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Karisa

Karisa

Joined December 2018

☮ ❤ 📚 😺 Teacher and mom who loves reading across many genres.
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Yum, Yum, Yummy | Martin Waddell
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Hurray for #JolabokaflodSwap day! Thank you, @Chrissyreadit for spoiling me with two books (I have heard great things about them both—so excited) and a treasure trove of candy. The wrapping paper with books and cats was almost too cute to rip open. Love it all! 😍🎄💗

@MaleficentBookDragon thank you for coordinating! 🥰

lil1inblue 💚 ❤ 💚 14h
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#MyLitsyAwards #2025 #Nonfiction @CSeydel

At first, I thought I hadn‘t read enough nonfiction this year to play the nonfiction round. Then, going through my fiction books, I realized I‘d read a ton of great nonfiction too (many thanks to @TheBookHippie for all the great #SundayBuddyRead nonfiction picks)! Yes, the last one is fiction but felt like non due to the extensive research.

uncommonlycozies It‘s a tricky genre, but I absolutely love non fiction that reads like fiction! What is the title to the left of Summer at Tiffany‘s? I can‘t see the title fully from my end. 2d
Karisa @uncommonlycozies Agreed! Me too on the nonfiction that reads like fiction. With Summer at Tiffany‘s I kept forgetting! 😊 Book to the left of it is tagged below—so interesting! 2d
sarahbarnes I love Hiller. 💕 2d
Karisa @sarahbarnes Me too. There‘s something magical about that sweet man! 2d
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#MyLitsyAwards #Fiction #2025

Thanks, @CSeydel ! That was fun looking back through my year in books. So many good ones this year and here‘s hoping for even more in 2026! 🥂🎉

Suet624 Fun to see so many Camp Litsy reads on your list. 2d
Karisa @Suet624 So many good Camp Litsy books last summer! 2d
CSeydel Great selections! Thanks for posting yours! 2d
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Happy Winter Solstice! Going to try setting some intentions this year with this mindful practice: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSfLwGVinx3/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

BookwormAHN Happy Winter Solstice 🩵 4d
AmyG Happy Solstice! 4d
AnnCrystal Happy Solstice 💝🤍💝🌨️🤩🌨️😍🌨️. 4d
dabbe Blessed Yule! 💙🤍🩵 4d
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Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell
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Heartbreakingly, gut-wrenchingly beautiful adaptation! Might‘ve cried quite a bit— #wdnc if it was an ugly cry. It was so good!

Scochrane26 I haven‘t seen it yet. I want to but know I‘ll be crying. 4d
AmyG I am so happy to hear it‘s good. I loved this book. 4d
Karisa @Scochrane26 Worth it! But yes, have those extra napkins ready 😅 4d
Karisa @AmyG I loved the book too! Maggie O‘Farrell‘s name was all over the credits (usually a good sign to me). Director Chloé Zhao is brilliant! I‘m betting several of the actors earn award nominations. Just so raw and moving like the book and puts you right into the times 4d
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Hurray! My #JolabokaflodSwaphas arrived! @MaleficentBookDragon 🎄🍫📘🥰

MaleficentBookDragon Yay! Almost opening day. 🎄🍫📘 (edited) 4d
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Happy Hanukkah for those that celebrate and/or appreciate! Beautiful words from our own, @TheBookHippie 🥰

TheBookHippie 💙🕎💙 2w
Ruthiella Happy Hanukkah! 🕎 2w
BiblioLitten That‘s beautiful, @TheBookHippie 1w
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The Chocolate Book | Rubinstein, Helge
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Packed, labeled, and scheduled for pick up tomorrow. USPS says it‘ll be there 12/19 😊 #JolabokaflodSwap @MaleficentBookDragon

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I‘d never thought about Charles Dickens‘ wife, but a post on Instagram had me searching more about Catherine Dickens. Had to find more sources to verify because just couldn‘t wrap my head around it. What a sad story!

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160519-the-forgotten-wife-of-charles-dicke...

AnnCrystal 🥺📚💝. 2w
Deblovestoread Wow! So fascinating. Thanks for posting. 2w
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Naked in Death | J D Robb
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Never thought I‘d read and enjoy a Nora Robert‘s book, so thank you @Soubhiville and #AuthorAMonth! Had no idea she writes Sci-fi thrillers under a different name either. This one is action-packed and enjoyable brain candy featuring a tough detective with a complicated past of her own which is just what I needed this busy month.

Written in the 1990s but set in the 2050s, it was interesting to see her take on the future (she played it safe). 😊

Soubhiville I was so glad to find she wrote more than just romances! 2w
Karisa @Soubhiville I would‘ve had no idea that she was also JD Robb but for your post! Otherwise I probably would‘ve skipped this month. Thank you! 😊 2w
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Winter in the Blood | James Welch
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I hear ya, Yellow Calf! Just wait until 2020 and 2025, buddy! #SundayBuddyRead

AmyG Right????? 2w
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Winter in the Blood | James Welch
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Reading the tagged book for #SundayBuddyRead and the J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) for #AuthorAMonth this chilly weekend.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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In the Winter Dark | Tim Winton
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Stamped, sealed, and ready to send out my well wishes for #WinterNatureCardSwap 💗❄️ @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie ❄️🩶❄️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☃️💙☃️ 3w
dabbe ♥️💙💚 3w
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Winter in the Blood | James Welch
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Definitely a bleak start to this book for #SundayBuddyRead

I‘m getting Bukowski vibes 😅

TheBookHippie Yes! 🫣 3w
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Just squeezing in a #TuesdayTunes post 😅 @TieDyeDude

This week, I‘ve been listening to Bollywood music suggested by my students since we are studying India. It‘s wonderful to see their faces light up when the songs come on. Some of our favorites:

Chaleya: https://youtu.be/VAdGW7QDJiU?si=svgCKRDW8N017v6-

Yeh Ishq Hai: https://youtu.be/b_sCZbYyuO4?si=EuHSNkB1J63QKkxJ

TieDyeDude That's so fun! I'll have to check them out tomorrow. We always say we'd like to give Bollywood movies a try. The closest I've come is the recent The Archies on Netflix 😋 3w
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#AuldLangSpine2026 list from @JamieArc 💗

I love it! There are at least 3 books on here that I have read and loved which just tells me that @monalyisha nailed it yet again. I‘m so intrigued by the title of the tagged book. It might be one I read for January! 🎉

Karisa A little about me: I‘m a 6th grade art and history teacher. I have a bunch of pets (3 cats, a dog, 2 classroom guinea pigs) and two almost grown kids. I love to travel, go to museums, see art… 3w
monalyisha I've gifted The Change to many a friend/family member! Such a cathartic read for the times. 3w
Karisa @monalyisha I‘m not familiar with that one. Need to go dig deeper! Thanks! 3w
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TheBookHippie I still think about Zorrie! 3w
Karisa @TheBookHippie Me too! I had to go back to my Goodreads to see we‘d read it Spring of 2024. Seemed like just this year! 3w
JamieArc @monalyisha Yes to The Change being a cathartic read! It was the perfect time for me to read it. I‘ll look forward to seeing what you think of you get to it @Karisa 3w
JamieArc @TheBookHippie It was just such a quiet, lovely book. That‘s what I remember feeling, anyway. I should read it again soon. 3w
Karisa @JamieArc Already grabbed it from Libby. Might need to read it a tiny bit before 2026 if someone else requests it. I can‘t believe it‘s rating on Amazon. Like 16k people and 4.5 stars 🌟 3w
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It‘s my son‘s 17th birthday; actually born on Thanksgiving Day! He‘s a wonderful young man who‘s nice to his mama still. Also, thankful to have my daughter home from uni and be heading to my folks as I type. #moodboard @dabbe

TheBookHippie Happiest birthday to him! 💙💙💙 4w
willaful What a sweet boy! 4w
Amiable ❤️❤️ 4w
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Ruthiella Happy birthday to your son! 🥳 4w
Chelsea.Poole Happy birthday to your guy! 4w
Bookperson96 Happy Birthday to him and a marvelous time today! 4w
AnnCrystal Happy Birthday to your son, have a fun, safe journey 🥳🎂🍰💝. 4w
dabbe You are way too young to have a 17-year-old! Wishing him a happy birthday! L♥️VE this board! ♥️🍁🧡 4w
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I hope he had a happy birthday! If he's still good to his momma, he deserves it! 😁 4w
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This library audiobook hold came in right in time for my day off plus #NonfictionNovember Highly recommend! Read well by the author. I learned so much, including:

* Tuberculosis aka Consumption sparked fashion trends
* It kills over a million people a year still today
* About 25% of the world‘s population has been infected by it
* It‘s almost completely treatable and even curable

ChaoticMissAdventures I was a full grown adult before I realized consumption was TB, weirdly I thought it had to do with drinking too much, I still pause to remember the "new" name. I thought this was a short but good read. 1mo
Karisa @ChaoticMissAdventures Me too! Consumption always seemed like some tragic relic of the past. It‘s so sad to know it could be if there wasn‘t such greed connected to the cure 1mo
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Life with Picasso | Franoise Gilot, Carlton Lake
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Enjoying fall audiobook walks with my favorite pooch and soaking in an autumn #BeautyBreak this week.

(Inspired by the #HaikuHive)

Slow walk, stopping lots
I take pictures, Cosmo sniffs,
Small moments collected

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 1mo
lil1inblue Lovely haiku and photos! 😍 1mo
AnnCrystal Magical Season 👏🏼🐝😍💕🐕🐾🐝💝. 1mo
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charl08 Aw. 🐶 1mo
dabbe C🐾SMO!!! 🧡🍁♥️ P.S. Would you like to join our l'il group? No pressure; post when/if/whever you want.

L🧡VERLY haiku, too!
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Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 1mo
JenlovesJT47 Love it! Beautiful doggie, love all the fall colors 🤎🧡💛 4w
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Please note: Virginia Robert Guiffre's book“Nobody's Girl“ does not exonerate any of Epstein's associates, including a certain president (who she first met while working at Mar-a-Lago where she also met Ghislaine Maxwell). #SheSaid #NonfictionNovember

In Chapter 38, she actually wrote: “There are other men whom I was trafficked to who have threatened me in another way: by asserting that they will use litigation to bankrupt me. . .

Karisa “One of those men‘s names has come up repeatedly in various court filings, and in response, he has told my lawyers that if I talk about him publicly, he will employ his vast resources to keep me in court for the rest of my life. While I have named him in sworn depositions and identified him to the FBI, I fear that if I do so again here, my family will bear the emotional and financial brunt of that decision. 1mo
Karisa “I have the same fears about another man whom I was forced to have sex with many times—a man whom I also saw having sexual contact with Epstein himself. I would love to identify him here. But this man is very wealthy and very powerful. . .“ #epsteinfiles #virginiarobertsgiuffre 1mo
AnnCrystal 😢🤨🥺. 1mo
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AmyG Seems alot is happening quickly. Hoping for justice for all the women as a result of the email dump. 🤞🏻 1mo
Karisa @AmyG It‘s so frustrating because watching NBC news and they just said that her book only said good things about Trump. I was like, wait, what? That‘s not exactly right. We don‘t know because she doesn‘t name all the men out of fear, and she‘s only one of many victims. . . 1mo
AmyG Fear, exactly. Even Epstein says Trump is as evil as it gets. May he get EVERYTHING he deserves. 1mo
Karisa @AmyG 💯% He‘s such a 🤬. It feels like a mockery of our presidency sometimes 1mo
Jas16 I was having a hard time reading the way the media was painting was said/ not said about Trump as well. 1mo
Karisa @Jas16 They clearly haven‘t read the source they are citing. She‘s not here to rebut it. I‘m hoping the full files including testimony/depositions are are released soon and untampered with so that more of these perpetrators are brought to justice 1mo
SamAnne Just started this book last night. Have been out of cell range the last couple days and am out of loop on all that has transpired! Will catch up today. Difficult read. 1mo
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Correspondent | Virginia Evans
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Beautiful day for taking Cosmo out for a walk or two while listening to the tagged audiobook (it‘s really well done with multiple narrators)🐶🐾🍁🍂 #BeautyBreak

AnnCrystal 🤩🐕🐾😍👍🏼. 1mo
TheBookHippie Oh pretty!!! 1mo
Cuilin Lovely 😊 1mo
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lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 1mo
dabbe #cuteycosmo! 🤍🐾🤍 1mo
MemoirsForMe Gorgeous pup and photos! 🙌🏻 1mo
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Beautiful book written through letters (like 84, Charing Cross Road) warm, wise, and hard to put down once it gets rolling.

It follows the life of Sybil a 70 something who‘s full of life even while looking back at books, regrets, and important people past/present.

LeeRHarry Loved this one too. 😊 1mo
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Real snowflakes photographed in early 1900s! #BeautyBreak

When the name “Snowflake Bentley” is mentioned in Louise Penny‘s newest book, The Black Wolf, one must Google it. Was delighted to see that this first photographer of snowflakes was real and the amazing Maria Popova had written about him: https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/01/19/wilson-bentley-snowflakes/

dabbe So cool! Thanks for sharing! 🖤🤍🩶 1mo
AnnCrystal 💖🤩❄️😍💖. (edited) 1mo
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After an FBI call warning her of a credible death threat, Virginia told her doctors and wrote this on social media as a record for all to see. It makes the “suicide” ruling on her death last spring hard to believe. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

mcctrish Good grief, some men will do anything to keep their power 1mo
AmyG I truly pray the files are released and all get what is due them. 1mo
AnnCrystal 😳🥺😢💔❤️‍🩹. 1mo
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Black Wolf | Louise Penny
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So good to be back with Chief Inspector Gamache!

(But does his world filled with sinister, hidden corruption in government HAVE to mirror ours so closely, Louise Penny? 😅 At least she lets him see the hope there, too.💗)

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥲✊🏼📚💝. 2mo
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Chasing Sunsets: A Novel | Karen Kingsbury
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Tonight‘s water polo game for son might be 2 hours away, but at least the sunset is giving us a #BeautyBreak 😊

dabbe 🧡🍁♥️ 2mo
TheBookHippie Beautiful. 2mo
AnnCrystal 🤩💝😍. 2mo
lil1inblue 😍🥰😍 2mo
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😭 Virginia‘s warmth shines through in asides like this… Didn‘t know that Virginia and her father actually worked at Mar-a-lago. It‘s where she met G. Maxwell

Kerrbearlib 😭😭😭💔💔💔 2mo
AmyG And Iread, while not in the book, she was physically abused by her husband. This woman‘s entire life was so tragic. 2mo
Karisa @AmyG Yes, father, friend of her father, abusive camp for troubled teens, meets Maxwell/Epstein at just 16… whew 😥 (edited) 2mo
dabbe No one should have to go through so many horrors ... 😢😢😢 2mo
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Quirky characters, magic, matriarchs, adventure… This book was a lot of fun! It follows the Montoya family as they try to unravel their powerful grandmother‘s dangerous secret to protect their home for future generations to come. Oh and there‘s a river god, a magical rooster, a circus, a living star, and flowers growing out of people. Somehow she makes it all work! 😂 #LiteraryCrew

Sparklemn I didn‘t finish it this month but your review is inspirational! 2mo
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Chinatown | Thuan
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#BeautyBreak spending the day in San Francisco‘s Chinatown

OriginalCyn620 That is so cool looking! Beautiful! 2mo
Karisa @OriginalCyn620 On a field trip with the Mandarin class, but it felt like playing hooky! Magical place 2mo
TheBookHippie Yay!!!!! So fun! 2mo
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mcipher My favorite Chinatown! I can‘t wait to go back in a few weeks! 2mo
Karisa @mcipher Have fun! We saw a Bruce Lee exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America that was quite good if you are interested in him. 😊 2mo
Amiable I love this picture! 2mo
AnnCrystal Lovely 🤩💝😍...Bruce Lee 💝💝💝. 2mo
BarbaraBB Beautiful photo 2mo
JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 2mo
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Our dog, Cosmo‘s, been honoring his best friend and favorite cat, Hoth, all day! He knew it was National Cat Day before I did! 😅

Ruthiella Aww! 2mo
Texreader ♥️♥️♥️ 2mo
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TheBookHippie Sweet!!! 2mo
TheBookHippie Winnie is afraid of cats 😂😂😂😂 2mo
Karisa @TheBookHippie 😂 Poor Winnie! Cosmo loves cats, but only this one loves him back! 😅 2mo
Susanita Dogs and cats together 🩷🩷 2mo
AnnCrystal
Sweet 🤩💕😻🐾🐕😍💝.
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dabbe 🤍🐾🐾🤍 2mo
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#WDNCW Word was our boss was disappointed in the morning meeting we led (assigned just the night before 😵‍💫). Instead of wondering what we did, we did not care, asked him directly, and his issue was with other staff venting too much at the expense of students, not us. He even told other admin he appreciated how we steered it back to helping kids. Proud moment because pre-peri us would‘ve hid and stewed instead of talking it out! 😅🏆

Ruthiella Nice work! 👏👏👏 2mo
CSeydel Hey that‘s great! 👏 2mo
TheBookHippie YAY 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2mo
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Susanita Nice! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2mo
AnnCrystal Bravo 👸👏🏼🥳👌🏼💝. 2mo
Bookwormjillk 👏👏👏👏 2mo
TheKidUpstairs Well done! 2mo
lil1inblue Excellent! 👏 👏 👏 2mo
dabbe Way to bring it back to the positive! 🧡💜💛 2mo
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Life with Picasso | Franoise Gilot, Carlton Lake
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Learning so much already! This book was pushed to be squashed even before it was published decades ago. So glad it made it to press! Going to be a good discussion Sunday💗

TheBookHippie ♥️ 2mo
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Like luscious fairytales from a parallel universe! 😍 Loving The Singing Hills Cycle novellas so much!

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Finally, seeing a little autumn color here in our corner of California! 😍🍂🍁#BeautyBreak

Starting Nobody‘s Girl (Epstein victim memoir) on audiobook. Only 4 chapters in and this is going to be a tough one! Feels important though, like bearing witness 😢

DGRachel I‘m on the fence with reading this one. I bought it, because it is important, but as a CSA survivor, I don‘t think I can get through it. 2mo
Amiable What gorgeous color! 😍 2mo
OriginalCyn620 Pretty!! 🍁 2mo
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TheBookHippie @DGRachel I bought it and put it on my shelf to bear witness. I am not going to read it. I‘m also a survivor. 2mo
TheBookHippie Beautiful tree!!! 2mo
DGRachel @TheBookHippie thank you for the confirmation that buying it is enough to bear witness. 🩷 2mo
AnnCrystal 🤩🍁😍🌳💝. (edited) 2mo
dabbe 💛🎃🧡 (just cuz it's almost Halloween) 2mo
JenlovesJT47 Gorgeous colors 🤎🧡🤎 2mo
DrSabrinaMoldenReads So Beautiful! I love trees. (edited) 2mo
Karisa @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Me too! It‘s one of my favorite things about fall, seeing all the beautiful colors showing off 😊 2mo
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#tlt @dabbe

I did better than I expected (I‘m such a scaredy cat)! I even found three eerie books on the list that I did really love reading.

I also found one more that intrigued to try (tagged). I loved his book Hearts Invisible Furies and didn‘t know he‘d written something spooky. Intriguing! Thanks, @dabbe !

willaful We share two titles, I should try The Silent Companions. 2mo
Karisa @willaful Someone on Litsy sent it in a swap box for me a couple of years back. It‘s a slim book that packs a creepy punch without being over the top horror. Going to go check out what your third is now! Looks like we have similar tastes in books! 😊 2mo
lil1inblue That's one of the highest scores I've seen for this list! 2mo
dabbe You kicked my sorry butt! Adding some of yours to the TBR. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🧡💜💛 2mo
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Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Dramatic skies #BeautyBreak from yesterday‘s walk

lil1inblue 🤩😍🥰 2mo
Ruthiella That is beautiful! 😍 2mo
AnnCrystal Wow! Beautiful 🤩💝😍. 2mo
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SamAnne Beautiful! 2mo
dabbe W🧡💜💛WZA! 2mo
TheBookHippie Wow! 2mo
JenlovesJT47 Gorgeous! 🩷🧡🩷 2mo
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A lake that glows scarlet at night, enchanted home filled with relics, a powerful Empress in exile, ghosts drifting through forests… What a beautiful novella!

Vo‘s world-building is rich and elegant. She weaves the tale of a traveling cleric, Chih, and a hoopoe bird, Almost Brilliant, who are capturing stories and secrets in the Empire of Anh. It‘s the first in series, but I‘ve heard you can read them in any order.

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Heartening to see so many out today! #NoKings

MemoirsForMe 😍🙌🏻✊🏻 2mo
kspenmoll Thanks for going; I could not.✊🏻 2mo
Ruthiella ✊✊✊ 2mo
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AmyG Yay! (edited) 2mo
Kerrbearlib Yes!!! ✊✊✊ 2mo
Sparklemn That frog! 💚 2mo
dabbe 💙✊🏻💙 2mo
DebinHawaii Fantastic! 💙🐸💙 Thank you for going! 2mo
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The Little Library | Margaret McNamara
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We have two little libraries on our 6th-12th grade campus. It was a senior project many years ago but still going strong. Seeing their colorful patterns and well-tousled books makes me smile. They are used and loved. My #BeautyBreak for today 😊

lil1inblue 🥰🥰🥰 2mo
KT1432 I love this!! How cool! 2mo
Aims42 I love this!! 2mo
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Amiable That‘s so cute! 2mo
AnnCrystal 🤩💝📚💝😍. 2mo
AmyG So cute! 2mo
dabbe 🧡💜💛 2mo
JenlovesJT47 I always love seeing these out in the wild 🩷🩷🩷 2mo
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Inspired by @uncommonlycozies here‘s my last fully bloomed rose that hasn‘t yet succumbed to falling apart from the raindrops of yesterday and today. There‘s a metaphor in there somewhere, I‘m sure… #BeautyBreak

Deblovestoread Gorgeous photo! 2mo
uncommonlycozies what a beautiful bloom that is! I bet is smells incredible by your house after a rain 😊 2mo
Dilara Beautiful photo! 2mo
AnnCrystal Gorgeous Rose 🤩💦🌹😍. 2mo
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The Strange Case of Jane O. | Karen Thompson Walker
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Oliver Saks meets The Twilight Zone. I loved this twisty, turny, psychological, philosophical novel. An extraordinary patient comes in to a psychiatrist‘s office, and he is not sure if what‘s she‘s seeing is real. It reminded me of one of my favorite books ever, Into the Silent Lands by Paul Broks.

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We do not care that our husband‘s name is listed first on the AT & T bill, sir. I am the one calling to sort out the technical issue and you can talk to me (also an account holder who is the one that actually pays the bill). 😤 #WDNCW

lil1inblue I have this exact fight with AT&T at least once a quarter. 🙄 3mo
TheBookHippie Oh I hate that. Ughhhhhh 3mo
Deblovestoread This is one of the most annoying things! 3mo
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Aims42 Ughhh, 10/10 frustrating and annoying 😤 3mo
dabbe You mean, you're just the wifey who maintains the home? How many of these can I give to AT&T? 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻 To you: 💛💜🧡 3mo
Bookwomble I had the same response a few years ago because my wife was the primary account holder on the phone deal we had, despite the fact that my name was on the specific number the clerk could see I was phoning from and I'd passed their ID security questions 🤷‍♂️ 3mo
Susanita Been there! My favorite is when they try to confirm the account using the address and that was entered incorrectly! 3mo
Cuilin Ugh 😑 3mo
AnnCrystal That's just strange service 👸💝💝💝. 3mo
CindyMyLifeIsLit Same! My husband gets annoyed that my name is listed first and I point out that I was the one who sat on the phone, going line by line through the insurance policies or electricity contract. 🙄 3mo
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1984 | George Orwell
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October is the right month for #BannedBooksWeek

Orwell‘s 1984 is absolutely terrifying and important now more than ever. Going to social media news between re-reading the chapters this week made for a strange blurring of reality and fiction.

dabbe 💙✊🏻💙 3mo
sarahbarnes There‘s a documentary about Orwell playing here right now and I want to go see it. Very timely indeed. 3mo
Karisa @sarahbarnes Thanks! I was trying to find a 1984 film adaptation to watch and was having a tough time. I‘ll check this out! 3mo
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥺✊🏼📚💝. 3mo
sarahbarnes Not sure where all it‘s playing but this is the film. Looks good: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27052428/. 3mo
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Lyrics like poetry written in three languages (Spanish, Nahuatl, Quechua) This is the song I‘ve had on repeat for my #TuesdayTunes

https://open.spotify.com/track/5VreKSHPnbZ6K0SciwX1vp?si=_0h3BJ_hQ9eDhxaeX5wg5A

monalyisha I not only listened, I looked up pronunciation! 3mo
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1984 | George Orwell
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
#BannedBooksWeek

AnnCrystal Yikes this qoute is horrifying 😳🥺🤬🥺 ✊🏼📚✊🏼💝. 3mo
Doll8455 Yes this quote scares the bejibers out of me ! 2mo
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Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontee
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Just saw this trailer at the movies… 😳🍿 Looks extra steamy!

thegirlwiththelibrarybag I haven‘t seen the trailer yet but I‘m really looking forward to it. Watching Saltburn at the cinema was an experience! 3mo
Karisa @thegirlwiththelibrarybag Oooh, I heard Saltburn was good. Might need to find it on streaming 😊 3mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @Karisa, my favourite part of it was hearing people realise what was happening/about to happen at slightly different times. 3mo
nanuska_153 I read an interview with the director and she was so dismissive about the critics for not being faithful to the book, she made a comment like: "wait until they see the moors don't even feature in the movie". Honestly, it's a pass for me, films are adaptations and not always faithful, but I won't give my time to someone that doesn't have respect for the book 3mo
Karisa @nanuska_153 I was wondering how close it would be to the original. I didn‘t realize it was Wuthering Heights until the very end of the movie trailer. It looked like more of an Outlander type movie. Wait, what…Wuthering Heights without a moor?! Maybe they‘ll call them Cathy and Cliff 😂 3mo
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Serenity | Frederick Blichert
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I love many skies… especially those with clouds at sunset. Photo from my father who I text sky/nature photos to and get from daily. 😊 #SereneSaturdays #BeautyBreak @TheBookHippie @ImperfectCJ

TheBookHippie Oh this is very zen!!!! I love it. 3mo
CSeydel Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing 3mo
Amiable So pretty 😍 3mo
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dabbe 🧡💜💛 3mo
ImperfectCJ Those colors! 3mo
AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 3mo
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When your kid‘s team is down by 10 points at the water polo 🤽🏼‍♂️ game, sometimes you just need to look up and enjoy the skies! #BeautyBreak 😊

AnnCrystal Beautiful Skies 🤩 & with the trees 🌴☁️🌳☁️🌲💝.

Cheering for your kid's team! Hope they add on some points!
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Texreader Beauty break indeed!! That‘s gorgeous! And best hoped for the kiddos! 3mo
TheBookHippie Oh pretty!!! 3mo
dabbe 🧡💜💛 3mo
Doll8455 The sky can‘t get any better than this! 2mo
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Wow! Gorgeous, creative, heartbreaking, and hopeful. The story of a Greek and a Turk who fall in love in Cyprus while a wise fig tree and their future daughter try to make sense of it all. Some passages read like poetry. This wonderfully complex novel lives up to the hype!

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29 for me. Some really great movies on here! I want to go back and watch some again now like If Beale Street Could Talk, Knives Out, and Election. I couldn‘t remember if I‘ve seen Plains, Trains, and Automobiles before. Might have to check that out too! 😅 Thanks, @dabbe #TLT

dabbe You've reminded me of 3 I still need to see. PLANES, TRAINS ... is hysterical and absolutely sweet--at the same time! #wahooyou! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🧡💜🩶 3mo
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