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Next up for June! Pick up your library holds, interlibrary loans, or pick this one up on kindle (currently only 4.99 in the US).
Hello #SheSaid
Next up for June! Pick up your library holds, interlibrary loans, or pick this one up on kindle (currently only 4.99 in the US).
Hello #SheSaid! How are you this weekend? Long weekend if you are in the US.
I‘m still behind with the sections on this one, but it‘s very good, and for me at least, taking my time with it is helping me absorb more I think.
I hope you are all getting things from it too. Please let me know how you are making out with this month‘s selection.
I have reread series before the next book release, or books that have been on my mind, or books that had messages I felt the need to revisit.
The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter both rank high.
Others include The Handmaid‘s Tale.
This year Wild by Cheryl Strayed is on my to reread list.
Rereading at different ages & life stages often makes different parts of the story stand out & come into focus differently I find.
#SundayFunday
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I‘m still behind 😬 in Part 2 yet. I did splurge for the audiobook, so I‘m hoping that helps me to make up some ground. How is it going for everyone else?
Hello #SheSaid, & hello to all the Mothers out there on today, the US‘s Mother‘s Day! You are all doing a great job in this crazy hectic world we live in, keep up the good work and make time for yourself too!
Ok…back to the book…. I am struggling with this one and way behind. How is everyone else doing? It‘s fascinating & yet with our fractured society a bit too much of real life at the same time. We all have relatives that have fallen ⤵️
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My book was a bit late in arriving so I‘m just at the end of chapter 1. But the Intro really has me interested to read more. Please feel free to start discussing below… I‘ll join in soon. I‘m very curious at how deep we will get into our fractured body politic… see you in the comments.
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Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!
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We have reached the end of another book! I got a lot from this one, I hope you did too. Let me know what you thought about the last section and the book as a whole. See you in the comments
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Anyone else finish this part just infuriated…
I did!
Plus, I left feeling like 90% of the problems we have today are because we were not strong enough to deal with 💩 the first time. 😱🤯
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How are you all this weekend? Still learning a lot from the book. I‘m a bit behind this week, so please start discussing without me, I‘ll check in later (hopefully today).
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How are you this week?
Finding interesting things in this first part, things you knew already or were new to you? I found a bit of both, but like everything of Anderson‘s I‘ve read, she packs a lot of really well researched and sourced info into clear paragraphs without any extra fluff/tangents.
The updated list for the rest of this year!
Start planning your library holds and interlibrary loans!
Thank you everyone for your suggestions, nominations, and votes!
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Please put in you library holds and interlibrary loans and see you on Sunday!
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I hope you are all enjoying the end of this read! It was a good one that I put off for a long time, but I think it came up to read here at the right time when I finally read it….some book serendipity..bookendipity …the right book at the right time when we really needed to hear it (especially if you live in the US… we have to make more trouble here I think before it gets better).
Let me know what you think in the comments
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Sorry for the late post everyone. My grandmother is in the hospital and I spent the day there. Finally home and have Wi-Fi again (also ran out of data while I was out 🤣 bad planning on my part).
Apparently I was not ready to Make Trouble today….see you in the comments.
(And yes, my grandma is ok, might need a pacemaker, I‘ll know more tomorrow after some tests)
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You nominated a lot of unique and beautiful choices to add to our reading list. Now we have to narrow them down a little.
https://forms.gle/VKesPCU1z6dVwuvVA
Please check out all those nominated and let us know which you would be interested in reading with our group. Right now the fiction & nonfiction are mixed together, we can sort them later.
I‘ll post the survey again in the comments for easy clicking.
Hello #SheSaid! How are you this weekend?
How‘s the book going?
I‘m a chapter behind, but hoping to catch up tonight, but still really enjoying this one. I hope you are too.
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I‘m enjoying this so far. I want to get back to Planned Parenthood, but this backstory of organizing on multiple levels is very interesting, and something we all probably need to pay attention to and get involved with again as we need to fight for rights we thought we had, all over again…at least in the US.
Up next for #SheSaid….and somehow it‘s falling at a very good time for reading it, bad time for women in the US.
So put in your library holds, interlibrary loans for this one starting next weekend.
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Another one in the books! I‘m not quite finished yet, but still moving along slowly. I am finding that I need to take these slow, read one and let it percolate for a bit before starting the next. How are you all feeling as you finish up this section and this book?
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How are you doing this weekend?
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I hope you are having a good weekend and enjoying these essays by different authors. Some are so very powerful and relatable.
See you in the comments!
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I hope your weekend is going well….and I hope you are all enjoying this one. See you in the comments ⤵️
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Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!
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Sorry for the day late post!
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How is everyone doing this weekend? Read picking up any for you? I‘m going to have to skip this one for now and circle back later… moving my nephew and his girlfriend into my house right now so quiet reading time has disappeared for awhile. Hopefully it will settle down again soon and I can catch up again.
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Very late post! Sorry I got way behind…. How are you liking this one so far? Please post when you can, sorry I missed Sunday.
#Pantone2023 card too for last year, it‘s also not finished… oops 😂…. I blame way to much Zelda this past year! @Clwojick
My end of the year #Nonfiction2023! Not a complete card, but boy some great books in there!
And I can see I‘m way WAY behind on reviews 😂. New Years Resolution, go back to reviewing right after I finish or I won‘t get back to it. 🤣
#Nonfiction2024 is here! And it‘s a big challenge this year.
First, these are not the books you need to read…although if you haven‘t read them, I encourage you to read them.
These are banned books, and they are banned for subject matter they contain that we find objectionable for some reason.
Your challenge is to read a nonfiction book about a similar subject:
Examples below⤵️
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Put in your library holds and inter-library loans for January….and until then, Happy Holidays!
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Can‘t wait to discuss this in the comments!
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I don‘t know about you, but the more they all forget, the more questions I have come to mind… I‘m really curious where and how this story will end!
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How are you “enjoying” our fiction this month? It‘s a nice change from non-fiction, but I‘m not sure enjoying is quite right. 😱 so far I‘m sucked into it though, very curious on where it‘s going next.
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Sorry for the late schedule post!
Are we ready for some fiction?
Hello #SheSaid! Sorry for the late post, got distracted with the family this long holiday weekend here in the US. I hope you all are having a great weekend wherever you are AND enjoying the end of this book.
Hello #SheSaid! Here‘s our schedule for the rest of the year AND Nominations Are Open for the rest of next year!
Please add your nominations to the comments section!
Hello #SheSaid! How are you doing this week?
See you in the comments 😉
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I‘m a bit behind, please feel free to start without me, and I‘ll check back later today when I catch up 🤷♀️ So sorry….my Saturday reading time disappeared yesterday somehow.
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I wasn‘t sure how this one would be, super dense studies and theory, or more readable?
I‘m finding it a great mix of both, very readable, but with studies and great examples to back up the concepts to make it easy to understand.
How‘s everyone else doing with our newest selection?
And how about that question/conversation with her son… heartbreaker 😞
My thought for the day: Tolkien does such a good job ending each book and internal book with cliffhangers. And making you wait through another whole internal book until you get back to that cliffhanger and those characters as he shifts focus back & forth. I couldn‘t help but think of a few authors now, who have left series uncompleted because they got busy with TV show adaptions or prequel series or real life. ⤵️
Post 2: The text to go with the map in post 1
I read the first chapter of the long ride to Gondor, and then I had to dig out my map book and share a few pictures. I‘m still amazed that someone plotted & mapped out the entire journey, but I love it.
Post 1: The map
See Post 2: The text
Up Next for #SheSaid in November!
Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!
I‘m flipping around the tv this weekend & passed a show on cryptids… creatures that may be myth or real. I stopped immediately as they were showing Shelob on the screen at the time, then Aragog and discussing giant spiders and the stories passed down about this monster myth in stories by the locals for ages. Who knew Shelob descendants infested both Mirkwood & the Congo 🤷♀️😂 There are even grainy videos like with Sasquatch & Nessie. J‘ba Fofi😱
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How is your weekend going? Another book done way to soon.
So how did you like the last section? The book as a whole?
This scene at the crossroads always reminds me of this Shelley poem.
They are literally and figuratively at the crossroads, and the “easy way back” wouldn‘t be as easy as they think since the legions of Mordor march towards Gondor and war…and are between them and their friends. And would lead to the doom of all.
And right here Tolkien places this scene, a scene that alludes to this poem in my mind, ⤵️
Mid-week here #SheSaid!
Anyone see the new VanDerSloot confession in Natalee Halloway‘s murder. Talk about the empty consent we (mostly women give) because deep down we know where a “No” might lead us. Talk about a stark reminder why “No” is tough, and dangerous to say. 😱
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How are you this weekend?
This book continues to make me think in all the right ways, and regret some ways in which I have not been Taking Care of Myself because I didn‘t feel that it was the right thing to do at the time. Disturbing the more you actually think about it, isn‘t it? That good girl, take care of everyone but yourself syndrome. How do we get out of that spiral of feeling responsible for everyone else‘s feelings?
I may be late, and left my handkerchiefs behind… but I finally made it to Book 4! #LOTRChapteraDay #FellowshipOfTolkien