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erzascarletbookgasm
Under the Tuscan Sun | Frances Mayes
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Mayes took on the restoration of an abandoned Tuscan villa, and discovered unexpected treasures - on her new property and countryside in which she‘d chosen to live.

‘..a memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house, and always about food...‘

#ABBAInAugust #takeachanceonme

emilyhaldi Ugh I've never read this and am not sure I can bear the jealousy if I do!!! 😬 6y
Cinfhen I‘ve always MEANT to read this book...maybe 2019 will be the year! #stacked for future reminder❤️ (edited) 6y
Mdargusch Good one! I wish I could take a chance like that! 6y
Reviewsbylola I‘ve always wanted to read this one. 6y
Meredith3 Gorgeous 😻💛🍯🐝 6y
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Meredith3
Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton
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At the past couple book club meetings I ask that the group #takeachanceonme and agree to read Jurassic Park and every meeting I am quickly shot down 😹😹😹 it‘s all good though, one day I will read it! #ABBAinAugust

DGRachel But it‘s such a good book! They should definitely agree to read it! 6y
Meredith3 @DGRachel thank you!! I appreciate your support! 🖤💛🖤💛🖤 6y
emilyhaldi Yeah perhaps you should just read it on your own for now 😆😘 6y
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Cinfhen Poor, Mer!! Book club ladies can be mean!!! I think it‘s a solid choice!!!!! 6y
LeahBergen Man, your book club sounds MEAN. Who are the members? 😂🤣😂🤣 6y
Reviewsbylola One day I‘ll read it too. 😂😂 6y
Reviewsbylola I can attest to the fact that they‘re absolute bitches!! 😂 @LeahBergen @Cinfhen 6y
Cinfhen Thought so 😜😉 @Reviewsbylola @Mdargusch @LeahBergen 😂😂 6y
Meredith3 @Cinfhen @LeahBergen they are some hatin‘ ass bitches 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹 6y
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LeahBergen
Time and Chance | Sharon Kay Penman
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#TakeAChanceOnMe
#ABBAinAugust

(It was the best I could come up with 😆).

Reviewsbylola As always, you have the most interesting books! 6y
Mdargusch Excellent! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 6y
emilyhaldi Beautiful cover and obviously sounds like another I have to stack 😅 6y
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Meredith3 Works for me! 👌🏻 6y
erzascarletbookgasm You have all the awesomely interesting books! 6y
Cinfhen My hubby is on a Penmam kick ~ have to see if he read this one!!! 6y
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Mdargusch
Next Year in Havana | Chanel Cleeton
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Our family bookclub is now using this Bookclub app to track our books and meetings. There is a great place to list possible book choices for your club to choose from. Im hoping my bookclub will #takeachanceonme and pick one of my suggestions. I guess anything will be better than Celine which we read this past month.

TheBookStacker Next Year In Havana was so good. 6y
Reviewsbylola 😆😆😆 6y
MicheleinPhilly I would skip Less as I predict you will be underwhelmed. 6y
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emilyhaldi Ugh, Celine 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 6y
emilyhaldi @MicheleinPhilly bummer!! I‘m kind of looking forward to that one. Sounds like the weird kind of literary fiction I can get into sometimes🤔 6y
Cinfhen I read a sample of Less and was NOT impressed!!! I‘m taking your advice @MicheleinPhilly and staying away 6y
Mdargusch Darn @MicheleinPhilly and @Cinfhen - such a great cover! 😂 6y
Mdargusch If you read it @emilyhaldi let me know. 6y
Mdargusch We chose The Blank Wall @TheBookStacker but I‘m glad to know you liked that one. 6y
Cinfhen I will be curious to hear your thoughts if u read it @emilyhaldi @Mdargusch 6y
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Cathythoughts
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#Abbainaugust #TakeAChanceonme it has been a crazy day ... I‘m very late connecting with you Littens ... ... ... I don‘t even know why I‘m thinking of this song & book about Simon & Garfunkel... just seems to keep coming up every where today ....old friends .. bookends... take a chance on me. 😁💕🎼🎼🎼🎼 ❤️😘

Cinfhen Crazy good, I hope ! 😘😘 (edited) 6y
Cathythoughts @cinfhen as my little granddaughter sings .., you call me crazy.... well baby, maybe .... or something like that...., I‘m way out of touch ( granny ) but , so cute , she gets how she loves her granny & her granny is WAY out of touch ... With the lingo... 6y
Reviewsbylola I love it! My husband is obsessed with S&G. 6y
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CarolynM I love Paul Simon's lyrics so much and in this song particularly. "How terribly strange to be 70" struck me as a teenager and it resonates even more now that it's really not that far away. 6y
Mdargusch Love. 💗💗💗 6y
emilyhaldi ❤️🤗❤️ 6y
Meredith3 👏🏻💛👍🏻👌🏻🖤 6y
Cathythoughts @cinfhen ... it was crazy busy ... & thankyou for asking 😘 6y
Cathythoughts @CarolynM the lyrics are amazing ... and the melodies too. 70 !! I can‘t even go there .. that will be my next big milestone... but not for years yet 😉😮 6y
Cinfhen 💕💕💕 6y
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Leftcoastzen
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#takeachanceonme #abbainaugust Abbott read Norman Mailers‘ Executioners Song, & wrote letters to Mailer describing experiences & conditions behind bars.Mailer helped him publish the tagged book & lobbied for his early release from prison.Abbott committed murder just 6 weeks after parole ,stabbing to death a 22 year old in NYC.Just because you can write doesn‘t mean you are not a sociopath.Fueled a firestorm of controversy & much talk about 👇

Leftcoastzen “Bleeding Heart Liberals “. 6y
LeahBergen Whoa! 😮 6y
Cinfhen Oh wow!!! What a tragedy😢 6y
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emilyhaldi Wow. In fact, i would bet many sociopaths are particular good writers 😅🙃 fascinating story I might venture down a Google rabbit hole here in a minute 😂 6y
Leftcoastzen @emilyhaldi Mailer was a little out of control himself,proves your theory! 6y
Reviewsbylola I haven‘t heard of this but Executioner‘s Song is on my TBR! 6y
Mdargusch Wow. Wrong person to take a chance on. 😢 6y
Meredith3 Wow! Super interesting, I‘ve gotta check this out! 6y
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Reviewsbylola
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One of my favorite books ever, this is the actual diary of Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene. Kept over the course of 1964, when Greene was in high school, it takes place in my hometown. Greene was infatuated with a classmate, Lindy Lemmon, and a good portion of the diary deals with his feelings for her. It will immediately transport you back to your own high school years.

#takeachanceonme #abbainaugust

Cinfhen I STILL need to read this book....I remember when u posted it last year 😀thanks for the reminder ❤️ 6y
emilyhaldi I'm still not sure I've actually read this whole book?🤔 6y
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Reviewsbylola It‘s so good!! @Cinfhen 6y
Meredith3 I need to read this 😬 6y
ValerieAndBooks I read this many years ago!! I think not long after it first came out. I still remember parts of it, even though I no longer have my copy of it. 6y
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Tex2Flo
The Dante Club: A Novel | Matthew Pearl
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Triple Play for me! 1 book for 3 challenges!
#auginbooks18 #morethan400pages
#abbainaugust #takeachanceonme (Dante is scary)
#augustisatrip #boston

Boston 1865. Murders inspired by scenes in Dante‘s Inferno.
The windows of the Wide Oaks mansion were draped in heavy black cloth, permitting only faint stripes of daylight along the sides. Widow Healey lifted her head from a mound of lotus-leaf pillows. “You have found the murderer, Chief Kurtz.”

Cinfhen Great pic and awesome photo 😎 book sounds 👍🏻 6y
Tex2Flo @Cinfhen My personal challenge is to get my pix to “speak” without stickers, maybe only filters and perhaps text. Fun to find things around the house for atmosphere. 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love your pic!! 6y
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Tex2Flo @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you. Its part of a pair of placemats made out of newspaper from SERRV.com. I find all kinds of cool stuff there. 6y
Mdargusch Great job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 6y
Meredith3 Ooooh! I like the sound of this. The premise reminds me of the movie Seven in a way 🤔 6y
Texreader We really must like the same books! 6y
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emilyhaldi
My Marriage | Jakob Wassermann
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I allowed myself 1 book purchase while in NY and fittingly it is a #nyrb classic 🖤

Alexander travels to Vienna and is captivated by the passion and flattery of Ganna, as well as her dowry. Though she doesn‘t fit the mold of the wife he had imagined, he is deluded in believing that he can change her once married. Instead he finds that Gianna cannot be controlled! Based on the author‘s own failed marriage. #takeachanceonme
#abbainaugust

Cinfhen Well done 👌🏽 6y
Kalalalatja Sounds great! #stacked 6y
BarbaraBB Sounds perfect! 6y
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LeahBergen Oooooh! It sounds fab. Stacked! 6y
Reviewsbylola Wow, great self control! 👏🏻 6y
Mdargusch Works great for this prompt. 👍🏼 6y
emilyhaldi @Reviewsbylola if my suitcase wasn‘t so damn heavy already I wouldn‘t have restrained myself so much 😂😂 (edited) 6y
Meredith3 🖤🖤🖤 6y
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GatheringBooks
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#AbbaInAugust Day 28: I suppose all new immigrants‘ battlecry is: #TakeAChanceOnMe. In what Dan Yaccarino claims to be his most personal work to date, he shares the story of his great grandfather Michele Iaccarino who grew up on a farm in Sorrento, Italy. While this is distinctly Dan Yaccarino‘s family story, this can also be anyone‘s tale of migration, with the opportunities beckoning on the horizon. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-cij

Cinfhen Love all your kiddie recs 😁 6y
emilyhaldi ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
Reviewsbylola This is great! 6y
Meredith3 💛💛💛 6y
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