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Leftcoastzen

Joined June 2016

“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson
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Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel | Larry McMurtry
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#Bibliophile #PulitzerWinner Very worthy of all the love it gets ! Incredible read #chunkster

Eggs Agree absolutely 💯 3h
Texreader Yes!!! 3h
Ruthiella Agreed! 👍 3h
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Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth
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#Bibliophile #NewburyWinner published in 1930 It‘s probably one of the reasons I love cats and have some compassion.

Eggs How precious❤️ 🐾 1d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🐾 ❤️ 17h
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TheBookHippie This can end at anytime if republicans had a backbone or ethics or even morals…. 2d
Librarybelle Exactly, @TheBookHippie ! If all congressional members, no matter political leaning, actually took a stand, it would be a massive help. (edited) 2d
Scochrane26 They all infuriate me. And that‘s before I start freaking out about Medicaid cuts. 2d
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Puzzle was on sale , I know this book will take awhile. I stubbed 2 toes this afternoon, not thrilled. Guess I will have to keep it up & read the rest of the afternoon.

Ruthiella Ouch! The danger of open toed shoes! 2d
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella well , I was barefoot in my house , you think I would remember where all the corners in my house actually are by now ! 😂 2d
TheBookHippie I have this same problem… 🫣👣 2d
AnnCrystal Hate when I do that 🙏💝. 2d
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Seen at Barnes & Noble , just feels right! 😂

Suet624 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2d
dabbe 🙌🏻🤩🙌🏻 2d
TheBookHippie Oh need this!!! 2d
AmyG Perfection! 2d
Reggie LOL 2d
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Sophie says happy #Caturday
#CatsOfLitsy

Chrissyreadit She‘s gorgeous! 5d
dabbe #stunningsophie 🖤🐾🖤 4d
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 4d
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Reggie Love those eyes. 4d
DogMomIrene ❤️🐾 4d
RaeLovesToRead Sophie 🥰🥰🥰 15h
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#BOTM #BookMail is the best mail! 👏I have eaten at McNallys Balthazar a few times over the years , I love that place !

TheBookHippie Cannot wait to read it! 1w
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A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomas Hardy
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Found for cheap at a Library store, one even has an old Borders sticker on the back,sigh.

BooksandCoffee4Me I loved the atmosphere at our Borders. I still remember a Friday night date there with my husband when the guitarist Benise was playing. Gosh, that was way back! #tuesdaytunes https://www.benise.com/ 1w
bibliothecarivs Nice! I have that edition of A Laodicean. 1w
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Libraries | Bjarne Hammer
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Libraries are helpful in so many ways .

ElizaMarie I love this! Yay for Libraries! 1w
Ruthiella So very many ways. ❤️ 1w
sarahbarnes I love this. ♥️ 1w
lil1inblue 💓 💓 💓 💓 💓 1w
Tamra Serving all in the community! 1w
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Front Desk | Kelly Yang
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picked this up on indie bkstore day from Changing Hands pop up shop of banned books. The Tangs move to the US for a better life. This book is really upbeat,yet doesn‘t sugar coat how they are exploited by a hotel owner as mom,dad,& daughter Mia do everything to run a motel owned by a guy who only pays them part of the cost of a nights stay. I was joyful to watch them slowly find some success while not losing their empathy. Mia, a super character

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Jailbird: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut
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#Bibliophile #Birds A Jailbird in the stash !

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 1w
Eggs Perfect 🤍 🦜🖤 1w
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FYI I found these reasonably priced cat toys at my local indie pet shop, Made in the US . Buy one rod , lots of different toys to switch out . Of course,had to think how long will they remain inexpensive, where do their materials come from? Stupid tariffs.

AnnCrystal 🆒🐈🐾💝. 1w
Suet624 Think of the money we‘ll save when we only buy two dolls for the beautiful girl child and not 30. I really hate that guy. 1w
Leftcoastzen @Suet624 right ? Oblivious, stupid, & cruel . Living paycheck to paycheck means you probably don‘t have money for even one present!😡I‘m thankful around here there are holiday toy drives ! 1w
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#Bibliophile #BkBasedOnPainting I read all of Blocks Matthew Scudder books , this book is from a more lighthearted series about a gentleman burglar named Bernie Rhodenbarr . Read a few of those too. Enjoyable.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 1w
Eggs Sounds good 🎨 1w
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#Bibliophile #Cats Yep, have some cat books!

willaful Just a few! 2w
Texreader ♥️♥️♥️🐈‍⬛🐈♥️♥️♥️ 2w
Bookwomble 😻 2w
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Librarybelle Gotta love cats! ❤️ 2w
Eggs These are great 👍🏼 🧡 🐈 2w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 👏🏻 😻 1w
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The Shackle | Colette
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Today‘s thrift store finds ! A reissue series from the 1990s . I have several, always great to add to the set ! $1.50 both .Love these covers

AnnCrystal 📚🆒💝. 2w
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#5JoysFriday
1.Still high on Indie Bookstore day! 2 stores & the Tempe Library store.
2. A friend brought me some great Bay Area Sourdough bread.
3.GREAT signs at the May Day meeting of WTF?
4.new kitty lounge and scratcher!
5. Coffee, always coffee!☕️ Thanks for the tag @Eggs

TheBookHippie 🤣♥️🎉✊🏼 2w
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 2w
JenReadsAlot Omg love the sign! 2w
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#Bibliophile #Circus #BOTM I ordered the book version as my selection this month! This prompt was meant to be.😃

Trashcanman 👀 2w
Eggs Perfect 🎪 2w
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May Day | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Happy May Day ! From a company called Radical Tea Towels !

TrishB We have many things from that company in our family 😁 2w
Leftcoastzen @TrishB why am I not surprised!👏👍✊ 2w
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#DynamicDs #Drink I‘ve got a small section! 🥃🍷🍸🍹

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Changing Hands Bookstore | Tempe, AZ (Bookstore)
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#BookHaul #IndependentBookstoreDay the big one ! Fast Boys.. was a free ARC , Tucci & Witch of New York were sale books . Front Desk and Dear Martin were from the Banned Book section. They have great stickers, I also picked up a birthday card ! Hazzah!

LeahBergen Nicely done!! 3w
Hooked_on_books Woohoo! 🥳 3w
Ruthiella Fantastic haul! 👍 3w
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Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen thanks , it was nice to see happy readers shopping 3w
Leftcoastzen @Hooked_on_books thanks , really felt good to visit the bigger store. 3w
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Friends Of The Tempe Public Library | Tempe, AZ (Bookstore)
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#bookHaul political cartoons from -1969 Olifant book. The Wilkersons & The Gift by Hadiz gifting to a friend on a tight book budget. Tempe Public Library store , 16 bucks for all !

bibliothecarivs I love Bertrand Russell. Enjoy! 3w
Leftcoastzen @bibliothecarivs thanks ! A fascinating guy , wanted to know more and /or remember what I forgot about him! 3w
Bookwomble Fantastic book trove 😊 3w
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#caturday Crosby thinking you really bought more books today? We are running out of room!

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
dabbe #cutiecrosby 🖤🐾🖤 3w
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ElizaMarie Awe the baby!!! 3w
Reggie Love the attitude on the face! 2w
Leftcoastzen @Reggie he is the king of attitude! 2w
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Bookmans - Mesa | Mesa, AZ (Bookstore)
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#bookhaul feeling like May Sarton , they happened to have some . I want to read Manzanar, will send on to a friend . I had trade credit, yay!

LeahBergen The Small Room sounds good! 3w
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen I like her writing, hadn‘t seen any in the used store lately. 3w
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Beloved | Toni Morrison
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Today Changing Hands , part of the banned books display . 😡I found I owned or read most of them . Picked up 2 I hadn‘t read .

mcctrish People would probably be offended by the words I just uttered out loud seeing this 🤬#peoplewhosweararesmarterthanaverage😉 3w
Leftcoastzen @mcctrish infuriating! I‘m cussing right along with you! I bought it when it was new & still part of the collection. Reading her other title was life changing! Also on banned lists 3w
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Trashcanman Fuck their morality! They don‘t know the meaning of the word. 3w
Trashcanman @mcctrish ❤️😘 3w
mcctrish @Leftcoastzen I think one should feel pride when their art makes people uncomfortable and @Trashcanman it‘s their shame not their morality that makes them assholes 👏🏻👏🏻 3w
Reggie This makes me so sad. I read this for the first time last year. 2w
Leftcoastzen @Reggie it makes me sad too . 2w
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A pop up shop inside Changing Hands Tempe , Az. I heard the conversations of teachers & staff talking of all the controversies & challenges. Hey , I know that most Littens are profoundly aware of all of this , I was happy to see customers who are discovering for the first time the extent of this BS !

Hooked_on_books That‘s great visibility! Good for them for bringing attention to this. 3w
BarbaraBB What a great initiative. 3w
TieDyeDude 😍 2w
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Changing Hands Bookstore | Tempe, AZ (Bookstore)
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TieDyeDude 😍 2w
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You know what to do if you can! 😂👏📚📚📚

JenReadsAlot I just did! Lol 3w
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My Dark Places | James Ellroy
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#DynamicDs #Dark James Ellroys mother Jean was found murdered in suburban LA , left by the side of the road , murderer never found , case closed . James was only 10. He feels that his obsession with his mom‘s memory is largely responsible for his crime novels set in L.A. This book is part memoir , part story of Ellroy working with Detective Bill Stoner to see if even so many years later there is something to be learned about the case.

Read-n-Bloom Sounds really interesting! 3w
Eggs Stacked 👏🏻 3w
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You | Caroline Kepnes
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Picking up an Emily Dickinson bust to use as weapon? It has to be “You” season 5 ! Netflix

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The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce
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#DynamicDs #Devil One from my mom‘s collection.

LeahBergen That‘s a pretty Folio edition! 3w
Eggs Beautiful 😻 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous ❤️ 3w
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Keep going everyone!

Librarybelle That‘s a great sign! 4w
TheBookHippie Oh I like that one!!! 4w
Leftcoastzen @TheBookHippie right?! Nice ! 4w
dabbe 🤣✊🏻♥️ 4w
BarbaraBB 👌🏽❤️ 4w
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Ruthiella 👍👍👍 4w
Jari-chan 💯 4w
Trashcanman 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💯💯💯 4w
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Susanita EXACTLY! 4w
lil1inblue ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 4w
dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 4w
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#DynamicDs #Doll
I love Ibsen, maybe time for a reread !

dabbe Love this play! 😍 4w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4w
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Thrifted today ! Escoffier is from 1941 no extra charge for the sauce splatters, Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book 1928.

Tamra So much love they‘ve seen! 4w
Leftcoastzen @Tamra Right ?! That is definitely part of the charm. 4w
TheKidUpstairs I LOVE old cook books! What great finds! 4w
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LeahBergen So cool! 4w
AnnCrystal 🤩😍💕📚💝. (edited) 4w
Leftcoastzen @TheKidUpstairs me too ! Fun to read the way culture changes , even if you don‘t make anything! 4w
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen couldn‘t resist 4w
Lcsmcat The splatters tell you which recipes are good. Or at least which ones were made the most. 😀 4w
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Book Gallery | Phoenix, AZ (Bookstore)
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Holmes ! Looking at you @dabbe 😁

TheBookHippie ♥️ 4w
dabbe You know I am #sherlocked! Thanks for sharing! 🤩♥️🤗 4w
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Ooh my , well feeling seen ! 😁 https://www.readyourcolor.com/take-the-assessment
Thanks @Ruthiella !

TheBookHippie I‘m blue as well!!! 1mo
Ruthiella Awesome! I was 30% blue! 👍 1mo
Aims42 Another member of the blue crew 💙 1mo
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BarbaraBB I was 30% blue but to be honest very few of the 24 blurbs appealed to me 1mo
TheLudicReader Thanks for sharing your results. I wasn‘t fussed by many of the blurbs either, @BarbaraBB & @CarolynM yet I still managed to get a colour that reflected my reading tastes relatively accurately. 😁 1mo
Liz_M I thought the quiz was determining what genre you read -- romance, sci-fi, fantasy, self-help. My result was blue (the only blurbs that felt vaguely “regular“ fiction), but I am absolutely a purple reader. 1mo
dabbe 💙 1mo
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#WondrousWednesday on Thursday!
1.Daffodils! But I live in the desert southwest so the daffodils are here in Jan./Feb. Actually, the roses have already bloomed and are fading fast.
2.Grateful for my cats , friends,& baseball!⚾️
Thanks @Eggs for the tag!

dabbe Daffies are my fave, too! 🩵🌼🩵 1mo
Leftcoastzen @dabbe great minds think alike! 😂 1mo
Eggs Thanks for playing 🥳 1mo
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Ok , who remembers this ? 😁

Avanders … did it work??? 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Avanders yes!😁 1mo
Avanders Crazy - I definitely could have benefited from something like that! 🫢 1mo
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Leftcoastzen @Avanders they still make them . Looked them up !😁 1mo
Avanders 😯 ooooh will have to check that out! 1mo
dabbe 🎯💙🎯 1mo
Leftcoastzen @dabbe I told my friend , she started telling me about her mom‘s Bedazzler ! Remember those ? 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Avanders they have old ones on EBay , of course I‘d be asking if they work !😁 1mo
vlwelser Um no but I sort of want one. 1mo
dabbe @Leftcoastzen My grandma had one and make t-shirts for my sister and me! 🪩🪩🪩 1mo
AnnCrystal 🧵🔘🪡🆒💝. 1mo
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Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak
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#DynamicDs #Doctor Hello , captain obvious !😁

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo
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Waterstone's guide to books | Waterstone & Company
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From April 4th edition of Shelf Awareness. 😡

TheBookHippie Yup😵‍💫 1mo
AnnCrystal 🥺 while I support local for eco reasons, I know that this all is going to be very difficult...and frustrating... (edited) 1mo
LeahBergen I saw that Blackwells had the same sort of problem with US shipping, too. 😞 1mo
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#DynamicDs #Dots so they aren‘t perfectly round , I think they still qualify as dots ! 😁

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🩶❤️ 1mo
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#DynamicDs #Doorway I read this long ago . People read it a lot in the drug infused 60s Huxley wrote both in the 1950s.

Eggs Perfection 👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
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dabbe 👊🏻♥️🎯 1mo
Trashcanman I love Zappa! His music and his mind. I feel he was a genius. 1mo
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Leftcoastzen @Trashcanman I agree. I shamelessly lifted this from Bluesky ! 🦋 1mo
AmyG I agree @Trashcanman about his genius. 1mo
BkClubCare Yikes 1mo
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Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger
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#DynamicDs #DoubleLetterTitle An all time favorite!

Trashcanman One of my favorites too 1mo
Leftcoastzen 😁I might have guessed! 1mo
jen_the_scribe I read some of J.D. Salinger‘s work as a teenager and always loved it. Haven‘t read this one though, so stacked! 1mo
Eggs Well done👏🏻 1mo
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Thanks for the tag, @Eggs
#ThreeListThursday #TLT 73 of 100 ! Yay!
So many ! Gangs Of New York , Field Of Dreams, Goodfellas , Pulp Fiction, Sideways……

dabbe W🤩WZA! Fab choices, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵💙🩵 1mo
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story | Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Company
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Time I get to this one . @Librarybelle suggested the tag #RealHistory @dabbe suggested #HonestHistory Remembering the sanitary history of my school days , I remember thinking, is this all there is? Doesn‘t seem some people, stories are left out ? Over the years there are more options available. Older ones below.

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Count My Lies | Sophie Stava
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Well , I didn‘t read it as fast as some of the reviewers, but I did enjoy this twisty thriller. Sloane lies about nearly everything, she had a rough beginning and uses her fibs to make her life more interesting than it is. She meets a handsome father with his lovely daughter at a the park, maybe a nanny gig ? Maybe something else ? Getting close to this family may be more than she bargains for !

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Mill on the Floss | George Eliot
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#HashTagBrigade @BarkingMadRead
I wish it was a full set , it isn‘t ! Will read the first chapter tonight.

BarkingMadRead So cool! 1mo
Bookwormjillk 😍😍😍 1mo
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#DynamicDs #Detective #OldSchool The tagged book is a collection of stories , The Maltese Falcon brought us Sam Spade , The Big Sleep , Phillip Marlowe .
Humphrey Bogart played both of those roles , & as you can see from the cover , Robert Mitchum played Marlowe in a remake . Good stuff !

Eggs Excellent stuff 👏🏻 1mo
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