have I been...thanks, I will be sure to keep a lookout for these book versions.

It would have been a lovely father and son duo film if Jeff Bridges would have been able to convince this film to be made sooner 🎬💫.

This is a treasure...that feels like a terrifying warning 🤔✊🏼🌞📚🎬💫. 2mo

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lil1inblue

The Tradition | Jericho Brown