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dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 2h
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Tamra Bahahaha love comics are back! 2h
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5feet.of.fury Hehehehe so cute! 2h
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Roary47 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣I may die laughing now. ☠️💀 now
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A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
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My evening: the #snowangels #teammovie #wintergames @Emilymdxn 15 points + 1 for the post

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Wintergames | Litsy Litsy
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Emilymdxn Looks gorgeous! I‘m always so interested in how everyone tracks their points cause I‘m such a nerd about mine lol 5h
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First Frost | Sarah Addison Allen
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Bookwormjillk What‘s on that person‘s head? It‘s making me hungry for cinnamon rolls. 14h
Texreader @Bookwormjillk It is! 😉 12h
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It‘s time for me to post loads of Christmas funnies! Starting with this one. If I had a chocolate advent calendar, y‘all, we‘d be days from Christmas!! 🤣

#wintergames #snowangels @Emilymdxn

AmyG Ha! 15h
Jadams1776 🤣🤣 15h
Tamra 😂 15h
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Gissy 😂😂😂 14h
Emilymdxn I love it! 14h
Meshell1313 🤣 13h
Ruthiella 😂😂😂🍫😋 12h
sblbooks That's a good one!🍫🍬 12h
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 11h
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Christmas Time | Alison Jay
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🎅 Annual dr checkup then to work. Then hopefully pouring into #wintergames

🤶 I need to finish Us Against You (which will be helpful for my atoz bingo board), Homecoming, and No Time Like the Past. My first Christmas read will probably be A Christmas Carol because I ❤️ it.

#Snowangels

@emilymdxn @kwmg40 @5feet.of.fury @Nessavamusic @sblbooks @MsRadioSilence @CogsOfEncouragement

kwmg40 I‘ve been doing some planning for my AtoZ board too! 1d
Emilymdxn I‘m in the exact same position finishing off a couple things then go go going on Christmas reads! 22h
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First Frost | Sarah Addison Allen
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Allen will be posting mini-stories again on her instagram feed! Here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0QhNBIAaFV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Beartown: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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A star hockey player rapes a girl; the town divides (very unevenly) as to who is telling the truth…because the rape affects whether Beartown will win the national championship. Many residents believe the allegation was motivated to prevent the team from winning. The book dissects the gut-wrenching view from a huge cast of characters. Trigger warnings abound. This is a dark, dark book and takes readers to a despairing place so beware. But as with⬇️

Texreader all Backman books, it is brilliantly written. Just move forward with extreme care. This isn‘t light-hearted at all like his other books I‘ve read that have taken on dark themes. Very few (but some) glimmers of light and hope. #Sweden #foodandlit @Catsandbooks I thought it would take me into December but it was a quick read. 2d
marleed I love this book! 2d
CindyMyLifeIsLit One of my favorites! I wish every high school kid had to read this book. So many great lessons could be taught with it! I can‘t understand these parents who don‘t want their kids to read books about situations like this! Why don‘t they want their daughters to be aware that this could happen to them, or make sure their sons understand that no means no?!? 😡 2d
LiseWorks Watch this series awhile ago. It was good. 2d
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Homecoming | Kate Morton
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It turns out this book is perfect for #wintergames, a Christmas mystery! #authoramonth @Soubhiville

Bookwormjillk Good to know, thank you! 3d
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No Time Like The Past | Jodi Taylor
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I'm having a heckuva time finishing No Time Like the Past, I've just been too busy. But it is still on my #wintergames tbr. But as part of this amazing series, Jodi Taylor releases short stories on Christmas often about Christmas, many of the books highlighted in green. This year, Christmas Pie will be released on Christmas Day. So I'm adding them all to my #wintergames tbr, as I would love to relisten to them! #snowangels #serieslove2023

Emilymdxn That‘s a great tbr it‘s so varied! I‘m excited to see how you find them 3d
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Us Against You | Fredrik Backman
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The next design is underway for my #litsylove Christmas cards. I love the blank slate and waiting to see what will happen. #foodandlit #Sweden @Catsandbooks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Catsandbooks A blank slate is so exciting and also sometimes intimidating lol 3d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📝💌📮🫶🏻 2d
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Us Against You | Fredrik Backman
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I finished Beartown and have immediately started this one. #foodandlit #Sweden @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Wow! You finished Beartown so fast! It must have been good! 3d
Texreader @Catsandbooks Really good. He‘s an amazing writer. But it looks like book 2 will be just as dark. Book 3 had better pull us all out of the darkness!! 3d
Catsandbooks @Texreader let's hope so! 🤞🏼🤞🏼I'm hoping to start beartown this weekend 3d
Texreader @Catsandbooks Good luck! 3d
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Beartown: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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Assembly is so slow. Those little “joyeux” were crazy difficult to cut, dye, and affix to the shimmer and then cut the shimmer to match. Going a little cross-eyed with it. Card bottom left is the only one I‘ve finished. And of course this book is very dark. #litsylove #foodandlit #Sweden @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Catsandbooks

julieclair Absolutely gorgeous! 4d
Catsandbooks Well they look beautiful! And I'm a little nervous to read the book. It's the one I was hoping to read for the month but I've heard it has heavy aspects and I'm worried it might be too much. 4d
Bookwormjillk They look great! I‘m planning on reading the third in that series. 4d
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Texreader @Catsandbooks It‘s much much darker than I expected. I love this author because there tends to be enough humor mixed in but not here. It‘s excellent but it doesn‘t let up. If you decide to read it I‘d start now so it doesn‘t darken your holidays. I‘ll be happy to get past it. Maybe the follow-up books are lighter. 4d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3d
Catsandbooks @Texreader yeah I read Ove and anxious people and loved both of those. I think I'll try it but be willing to bail if necessary. 3d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You make beautiful cards!! 3d
Texreader @Catsandbooks It‘s so good. But dang it is a very hard book. 3d
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Beartown: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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I‘m starting to assemble the pieces for Christmas cards for #litsylove while listening to the tagged book

 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Look familiar?

Tamra Oh yes! 4d
dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 3d
Gissy 🙋🏽‍♀️😂 3d
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Mistletoe at Moonglow | Deborah Garner
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Bklover Not in winter games but thanks anyway! I love a free Christmas book!❤️ 5d
Emilymdxn Ooooh amazing! I‘m trying so hard to be good with money this winter games but it‘s hard 4d
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Modeen Factor | Frank H Jordan
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Free ebooks perfect for next year‘s #readingoceana @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Great find! Thanks!! 5d
Librarybelle Thanks for posting! 5d
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Ebook free (with or without Kindle Unlimited) for another day or so. Perfect for #wintergames @Clwojick @StayCurious

@emilymdxn @kwmg40 @5feet.of.fury @Nessavamusic @sblbooks @MsRadioSilence @CogsOfEncouragement

Bklover ❤️❤️ 5d
Tamra Thank you! 5d
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Winter Games | Rachel Johnson
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Reposting for all those wanting to play the #wintergamesatoz #wgatoz bingo for #wintergames.

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Beartown: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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I‘m assembling the last set of cards for #naturalitsycardswap. Those pine cones are quite the challenge! Listening to the tagged book while I work on these. @TheBookHippie @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 #foodandlit #Sweden @Catsandbooks

DebinHawaii These are amazing! Love the pine cones! 5d
AllDebooks Oh wow, I love those pinecones 😍 5d
ShelleyBooksie Beautiful!! 5d
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Catsandbooks Those are so cute! 🌲 5d
TheBookHippie Oh my word!!! Wow! 5d
Chrissyreadit 😍😍😍😍😍 5d
Gissy Love it. I have many stamps, inks to do cards and scrapbook but something happened with my creative mind, it doesn‘t work🤣🤣🤣 5d
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Homecoming | Kate Morton
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Started this ebook a little early for #authoramonth @Soubhiville

JacqMac I think I might start this one a little early too. 5d
Soubhiville I hope you like it! The one I have is pretty long, starting a bit early isn‘t a bad idea. 5d
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Beartown: A Novel | Fredrik Backman
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I‘ve started this audiobook slightly early for #foodandlit #Sweden. @Catsandbooks

tpixie 🩵🩵🩵 5d
Traci1 This is such a wonderful trilogy. 5d
Catsandbooks I'm hoping to read this one too 5d
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I finally on StoryGraph and set up a reading challenge for this series with books and short stories in order. @julesG If you‘re on StoryGraph, would you check my order? Here‘s the link:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/a8057722-17bf-42b5-8989-f48103d...

I‘m also tagging some Littens who‘ve given this book some love in case you want to track progress of the series:

@Staci.reads @trishb @deblovestoread @kristy_k @mollyanna

julesG Between My Name is Markham and And the Rest is History there's the very short short story "Dessicated Water" - before A Perfect Storm there's "Markham and the Anal Probing" another short short story 5d
Deblovestoread Oooh! This makes me want to reread the series. Fun! 5d
julesG Three more short short stories before The Ordeal of the Haunted Room: St Mary's and the Great Toilet Roll Crisis, The Girl With A Pearl In Her Nose, The Muse of History 5d
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julesG Just checked again, since you added numbers for the books. The Great St Mary's Day Out is a short story/novella, #7.5. The next full novel is And the Rest is History. 5d
Texreader @julesG You‘re the best and I‘ve never heard of most of these stories! StoryGraph made me add the numbers and I couldn‘t do halves. 😟 5d
julesG Don't worry about the numbers, I was just "wait, No 10 is playing in my car right now and that's Hope for the Best". Jodi reads some of the short stories herself on soundcloud.com. I can look up the link tomorrow. 5d
Liz_M @Texreader You can add two #7s through. You'd have to pay around to see if there is a logic to which one is listed first. 5d
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TheBookHippie ❄️💙 6d
AllDebooks ❤️❤️ 6d
Chrissyreadit ❄️🤍❄️ 6d
dabbe 🩵🩶🩵 6d
DinoMom ❄️❄️❄️💙 5d
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Winter Games | Rachel Johnson
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Hello #snowangels teammates! I look forward to reading everyone‘s responses.

1) Little Christmas Eve-a Norwegian tradition my husband brought with him when he immigrated-where we celebrate by opening one present, opening presents on Christmas Eve, and stocking stuffers on Christmas morning
2) I ❤️ spelling as many words as possible!
3) Cozy PJs, drinking hot chocolate with my 🐈‍⬛ in my lap, with some good music in the background
#wintergames

kwmg40 Little Christmas Eve sounds like a nice way to start the festivities early! 6d
CogsOfEncouragement Very sweet. 6d
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Wintergames | Litsy Litsy
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#wintergames tbr with specific goal to try to complete #wintergamesatoz readathon and bingo, so feel free to use it for inspiration. Letters P-Z

Also, you can see my codes for Audible and ebooks (I have a Kindle collection called Christmas in my ebook library).

@emilymdxn @kwmg40 @Texreader @5feet.of.fury @Nessavamusic @sblbooks @MsRadioSilence @CogsOfEncouragement

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Wintergames | Litsy Litsy
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#wintergames tbr with specific goal to try to complete #wintergamesatoz readathon and bingo, so feel free to use it for inspiration. Letters J-O

@emilymdxn @kwmg40 @Texreader @5feet.of.fury @Nessavamusic @sblbooks @MsRadioSilence @CogsOfEncouragement

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Wintergames | Litsy Litsy
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I've put together a “complete“ tbr list for #wintergames, especially with the goal to complete the #wintergamesatoz readathon and bingo. I've included a lot of books from my ebook collection (lots of free downloads), and holiday audiobooks I can get through my membership in Audible. So yea, it's long--very aspirational! Here are books A to I. I will post the rest of the alphabet in subsequent posts.

Emilymdxn This is fantastic and so comprehensive! Thanks so much for posting 7d
kwmg40 Impressive lists! Lots of good ideas here. 7d
JenReadsAlot I might be stealing some of those! 7d
Texreader @JenReadsAlot Please do! 7d
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Hunter of Stories | Eduardo Galeano
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I checked this book out from my library so I could post some of the best parts (I read the audiobook). This is one of my favorite “stories.”

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AllDebooks They're lovely x 1w
Chrissyreadit wow!!! they are so pretty! 1w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1w
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Bookwormjillk You are so talented! 1w
wanderinglynn Those are so cute! 😍 1w
BookwormAHN Nice 💚 1w
gossamerchild Beautiful! 1w
PurpleyPumpkin Those are beautiful!😍 1w
quietjenn How wonderful! 1w
Catsandbooks So pretty! 🩵 1w
Texreader @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @dabbe @Bookwormjillk @wanderinglynn @BookwormAHN @gossamerchild @PurpleyPumpkin @quietjenn @Catsandbooks So…I made 3. 3. I had to take care of a bunch of stuff and when I sat down to work on them again all creativity had been sapped. I‘m really hoping I‘m more motivated tomorrow. Thanks y‘all for the very sweet comments. It means a lot especially when I hit a slump. 1w
gossamerchild @Texreader no pressure! I haven't finished writing out my cards yet, so you're miles ahead of me ❤️❤️ 1w
Catsandbooks I haven't finished making mine either so you're not alone! 1w
julieclair Oh wow! So pretty! 1w
Texreader @julieclair Thank you!! 1w
DinoMom Those are amazing! 7d
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Hunter of Stories | Eduardo Galeano
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This is a book of stories, no doubt, but the vast majority are a minute or shorter! Less than a handful are 3 or fewer minutes. It could be hard to grasp some of it since they are so short and I listened to it rather than read it. But some “stories” were so profound, I‘m going to have to find the IRL book. The author was from #Uruguay but he shared morsels from all over the world: quotes, news, history, thoughts. But I did love his references ⬇️

Texreader to his love of soccer (football) and the team from Uruguay that won the World Cup in 1950. The storyteller went from thoughtful and sedate to leaping out of the speakers with delight talking about soccer. While a few things I didn‘t like, including his reverence for some politics, I found this book so rewarding. A completely unexpected and delightful choice for #readingtheAmericas. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB 1w
Librarybelle Sounds very interesting! 1w
Aimeesue I always mean to read more Galeano. I read Children of the Days and really loved it. Such a different style. He says so much with so few words. 1w
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Shakerism attracted the poorest of the poor in #SaintVincentandtheGrenadines, mostly descendants of slaves, who couldn‘t afford the “fees” to belong to the established religions. Shakers worshipped God with their whole bodies, shouting and (heaven forbid, apparently) jumping, which those opposed attributed to barbaric African culture. After decades of oppression, a law was passed in 1912 prohibiting it. Then came decades to try to repeal it. ⬇️

Texreader This book (yes, the cover has no title) describes the many attempts to repeal the law and the arguments by those opposed. It is extraordinarily well-researched, cited, and well-written. It‘s very legalese, but since I‘m an attorney used to it, I found it comfortable reading for the subject matter, although sometimes tedious. The subtle points are made brilliantly though—the importance of freedom of religion and how easily it can be taken away. ⬇️ 1w
Texreader And how difficult it can be to get that freedom back. I‘m so glad I chose to read this book simply by its unusual title and the fact the islands were in the #readingtheAmericas challenge. @librarybelle @BarbaraBB 1w
Librarybelle Fascinating! 1w
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Yesterday and today I finished the last two books of the #readingtheAmericas challenge hosted by @Librarybelle and @BarbaraBB that I‘ll review separately. For every year I‘ve participated in their continent challenges I feel I have gained so much as a person learning about our world. This year‘s challenge hit close to home, since it is home. Thank you ladies for hosting these amazing challenges

And now…gearing up for #wintergames!! @Emilymdxn

BarbaraBB Thank you for participating and taking the challenge to another level! Looking forward to #ReadingOceania24! 1w
Librarybelle Thank you so much for participating! I love reading your posts about the books! 1w
Texreader @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle Thanks y‘all! I‘ve loved doing these challenges. 1w
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Texreader @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB I‘ve finally got the StoryGraph app so I can more easily track my challenges. Was this year‘s challenge on the app? If so, would you mind sending me the link? 1w
Texreader @Librarybelle Thank you! It may take me all night to get the books entered! 😄 1w
BarbaraBB It‘ll be fun to scroll through it again and see all the books you read 7d
Texreader @BarbaraBB I see that! I‘m about halfway done and it‘s 1:20 am. So I‘m calling it a night. But I anticipate spending a lot of time catching up with entering all my other challenges! 7d
Librarybelle 😁 7d
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No Time Like The Past | Jodi Taylor
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“There would be a crafts tent and a small, local farmers‘ market for anyone who wanted to buy a small local farmer.”

Taylor‘s humor is priceless

Marathoning it through Scarathlon and other challenges, I‘m finally back to my tried and true #serieslove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

julesG Ah, St Mary's 'Open Day' 😁😁 1w
TheSpineView ❤️📖📚 1w
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This lasted for more than 50 years despite numerous efforts to repeal the law. It was finally repealed in 1965!

Finishing this book on Thanksgiving helps me to realize what more I have to be grateful for, at least for now. May our constitutional rights be protected from insidious invasion

#SaintVincentandtheGrenadines #readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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This book is such a testament to freedom of religion. Imagine this, after decades of repression

#SaintVincentandtheGrenadines #readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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The prohibition against practicing the Shaker religion was, likely, based on racism and remnants of colonialism.

#SaintVincentandtheGrenadines #readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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I hope everyone‘s Thanksgiving was wonderful! But if it didn‘t go so well, just think, you‘re continuing in a grand American tradition

#ThanksgivingFunnies

Tamra 🤣 good one! 1w
Texreader @Tamra Yes it is! I almost didn‘t post it but I just had to. It‘s too good. 1w
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From a #SaintVincent newspaper editorial in 1939. Heaven forbid repealing a law that prohibited practicing religion as the masses saw fit. If that happened then the state couldn‘t censor films and literature and protect the masses from themselves! Oh how history repeats itself.

#readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Hunter of Stories | Eduardo Galeano
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Tagged. If he were alive and I could manage to schedule Thanksgiving dinner with him, it‘d be a fascinating conversation. I can‘t wait to review this book.

Who‘d you have dinner with?

Ruthiella Richard Osman. No doubt he would be charming! 😃 1w
dabbe Leo Tolstoy. Or his translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Have no idea what I would say. 🤣 1w
TheKidUpstairs Last completed - Travis Baldree. I feel like it would be a good time! 1w
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Tamra I‘m guessing my dinner might be a tad awkward since I don‘t speak French. 😅 Reading Laurent Mauvignier. I can‘t even pronounce his last name. 1w
AmandaBlaze Celia Krampien. Should be fun and maybe a little spooky. 1w
RamsFan1963 I don't think that will be much fun for me, since James White is no longer among the living. He would have been a better Halloween dinner companion. 1w
julesG Caimh (C.K.) McDonnell - this could get hilarious if he's as much fun in real life as on paper. I requested the ARC for the fourth Stranger Times novel 1w
WorldsOkayestStepMom Leo Tolstoy, since I'm reading Anna Karenina. Or Alka Joshi I feel would be much better as I'm also reading 1w
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Interestingly, turducken as well as tofurkey were topics of conversation at our turkey dinner.

#ThanksgivingFunnies

RamsFan1963 I've never eaten a turducken, but I've tried tofurkey and I didn't care for it. Truth be told, I'm not a big fan of turkey period. 1w
AlaMich I watched a short video about how Tofurky is made, and I‘m pretty sure the video would turn off anyone who wanted to try it. Suffice it to say, they are very bouncy. 1w
Texreader @RamsFan1963 @AlaMich Bouncing food doesn‘t sound terribly appetizing 🤢 1w
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Today‘s menu: A34G(roasted potatoes and brussels sprouts with maple syrup) and chocolate pie and chocolate cake for our birthday girl (my daughter) PLUS deviled eggs (mmmm)

Sadly not E. No one touched my salad! Fortunately I didn‘t add dressing so we will all be eating more healthy the next couple of days with leftover salad! 😂

#friendsgiving @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 😂the greens are not very popular today. Happy birthday to your daughter! 🎉 1w
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It was a great Thanksgiving with my family! We don‘t watch anything—we cook together and celebrate a lot of birthdays between Nov 25-30!

#friendsgiving @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🦃❤️ 1w
Texreader @Catsandbooks You too dear friend!! 1w
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Happy Thanksgiving!! #ThanksgivingFunnies

AmyG Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 1w
Ruthiella Happy Thanksgiving to you ! 🥧 1w
TheBookgeekFrau 😂🤣 Happy Thanksgiving 🦃💕 1w
dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 1w
Bookzombie Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁 1w
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dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 1w
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dabbe And why is it we color pictures of turkeys all smiling and happy OR on the dinner plate? Man: we are f---ed up. 1w
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