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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount

#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day2

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:
🎄What excellent book club book did you read this year?
🎄Do you follow a celebrity one?

Join the fun! Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

@WanderingBookaneer @Cupcake12 @Karisa @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Erinreadsthebooks @Bookperson96 @tpixie @purpleypumpkin @thebookgeekfrau @xicanti @Jeg

BookishMarginalia I used to read the #OprahBookClub picks once upon a time. Now I dabble in different picks as the mood strikes. My fave book club read this year is from my Monday book club:

Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being

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RaeLovesToRead I've only just heard about the Audacious book club and now I am excited! 🥰 13h

lil1inblue @RaeLovesToRead Tell me more.... 🤓 13h

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RaeLovesToRead @lil1inblue It's Roxane Gay's book club! 13h

lil1inblue I read so many good books this year; it's hard to pick. But this is one that I wish I had read with a group, because it was soooo good:

Now in November

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AmyG No clue what book that is. I used to read Oprah‘s, too. Now I find that I am wnjoying some of Jenna Bush‘s books. 13h

lil1inblue @RaeLovesToRead OMG, now I'm excited, too! *runs to google* 13h

dabbe What a fun game! I enjoyed finishing the #noplacelikeholmes buddy read where we read the whole canon. I also enjoyed finished the #shardlakebr where we read all the Matthew Shardlake books by C.J. Sansom. And I loved all the books we read this year with the #hashtagbrigade, led by the invincible @BarkingMadRead. 🩵☃️🩶 12h

TheBookHippie @RaeLovesToRead oh I‘m so in for this. 12h

TheBookHippie I have tried IRL Bookclub 😵‍💫🫣 they don‘t read the book and get together to bash their partners and I want no part of that. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 back in the day I would check out Oprah but it‘s been a long long long time. My favourite “bookclub” is my #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD and I think our November book was my favorite

Life with Picasso

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TheBookgeekFrau I read Flowers for Algernon for an IRL bookclub. Haven't followed a celebrity book club since the OG Oprah one. I have to say I kind of resent those book club seals on book covers; they interfere with the esthetic 😤 As for the trivia question yeah, no clue 😂 12h

Karisa @TheBookHippie That was my experience too! So awkward showing up as the only one that wanted to talk about the book. 🤓😂🤣 10h

Karisa I‘ve read so many great ones this year with Litsy people! Life with Picasso, 1984, Fearless, Woodworking, Wild Dark Shore, and The Death of the Author are some that first come to mind. Always a great discussion with the book groups on Litsy! 🥰💗🥰💗 10h

TheBookHippie @Karisa SOLIDARITY. 10h

lil1inblue @karisa @TheBookHippie I'm glad I'm not alone in my IRL book club experience. ? Not only do they not read or discuss the book, but it always ends up being a book I'm meh about reading. I much prefer litsy "clubs". ? 9h

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue THAT TOO!! 9h

Karisa @lil1inblue 🎯 🥰 9h

WanderingBookaneer @TheBookHippie and @Karisa : I run a book club, Books on Tap, that meets at a local brewery. We don‘t have assigned books. People just share what they read during the past month. Some of us bring books to hand out after we‘ve read them. 9h

TheBookHippie @WanderingBookaneer I want to join. ♥️ 8h

Karisa @WanderingBookaneer That‘s the way to do it! 😊🥰 8h

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick The tagged is probably the best of book club fiction that I read this year. I don't really follow many of the celebrity ones. If I happen to choose one they've selected, great, but I tend to like things a little weird and they're usually very standard books.

Migrations: A Novel

Cupcake12 I loved reading this book club read. I don‘t normally like historical reads but this captured my heart from the start. I dolly the Happy Place Book club by Fearne Cotton - a tv presenter, podcaster in the UK.

The Air Raid Book Club: A Novel

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mcctrish

Life with Picasso | Fran�oise Gilot, Carlton Lake

#sundaybuddyread unite over their disdain of Picasso

AnnCrystal 👏🏼😅✊🏼💝💝💝. 1d

Suet624 💕💕💕 1d

TheBookHippie 💯💯💯💯💯💯 1d

Ruthiella 😂👏👏👏 1d

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DebinHawaii

Life with Picasso | Fran�oise Gilot, Carlton Lake

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#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction #SheSaid

Finished this morning for #SundayBuddyRead this was a engaging memoir about an amazing woman. A gifted artist & writer, this book focuses on her time with Pablo Picasso & could be titled “Surviving Picasso” who was a giant ass hat man baby. It‘s hard to separate the frustration with the man from his art, but the real interest in book is Francoise‘s perspective on his art & her own. Thanks to the fabulous ⬇️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, TheBookHippie, DieAReader, julieclair

DebinHawaii … hosting & research of the wonderful Christine @thebookhippie the book was even better brought to life & I learned so much about Gilot & the other artists of the times. Therese background of this review is one of my favorites of hers, Paloma à la Guitare, a picture of her daughter Paloma. Truly a fascinating book. 2d

TheBookHippie I loved it so much. 2d

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2d

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vlwelser That's a great painting. I really like her stuff. I was maybe a little surprised that she seems to have basically imitated other peoples styles for quite a while. But she was also 40 years younger than this creepy old man. I'm guessing this one is from later on. 2d

DebinHawaii @vlwelser Sotheby‘s says it was painted in London in 1965. 2d

vlwelser After she went on her own path. Good for her. I approve. 2d

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Eggbeater

Life with Picasso | Fran�oise Gilot, Carlton Lake

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#sundaybuddyread Thank you @TheBookHippie for bringing this book to our attention!

I learned a lot about Picasso from this book. If he wasn't a famous artist, he would have been labeled a creeper. His art was amazing. The man himself was a narcissist man-baby. Gilot's writing flowed well, and I was absorbed into her story. I would have liked a book about her later years. Her personal evolution was fascinating. She grew so much.

TheBookHippie ♥️🎨♥️ 3d

mcctrish I can‘t believe how long we had to wait for her to leave!!! Every time she circled back to a moment before to add more details - she seemed to do that a bit more towards the end - I‘d be yelling what was the final straw!!! 3d

Eggbeater @mcctrish I did a lot of yelling out loud throughout the book. 3d

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