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March 29th #CoverStories Music @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

After the tank clicked full, I unfolded the map across the steering wheel. It would take me thirteen hours to get to Florida. Thirteen hours and almost nine hundred miles from the place where I was born for the chance that I might really live.
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I got 77. These were the movies of my youth.
Favorites- Jaws, Annie Hall and Tootsie

#TLT @dabbe

I found another book scavenger hunt on Instagram & decided to use favorite female authors again for Women‘s History Month.

🐖 An animal: Pigs in Heaven (read The Bean Trees first)
💙 A cover you love: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
🔥 A verb in the title: Burning Bright
🐘 A 3 word title: Water for Elephants
Ⓜ️ A title or author starting with M: Sue Monk Kidd
💛 A yellow spine: Shrill
🌺 A floral cover: Purple Hibiscus

👉 Tag! You‘re it!

Wow, what amazingly beautiful prose! Has that very southern story telling tradition vibe about it. I‘m am going to pick it up in print when I find it to read the other stories in this edition.

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I have eight #River books on my Kindle. I just finished & LOVED Frozen River & read Follow the River Home several years ago. The the others are still in my TBR. 🏞️

A thoughtful and valiant reckoning, writing it was clearly a labor of love by the author.

Set in Tenessee in 1952 this is a great story of a family of 3 brothers + a father who is returning after a long absence. The father E F Bloodworth, in his 70s has a reputation for violence in the past and for playing the banjo. The bk also focuses on his grandson Fleming. This was a really enjoyable family drama with great characters and some brilliant scenes. Evokes the region + tensions within families, as well as the exuberance of youth well

This morning we welcome Wynn Ashley, our third grandchild and our son‘s second daughter. She‘s my reason for hope and a way to find beauty in this world. Which is much needed right now!

"Because Wheeler survived. Because he and Emmett rode their bikes on this street. Because the gun still fires, because the barn is a barn, because time is thin and fragile. Because the dirt Jeff Andrews and I were taught to love is very different from the dirt Wheeler Parker was taught to fear."

This book is just bringing me to my knees.