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MichaelK

MichaelK

Joined January 2019

👋 Books. Cooking. Fly Fishing. Skiing. Catskills⛰
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This was an eye opening and adventurous ride, where non fiction reads like fiction! 💯

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The Way of Shadows | Brent Weeks
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Bailedbailed

Started off great and then it slowly died... I tried and tried and tried once more. Hasta la Vista 👋

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I'm on a big pirate kick right now 🏴‍☠️☠️🦜

CrowCAH Arrr matey, me too! 5y
MichaelK @CrowCAH woah, impressive! You are like the queen of pirates! 👑 🏴‍☠️ 5y
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MichaelK @Gina I haven't read it yet but downloaded it to my Kindle the other day! 5y
Gina Well, let me know if it is worthy of my very finite time! 5y
CrowCAH @MichaelK certainly started as a cabin boy and workin‘ me way up the ranks. I‘m currently editing my own Golden Age of Piracy novel, so I read a lot of piratical books, research, and fantasizing! 5y
MichaelK @Gina will do!!! 5y
MichaelK @CrowCAH woah that sounds awesome! Keep me in the loop. I'd love to check it! 5y
CrowCAH @MichaelK will do; I‘ll make posts on Litsy, too! 5y
MichaelK @CrowCAH yea just let me know how else I can learn more too 5y
CrowCAH @MichaelK besides Litsy, I‘m also on GoodReads, and have an author page on Facebook with my full name Cynthia Anne Hurt. 5y
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The Princess Bride | William Goldman
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tournevis You keep using that word. 5y
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30 pages left and I just want to finish this book!!!

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Feel like this rainy foggy night is fitting for this book 🏴‍☠️

Tamra Beautiful! But no fish? 🐟 5y
MichaelK Big storms tonight. Not in the mood to be struck by lightning ⚡️ 5y
Crazeedi So peaceful!❤ 5y
Tamra Good plan 5y
sprainedbrain Gorgeous photo! 5y
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Omega 3 for dinner

Tamra Love it! 🐟 5y
Nute Yes! 5y
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Been making it a priority to grow, forage and fish for more of my food. Here's my first batch of purple tatters 😁🥔

gradcat Those look great—I love purple potatoes! 🥔 ♥️ 5y
tournevis I love purple (and blue) potatoes. Any non-white/yellow potatoes really. All the heirloom potatoes. Miam. 5y
Texreader Congratulations!! 5y
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Pickpick

For a newbie fly fishing nerd this book was a fun read. 12 hours later and I'm still going --- fireworks probably don't help though 🤔

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Guess the book is working! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Happy 4th y'all! 🇺🇸🍻🥂

Tamra 👍🏾 Was it dinner? 5y
MichaelK @Tamra that little guy went back in the river but hopefully catching dinner today! 5y
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The Punch Escrow | Tal Klein
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After hearing that this is a great book for readers who liked Ready Player One I jumped. But sadly it didn't live up to the hype. I pushed to the end but I should have probably bailed earlier on

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Trying to upgrade my fly fishing skills this summer. Let's see if this book helps 🤷‍♂️🎣

Tamra I love reading beside the water while my husband fly fishes. Very peaceful. Plus, well there is the trout fried in bacon grease later......😆 (edited) 5y
MichaelK @Tamra absolutely! I'm new to fly fishing but I've been loving it! 5y
Tamra @MichaelK my husband does too - “flow state” thing. Where are you fishing? 5y
MichaelK @Tamra completely agree. You can't think of anything else since it takes such concentration. I'm fishing up in the catskills. 5y
Tamra @MichaelK beautiful! 5y
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The Punch Escrow | Tal Klein
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Not a bad day for a new book ☀️

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little homemade meal, some wine and a book. Picked this book up last night. I like the author's other books so let's see how this one does.

Ericalambbrown Looks fantastic! 5y
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Pickpick

Book done and bottle of🍷done. Great book about how a countries passion for their food and wine gave them hope in the darkest of times.

Aims42 I just bought this book at my library‘s used book sale!! Glad you enjoyed it, hoping I do too when I get to it ☺️ 5y
MichaelK @Aims42 you have to drink french wine while you read it. It's the rule... Sorry 😜 5y
Aims42 @MichaelK Haha! Well if it‘s the rule, then it‘s meant to be followed 😆👍🏻 5y
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The rule is that I have to drink french wine while reading this book, right?

Crazeedi Yes 5y
MichaelK @Crazeedi 🍷 🍷 🍷 5y
Crazeedi Cin-cin!!❤️ (edited) 5y
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Walden | Henry David Thoreau
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Reading an old copy of Walden up in mountains 🏔 with some ☕️

monalyisha IDEAL. 5y
MichaelK @monalyisha 👏👏👏 5y
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Sunday morning reads 🚀☄️⭐️🌕

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Great food. Great wine. Great book.

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Pickpick

Today's breakfast skillet is filled with tons of local deliciousness! Just finished up this crazy book. Really enjoyed it. Another eye opening story about how we are overfishing our oceans and the screwed up politics and loopholes that allow people to get away with it.

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Whipped up a soufflé omelette and I'm going to finally finish this book!

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Sunday funday. Cooking up a storm. Finishing off this book... Then binge eating snacks on the couch and watching GoT! ⚔️🐲🔥

Kimberlone That looks so good! 5y
MichaelK @Kimberlone I can confirm that it 100% was amazing! 5y
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So far a pretty interesting read about how timing plays a critical and often unseen role in all aspects on our lives.

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Sometimes (most of the time) it comes down to who you know...

wordzie 5y
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American Gods | Asama Davran
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Tackling another Gaiman book. Once I finish I'll have to watch the show!

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Pickpick

Quite a long read and at times a bit slow but I really enjoyed this book!

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All day skiing. All night reading (and cooking). Still chipping through my late night read. ✌️ night!

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Usually I opt for fiction before bed but this is addicting... and concerning. The future of humanity is going to be wild and unrecognizable. 🙈

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1776: America and Britain at War | David G. McCullough
Pickpick

I'm just a history geek so yea it's 💯

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Mehso-so

I was looking forward to reading this book and queued it up for my flight. Burned through it pretty quickly and in the end it kinda felt half baked. P.S. not sure that volcano should be smoking 🌋🤔

Cinfhen Stunning photo💙 5y
Bookwormjillk Yikes, where is that? 5y
BarbaraBB Echoing @Bookwormjillk ! Great pic by the way 5y
MichaelK @Bookwormjillk @BarbaraBB thanks! It was right outside Mexico City... Pretty crazy! 5y
BarbaraBB Gorgeous! 5y
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After reading Sapiens I've been itching to dive into Homo Deus! Here 👏 We 👏 Go 👏

Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🤗 5y
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Bailedbailed

I tried. I tried so hard. Some people would probably love this book but it got way to deep on sleep studies and experiments to keep me engaged.

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1776: America and Britain at War | David G. McCullough
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Cooking with audiobooks (and wine) is the perfect combo 🍷

CrowCAH Welcome to the Litsy family!!! 📚 5y
MichaelK Thanks 😀 @CrowCAH 5y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Hope you're enjoying Litsy so far 📖💙 5y
Crazeedi Welcome to Litsy !🎉🎉 I want to read this one! 5y
AnimalRiotPress Welcome to Litsy! ❤️ 5y
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Seems like an appropriate book to send me to 😴

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Pickpick

Malcolm Gladwell did an excellent job peeling back the layers of success in order to disprove stereotypes and reveal hidden patterns that can influence and even determine it.

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Perfect Sunday. Skiing with an audiobook. Should be able to finish this book up by end of the day.

Freespirit It looks amazing. 5y
MichaelK It was indeed! @Freespirit 5y
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Mehso-so

Struggled to get through this. Extremely dry writing on a very interesting topic.

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Always like to learn how to optimize and demystify our bodies. But sometimes these books can be a real slog to get through.

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Pickpick

If you are a Homo sapien this is a must read. Actually, it should be a requirement.

Trashcanman Many things in it are similar to Desmond Morris Human Zoo. It is a good read as well but his ideas on human sexuality are frustrating. 5y
MichaelK @Trashcanman Have to take a look. Just picked this up (edited) 5y
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Audiobook because it's far too cold to take my hands out of my pockets today. Stay warm! 🥶🥶🥶

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Subway reads 🚇📘 Should be a quick read on an interesting topic.

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Cold day ❄️ good excuse to hunker down and read about the creation of 🇺🇸. It never ceases to amaze me how much of American history (and history as a whole) came down to luck & chance. That is not to say strategy, diplomacy, grit, logistics, weapons etc didn't play a major part. But luck and chance played such a critical role in the formation of America time and time again. Hope everyone has a great day 👍

BookwormAHN Welcome to Litsy 😺 5y
MichaelK Thanks 😊 @BookwormAHN 5y
Megabooks Welcome to Litsy! 📚👋🏻 5y
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MichaelK Thank you! 👋 @Megabooks 5y
CoffeeNBooks Welcome to Litsy! 📚 5y
MichaelK 💯 thanks!!! @CoffeeNBooks 5y
Kaylamburson Such a pretty view! Is that the Catskills? I always hear wonderful things about up there. Welcome to Litsy!! 5y
MichaelK Hey @Kaylamburson thanks! It sure is the Catskills. It's heaven here and a necessary escape from the city! 5y
Kaylamburson So lovely! I need my own escape room the city. One day! 5y
MichaelK Yup! We all do. 😄 @Kaylamburson 5y
MichaelK Nope! Looks super interesting. Just added it to my massive list 😂 but I'm a sucker for these types of books so it may cut the line @LauraBeth (edited) 5y
LauraBeth That‘s what Litsy is for 😂 5y
MichaelK Learning that pretty quickly 😊 @LauraBeth 5y
RadicalReader @MichaelK love how wonderful Litsy is. Welcome to the most magical place for bookworms aside from the library or ebook library lol that will fill your bookshelves with billions of beautiful reads. I always search up on the library website the amazing books Littens “ users of Litsy as some call them” instantly lol 5y
MichaelK Hey @RadicalReader thanks for the warm welcome! I'm loving it so far and have already picked up a few new books I've found here 😊 5y
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The Way of Shadows | Brent Weeks

Has anyone read this? Just started and can't put it down! 💯

BarbaraJean My husband just picked up a copy of this—good to hear a great recommendation! 5y
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MichaelK @BarbaraJean Yea I'm really enjoying it. Jumps right into the action and the story moves at a nice pace 5y
RaimeyGallant Not yet! And welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you need it. Or if you prefer how-to videos, @chelleo put some together at the link in her bio. @LitsyWelcomeWagon 5y
MichaelK @RaimeyGallant thanks! 😁 5y
BookNerd9906 Welcome to Litsy! 🎉❤️📚 5y
MichaelK Big thanks! 😄 @BookNerd9906 5y
AlwaysForeverReading Welcome to Litsy!!📚📖💜💛💙 5y
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Pickpick

Leaves you thinking a lot about Zemurray - how do you define and label a man like that? Good? Evil? Not that simple.

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Artemis | Andy Weir
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Loved The Martian and was hoping to get the same quality. Sadly this book didn't hook me the same way.

Traci1 I had the same feelings about this one. I wonder if I'd read Artemis first, and wasn't comparing it (even as much as I tried not to) to The Martian, if I'd have liked it more. 5y
MichaelK Perhaps, but I couldn't connect with any of the characters or the plot. Long live Mark Watney 😂 @Traci1 5y
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Pickpick

Really enjoyed this book. Scary and eye opening tale about the state of the world's seafood industry. Makes you think twice about what you buy.

MirrorMask Welcome to Litsy!!! 5y
Reggie Like scary because we‘re overfishing? Or because it‘s not safe? Welcome to Litsy!!! 5y
MichaelK @MirrorMask thanks! 😁 5y
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MichaelK @Reggie oh man! To sum up a few pts... We have over fished our oceans, wiping out species and changing ecosystems. America is exporting some of the highest quality wild seafood in the world while importing low grade (even dangerous) farmed seafood. It's a really messy, complex and scary situation. Especially when you consider our ever growing population and the challenges associated with feeding all those mouths. 5y
the.bookish.valkyrie Welcome to Litsy!🎉📚💕 5y
MichaelK @ValkyrieAndHerBooks excited to be here! 👍 5y
rather_be_reading welcome to litsy 📚☕📚 5y
DarcysMom Welcome to Litsy! 🤩 5y
DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy! 🎉📚🎉Hope you are enjoying it here! 5y
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