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SarahTheSpectator

SarahTheSpectator

Joined July 2016

Queen of Two LA area book clubs - join us :) #BookMovieClub and #BookBuzz
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Taking place in #Montebello , a new #Womens #bookclub - message or find me on #goodreads if interested

#losangeles #la #womensbookclub #beer #meetup

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The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison
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my #BookClub is reading this for #February - we will likely meet on a #sunday in the #sgv #Pasadena area - drop me a line if you want to #join us :) #LA #LosAngeles

katedensen What a creepy cover! 7y
SarahTheSpectator i love it! Eye catching! 7y
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Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare
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My #BookClub is reading Merchant of Venice - we will be meeting 1/22 in #Pasadena to discuss it - drop me a line if you're interested in #joining! #LosAngeles #LA #SGV #Shakespeare

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My NYE weekend TBR stack : Hope 2017 is better than before... and that i tidy up
#NYEReads #happier2017

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1984 | George Orwell
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Swing Time | Zadie Smith
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It's a (rare) dark and stormy night in Cali #CouplesNightIn #CallMeMucusQueen #IdkWhatHesPlaying #GoodReadSoFar

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i read in the park

cathysaid How's Dreamland? I was eyeing that eBook on the library website. 7y
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both organizations support the budding #writers of #eastLA and are taught at the #library #vote #prettyplease

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Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
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latest addition to my signed family :)
note the fun stamps Mr Towles added on the left

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my new baby! #BookSignings

ramyasbookshelf Wow!! :) 8y
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1984 | George Orwell
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britt_brooke 💙 8y
katedensen Love this. 8y
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Come on down if ur in the #LA area :)

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A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole
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Employee of the Month material! #MyValve
#SeptemberPhotoChallenge #WorkplaceBooks

britt_brooke 🤘🏻😂 #myvalve 8y
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A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole

Employee of the Month material! #MyValve
#SeptemberPhotoChallenge #WorkplaceBooks

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A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole

Employee of the Month material! #MyValve
#SeptemberPhotoChallenge #WorkplaceBooks

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1984 | George Orwell
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MrBook 😁👍🏻😋 8y
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"It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space."

#SeptemberPhotoChallenge
#FaveReadOfAugust
#BetterLateThanNever
#LikedMoreThanIThoughtIWould
#FireGuy

BookishFeminist I love him and this book 8y
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"Thirty-Three?" Sepulveda shouts. "The age of Christ! ...' Several other men repeat the phrase... Even for men who aren't especially religious, the number carries an eerie meaning."

#SeptemberPhotoChallenge
#NumberInTheTitle

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My FIRST #BOTM!!! Eeeee!!!!! 😁

MrBook Nice! August was mine and @BookBabe 's second #BOTM 😊👍🏻👏🏻! 8y
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Desired: The First Bad Man
Disliked: 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl
Delightful: One More Thing and Other Stories
#AugustOfPages #GoodbyeAugust #HelloFall

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Ask the Dust | John Fante
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I guess I didn't want it bad enough. Can I at least get a participation trophy ?
#BookishOlympics

Of these three contenders:
Gold - The First Bad Man
Silver - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Bronze - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

SusanInTiburon 🎖🏆🎖 For participating. 👍🏽 8y
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Sweetbitter: A novel | Stephanie Danler
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Parks make life better #Blessed #Parks #LazySaturday

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Woooo! Friday Night Signing!

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#Day17 of #AugustPhotoChallenge : my library! I love this chair cuz it has a little table to keep things near. I like the break away from home with free a/c and no distractions.

The new release waitlists are almost nonexistent, the staff is wonderful, their book club is well organized, and the craft nights are fun. Let's hear it for the library! #FavePlaceToRelax #Library

ramyasbookshelf Local public libraries are the best! 8y
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#Day16 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge is a shout out to my #FaveAuthorCollab Lex Thomas!

Lex Thomas is Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies -together they make the awesome YA series Quarantine! Imagine a terrible disease takes hold of your high school, and to contain it the administration has decided to keep all of you QURANTINED inside the school. And you thought your high school years were tough 😏

coffeewithbooks I read this book and love it. I couldn't image a high school that I went to become infected. I am on the second book now 7y
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#Day15 of #AugustPhotoChallenge is #PeachColoredBooks - #Sweetbitter is my #TBR #LibraryBook - but I gotta give it up to my favorite of the bunch #StarSideOfBirdHill #YayBooks!

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Reading at Knotts Today #CaliLife #CurrentlyReading

Trav Oohhh. That place looks really nice! 8y
britt_brooke Gorgeous! 8y
SarahTheSpectator @Trav @britt_brooke yes! Knotts is sooo adorable and charming *sigh* one day I'll read a good western there 8y
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#UniqueFact - when I'm going to a party I sneak a book (or kindle) in my purse - shhhh!
#Day14 of #AugustPhotoChallenge

BookishFeminist 🤓🤓 only way to survive peopling. Or sneaky phone ebooks! 8y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Always better to have a book with you than wish you did 😂 8y
SarahTheSpectator @BookishFeminist phone Ebooks!!!! The perfect crime! 8y
SarahTheSpectator @thegirlwiththelibrarybag seriously! Fool me once... 8y
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Gotta finish tonight! I want a clean slate to start the #BookishOlympics tomorrow

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You might earn a living with your pursuits or you might not, but you can recognize that this is not really the point . And at the end of your days you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

#FridayNightRead

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I wanted to be hiding in the stall right next to the Kincaids!
#Day12 of #AugustPhotoChallenge #FavoriteBookishSiblings

Hreynolds Thank you for reminding me about this book! 8y
SarahTheSpectator @Hreynolds you're welcome 😁 8y
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"We need a new kind of politics, one that can excavate and build upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans."

Copyright 2006? An eternity ago!
This #Goodwill find is still on my #TBR list but fits the bill for #BooksRelatedToPolitics on #Day11 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge

#SoYoung! #Obama #MissHimAlready #USA

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Island of a Thousand Mirrors | Nayomi Munaweera
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"Eyes open against the stinging salt, he sees coral like a crowded, crumbling city, busy with variously marked, spotted, dotted, striped, lit, pompous, and playful sea creatures...at a certain time of day a tribe of flat silver fish gather in their thousands...a thousand mirrors shattering about him."

#Day10 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge brings me to the beauty of this book - it's one of the VERY few I've given a 5 star review to #LaidBackBooks

BookishFeminist I need to read this! I LOVED her other one 8y
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A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole
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I can't express how much I love this book - so I won't even try. My one and only choice for #Day9 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge because it is the top of my #AllTimeFavoriteBooks

#AtLeastOnceAYear #AsOftenAsPossible #MyFavoriteBook #MyValve #ImAVeryAttractiveWoman

Reviewsbylola Love this book so much!! 8y
WordWaller I haven't read this book yet but I love Nick Offerman! Haha 8y
SarahTheSpectator @WordWaller He's one of the last (of MANY) in talks to play the main character in a movie version - I bet he would do a great job 8y
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"That's why I call the mothers there 'gnats.' Because they're annoying, but not so annoying that you actually want to spend valuable energy on them."

#Day8 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge goes to Where'd You Go because it's so funny and sweet, it's one of a few #BooksThatMadeYouSmile

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Sideways: A Novel | Rex Pickett
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"Feeling better?" Jack asked gingerly, watching me out of the corner of his eye.
"Immeasurably." And I was. I didn't give a damn anymore. "I needed this", I added, holding up my glass.

I want a good friend by my side on a long, contemplative, road trip... with a glass of wine. Jack and Miles forever!

#Day7 #FavoriteBookishFriendship #AugustPhotoChallenge

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Ask the Dust | John Fante
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"Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town."

#Day6 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge for #MinimalisticCovers goes to this edition of Ask The Dust

tea_stankovic I read this book four months ago. This quote still crosses my mind from time to time, I do not know why, I've never been to LA.
I love this book. @SarahTheSpectator
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Ready for the weekend #LibraryLove #Friday

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Matilda | Roald Dahl
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The meanest athlete and Olympian in Children's Fiction -- Ms Trunchbull!
#Day5 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge :
#BooksAndSports

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Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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"Twenty years after the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white hot sky...the lead caravan carries [the] additional line of text: Because Survival is insufficient."

I pay homage to the nomadic theater company of Station Eleven on #Day4 of the #AugustPhotoChallenge because when all else is gone we'll still have Shakespeare. #BookishSquads

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The Girls: A Novel | Emma Cline
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brendanmleonard Loved the girls - love that you call it "dearest" ?? 8y
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The Girls: A Novel | Emma Cline
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"All that time I had spent readying myself...the boys had spent that time becoming themselves"

tpixie Great quote. 8y
SarahTheSpectator Thanks - The book had so many 😌 8y
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Ask the Dust | John Fante
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"...murmuring of the pity of it all, the stupidity of it all, the absurdity of a hopelessly bad writer like myself buried in a cheap hotel in Los Angeles, California, of all places, writing banal things the world would never read and never get a chance to forget."