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Joined May 2016

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#Falling Day 24: #WalkingHiking up the road.

Eggs It‘s the small things that can breathe a miracle into life 👏🏻 11h
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Red Suitcase: Poems | Naomi Shihab Nye
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Eggs Brilliant 🤗🥰 1d
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#Falling Day 22: This #CountrySong by Bob Dylan was illuminated by Caldecott medalist Jon J Muth of the Zen shorts (panda series) fame. The result is exquisite. My review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-dh6

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 3d
Eggs Beautiful 😍 2d
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#Falling Day 21: #Soup

Eggs Brilliant 🥄👩‍🍳🫖 3d
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#Falling Day 20: I was able to hunt this #RedCover book down while in Seattle during the summer. I hope to read it soonest.

Leftcoastzen Nice photo! Elliot Bay is a cool bookstore! 5d
BarbaraBB So worth reading ❤️‍🩹 5d
Eggs Great photo❣️ 4d
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This Edge of Rain | Jane Ebihara
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Eggs Beautiful 😘🌧️🍁 6d
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Eggs Lovely 🥰 7d
lil1inblue Superb poem! 😍 6d
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#Falling Day 17: #PumpkinSpice bundt - absolutely delicious. Looking forward to the peppermint one during the holiday season which we are spending in the Bay Area. Woohoo.

kspenmoll Yum!!! 1w
Eggs Sounds so good 🎃 🧡 🎃 1w
kelli7990 I like the Bundt cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes. 1w
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Eggs So satisfying 🔥 1w
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The Moon of Kyiv | Gianni Rodari
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#Falling Day 15: #BigMoon of Kyiv is based on a poem written by celebrated Italian author, Gianni Rodari, over 70 years ago – and reimagined by Beatrice Alemagna. The book was inspired by the ongoing war in Ukraine and 100% of the proceeds from the book will go to Save the Children Fund. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pGU

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous 🌕 1w
Eggs Must. Have. 🌖🌔 1w
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The Cider House Rules | John Irving
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#Falling Day 14: #Cider - I have yet to read the novel and see the film - am I missing out? Look at baby Charlize Theron.

AmyG I liked the book. 2w
Eggs I have neither read the book nor seen the film 🍎❤️🍎 1w
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Dog Songs | Mary Oliver
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#Falling Day 13: #Leaves - Mary Oliver has been providing me with a great deal of comfort lately.

Eggs So lovely 😔 2w
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Empire of Gold | S A Chakraborty
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Eggs Beautiful color! 2w
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Night Logic: Poems | Matthew Gellman
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️ 2w
Eggs Evocative 2w
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#Falling Day 10: #CoffeeAndABook - not just any coffee but pistachio affogatto with chopped pistachios - there is absolutely nothing like it anywhere in the world. The book is harrowing and has made me quit Facebook altogether. Review is forthcoming.

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2w
wildwoodreads Same. I‘ve given up on Facebook. But a pistachio affogato sounds amazing! 2w
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The Neighbors | Einat Tsarfati
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#Falling Day 9: In this story, each of the #neighbor‘s doors reveal something about their personality or what they do or their predilections, and the young girl takes the readers along for the ride. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-mNC

Eggs This looks so fun! 2w
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#Falling Day 8: #DearDiary made me want to share photos of my new bullet journal - little acts of creation, labor of love with colors and customizable grids with these stencils and stickers. Super stress reliever.

DebinHawaii Amazing! 💛💛💛 2w
Eggs Love bullet journals 💛📔🧡 2w
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Eggs I saw myself here 3w
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#Falling Day 6: #Barn - found this in the internets. 50 shades of hay indeed.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😂😂😂 3w
Eggs Love the “lookout” horse 🤗🤣 2w
Velvetfur 🤣 2w
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#Falling Day 5: #Apples - I need to read this book soonest.

Dilara I quite liked this novel! 😁 3w
Eggs Sounds lovely 🍎 3w
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A Library | Nikki Giovanni
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#Falling Day 4: #LibraryFun in this ode to libraries by Nikki Giovanni. The Afterword adds another layer of complexity to the narrative as Nikki Giovanni paid tribute to Mrs. Long, the very first librarian who made sure to nourish her young poet‘s soul with delicious words – during the time of segregation. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r4g

Eggs Beautiful 🤩 3w
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Ramen for Everyone | Patricia Tanumihardja
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#Falling Day 3: #WhatsForDinner - Ramen! Yum. I love the fact that this is a father-and-son spending their time in the kitchen, crafting dishes that their family (mother and sister) would enjoy. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ri3

Eggs Delightful! 3w
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lil1inblue So powerful! 3w
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Near to the Wild Heart | Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser
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#Falling Day 1: A different kind of #Wildlife in these Clarice Lispector novels.

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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The Witches | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
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#CharacterCharm Day 31: #Witch - a fantastic curation in a local bookstore here in Dubai, Magrudy‘s - one of the longest standing bookstores in the country. Founder of this place is also the founder of Emirates Literature Festival. 🥰 Here is Iphigene‘s review of tagged book: https://wp.me/pDlzr-2fO

Eggs Stunning 🤩 3w
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#CharacterCharm Day 30: Augusta Baker educated herself and became the first Black person to earn a degree from SUNY Albany in library sciences and information studies. As the first Black #Librarian, she curated the James Weldon Johnson Memorial collection in 1944 to find uplifting stories about people of color. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r3d

Eggs Beautiful illustrations 💖📚💗 4w
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Blue Pastures | Mary Oliver
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#CharacterCharm Day 29: I have been reading more of the works of #Poet Mary Oliver now that I have quit social media (Facebook, X, Instagram) over the past months. Poetry seems infinitely better for the soul.

Eggs Agreed 👍🏼 4w
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#CharacterCharm Day 28: Stories as #Healer - both these texts allude to that singular fact.

Eggs Well chosen 👏🏻👌🏼👏🏻 4w
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#CharacterCharm Day 27: It was a pleasure serving as Chief #Judge for the Hedwig Anuar Children‘s Book Award last year in Singapore. 🥰

Eggs Congratulations 👏🏻 1mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 26: #Author - I shared our #CampLitsy25 discussions for the month of July here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rGS as hosted by @Megabooks

Eggs Dramatic cover👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
Suet624 Thank you for sharing this information with others. It's always good to highlight the good things happening on Litsy. Hopefully some more folks will join. 1mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 25: #Survivor - one of the books I bought during the NYRB Sitewide Summer Sale. See here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rDE

Eggs Excellent 🧡💛🖤 1mo
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The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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#CharacterCharm Day 24: Not exactly a sanctuary for #Voyager(s). Looking forward to reading this one soon.

Eggs It sounds good 👌🏼 1mo
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My latest article published in a top 1% journal co-authored with longtime collaborator and friend from UCL, a PhD Candidate (who translated our Abstract into Arabic), and three undergraduate students. Only the first 50 eprints are free which you can find here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SZ3XWDHDH4ACHBCKDGQU/full?target=10.1080/0143... - message me if this is of interest to you. 🌷💕

LiteraryinPA Major congratulations! While I don‘t necessarily have time to read the article, I will look at this list for the store inventory. I see some favorites on here already! 1mo
merelybookish You continue to do amazing, important work! Congrats! 1mo
IriDas This is wonderful to hear. I‘m getting my MLIS and my emphasis is on children‘s librarianship. I am always looking for books like this to fill in all the gaps. 1mo
CoffeeK8 Congrats this is awesome! 1mo
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Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 | Wislawa Szymborska, Stanis?aw Bara?czak, Clare Cavanagh
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#CharacterCharm Day 23: #Maid - even if “old maids.” 😂🤣

Eggs Clever 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
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Tori and the Muses | Tori Amos
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#CharacterCharm Day 22: A new picturebook biography of award-winning #Musician Tori Amos. I adored Tori in my early 20s and devoured all her haunting poetry-music.

Eggs So pretty 🎼🎤🎶 1mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 21: Fats featured this story of Clementine Haas who woke up in an Irish hospital as an #Amnesiac - her rating of this book plus four other YA novels here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-hSJ

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Stacked! 💙🤍 1mo
Eggs I read this several years ago! 1mo
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King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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#CharacterCharm Day 20: Torrent and Tranquil definitely strike me as borderline #Psychotic - one more than the other, ummm, sort-of. A #CampLitsy25 winner, no doubt. Looking forward to the final discussion this weekend hosted by the ever fab @BarbaraBB

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! They are really scary! 😱 1mo
Eggs This looks like a yummy snack-makes me hungry! 1mo
BarbaraBB Happy you‘ve joined camp with your insightful thoughts 🤍 1mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 19: #Legend - these are titles gifted to our new college graduate.

Billypar Congratulations!!👩‍🎓🎉🎉 1mo
Eggs Fun ☕️ 1mo
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Water & Salt | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 1mo
Eggs Love it❤️❤️ 1mo
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Artist's Eyes | Frances Tosdevin
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Eggs Gorgeous👌🏼 1mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 16: #Vigilante death squads sanctioned by former president Rodrigo Duterte had been portrayed so chillingly in this journalistic nonfiction memoir of Patricia Evangelista. Thankfully, he is now awaiting trial in The Hague. My review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qgX

Eggs Excellent choice and photo! 1mo
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Prophet Song | Paul Lynch
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#CharacterCharm Day 15: #Prophet - I have yet to read this “prophetic” propulsive novel.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤❤️🤍 1mo
Eggs Great cover! ❤️🤍🖤 1mo
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King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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#CharacterCharm Day 14: #Murderer(s) in this gritty, fast-paced novel that was just what I needed when I read it last month. Bought all the other SA Cosby novels I can find while book hunting and trawling the bookstores in Seattle and the Bay Area. Looking forward to the upcoming #CampLitsy25 discussions.

BarbaraBB It‘s good right?! 1mo
Eggs I‘ve seen great reviews! 1mo
AmyG Loved this book. 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks LOVE this author!! 1mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 13: #TimeSpaceTraveler - i think being stuck in just one particular day in time qualifies. Still don‘t know how i feel about this little book. Qualifies too for #ReadTheWorld2025 - Denmark - translated from Danish.

charl08 I like your cover more than mine! (And I don't know what I think about it either!) 1mo
Eggs Great pairing! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 💜💚 1mo
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Eggs 🩷💔💛 1mo
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The Snatchabook | Helen Docherty
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#CharacterCharm Day 11: There is a book #Thief in town - and Fats wrote a lovely review of this Snatchabook here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gjd As she noted: “It‘s perfect for book lovers and anyone who has enjoyed being read to when they were younger.”

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice 🙌🏻 1mo
Eggs I love how you share the spectacular illustrations in picture books ❣️ 1mo
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Rehearsing Absence: Poems | Rhina Polonia Espaillat
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Eggs 💔❤️‍🩹 1mo
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The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger | Lisbeth Zwerger
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#CharacterCharm Day 9: #FairyElfPixie in this Lisbeth Zwerger collection entitled “Wonderment” - not on Litsy‘s database. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-b71

Eggs Beautiful 🤩 2mo
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The Seasons of Parastoo | Rashin Kheiriyeh
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#CharacterCharm Day 8: Parastoo‘s (which means “swallow bird” in Farsi) mother had to leave to serve as a #nurse during wartime. There is a layer of authenticity to the narrative as it appears the story is culled from Kheiriyeh‘s own experience as she dedicates the book to her own mother who served as a nurse during wartime, & grandfather who used to make nests for the parastoo in his house in Iran. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r7H

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 2mo
Eggs Gorgeous 🫶🏻 2mo
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#CharacterCharm Day 7: #Elderly - apparently I am using the wrong prompts 🤦🏽‍♀️Must have been jetlagged when I saw it. Lols.

Eggs It happens🥳😍 2mo
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