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Librariana

Librariana

Joined September 2016

Auntie, 💜방탄 ARMY, coffee drinker. Hello Kitty fan, INFJ-T, library employee 📚 Made in 🇲🇽 Mrs. with an MLS 🌲 PNW gal ⭐️ Virgo ♍️
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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A very small #progressreport for the #NovelNovember #Readathon (ALL the hashtags!), but happy to've finished 2 books and be on track to finish a 3rd (even if one of the two books was a quick little picture book!)

@Andrew65

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1w
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Meant to upload this yesterday, but it was a busy day in our neck of the woods with plenty of errands and outdoor Christmas decorating.

I've got some slightly ambitious plans, but my goals are:
? Finish "Pumpkinheads" and "While Idaho Slept"
? Make progress on "Haunted House" (pg. 300?) and "Home Edit" (pg. 175)
? Read 2 adorable picture books
? Start up on 2 reads I've been postponing for far too long!

#NovelNovember #readinggoals @Andrew65

Andrew65 Best of luck 😁 (edited) 1w
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Texas game on the TV (HOOK 'EM! ??), Thanksgiving tree up and sparkly, with a hubby to my right and a cup of coffee to my left, while I continue reading "How to Sell a Haunted House" by Grady Hendrix.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

ShyBookOwl Loved this one! 4w
Librariana @ShyBookOwl My husband did, too! 😊 I'm just a much slower reader than he is. Right now, I'm finding it VERY difficult to like the brother a whole lot. He's being so infuriating and irritating! 4w
Librariana @ShyBookOwl I'm currently on pg. 140 or so and they're cleaning out the living room of all the creepy dolls. 4w
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Fangirl, Vol. 3: The Manga | Rainbow Rowell,Sam Maggs
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Currently reading.

? How to Sell a Haunted House has been slow going for me, but I'm sticking with it.

? While Idaho Slept has been a tough one about the murders of 4 college students in Moscow, ID.

And the tagged title - vol. 3 of the Fangirl manga - qualifies for the November #TBRtarot prompt! "Choose a book... which has a person on the cover" ?

@CBee

CBee YAY SIS 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4w
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Outside, it is my favorite kind of day - gloomy, foggy - and inside, I'm spending it in my new favorite place - cozy under a blanket, accompanied by candlelight, reading... and getting over COVID 😔

Didn't think Lady 'Rona and I would become acquainted... but here we are.

quietlycuriouskate That looks like a very healing place to be! 4w
ravenlee Oh, I‘m sorry she caught up to you. Hope you get better soon. Your sanctuary looks lovely, at least. 4w
Librarybelle Hope you feel better soon! Your home library looks amazing! 4w
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Hooked_on_books That looks so perfect! You know, except the COVID part. 😉 Hope you mend up fast and get lots of reading in. 4w
JamieArc It seems she is meeting lots of new people lately! My spouse and I got Covid in September for the first time. Turns out we weren‘t the unicorns we thought we were. 4w
BookmarkTavern Good vibes for a quick and complete recovery! 4w
ChaoticMissAdventures oh no!! I hope you are feeling better quickly.
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Librariana @quietlycuriouskate Thank you! My husband and I spent a couple of months working on this home library project, and I am slowly but surely adding touches and details to make it the absolute perfect cozy spot my child self grew up dreaming of 🥰 4w
Librariana @ravenlee Thank you kindly 😊 I'm pretty sorry she caught up to me, too! I thought I had escaped her clutches, but after 3 years, she finally got me. 4w
Librariana @ravenlee And thank you for referring to this space as a sanctuary 🥰 I think that is the perfect word for it! Now I just gotta tackle the scary, scary closet 😳 4w
Librariana @Librarybelle Thank you so much for your sweet compliments about the home library and for your kind well wishes! 💜 I tested positive this past Sunday and qualified for a medication due to being high risk. I'm very grateful there was something I could take to keep the virus from multiplying and grateful to've been vaccinated already. It kept my symptoms rather mild. 4w
Librariana @Hooked_on_books Thank you so much, Holly! 💜 A very humbling compliment. I agree that the COVID part is anything BUT perfect. I genuinely wasn't expecting it! Thought it was just a cold. Good thing I tested before going to work! I felt pretty cruddy until Tuesday, so I was rather lethargic and with little energy for much. Have read a little more the past two days and am hoping for more reading this weekend 😊 4w
Librariana @JamieArc I am right there with ya! ? I was like, "Am I gonna be one of those shiny, happy people who doesn't get it!??" And then I thought... wow... that must mean I have no social life ? And I mean... I DON'T... but that's beside the point ? I'm sorry you and your spouse BOTH got a visit from Corona! My husband is still testing negative, so here's to hoping it misses him completely! 4w
Librariana @BookmarkTavern Thank you, kindly! I feel like I am on the mend! 😊 Symptoms have definitely subsided, thank goodness. 4w
Librariana @ChaoticMissAdventures Thank you, Shawna! 💜 I was just really scared it would progress to something severe or that I'd need to go to the hospital, and I am *very* grateful that did not happen. As a high-risk individual, I qualified for a medication that helped keep the virus from multiplying. My symptoms have certainly subsided. 4w
marleed Your space is wonderful and thank goodness Covid could be tackled when it found its way to you! 4w
Librariana I agree 1,000% @marleed ! My husband and I remarked on the same thing... how grateful we both were that this happened to me NOW vs. at the beginning of the pandemic... when we were still figuring things out. I'm grateful to've been recently vaccinated and to have medication on hand that could help! 😊💕 4w
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The book-buying ban held... until June, when we went on our family trip to Utah, and I couldn't resist an indie bookstore in Moab. And yesterday, I added 2 more titles to the collection - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and Shark Heart.

Home library organization is still going strong, and some shifting is happening... along with some weeding.

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The Home Library | Brander Matthews
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It's move-in day 🥰🥰🥰
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I should probably elaborate... 😉

After months of cutting, affixing, sanding, priming, and painting (and then going on a family trip to Utah... and then deciding to paint the trim to match the baseboards), we're finally finished with our #homelibrary project. Yay!!

Now, on to the fun part - bringing aaaallllll the books back and deciding where everything is going to go...

ChaoticMissAdventures Those bookcases look gorgeous!! How exciting! 4mo
Librariana @ChaoticMissAdventures Thank you!! 😊😊 It feels SO good to finally be done with this project and be moving books back on. I'm slowly moving small piles and just putting things in general areas to get an idea of how things will be organized. I want to take my time and enjoy it... but I also want to be able to know where things are - lol! 4mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Librariana one of my favorite things is just organizing the books!! 4mo
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5feet.of.fury Nice! The shelves are so pretty! 4mo
Cinfhen Wow!!! That‘s incredible!! Beautiful 🤩🙌🏻🎉 4mo
Hooked_on_books It looks amazing! 😍 4mo
Kimberlone 😍 4mo
marleed Those shelves are gorgeous. Book arranging is a favorite aspect in my book management hobby! 4mo
Christine Wow, beautiful!! 4mo
Librariana @ChaoticMissAdventures I went out to lunch with some friends and I was eager to come back home so I could keep working! 😆🤣 4mo
Librariana @5feet.of.fury @Christine @Cinfhen @Hooked_on_books @Kimberlone @marleed Thank you all for mirroring my own excitement and for being so generous with your kind compliments. It was a labor of love and I consider myself very fortunate to get to enjoy it 😁😊😊😊 4mo
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Pageboy: A Memoir | Elliot Page
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A deeply personal and fiercely honest memoir written in thoughtful prose. At many times, vulnerable and heart-wrenching when exploring gender dysphoria and transition, while also including both infuriating details about unwelcome sexual advances and intimate details about consensual encounters.

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Librariana The anecdotal style was certainly refreshing and easier to engage with in audiobook format, but could've perhaps benefitted from a more chronological arrangement vs. its non-linear narrative. 4mo
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In Limbo | Deb JJ Lee
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It can be a monumental challenge to capture the idiosyncrasies of youth, mental health, and high school friendships in a graphic memoir... but to do so while also tackling the intersections of race, culture, family, and identity is quite the feat.

Lee tackled these subjects with grace and honesty in a stunningly delicate and detailed illustrative style that, although entirely monochromatic, beautifully complimented the themes depicted.

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Pageboy: A Memoir | Elliot Page
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"Hollywood is built on leveraging queerness. Tucking it away when needed, pulling it out when beneficial while patting themselves on the back. Hollywood doesn't lead the way... it responds, it follows, slowly and far behind.

The depth of that closet, the trove of secrets buried, indifferent to the consequences. I was punished for being queer while I watched others be protected and celebrated." -- Elliot Page

Hooked_on_books I loved this book. And love him! 5mo
Librariana @Hooked_on_books 😍😍 He's a great writer! I find his prose/writing style to be very... literary? Lyrical? I don't know how else to describe it. I do appreciate his raw honesty, but it also makes me quite sad to learn about people being mean to him. Hurts my heart! 5mo
Hooked_on_books @Librariana It hurts my heart, too, but sadly doesn‘t surprise me. I feel like deep down he has a lot of strength. He‘s a great example to trans folks going through abuse and trauma to give them strength. I‘m so glad for that. 5mo
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Spinning Around | Catherine Jinks
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Complimentary spin titles.

#Bookspin is Historical Fiction with a dash of Mystery; #Doublespin is a Young Adult Fiction, modern retelling of "Sense and Sensibility" with a sprinkle of Mystery... and a dash of nutmeg ?

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July #Bookspin list ?

Currently listening to # 16 - "Pageboy: a Memoir" by Elliot Page (57%).

Currently reading # 6 - "In Limbo" a graphic memoir by Deb JJ Lee (46%).

Still searching through stacks of books on the floor to find what I'm looking for. Some days are more successful than others.

Bookshelves have been sanded and will need to be primed and painted next. I can see the light at the end.

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Quietly Hostile | Samantha Irby
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⭐️⭐️⭐️
Samantha Irby is hilarious.
And although there were a few essays that weren't exactly my cuppa (porn preferences, toilet tales, and gastrointestinal anecdotes), there was plenty of her signature self-deprecating humor and spot-on observations to carry this collection through. I especially loved "The Last Normal Day," "How to Look Cool in Front of Teens?", and "Please Invite Me to Your Party."

#audiobook #pantone2023 @Clwojick

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You know it's gonna be a fabulous day in the library when THESE type of standing orders come in!

I feel equal parts amused and delighted and nostalgic... and slightly MORTIFIED that we are "flashing back" to the '80s and '90s. That was my youth!!

#easyreaders

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#SundayFunday @ozma.of.oz

I can't say I *always* pay attention to a book's publisher, but when I like a book and appreciate some detail about it, I have to look at the copyright page.

I've noticed a pattern in loving:
• travel guides by DK Eyewitness. I adore their photography, layouts, and their illustrations of buildings' interiors.
• graphic novels by First Second as well as Graphix.
• titles by Quirk Books and Scholastic Press.

Cinfhen This post really caught my eye!! Beautiful graphics 🥰and of course im always happy to see a post from you 6mo
BookmarkTavern How cool! Thanks for providing so many examples! ❤️ 6mo
Librariana @Cinfhen - Aawww! Thank you for always being so kind and complimentary, Cindy! 🥰🩷 I'm so humbled! 6mo
Librariana @ozma.of.oz - Thank you for the fabulous prompt and for letting me play along! As @Cinfhen ⬆️ has come to know about me, I'm very visual when it comes to my examples and love to build digital collages 😄😁😊 6mo
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On October 1st, 2015, students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, lost a professor and 8 of their peers to a mass shooting. Kindra Neely, a survivor, shares her experiences coping with this tragic event and with the effects of her PTSD in her debut graphic memoir.

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Librariana (1 of 1) Given the subject matter, this book will not be for everyone, but for me, it was a necessary window into the life of someone affected by this preventable form of violence which is shamefully becoming commonplace in our country. 6mo
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Hello friends!
A month or two in, and we've made some progress on the home library. IKEA Billys (and extenders!) were assembled, original bookcases were donated to loving homes, paint was ordered, and additional trim supplies were purchased. Wekends never seem long enough, and we've had to juggle complete dedication to this project with errands and prior commitments, but we're getting closer to me knowing, with certainty, where my books are 😁

Librariana @Cinfhen - Hi Cindy! 👋😁 I promise I'm still around 😄😊 I realize I've been very quiet and absent; I blame my books being in stacks on the floor for that (I don't know where anything is!). My reading life feels like it's taken a hit and is in a bit of disarray, but I do hope that once the library is all finished, I can get myself into a better mental and physical space. Thank you for thinking of me and sweetly checking in! 💜 7mo
Cinfhen Can‘t wait to see the finished product and I‘m soooo glad to know all is well xxx miss you 😘 7mo
TheSpineView How exciting! 7mo
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JamieArc Very excited to see the finished space! 7mo
ravenlee Looks great! So excited to see it when you‘re done! 7mo
marleed Beautiful! I love it! I have a spare bedroom lined in white Billy‘s but my old house walls are too low for extensions. Yours look great! 7mo
ChaoticMissAdventures Nice!! How exciting to see it start to come together. Big projects like this make it tough to read, and really tough for social media use. Hope everything goes smoothly. 7mo
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Playing catch-up on #Pantone2023 😁
@Clwojick

Clwojick Well done! 8mo
Cinfhen Hi Ana! Feel like I haven‘t “seen” you around in a while😔Hope all is well xx 7mo
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The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bummed to learn that this would be the end of the "Great Cities" series for N.K. Jemisin... That where the author had planned for a trilogy, this became a duology. It saddens me to learn of innovative writers losing steam with a project, but I can't fault Ms. Jemisin for doing so considering she was writing this in the middle of the pandemic! An emotionally-draining time of great turmoil and uncertainty indeed.

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Librariana (1 of 1) I so loved the idea of cities "coming to life", being represented by human avatars that embodied the essence of their boroughs and citizens, fighting a battle with metaphysical constructs and concepts against forces wanting to bend them into submission through assimilation and gentrification. The ending, although concise, felt... hopeful. But I will certainly miss its characters, especially Padmini (Queens), who I grew quite fond of. 8mo
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Spinning Around | Catherine Jinks
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Late to the party, but always delighted to be here 😁😊🥳

Many #TBRtarot titles that I DO genuinely want to get to (and am excited about!) as well as plenty of #Roll100 choices.

Not entirely certain how this will work out with so many of my books on the floor in a very haphazard, loose genre arrangement, but I'll figure it out! 😉

#Bookspinlist @TheAromaofBooks @CBee @PuddleJumper

CBee Let me know how you like The Ten Thousand Doors! I‘m still thinking about Once and Future Witches 😍 8mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 8mo
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The Home Library | Brander Matthews
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This is what 15 years of marriage looks like in book form.

97% of the books are mine. My husband claims... maybe about a total of 40. We haven't counted them 😳

Some came into the wedded bliss chapter with me; the majority of them have been acquired since.

As I shared at the beginning of the year (for this VERY visually OBVIOUS reason!), I haven't purchased any since January 1st and have been gifted a total of 5.

I regret nothing.

Hooked_on_books This picture is absolutely delicious! 😍 8mo
Librariana @Hooked_on_books 🥰 Glad our books could be a visually decadent snack 😁😊 8mo
Librariana @Hooked_on_books P.S. I'm looking forward to the day when the home library project is finished, but for now, I'm grateful we've started! And grateful my husband (Jeremy) enjoys carpentry! This is gonna be a labor of love, but we want to hack the bookshelves to make them look like faux built-ins. So excited! 😆😆🥳 8mo
Hooked_on_books That sounds fabulous! I can‘t wait to see the finished product! I‘m sure it‘ll be worth all the sweat and frustration. 8mo
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We are bidding farewell to the old shelves... and entering our Billy era.

marleed I have an entire spare room lined in Billy shelves. I love them. And every shelf is stacked with books! So, my reading room and everyone‘s favorite space in my house! 8mo
Librariana @marleed ??? That sounds absolutely heavenly! We won't have quite an entire room lined, but we will have one wall decked out in Billy with 4 bookcases stretching to the ceiling ? I already have a little couch set up in there and will bring in some ottomans once the home library "faux built-in" project is complete. Can't wait to make it a super cozy spot! 8mo
Reggie Have you been watching Rupaul‘s Drag Race? Because they had a lot eras this season. If not, ignore me. It‘s just that, the girls kept referencing what era they were in so much it became hilarious. 8mo
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Librariana @Reggie Oh, I am ABSOLUTELY watching! I love me some RPDR! And I totally added 'era' not only as a nod to Ms. T Swift, but as an homage to Luxx and to MIB *repeatedly* using it! It cracks me up! 8mo
Reggie 😁lol nice! 8mo
Librariana @Reggie I should also add that I am not caught up! 😳 I finished watching the Rusical episode last night and am due to watch the makeover and Final Four episodes respectively. I am equal parts #TeamAnetra and #TeamSasha 💖 8mo
Reggie As much as I love MIB and Anetra, I want Sasha to take it. The Rusical was fantastic. It‘s my new favorite alongside the one they did for Madonna when poor Jan should have won, lol. You‘ll like the last 2 episodes. 8mo
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The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin
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Denial won't save us...

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Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, the documentary "Paris is Burning" chronicled the New York City Ballroom culture of the time, introducing us to its drag queen-organized pageants, and to a small cast of its iconic participants, among them performers such as Dorian Corey (who made headlines posthumously when a mummified body was found in her closet) and Pepper LaBeija, as well as Angie and Venus Xtravaganza.

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Librariana (1 of 3) These competitions showcased contestants 'walking' a fashion category (much like a model on a runway) and representing their 'houses' - surrogate families that provided (oftentimes runaway) LGBTQ youth with shelter and support.

One of these was the legendary House of Xtravaganza, also known as "The House of Impossible Beauties" where the tagged title takes its name.
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Librariana (2 of 3) I watched "Paris is Burning" well more than 10 years ago and oftentimes wondered about its protagonists, curious about where the future might take them.

This fictionalized account gives us brief glimpses into the lives of Angel, Venus, Juanito, and Daniel, four characters who are all inspired by and modeled after some of the House of Xtravaganza's most famous members
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Librariana (3 of 3) with Venus being the one who most closely resembles her real life counterpart both in name and sadly, in the manner of her untimely and tragic death. 8mo
Librariana ❗️ If you should choose to read this book, please do so knowing that it tackles the difficult and heartbreaking realities that sometimes accompany gender expression and identity. Content warnings for detailed and graphic descriptions of drug addiction, sex work, terminal illness, transphobia, and suicide. 8mo
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The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin
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In recent weeks, my eyes have begun to let me know (in subtle and LOUD ways!) that my computer-heavy job is taking a toll on them. After a visit to the optometrist, I was diagnosed with SPK (superficial punctate keratitis) - a (treatable!) ocular surface disease that affects the cornea, decreasing vision and causing the eye to become red, watery, and sensitive to light.

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Librariana 1 of 2 - All that to say... I'm trying to take better care of my vision 😁😊🧐🤓😎 I'm still reading!... but I'm also resting my eyes more frequently and listening to audiobooks, taking omega-3 supplements, applying drops and hot compresses. Fun stuff! 🙃 I chose to re-read Book 1 of the Great Cities duology (4⭐️) and am now almost 8hrs into its sequel. 8mo
Librariana 2 of 2 - Thank you for checking in on me @CBee (my kindred spirit sister from another mister!) 💜 and Thank you @Andrew65 as well as @Clwojick for continuing to tag me in readathon and reading challenge posts. I appreciate y'all making me feel included 😌 8mo
Librarybelle So good to hear you have a treatment plan in place and you finally have answers! 8mo
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CBee @Librariana so sorry about your eye issues! Glad to hear it‘s treatable and that you‘re doing better 💚 8mo
Librariana @CBee @Librarybelle I mean, I'm already a slow-as-molasses type of reader that's comically delusional about "reading multiple books simultaneously means I read more!" So now I'm just reading (listening to ?) one book and trying to spend less time on my phone (these little screens!) But yes! Thank you both! I'll be taking more intense, steroid-based eye drops soon and am grateful for a treatment plan/course of action ? 8mo
Clwojick So glad it‘s treatable! Take it easy, and keep those headphones nice and charged up for audiobooks ☺️ I‘d say about 80% of my reads are audiobooks, so let me know if you ever need a recommendation. 🎧 8mo
Andrew65 Sorry to hear the problem you are having with your eyes, but pleased to know the issue has been diagnosed and even better that it is treatable. Sending love and best wishes and enjoy sone good audiobooks. ❤️ 8mo
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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Here is my February #BookSpinList ?

My #BookSpin is "The Midnight Library" and my #Doublespin is "This Time Tomorrow".

Goal for the month is to read! ? And to get some of my sweet #TBRtarot as well as #Roll100 selections off their respective lists.

Fingers crossed ?? for a better reading month than January! ❄️

My gratitude to @TheAromaofBooks @CBee @PuddleJumper for all they do to help us add even more joy to our reading ?

CBee Awwwww sis! Btw, The Midnight Library is EXCELLENT as is Station Eleven. But Midnight has a special place in my heart 😊 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 10mo
CBee Hi! Just checking on you, sis! 😊😊 @Librariana (edited) 8mo
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#ManicMonday on a very late Tuesday, but here I am swooning over this lovely lemon 🍋 yellow 💛 picture background, thinking about the #LetterY 😁😊 @CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures

📚 The Year of Magical Thinking [Didion], Yes Please [Poehler], You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got... [Knight], You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [Alexie]
🖊 Yakoub, Nastasia; Yancey, Rick; Yang, Gene Luen

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Librariana 🎬 Yesterday (2019), You've Got Mail
🎤 Yann Tiersen, Yiruma, Young the Giant
🎶 Yellow [Coldplay]; Yet to Come [BTS 💜]; You [Charlotte Lawrence]; You And Me [The Cranberries]; You Are My Joy [Reindeer Section]; You Might Not Like Her [Maddie Zahm]; you'd never know [Blü Eyes]; Your Power [Billie Eilish]; You're On Your Own, Kid [Taylor Swift]
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vivastory Great choices! I almost included Yes Please 👏 10mo
CBee Happy Wednesday, sis! Awesome choices 😊😊 10mo
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Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
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My husband and I both greatly enjoyed listening to Trevor Noah narrate stories from his childhood. Although at times tackling very difficult moments and traumatic experiences in his life, we appreciated the frankness and humor with which he approached these topics. His mom's grace and wisdom were also especially admirable.

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick

Clwojick Great match! 10mo
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#ManicMonday #LetterW @CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures

📚 Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod [Kesinger]; We Don't Eat Our Classmates [Higgins]; We Were Liars [Lockhart]; The Weird Sisters [Brown]; Where I Live [Spinelli]; Will Grayson, Will Grayson [Green & Levithan]; Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death [Doughty]; With the Fire on High [Acevedo]

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Librariana (1 of 2) 🖊 Walls, Jeannette; Weinstein, Alexander; Westerfeld, Scott; Wiesel, Eli; Willems, Mo; Wilson, G. Willow; Woodson, Jacqueline
🎬 WALL-E, Waitress, A Walk to Remember, Warm Bodies, The Wedding Singer, What Dreams May Come, Wonder Woman (2017), World War Z
📺 Walking Dead, WandaVision, Wednesday, What We Do in the Shadows (Guillermo!! 🥰), Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, The Witcher (Henry Cavill era only!)
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Librariana (1.5 of 2) 🎤 The Wallflowers, The Weeknd, Weezer, WINNER (K-Pop)
🎶 Wait [M83], Walking on Sunshine [Katrina & The Waves], Waltz With Me [Tonic], WANNABE [ITZY], We Are Bulletproof: the Eternal [BTS 💜]
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Librariana (2 of 2) 🎶 When You Think of Me? [JP Saxe], When You're Gone [The Cranberries], Where's My Love (Acoustic) [SYML], Why Am I Like This? [Orla Gartland], Why Does it Always Rain on Me? [Travis], Wild Flower [RM 💜], Wild Horses [The Sundays], willow [Taylor Swift], Wind [Prm.], Wishing [Alexis Ffrench], Would That I [Hozier], WYD Now? [Sadie Jean] 10mo
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CBee WOO GIRL 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 10mo
Librariana @CBee 😁😁 Did you see me having to throw in a 1.5, sis!? Lol! 10mo
CBee @Librariana YESSSSSS amazing 👏🏻👏🏻♥️♥️ 10mo
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Inheritance | Elizabeth Acevedo
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An unapologetic love letter to cultural identity, heritage, and ancestry. A visual poem honoring the beauty of one's complexion, praising the legacy written in the tresses of natural Black hair, and in celebration of self-acceptance.

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick

Clwojick Wow! Spot on! Way to go! 11mo
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These are four book series I definitely want to tackle this year. Here's to hoping this will be the year I stop postponing them!🤞🍀💜📚

#SeriesLove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

catiewithac Simon Snow Forever!! ❄️ #snowbaz ❤️ 11mo
Clwojick Seanan McGuire 💖💖💖 (edited) 11mo
TheSpineView Looks great! Good luck! 11mo
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Kenyazero You have an excellent year ahead of you! 11mo
Andrew65 I love Rainbow Rowell. Looks like you have a good year of reading ahead. 11mo
CBee I need to read the last book of the Rowell series 🤦‍♀️ And I plan to finally read Psalm! 10mo
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Let the tardiness continue! 🥳🍾🥂

I genuinely *DID* want this to be the year of organization, mindfulness, and *planning*... of being *prepared*... and I know it still CAN be... but being a perfectionist always throws a wrench into the works and I get paralyzed. I wanted to have beautiful written journal spreads, but here we are. Better late than never! 😁

Above are more of the #readingchallenges I plan to participate in this year. Yay! 💜📚

MatchlessMarie I still haven‘t figured out all mine yet 😆 thanks for reminding me about Series Love! 11mo
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Always fashionably late to the best Litsy parties in town 😉🥳🍾🥂

Be prepared to see plenty of catch up posts from yours truly for beginning of the year reading plans that I procrastinated on because I a) was too overwhelmed by all the fabulous options and b) let the pursuit of general holiday coziness take over my life. Planning kinda went out the window. I regret nothing. 😁🤩 More to come!

#goodreads #readingchallenge #readinggoals

Clwojick You‘ve got this! ❤️❤️ 11mo
ravenlee Nothing wrong with doing the planning and setup the first week! 11mo
Librariana @Clwojick Thank you for the vote of confidence! ☺️ I've also got my first Pantone read and it was a lovely feeling to be able to complete my first prompt 😁 11mo
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#ManicMonday #LetterU @CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures @Read4Life

📚 The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone [Griffin], Untamed [Doyle], Unwind [Shusterman]
🖊 Ukazu, Ngozi; Usdin, Carly
🎬 Under the Tuscan Sun, Up
📺 The Umbrella Academy, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Unsolved Mysteries
🎤 U2

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Librariana (1 of 1) 🎶 Under the Willow [Brian Crain], Unforgettable [Nat King Cole], Unstoppable [Sia], Us [Regina Spektor], Used To [Wilma Laverne Miner], The Usual (Homework Live Acoustic Sessions) [Sam Fischer] 11mo
CBee Unsolved Mysteries 😻😻 11mo
Read4life Untamed is on my tbr 🤓 11mo
Librariana @Read4life It's been a little while since I read it, but I do hope you enjoy it! 😁😊 I find the relationship between Glennon and her wife Abby to be just darling and sweet. The two of them together are just a hoot! 11mo
Librariana @CBee YAAASSSS, sister! Yas, yas, yaasss! I love the classic AND the revamped, documentary style Netflix went with. 🥰🥰 11mo
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The Most Likely Club | Elyssa Friedland
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These are (were?) my last book purchases of 2022.

I took advantage of Barnes & Noble's 50% Off Sale after Christmas AND bought the top 2 books from a local indie on Friday.

And with that I enter the #NoBuy/#BuyLess zone to #PrioritizeMyShelves in 2023 😁

The only exceptions I plan to make are for pre-orders already made and for gifts (although I'll encourage my family to get creative and think beyond books!)

@CBee @JamieArc @RaeLovesToRead

RaeLovesToRead Glad I'm not alone. Today was day 1 dessert free as well. No book buying... no dessert... how will I survive?!?! 😯😱😅 11mo
rubyslippersreads @RaeLovesToRead You‘re very brave. 11mo
CBee Oooooo 😍😍 Lessons in Chemistry - one of my 2022 faves!! I also look forward to the Joella - have you read his first? 11mo
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CBee @RaeLovesToRead oh honey. I couldn‘t do both 😱😱 You‘re stronger than I!! 11mo
TrishB @RaeLovesToRead 😱 for how long? 11mo
Librariana @RaeLovesToRead Ok, remind me darling, is it gonna be for the WHOLE YEAR!?? Or just for the month of January??? 11mo
JamieArc I plan on limiting myself to 1 book/month, plus two times when I can buy a few later this year. 11mo
Librariana @JamieArc I think that is extremely sensible 😊 I have three pre-orders that happened in 2022 that I look forward to this year 😁 I think the only other times were book gifts might happen are anniversary, birthday, and Christmas. 11mo
RaeLovesToRead @rubyslippersreads @CBee @TrishB @Librariana My plan is to review my goals month by month. So January is a dessert detox (Day 1 and I have a cracking headache 😬😬😬) and for the whole year I need to be CAREFUL about my purchases. I can't say I'm not going to buy anything, but I'm going to do my best. If any special editions come out, I may buy them and give them to Mum to gift me next Xmas 😅😅 It's a space thing as well as a money thing! 😋 11mo
Librariana @CBee Awesome to hear that Lessons in Chemistry was one of your faves! 😁😊 I've heard great things about it from multiple friends. As for the Joella, I'm embarrassed to say... but I've never read anything by him 😳 I added A Quiet Life to our library system's catalog and was very intrigued by the premise. I realize I could've just borrowed it, but there was a holds queue already AND it mirrored the theme of the other memoirs I wanted to pick up. 11mo
Librariana @RaeLovesToRead I promise this is a judgment free zone, hon so you do you! There's no judgment if something is purchased because goodness knows I've already made allowances for pre-orders and special occasions. As for the dessert detox, I do wish you luck 🍀 and hope it just gets easier. Hang in there! 🌈 11mo
CBee @Librariana well, A Little Hope was his first book, so you‘re 1 book away from reading his whole body of work 😂 I enjoyed it! 11mo
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Had I not decided that Psychology and Library Science were my academic paths in life, I think I would've liked to've given graphic design a shot!

I had quite a bit of fun digitally collaging this together 😁☺️

@Tove_Reads @Andrew65 - I humbly submit this image for your consideration for the #OffTheShelf2023 reading challenge. Hope you like it! 💜😊

@JamieArc @RaeLovesToRead

Tove_Reads Cool! Thanks! 😊 I‘m far from a graphic designer myself, so much appreciated 👍🏽 11mo
Andrew65 This is absolutely brilliant @librariana, wish I had 10% of your talent. This is definitely the graphic we will be using and thank you, we might need to put you on commission for future graphics 😂 Happy New Year to you. 11mo
Librariana @Tove_Reads Any time! I'm happy to help and I genuinely enjoy making things like this 😊 11mo
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Librariana @Andrew65 Aawww! *BLUSH* ☺️😊 Thank you so much for that incredibly kind compliment! 💜 In all fairness though, it was just a variety of stock images that I collaged together, but boy, did I have fun doing it! Please know that I am more than happy to be on stand-by any time you need a graphic 😁 Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year filled with lots of opportunities for reading 📚 11mo
Andrew65 @Librariana It may be just pulling together stock images but still very creative in the way you‘ve pulled them together, I don‘t have that creative vision so mine would have looked nowhere as good even with the same images! You may regret offering to do other graphics 😂 but a big thank you. Here‘s wishing you the best possible 2023. 11mo
RaeLovesToRead This is super cute! 😊 11mo
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Heartstopper: Volume 1 | Alice Oseman
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🎶 On the 4th day of Christmas... 🎶

Blame it on Netflix!

This sweet graphic novel makes me want to take all of its main characters, wrap them in a blanket of acceptance, and keep them safe in a little snow globe filled with candy sprinkles. Gives me all the warm fuzzies! 🥰

#12booksof2022 @Andrew65

Andrew65 Looks fun. 11mo
peanutnine Aww I love the image you painted with that description 🥰 11mo
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"Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living" was my favorite March read.

As the owner of a disaster management company, Jensen doesn't shy away from talking plainly about recovery work after mass casualty events, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Grenfell Tower Fire.

Not necessarily a book for everyone but one I found fascinating.

#12booksof2022 @Andrew65

Andrew65 It does sound fascinating. 11mo
tpixie Sounds incredible. And I need to keep purging!! 11mo
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Weekly Forecast | Thomas Gibson Inc
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Meant to post this yesterday, @Cinfhen, but I think yours truly spent WAAAYYY more time fiddling with the image and watching Christmas movies 🎄🎬

It is my sincerest wish to complete at least 2 of the books on the top row this week and to start on the 3 below as well 😁

Because I CANNOT, for the life of me, read one book at a time.

#WeeklyForecast

Cinfhen Well your crafty efforts are FABULOUS ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️Love these graphics 😍Good luck with your reading xx 11mo
rubyslippersreads I always have several books going at once. So did my mom, and now my nephew is carrying on the family tradition. 11mo
Librariana Thank you, @Cinfhen (Cindy!) 😄😁😊 I'm crossing my fingers and toes that I can make the kind of progress that'll make future me proud ☺️ 11mo
Librariana I'm glad to be in good company then, @rubyslippersreads! And glad that your nephew is proudly carrying on the family tradition 😁😊 11mo
kspenmoll Love your collage! 11mo
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Cheating a tiny bit on Day 2 of the #12booksof2022, but I couldn't include one without the other.

My favorite February read was "Alone Together", edited by Jennifer Haupt, and although it took me a while to complete due to its anthology format, it was still a very worthwhile perspective on how folks coped with life during lockdown and with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Love Was Inside" gave a child's view of the same.

@Andrew65

Andrew65 Important times, with important messages. 11mo
Librariana Agreed, @Andrew65! Some of the stories were definitely sad but plenty had uplifting messages of resilience 💜 11mo
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My favorite January read had me reminiscing on old habits (wrapping myself with the chord of the kitchen phone) and beloved objects of the pre-Internet era (Rolodex, anyone?) It was a nostalgic walk down memory lane and provided welcome moments of reflection on things lost (and gained!) Pamela Paul has also written another book I'm looking forward to reading in the new year - My Life With Bob.

#12booksof2022 @Andrew65

Andrew65 Sounds a good nostalgic read. 11mo
tpixie Fun! 11mo
Leftcoastzen Ahhh,love a Rolodex! 11mo
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Last food post of the day! 😁

Spokane is currently experiencing NEGATIVE degree wind chills (as are many other parts of the country, so I know we're not special!) Made for a perfect day to get some chowder!

I shared their clever drink menu earlier, but these were our lunch choices: I had elote corn chowder while hubby had pork carnitas chowder. He had a cheesesteak sandwich with salad and I had a Cuban sandwich with tater tots!

ChaoticMissAdventures Portland isn't supposed to get over 25 the next couple of days I stocked up and am now refusing to leave my house. 11mo
Librariana @ChaoticMissAdventures Don't blame you in the slightest! News is reporting single digit temperatures for the next few days with wind chills in the -20⁰ to -30⁰ range 🥶🥶🥶 I've been off work the last 2 days for routine medical appointments, but hubby and I both have to go to work tomorrow. We'll hunker down the remainder of the evening until we have to venture out for tamales on Friday ☺️ 11mo
mandarchy I'm over here in balmy Thurston Co. The wind chill brings us to 20° and I'm freaking out. 11mo
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Hubby and I are having lunch together at a spot called "Chowderhead" and I love their cheeky drink menu ?

Cold Soups: Drip coffee, Cold brew, Soda can, etc.

Grown-up Soups: Lumberbeard Stout, Trailbreaker Cider, etc.

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Tuesday | David Wiesner
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Thanks for the tag @Read4life 😁😊 And thanks for the #Two4Tuesday questions, @TheSpineView

1. No traveling this year as we have family all over the States. Hubby and I are staying put in the PNW 🥰🎄

2. YES! Oh gosh, yes! It's been snowing 🌨 ❄️ ALL day today and will probably continue to do so well into the next two days. Will likely stick around for the weekend, too before our weather warms up.

Play along if you'd like @CBee 💜

Read4life You‘re welcome. Enjoy your time at home and I hope you have a Merry & white Christmas 🤓❄️ 11mo
TheSpineView Enjoy your white Christmas! Thanks for playing!🤍❄️❤️🎄 11mo
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? I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date! ?
#ManicMonday #LetterT @CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures

? They Call Me Güero [Bowles], They Called Us Enemy [Takei], This Book is Overdue! [Johnson], Twilight: the Graphic Novel (vols. 1 & 2) [Kim]
? Tamiko, Mariko; Tan, Amy; Telgemeier, Raina; Tucholke, April Genevieve; Tung, Debbie
? Transformers ("Autobots, roll out!"), Twilight (I know... It's my cheesy, guilty pleasure movie!)

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Librariana 📺 True Detective
🎤 Tegan and Sara, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Tonic, Travis, TWICE
🎶 Take on Me (all-time, top favorite song in the history of EVER)[A-Ha], Talk that Talk [TWICE], This is Me [Keala Settle]
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CBee Hi 👋🏻 did you have a crazy manic ridiculous Monday like I did? 🫣🤯 11mo
Librariana @CBee ¡Hola hermana! 👋 Hello Sis! And YES!! Oh my gosh, yes. Monday was WHOA 😳😳 And now it's Tuesday and it's been snowing all morning and I have a 2nd doctor's appointment. Y mañana (and tomorrow) dental! It's non-stop before the holidays! 11mo
CBee @Librariana whoa indeed. I‘m just glad Tuesday has been more tame 🫣🫣🫣 11mo
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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Asked Santa for an early Christmas present that'll be a tad delayed as it is a pre-order.

For those who might not know this about me, I am quite fond of the tagged title and greatly enjoy modern retellings of it. Although this is not the latter, it IS a new edition of the classic, designed by Nerdy Ink, due out in February 2023.

I'm in love 🥰 and grateful that the Instagram fairies were smiling down upon me while browsing.

JamieArc Wow! So interesting and gorgeous! 😍 11mo
Librariana @JamieArc I thought so, too! 🥰🥰 It caught me off guard when I saw it on an Instagram ad. I follow the NerdyInk account, but with the algorithm being what it is, I don't always see her posts. I'm so glad I happened upon this one when I did and that I was able to pre-order it! 11mo
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#ManicMonday #LetterS @CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures

📚 Sarah's Key [de Rosnay], The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet [Su], Severance [Ma], The Shadow of the Wind [Zafón], Slothilda [Fabiero], Southern Lady Code [Ellis], Spilling Open [Harrison], Stargirl [Spinelli], Still Alice [Genova], The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry [Zevin]

Cont'd in comments, of course ⬇️😁

Librariana (1 of 2) 🖊 Sáenz, Benjamin Alire; Sebold, Alice; Sepetys, Ruta; Serle, Rebecca; Snider, Grant; Solnit, Rebecca; the Spinellis - Eileen and Jerry; Stevenson, N. D.; Stirling, Danie
🎬 The Sandlot, The Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs, Sleepless in Seattle, The Sixth Sense, Star Wars, Stranger Than Fiction, Super 8, Sweet November
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Librariana (2 of 2) 📺 Schitt's Creek, Sherlock, Stranger Things
🎤 Sara Bareilles, Sara Kays, Sia, Snail Mail, Snow Patrol, Stray Kids, SUGA of BTS 💜
🎶 Serendipity [BTS]; Simply the Best [covers by Billianne & Noah Reid]; Somewhere Only We Know [Keane]; Sparrow [Jump, Little Children]; Sparks & Speed of Sound [Coldplay]; Such Great Heights [The Postal Service]; Suddenly I See [KT Tunstall]
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ChaoticMissAdventures Schitts Creek has given me the best work Gif game of my life! ❤️ 12mo
Librariana @ChaoticMissAdventures - Moira, David, and Alexis are just 🥰🥰🥰 12mo
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This was supposed to be #Day6 for the #WinterReadathonDailyChallenge - celebrating St. Nick.

And the best I could do/find was a picture of our jolly hand sanitizer station last year during the panini. He got new outfits for every major holiday!

Upper left is yours truly with reindeer antlers that light up! (And a festive mask because we had to find small joys where we could get 'em! 😷 )

@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Andrew65 Love this! Tough times and as you say we have to find joy wherever we can. 🎄🎄🎄 12mo
DieAReader 🎄🎄🎄 12mo
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Untitled | Elizabeth Acevedo
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This one goes out to @shortsarahrose 😊

Hooray for pre-orders!

shortsarahrose Yaaaas! 💯 12mo
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"That's the whole point of being a kid. You believe things before the world proves you wrong." -- Marimar Montoya (pg. 44)

Loving this story steeped in magic ?

#WinterReadathon

Linsy Ditto!!! One of my favorite reads of the last few years. 12mo
Librariana @Linsy I am very early into it, but I gotta tell ya... reading about how the letters got to the three grandkids and how each reacted just had me smiling! And just the description of how Orquídea carried her home with her... the symbolism in that... I'm just... 🥰 12mo
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