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Deblovestoread

Deblovestoread

Joined September 2016

“I cannot live without books!”
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#WondrousWednesdat

1) Hazel I would have liked to be named after my grandmother
2) Favorite names: Huckleberry Finn (an Irish Setter), Roady short for Another Roadside Attraction (a calico kitty rescued from s ditch) and now Merry Pippin.
3) Stellaluna

Want to play? @AnnCrystal @BarbaraJean @BarkingMadRead

@Eggs

Eggs Such wonderful names! Thanks for playing and sharing 🥳🥰 24h
AnnCrystal After your grandma, that's sweet 💝💝💝. Thank You for the tag 😉👍🏼💖. 21h
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Perfect Tunes | Emily Gould
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#Two4Tuesday

1) I think the tagged will be my favorite of the month.

2) Gabriële and #CampLitsy books

Tagging anyone and everyone ?

@TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2d
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Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
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#JumpStartSummer #WrapUp

Having hubby home cuts into reading time. Finished my two buddy reads and progress was made on my audio and ebook but zero progress on my other 2 print books.

Thanks for hosting @TheSpineView

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I'm Ok | Patti Kim
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#MentalHealthMonday

1) I‘m ok today. Feel like last week‘s funk is dissipating. Had a good walk this morning, did some chores and got groceries. Ready to start the week.
2) Daily walks, lots of pug snuggles, lunch with a friend and hubby is home for the next ten days.

@Kerrbearlib

dabbe 💚💜💚 3d
IriDas Glad you are doing better today. 3d
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Word Bingo | Donn Byrne
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2d
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#WhereAreYouMonday

Mesopotamia 631 BC
London 1840
Turkey 2014

How else could I experience theses places in these times if it weren‘t for stories? How bereft my life would be without books. How thankful I am to be a reader!

@Cupcake12

AmyG I can‘t ever imagine not reading. What would I do with my time? Where would I go? 🤣 3d
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#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Continuing my sanity project. Grateful for all the creative content creators that capture my thoughts and feelings so well.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ9ROMluOoa/?igsh=ZndndXV4MXh4ZGZv. Link to Bruce‘s reel which made me tear up.

Please join and tag me in posting your memes if you are so inclined.

IriDas I love that hat. I‘ll have to look for it. 3d
AmyG I will look, also. Love Bruce! (edited) 3d
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#WeeklyFavorites

Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy are each sent to London by their parents to expand their social connections and if they find a match so much the better as long as it‘s not each other. Of course murder happens and they are again called into help the investigation. I‘m really enjoying this series and glad to know there willl be at least 2 more.

Thank you #NetGalley!

@Read4life

Read4life Looking good!! 💙🦋💙 3d
BarkingMadRead There better be at least two more! I can‘t wait until the next one, and this one isn‘t even released yet 🤣 2d
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Summer at Tiffany | Marjorie Hart
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First Finnish for #JumpStartSummer

What a delightful read. Loved the descriptions of Tiffany and the excitement of NYC as described by a Midwest college student. A summer to remember🩵

@TheSpineView @TheBookHippie #SundayBuddyRead

TheSpineView Well done! 5d
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#5JoysFriday

1) Saw the rare Mountain Bluebird on the coast. No phone on me unfortunately.
2) Jumping between Gilmore Girls and Father Brown while I work through my funk
3) Loving my star dogwood and Japanese Willow
4) Enjoyed my time with my brothers while at my dad‘s
5) Grateful for the patient ear of a good friend

@DebinHawaii

dabbe 💚💜💚 6d
Lesliereadsalot Well who needs a funk? 🩷 6d
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 6d
kspenmoll Gorgeous trees! ❤️❤️❤️ 6d
MemoirsForMe Beautiful trees! 😍 5d
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Summer at Tiffany | Marjorie Hart
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#JumpStartSummer

These are the physical books I hope to finish along with The Road to Tender Hearts on audio and the first half of Lamentation on kindle.

Thanks for hosting! @TheSpineView

TheSpineView YW! Thanks for joining in and happy reading. 6d
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#Two4Tuesday

1) Irish Gaelic

2) I love translated literature and have no hope of reading any of it in its original language.

@TheSpineView

TheSpineView Interesting choice of language. Thanks for playing 1w
Suet624 I‘m with you on #1 1w
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#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Late today because it‘s been a day. Hoping for a better night‘s sleep and no responsibilities tomorrow.

Join in and tag me if the mood strikes you.

shortsarahrose Hope tomorrow is a better day 💕 1w
TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😬😫 sending love 1w
dabbe Thank goodness Monday only occurs once a week. Hoping tomorrow is better. 💚💜💚 1w
Suet624 Sleep is way too elusive. 1w
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The Covenant | James A. Michener
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#SundayFunday

Storygraph shows the tagged book At 1240 pages. Michener is king of the chunkster.

@BookmarkTavern

BookmarkTavern This is the second Michener book tagged! So interesting! Thanks for posting! 2w
Susanita He is indeed the king of the chunkster. 2w
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#14books14weeks

Here is my list of books to tackle from May 26 to September 1. A combination of #NetGalley ARCs, a couple #CampLitsy picks and a few I‘ve been wanting to pick up.

If you want to join make your list of 14 books and tag @Liz_M Thanks for hosting!

Liz_M What a great mix of genres, formats, and reasons to read these! (edited) 2w
sarahbarnes I really want to read those Boyne books, too! Great stack! 2w
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Morgan Is My Name | Sophie Keetch
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#WeeklyForecast

Enjoyed the tagged audio book about Morgan Le Fay.

@Read4life

Read4life 💙🦋💙 1w
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#5JoysFriday

1) I‘m at the north coast for a long weekend with my dad. The weather‘s not great but had a couple of breaks so Pippin could walk me.
2) The Rhododendrons are spectacular
3) Our son brought over fresh halibut on Tuesday, so good.
4) Impressions of the Sea symphony with my daughter
5) Enjoying everyone‘s joyful posts

@DebinHawaii

mcctrish when we were in Scotland last summer I saw rhododendrons that blew my mind, I‘m so happy to read yours are out 2w
dabbe 💚🩵💚 2w
TheBookHippie 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 2w
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#ThreeListThursday

Not good but still missing 3 from my older edition. Hoping to do better in the next century 😁

@dabbe

dabbe I'm hoping for better in the 1900s as well! Which edition of this book do you have? Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 2w
dabbe @Deblovestoread Quite a few have been deleted and added since the 2018 version. Wonder if they'll change it up every decade to include newer books? 🤔 2w
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Heidi (Classic) | Johanna Spyri
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#WondrousWednesday

1) The tagged book and The Boxcar Children
2) No one comes to mind…sleep deprived brain today
3) Sunrise on the Reaping 3 1/2🌟

Tagging ever who would like t play.

@Eggs

Eggs Thanks for joining in 🥳 2w
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#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Loving the Shakespearen twist on thoughts and feelings. And trying, although not always successfully, to concentrate on TODAY. What must be done, what act of resistance, finding the joy, etc. to avoid feeling overwhelmed and to fight spiraling into despair. Creating a mood board out of things I find when scrolling seems to help.

Join me if you like.

TheBookHippie Oh how fun! I agree…. 2w
kspenmoll This is wonderful! 2w
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#5JoysFriday

1) BOTM arrived DragonFriut won the middle grade/YA Oregon Book Award
2) #CampLitsy books are being announced
3) The sun continues to shine with perfect temps
4) Long lunch chat with a friend
5) Continuing ED hours are done

Happy Friday!

@DebinHawaii

dabbe 💚💜💚 3w
kspenmoll Oh enjoy your sun! It has been continuous poring rain all week here! 3w
TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 3w
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 3w
squirrelbrain I‘m glad you‘re excited about camp! 3w
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Today is catch up on buddy reads day.

This quote from yesterday‘s chapter has given me pause, something about it in light of current events resonates.

#LesMis

@TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie It is eerie reading this right now - some of the passages just blow my mind. 3w
dabbe So prescient. 🎯🩵🎯 3w
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#ThreeListThursday

Not great especially since 6 of them are DNF‘s.

I have the 2006 version of the book and have read/dnf‘d 24. In my version, and not on the survey, are Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, A Christmas Carol, Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland, Little Women, War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Tess of the D‘Urbervilles. It‘s hard to imagine that these didn‘t make the list.

Classics are hit or miss for me but have added some to Mt TBR

dabbe Oh, I don't think we're done with the 1800s yet. We just hit the earlier ones. I bet those will be in next week's survey. 🙏🏻 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 3w
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#WondrousWednesday

1) On Independent Bookstore Day I purchased Audition and Raising Hare. I‘ve managed to not buy anything since.
2) I review on NetGalley, Litsy, IG and sometimes Amazon and B&N. I enjoy writing short reviews especially for books I loved, not so much for books I didn‘t like.

@Eggs

Eggs Thanks for joining in 💛💛 3w
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#Two4Tuesday

1) Daytime sitting, nighttime laying on my side in bed.
2) Other People‘s Summer - it‘s ok so far

@TheSpineView yesterday got away from me.

TheSpineView No worries! It is never too late to play. Happy Wednesday!🤗😊🌞 3w
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Monday, Monday: A Novel | Elizabeth Crook
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#MondayMoodinMemes. #MondayMood

Feel free to join me in sharing your mood in memes or whatever way works for you. This is a sanity project for me.

dabbe 💙💚💙 3w
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The tagged is the one I am most likely to get to, not sure about the others.

#ReadYourEBook

@CBee

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#AprilChallengeUpdate

Read #Bookspin & #DoubleSpin

Read 1 #ReadYourEBook

#WickedWords:

The Briar Club: Gambling
King A Life: Singer, Massachusetts
Wild Dark Shore: Fish
The Martha‘s Vineyard Beach and Book Club: Portuguese

#ISpy

April: 5 remaining
March: 4 remaining
February: 2 remaining
January: complete

@TheAromaofBooks @CBee @AsYouWish

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Good luck!! 4w
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#AprilWrapUp

Loved Wild Dark Shore and P & P as always. Enjoyed Midnight in Soap Lake and The Briar Club immensely. Learned so much from King.

DNF‘d 3 books

Lesliereadsalot Wild Dark Shore is so good! 4w
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#5JoysFriday #NoPicVersion

1) Sunny and warm enough to have all the windows open.
2) Coffee and stitching with a friend
3) Both kids home for a belated Easter dinner
4) I am not a fan of our chestnut tree except when it‘s in bloom and then as the blooms fall and carpet the grass
5) Pippin

@DebinHawaii

TheBookHippie ♥️ 4w
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 4w
dabbe 💙💚💙 4w
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#ThreeListThursday

Lots of favorites on this list: Jane Eyre, Watership Down, War & Peace, The Shell Seekers to name a few

Unpopular opinion stinkers: The Alchemist and Captain Corelli‘s Mandolin

@dabbe

Ruthiella I hated The Alchemist (allegory is not for me) and was disappointed by Captain Corelli. 4w
nanuska_153 Interesting, a lot of children and YA literature there 4w
dabbe I tried THE ALCHEMIST and couldn't get into it. All I know about CCM is that it's the book Hugh Grant's reading at the end of NOTTING HILL (with a pregnant Julia Roberts lounging on his lap! 🤣) Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💜💜 4w
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willaful Loved The Twyford Code. 4w
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King: A Life | Jonathan Eig
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I read King over three months. It is a deep dive into his life from childhood to his assassination. A man of great passion and conviction who worked tirelessly to end racism, fight poverty and end the war in Vietnam. I knew the highlights but there is so much more here. Let‘s just saying lying and manipulation in government is not a new problem. Our current government would like to erase this history. Let‘s not agree to that.

@Read4life

ncsufoxes I‘ve had King sitting on my nightstand for the last few months. I try to read a few pages slowly. I have a few chunksters that I try to slowly read through a few pages to make progress. 4w
Read4life Great month!! 💙📚💙 4w
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#WondrousWednesday

1) Roses because my grandma wore Tea Rose perfume daily and lilacs because of the large lilac bush by the front door of her house.
2) I was just talking to my dad about this. Rather than a specific memory it was our years in Ephrata. Sledding down suicide hill, riding our bikes all over town, playing out in the dry fields, spending our afternoons at the pool. It was definitely a different time in terms of safety and freedom.

Suet624 Those two scents carry the most meaning for me as well. 1mo
Eggs Roses 🌹!! Love your description #2! 1mo
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An appropriate meme to go with @TheSpineView ‘s #Two4Tuesday questions. I needed a smile and it always delivers. ❤️📚❤️

dabbe 🤩😍🤣 What else are homes for except for books and pets? 1mo
Leftcoastzen Books & pets , same page ! 1mo
TheSpineView 🤣🤣🤣 1mo
IuliaC 😂😂 1mo
MemoirsForMe 😂🙌🏻📚 1mo
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#TuesdayTunes

Recent find

https://youtu.be/_q7307IWwr4?si=EeC6j7qo6W_2sj9f

Haunted by Shane MacGowan and Sinead O‘Connor ❤️

@TieDyeDude

Kerrbearlib ♥️♥️♥️ 1mo
BarbaraBB Wow 🤩 1mo
TieDyeDude Very cool. Those are certainly contrasting vocals! Thanks for sharing. 1mo
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#Two4Tuesday

1) I wish I had a dedicated library, but having bookshelves in every room is not a bad thing 😀. My best guess at physical books is ~1200

2) Wild Dark Shore is my favorite book of April.

@TheSpineView

peaKnit I enjoyed Wild Dark Shore also, I was surprised a bit as the story unfolded, it was hard to know who was telling the truth. Sign of a good book! 1mo
TheSpineView I'm wishing with you! Thanks for playing 1mo
Mshookquilts Yes and too many to count. We even have a physical room we refer to as the library because of all the bookshelves. 1mo
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Tilt | Emma Pattee
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Voted! The long list is full of fantastic sounding books, so many new to me titles. I can‘t wait to see what we will be reading. Don‘t forget to vote by May 9. Link is on @BarbaraBB #CampLitsy25 post.

BarbaraBB Thanks for sharing and voting for such great books 😘 1mo
Caroline2 Great choices. I wanna read all of these! 😂 1mo
squirrelbrain Thanks for sharing! Great choices. ❤️ 1mo
monalyisha I almost voted for Tilt, too! 1mo
Megabooks Great votes!! 1mo
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Moods | Yoel Hoffmann
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#MondayMood

Going for magnificent little sunbeam today. Wish me luck 🌞🍀

What‘s your mood today?

Ruthiella Mondays are hard! Magnificent sunbeam is a worthy goal. ☀️ 1mo
dabbe 🤩🤣😍 1mo
MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 1mo
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The Book Bin | Corvallis, OR (Bookstore)
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Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day. I invite you to share the bookstores in your area. I‘ll be visiting the tagged that is a bit like a mini Powell‘s and Grassroots in Corvallis, Oregon. Let‘s do our part to push back against Amazon‘s greed.

ncsufoxes My local bookstore is the Curious Iguana. I plan on going first thing tomorrow morning. Our local library is also doing a used book sale this weekend too. 1mo
MallenNC I‘m hoping to visit 1mo
kspenmoll I am going with a friend to Riverbend Bookshop - only have time to hit one store.🙁 1mo
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Chrissyreadit @ncsufoxes your in Frederick? i must have known that though… but my memory can be awful! or maybe there is more than one Curious Iguana? 1mo
ncsufoxes @Chrissyreadit yes, we are in Frederick. We moved here last August. 1mo
ncsufoxes @MallenNC my mom lives down the road from Qual Ridge Books 1mo
MallenNC @ncsufoxes It‘s such a great store 1mo
Chrissyreadit ah!!! that‘s awesome! I‘m in Frederick often if you ever want to meet for coffee! 1mo
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#5JoysFriday

1) I‘ve never watched The Gilmore Girls. Thruthe first 4 episodes…charming
2) I finally went back to the pool yesterday at the Y. Felt fantastic
3) Have to get 30 hours of CE done by end of May, almost halfway done
4) Pippin
5) Flowers and sunshine

Share your joy!

@DebinHawaii

ChaoticMissAdventures Oh I am excited for you for GG! I really is very charming (if you can look past the white privilege) and I love the debates about who Rory should end up with! 1mo
dabbe 💙💚💙 1mo
TheBookHippie Yay GILMORE GIRLS 🎉 1mo
mcctrish Oh welcome to the GG world 1mo
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When I first saw the title of this book I stated it can‘t be MY Soap Lake, a tiny town 6 miles from where I lived 1st thru 7th grades, but it is. This book is quirky and suspenseful told thru two timelines. It also sent me down a rabbit hole about its history and its healing waters which I don‘t recall learning about in school. Fun read! 4.25 🌟

Ruthiella What a neat connection! It‘s rare, but occasionally I have also read books set where I grew up and it‘s a trip to recognize streets and landmarks. 1mo
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East of Eden | John Steinbeck
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#TLT #ThreeListThursday

Favorites: Tagged, Charlotte‘s Web, Frankenstein

Tagging anyone who hasn‘t played and would like to.

@dabbe

dabbe 🎯 for your choices! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙💚💙 1mo
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So many of us have read the books, fiction and nonfiction. We feel we understand the horrors of WWII and say “Never Again” passionately. And I think we truly believed that we would never allow it happen again, that no one could ever be that evil in our lifetime. But it is here on full display. It‘s like our President is using Hitler‘s playbook.
Autism registry = disabled first to camps. I beg you to wake up! You, too, will lose everything.

Deblovestoread Pic was filched from Jamie Lee Curtis‘ IG feed. I don‘t think she‘ll mind. 1mo
IriDas They are definitely following Hitler‘s playbook. Im afraid for my children. 1mo
AllDebooks Such a frightening time for so many. Trump et al are causing chaos, fear and we can't let them. 1mo
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Blueberry WTH! I hadn't heard. 😲😠 1mo
Jari-chan While here in Europe everyone's going crazy because some people dared to call Trump's system fascism 🙄😑 1mo
BarbaraBB Wise words and so true. I am astonished about what‘s happening and how fast the 1930s are repeating themselves so fast. I hope the other half of the US will wake up in time to safe your country (and us in Europe) from these mad men. 1mo
BarbaraBB @Jari-chan Is that so? I think his regime has been called that much of the time! 1mo
dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 1mo
Jari-chan @BarbaraBB At least here in Switzerland it is a big thing and people still refuse to see what's going on. I'm not sure about Germany, but I think it's the same. 1mo
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#WeirdWordWednesday

I love all these words.

@CBee

TheBookHippie LOVE!!!! 1mo
dabbe 🤩🤣😍 1mo
lil1inblue 🤣😍🤩 1mo
KadaGul Love it 🤣🤣 1mo
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1) Currently 2 cats, Kali & Dahlia, the most neurotic cats I‘ve ever had and our pug, Merry Pippin. Over the years I think we had everything at one time or another except snakes. Hard no from mom on that one. Fish (piranha, fresh and saltwater), rodents (hamsters, gerbils & a guinea pig), a bearded dragon lizard, a bird, turtles, numerous cats & dogs.
2) Both but more fiction

Play @Lesliereadsalot @Meshell1313 @willaful

#WondrousWednesday

Eggs Love the tagged book 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
Lesliereadsalot Thanks for thinking of me. It turns out that I‘m highly allergic to cats and shedding dogs and possibly other animals that I don‘t know about! I do love seeing all the Litsy pets, they always make me smile. And Marcellus the octopus in Remarkably Bright Creatures also made me smile. 😊 1mo
Meshell1313 Oh fun! Thanks for the tag! 1mo
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#TuesdayTunes

Kevin has been popping up on my Instagram a lot lately. It has not been easy to find reasons to smile lately but listening to this does.

https://youtu.be/f74R6BYze4A?si=7cFQW9SccuKe3Irt

Enjoy!

@TieDyeDude

KAO Delightful! Thanks for this! 1mo
LeeRHarry This was great - thanks for sharing 😊 1mo
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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#Two4Tuesday

1) I try to always have ~$50 in cash on me. If I don‘t I always hear my dad‘s voice in my head reminding me I should.
2) I just finished the tagged book again and watched two adaptations… Mrs. Bennett proclaiming how many pounds a year a young man has still rings in my ears as well as Mr. Collins divulging the price of the chimney at Rosing Park. 😬😂

TheSpineView Even the opening of the book brings in the importance people place on money and material goods. 1mo
AmyG I always hid a $20….just in case. 1mo
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