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lean_rosey

lean_rosey

Joined September 2016

Librarian. Feminist. Nerd. WNDB.
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Stone Sky | N K Jemisin
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Look Ma, no hands! Love my Bookseat. And this doggie butt, and this book. #amreading

Hornsby78 Where'd you find your book seat? 6y
lean_rosey @Hornsby78 I got it from a vendor at Book Riot Live in 2016. I think she had come from Australia? 6y
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Juliet Takes a Breath | Gabby Rivera
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Me: I'm going to focus on reading longer books, and books I own, and adult books for a while.
Also me: here's my library stack.
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tjwill Looks like a great #libraryhaul to me! 6y
Suet624 That is so me. 6y
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Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler
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👐👏 @ Booksmith, Haight-Ashbury. #WNDB

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Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward
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Our garden apartment in the Mission has a private patio and our host left us local beer. Does it get any better? #vacation #SanFrancisco

britt_brooke Perfect! 6y
KVanRead Perfect and a perfect evening for it too. Enjoy! 6y
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Chemistry | Weike Wang
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A woman after my own heart. Math and pizza! 😅❤💸🍕

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About to start this. I'll forgive it being 500+ pages because that cover is 🔥

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Startup: A Novel | Doree Shafrir
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Welcome to the future. 🙆‍♀️🎣💾🆒️

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Breadcrumbs | Anne Ursu
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When your husband goes into the giant crowded store to buy fireworks, so you set up shop in the shady parking lot grass. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🐶

Cortg Your dog❤️ Happy 4th since I won't see your before. 7y
lean_rosey @Cortg you too! 🇺🇸 7y
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Found this The Handmaid's Tale reference in my Vol. 1 re-read before I start Vol. 2. Note to self: probably not the best idea to be watching this show and reading this comic in the same day.

Verity I was doing the same thing (Handmaid's Tale and Bitch Planet) and had to swap to something lighter to read! 7y
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Once and for All | Sarah Dessen
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Really excited to dive into my new Sarah Dessen (as always), but also a bit concerned about this misspelling on the blurbs. Jodi! How does that happen?

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When your co-worker has a holds problem 😂📚 @Cortg

lean_rosey (This isn't even all of them, but it reaches to the top of the mail slot 😛 ) 7y
Cortg Yes! I have issues! On a side note, I checked all the books out but one today 😉 7y
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Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
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Especially when this was free on Audible, I feel like this audiobook really took Litsy by storm, and that's definitely what pushed me to read it sooner. (Also not sure why I'm on such an audiobook rec kick this weekend!)
#GRABBYHANDS @Liberty

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Broken Monsters | Lauren Beukes
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It might not be the definite weirdest book I've read, but it was the first to come to mind and it definitely ranks up there. The audiobook is fantastic for this one, too.

I've pushed this to patrons with the promise of animal parts sewn onto humans, and anyone who bites at that description should come sit next to me.
#COMEONEILEEN @Liberty

bitterbear I loved this book... The end blew my mind!! 7y
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I loved THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR (or ☉🌟 as the author calls it 🙂) so I really need to get on reading this one before the movie comes out next month! #YAYAY2 @Liberty

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In Cold Blood | Truman Capote
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A teacher put this in my hands when I was 14 and I'm not sure I've ever recovered. 😵 #SEEWHATIHAVEWON @Liberty

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Allegedly | Tiffany D Jackson
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This is probably my favorite mystery of the year so far, although it's very non-traditional for the genre. But it's gripping and twisty and you never know where it's taking you. The audiobook narrator is one of the best I've heard, and oh hey, it's on sale right now. #GONEBABYGONE #YAYAY1 @Liberty

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All American Boys | Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
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Currently reading #THUG, which of course is reminding me about this other fantastic book about BLM and teens. I like how both of these stories focus on the people around the victims and the after effects on them of such horrifying incidents. #ALEXGIVEAWAY @Liberty

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The Invisible Library | Genevieve Cogman
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Trying to finish this one in my in-laws' sunroom before family obligations pull me away. #amreading

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What, don't you match your bookmark to your reading material? 🙃 #WNDB

LeahBergen Um, yeah ... I do. 😂 7y
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The Dud Avocado | Elaine Dundy
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Sometimes you're walking the dog past a Little Free Library and you've just gotta grab that book, so you stick it in your sweatshirt pocket and keep walking. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LeahBergen That's a nice freebie! 👍🏼 7y
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♫ Who-oa we're halfway there ♫
12 books through the #ReadHarder challenge! This is my third year doing this challenge but my first year actually, ahem, planning ahead, and it's much smoother this way 😏

UwannaPublishme 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
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I laughed and I laughed. What a delight, especially for those of us very in the book world. So many joyful literary references, but not in a snobbish way.

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Lumberjanes Vol. 5: Band Together | Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters
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Despite growing up basically at the ocean, Mal expresses my true feelings about water. 💦

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Boxers | Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien
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The frequency with which I find Hamilton lyrics in books is approaching absurdity.

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Difficult Women | Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay in the glow of the stained glass. She was on stage 3 seconds before apologizing to the church for her language. 😄

LauraBeth This is a beautiful picture! 7y
ReadingEnvy I saw her earlier the same day at a conference! 7y
lean_rosey @ReadingEnvy ACRL? I heard she was 🔥 there 7y
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Dear dude playing harmonica in the library: could you not. Worth it for these beauties though! #libraryhaul

LibrarianRyan I used to love patrons like that. (Sarcasm from a library director). 7y
lean_rosey @LibrarianRyan as a librarian visiting another library on my day off, I was feeling very good that I could be all "not my problem today" ? 7y
LibrarianRyan @lean_rosey I LOVE those days. 7y
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Station Eleven | Emily St John Mandel
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It's February in Maryland, and I'm outside reading a book. Couldn't be happier. Bonus: no bugs 😀
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This is a reread for the #ReadHarder challenge. I think about this book all the time, and it seems even more terrifying now than it did on my first read 2 years ago.

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"Scratch that. No good news. Everything sucks." This Hawkeye-shaped censor just about did me in.

#comics

LindsayReads 😂😂😂😂 7y
MisterWhitaker Ha! You make me want to re-read this series 7y
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Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff
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Continuation of my piles to go to Little Free Libraries (2/2)... farewell books, enjoy your new homes. 🏠

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It took me all of 30 seconds to clear my shelves of these books, destined for nearby Little Free Libraries. Either read and don't want to reread/loan, never going to read let's be real, or if I really want to read I can get some other way.

Some of these are in terrible condition because they were already used when I got them. It feels good to let go of a few... why am I keeping these anyway? (1/2)

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Oh hai, Baal.

Variant art from Vol. 4 of WicDiv, which I enjoyed immensely more than Vol. 3. Glad I decided to stick it out with this series.

If this doesn't convince you to pick up this comic, I don't know what will. 😉

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Homegoing: A novel | Yaa Gyasi
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🎶 Who lives, who dies, who tells your story 🎶

You were all correct, this book is intense and heartbreaking and moving. I absolutely love the structure and how Gyasi manages to create such strong attachments in so few pages.

I have about 4 stories left... #saturdaynightplans

beagle.mama OMG, Hamilton and Homegoing! A great match. 7y
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Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain | Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk
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I was not at all expecting to love this so much! I picked this up because I wanted to support Chelsea Cain, but thought it would be too action-packed for me.

Instead, it totally won me over with humor, science, Hamilton references, and baby Groot. Not to mention a badass lead superhero.

You've got my ❤, Mockingbird.

SarahSaysRead I just read the 1st three issues on Marvel Unlimited, it's so great! Mad I hadn't heard about it before it was already cancelled. 7y
lean_rosey @SarahSaysRead I didn't even know that. I'm so bad at comics, they're so difficult to follow! 7y
SarahSaysRead Yeah, issue 8 (the feminist agenda cover) was the last 🙁😒 7y
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When your Wednesdays are not-so-wild (but so great). Highly recommend this deck-builder to all Harry Potter fans, I'm obsessed.

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Last night, 2 very holiday-ed out people finished this 1000 piece puzzle I got from a @bookriot mailbag box. I can't wait to frame it!

Bonus audiobook review: loved this story and the narrator did a perfect job with it. I had a hard time keeping track of who was who, but otherwise a good choice for audio.

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Scrappy Little Nobody | Anna Kendrick
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I returned the audio to Overdrive before I remembered to transcribe a section early on about being a rule follower but also being defiant, and it was wonderful. So if by chance you have this in print and would like to share that quote with me, I'd love you forever. Anna Kendrick is my celebrity doppelganger and she very much gets me.

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Ugh. As we all know, November was a tough month. Unsurprisingly, my reading total is at half its usual.

But I did read two really excellent books: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (loved it on audio) and The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz (do this in print for the illustrated manuscript style).

#wrapup #november

GirlMeetsBook I listened to this in audio, and it's a winner that way too as it's done with a full cast! 😍 7y
lean_rosey @GirlMeetsBook I heard that from someone else today too! 7y
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Cat's Eyewitness | Rita Mae Brown
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I had processed 4 of these before realizing these were in place of author photos on the back covers. The cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, is also given cowriting credit. 😅

Cortg That's great! 7y
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Watchmen | Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
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These look like the perfect ingredients for a night in to me. 😄 This is my first time reading Watchmen ( @bookriot Read Harder challenge: published in the decade you were born). So far, I'm enjoying the beer more than the book, but we'll see how it goes.

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Riley and I are both really enjoying this middle grade historical fiction, told in the style of the Canterbury Tales, with different characters each telling a portion of the story. Plus there's a holy revered dog. Can't wait to find out what these kids did.

#kidlit #dogs #mocknewbery #readinginbed #PhotoADayNov16

MrBook 😻😻😻 7y
LauraBeth Puppy dog eyes 🐶❤️️ 7y
LeahBergen Snuggly!! 7y
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Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty
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I absolutely loved this on audio. Gripping and funny with a fantastic Australian accent, it's exactly what I want out of audiobooks. I particularly loved the narrator's reading of "oh, calamity!" and "MUMMY!"

I saw a preview for the HBO series coming out next year (which I hadn't realized was happening). The cast is great so I am really looking forward to that. God bless Reese Witherspoon and her one-woman mission to adapt all the books.

Cortg Yeah! I'm glad you liked it! I'm counting on you to remind me when the series starts! 7y
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Overall I was really not a fan of this book. It felt very flippant and non-self-aware. I'm not entirely sure why I finished it. I did enjoy this reminiscence of childhood sleepovers though.

#foodmemoir

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Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi
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#tbt Looks like I was busy this time last year. I think that's partly because I was in the last week of a miserable job, so I sat at my desk reading all day 😅

#graphicnovels

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Appetites: a Cookbook | Anthony Bourdain
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I got this book from the library for a specific recipe that kept getting mentioned on @bookriot podcasts and giving me cravings. I'm clearly in above my head here. But I have to admire the dedication of this fridge shot.

#cookbook #amreading

alanacristin Which recipe is that? I'm curious. And hungry. 😜 7y
8little_paws Yeah I'm curious too! 7y
LeahBergen I like the Fanta next to the Dom! 😂 7y
lean_rosey @alanacristin @8little_paws black bean chorizo soup! I'm going to attempt it this weekend 7y
lean_rosey @LeahBergen I hadn't even noticed. Keepin' it classy! 7y
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I'm putting this audiobook out on a teen display, and if it doesn't fly I will be disappointed. One of the best audiobooks I have listened to, hands down. If you want to get all wrapped up in some feelings, grab this.

Cortg We enjoyed this one on a road trip over the summer. My daughter loved everything about it and said every book should be narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda! 😍ps, I'm so curious to see if it checks out! 7y
lean_rosey @Cortg well you'll have to help me push those books into teen hands! 😉 7y
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When you tryna take a picture but Reginald's neon glow takes over 😃 Thanks everyone for an amazing and cathartic weekend 💜💛❤ #BRLive #BookRiotLive #ReginaldthePigeon @rach_simone @bookriot

BookishFeminist It was great seeing you again this weekend! I promise I'll come back to book club. 😂 7y
TrishB This was one of my daughters favourite books 😊 7y
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Goodbye Stranger | Rebecca Stead
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#BklynBookMatch managed to rec 4 books for me that I've never read! Anyone love one of these? #BRLive #BookRiotLive

CherylDeFranceschi I really enjoyed Kissing in Manhattan. Lovely and interesting structure. 7y
kathyellendavis LOVED Goodbye Stranger. Rebecca Stead is really talented. 7y
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Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley
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"Smart books don't make you smarter. Reading makes you smarter." ? Walter Mosley at #BRLive

BookishMarginalia So true! 7y
Bookzombie 💟 7y
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"Bookended with sex." Everything is going well here. #GetBooked #BRLive #BookRiotLive @bookriot @jadechang

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Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty
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Getting ready to drive up for #BookRiotLive today, and have this perfect combo of fluff and intrigue cued up on audio. Bonus: the author shares my first name. I think this will be exactly what we all need this weekend. Excited to meet some of you!

Cortg Have lots of fun! I can't wait to hear about the exciting weekend events with Bookriot! 7y
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