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Ayiti | Roxane Gay

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February 2025 Book #5

This is a collection of short stories, powerful ones in terms of topics. First book I read by this author and looking forward to read more books by her. However, my experience with short story collections is that I like some more that the others and this is not an exception. Also, some stories I saw them more narrative, informative than a short story per se. It was the same experience I had with In A Dream Hoyse ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) by Carmen Maria Machado. That one is not a short story collection but sometimes I saw also the story as one informative, giving statics or facts that disconnect the idea, the flow, the line, premise of the book. That was my experience with both readings. But I really liked this book and the message. 3.5⭐️ 1d

Gissy #BookSpinBingo #1 #AuthorAMonth (read in designated month) @Soubhiville @TheAromaOfBooks
#Readatgon #Read2025 @DieAReader
#AcquiredViaLitsy #BlitsySwap2022 @Karisa @Chelleo
#OffMyShelf2025 @wanderglynn
#NationalBlackHistoryMonth (2nd book read for this month celebration even if it doesn‘t appear in Google or any o other platform
#UltimateReadingChallenge2025 prompt #32 book from swap shelf @faranae (edited) 1d

TheAromaofBooks Lovely cover!! 1d

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Gissy

Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik

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February 2025 Book read #1 😳😬🫣

I started this book inJanuary but finished it in February for in memory of @sharread #Sharreadathon @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Book was picked from her litsy list.

I liked this book, the world and character. A Rumplestiltskin retelling. However, didn‘t like much the ending, maybe I was expecting something more dramatic and dark due to the story. But still I liked it. 3.8/4 ⭐️

Gissy #BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin #10 (subscription-received this book in Uppercase subscription which is not longer open). Have it since 2018😳signed copy
#ISpyBingo (phrase “author of” on cover) @TheAromaofBooks
#ReadAThon #Read2025 @DieAReader 2d

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2d

Gissy #offmyshelf2025 @wanderinglynn 2d

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1d

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AnnCrystal

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Thank You @dabbe for #HaikuADay #HaikuHive 🐝🪄📜✍🏼💖.

@dabbe 🐝
@TheBookHippie 🐝
@TheSpineView 🐝
@Kristy_K 🐝
@JenlovesJT47 🐝
@lil1inblue 🐝
@DebinHawaii 🐝
@bellabella 🐝
@julieclair 🐝@BooksandCoffee4Me 🐝
@Reggie 🐝
@Eggs 🐝
@jdiehr
@vivastory
@CBee

#HaikuHivecommunityLittenAnnCrystal 🐝

TheSpineView Love these nature haikus! This one especially calls to me. 💛🐝💛 4d

Eggs So lovely 🌳 3d

TheBookHippie Just beautiful!!! 3d

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bellabella I want that soundtrack! 👌 😌 3d

Deblovestoread Lovely! 3d

AnnCrystal Thank You 🐝 @TheSpineView 🌱🎶💖. 3d

AnnCrystal Thak You 🐝 @Eggs 🌳🎶💖. 3d

AnnCrystal Thank You 🐝 @TheBookHippie 🌄🎶💖. 3d

AnnCrystal Thank You 🐝 @bellabella my #1 favorite music, available everywhere nature awaits ☺️ 🌷🎶💖. 3d

AnnCrystal Thank You @Deblovestoread 🌸🎶💖. 3d

JenlovesJT47 I love to bird watch, it‘s so relaxing 💛🐝🖤 3d

AnnCrystal True 🐝 @JenlovesJT47 utter tranquillity 🌹🎶💖. 3d

dabbe It's hard to go out this time of year, so you've brought the garden inside to me! 💛🐝🖤 3d

BooksandCoffee4Me Lovely! 💛💛💛 (edited) 3d

AnnCrystal That's magical 🐝 @dabbe 😘🏜️🐝💝. (edited) 3d

AnnCrystal Thank You 🐝 @BooksandCoffee4Me 🌷🎶💝. 3d

DebinHawaii I love “garden soundtrack!” 💛🐝🖤 3d

AnnCrystal @DebinHawaii 🌺🎶💝. 3d

Reggie I can hear all the nature in here. Nice! 3d

AnnCrystal Thank You 🐝 @Reggie 🌞🎶💫. 3d

lil1inblue 🍃 🎶 💚 1d

AnnCrystal 🐝 @lil1inblue 🌹🎶💝. (edited) 1d

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Bookwormjillk

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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1) I was sitting at my desk the other day and noticed how many different colors of pens I had. Writing on paper with pretty ink still brings me joy 🦖
2) peas from the garden
3) suns up for my commute
4) clearance plants to fill in a few holes by the patio
5) brightening up the house with cut flowers

Hang in there everyone ❤️

lil1inblue I love your #1. I, too, love pretty pens! 4d

kspenmoll Love your garden, plant joys. Hoping to get some hanging plants for my garden this weekend. 4d

Jari-chan Wonderful joys 💖 4d

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dabbe 💙💚💙 4d

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 4d

mcctrish All the flowers, all the time 4d

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dabbe

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#threelistthursday #tlt

I did worse than last week! 🤣 Here's hoping we all do better when we finally get into the 1900s! Three faves include, but are definitely not limited to:
1. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (fave read of all of 2023)
2. GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Fave Dickens.
3. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES: fave book of ALL TIME. #sherlocked
Link to take the survey: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1800s

DGRachel You still did better than me! 😭😭 5d

TheBookHippie 🙃😊🙃 5d

dabbe @DGRachel Not by much, m'dear. 💜💚💜 5d

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dabbe @TheBookHippie So many frickin' books, so little time. 5d

TheBookHippie @dabbe I know!!!! I‘m never going to get them all read!!! 🤣 5d

Texreader Three. I‘ve read three. 5d

RaeLovesToRead 11 5d

BooksandCoffee4Me Well, 19 this week. I loved looking at the covers of these books — some I‘d never seen before. Loved Sister Carrie, and the Hardy novels. Crime and Punishment and Tess are two of my all-time favorite books. 5d

dabbe @Texreader Here's hoping the 1900s are better for all of us! Most of these I haven't even heard of! 😱 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me I tried to pick appealing covers! I love Hardy, too. TESS was my #1 fave in 2023 with the #hashtagbrigade. I'm scared to try CRIME & PUNISHMENT because I did not like THE KARAMAZOV BROS. 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

Catsandbooks 3😂 5d

Amor4Libros Went up from 1 last week to 3! 🤣🤣🙌🏽 4d

dabbe @Catsandbooks So many I didn't know! 🤣 I'm looking forward to the 1900s! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 4d

dabbe @Amor4Libros According to my horrible math, that's a 200% improvement! 🤩 Here's to the 1900s! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 4d

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dabbe

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#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 2! Bye bye, scary 1700s. All of these are from the 1800s!
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1800s
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Tagging JUST A FEW who've played before. 🤩

mcctrish, DebinHawaii, wanderinglynn, Megabooks, peaKnit, melissajayne, Soubhiville, BarkingMadRead, Crazeedi, tpixie, Cuilin, AmyG, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, Amiable, CogsOfEncouragement, catiewithac, Susanita, Lynnsoprano, Blueberry, Vansa, Bklover, Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, Aimeesue, TheLudicReader, Larkken, jenniferw88, julesG, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, Eggs, Chrissyreadit, Read4life, rwmg, CatLass007, Q84, BookwormAHN, Pogue, Traci1, Sleepswithbooks, CSeydel, Ruthiella, RamsFan1963, TheSpineView, EadieB, CBee, Bookish_Viking, ShelleyBooksie, TheAromaofBooks, ImperfectCJ, Cupcake12, bthegood, Sparklemn, lil1inblue, The_Penniless_Author, PageShifter, LiseWorks, AllDebooks, AnnCrystal

jenniferw88 1700s were NOT scary for me thanks to my MA 🤣 5d

CSeydel Yikes, only 13, although a couple of my favorite books did make the list (Silas Marner and Tess of the D‘Urbervilles) 5d

jenniferw88 18 this time! 5d

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Chrissyreadit Only 9- but a lot of nf books. 5d

Lynnsoprano Wow, only 12! However, there are 19th century authors who are missing from this list, whose books I would have expected to make the list—Hawthorne, Austen, Brontë, to name a few. 5d

Bookwormjillk Ooof only 9! 5d

Susanita @Lynnsoprano I guess the divisions are not entirely exact with so many books. There were some Austen and Brontë last week. In fact, without them my score would have been even worse! 5d

Lynnsoprano @susanita Ah, that explains it. I was down with COVID last week—not bad except for the headache. I‘ll have to go back and look at that list. 5d

BarkingMadRead I only had 15. I own like 5 or so more but haven‘t read them yet 🙈 5d

Bklover 15- thanks to a years ago obsession with Jules Verne and HG Wells. And, of course, #hashtagbrigade 5d

Librarybelle So bizarre—I did worse this week than last with only 13! And I call myself a classics reader! 🙄 5d

willaful 12 for me. Alice and Little Women my favs, of course! I'd like to read What Maisie Knew. Calling the #HashtagBrigade ! 😁 5d

dabbe @jenniferw88 Yay for you! I find them rather terrifying myself. 🤣 5d

dabbe @CSeydel I think my score will be right around there, too! TESS was my #1 fave book in 2023 with the #hashtagbrigade! And we're currently reading THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. I loved MIDDLEMARCH, too. Is SILAS your favorite of hers? Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @jenniferw88 #woohooyou Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @Chrissyreadit 🎯🩵🎯! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @Lynnsoprano There are still more books from the 1800s coming your way! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @BarkingMadRead We need to get them into the #hashtagbrigade! 😍 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @Bookwormjillk I feel it! I haven't taken it yet, but I think I'll score around the same! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @Susanita @Lynnsoprano The list I have is ordered by centuries, but not necessarily in chronological order of that century. So, the 1800s could have one from 1813, then the next from 1802, then the next from 1889, and so on. 🤷‍♀️ 5d

dabbe @Lynnsoprano I hope you're feeling better! 😍 5d

dabbe @Bklover IKR? I still need to read WAR OF THE WORLDS. I've read his others, but not that one! 😱 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @Librarybelle I think I'll score worse, too! But, man, some of those titles I have never even heard of! I'm more of a British Lit classics girl, not a world one. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

dabbe @willaful Ooh, that one does sound good for the #hashtagbrigade, doesn't it? Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 5d

Bklover Thanks for the tag! I truly appreciate it. 🩷🩷🩷. Also loved Tess with #hashtagbrigade (edited) 5d

Susanita @Lynnsoprano Ugh. I hope you feel better! 5d

Eggs 💗🌺💖 5d

CogsOfEncouragement 19 for me this round. 5d

ImperfectCJ I missed last week, so I'm playing catch-up. I've read 17 from this round. Love Alice and was surprised how much I enjoyed Kim and Sister Carrie when I read them. Now to post about last week's list! 5d

dabbe @Bklover 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @Eggs 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement We scored pretty closely together this time! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @ImperfectCJ We're close in our scores! Added your choices to my TBR. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

tpixie @dabbe yikes! 9% I am currently reading Les MIs! December 31 that‘ll get me up to 10%! ❤️‍🔥. @dabbe @CSeydel Tess is a favorite ❤️ (edited) 5d

CSeydel @tpixie it‘s so good. Reminds me, I‘m due for a re-read … on the other hand, I still haven‘t read Jude the Obscure. Decisions decisions 5d

CSeydel @dabbe believe it or not, I haven‘t read Mill on the Floss OR Middlemarch (despite having the latter on my shelf for like 3 years, gazing dolefully at me every time I walk by with another book in my hand). But yes Silas Marner is one of my favorite books of all books! 5d

Faranae 30! Some of these authors feel over-represented, like they could have just chosen 1 or max 2 by that author and fit someone else in. Some of these I really have to vote against! I read André Gide's “fruits of the earth“ in French and yikes. Also I love Sherlock but just put the Hound on there and move on! 5d

rwmg 29 Brings home how Anglocentric my 19th century reading has been, even if not completely so. But an embarrassing number where I've never heard of book or author. 5d

AnnCrystal
Thanks for the tag
📚☺️👍🏼💝. (edited) 5d

peaKnit Ope, 5! I also love Tess, I see she is a popular read! I read it in Highschool. 5d

Daisey I‘ve read 30 from this week‘s list, and that‘s with consistently reading from the 1001 list for the last several years. 5d

tpixie @Daisey 🩷🩷🩷 5d

tpixie @CSeydel I know it‘s so hard to do a reread when there‘s so many other books still left to read! 5d

dabbe @tpixie You're in good company; most of us are between 5 and 25! Here's hoping the 1900s are better for all of us! And I think we should be able to include LES as 3 books just for its length alone! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @CSeydel And SILAS is the one of hers I haven't read! 🤣 I adored MIDDLEMARCH and am enjoying MILL, though MIDDLE is better IMHO. I'm moving SILAS up on the TBR! 😍 5d

dabbe @Faranae The Sherlock is a hard one for me as I am a MAJOR Sherlock fan. But I see your point. Perhaps only one book per author, right? Yet some writers are way better than others and contributed more to the overall literary aesthetics of history. Hard choices all around. BTW, you beat my sorry butt. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @rwmg 🩵🎯🩵 So many world authors I've never heard of, nor their books. I need the clock to slow down so that I can get to them! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @AnnCrystal YW! 🥰 5d

dabbe @peaKnit I applaud any teacher who had high schoolers read TESS. I adored that book! 😍 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

dabbe @Daisey You know, some of them just don't look that appealing to me. I don't care how low my score may be, if I'm not even interested by the cover or the little snippet provided in the 1001 book, I ain't reading it! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💜💚💜 5d

CatLass007 My score was 11 and I think I should get some credit for at least TRYING to read Les Miz three different times. But I didn‘t check it. A couple of these I‘m pretty sure I read so I checked them. I read most of these with #NoPlaceLikeHolmes, #HashtagBrigade, #RandomClassics, and #WhatTheDickens, so thank you #LITSY! I also DNF several others. But, as @dabbe reminds me, #HailTheBail #BetterBooksAhead (edited) 5d

CatLass007 Three that I own and want to read are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and Middlemarch. 5d

TheLudicReader 🤣 7. I still have the essay I wrote about Tess. Hated her. But I loved The Mayor of Casterbridge. 5d

catiewithac 27/100 but why so much Zola? It was a weird list. 4d

dabbe @CatLass007 YES! I love book surveys, but I don't always agree with them. If the book doesn't look good to me, I don't care who thinks I should read it! 🤣 And 🎯 for all of the books thanks to Litsy. I feel the same way. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 4d

dabbe @CatLass007 If I had to put these in order of what I enjoyed, I'd say MIDDLEMARCH, ANNA KARENINA, then WAR AND PEACE. But don't listen to me! 🤣 4d

dabbe @TheLudicReader Well, here's something where we aren't in sync. TESS was my favorite read of 2023 (maybe that was a crappy reading year! 🤣). I want to read that essay when I get there! And I never read MAYOR, but I adored FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWS. That Hardy! #oy Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 4d

dabbe @catiewithac I guess Zola is Ze besZt. 🤣🤷‍♀️😍 I've never read anything by him! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 4d

tpixie @dabbe lol Les Mis as 3 books yes! (edited) 4d

tpixie @CatLass007 I‘m hoping to read Anna K next year. I missed out on @TheBookHippie buddy read this year 4d

CatLass007 @tpixie I didn‘t know there was a buddy read to miss. 4d

dabbe @tpixie 🎯🩵🎯 4d

tpixie @CatLass007 🩷 it‘s hard to keep up with all the buddy reads!! 3d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I think I'm coming in with the lowest score: 4! I'm confident enough to carry that torch. 🤣 I enjoyed Little Women & Dracula. Jekyll & Hyde and Alice's Adventures...not so much. I am not familiar with many of these. I should probably do a little research and bump myself up to a nice, round eight books read. 22h

dabbe @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Some scored “0“, so you're not the lowest! Even if you were, who cares? 🤣 I loved Jekyll & Hyde, but did NOT care of any of Alice's adventures! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚💜💚 19h

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JacqMac

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) | Brandon Sanderson

I found this on Reddit. I guess it‘s not just me. I‘m finding it very helpful going into part 2, because there are even more characters. And it saves me from having to make my own. lol #CosmereBuddyRead

JacqMac @Andrew65 @Meshell1313 @Jess861
@rabbitprincess
@Roary47 @BookBelle84
@DogMomIrene @PageShifter @JenlovesJT47 @Leniverse (edited) 7d

Andrew65 This is great, thanks for sharing. 6d

rabbitprincess Great find! I‘ll have a closer look after reading Part 1. Up to page 83 now 😅 6d

Meshell1313 Holy moly! 5d

Meshell1313 This is just what I needed! I‘m also Kaladin‘s #1 fan! 😉 5d

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dabbe

Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse

#bibliophile
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#newberywinner

#1 fave adolescent book of all time; in my top 5 fave books of all time.

Eggs Ah what a great book 👏🏻👏🏻 7d

dabbe @Eggs 🎯🩵🎯 7d

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Eggs

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith

1: During the last few months I discovered Alexander McCall Smith. I‘ve finished the delightful #1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency series, with the inimitable Mma Ramotswe!

2: tagged

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

AmyG, dabbe, Cupcake12

AmyG Thanks for the tag! 1w

dabbe I loved #1 LDA! Thanks for the tag! 😍 1w

TheSpineView Great author! Thanks for playing 1w

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Eggs @AmyG YW❣️ 1w

Eggs @dabbe 💙🙏🏻🩵 1w

Eggs @TheSpineView 🩵🙏🏻💛 1w

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