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AnneCecilie

AnneCecilie

Joined July 2016

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Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
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Man or Mango? | Lucy Ellmann
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This book was a treat

Eloise is a self proclaimed hermit that has to plan every human interaction because they drain her. George is a would be poet who has worked as a professor

Every once in a while this book would have me wonder what was real and what wasn‘t

It‘s hard to explain, but there‘s just something in Ellmann‘s writing that I love. I will definitely read more by her.

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The third bookstore we visited was Three Lives and Company in Greenwich Village

Several BookTubers have stated that The Redemption of Galen Pike is the best short story collection they‘ve ever read

Lauren over on Lauren and the Books had Dominoes in her prediction video for the Women‘s Prize for Fiction Longlist and the blurb sound intriguing

The same goes for Martyr which also has an interesting blurb

Tamra I‘m in that camp! 👏🏾👏🏾 1d
sarahbarnes I loved that bookstore so much when I visited it! Martyr is on my TBR. Very good to know about the short story collection! 1d
BookNAround I‘m not a short story fan but I read The Redemption of Galen Pike when it came out (it was on the Great Group Reads list that I chair that year) and it was amazing. (edited) 1d
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The second bookish place we visited was Bibliotheque in SoHo

This is a bookstore, cafe and wine bar. It was very dark inside so hard to get a look at the titles, but probably perfect if you‘re there to sit down

I ended up with this one. Simon Savidge over on SavidgeReads on YouTube has been raving about this series

Ruthiella I found the first three books to be crazy and fun. Definitely a snapshot of San Francisco in the‘70s. The subsequent books weren‘t as great IMO, however. 1d
CarolynM I love them all, but the first few are the best @Ruthiella Have you seen there‘s a new one? 22h
Ruthiella @CarolynM Thanks for the info! For all my complaints, I will definitely read it! 😂 13h
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McNally Jackson - Rockefeller Center | New York, NY (Bookstore)
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The first bookstore we visited was McNally Jackson in Midtown - we loved this one when we visited last time

Both Daddy‘s Gone A-Hunting and The Postcard is #BlameLitsy buys, and Jen Campbell recommended Daddy on her channel as well

So it seemed only appropriate that I bought her book as well

I loved Tia Williams Seven Days In June so when I saw that she had a new book out, I had to have it

I also got this cute tote bag

squirrelbrain Cute tote! ❤️ 1d
CarolynM Daddy‘s Gone A-Hunting is really good 22h
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Albertine | New York, NY (Bookstore)
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Returned from NYC yesterday after spending a few days in the city and no visit is complete without visiting some bookstores

This was the last bookstore we visited, mostly for its gorgeous ceiling

Albertine is a French bookstore that has books in French and by French authors translated into English. Unfortunately for me, the majority of books was in French so I didn‘t buy any

But the books I did buy will follow in my upcoming posts

JamieArc Stacking this bookstore so I make sure to visit one day! 1d
squirrelbrain Gorgeous! 1d
sarahbarnes I‘m going to be in NYC this summer and can‘t wait to visit as many bookstores as possible! 1d
Meshell1313 😍 16h
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#WeeklyForecast

I‘m not quite caught up on the buddy reading of Evelina, but I still want to finish it this week #RandomClassics

I want to finish Erasure

I want finish Eve, I‘ve started on the penultimate chapter so that seems doable

I want to start reading from the Longlist of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction, so I want to read Hangman and hopefully get a start on Ordinary Human Failings

I‘ll be going to an event with Andrew McMillan after

Tamra Anxious to read what you think of Erasure! 2d
AnneCecilie Easter and I want to start reading some of his work, so I thought I should start with his poetry collection Physical 2d
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I‘ve been to NYC for must of the week and came back earlier today. Just needed to get some sleep when I got home. So not much reading done this week.

I‘ve fallen behind on the buddy read of Evelina #RandomClassics, but hope to catch up during the weekend

Read a little bit in both Erasure and Eve

CatLass007 Is this episode brought to us by the letter E? 2d
AnneCecilie @CatLass007 I didn‘t think about that, but it seems like it is 😊 2d
CatLass007 😁 2d
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The Secret at Shadow Ranch | Carolyn Keene, Russell H. Tandy
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So many of my buddy readers have been looking forward to George and Bess so I‘m happy that we finally get to meet them.

Bess and George asks Nancy to join them when an aunt will travel to a ranch in Arizona. The aunt has inherited the ranch

The tension and expectations of bad things to happen, was for me gone in this one. There‘s more focus on horse riding. But that doesn‘t stop Nancy from solving a mystery or two

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#BookSpin

Librarybelle I like the cover! So different from the English versions! 1w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1w
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Erasure: A Novel | Percival Everett
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I‘m about to start the tagged and this is why meets me - a list of Mr Everett‘s previous novels and the only one I‘ve read, The Threes, isn‘t even mentioned.

I‘m glad he has an extensive backlist in case he turns out to be a new favorite author

SaraBeagle I loved The Trees and Erasure, so I started diving into the backlist. He‘s good, though those two are still my favorites. 1w
BarbaraBB I loved these too as well as Telephone and Dr No! 1w
SamAnne I‘ve read Erasure, The Trees and Telephone. Loved them all. 1w
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#WeeklyForecast

Not an ambitious tbr for the upcoming week since I don‘t expect to read that much, but I still want to

continue with Evelina #RandomClassics

continue reading Eve

and start Erasure

Tamra I hope you love Erasure - so provocative & imaginative. 1w
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English title: On Calculation of Volume, this is the first in what is supposed to be a septology

A woman has traveled to Paris when the time stops at November 18th. Everyone keeps on living the same day over and over again not knowing that time has stopped. But this woman do, so she starts counting the days.

Tamra Sounds like a more intellectual version of the movie Groundhog Day! 👍🏾 (edited) 1w
AnneCecilie @Tamra I haven‘t seen that movie, but this was very readable and the English translation rights has been sold (edited) 1w
BookWrym Sounds intriguing will keep an eye out for translation 1w
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#BookReport

I continued with Evelina #RandomClassics

I also continued reading Eve, and this book is really tearing down all those cliches

I finished On Calculation of Volume. 1

I read The Secret at Shadow Ranch #NancyDrewBR

I‘m currently reading Man or Mango?

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Set during the lead up to the summer vacation of 1937 and the end of the summer of 1938. Meet the Cazalets: the Brig and the Dutch, their children and their children‘s souses and grandchildren. The entire family spends the summer together

You really notice what a year does in society, in the conversation and in the grandchildren

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I thought the numbers would be more equal

slategreyskies That‘s interesting. I wonder how they got their stats and how accurate they are. I would think that would be hard to measure accurately. 2w
rockpools I‘m only on chapter 2, but I‘m kind of obsessed with this book right now - it‘s SO interesting! How are you finding it? 2w
charl08 I just got my copy - dropped into my library books overnight. 2w
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charl08 @slategreyskies it's a specific reference to Nielsen bookdata. I looked at the UK info - they poll a representative sample of over 3k people monthly (and from the look of it, sell that data to publishers!) https://nielsenbook.co.uk/insight/ 2w
slategreyskies Oh okay, thanks! 📚 @charl08 (edited) 2w
Graywacke How, well, strange. 2w
lil1inblue That's a fascinating statistic. Stacked. 2w
AnneCecilie @slategreyskies @charl08 I must admit that I didn‘t check where the stats came from. I was just surprised that the numbers weren‘t more equal. I‘ve always heard so much about how men read all these history books. 1w
AnneCecilie @rockpools I‘m hooked. Chapter 2 was a little difficult for me with all the science. English is not my native tongue and not every word I looked up had a good translation, but I did understand what she was talk about. There‘s so much interesting data in here 1w
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The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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We follow 6 friends from they‘re going off the school and will into old age. At times I wasn‘t sure about who was talking, but maybe that wasn‘t the point?

There‘s something compelling in Wolf‘s writing that makes me read on

charl08 Gorgeous edition! 2w
sarahbarnes This is my favorite of her books! 2w
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The Women‘s Prize for Fiction Longlist was just announced.

I‘ve read one, Western Lane, and didn‘t love it

But this year I‘m in luck, my library has 6 of these and now I‘m waiting for notifications to pick them up. I‘m first in line for most of them

A lot of new titles for me. So looking forward to discovering a new favorite

What did you make of the Longlist?

Tamra I haven‘t read any, so that‘s lucky for my TBR! 😅 2w
AnneCecilie @Tamra I know, as if I needed anymore books there 🤣 2w
squirrelbrain I‘d only read 2, Western Lane, which I also didn‘t love, and Ordinary Human Failings which I really liked. 2w
Graywacke Very interesting. I plan to read Western Lane in April. And I‘ve been eyeing The Wren, the Wren. Maybe i‘ll chase down that Ganeshananthan too. 2w
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The first tool makers probably wasn‘t men, but women. Who knew?

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Wow!!! This book

Here Cat Bohannon is talking about sound and different wavelengths that men and women hear up to.

Who knew that men actually stop hearing high pitched noises?

squirrelbrain I need to read more of this one - got distracted by others from the list, which are library books so need to go back soon. 2w
Crazeedi This sounds very interesting, and yes my husband just got hearing aids, his high pitch sounds are basically gone in one ear. Stacking #Litsytbr #mountaintbr 2w
WildAlaskaBibliophile That's interesting. My dad who is profoundly deaf can hear high-pitched squeaking noises but has difficulty understanding speech. 2w
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AnneCecilie @squirrelbrain I‘m learning so much from this. But I absolutely understand the need to read library books first. 2w
squirrelbrain And then of course there‘s the Fiction long list tomorrow! 🤯🤪😃 2w
AnneCecilie @Crazeedi The book says that men start loosing the ability to hear high pitched sounds from the age of 25. 2w
AnneCecilie @WildAlaskaBibliophile The book doesn‘t explain that 2w
AnneCecilie @squirrelbrain I‘m looking forward to it. I hope I have read some, but I always look forward to what completely new to me author will be there that will be a new favorite book/ author 2w
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#WeeklyForecast

I want to continue Evelina #RandomClassics

I want to continue reading Eve, I‘m learning som much from this so far

I want to finish On Calculation of Volume. 1

I want to read The Secret at Shadow Ranch #NancyDrewBR

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The #BookSpinBingo card is ready to go. Here‘s to another great reading month

My #BookSpin is the next book in the #NancyDrewBR and my #DoubleSpin is a free space

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 2w
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#BookReport

I continued reading Evelina #RandomClassics

I finished both The Strangeworlds Travel Agency (returned to the library so not pictured) and The Light Years

I‘ve just started Eve and already learning so much

Tamra I fall in love with that cover of The Light Years every time you post it! 2w
AnneCecilie @Tamra I love the covers in this edition of the series and the spines standing together also makes a picture 2w
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Where are the months in this year going? I can‘t believe it‘s already March

So here‘s my #BookSpinBingo, #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin list for March

A few more free spaces than usual. I want to make room for some titles of The Woman‘s Prize Longlist for Non-Fiction, some titles of The Woman‘s Prize Longlist for Fiction and I‘m planning on visiting some new to me bookstores, so we all know that there will be some shopping

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I usually end up with about 10 free spaces every month. I give myself the added challenge of completing them in order instead of where they are most likely to score a bingo. So my first free space is 16, then 17, etc. Keeps it exciting haha 2w
AnneCecilie @TheAromaofBooks I think I will just fill them in the places that are most likely to give me a bingo. 2w
TheAromaofBooks Gotta make the challenge work best for you!!! 2w
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Just moved to a new city with her family, Flikk stumbles upon the Strangeworlds agency. Inside she meets Jonathan, and when they discover that she can see magic. Jonathan introduces her to the agency and how its members uses suitcases to travel to different worlds.

This is the first in a series and I‘m already waiting on the second one from the library.

Cupcake12 This has been on my TBR list for ages. 3w
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

(And like that we are introduced to Irene Adler. I wonder if she will have as dominant a role in the short stories as she does in some of the adaptations have I seen)

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
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dabbe She gives us just one more purpose to keep reading! 🤩🤩🤩 3w
Cuilin @dabbe yes!! 3w
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The Lost Words: A Spell Book | Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
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Once upon a time words began to vanish from the Latin children, and those were mostly concerning nature, plants, birds and animals. This is the spell book that will bring those lost words back to life.

This is amazing and especially the illustrations.

These nature illustrations are beyond words and Jacki Morris did an incredible job

Tamra Love this beauty! 3w
Becker I love this book. The print copy is beautiful but the audio is magical. It has got me through many a cold dark January night. 🌳 3w
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#BookReport

I continued with Evelina #RandomClassics

I finished The Waves and is almost finished with The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

I‘ve started The Light Years

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The day began at five to seven when the alarm clock (given to Phyllis by her mother when she started service) went off and on and on and on until she quenched it.

#FirstLineFridays

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In this second novel Mr. Holmes is contacted by a young woman who has been receiving some strange letters and she wants his help. This leads to an investigation into her dad‘s disappearance many years before and into a present day murder.

A book about greed, colonialism and war

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@dabbe @Cuilin

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3w
Cuilin Perfect summation! 👍 3w
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#WeeklyForecast

I want to continue with Evelina #RandomClassics

I want to finish The Waves and continue with The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

I want to get a good start on the first book in The Cazalet Chronicles, The Light Years

BarbaraBB Great plans! 1mo
Tamra It‘s taking me years to get Jane Howard! 1mo
AnneCecilie @Tamra I hadn‘t heard about this series until last year when especially Lauren on Lauren and the Books on YouTube raved about them. So now I really want to get to them 1mo
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AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB Thank you 😊 1mo
Tamra @AnneCecilie it sounds such a great series. I don‘t know why it‘s lingering on my shelves. Too many shiny distractions. 😉 1mo
AnneCecilie @Tamra I got the entire series from my sister and her family for Christmas so they are still new and shiny for me 😊 1mo
Ruthiella I really enjoyed The Light Years. 👍 1mo
MaureenMc Love the Cazalet Chronicles! ☺️ 1mo
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#BookReport

I continued with Evelina #RandomClassics and finished The Sign of the Four #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I finished The Swifts

I read a book about weird animals and Motherhood

I‘ve just started The Waves

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A children‘s book looking at weird animals. I enjoyed this and the animals that she described and the variety.

ShyBookOwl What IS that thing??? It's both adorable and terrifying in equal measure LOL 1mo
nanuska_153 @ShyBookOwl it's an axolotl! Sorry, I know it wasn't me who you asked but I was going to comment how much I love them and how amazing it is they exist 🥰🥰 @AnneCecilie what other animals were in the book? I'm a sucker for weirdness 1mo
AnneCecilie @nanuska_153 It‘s divided in 5: Reptiles, fish, birds, mammals and amphibians, and cover 5 animals within each category. I have returned the book to library so it‘s kind of hard to get the names in English. But if I remember correctly it covers the star mole, a cod with a spear (unicorn cod), the two-legged cassowary and the sloth 1mo
nanuska_153 @AnneCecilie oh wow, the star mole looks out of Stranger Things, terrifying although probably harmless. Sounds like a great read! Thanks for the info! 1mo
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Motherhood | Sheila Heti
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In this novel our protagonist is in her mid/late 30s and trying to make a decision to whether she wants to have kids or not. And in this process she is also looking at the expectations from you friends, family and society. Because what use is a childless woman to the society? And are women with children the ones pushing childless women the most to have children as a validation of their own choices? This book gave me a lot to think about.

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The cover caught my attention and then I read the blurb about how each family member is given a name from the Family Dictionary. I knew I had to read this book

All the Swifts are meeting up at the Family House for the big Reunion which is a pretense to look for the hidden treasure. Then the Matriarch is pushed down some stairs and things escalate from there. Our heroine Shenanigan and her sisters have more than enough to figure out

rockpools Shenanigan is a FABULOUS name for a character! 1mo
AnneCecilie @rockpools I know and especially in a family where it is believed that people live up to the name the dictionary gives them. It‘s basically an excuse to to anything you want 1mo
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Poverty, by America | Matthew Desmond
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This book was an eye opener for me. What sweeps across the ocean to me is expensive food stamps, Medicaid and public housing is. This is the first book that lets me know that the middle and upper classes in the US is also getting money from the government in the form of tax reduction on loans, subsidized interest rents on college saving founds and subsidized health insurance from their employers.

AnneCecilie He also looks at the different kinds of explosions that keep people poor, like poor banking systems, high rents and low wages. 1mo
squirrelbrain I have a physical (signed) copy of this on my TBR shelf - of course it will take a back seat now, with all of the Women‘s Prize books. 1mo
AnneCecilie @squirrelbrain I recommend this after the NF from the Women‘s Prize are read 1mo
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The first ever Women‘s Prize for Non-Fiction had been announced

As someone who‘s trying to read more nonfiction, I‘be been looking forward to this

I‘m of to a good start as I‘ve already read All That She Carried and enjoyed it

I‘ve put in holds at the library for Eve and Wifedom

I also find Thunderclap and Vulture Capitalism interesting and will see if I can get hold of them

What do you make of the longlist?

squirrelbrain It looks like a great list. Glad to hear that you liked All That She Carried. I had reserved a few of them already on the library / digital library and I‘m looking forward to reading a few. 1mo
AnneCecilie @squirrelbrain Which ones are you looking forward to? 1mo
squirrelbrain Most of them! 😃 I‘m not going to read Matrescence - that holds no interest for me. Also not sure about Wifedom - I‘ve seen mixed reviews, but I can get that from the library so I‘ll at least try it. The rest of them all sound great. I got Vulture Capitalism a few days ago on NG. (edited) 1mo
Chelsea.Poole I‘m loving this list! I‘m going to try to make my way through most..and I‘ve read 2. I already had this checked out so it‘ll be first 1mo
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The Mystery at Lilac Inn | Carolyn Keene
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A friend of Nancy‘s has inherited some very valuable jewelry. While her custodian is bringing them to her, they get lost. How have taken them? And will Nancy be able to get them back?

I can definitely see how this book would have scary to a younger me. I was gripped even to now.

#NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle
#DoubleSpin February @TheAromaofBooks

Librarybelle That cover is so different! 1mo
Ruthiella I‘m 45% of the way through and there have been at least two serious attempts on Nancy‘s life! This one is even more thrilling than 1mo
LeahBergen What a fantastic cover!! 1mo
UwannaPublishme Cool cover! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast

Buddy reads:
Continue Evelina #RandomClassics
Finish The Sign of the Four #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I want to start a book on the weirdest animals

I‘m currently reading The Swifts and next up is Motherhood and if I have a really good reading week I might even get a start on The Waves

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It‘s a couple of days before Christmas and Lizzy is looking forward to decorating the tree with her family, but everyone stands her up last minute. Feeling alone and taken for granted, she decides to leave her family for a few days and she heads to a friend‘s beach hut

Her husband and twins, don‘t know what to do without her and start searching for her

Meanwhile, Lizzy is meeting other people in and near the beach hut also escaping Christmas

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#BookReport

I continued with the buddy read of Evelina #RandomClassics, started the buddy read of The Sign of Four #NoPlaceLikeHolmes and I‘ve just started The Mystery at Lilac Inn #NancyDrewBR

I continued with Poverty, by America

I finished Dear Dickhead

I read Scenes from a Childhood and Christmas at the Beach Hut

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My first Jon Fosse. I‘ve wanted to read him since before he won The Nobel Prize in Literature, but that certainly pushed me to read him sooner.

This is a short book, my edition is 70 pages told In vignettes about a man‘s childhood and teens. About hanging out with friends but also the introduction of death.

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Poverty, by America | Matthew Desmond
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WOW 😯

I‘m not American, so I‘m getting a lot of hard facts I didn‘t know from this book

AnnCrystal It's fun to read more than one book (by difficult authors) on the same subject, then cross reference. It can get tedious sometimes, but fun nonetheless. 1mo
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Poverty, by America | Matthew Desmond
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WHAT!?!?

I had no idea

AnnR The general statements this author made is misleading. For cash payment programs to the poor, the time limit varies state to state. There are other assistance programs with no specific time limit such as food stamps. (The name of that program has changed). Also not everyone with a 30 year mortgage can claim an interest deduction; that is partially based on how much interest the homeowner owes. There is some truth here but it's biased. 1mo
AnnR I think the author could make a good argument, while providing more specific facts, it just wouldn't be quite as compelling. Ultimately, I'm not disagreeing with him, I just prefer authors provide all the facts backed up with citations, not generalizations used to support an argument.

Sorry, I just had to comment. Especially if you don't reside in the US, our welfare system and tax codes can be really confusing. Well, it's confusing period.
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Ruthiella @AnnR Yes, the vocabulary is key. I would never consider a tax write off of interest from a home loan as a “government subsidy”. There so much more involved. 1mo
Aimeesue @AnnR The Federal limit for direct cash payment to families - one of the only forms of income based assistance that can be used to pay rent directly - is indeed 60 months. Sure, you can get SNAP and Medicaid for much longer, but TANF is the only direct cash benefit. Here he‘s just comparing the government‘s cost of two housing programs and who benefits. Desmond footnotes this section and cites several sources. 1mo
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Dear Dickhead: A Novel | Virginie Despentes
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A 40-something author calls out a 50-something acres, a former femme fatale, as fat. So begins the writing between Oscar and Rebecca where they write about everything. Oscar has just been accused of sexual harassment some 10 yrs ago and we also meet his accuser, Zoe.

About #metoo, the pandemic/ lockdown, class and getting clean

BarbaraBB Sounds interesting! I still haven‘t read 1mo
Ruthiella I just finished Vernon Subutex a few days ago and am incredibly impressed by this author. She writes so interestingly about fairly awful, yet realistic, people. 1mo
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My first DNF this year. To be fair to the book, I put myself on the hold list at the library after seeing rave reviews without knowing anything about it. I made it 16 p into this 140 p novel, but when I start wanting to do anything but reading, it‘s time to take the hint. So not for me.

Tamra Listen to your intuition. 👍🏾 1mo
BarbaraBB I felt the same and read the book for the same reason! 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue with Evelina #RandomClassics and with Povery, by America

I want to finish Despentes latest.
Then I thought it was time I read som Jon Fosse and I‘ll one of his shorter works
Then I want to read Christmas at the Beach Hut and The Mystery at Lilac Inn #NancyDrewBR
And I‘m between these books I also want to get a start on The Sign of Four #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

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Da vi var yngre | Oliver Lovrenski
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This was the book everyone was talking about in Norway last fall.

This is by a 19-yr old debutante writing in the sociolect he talks in so for me like reading an other language. It even has a dictionary

He used to be one of the child robbers. His book is about a group of friends and how they get into using drugs, selling drugs, how they rob to get what they want and how that escalate until they are someone everyone know of and is afraid of.

Ruthiella Is it fiction or memoir? 1mo
AnneCecilie @Ruthiella It‘s fiction, but based on his own experiences and there are several similarities between him and the main character 1mo
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#BookReport

I‘ve started the buddy read Evelina

I finished Beyond Black and read Da vi var yngre (When We Where Younger)

I had my first DNF of the year, Detaljene (The Details)

So I started Despentes latest novel and I‘ve also just started Poverty, by America

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Poverty, by America | Matthew Desmond
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WHAT???? I had no idea? Does every country in the world is or just the US?

Vansa Actually in 90% of the countries in the world, statistics are an absolute farce. Obviously it's going to be much worse in countries that are much less democratic than the US! 1mo
Teresereading Pretty sure that our national census includes prisons, as does our annual report on government services 1mo
monkeygirlsmama Not counting those in homeless shelters?! 1mo
IuliaC Statistics in general can often be misleading or unreliable, worldwide 1mo
Ruthiella Unemployment statistics can similarly off. 1mo
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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February‘s #BookspinBingo card is ready

My #BookSpin is the next book in the Nancy Drew buddy read and my #DoubleSpin is a book I‘ve owned a few years.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 1mo
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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I can‘t believe that it‘s already time to make February‘s #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list, but here it is.

Let‘s hope for another great reading month

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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