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Amiable

Joined May 2016

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." --C.S. Lewis / A reader and tea lover in Connecticut
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Swaps | Sherree DeCovny
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Sarah, thank you so much for my #FallingforFallSwap #FFFS box! The candles smell so good and the socks are gorgeous! And my cat is already eyeing the adorable felt pumpkins. 😄 I love that you reached deep into my TBR to find a few narrative nonfiction picks —that‘s totally my jam! Happy October to you. 🙂

Avanders ♥️🍁🧡🍂💛 yay!! 1d
JamieArc Oooh! I have some sock envy going on! 😍 1d
AmyG Gorgeous socks! 23h
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Amiable @JamieArc @AmyG Aren‘t they fabulous? 😍 23h
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! I hope you enjoy everything!!! I remember really loving Trapp Family Singers when I read it... you know, 25ish years ago 😂 And Northeaster looked so interesting that it went on my list of possibilities for my husband's Christmas list!!! 21h
BarbaraJean Those socks are amazing!!! 21h
Amiable @TheAromaofBooks If your husband is a nonfiction geek like me who enjoys natural disaster reads, give this one a go too: (edited) 21h
TheAromaofBooks Ooo thank you!! He loves this kind of nonfiction!! 20h
Chrissyreadit 🧡💛🧡💛🧡 20h
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Another #Clarissa letter, another entry for #weirdwords.

“Caitiff: a contemptible or cowardly person.”

This book is good for something, at least. 😀

@cbee

Megabooks Neat! 5d
CBee Clarissa again….. apparently the gift that keeps on giving 😂😂😂 5d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 5d
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Daisey I had actually marked this exact word in Clarissa as a possible weird word to share today and decided to go with one I thought was a bit more fun from Tolkien instead. So, great choice! 5d
Amiable @Daisey See? @CBee is right —Clarissa IS the gift that keeps on giving! 😀 4d
CBee @Amiable 😂😂😂 4d
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Completely charmed by my evening with Jacques Pepin at an event hosted by RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT.

Aimeesue What fun! 6d
Prairiegirl_reading I love Pepin!!! 5d
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Swaps | Sherree DeCovny
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Got my #FFF #FallingforFall swap package today, @TheAromaofBooks !

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! So glad it arrived okay - after I sent it, I had a qualm about the adhesive quality of the envelope 😂 1w
Chrissyreadit 🎉🎉🎉🎉 6d
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Excellent account of the thalidomide crisis in the late ‘50s - early ‘60s. The “official” story: the drug was used overseas, but the FDA stopped it from distribution in the US before any babies were harmed. But this is not completely true. It‘s the story of shoddy clinical trials and drug company coverups, doctors who lied to their patients, and a government that turned its back on scores of Americans who were indeed affected.

#Nonfiction2023

Megabooks Great review! 2w
Amiable @Megabooks I know you liked it, too! 2w
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The Book Barn | Niantic, CT (Bookstore)
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Since my husband is glued to the couch now that football season has arrived, I treated myself to an outing at The Book Barn —more than 500,000 used books from which to choose. 🥰 (I only brought home 5. 😀) Then I got a pina colada smoothie. I think this football thing is going swimmingly. For me, anyway. 🙂

5feet.of.fury I love Book Barn! 2w
Bookwormjillk Love it there 2w
Tamra Wow! 2w
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JenReadsAlot Tell me where is this book barn?! 2w
Suet624 hahaha “this football thing is going swimmingly!“ 2w
Amiable @5feet.of.fury @Bookwormjillk It‘s the best! 2w
Amiable @JenReadsAlot It‘s in East Lyme, Connecticut! 2w
JenReadsAlot Oh that's too far from Wisconsin! Lol 2w
Amiable @Suet624 It‘s every football-hating woman for herself at this time of year! We do what we gotta do. 😀 2w
Amiable @JenReadsAlot It‘s a good place for a vacation, though! 😀 2w
JenReadsAlot Very true! 2w
BethM @JenReadsAlot that was my first question too! 2w
JenReadsAlot Sounds like a road trip some day @BethM 2w
Amiable @JenReadsAlot @BethM I just noticed that I inadvertently left a zero out of the book total- it‘s 500,000, not 50,000! 🙂 2w
mcipher I miss the Book Barn! Sounds like a perfect day ❤️ 2w
Larkken Perfect football activity for me too 🥰 2w
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When autumn is knocking on the door and you‘re mentally preparing for winter in New England, you take advantage of every opportunity to stockpile as much Vitamin D and beach vibes as you can.

TrishB Looks beautiful ❤️ 2w
AmyG Lovely view! 2w
Amiable @TrishB @AmyG My husband is home on the couch watching football. It‘s a gorgeous day! I told him I needed to get outside because WINTER IS COMING. And not in a “Game of Thrones” way. 😖😀 2w
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cariashley Gorgeous! Am in denial here in NY, dreading winter 😩 My husband is also inside on the couch watching football, what a waste! (edited) 2w
dabbe @Amiable 🤣🤣🤣 2w
Amiable @cariashley I actually don‘t mind winter, as long as I can get myself in the mindset and ready for it. I love having four seasons, which is why I live here. But if it starts snowing in October (which has happened!) then Mother Nature and I are going to have words. 😠 2w
Tamra I am finding myself crabby for the same reason. I think last winter just felt interminable and I‘ve always lived in northern climes with harsh winters. 🤷🏾‍♀️ 2w
Amiable @Tamra I‘ve lived in New England my whole life except for 4 years in Michigan when I was in grad school—and I have to say, the past few winters have been relatively mild (so to speak). We had almost no snow last year. And the winter before that was warmer than normal, too. I don‘t know if that means we‘re due for a real doozy of a winter this year. I just go into it expecting the worst and let my breath out in late April. 😀 2w
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Now that we‘re only about 170 pages from the end, of course I just found this! Did any of my fellow #Clarissa reading buddies know this challenge was happening on TikTok this year? I don‘t use that social app so it escaped my attention.

Link to article in the Washington Post: https://wapo.st/3RmDqD2

Lcsmcat I hadn‘t seen this. I‘m not on TikTok either, but one of my daughters is. 2w
Amiable @Lcsmcat I loved this quote from the article: “Once you‘ve read it, you join a fairly small club of other people who‘ve made it all the way through.” We‘re going to be members of a fairly exclusive club! 😀 2w
Lcsmcat @Amiable I‘m thinking that may be the best part of having read this doorstopper! 😂 2w
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TheBookHippie 🤣 no I‘m past the age of TikTok but we are almost members of a fancy club 🤣♥️📖 2w
BarbaraJean Thanks for sharing this article! I hadn't seen this challenge (I'm not on TikTok, either), but I love knowing that it's happening! I wonder if the TikTok challenge was (like us) prompted by this being a year where our dates/days align with those in the book. They started on Jan. 12, which is the first letter, and they're reading in chronological order. @Lcsmcat @TheBookHippie I too am looking forward to being a member of this exclusive club!! 2w
LeahBergen I‘m not on TikTok either and I can‘t WAIT to be finished with this behemoth. 😆😆 2w
Librarybelle No! I did not realize this, though I am not on TikTok! 2w
Jerdencon I‘m on tik tok and haven‘t come across this - guess there are others like us! I am glad we are almost done and proud of myself for making it this far! 2w
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I‘ve been saving this from my “Clarissa” reading for #weirdwordswednesday : “Megrim.” An old-fashioned word for depression or migraine.

Which, come to think of it, is a perfect word to use to describe the #Clarissa reading… 🧐😀

dabbe How do you feel about this long, long novel? Well, I've got the me-grims, to be sure! 🤩🤣🤗 3w
Amiable @dabbe It feels pretty grim, to be sure! 😃 3w
CBee @Amiable the more I see posted about this book, the more I know I won‘t be reading it 😂😂 Gives me the megrims just thinking about it 😂🤓 3w
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Amiable @CBee I actually don't COMPLETELY hate it. It's kind of grown on me over the months. Like a fungus. 😃 I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad I read it. (Almost! We have about 4 more weeks and then we are DONE!) Thanks to @lcsmcat 3w
Lcsmcat An excellent word both for and from Clarissa! Having read Richardson‘s Pamela I kind of knew what I was getting into, and the bragging rights will be real. But will I ever reread it? Life‘s too short! 3w
CBee @Amiable like a fungus 😂😂😂 3w
Daisey A perfect word to go along with Clarissa! I am absolutely claiming bragging rights when we finish this and never reading it again. 3w
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Who doesn‘t love a good library book sale? I was there when the doors opened—and picked up 10 books for a total of $30. 🙌🏼 Even though I had to fight my way through the crowd of used book dealers. Wow! It got a bit elbow-y in there for a minute. 😳

TheKidUpstairs Wow! Great finds! 3w
Erinreadsthebooks The used book dealers can ruin a good library sale, that‘s for sure! 3w
intothehallofbooks I loved Never by Ken Follett!!! I thought it was absolutely riveting. 3w
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Tamra Score!! 3w
Amiable @Erinreadsthebooks OMG, they were so pushy! It was actually uncomfortable trying to nudge my way into the piles. They were actually blocking with their bodies. 😳 3w
Amiable @intothehallofbooks Oh, good to hear that you liked it! Since it was only $3 I decided to take a chance. 3w
Amiable @TheKidUpstairs @Tamra It‘s such a rush when you snag a good haul! 3w
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Thanks @CBee for your recent rave review that put this book front of mind —I was able to snag it at a local library book sale for only $3! Score! ☝🏼💃🏻🕺

Liz_M Excellent book, amazing price 😁 3w
CBee Awesome price!! Hope you enjoy!! 3w
Aimeesue Great score! I love this book. 3w
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1. Movie: “Blazing Saddles” = “Excuse me while I whip this out…”

2. TV show: “Seinfeld” = “The sea was angry that day, my friends… like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.”

3. Book: “Let‘s Pretend This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson. You‘ll laugh, you‘ll cry, you‘ll run out to buy a 6‘ metal chicken and name it Beyonce.

#TLT
Thanks for the tag, @dabbe ! Sorry it‘s Friday now. 😀

AmyG #2 The best, Jerry. The best. 3w
Amiable @AmyG “You know what would make a great coffee table book? A coffee table book about coffee tables!” 3w
AmyG Ha! Or a cologne that smells like the beach! “You spray it on and you smell like you just came home from the beach”. We could go on forever!!! 3w
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Amiable @AmyG Ha ha ... I have a colleague at work who, after getting off the phone with a difficult client, will yell, “No soup for you!“ 😄 There are a few of us in the office who routinely swap Seinfeld quotes. 3w
AmyG We quote Seinfeld all the time in our house. My husband always loses his keys and money so our favorite is “My wallet‘s gone!” Ha, never gets old. 3w
dabbe 1. My husband's 2nd favorite movie. First? YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. 🤩
2. “No soup for you!“ 🤣
3. Yet another great book that's now on my TBR!
Thanks for playing! 🧡💜💛
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Amiable @dabbe “It‘s Pronounced Fronkensteen!” 😀 3w
dabbe @Amiable
“Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?“
“And you won't be angry?“
“I will NOT be angry.“
“Abby someone.“
“Abby someone. Abby who?“
“Abby Normal.“
“Abby Normal?“
“I'm almost sure that was the name.“
“Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?“ 🤣🤣🤣
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Here's my #Top10Summer2023Reads. I've had a really good summer with nonfiction picks.
Thanks for the tag, @youneverarrived !

CBee The Cosby book was a Kindle deal yesterday and you know I snatched that up! 4w
Amiable @CBee So good! I wish he would write faster -- I need more books from him! 4w
CBee @Amiable agreed!! 4w
youneverarrived Some great sounding books! Notes on an Execution is high on my tbr 4w
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Saw this list yesterday and thought it would be perfect for #weirdwordwednesday. I particularly love the word “crapulence.” 😄

ShyBookOwl This is awesome. Never once did I wonder what the dot over an i or j was called, but I'm glad I now know 😄 4w
CBee Well, I definitely am experiencing #16 right now 😂😅🥱 4w
IndoorDame I just learned about phosphenes last week! So cool! 4w
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Amiable @CBee I haven‘t had breakfast yet so “wamble” is definitely happening in my life right now. 😀 4w
CBee @Amiable I‘ve got a wamble happening too 😂 I was actually pleased that I knew a couple of these 😊 4w
dabbe These are epic. 🤩🤩🤩 4w
Deblovestoread Thanks for sharing! I definitely suffered from dysania this morning. 😊 4w
Clare-Dragonfly Wow, I‘d seen the word “phosphene” before but didn‘t know what it was! Cool! 4w
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It‘s a gorgeous night on the back patio for some melancholy, overwrought 18th-century literature. #Clarissa

Tamra Overwrought - perfect word! 4w
Amiable @Tamra I have to try to get my head and my vocabulary into the proper era each time I start reading these letters. 😀 4w
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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Ok, I‘m finally ready to dive in! I‘ve had this book in my pile since last year.

Megabooks Good luck! It‘s an experience for sure! At times I loved it and others I was frustrated, but I‘m so glad I read it. I‘m not a Dickens fan, btw. 1mo
Amiable @Megabooks I may re-read “David Copperfield” when I finish this, just for comparison. It‘s been a LONG time. 1mo
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Kala: A Novel | Colin Walsh
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Mehso-so

A thriller set in Ireland about a missing girl and the secrets that her friends have kept for 20 years? I wanted to like this book. But it seemed like nothing much happened for the first 175 pages—and then when it finally picked up, the plot lines were unnecessarily convoluted and all over the place. Glad I borrowed this one from the library.

Cinfhen Yup! It was hard to get into this one 1mo
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My NONFICTION bracket was a tough one because I read some really good nonfiction in August. My top pick was the tagged book about a group of students who dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall from West to East Berlin to help people escape. It reads like a thriller —and it‘s all true. It almost moved on, but I had to award the slot to July‘s pick because I do so love a good biography where I learn new things about a person.

Texreader Great idea to separate fiction from nonfiction. So hard to compare the two 1mo
Amiable @Texreader I love both genres. So I‘m always reading at least one of each at the same time. At the end of the year, most of my top 10 favorites tend to be nonfiction. 1mo
Texreader @Amiable Same! I‘ll have to try separating them next year. 1mo
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My FICTION bracket for August: The tagged book was my pick for the month. The author did a fabulous job with multiple perspectives of the women in the life of a serial killer as he counts down the hours to his execution. In the end, though, I had to give the edge to July‘s book to move on. My reading heart has belonged to Dennis Lehane for a long time now.

BarbaraBB Makes me curious for the LeHane as I loved Notes! 1mo
Amiable @BarbaraBB I just love the way Dennis Lehane writes dialogue for his characters. It sounds like real people that you actually know (or at least people that I‘ve known, because I‘ve lived in Boston). 1mo
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Binti (Binti, #1) | Nnedi Okorafor
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Despite my husband‘s many efforts to win me over to it, I‘ve never been a sci-fi/fantasy fan. Is this good sci fi? Is it groundbreaking sci fi? Is it merely meh? Who am I to judge? I won‘t, because I don‘t want to skew the ratings for those who do know this genre. I‘ll just say I‘m glad that #AuthorAMonth forces me to read outside my usual comfort zone. And that this was short. 🙂

Tamra I‘m not a super fan of Sci-Fi either - I wish I was! There are occasional exceptions. 1mo
Soubhiville At least she does have a bunch of short ones 🙂 1mo
Amiable @Tamra @Soubhiville I‘m really just not a sci fi reader. My husband and son were horrified that I couldn‘t get through “Dune” —I made it 100 pages but had to throw in the towel. My husband just kept saying, “But it‘s such a great book!” Sorry. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1mo
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Tamra @Amiable 😅 I know 1mo
dabbe I'm with all of you! The only sci-fi I can usually tolerate is Ray Bradbury! Is BINTI the one you'd all recommend for this month? 1mo
Amiable @dabbe It‘s a novella —less than 100 pages. So from that standpoint, yes. And it does have some interesting world building, even though I don‘t care for the genre. So I would recommend it for the month, unless someone else has another suggestion that sounds better to you. 1mo
Larkken How do you feel about a magic school with thoroughly Nigerian magic and setting @dabbe ? The tagged is much more fantasy than scifi 1mo
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Just sent my #FallingforFall #FFFS swap package out and of course I forgot to mark it as such on the box. 😬 I know it‘s supposed to be a surprise, but … @quietjenn — don‘t open this when it arrives on your doorstep next week! Sorry about that. 😖

quietjenn Ah, thanks for the heads up! I'll keep an eye out and won't open it. I'll also pretend I don't know who it comes from 😉 1mo
Chrissyreadit ❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
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Excellent narrative nonfiction about a group of university students who decide to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall from West Berlin into East Berlin in an attempt to help others escape. Reads like a thriller —and it‘s all true. Lots of interesting history about the wall and the Stasi, East Germany‘s secret police.

#Nonfiction2023
Prompt: Running Up That Hill

keithmalek I'm currently reading "The Tunnels" by Greg Mitchell, which is essentially the same thing. 1mo
Amiable @keithmalek It sounds like it is! I think this one is based on the BBC podcast about the tunnels. 1mo
Cuilin Stacked!! Sounds interesting. 1mo
kspenmoll This sounds right up my alley! Stacked! 1mo
UwannaPublishme Great photo! 1mo
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Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld
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Fairly cute and predictable romance with a plot that I won‘t remember a year from now. But I enjoyed it while I was reading it, so I guess that‘s something.

Aims42 Quailman!! 😆 1mo
Amiable @Aims42 My cube neighbor at work is named Doug, so we have a lot of fun with this. 😀 1mo
Aims42 @Amiable Lol, that‘s fun! 1mo
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I stumbled across a book called “Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables“ by David M. Bader. As promised, the book includes haikus that summarize the plots of 100 classic works (FYI, the one for “The Canterbury Tales“ is hysterical!). This was the haiku for “Clarissa.“ It made me snort. I thought the rest of my #Clarissa reading buddies would also appreciate. 😃

IndoorDame 👏👏👏👏 1mo
TheBookHippie 😅🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 1mo
Lcsmcat This is perfect! 😂🤣😂🤣 1mo
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BarbaraJean 😂😂😂 1mo
AnneCecilie 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
Currey So so perfect 😂 😂 1mo
BookwormM Brilliant 🤣🤣 1mo
Daisey Thanks for sharing! 😂 😆 1mo
jewright That about sums it up. 1mo
Jerdencon That is great! 😂 1mo
Aimeesue 😂 1mo
LeahBergen 🤣🤣 That sums it up to a “T”! 1mo
TheEllieMo That‘s brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
TheBookHippie That is 🎯 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 3w
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Luka and the Fire of Life | Salman Rushdie
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I‘m not a magical realism fan so I wanted to read one of his nonfiction books for #AuthorAMonth, but I‘m not going to finish it by the end of the month. So I picked up this one as well. And now… I‘m still not into magical realism. 😬 😖 It‘s OK. Drags in some parts, fun in others. It gave me strong vibes of “The Phantom Tollbooth” (which is way better, IMO).

mcctrish I am not a magic realism fan at all. 1mo
Amiable @mcctrish Right? It's a struggle for me to get through one when/if I have to read it. 😬 1mo
mcctrish My husband loves them and I just do not get it at all 1mo
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Just grabbed this Kindle deal. It doesn‘t exactly fit into what my husband calls my #DiseaseOfTheMonthBookClub (😄) but it‘s medical history so it‘s close enough! 🙂👍🏼

Leftcoastzen 😁👏 2mo
ravenlee Every time I hear about thalidomide I remember a friend from one of my early dance classes who was born without arms, with her hands at her shoulders. My mother never hid this truth from me, so I‘m always surprised by people not knowing about it (my husband had never even heard of it). 2mo
Amiable @ravenlee I went to school with a boy whose mother had taken thalidomide. He also had no arms and if I remember correctly he was missing one leg too. Even as young children we knew why he was like that. You're right -- I don't understand why people don't know anything about it. (edited) 2mo
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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards The TV show Call the Midwife has covered the topic really well. 1mo
Amiable @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Oh, interesting! I‘ve never seen that show —I‘ll have to check it out! 1mo
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards It's streaming on Netflix - brief mentions happen in season 4, but it's the first episode of season 5 that uses it as the main storyline, continuing through the rest of the season as the doctor figures out the reason for the birth defects. 1mo
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City of Dreams | Don Winslow
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I love Don Winslow. His previous works (“The Cartel,” “The Power of the Dog,” etc)? Masterpieces. This series, his last because he has retired from writing fiction, feels like he‘s kind of phoning it in with the plot and the narrative. This one is a soft pick because there are still flashes of the Winslow brilliance throughout. And I‘ll read the final book when it‘s released next year. Because, well, Don Winslow. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner
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I don‘t have school-aged kids anymore, so I don‘t keep track. Usually it‘s the Wednesday before Labor Day or thereabouts.

I adored the tagged book, which is about the relationships between and among two couples. Both husbands are academics who teach in the English department at a university in Wisconsin. It‘s a beautiful story that explores the mysteries of friendship.

@TheSpineView
#Two4Tuesday
@CBee

Tagging @Ruthiella @AnneCecilie

TheSpineView Happy Tuesday and thanks for playing! 2mo
CBee I‘ve not read this one, but it sounds really great! 2mo
Amiable @CBee I don't want to say that it's a book where nothing happens ... but it's definitely a character-driven novel rather than a plot-driven one. It's meditative and quietly beautiful. All of Stegner's works are. (edited) 2mo
CBee @Amiable I enjoy character driven novels very much 😊 2mo
JenReadsAlot Oh yes I loved that book! 2mo
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Carl Bernstein‘s (of Woodward and Bernstein fame) exhaustive (perhaps TOO exhaustive) memoir of his early days in journalism at the now-defunct Washington Star newspaper, where he started working as a copyboy at age 16. Covers the dates between 1960-1964) He has a great memory and/or took superb notes—how else could he remember what someone wore or ate for lunch on a specific Tuesday in 1962? Fun read for former/current news hacks like me.

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It‘s weird to say I enjoyed a book about a serial killer, but there you have it. It‘s well written and I really appreciated the perspectives of the women in Ansel‘s life. Thanks to @CBee for putting this on my radar with her review!

CBee It‘s definitely weird to like a book like this, isn‘t it? But it was just so good. 2mo
Tamra It really was intriguing! 2mo
Amiable @CBee @tamra I‘m going to have to find the author‘s other works —she has a very compelling writing style. 2mo
CBee @Amiable she does! She does multiple POVs extremely well. 2mo
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She has a point.

AmyG Ha! 2mo
dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 2mo
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Staying at a VRBO rental while visiting family in Port Ludlow, WA. Trying to read but I keep getting distracted by the gorgeous view of Ludlow Bay. 😍

LiteraryinLawrence Wow, that really is a stunning view! 2mo
Cathythoughts Beautiful view! I loved this book ❤️👍🏻 2mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
Cupcake12 Beautiful 😀 2mo
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Most people probably wouldn‘t squeal in delight while browsing the medical history section of the used bookstore. But this book about scurvy will fit perfectly into what my husband refers to as my #DiseaseOfTheMonthBookClub. 😄

What can I say? I‘m a weirdo. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Suet624 That‘s wonderful. I have a friend who is an epidemiologist and she sounds just like you. (edited) 2mo
dabbe A wonderful weirdo! 💙🖤🩵 Scurvy was a BIG thing in the book I just finished, THE WAGER. Yikes! 🙀 2mo
TEArificbooks My hubby works in medicine, so he loves nonfiction medical books like this one. I recommend 2mo
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Amiable @TEArificbooks Excellent, thank you! I work at a hospital, so I‘m not a total weirdo for liking this stuff. 😀 2mo
Amiable @dabbe I have that one on my TBR! 👍🏼 2mo
Amiable @Suet624 We all have those genres that tickle our fancies! 🙂 2mo
JamieArc After reading The Wager, this is definitely of interest! 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures Oh I think scurvy and the history of it is fascinating!! Hope this is a good one. 2mo
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From the street, it doesn‘t look like much. But step inside Henderson Books in downtown Bellingham, Washington, and you will be overwhelmed! It‘s a used bookstore that has more than 400,000 titles in all genres. That‘s not a typo. 400,000. I could literally move in and live here.

Suet624 how fun!!! 2mo
AlaMich I remember that place from my visit to my cousin who lives there. It was overwhelming! 2mo
5feet.of.fury Wow! 2mo
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Amiable @Suet624 @AlaMich @5feet.of.fury I set the parking meter for 45 minutes —when we walked in I told my husband we were going to need a lot more quarters! 😀 The place was huge! (edited) 2mo
dabbe If there's restaurant nearby, I'll move in with you! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
SamAnne It is a lovely bookstore. 2mo
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Falling | T J Newman
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A book about a plane hijacking is perhaps not the best pick to read while on a plane, but …🤷🏻‍♀️. A decent thriller that moves quickly. I‘ll probably forget it by tomorrow. But it was short enough that I was able to start and finish it in the time it took to fly between DC and Seattle.

keithmalek 🤣 I've read it. But no, I would not read that on a plane. 2mo
swishandflick I read it on a plane too! Lmao 2mo
BittersweetBooks Ohh I don‘t think I could read that while flying, I‘m an anxious flyer already. But good for you! 🤣 2mo
Amiable @keithmalek @swishandflick @BittersweetBooks I know! I was in a hurry and just grabbed a couple of short books for my carry on. Didn‘t pay attention until I pulled it out on the plane and was like, “Ummm…” 😄 2mo
keithmalek Although, to be fair, I work at JFK, and I did read this on the Air Train. I guess that reading it on an actual plane is where I draw the line.😅 2mo
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Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane
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My FICTION bracket for July. This book was set in Boston in 1974 when the city was embroiled in busing to desegregate its public schools. I lived in Boston in the ‘80s, not long after the events depicted in the book. What I love about Dennis Lehane is his ear for realistic dialogue. These characters sound like real people I knew. This book was a wild ride that I could not put down.

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My NONFICTION bracket with my July pick. I really enjoyed this biography of Theodor Geisel, the man who became children‘s author Dr. Seuss. Fun fact? Seuss was his middle name —and it was actually pronounced “Soyce.” Who knew we‘ve all been saying it wrong all this time? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Another tidbit: Dr. Seuss invented the word “nerd.” 🤯

LiteraryinLawrence Really? Wow, who knew? 2mo
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Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane
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This book. Dear God, this book. 💔💔

dabbe Whoah. 💔😳 2mo
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Oblong Books & Music - Millerton | Millerton, NY (Bookstore)
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Hubby and I took a drive up to the northwestern corner of Connecticut today. Stopped at Oblong Books in Millerton, NY (just over the state line). Snagged a few goodies from the sale table!

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Savoy Bookshop and Cafe | Westerly, RI (Bookstore)
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😕 It‘s a sad day. After 7 years in business, a local independent bookstore closed its doors today. In a heartfelt letter, the owner said: “we‘ve come to realize that determination does not always guarantee success, no matter how great the effort… thin margins, fierce online competition, and increasing costs on nearly all fronts have become insurmountable hurdles for this business .. an unfortunate reality that many independent bookstores face.”

Aims42 Oh man, that is sad 😢 2mo
Erinreadsthebooks 🥹☹️😭 Hate to hear it 2mo
Ruthiella Bummer. ☹️ 2mo
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SamAnne Oh, always sad. Damn. 2mo
batsy That's always sad 😟 2mo
Aimeesue Oh no. I hate when it comes to this. ☹️ 2mo
Tamra 😭😢 2mo
youneverarrived 😞 😞 2mo
dabbe 💔 2mo
CoverToCoverGirl Very sad news indeed. 💔 2mo
Hooked_on_books Especially sad that they made it through the pandemic but now have to close. Inflation is so bad and I‘m guessing hitting a lot of small businesses hard. 2mo
Amiable @Hooked_on_books My husband and I were talking about it yesterday. There used to be another bookstore in town years ago before Savoy opened, and that one closed too. I wonder if the town just can‘t support a bookstore, for whatever reasons. The owner also has another bookstore in Mystic (about 15 minutes away), and that one does very well. It has a larger tourist base, I think. 2mo
Gissy No😢😭😭We need to support these small businesses by buying books there 2mo
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Summerheat | Charleen Hunter
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Aims42 🤣🤣🤣 2mo
dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 2mo
WorldsOkayestStepMom 🤣 stealing the image. It's too funny! 2mo
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Amiable @WorldsOkayestStepMom I stole it from a friend on Facebook, so have at it! 😀 2mo
CoverToCoverGirl This is funny! I however really do love the heat. 🙂🤷🏼‍♀️ 2mo
Amiable @CoverToCoverGirl Give me a crisp clear autumn day any time! 2mo
Tamra 😂 Definitely describes a humid summer day. 🥵 2mo
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Joseph Anton | Salman Rushdie
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Started reading this book to get a jump on August‘s #AuthorAMonth and stumbled upon this line. For Pete‘s sake. I can‘t get away from #Clarissa even when I try. 😖

Ruthiella It‘s the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action! 2mo
TheBookHippie Oh my. WORD! 2mo
Amiable @Ruthiella Ha ha, right? Now I'm going to start noticing red cars, too. 😃 2mo
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Amiable @TheBookHippie SHE'S EVERYWHERE! 2mo
BookwormM 🤣🤣 2mo
Lcsmcat Wow. And this is why I like to have read even unpleasant, difficult, upsetting (pick your adjective) classics - so I get the references! (And their inherent value. 😂) 2mo
Amiable @Lcsmcat Exactly! I‘ll admit it was a bit of a smug thrill —an “I know what that means! See how smart and well-read I am!” sort of feeling. 😀 2mo
jewright I love this! 2mo
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Yellowface | Rebecca F. Kuang
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This book made me feel so …icky. 😖 When I was reading it, I couldn‘t put it down. But when I did stop (mostly because I couldn‘t stand to have June‘s voice in my head anymore), I was not ever in a hurry to pick it up again. I think that‘s a textbook example of Facebook‘s “in a complicated relationship” status. 😬😖 A pick because it‘s the type of book that screams for a book club discussion.

Amor4Libros I felt the same way! 2mo
Amiable @Amor4Libros Right? I kind of feel like I need a shower now. 😬 2mo
Amor4Libros @Amiable Yes! I liked the book but there were times I just wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. I had to stop reading for a day or two and then come back to it, mostly because I was very invested in the story! 2mo
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Phobias: A Collection of True Stories | David Price, Emerian Rich, Kay Brooks
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Given the number of sagging bookshelves in my house, I shouldn‘t have this fear. However… 🤷🏻‍♀️

IndoorDame Totally reasonable. You lived through a pandemic 😷 what if we all get stuck in the house again? We should buy more books just to be safe 😁🤣 2mo
CatLass007 This explains it! It‘s not my fault. I have a psychiatric illness. LOL. By the way, I am not making fun of people with literal psychiatric illness. I‘ve been in therapy for 30 years and I know it is not something I‘m making up in my head. You will have to pry my psych meds from my cold, dead hands. 2mo
Amiable @IndoorDame EXACTLY 🙌🏼 2mo
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Amiable @CatLass007 I consider my fear of running out of something to read just as valid as my severe phobia of snakes. 😬😖 2mo
CatLass007 I don‘t really have a phobia about running out of books. I do have a phobia about not getting all the books that I own read before I die. And I have to be honest, I have way more books than I will ever read in a single lifetime. But since I believe that, after I die, heaven will provide me with the opportunity to read as many books as I want forever and ever amen. (edited) 2mo
CatLass007 And I learned the absolutely most marvelous word I‘ve ever heard several years ago on Litsy. Tsundoku. So go ahead, buy books!!!📚📚📚 2mo
AmyG YEP 2mo
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The All-American | Susie Finkbeiner
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I should have looked at the tags before I picked this up, because “Christian fiction” is so totally not my jam. So that‘s on me. But I still thought this suffered from unrealistic dialogue (the 11-year-old girl talks like she‘s 40) and the writing style was so simplistic and juvenile I actually stopped to check whether it was also tagged as YA. Not for me. 😖 I‘m happy to send to someone who thinks it may be for them, though —let me know!

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Taking creative license here (like Dr. Seuss did!) and pronouncing “bass” like the fish because my kids loved “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.” This is a engaging biography of Theodor Geisel, the man who became children‘s author Dr. Seuss. I was fascinated to read about his time in the Army writing propaganda films and that he inserted curse words as placeholders in his drafts until he could find the right rhyme. 😄

#Nonfiction2023

Riveted_Reader_Melissa 😂 that‘s a great tidbit 2mo
Amiable @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I also discovered that Dr. Seuss invented the word “nerd”! It didn‘t exist until he put it in one of his books. 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Definitely stacking! 2mo
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My prize for completing the summer reading challenge at the library (“read 10 books between June 1-Sept. 1”). I actually finished it by the end of June but I held onto the entry sheet because I didn‘t want the librarians to feel like they‘d made the challenge too easy. Shh. Don‘t tell them. 😀

Ruthiella Congratulations! Your secret is safe with me. 😅🤫 2mo
Amiable @Ruthiella 😄🙌🏼 2mo
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A memoir/biography of 4 of the author‘s friends, all graduates of the elite Andover Academy boarding school (including JFK Jr.) All died fairly young under tragic/violent/unusual circumstances. The narratives are well written but do start to sound a bit repetitive by the end. I was most intrigued by the JFK Jr. chapter.

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Holy hell, this was a wild ride. Admittedly, there are some plot points that needed development and the ending felt a bit rushed, but S.A. Cosby is a master at writing believable dialogue for characters who feel like real people and placing them into thrilling edge-of-your-seat scenarios. Read all of his books—each one is just as good as the others.

5feet.of.fury My hold for this just came in! I‘m so excited to read it. 2mo
Amiable @5feet.of.fury Are you reading it now? What do you think? 2mo
5feet.of.fury @Amiable it was so good! Dark, gritty, horrible & compelling! 2mo
Amiable @5feet.of.fury I now, right?? All of his books are like that -- I'm hooked! 2mo
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1. Unsweetened black ice tea is my fave, but I have been known to enjoy an ice-cold Coke Zero from time to time 🙂
2. To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, I‘ll read on a boat or with a goat —take note: I‘ll read anywhere! 😀 Love to sit outside in the shade with a book, or on the couch in the AC when it‘s too humid.

Thanks for the tag, @GinaKButler !
#two4tuesday

TheSpineView 💙☕️🫖 Thanks for playing 2mo
GinaKButler We have an ice-tea drive-thru in our town called HTeaO. I thought it was the strangest concept, but we are hooked! Oh, and I do love a fountain Pepsi every once in a blue moon! Thanks for playing! 2mo
Amiable @GinaKButler I LOVE THAT! So many places around to get coffee ( 😖) and not enough for tea drinkers! 2mo
dabbe Thanks for the tag! I posted, too! 🤩🤗😍 2mo
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