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Somehow: Thoughts on Love | Anne Lamott

How would I describe this book so far?

Necessary.

Anne Lamott is a gift. ❤️

AmyG I love Anne. 1y

MemoirsForMe Yay! I‘m waiting for my hold on this one. Anne Rocks! 🙌🏻 1y

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith

Reading a favorite again. Francie Nolan and I are friends.

TheBookHippie Oh I love this book. 1y

Amiable One of the best books ever! 1y

dabbe LOVE this one, too! 💚💙💚 1y

Suet624 Oh gee. I should read this again. 1y

MemoirsForMe One of my all-time favorites! 1y

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Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | Francisco Cantu

This is such an important book.

Reggie I liked this a lot. 1y

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A Living Remedy: A Memoir | Nicole Chung

Excellent so far. Super cold outside, so it's a perfect day to stay inside and read.

#memoir

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism | Rachel Maddow

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Excellent! Well-researched, interesting, scary, sobering...read it!

Bookish.SAM Love Rachel Maddow. Blowout was pretty sobering as well. 1y

goodbyefrancie @Bookish_SAM same here! She reads the audio for this, and it made it that much more interesting. 1y

Leftcoastzen It was great! Highly recommended by me for all the reasons you noted! 1y

melissajayne You should give the podcast Ultra a listen 1y

goodbyefrancie @melissajayne I have listened to it, and it was so interesting! I love the way she presents these stories. 1y

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Tom Lake: A Novel | Ann Patchett

I'm 7 chapters into Tom Lake, but not exactly attached. Does this get more engaging? I'm probably half/half on Ann Patchett's books, and really want to like this one. Thoughts?

#Audio

steph_phanie I thought the story improved as it progressed and as the characters matured. I ended up quite liking it, but I also have a connection to the part of Michigan the present-day timeline is set in, so I greatly appreciated how that setting shapes the characters. Patchett did an excellent job capturing how people feel about the region. Now, as with other Patchett books, there were definitely a few things I could have done without. 2y

JenDR I was lukewarm about Tom Lake as well, but I did finish it. I thought the reason I didn‘t really like the book is that I don‘t like fiction books that deal with the Covid Pandemic. Still too close for me. 2y

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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them | Timothy Egan

I bought myself books for my birthday. 🙂 Book mail is the best mail!

RebL Book mail & book birthdays are the best! 📚 ✉️ 📚 🎂 2y

Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 2y

Amiable Ooh, both of these are on my TBR list! 2y

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dabbe Happiest of birthdays! 💙💚💙 2y

jlhammar Happy Birthday! I just finished the Egan. Both are so good. Enjoy! 2y

Tamra BookBirthday!! 🎉🥳🎊 2y

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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir | Michelle Zauner

Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Charlie's Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts | Paul Sexton

Super excited about this. #CharlieIsMyDarling

peacegypsy Love the STONES! 3y

EvieBee Nice! Love them! 3y

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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times | Douglas Abrams, Jane Goodall

Read this book. That's it, just read it. Even better, listen to it.

EvieBee 👌🏼 3y

Chelsea.Poole Agree!! 🦍 3y

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The Choice: Escape your past and embrace the possible | Edith Eger

I can't reach my book.

#NeverDisturbtheKitty
#CatsOfLitsy
#CrazyDaisy

KristenDuck So stinking cute!!! 4y

Tamra They never make reading convenient. 😉 Cozy yes. 4y

Suet624 💕💕💕 4y

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rubyslippersreads #NeverDisturbtheKitty is the rule in my house. 😸 4y

BookishMarginalia That is so familiar! 4y

Scochrane26 That happens to me often. 4y

Bookzombie 💕🐈‍⬛ 4y

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The Choice: Escape your past and embrace the possible | Edith Eger

Sunday recharge. Daisy approves. ❤🐈

#CrazyDaisy
#CatsOfLitsy

wanderinglynn So sweet! ❤️🐱 4y

Aims42 😻😻😻😻😻😻 4y

Nute OMG! This is such a sweet photo!😻 4y

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Breakfast with Buddha | Roland Merullo

Lucy and I are spending a quiet evening in the library to kick this year to the curb. I wish us all peace, strength, health, love, wisdom, and all the books our hearts desire. Oh, and the love of a cuddly kitty.

#CatsOfLitsy
#QueenLucytheValiant

ladym30 Lucy is very pretty!❤️ 5y

Leftcoastzen 🥰😻Thanks , happy new year to you! 5y

goodbyefrancie @ladym30 Thanks! She uses it against us. 🙂 5y

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wildwoodreads The perfect night. Happy New Year! 5y

Ruthiella Happy New Year to you and Lucy! 🥳 5y

JaneyWaneyB Happy New Year 🥳 5y

JohnLAndBenji Cute cat! 2y

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A Promised Land | Barack Obama

I'm pretty excited about starting this! I bought the hardcover, but decided I wanted him to read it to me. Medicinal purposes to heal a bit from the last four years.

Jas16 I really loved the audio. 5y

JoyBlue He‘s currently reading it to me, too. We started this morning, I‘m ~17% in,and I‘m really digging it, so far. 5y

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Words to Live By: Creative hand-lettering, coloring, and inspirations | Dawn Nicole Warnaar

Anyone else keep a notebook of favorite lines from books? I love looking back on words that spoke to me. My notebook was almost full, so I found this beauty to start a new one. Anyone care to share your favorite lines for me to add?

AkashaVampie Love the cover. 5y

goodbyefrancie @AkashaVampie Isn't it pretty? Last one on the shelf like it, so I was lucky! 5y

TheRomantiCate No but that sounds like such a great idea 5y

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jb72 That is beautiful! 5y

goodbyefrancie @TheRomantiCate I love it. Sometimes just flipping to a random page to revisit something. 5y

TheRomantiCate @goodbyefrancie I definitely need to do that cause sometimes I‘ll quote something I know is from a book, but I can‘t remember what 5y

Sweetkokoro I started doing this, and then my daughter stole my notebook and tore out the pages and used it for herself :/ so I haven‘t bothered but now I want to try again. 5y

goodbyefrancie @Sweetkokoro uh-oh! Definitely do it again. I love mine. 5y

zezeki I do the same thing, but haven't it done it lately, my reading mood has been all over the place and haven't really found anything that stuck with me. 5y

Susanita I use Notes on my phone or take a picture of the page. 5y

Augustdana I do the same thing!! It‘s sometimes called a commonplace book !! My last quote is from Solnit: growing up, we say, as though we were trees, as though altitude was all that there was to be gained, but so much of the process is growing whole as the fragments are gathered, the patterns found. 5y

LibrarianChels I love this idea as a theme for my 2021 line-a-day journal. This year‘s theme was only positive notes from the day. Super challenging in 2020! It‘s like the pandemic never happened. 5y

goodbyefrancie @LibrarianChels omg, I can't imagine how challenging that must have been for this year. You're a superhero! 5y

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Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books | Lynne Sharon Schwartz

so-so

It sounds ridiculous, but Ruined by Reading is way too wordy. It was interesting, but the writing almost sounded pretentious. Just so-so. The cover would be a really cute tattoo, though. 🤷‍♀️

Texreader Adorable cover! 5y

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith

I chose this for my "years of service" gift at work, and it just came in today. I've had a paperwhite forever and decided to upgrade. So freaking excited!

wanderinglynn That‘s awesome! Congrats! 5y

Follow.my.read I love my Oasis!!!! 5y

Jemgirl2014 Wow! That's a wonderful gift! Congratulations and enjoy! 5y

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TheBookStacker I miss my oasis, I stupidly left it at an airport somewhere when I was half asleep for a 5am flight 😞 5y

PandaPanda Yay congrats! I just ordered myself one and it comes Sunday. So excited! 5y

goodbyefrancie @TheBookStacker That's so sad! 5y

meghathecloud Congrats. Great choice! (edited) 5y

LKK526 I got the latest in December and love it 3y

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I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir | Chasten Buttigieg

One of these things doesn't belong there. 🤷‍♀️ #crazyDaisy #CatsOfLitsy

BiblioLitten 😅 5y

Moonprismpower No! He belongs!!!!! 5y

Scochrane26 So cute! I think she does belong. 5y

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Twainy AWWWWW 🤗 5y

Lcsmcat 😻 kitties belong everywhere. 5y

ravenlee Hmm, is it the typewriter? 5y

BookishMarginalia She‘s adorable! And she has grown so much! 4y

goodbyefrancie @BookishMarginalia She's getting fat! We have five, and it would be hard to say which one is more spoiled. 4y

BookishMarginalia We have 5 too! All spoiled rotten, of course! 4y

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I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir | Chasten Buttigieg

Lucy and I are looking forward to reading this one over the weekend.

#QueenLucyTheValiant
#CatsOfLitsy

Megabooks First man someday?? 😊 5y

melissajayne @Megabooks I hope so! 5y

GingerAntics Oh I can‘t wait to hear about this. I think Chasten and Peter are so freakin cute!!! Here‘s hoping he‘s the first man one day. I still think Pete would make an amazing president. 5y

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goodbyefrancie @Megabooks @melissajayne I hope so, too! 5y

goodbyefrancie @GingerAntics I agree completely! 5y

GingerAntics I need a cute couple back in the White House. I was spoiled by the Obama‘s. Would love the Buttigieg‘s next. 5y

GreenGrl87 Please tell this cat I love her 😻 5y

goodbyefrancie @GreenGrl87 Done! She looked very impressed, as cats do. 😉 5y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awww Lucy 😽 5y

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present | David Treuer

This book is so good and very interesting, but the lists are driving me a little crazy. It's so distracting. I hope the narrator got paid per comma. 😬

#Overdrive

GingerAntics This is on my list of books to read. There are a lot of lists? Hm. Maybe in text format it‘s possible to just skip over them. 5y

goodbyefrancie @GingerAntics It's very good, it's just lots of listing items (tribes, crops, etc.). It just seems distracting. It might actually be less so if reading a print book. 5y

SamAnne It is a good overview of Native American history and present using many different Tribe examples. 5y

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My Life on the Road | Gloria Steinem

Really enjoying this book so far.

"When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses." ~ Gloria Steinem

Riveted_Reader_Melissa This is a great book! 5y

Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira Powerful quote! ❣️ 5y

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A Little In Love | Susan Fletcher

We finally settled on Daisy (gray) and Piper (white) for our new rescue babies. We love these spoiled little furballs already. 🥰😍 #CatsOfLitsy

ravenlee Adorable! Congratulations! 5y

rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 5y

Elizabeth2 So cute!! 😻 5y

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wanderinglynn Too cute! ❤️🐱 Congrats! 5y

Nute Absolute cuteness!😸💛 5y

jackilynn So cute!! I miss when mine were that little. 5y

SamanthaMarie They are seriously adorable 😍 5y

Bette How lovely. Enjoy. ❤️🐱❤️🐱 5y

VeganCleopatra That's funny, I had a cat named Daisy growing up that looked so much like her! Thanks for adopting these cuties. 5y

RainyDayReading Love the name Piper! 5y

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Kittens and More Kittens | Marci Ridlon

We adopted these babies from our local rescue shelter yesterday, and we are having so much fun with them. No names yet, so I thought I'd ask the experts. Both girls. We usually go with literary or music names. Older cats are Mavis (the blues cat), Lola (she was a showgirl), and Lucy (Queen Lucy the Valiant). Any suggestions? Trying to get these girls to hold still for pictures is fun!
#CatsOfLitsy

Hoopiefoot They‘re so sweet! 5y

AmyG They are adorable! So many name choices.....fictional characters, authors. 5y

Tracyantoon Katniss Everdeen!!! 5y

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jouleian Look at those babies!!! 5y

Scochrane26 So cute!!! 😍😍 5y

teebe First names that popped into my head were Mina (like in Dracula) and Mab (so you‘d have two queens!) but that‘s a lot of M names 🤷🏻‍♀️ 5y

cathysaid Thelma and Louise. Jo and Beth. (edited) 5y

PaperbackPirate 😻😻Congratulations! How about Angelica and Eliza Schuyler? 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Real musician & Literary musician: Stevie & Daisy. 5y

RowReads1 The name Sydney popped into my head for the orange and white cutie. 5y

quirkyreader For the grey one Gracie and for the ginger and white one Peaches or Peachy. 5y

goodbyefrancie @cathysaid I mentioned Thelma and Louise to the hubby, but he vetoed. I'm keeping it on the list. 😉 5y

goodbyefrancie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I like Daisy, too. It's on the list! 5y

goodbyefrancie @quirkyreader Peaches is on the list! 5y

reluctantangeleno What about Franny and Zooey?? 😁

Franny and Zooey

bookishbitch So cute! 5y

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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom | Condoleezza Rice

#Audiopuzzle today. I have a million things I should be getting done, but it's time to recharge. Hope you're all having a peaceful Sunday. Stay healthy!

#Overdrive
#SelfCare

Leftcoastzen Cute! 5y

bookaholic1 I did this one, it was fun 5y

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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir | John Bolton

So far:
Look how smart I am.
I saved this thing.
He wouldn't listen.
I'm so smart.
Look what I did.

Holy crap, this dude's ego is huge. Still 17 hours left. 🙄

#Overdrive

vivastory After watching his interview on Colbert I have no use for him 5y

goodbyefrancie @vivastory I haven't seen the interview yet, but Bolton has always been a slimeball. 5y

vivastory This is the truth 5y

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Kaylamburson 17 hours?? How many hours did it start with?! 5y

GingerAntics I saw his interview on Colbert. He‘s just another politician. He said he thought the impeachment trial was too narrow so he refused to participate, even though he was the person who witnessed the quid pro quo that all the republicans were asking for. What a smarmy little jerk. He‘s more like Trump than he realises. He also believes Trump‘s actions with Ukraine are just the same as when the Democrats wanted him out of office. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤬🙄 5y

GingerAntics @vivastory I just watched that interview this afternoon. Oh my god, I‘m right there with you. I wasn‘t about to buy his book anyway, but now I just want his 15 minutes of fame to end as soon as possible so he can go away. Ugh. 5y

SamAnne Ugh. 5y

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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir | John Bolton

Listening to this on #Overdrive because I refuse to buy it. This guy has always been shitty, but keeping his mouth shut so he could cash in instead of standing up and having even a shred of morality makes him even nastier. The guy's no better than his former boss.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa 👍 5y

GingerAntics Totally agree!!! 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Yeah, I refuse to buy it too. 5y

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PurpleTulipGirl I‘m only a few pages in, but he‘s totally coming across as a smug jerk. Not that I‘m surprised. 5y

GloVerdino My husband bought it because he‘s obsessed with politics, but he‘s not a reader. Is it bad that I‘m just happy he actually wants to read a book?! 5y

goodbyefrancie @PurpleTulipGirl He definitely things a lot of himself. He's a worm. 5y

goodbyefrancie @GloVerdino I get it. I read a lot of political and history books, but this guy will not get a dime from me. 5y

SamAnne Agreed. Kind of want to listen but won‘t pay a dime to do so. (edited) 5y

reluctantangeleno The best thing I've heard about his book is the New York Times referring to him in their book review as "an unlikely hybrid of Ned Flanders and Yosemite Sam". Lololololol 5y

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The Nickel Boys: A Novel | Colson Whitehead

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This book has consumed my day, my brain, and my heart. To know that it is inspired by true events is horrific and sickening. Read it, listen to it, but be prepared to live with it. This one stays with you.

#Overdrive

Writeme Reading it now, too! 5y

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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life | Lea Berman, Jeremy Bernard

Lucy is not making it easy to read tonight.

#CatsOfLitsy
#QueenLucyTheValiant

Libby1 😻 5y

Velvetfur Aaww that gorgeous little face! 💜🐈💜 5y

erinreads I have a Lucy, too! 😻 5y

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | Charlie Mackesy

This is such a sweet book!

AnneCecilie And the saying is so true 5y

Addison_Reads Loved this one 💚 5y

goodbyefrancie @AnneCecilie Absolutely! 5y

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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott

Mavis and I are starting our weekend in the library. Hibernation is the theme of the day. A peaceful Saturday to you all, #littens

#CatsOfLitsy #MavisIsaBluesCat #LoveMyLibrary

Reecaspieces I love the idea of hibernation. I need that right now! But sad to say...off to work I go. Have a fabulous day! 5y

Velvetfur *gasp* The dark wood! The little steps! The puddy tat! That's a perfect picture! 😍 5y

AmyG Just lovely! 5y

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MargaretPinardAuthor Gorgeous library! And the steps are all. #dreamlibrary 🥰🙏🏾 5y

Lcsmcat I love your library steps! 5y

goodbyefrancie @Lcsmcat @MargaretPinardAuthor The steps were a flea market find. Possibly the fastest purchasing decision I have ever made. 💛🙂 5y

MargaretPinardAuthor Wow, I‘ll say! lucky find!! 😇 5y

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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens | Eddie Izzard

Listening to Eddie Izzard on #Overdrive and making a few masks for work. At least they're fun prints. Hope you've all had a great weekend!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So cool!!! 5y

britt_brooke These are fabulous!! Enjoyed this book, too. 💚 5y

runswithscissors007 I 💗 Eddie!!! 5y

runswithscissors007 Such a hard worker! 5y

allureofbeauty I adore Eddie Izzard. 5y

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Jeff Guinn

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I'm old enough to remember this event, but didn't know the whole story. This book details so much. It really gives a good example of the blind devotion people have for some "leaders", as well as how power can drive someone to do horrible things. I swore I would read lighter fare this year, but it hasn't happened yet. Good book, interesting and tragic story, but definitely heavy.

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Jeff Guinn

#audiopuzzling on my rainy day off. The puzzle looks fun, but this book is disturbing.

#Audible

TheSpineView Great puzzle! 5y

Lesanne I read this book, truly stranger than fiction. Love the puzzle, btw! 5y

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Jeff Guinn

1. Tagged (audio), and Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott
2. When All is Said by Anne Griffin - staff pick at my favorite indie bookstore
3. The Girls of Atomic City was pretty good.

#weekendreads
@rachelsbrittain

RamsFan1963 The Road to Jonestown is such an amazing book!! 5y

goodbyefrancie @RamsFan1963 I just started, but good so far. I swore I would read lighter books this year, but keep gravitating to heavier subjects. 5y

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Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott

My plan involved cleaning up my deck on my day off. This seemed like a better idea. Everyone needs a little sanity break once in a while.

Addison_Reads I love that bookmark! 💚 5y

Bookzombie Cute bookmark! Yes, enjoy your sanity break! 5y

BiblioLitten Cute bookmark! 5y

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Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times | Herbert Kohl

Just throwing this out there. I always feel like I should apologize the entire world, but rest assured, I didn't help get him there. Happy Sunday, #littens.

Autumnscribe I completely understand your knee jerk need to apologize for him, though I too did not help put him there. I can barely look my overseas relatives in the eye. 5y

Catherine_Willoughby Heard he will cut down his screen time now. Its like watching a train wreck every night. Every country is going through this. Americans will suffer the most heartache due to incompetence along with a very complicated governmental approach- one universe rule should apply for all states - the delay or non compliance of locking down states for so long will cause more death. IRELAND 5.5 Population : Deaths 1, 062 / Cases 18k - full locked down 7 weeks 5y

AlaMich Yes, every day is a fresh opportunity to be mortified and horrified by him. 5y

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BookmarkTavern I am right there with you! I‘ve got family that think he‘s doing great things for the military, and so they don‘t care whatever else he‘s doing. It makes me feel sick. 😞 5y

JaclynW 😂😂😂 This is so great! I hope this nightmare ends in November! 5y

marleed I was as equally horrified by those in the room that didn‘t shut down those rambling ideas but instead tried to legitimize the thoughts. 5y

goodbyefrancie @Catherine_Willoughby I wish we had taken such a proactive and quick response. We visited Ireland in 2018, and your country seems so far ahead of us in so many ways - progression, environmentally, just several ways. We spent nine days there, and loved every second. Beauty in every direction. 5y

goodbyefrancie @AlaMich @ozma.of.oz It is sickening, and it's something new every day. I hope we survive it. 5y

goodbyefrancie @marleed I agree!! I so badly want someone to just stand up and confront him about his lies and irresponsibility. I also think every reporter in the room should just ask him the same questions over and over until he actually answers. 5y

sprainedbrain LOVE this! 5y

Tineke Oh, it wasn't sarcasm? No, just kidding, it's astonishing to me how some people swallow every excuse he throws out there whenever he says dumb things. 5y

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Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II | Denise Kiernan

A wild Friday night at home, just like I like it.

#Audiopuzzling #Audible

Leftcoastzen Bacontopia !🥓 5y

OrangeMooseReads That‘s a great looking puzzle lol 5y

goodbyefrancie @Leftcoastzen @OrangeMooseReads It's making me want bacon! 5y

rabbitprincess I am really hungry now! Mmmmm bacon 😋 5y

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Why We're Polarized | Ezra Klein

Trying to finish my audiobook without disturbing Lucy. Cats have it made.

#Audible
#CatsOfLitsy
#QueenLucyThe Valiant
#NeverDisturbTheKitty

AlaMich I love this picture! 😻 5y

goodbyefrancie @AlaMich If we could only all be as relaxed and carefree as Lucy! 5y

Leftcoastzen 😻 5y

Bette 🐱❤️😊 5y

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Why We're Polarized | Ezra Klein

I swore I would read lighter books this year, but it hasn't happened. This one is really interesting.

#Overdrive

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Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving | Angela Santomero

#Bookmail is the best mail, and I get to support my favorite local indie bookstore by shopping online. Win win!

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Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More | Courtney Carver

A suitable tag for my tea this morning. I hope we're all learning to enjoy the simplicity a little more. Stay healthy, #littens.

Velvetfur 1) cool mug! 2) what tea is that? I know Yogi Tea has little bits of wisdom on the tag like that 😊 5y

goodbyefrancie @Velvetfur It is Yogi tea. The tangerine is my favorite. 5y

Velvetfur @goodbyefrancie Ah thanks, now I'm inspired to get more Yogi Tea! 😊 5y

Bklover True!❤️ 5y

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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Rachel Maddow

Ha! "Chicken shittery" may be my new favorite term from a book. I'm so glad she's the narrator of her book.

#Audible

KathyWheeler I really liked this book. 5y

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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Rachel Maddow

Wild Saturday night at my house. 🙂 #AudioPuzzle

#Audible

bookaholic1 I love puzzling, the only thing I hate it finding the edges, ugh 5y

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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life | Lea Berman, Jeremy Bernard

Lola is keeping me company this morning. I really need to get up and put clothes in the dryer, but she looks so comfy.

#CatsOfLitsy
#NeverDisturbTheKitty
#Caturday

Suet624 Sad that this type of book even needs to be written. 5y

goodbyefrancie @Suet624 Agreed. It's pretty interesting so far. 5y

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50,000 Watts of Jazz from Fargo | Tim Rundquist

So this happened while I was sleeping. 50k... 🙂

Eggs Congratulations 🎈 5y

BookwormAHN Congratulations 👏🏻 5y

BookmarkTavern Congratulations! 🎉📚🎉 5y

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Librarybelle Congratulations! 5y

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 🎉🥂🎉🥂 5y

NeedsMoreBooks Congratulations! 🎊🎉🍾 5y

Mollyanna Congratulations 🎉🍾🎉 5y

Come-read-with-me Fantastic!!! 🎊🎊🎊 5y

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JoScho 🥳💜🥳💜🥳 5y

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | Charlie Mackesy

This is the sweetest book. 💙

robinb Love, love, love 5y

Graciouswarriorprincess I love this book! 5y

DieAReader Brave horse 💖 5y

ReadingRachael I loved this too! 5y

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When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II | Molly Guptill Manning

Catching up on housework and listening to #Audible. I'm determined to remain distracted by books for the entire weekend. Weekends are for recharging.

#Essential

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Take Care of Yourself: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Medical Self-Care | James F. Fries, Donald M. Vickery

I'm considered essential, so I've been working and trying to take all of the needed precautions. Not seeing family and close friends doesn't help the stress level during this mess. I just thought I'd check in and make sure my #Litsy friends are doing ok. We're all in this together. Take care of yourselves!

Jerdencon Thank you and stay well! 5y

Eggs Stay safe ❣️ 5y

Lcsmcat Be careful out there! 5y

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Bren912 Thank you for your devotion!!! Continue to stay well!! 5y

SamAnne Thanks for your work and stay safe! 5y

BehindthePages Be careful! I know how you feel. Going to work on empty roads is strange, and just hammers home what is going on. Thank you for your work! 5y

Slajaunie Stay safe and take care of yourself! 5y

Pageturner1 Stay well ❤️😷😇 5y

SilversReviews Take care, and thanks for what you are doing. 5y

OrangeMooseReads Stay safe 💛 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Take care! 5y

JaneyWaneyB Thank you for the work you are doing. Stay self 💖 5y

marleed Be safe! 5y

KatjeIsWriting Stay safe! 5y

CoffeeK8 Thank you for the work you do. Stay safe 5y

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A Warning | Anonymous,

Finishing this one on #Overdrive. Nothing surprising, just pathetic to hear it all reinforced. Hoping for the best in November, but I'd be lying if I said I felt confident.

TheBookHippie 😭😭😭😭same 5y

GingerAntics Same 5y

SamAnne Sigh. Same. Quite worried, actually. 5y

goodbyefrancie @SamAnne So worried! 5y

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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself | Michael Singer