Litsy

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

I haven't chimed in on one of these posts in awhile, but as I've read a few of the books selected from the tagged book I felt like doing a post. 3 favorites from this list would be:
*Larsen's Passing
*Schulz's Street of Crocodiles
*Sayers' Murder Must Advertise
*Tolkien's The Hobbit
*Du Maurier's Rebecca
(you really thought I'd stop at 3?! LOLOL)
3 books I want to read from the list:
*Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
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vivastory *McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
*Remarque's All Quiet On the Western Front
#TLT @dabbe 1d

TheBookHippie The three you want to read are excellent! 1d

dabbe You've given me a few to add to my TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩 24h

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Abe

Barnes & Noble Guide to Children's Books | Kaylee N Davis

pick

Great collection of children‘s books on a verity of subjects!

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Read4life

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#TLT @dabbe

Ugh!! 8. Just 8.

shortsarahrose Still better than I did - only 4! 2d

dabbe @Read4life @shortsarahrose IKR? I felt like such a dunderhead because I never even heard of over half of these books! And I'm not sure I want to either! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

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Liz_M

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

I recommend these three books that I would not have read without this list:

The Bridge on the Drina
Chess Story
The Street of Crocodiles

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe

link to survey: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list4

dabbe HUZZAH for you! W🤩WZA! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤗 3d

TheBookHippie I agree with Chess story! 1d

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DGRachel

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

10/100 Faves in photo. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the few books assigned in 9th grade that I managed to finish. Rereading Their Eyes Were Watching God taught me that no one reads the same book twice. Our life experiences rewrites how we respond to the text. A Farewell to Arms started my obsession with Hemingway, and it also sparked a running joke Junior year of high school about being blown up while eating cheese. Kids…🤣🤣 #tlt

dabbe

DGRachel Seriously. My boyfriend at the time even wrote about it in my yearbook and it‘s about the only thing I remember from it. Also, a little peeved that the Faulkner, Greene, and Orwell‘s were not the ones I‘ve read by those authors and I didn‘t count the DNF for Tropic of Cancer, but I didn‘t count the DNF for The Hobbit. I‘ve tried to read it at least 4 times and never made it more than 100 pages. I hate that book. 🤣🤣🤣 3d

dabbe Thanks for sharing all of these! I sometimes wonder where we'd be without our assigned high school reading--for good and bad! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

DGRachel @dabbe Forgot the image! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 3d

DGRachel @dabbe without assigned reading, I‘d have had a higher GPA Freshman year. 🤣🤣 (the assigned books were mostly 🤢). I do hope that prior to the current administration, assigned reading was becoming more diverse. Zora was one of the few non-“dead white man” authors we had to read and I think we only read her because she was considered local. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3d

dabbe @DGRachel There's still many “dead white men“ books on our district's list, but we have thankfully become more diversified over the years. There's still hope! 😍 3d

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dabbe

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 4, all from the 1900s.
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list4
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag if you want.

EVERYONE is tagged; ALL are welcome. 🤗

Librarybelle Yeesh…only 10. I think I read classics not everyone else wants to read. 😂 3d

BooksandCoffee4Me 16….my favorite to read is Rebecca. Greenie‘s The Power and the Glory was a powerful read. 3d

Bookwormjillk Only 10, and of those I only liked 2. Yay for Rebecca and Grapes of Wrath. 3d

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Eggs 15 for me 3d

CogsOfEncouragement Just 12 this round. I‘m so glad Pippi was written, translated, turned into a tv show, and dubbed!!! 3d

jenniferw88 8 this time! 3d

dabbe @Librarybelle 🎯🩵🎯! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me REBECCA's in my top 10 of all time! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

dabbe @Eggs Ya beat me by 1! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

melissajayne 7 3d

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement I remember asking my 5th-grade teacher if I could read a PIPPI novel for my book report (I was having a PIPPI love fest), and she said NO! 😱 She said I could only read the books that were on the list. No wonder she wasn't one of my favorite teachers. 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

dabbe @jenniferw88 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

dabbe @melissajayne Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤗 3d

willaful 16 for me! Favs are The Hobbit, Rebecca, Murder Must Advertise. Nice to see some Viragos on the list, though not ones I've read. 🙄 3d

dabbe @willaful I say if you've read the author, you should count it! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤗 3d

julieclair 12 for me. I was surprised how many of these books I‘ve never heard of! Favorites: Rebecca, Pippi Longstocking, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. 3d

kspenmoll 18 for me. Testament of Youth, Pippi Longstocking, My Eyes are Watching God. Saw some others as movies! 3d

Bklover 9 for me- it‘s getting worse! Who has read Ferdydurke??? Loved Rebecca and Pippi though 😉😊 3d

Texreader Just six. Favorites were Rebecca and The Hobbit. 3d

Amiable Only 7 for me. But I literally just bought this one two weeks ago when we were in Serbia, so that will bump me up to 8! 😀

The Bridge Over the Drina

rwmg 12 and I probably recognised another 12 but oh dear oh dear 3d

RaeLovesToRead 4 2d

RaeLovesToRead FOUR! 2d

RaeLovesToRead Four?!?!?!?!?!?!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😧😧😧🥺🥺🥺 2d

dabbe @julieclair Same here! Added MISS PETTIGREW to my TBR. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

dabbe @kspenmoll I say if you saw the movie, it counts! Reading: eyes; Audible: ears; Movies: eyes and ears = THE SAME! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

dabbe @Bklover IKR? What the heck is Ferdydurke? 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

dabbe @Texreader Love those two, too. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

dabbe @Amiable Another book I've never heard of! I felt like this reading this list: 😳! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

dabbe @rwmg I hear ya! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead You. Crack. Me. Up. You're in great company! I swear I haven't even heard of half of them! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 2d

Amiable @dabbe When we were in Belgrade our tour guide mentioned it as a book that explains the region‘s turbulent history… plus it won the Nobel Prize, so I hunted down a bookstore that had a copy in English! 1d

dabbe @Amiable Thanks for the info! Now on the TBR! 😍 23h

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BookmarkTavern

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I‘ve been spending the day working on a new novel idea, and it‘s my first time writing without any kind of outline.

It is both terrifying and exhilarating. 😂

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

Ruthiella Good luck! 🍀 4d

julesG It does sound more eloquent than 'pantser' 😉 4d

AnnCrystal It's Exhilarating! 👏🏼😉👌🏼 You got this 📝💝.. 3d

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CBee How exciting!! You can do it 🙌🏻 3d

CatLass007 Awesome! I didn‘t know you are a novelist. Have you written anything in which I might be interested? You have to remember that I‘m interested in reading every genre. Also, I agree with @julesG, it does sound more eloquent than “pantster.” Thanks for the tag! 3d

BookmarkTavern @CatLass007 This one‘s a cozy mystery! And nothing published as of yet! But I‘m hoping to have something by the end of the year to start querying. We‘ll see how that goes! 🤞🏻 3d

CatLass007 Excellent! I love cozies. Does it have a theme? Cats, dogs, book club, baking, crafting, etc.? Or do you know yet? 3d

BookmarkTavern @CatLass007 my amateur sleuth has inherited an old train diner car and is restoring it as an old fashioned diner! 3d

CatLass007 Cool!! I definitely would patronize the diner. (edited) 3d

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TheSpineView

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition | Merriam-Webster

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

Metanoia: a profound usually spiritual, transformation

dabbe 💙🩵💙 4d

TheSpineView @dabbe 👍 4d

CBee Ooo, good one! 4d

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TheSpineView @CBee Thanks! 4d

BookmarkTavern Love this one! 4d

TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern 👍 4d

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

My #weirdwordwednesday pick! I remember discovering this word during a word game - maybe Words With Friends or similar - and always thought it was a bit silly sounding. This little googol mascot guy should have googly eyes, I think 😂 #weirdwords

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 4d

CatLass007 Another great word! I was listening to Death Comes To Pemberley and decided to look up a word instead of just figuring out what it meant from its context. I actually should have stuck to my habit with this particular word because it was very difficult to find a real definition or even a picture. What on earth did the word jives mean in 1803? 4d

BookmarkTavern I heard the word googolplex (10 raised to the power of a googol) first when I was in school, and that‘s how I learned about googol. 😄 4d

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CBee @CatLass007 jives? In 1803? Hmm. I have no idea 😂😂 4d

CBee @BookmarkTavern I should have included googolplex! 4d

CatLass007 I‘ve heard of gewgaws but not googols. “Jives around the prisoner‘s wrists,” was the quote in the book. Shackles. 4d

CBee @CatLass007 gotcha. What are gewgaws? 3d

CatLass007 Gewgaws are what I would call “thingies.” I‘ve never actually looked up the definition. As usual. 3d

CBee @CatLass007 I looked it up 😂 Couldn‘t resist. “Gewgaws:
a showy thing, especially one that is useless or worthless.” 3d

CatLass007 Okay, so I was wrong. Thingies are useful. 3d

CBee @CatLass007 I agree! Thingies are very useful, especially when you don‘t know what something is called. “That thingie over there” and such 😂 3d

CatLass007 Exactly!! 3d

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AsYouWish

Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present | Hugh Rawson

Congrats everyone who finished all the words in May or any words because you got books off your TBRs! Remember this is all year long, so words can be completed at any time!

If you did not see my previous post, May‘s Movie was Cruel Intentions

2025 Theme: my favorite movies!

Now who is ready to figure out June‘s #WickedWords Movie?
- Musical
- Italy
- Roof Top
- Beach
- Love

Feel free to guess, I will reveal at the end of the month!

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