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Joined May 2016

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Ramen for Everyone | Patricia Tanumihardja
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#Falling Day 3: #WhatsForDinner - Ramen! Yum. I love the fact that this is a father-and-son spending their time in the kitchen, crafting dishes that their family (mother and sister) would enjoy. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ri3

Eggs Delightful! 13h
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lil1inblue So powerful! 1d
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Near to the Wild Heart | Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser
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#Falling Day 1: A different kind of #Wildlife in these Clarice Lispector novels.

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2d
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The Witches | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
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#CharacterCharm Day 31: #Witch - a fantastic curation in a local bookstore here in Dubai, Magrudy‘s - one of the longest standing bookstores in the country. Founder of this place is also the founder of Emirates Literature Festival. 🥰 Here is Iphigene‘s review of tagged book: https://wp.me/pDlzr-2fO

Eggs Stunning 🤩 2d
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#CharacterCharm Day 30: Augusta Baker educated herself and became the first Black person to earn a degree from SUNY Albany in library sciences and information studies. As the first Black #Librarian, she curated the James Weldon Johnson Memorial collection in 1944 to find uplifting stories about people of color. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r3d

Eggs Beautiful illustrations 💖📚💗 5d
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Blue Pastures | Mary Oliver
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#CharacterCharm Day 29: I have been reading more of the works of #Poet Mary Oliver now that I have quit social media (Facebook, X, Instagram) over the past months. Poetry seems infinitely better for the soul.

Eggs Agreed 👍🏼 5d
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#CharacterCharm Day 28: Stories as #Healer - both these texts allude to that singular fact.

Eggs Well chosen 👏🏻👌🏼👏🏻 6d
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#CharacterCharm Day 27: It was a pleasure serving as Chief #Judge for the Hedwig Anuar Children‘s Book Award last year in Singapore. 🥰

Eggs Congratulations 👏🏻 1w
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#CharacterCharm Day 26: #Author - I shared our #CampLitsy25 discussions for the month of July here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rGS as hosted by @Megabooks

Eggs Dramatic cover👏🏻👏🏻 1w
Suet624 Thank you for sharing this information with others. It's always good to highlight the good things happening on Litsy. Hopefully some more folks will join. 1w
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#CharacterCharm Day 25: #Survivor - one of the books I bought during the NYRB Sitewide Summer Sale. See here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rDE

Eggs Excellent 🧡💛🖤 1w
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The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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#CharacterCharm Day 24: Not exactly a sanctuary for #Voyager(s). Looking forward to reading this one soon.

Eggs It sounds good 👌🏼 2w
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My latest article published in a top 1% journal co-authored with longtime collaborator and friend from UCL, a PhD Candidate (who translated our Abstract into Arabic), and three undergraduate students. Only the first 50 eprints are free which you can find here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SZ3XWDHDH4ACHBCKDGQU/full?target=10.1080/0143... - message me if this is of interest to you. 🌷💕

LiteraryinPA Major congratulations! While I don‘t necessarily have time to read the article, I will look at this list for the store inventory. I see some favorites on here already! 2w
merelybookish You continue to do amazing, important work! Congrats! 2w
IriDas This is wonderful to hear. I‘m getting my MLIS and my emphasis is on children‘s librarianship. I am always looking for books like this to fill in all the gaps. 2w
CoffeeK8 Congrats this is awesome! 2w
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Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 | Wislawa Szymborska, Stanis?aw Bara?czak, Clare Cavanagh
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#CharacterCharm Day 23: #Maid - even if “old maids.” 😂🤣

Eggs Clever 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2w
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Tori and the Muses | Tori Amos
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#CharacterCharm Day 22: A new picturebook biography of award-winning #Musician Tori Amos. I adored Tori in my early 20s and devoured all her haunting poetry-music.

Eggs So pretty 🎼🎤🎶 2w
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#CharacterCharm Day 21: Fats featured this story of Clementine Haas who woke up in an Irish hospital as an #Amnesiac - her rating of this book plus four other YA novels here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-hSJ

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Stacked! 💙🤍 2w
Eggs I read this several years ago! 2w
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King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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#CharacterCharm Day 20: Torrent and Tranquil definitely strike me as borderline #Psychotic - one more than the other, ummm, sort-of. A #CampLitsy25 winner, no doubt. Looking forward to the final discussion this weekend hosted by the ever fab @BarbaraBB

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! They are really scary! 😱 2w
Eggs This looks like a yummy snack-makes me hungry! 2w
BarbaraBB Happy you‘ve joined camp with your insightful thoughts 🤍 2w
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#CharacterCharm Day 19: #Legend - these are titles gifted to our new college graduate.

Billypar Congratulations!!👩‍🎓🎉🎉 2w
Eggs Fun ☕️ 2w
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Water & Salt | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 2w
Eggs Love it❤️❤️ 2w
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Artist's Eyes | Frances Tosdevin
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Eggs Gorgeous👌🏼 2w
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#CharacterCharm Day 16: #Vigilante death squads sanctioned by former president Rodrigo Duterte had been portrayed so chillingly in this journalistic nonfiction memoir of Patricia Evangelista. Thankfully, he is now awaiting trial in The Hague. My review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qgX

Eggs Excellent choice and photo! 3w
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Prophet Song | Paul Lynch
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#CharacterCharm Day 15: #Prophet - I have yet to read this “prophetic” propulsive novel.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤❤️🤍 3w
Eggs Great cover! ❤️🤍🖤 3w
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King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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#CharacterCharm Day 14: #Murderer(s) in this gritty, fast-paced novel that was just what I needed when I read it last month. Bought all the other SA Cosby novels I can find while book hunting and trawling the bookstores in Seattle and the Bay Area. Looking forward to the upcoming #CampLitsy25 discussions.

BarbaraBB It‘s good right?! 3w
Eggs I‘ve seen great reviews! 3w
AmyG Loved this book. 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks LOVE this author!! 3w
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#CharacterCharm Day 13: #TimeSpaceTraveler - i think being stuck in just one particular day in time qualifies. Still don‘t know how i feel about this little book. Qualifies too for #ReadTheWorld2025 - Denmark - translated from Danish.

charl08 I like your cover more than mine! (And I don't know what I think about it either!) 3w
Eggs Great pairing! 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 💜💚 3w
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Eggs 🩷💔💛 3w
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The Snatchabook | Helen Docherty
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#CharacterCharm Day 11: There is a book #Thief in town - and Fats wrote a lovely review of this Snatchabook here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gjd As she noted: “It‘s perfect for book lovers and anyone who has enjoyed being read to when they were younger.”

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice 🙌🏻 3w
Eggs I love how you share the spectacular illustrations in picture books ❣️ 3w
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Rehearsing Absence: Poems | Rhina Polonia Espaillat
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Eggs 💔❤️‍🩹 3w
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The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger | Lisbeth Zwerger
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#CharacterCharm Day 9: #FairyElfPixie in this Lisbeth Zwerger collection entitled “Wonderment” - not on Litsy‘s database. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-b71

Eggs Beautiful 🤩 4w
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The Seasons of Parastoo | Rashin Kheiriyeh
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#CharacterCharm Day 8: Parastoo‘s (which means “swallow bird” in Farsi) mother had to leave to serve as a #nurse during wartime. There is a layer of authenticity to the narrative as it appears the story is culled from Kheiriyeh‘s own experience as she dedicates the book to her own mother who served as a nurse during wartime, & grandfather who used to make nests for the parastoo in his house in Iran. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r7H

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 4w
Eggs Gorgeous 🫶🏻 4w
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Untitled | Untitled
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#CharacterCharm Day 7: #Elderly - apparently I am using the wrong prompts 🤦🏽‍♀️Must have been jetlagged when I saw it. Lols.

Eggs It happens🥳😍 4w
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Beasties | Peter Lerangis
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#BookSpin Day 7: Peter Lerangis, farthest left, is #TheGhostwriter of popular series such as Babysitter‘s Club, Hardy Boys, and Sweet Valley Twins - before becoming a mega-famous author himself of The 39 Clues, Seven Wonders Series among others. This photo of ours was taken in November 2022 when my dear friend (and colleague) and I were in New York. Peter generously treated us out for lunch with his famous wife, Tina DeVaron, a renowned musician.

Texreader This is wonderful!! 4w
marleed I love seeing posts of your amazing experiences! 4w
AmyG Oh wow! That‘s awesome. 4w
Eggs How wonderful! Awesome 👏🏻 😎 4w
lil1inblue Awesome! 😍 4w
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#BookSpin Day 6: Bertie Badger‘s grandfather, “Gadzooks the Great” was once a “conjurer of note,” a world-famous magician who traveled to Prague, Kathmandu, Antipodes and Timbuktu. One would wonder what the #ConjurersWife was like - see what I did there? My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-idh

Eggs Artful 👏🏻🙌🏻👍🏼 1mo
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The Lover | Marguerite Duras
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Eggs Yum 🍹 1mo
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Greylands | Isobelle Carmody
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Eggs Excellent quote 🙌🏻 1mo
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The Empire of Gold | S. A. Chakraborty
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#BookSpin Day 3: There must be #GoldenHills in an Empire of Gold. Finished reading this fantasy series last year and found it awesome.

TheBookDream Whatever that salad is I want it 🥹 1mo
Eggs Beautiful cover💜📚🩶 1mo
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#BookSpin Day 2: #SharkHeart A Love Story was prominently on display at Barnes and Noble Florida as among one of their Best Fiction titles when I was there in November of 2023.

Soubhiville I loved this book! I‘ve recently considered a reread. 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Very unique book! 1mo
Eggs On my August list 📖 1mo
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Heir | Sabaa Tahir
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#BookSpin Day 1: When a #BrokenCountry brings forth even more genocide in an unending loop of violence in this fantastical realm. Read this for book club a few months back and loved it - prompted me to read the original Ember in the ashes quartet which I just finished devouring. Sabaa Tahir is a genius. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rnQ

Leftcoastzen That food ! 🤩 1mo
Eggs 🧡💙🧡 1mo
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#JulyJazz Day 31: #Freedom of women and tiger girls in particular is curtailed in this chilling dystopian graphic novel with a monsoon tropical vibe written by my Singaporean friend and fellow book club member, Felicia Low-Jimenez. Grateful that I have the #freedom to read outdoors in the wilds of Alki Beach in Seattle. This new graphic novel is still not on Litsy‘s database so tagging the anthology where the story first appeared.

Eggs Beautiful 😍 1mo
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#JulyJazz Day 30: #LoveHorses - now back home in the Emirates with all my new bookses. 📚📚📚

Eggs Powerful verse👏🏻👏🏻 What a great feeling - home with all your books and coziness🥰 1mo
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#JulyJazz Day 29: #MoonDay - posting way in advance since traveling on Monday and only arriving in the evening on Tuesday (we lose a day going back) next week.

Eggs “…kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow --the central heart …untouched by time, by joy, by adversities. “ Stunning verse ❤️💔 1mo
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Left Bank Books | Seattle, WA (Bookstore)
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#JulyJazz Day 28: I #Celebrate visiting three bookstores in two days while here in Seattle: Kinokuniya, The Elliott Bay Book Company, and the tagged bookstore - Left Bank Books Collective. Posting in advance since traveling back home to Dubai on Monday.

kspenmoll You look so happy! 1mo
marleed How fun! 1mo
Eggs Bookshop Heaven 📚🥰👏🏻 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You are so photogenic and beautiful ❤️ 1mo
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#JulyJazz Day 27: #Kittens - posting in advance since we are traveling back to Dubai from Seattle on Monday early morning.

Eggs Beautiful 😻 1mo
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#JulyJazz Day 26: #CheerTheLonely Soul Catcher (Elias) with some dripping mangoes - a scene that made me laugh out loud in this book. Still prolonging my stay here in the world that Sabaa Tahir brilliantly crafted.
Paired with original strawberry cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory at Southcenter Mall in Seattle.

Eggs So lovely 🍓🍓 1mo
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#JulyJazz Day 25: Last year I visited the Philippine booth which proudly showcases the Philippine #Flag during the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. Husband drove us for 90 minutes (one way) so I can get the book gifted to me by a Filipina American novelist (Ninotchka Rosca) whose books were featured during the fair.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great photo 💛 1mo
Eggs Wonderful👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
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The Patriots: A Novel | Sana Krasikov
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#JulyJazz Day 24: #Patriots - bought during a Kinokuniya warehouse sale. 🥰

Eggs Great covers !! 1mo
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Family Reunion | Peg Sutherland
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#JulyJazz Day 23: #FamilyReunion this summer with our newly minted college graduate from Seattle University and as we spend time with family this July in the Bay Area. Heading back to Seattle today to help our college graduate settle in their new place with housemates- then husband and I fly back to the Emirates on Monday next week. ✈️🧳💺🗺️

Leftcoastzen Congratulations! 🎉impressive! And great for some family time too! 1mo
Texreader How wonderful!! 1mo
Eggs Congrats to the graduate and safe travels ✈️ 🤗 1mo
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BarbaraBB Congrats to the graduate! Enjoy your time together 💖 1mo
Suet624 💕💕💕 1mo
Reggie Congrats!!! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Congratulations 🎉🎊 1mo
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Forgiveness Parade | Jeffrey McDaniel
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lil1inblue 😍 😎 😍 1mo
Eggs Love this👏🏻🫶🏻🙌🏻 1mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 1mo
Eggs Absolutely 👍🏼 💯 1mo
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My Friends | Fredrik Backman
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#JulyJazz Day 20: More than #PlayOutside, I was also able to Read Outside while we were camping last week, and finished this novel that I did not love as much as I expected. My newly minted college graduate kid bailed on it for our summer book club of two - and even called it “corny” at one point and I have to agree that I do see it. Jokes did not land as well as it should. Husband took my photo. 📸

kspenmoll Beautiful photo!!! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous ❤️ 1mo
BarbaraBB Beautiful photo 💖 1mo
Eggs Great photo 👏🏻👏🏻 I have it queued up in the audio player 1mo
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lil1inblue 🥰🥰🥰 2mo
Eggs Couldn‘t agree more! Children‘s books give me magic and hope and all that is good and transformative about humans🧡 2mo
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#JulyJazz Day 18: #Listen tells the story of Evelyn Glennie, a deaf musician. With great joy, she was able to demonstrate how there are many forms of hearing that can take place in one‘s being – and that music need not be confined to ears in perfect condition. Rather, hearing music can be a “sea of sound” – an entire sensation within one‘s body. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-oGe

Susanita 🩵🎶🌊 2mo
Eggs Stacked! 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 😍 2mo
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