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Joined May 2016

Hufflepuff. 💛 Bookworm. 📚 Science nerd.
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All Around Us | Xelena Gonzalez
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Another beautiful book 😍😍😍

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Beautiful book about a female scientist!

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From Twinkle, With Love | Sandhya Menon
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Finally got my hands on this and I. LOVED. IT. I loved Twinkle and the transformation she goes through and just everything about this book in general. I will never not live Sandhya Menon, I think. 😬💜💜💜

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Ocean Meets Sky | Terry Fan, Eric Fan
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The illustrations in this book are just breathtaking! 😍😍😍

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Dread Nation | Justina Ireland
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Me: I‘m going to finish charts before I read anything today.
Also me: flies through 70% of this book without finishing a single chart.
Holy cats, this book is ah-mazing! There‘d better be more in the works because I need more!!!

Chrissyreadit She will be at the National Book Festival in DC. I also thought this was an amazing book! 6y
IheartYA Very good book! 6y
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This book was so hard to put down but also hard to read. As a resident physician, I understand some of the things that must have been going through these providers‘ minds. But never having been in a crisis situation, I can‘t fathom the chaos and helplessness that must have been pervasive. If nothing else, I have certainly learned a lot about my particular feelings regarding the topics discussed in these pages. Very excellent and thought-provoking.

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Dread Nation | Justina Ireland
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I really need to do charts and my parasite is hungrrrry but if Luna is sleeping on my legs, that means I can‘t move and my only option is to read, right?? #caturday #catsoflitsy #littenkittens #pregnantreading

Dolly Just one reason readers have cats😻 6y
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Tater Tot is going to be so well read. Packing for a move and loving the books that I‘ve stashed away for baby over the last year or so.

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Started this one recently and it‘s so hard to put down! The prologue had me hooked like that!

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The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Somehow missed posting a review on this one. I enjoyed it a lot. I thought that it was an interesting coming of age story and I‘ll bet even better on audio.

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This was beautifully written. No other way to put it. I enjoyed her essays about the first year of her youngest child‘s life and explorations of motherhood and womanhood.

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So, 👆🏽 that was not at all what I was expecting when I hit the ‘About the Author‘ page. I thought this book was an interesting look at the border and found it very eye opening. Although I know it‘s not a comprehensive look, it is not something I know a whole lot about, so I feel like I learned quite a bit from his experiences.

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Baby and I just finished our first chapter of Harry Potter together (starting a little later than I wanted to, but probably too early for the parasite to really hear anything at 15 weeks 😂🤰🏽). This was our favorite illustration.
#pregnantreading #startingityoung #firsttimein10years

Lmstraubie These books are GORGEOUS!!!! 6y
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Frankie | Mary Sullivan
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This was the best of the three! Frankie goes to a new home with another dog who won‘t share his things. Loved it!

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Ball | Mary Sullivan
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Cute - again only one word, but good!

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Treat | Mary Sullivan
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Cute book - only one word, but it works kind of like Groot!

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Angels' Blood | Nalini Singh
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Read this because I was looking for romance with an alpha-male trope (it‘s my fave) and his is what popped up. It was okay. I felt like some of the chemistry was forced and I don‘t know that I necessarily bought the whole angel as a superhuman sub species thing. I‘m used to JR Ward, and this was just a tad different for me.

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Puddin' | Julie Murphy
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I knew that I was going to enjoy this because, obviously, Julie Murphy. What I didn‘t expect was to relate to both of these girls and their awkward, self-conscious, self-doubting selves and learn some things about myself in the process. I loved Millie and Callie and I loved everything about their story.

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I love her. That is all. 💜💜💜

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😂😂😂

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The Tater Tot King | Mark Peterson
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This was our first glimpse of the parasite, who‘s name was changing with its size based on GA, but because of the joy of family and friends, will be stuck being known as Tater Tot forever. 💜

Rachbb3 Awww. ❤ 7y
Texreader ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 7y
Alfoster Sweet! 7y
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merelybookish Exciting! 7y
JoScho Yay!! 7y
AmyG Awwwww Congrats! 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Congratulations!! 7y
erinreads Congratulations! 💕 7y
RebelReader Congratulations! 🎊🎉 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊 7y
RealLifeReading Congratulations!!! 7y
dragondrool Congrats! 7y
tracy.anne8 Congratulations! How exciting! 7y
Redwritinghood Congrats! 7y
sprainedbrain Awww. Congrats!! 7y
CouronneDhiver Very cool. How are you feeling so far? A very exciting time 7y
Ddzmini Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊🍾 well maybe not the last one for you but still 😋 7y
Yellowpigeon Congratulations!! 7y
Tera66 😍 7y
stargazerblue49 @CouronneDhiver Feeling okay so far! Mostly nauseous when I have to go to work, haha! And Tater seems to really like pizza, which I‘m down with 😬 We may get to hear it‘s heartbeat for the first time this week! 7y
stargazerblue49 @Ddzmini It‘s actually our first! We are both resident physicians, so not much time before this to have non-furry children to deal with 😊 7y
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Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook | Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Wizards of the Coast, Inc
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This is how we told the world about our parasite 💜💜🤰🏽

EchoLogical Congrats! I‘m due in August and I keep trying to think of a clever hashtag for expecting Littens. I‘m still thinking. 😅 7y
stargazerblue49 @EchoLogical Congrats, yourself!!! I will put my thinking cap on to see if I can help! 7y
kylienoele Congrats!! This is so cute!!! 7y
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ElleSkel Congrats!! 7y
Texreader @EchoLogical @stargazerblue49 Congratulations to you both!!! 7y
LiteraryinPA Congratulations! What a great way to tell people! 7y
My_novel_obsession Congratulations!!! 7y
Chrissyreadit Congratulations! 7y
Emiller Congrats!! 7y
Librarybelle Congratulations! 7y
Ddzmini Congratulations 🎈🎊🎉🍾 7y
stargazerblue49 @kylienoele @Elle_Skeldon @Texreader @LiteraryinLititz @Anovelobsession @Chrissyreadit @Emiller @Librarybelle @Ddzmini Thanks!! Some of you Thanks a second time! This announcement was literal years prior to conception in the making. Because that‘s what baby rabies was doing to my brain 😂 7y
EchoLogical @Texreader Thanks 💗 7y
EchoLogical @stargazerblue49 I‘ve got nothing. I‘m blaming it on baby brain. 😂 7y
stargazerblue49 @EchoLogical Baby brain is a legit excuse!!! 7y
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I have been absent for a while - a product of burn out at work but also the tiredness of first trimester. Books and reading have not been as appealing to me lately for those same reasons. I‘m taking some time to regroup and heal mentally and dove into this last night. I love it. (And, yes, I‘m one of those monsters that underlines in books 😊) 💜

Alfoster You go girl! Whatever you need😍!👏👏 7y
tracy.anne8 Im currently pregnant with twins and I was the same way my first trimester. No interest in reading and completly exhausted. That fatigue is no joke and no one understands it until they experience it. Definitely take the time you need right now. The great thing about books is they will be there when you come back to them.😊 7y
stargazerblue49 @tracy_anne8 Congrats on the twins! I didn‘t realize I could be more tired than I already was as a resident doctor, but I‘m sure that I‘ll find out more about being tired in the coming months! 😂 7y
tracy.anne8 @stargazerblue49 Oh my you are busy! Naps! 😆I recommend lots of naps if possible! 7y
stargazerblue49 @tracy_anne8 I try, but naps usually get me into trouble when I try to sleep at night! One day, I‘ll figure it out! 7y
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Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli
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As someone who was dumped a week before senior prom, conversations like this hit me in the feels. I loved everything about this book. Leah, while sometimes very negative, was also very relatable. I love the Simon-verse. I don‘t know if Becky will keep writing in it, but I am certainly willing to keep reading it. 💜💜💜

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This was the cutest book ever. I‘m in love with this bun family and their bun adorableness. Just love. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Crinoline_Laphroaig "Stink bugs are temporary. Love is Forever." ? 7y
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Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli
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Secret for no reason scheduled off day today, so that means I haven‘t moved all morning (except to feed tum because Blueberry made my nausea spike) because I‘ve been enthralled with Leah. Eventually, I do need to get caught up on paperwork, but man, it feels nice to be able to relax. #pregnancyreading #lazyday #imstilltechnicallyonhomecall

TaylorMay Enjoy your at home day!! 7y
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Leah on the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli
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This is how we plan to fight the book hangover from The Heart Forger. I was so excited to finally get my hands on this one, too!!!

Reviewsbylola I love this cover. 7y
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The Heart Forger | Rin Chupeco
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Luna kitteh appreciated the acknowledgement to Idris Elba as much as I did. #littenkittens #catsoflitsy #caturday
Howwwwwww can that be the end of he book????!? I need more! I need so much more!

AlaMich 😂 ❤️ Idris Elba! 7y
rubyslippersreads 😹😻 7y
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The Language of Dying | Sarah Pinborough
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This was the winner! I‘m taking an End of Life Care CME course and I thought this would go along nicely. Also short, so likely easier to focus on right now. #immorbid #doclife #pallimed

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Sometime in the near future, I will (finally!!!) start my Harry Potter re-read (first time in over a decade!) with these lovelies. Don‘t think I‘m ready to start just yet, but I plan to read the entire series before my apple seed‘s due date in December. Hoping to instill the HP love early!

asiriusreader Congratulations!! 👏🏻👶🏻 7y
stargazerblue49 @asiriusreader Thanks! 😊😊😊 7y
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The Birchbark House | Louise Erdrich
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April has been a weird month. I haven‘t felt a lot like reading. I haven‘t had a lot of time to read. And I‘ve not known what I wanted to read when the opportunity came. But I did manage to make it slowly and surely through The Birchbark House and liked it so much that I ordered the next 3 and Erdrich‘s motherhood memoir from Birchbark Books. I just don‘t know what to read next 😂😂😂

Tamra I‘m looking forward to Birchbark House. 😊 7y
Tamra If you order the rest of the series from the author‘s bookshop, the books are signed. 7y
stargazerblue49 @Tamra Yep! All my copies came signed 😊 7y
MyBookLife So many good books to choose from 😍😍 7y
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Surprise, Doc! You're a Daddy! | Jacqueline Diamond
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The husband and I have managed to make ourselves a parasite! Future reader coming 12/12/18 😊😊🤰🏽

Craftylikefox Congratulations!!! 7y
britt_brooke Exciting - congratulations!! 💚 7y
Texreader Wonderful news!! Hahaha! I used to reference those “parasites” as well. I have a teenager and a preteen now. It‘s hard but awesome. You‘ll love it! 7y
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Grrlbrarian Congratulations!!! Thrilled for you 🎉🎉🎉 7y
AlaMich Congrats!!🎉🎈🎉🎈 7y
BethM Congrats!!!! 7y
dragondrool Congrats!💜 7y
tournevis 🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃 7y
Godmotherx5 Congratulations!! 7y
Traci1 Congratulations! 7y
LiteraryinPA Congratulations on the wonderful news!! 7y
LibrarianJen Congratulations!!! 🎉 💖 7y
jwashreads 🤰👨‍👩‍👧👍💓😁 Congratulations! That is so amazing! 7y
Eyelit Congrats! 🎉 7y
Lindy Congratulations! 7y
CouronneDhiver Awesome news! There have been a few similar announcements lately... woohoo! 7y
ju.ca.no Congrats😍🎉 7y
cobwebmoth Congratulations! 7y
Godmotherx5 How far are you into your residency? I hope you‘re feeling good. 7y
stargazerblue49 @Godmotherx5 I am a second year FM resident. Hubby is a first year FM resident. Our program is rural-oriented, so first year is spent at a different site than second and third year. So we‘ve been living apart a lot. I haven‘t had a whole lot of trouble yet, except I did think I was going to puke on one of the hospital docs last week when tum decided yogurt is not enough for breakfast. 7y
Godmotherx5 I bet it is fun learn in different places but probably hard on your schedule. Take care of yourself, Missy. Follow the advice you‘d give a patient. 7y
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The Heart Forger | Rin Chupeco
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Soup, salad, and Rin Chupeco before my afternoon/evening of clinic.

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Artemis | Andy Weir
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I will never look at the moon the same way again. Things went about as well as can be expected for a main character in an Andy Weir novel. I laughed, I snorted, I was baffled and befuddled by the science (as much of a nerd as I am, physics is not my forte, y‘all). Jazz was one of the best heroines I‘ve read in a long time - blunt, funny, curses like a sailor... I was just here for all of it. 💜💜💜

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The Birchbark House | Louise Erdrich
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My new way of keeping track of my physical book TBR pile. Ones closest are the ones I‘m reading. Back pile is the pile that will eventually make its way to my work shelf for my morbid Hospice/Palliative Med/Death and Dying collection. #tbrtuesday

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Artemis | Andy Weir
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And my library hold for this finally came in!!!!!

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The Heart Forger | Rin Chupeco
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IT‘S HERE IT‘S HERE IT‘S HERE!!!!!!!

Tera66 IM STARTING THIS ONE TONIGHT!!!!!!! Im so excited and the cover is beautiful!!! 7y
stargazerblue49 @Tera66 I haven‘t had the chance to officially start it yet, but I‘m so excited to finally have it! Need to finish Artemis first since it‘s a short borrow library book! 7y
Tera66 @stargazerblue49 I wound up staying out too late and didn't start last night, but today!! I want to read Artemis too! So many books, so little time! 7y
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I got home late from my shift, but I needed to finish this one. My heart is broken. I didn‘t ugly cry, but I‘m pretty sure that‘s because I‘m emotionally numb from work today. Just... I don‘t even have words right now. And my reading experience was enhanced by whoever owned my copy before who had made notes in the margins and who I suspect was an immigrant herself. So good. I can‘t even. 💔💔💔

ClairesReads Such an amazing book! 7y
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Whenever the attack on the Twin Towers is mentioned in books, I always start to feel a little breathless and a little heart ache. It takes me right back to that day that I somehow remember so vividly even though it started out so ordinary. It‘s strange how memory works like that sometimes. This one took me by surprise. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

CouronneDhiver I hear you... I‘m Canadian but I remember being completely traumatized and stunned by the events that day. I‘ll never forget it as long as I live. 7y
tournevis I had left my house very early to go to my office to write a lecture for, of all things, my American History course, and had been oblivious, until around 10am when I heard my colleagues outside my door talking, stressed, and peaked out of my door. Suffice it to say that my lecture thay day veared in a very different direction. 7y
stargazerblue49 @tournevis @CouronneDhiver I didn‘t know that anything was going on until I walked into my classroom and everyone‘s eyes were glued to the television. They made us turn it off because you could see people jumping from the buildings. I remember having a class discussion about it. And when I got home, my parents couldn‘t do anything but watch the news. It was like the whole world stopped that day and for the next few days after. 7y
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The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Reading this made breaking in my new shoes on the dreadmill much easier. I love Xio‘s voice. So willful and strong. I‘m having a hard time putting it down.

britt_brooke A good book always make the treadmill more bearable, doesn‘t it?? 👏🏻 (edited) 7y
AlaMich Dreadmill! 🤣 7y
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A Line in the Dark | Malinda Lo
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I think it‘s safe to say that I liked this (total book insomnia last night because of it and overslept for clinic!), but there are a couple of things that have bothered me. Because of the abrupt format change in the middle, I feel like we are missing out on what could very well be some interesting character building opportunities. Also, none of the girls were really all that likable 🤷🏽‍♀️ Still enjoyed the read tho!

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Electric Arches | Eve L. Ewing
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The writing was beautiful. I think the formatting of the ebook could have been better to make things more cohesive and understandable. But overall, an enjoyable read. Plus, gorgeous cover!!!

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Who was the person who had this book, wrote inside of it, and then gave it up? I‘m so intrigued!!!

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An American Marriage | Tayari Jones
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Had this playing in the car while commuting to my second clinic location for the day...
Oh, damn. This book just got real.

riversong153 On my TBR! 7y
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Strong Opinions | Vladimir Nabokov
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#thisorthat @RealLifeReading
1. I do plenty of both, honestly.
2. DARK. White is too sweet.
3. I buy both, but am starting to prefer paperback.
4. I am always reading multiple books at a time.
5. I really don‘t eat much of either, but I‘ve been craving French fries lately 🤷🏽‍♀️

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So, my uterus hates me today (which, honestly, makes the whole last week make so much more sense), but I‘ve just been feeling like, as a (resident) doctor, I‘m expected to act a certain way all the time which is sooo not who I am at all. It‘s frustrating and sometimes gets me into a little trouble, but I really like being my quirky self. Rules/expectations just suck sometimes. Thanks for being amazing, my Litten friends!

FlowerFairy If it makes you feel better, yesterday I was tying a tourniquet on an elderly pt, my hand slipped and I bopped her in the nose. 😞 She laughed about it though. 7y
stargazerblue49 @FlowerFairy Oh no! At least she had good humor about it! 7y
JoRead I'm sorry you're going through this. I hope you get to feel better. 7y
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Dragon Hope you feel better soon! Darn uterus how dare it give you trouble, take care 💐 7y
MemoirsForMe Oh my! Hope you're feeling better 🤗💕 7y
stargazerblue49 @JoRead @UwannaPublishme Thanks, gals! Feeling much better this AM! @Dragon I think it may be offended that my husband and I are trying to house a parasite in it for several months, so it is being rather difficult this month 😂😂😂 7y
JoRead Good luck! 😄 7y
Dragon 👍😂🐉 7y
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Every Day | David Levithan
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Excuse the poor picture quality, but this is me in the mostly empty theatre this afternoon to see Every Day. Honestly, it was okay - but I felt like they really toned down the LGBTQ intimacy from the book in favor of more hetero pairings for A with Rhiannon. While the casting/movie itself felt inclusive, I still felt that there was an emphasis on making A be a cis male when being intimate with Rhiannon. I still cried y‘all.

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Electric Arches | Eve L. Ewing
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“Mom, why are you still in bed? You‘ve been up for 2 hours already!” Cause it‘s my day off and it‘s been a long week already and I want to read, kitteh. #catsoflitsy #littenkittens

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Have You Seen Marie? | Sandra Cisneros
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Being watched over by my fur babies this morning on my day off. This tiny book was lovely. I really can‘t believe I‘ve never read Sandra Cisneros before this year. #catsoflitsy #littenkittens #kittenlittens