Litsy

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow | Laura Taylor Namey

▪️Read A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea by and Tomorrow by @laura_namey at random from @fable 's Scout pick 🎧
▪️Fill in the blanks with 310, my top used DMC thread✂️
▪️Mini haul from @booksalephils

#acubangirlsguidetoteaandtomorrow
#laurataylornamey #ebook #audiobook #fable #booksale #crossstitch #totefairie

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christhelesbian

The Alchemist [30th Anniversary Edition] | Paulo Coelho

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he crossed the whole north africa just to go back but i guess we do that all the time
what does this mean ?!?!??!?!?! i need some time to reflect
i love reading in my bed in my new room with my record player at night with the bugs buzzing outside

Kitta

52nd | Dela

I finished my 2025 reading goal of a book a week!

🥳

#fable

AmyG 👏🏻 1w

BittersweetBooks Awesome! Might try this challenge myself next year… 1w

julieclair Woo hoo! Congrats! 🎊 7d

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JanuarieTimewalker13

The Hen who Dreamed She Could Fly: A Novel | S?n-mi Hwang

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My librarian suggested this one…shout out to Ava!! It didn‘t disappoint. You will fall in love with Sprout the Hen, she‘s determined, a survivor and a loving, protective mother❤️#SouthKorea

JanuarieTimewalker13 8/25/25 Book 20 3w

tpixie Beautiful cover. It looks like a lovely read. 3w

MaleficentBookDragon This book had me sobbing. 3w

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Littlewolf1

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls | Grady Hendrix

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4.5⭐️ this was not my favorite Grady Hendrix book. Couple of times I wanted to chuck it because of how hard the content was to read. So why a 4.5… because Hendrix is a master writer. It may have been hard to read, but holy crap was as a roller coaster for me. Any emotion I could possibly feel, I was feeling and by the end of the book I was in freaking tears. So despite my personal feelings, I bow down to the master. #Fable #RoaringWolfFrightNight

Roary47, MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

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Lcsmcat

Fables | Arnold Lobel

So excited! We finally have a book store in town! I‘ll post the books we bought later, but the collection is well-curated. The crowd today seems more interested in the cafe than the books 🙄 but I hope that at least subsidizes the book part so they survive and thrive.

Aims42 Oooo! Can‘t wait to see your book haul 🤩 1mo

TheBookHippie Oh lovely!!! 1mo

Cuilin Yay!!! 📚 ☕️ 1mo

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Tamra Nothing better than a new bookstore! 1mo

Leftcoastzen Oh , that‘s awesome! 1mo

wildwoodreads That‘s exciting! 1mo

Sharpeipup @lcsmcat where is it? 1mo

Lcsmcat @Sharpeipup On Raleigh Street inn Holly Springs, NC. Way too close to my office to be good for my paycheck! 1mo

Hooked_on_books That‘s a wonderful development! 1mo

Sharpeipup @lcsmcat a neighbor told me about it today! I‘ll need to stop by myself this week… 1mo

bibliothecarivs The world improves a bit each time a bookstore, especially a local independent one, opens. 1mo

bibliothecarivs @Lcsmcat, since you mentioned that you're in NC, I thought I'd mention that I just got home from a fantastic Ben Folds concert. 1mo

Lcsmcat @bibliothecarivs I agree! And I hope you enjoyed the concert. 1mo

Lcsmcat @Sharpeipup So we must be near neighbors then! Are you in Wake County? 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly: A Novel | Sun-mi Hwang

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The ending definitely made this one.
I knew it would be heavy in tone before I read it, and for the majority it's a hard read about hard lives, but the ending has a beauty to it, even if you see it coming, and it wouldn't have the same impact if the plot had been gentler, if different choices were made. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The animals making up the majority of the characters in the book demonstrate straightforward concepts like the harsh cycle that is nature, and the cruelty that can be part of domestic/farm animal life, but also act as metaphors for everything from slavery to persecution, racism, various forms of othering, ostracizing, how an imposed order and rigid societal standards can make even the most downtrodden less tolerant instead of a welcoming 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? community, to adoption, to the sacrifices of motherhood, especially in circumstances where the children may have more opportunities than the parents, like first and second generation immigrants. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 I'm sure someone's surprised I'm not griping about how unrelentingly miserable this book is, but length is key, for this kind of tale - if it dragged out for hundreds of pages it would have been gratuitous, but it didn't.
Also: Beautiful art by Nomoco, the black and white definitely fits the mood, but there's a pleasant hint of whimsy in the shapes of the animals .
⚠️animal cruelty, animal death 2mo

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Littlewolf1

Howl�s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones