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The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Parker
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dabbe
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lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 3w
TheSpineView ❤️❤️❤️ 3w
dabbe @lil1inblue 💚🩷💚 3w
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dabbe @TheSpineView 💚🩷💚 3w
IndoorDame 🤩🤩🤩 3w
dabbe @IndoorDame 💚🩷💚 3w
rwmg 💔 3w
dabbe @rwmg Too true. 💚🩷💚 3w
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dabbe
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TheSpineView Read this before and I still love it. Thanks for posting it! It's a great choice 1mo
IndoorDame 💜💜💜 1mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 💚💙💚 1mo
dabbe @IndoorDame 💚💙💚 1mo
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GatheringBooks
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Dilara So funny! 9mo
TheSpineView Cute!😂 9mo
fredamans Great minds! 9mo
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GatheringBooks
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dabbe 💙💚💙 11mo
TheSpineView 😍😍😍 11mo
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AmyG
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As seen on Twitter. I‘m going with House #6 because wittiness and drinks.....and Dorothy Parker.

wanderinglynn That‘s a tough choice! I guess I‘ll go with house 1. 4y
Lesanne House 2 sounds kinda fun. 4y
Reviewsbylola Oooooh that‘s tough. I think I‘d go with #3. 4y
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TheRomantiCate House 1 probably knows how to have a good time lol 4y
kyraleseberg I'm going with 3! 4y
JaclynW Wow. This is tough! I think I'd pick House 2. I think the conversations would be fascinating. 4y
JaclynW I'd really like to switch houses every so often to experience all of these greats. Is that possible? 😉 I guess that defeats the purpose of quarantine though. 😄 4y
AmyG @JaclynW Ha...I wish I could do that, too! 4y
TheAromaofBooks I can't imagine conversations between Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Wilde. Fantastic. 4y
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TheEllieMo
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I love the change in tone of this poem in the last stanza. You‘re killed into expecting a typical love poem, and then bam! A rose? Is that all? 😂

#Perfect #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView

TheSpineView ❤🌹💜 4y
Lcsmcat Love Parker! 4y
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Dolly
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Pickpick

I both read and listened. The narrator added much with her delightful accents and tone. The poems that would‘ve given me a challenge were better listened to. Parker‘s wit was wonderful. I believe I could pick her poem or short story out of a group which while enjoyable at first became a tad predictable and not as fresh and enjoyable as it would‘ve been in smaller doses.

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Dolly
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1. Tried a new vegetable. It looks to me like something from a sci-fi movie.
2. No, party of one
3. Finding a job 🙏🏼
4. iPad cover and remote
5. Entertaining. I just might enjoy short stories after all. 👍

@MinDea #Humpdaypost

CouronneDhiver I don‘t recognize that veggie... what‘s it called? 5y
Dolly @CouronneDhiver it‘s called romanesco and it‘s a natural fractal. Tasty and fascinating. 5y
bookcollecter Yes beautiful illustration of the Fibonacci spiral 5y
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BookishTrish What a neat pic! 5y
Dolly @bookcollecter @BookishTrish A mathematicians dream veg. Nature continues to amaze. 5y
julesG One of my favourite greens! And the kids like it, probably because of its shape. 5y
tournevis Broccoli 5y
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Dolly
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Okay, I only THOUGHT I didn‘t like short stories but after some enjoyable ones I‘m coming around to them. Now understand that I do not, I repeat, I do not like poetry. THIS will never change. 😏

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Haha! Me either 5y
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Sarah83
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Mehso-so

Maybe not the right time, or not the right stories or I don't understand what should be funny about these stories... 🤷

But I still love the cover. 😂😂😂

Louise Maybe her wit doesn't translate easily, as it often comes from turning a phrase in an unexpected way. Hmmm. 6y
SilversReviews Love the mug. 6y
Sarah83 @Louise That's a possibility. Maybe I try her in English at some time. 6y
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ScarletQuill Just watched the Gilmore Girls episode where Rory was reading this. Yay! 6y
Nebklvr @ScarletQuill I have only watched a few episodes here and there. I understand that character has a reading list 6y
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Nebklvr
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When contemporary fiction writers decide, apparently en mass, to include plot devices that are not even remotely logical....I decide to turn to nonfiction by some sassy women! This is part of a Dorothy Parker book review.

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Autumnscribe
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Went to see the Portable Dorothy Parker, a one woman play set in 1942 while Mrs. Parker‘s husband is deployed oversees. It was amazing. They managed to work in many of her poems, stories, Personal anecdotes, and of course brilliant one line witticisms seamlessly. Absolutely loved it!

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Wilkie
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Trying to think a bit differently for today‘s photo. I have no books about #writing, so I chose books with cover art that looks hand written . I might be completely off, but it gives me an excuse to show off my Dorothy Parker💖 #riotgrams @bookriot

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JoeStalksBeck
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I ❤️ this lady

bookaholic1 Love your bookmark❤❤ 6y
GripLitGrl I just love your bookmark 😄👍 6y
lgshelton Your bookmark 😍😍😍 6y
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LeahBergen Love her! 6y
AmyG She is the wittiest and funniest! 6y
MyNamesParadise I have that bookmark!! 6y
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TheAnitaAlvarez
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Pickpick

Dorothy Parker was famously witty, and this collection of her writing is a great proof of that. Her dry (oh, so dry) humour pours over her short stories and poems, showing her critical view of society and a cynical perspective on human relations. Her wit exposes human weaknesses and mocks them mercilessly, which is fun to read. There‘s a reason she‘s one of my favorite writers ever.

#RoryGilmoresReadingChallenge

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erzascarletbookgasm
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A poet, short story writer, critic and a debonair with sharp and sardonic wit.
#nuyear #shesgotclaws

TrishB Great thinking 👍🏻 6y
TheAnitaAlvarez Dorothy Parker is such a fun read anytime, love her humour and wit 6y
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RealBooks4ever
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This is my #BookYouFinallyReadThisYear for 2017. Her stories and reviews from the 1920s and 1930s are fabulous, pointed, and sometimes snarky! I recommend this book to all! 💜⛄️❄️

PirateJenny There is an updated edition that includes some previously unpublished letters. 6y
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RiotMom
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This little lady is coming home with me on this snowy afternoon. #bookstorehaul

batsy 😍 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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Her quick wit and brutally funny quotes are aplenty. This one is about if your man is declaring his #infinite and undying passion for you..
#quotsynov17 @TK-421

batsy Ah, Dorothy 🔥 6y
Reggie Lolol 6y
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UnabridgedTomes
Pickpick

A family friend gave this to me for my twenty-second birthday, and I fell in love with without a doubt, the best and brightest member of the Algonquin Round Table.

rubyslippersreads Though I do also ❤️ Harpo Marx. 😊 6y
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A naughty riddle, courtesy of Dorothy Parker.

#puzzle #QuotsyNov17 @TK-421

LeahBergen 😂 6y
Soubhiville 🤣 6y
TK-421 😂 Love it! 6y
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KVanRead
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Another #bookishtravel memory from last weekend: my mom Dorothy finally got to see Dorothy Parker's Round Table in the Algonquin Hotel.

LeahBergen I love this. ❤️ 7y
KVanRead @LeahBergen Thanks, it was a wonderful moment. 7y
Jess_Read_This This is so neat. Just so neat. I hope to visit there someday. Great picture! 7y
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KVanRead @Jess_Read_This Thanks! It was a highlight of the trip for sure. 7y
DivineDiana Is that Mom? She looks terrific! 7y
KVanRead @DivineDiana Yes, that's her. And yes she looks fab! Hoping I got those genes.😂 7y
DivineDiana @KVanRead Fingers crossed! 😉 7y
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BeckyRoy
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Books 3 and 4 of my vacation week. I ordered The Dorothy Parker after listening to #gwenglazer from #thelibrarianisin podcast discuss it. I'm two stories in and loving it. Going to balance the stories with some good ol western. My 🐶 dog ate my licorice tho!!

Magpiegem You have just alerted me to a book podcast I've missed! 😊 thank you! 7y
BeckyRoy @Magpiegem I hope you love it as much as I do. Please let me know. 7y
Magpiegem I will! 🙂 7y
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This is a great "bar read" when my friends are running late!

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BacklistB__ch
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This has been on my TBR for so long! Finally getting around to it!!!

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RealBooks4ever
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Can you imagine being a literary critic while Barrie, Shaw, Lewis, Hemingway, Sinclair, Hammett, and Dreiser were alive and writing?! Parker was a great author as well. Explore her writings and reviews in this wonderful collection!

JazzFeathers Well, l've never thought about it, but... yeah. That must have been tough 7y
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RealBooks4ever
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🤔

Sace Now I'm a potty mouth to beat the band and I love me some spicy sentence "seasoners", but I sort of see her point because it can be overdone in prose. Profanity makes spoken conversation sing and zing. In print it can sometimes annoy me. I'm weird. 7y
RealBooks4ever @Sace Used in the right place and the right time, it can be very effective. I agree! 😁 7y
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Vbrrgirl
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This book makes me laugh, catch my breath and adore its author. Sorry I was so late to the Parker party.

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RealBooks4ever
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Part of Dorothy Parker's 1931 New Yorker review of Barrie's play 'The Admiral Crichton'. The short stories are good but the reviews are a hoot!

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RealBooks4ever
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rubyslippersreads Poor sheep! 😄🐑💤💤💤 7y
RealBooks4ever @rubyslippersreads I do NOT hold the same feelings about sheep as the person on the page! I love to see them in the fields when I drive south through Oregon! 💜 7y
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RealBooks4ever
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Finally starting this book. Thank you, random number generator! #501

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Eyelit
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I'm copying @EvieBee84 - because after scouring all of my shelves I only have this to show for #shadows (though I have quite a few for reflections - if that ever come up in a future challenge @RealLifeReading 😃) #feistyfeb

EvieBee Yay! I like it! 7y
Lindy Cover art must be by Seth. His work is very distinctive. 👍 7y
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AvidReader25
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My favorites shelfie. #riotgrams @bookriot

MrBook Oooh! 7y
Libby1 I like your Joy ornament. 7y
AvidReader25 @Libby1 Thanks! Townsend Engraving on Etsy, I love them. 7y
LeahBergen 😍😍 7y
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EvieBee
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Today's challenge was a challenge! Finally found this book, otherwise I would have had to make do with a hand puppet #shadow on the wall. #feistyfeb #shadows

katedensen Love that edition! 7y
Suet624 Love this photo! 7y
zsuzsanna_reads Especially love the lamp! 7y
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Eyelit I didn't even think of this book and I have it (today's challenge had me stumped) - so I could participate today after all... but your photo is so great I don't feel the need to 😃 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Photo looks like your lady is thinking, "Just keep your distance, blue dog" 7y
Godmotherx5 Perfect! 7y
EvieBee @katedensen @Suet624 @zsuzsanna_reads @godmotherx5 Thank you all so much! ❤️💜 (edited) 7y
EvieBee @Eyelit I was overturning all my shelves! So messy now. But it was fun. I'll have to go check out your post. I love the cover. 7y
EvieBee @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Haha I hadn't noticed that! Too funny! And very unintentional. 7y
vivastory I love Dorothy Parker. I memorized her poem "Resume" 7y
EvieBee @vivastory you're good!! 👌🏽 7y
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Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker (b. August 22, 1893). The cartoon is from the inside flap of my copy, and the text is the entirety of "The Flaw in Paganism," from her 1939 poetry collection "Death and Taxes." #literarybirthdays

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AvidReader25
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In honor of International Women's Day, three of my favorite authors. You can't go wrong with books from Austen, Parker or Montgomery!

BookwormHistory "The Waltz" by Parker is one of my all-time favorites. Never fails to make me laugh! 8y
AvidReader25 @BookwormHistory Such a good one! 8y
MyBookStrings Love the Portable Parker! 8y
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