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TheBookgeekFrau
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice 👏🏻 2mo
Eggs Brilliant choice 👌🏼 2mo
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plemmdog
The Fred Chappell Reader | Fred Chappell
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Fred Chappell died last week. I have a signed lithograph of this, one of my favorite poems. I hope he‘s resting in peace with the cool ground‘s mild children.

Anna40 May his memory be a blessing. Thank you for sharing this beautiful poem 3mo
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ManyWordsLater
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Pickpick

The typesetting was not my fav. But this book is stuffed with New York nostalgia. It was great.

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JenDR
Collaborators: A Novel | Janet Kauffman
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My Christmas parties are done. I have nothing to do for the next for 48 hours except read and eat yummy baked treats. Which book am I going to read tonight?

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LitsyEvents
First and Last | Truman Capote
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Repost for @BookNAround

It‘s that time of year again! Time for the annual #lastfirst giveaway.

What will be the last book you read in 2023 and the first of 2024? This can be the same book or two different books.

Tag me @BookNAround in your post answering this any time between now and January 5, use the hashtag #lastfirst, and you‘ll be entered for a chance to win a book off your wishlist.

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TheKidUpstairs
The Furies | Janet Hobhouse
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Absolutely brilliant, gorgeous prose telling the story of Helen and her relationships with her mother, grandmother, men, and her mental and physical health. This is largely autofiction, and Hobhouse passed away before the editing process was complete, which makes the ending she chose for Helen all the more poignant. Emotional, heartfelt, full of love and melancholy in mostly equal measure, this one just might make my all time best list.

Chelsea.Poole Wow, high praise! Now I will have to add this one to my list. 5mo
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TheKidUpstairs
The Furies | Janet Hobhouse
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"Perhaps the emptiness of Cape Cod matched my own or perhaps we were like bodies of water finding a common level and I could stop drowning and begin to float."

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TheKidUpstairs
The Furies | Janet Hobhouse
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"The skills were now skills of endurance, our places were set on the board and we were all crawling toward our final position. Things got closer, walls and outcomes."

Continuing my slow read of this extraordinary book.

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TheKidUpstairs
The Furies | Janet Hobhouse
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"Power contained inside a female and used as energy rather than rage was new to me and made my grandmother almost supernatural."

(Daily quote posts from this book are starting to become a bit of a habit. Can you tell I'm loving it? ?)

Velvetfur That's a great quote! Very inspiring 👍🏻 5mo
charl08 💪 5mo
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TheKidUpstairs
The Furies | Janet Hobhouse
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“From this side, the outside world was closer and the school foreshortened: only the driveway with its triangular hedges and the big moving trees that today filled the air with odors which crashed like snare drums into the smells of Sunday lunch and somehow erotically teased me with their swaying.“

TheKidUpstairs How have I never heard of Hobhouse before this? Or read any of her work? I'm completely entranced by her writing, her sentences are so luscious and textured - I just want to luxuriate in them! I'm reading slowly to savour the pleasures. 5mo
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