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Frankie, an octogenarian that broke her leg and is in need of a carer, finds in Damian, a fellow expat from West Cork, the care that she needs, maybe not physically but emotionally. Loved to hear about Frankie's life as she tells it and about the gay scene in London and NY, and all the art... the book feels well researched and I love Graham Norton's style. Perhaps jumping to the present doesn't feel as necessary, but I don't like Epilogues and ⬇️

Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day: purchased Blue Ruin for this year‘s Tournament of Favorites and they gave me the Supersonic. Posing in front of a pretty mural across the street from my next stop (which isn‘t open yet! 🤨) #ibd #indiebookstoreday

OK stories about NYC people. Barkeepers, old people, runaways, and others. Mostly right after 9-11. Best for native New Yorkers probably.

Part of why everyone here annoys me, I think, is no one appears to have real responsibilities, even as COVID hits. Rob and Alice have a daughter they ignore, Jay‘s life has mostly been wading through an art scene while being high, and the art anyone does finally do feels pretentious and light. They have disappeared into their art, a major theme. People return when they connect with others, and mostly everyone here is too selfish to do that.

January 2025 was a good reading month. Frankie by Graham Norton was the best of a good group of books

This book about how Central Park was created is beautiful and I highly recommend it. I‘m pleased she included the forced removal of residents living where the park was built, even though this is a celebration of the park. The author ends by reminding us that the park was made for all of us.

Finished March 5, 2025.

Starting a book found at a thrift store. Looks interesting to me about New Yotk City life.

I've enjoyed all of the books I read this week, but if I have to choose just one, Help Wanted it is! If I'd finished Moon of the Turning Leaves a day earlier, that would have been an easy pick for this week. We'll see if anything I read this week tops that title!

#WeeklyFavorites @Read4life

#CoverStories #Jewelry

A day late (and a dollar short) for #weirdwordwednesday — but wanted to share anyway! I just finished the tagged book about the Dutch colony that first settled NYC. This section mentioned some of the Dutch words that were mutated into the English language and are still part of our lexicon 400 years later. As a word nerd, this type of stuff fascinates me!
@CBee