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Is That It? | Bob Geldof
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The irony of sitting on my patio in beautiful weather, with access to all the snacks and drinks I want while I finish reading this book was not lost on me. It's honestly still incredible what Geldof managed in a very short time period and even more amazing tjat most of tje world has totà‘y forgotten about it in the time since. #33-2025

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MemoirsForMe
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Now here‘s a man who had me swooning when I watched him in Lady Sings the Blues and Dynasty, cheering for Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars Universe & then bawling my eyes out during Brian‘s Song. Fans still mention his speech as Chicago Bear Gale Sayers. “This movie accomplished something special by getting tens of millions of people to see the humanity we all share.” What a versatile actor, singer, painter and sweet man…still suave at 88!😍🙌🏻

MemoirsForMe Tagging my football and Bears fan friends who may remember Brian‘s Song? @Lesliereadsalot @AmyG @KadaGul @RamsFan1963 6d
TheBookHippie Yes!!!!!! 🐻💙 6d
MemoirsForMe Photo at bottom center is Billy celebrating his 88th birthday with his son Corey from Billy‘s Instagram page: @therealbillydee 6d
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MemoirsForMe @TheBookHippie You‘re a 🐻fan too! Love it! 🙌🏻 6d
dabbe I taught BRIAN'S SONG to my 7th graders back in the mid-1990s. They all wrote Gale Sayers letters of appreciation, and he sent signed pictures to every student who wrote him. What a man. And Billy Dee nailed him onscreen. Adore him, too. 🏈🎵 6d
MemoirsForMe @TheBookHippie Ditto! 🏈🐻⚾️ 5d
MemoirsForMe @dabbe Wow! Your students sure had the coolest teacher! And how sweet that Gale Sayers answered all your students‘ letters. We need more role models like him these days. And you! 🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻 5d
TheBookHippie @dabbe how lovely!!! 5d
Lesliereadsalot Of course. I loved that movie! 5d
PurpleyPumpkin Loved him in SW!🤩 5d
marleed Billy Dee Williams🥰😍🥰 5d
dabbe @MemoirsForMe And you! 💙🩵💙 5d
dabbe @TheBookHippie He was such a gent. 💙🩵💙 5d
MemoirsForMe @Lesliereadsalot I knew you would! Billy Dee and Caan spent time with the Bears while shooting the movie. Several players were extras and also cried during the big scene. Always fun to read about our Bears. 5d
MemoirsForMe @PurpleyPumpkin Yes!!! 🙌🏻 His fave part was wearing the cape! 5d
MemoirsForMe @marleed Agreed! 🥰 Now I want to see his movies again. 5d
PurpleyPumpkin The cape was on 🔥! 5d
Lesliereadsalot We‘re thinking about going to the game in Las Vegas at end of September! 5d
MemoirsForMe @Lesliereadsalot What fun! You‘ll get to see our former LA Raiders. Las Vegas is much more exciting. 🎉 5d
KadaGul Loud and only Loud ( skip proud since they have been nothing but a disappointment in past seasons), DA BEARS 🐻. I'm going to the Bills and Bears preseason game. I can't handle the regular season crowd. 3d
MemoirsForMe @KadaGul How cool you‘ll be seeing our Bears in person playing the Bills! I‘m still hoping for a better season. How much worse could it get? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤞🏻🙏🏻 2d
KadaGul Guys in the '70s and '80s nailed what real men should look like. These days, it seems like most guys look like muscle-bound kids who‘ve had way too many steroids. 2d
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The Lost Boy | Dave Pelzer
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MemoirsForMe
Love, Lucy | Lucille Ball, Betty Hannah Hoffman
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Gotta Love Lucy! 🙌🏻This is the lost memoir Lucille Ball started to record at the height of her career. It was somehow forgotten & discovered 20+ years later after the passing of Lucy and Desi Sr. It‘s truly a love letter from this Hollywood legend to all her fans. Loved the sizzling Lucy & Desi love story and hearing about Lucy‘s enduring friendship with Vivian Vance. Daughter Lucie‘s narration & touching intro blew me away. (Published 1996)

MemoirsForMe I had no idea that the streets and retail stores around the country were empty whenever “I Love Lucy” aired on TV. It was THAT popular! 🤩 2w
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Nicos
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An odd format, described as a novel but containing much biography and thoughts on the life of a writer. Thoroughly enjoyable mostly but the literary critical segments sometimes get a little convoluted. Definite pick though.

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MrsMalaprop
Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick
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What a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏

CarolynM I read this one a long time ago and I wondered if it would get rereleased when Gina‘s book got so much attention. It is a great book and a really interesting twist on the adoption story, don‘t you think? 1mo
MrsMalaprop @CarolynM Yes, so interesting and well done by Suzanne Chick. 1mo
Rissreadswithcats Staaaaaaaaaaaaaacked!!!!!!! 💙 1mo
Rissreadswithcats I just realised today that with my Spotify account I get 15 hrs of free Audio book listening. This was included. It scraped in at 14hrs and 48 mins 🤣 I‘m so excited! 1mo
Jeg Can‘t wait to read this. Heard her on the radio. 1mo
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I Need More | Iggy Pop
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Time is still
A moment of pleasantry
In this zombie birdhouse

#TuesdayTunes @tiedyedude

?️ Iggy Pop
? Run Like A Villain
? Zombie Birdhouse ?
?️ https://youtu.be/jY7GtqO3dTk?si=xQV-tZDTAfHwbBRb

The official video is a neat animated effort. Look at the suggested videos for an awesome live version from The Tube, in which Iggy correctly declares, "I am the fucking greatest of all time!"
I love this edgy '80s album. It has an End Times vibe.

lil1inblue Iggy is just fantastic. 2mo
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reading_rainbow
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Birthday finds from my favorite used bookstore 🩶 I have been really into vintage biographies lately

Leftcoastzen Wow! 2mo
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jdiehr
Scar Tissue | Anthony Kiedis
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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, baby!

VERY heavy on the drugs.

I met Anthony back in the 90s, but, alas, our brief encounter was not mentioned in the book 😂

BittersweetBooks This book has been on my TBR since high school 🫣 (aka when it was published) 2mo
fredthemoose I enjoyed this one. What a wild life. Flea‘s pre-RHCP memoir was good, too 2mo
Ruthiella He‘s saving your meeting him for his second memoir! 😜 2mo
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jdiehr @Ruthiella Right?! ? At one point in the book he gives a "if you're reading this..." to a girl he met in Kentucky. That was the point when I stopped reading a memoir and started reading a fantasy ? 2mo
BarbaraBB You met him?!?! Tell me everything! I‘ve had a crush on him since the 80s and especially in the Californication era. “Young Kentucky girl in a push up bra”… that must be you!! 2mo
jdiehr @BarbaraBB No, I'm not the Kentucky girl!! But his shout out to her made me wish he was shouting out to the girl he met in LA and posed for a picture with (me 😄) 2mo
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