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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems | Edna St. Vincent Millay

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IndoorDame ♥️♥️♥️ 5d

TheSpineView @IndoorDame 😊 5d

dabbe 💜🧡💜 4d

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shortsarahrose

Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys (LOA #156) | Louisa May Alcott

After coffee/lunch/grad school work, it was still early and quite nice out, so I supported my local economy (aka shopping 🛍️). Found a nice Library of America edition of the Little Women novels, a gnome print from a local artist, a t-shirt (Single & Ready to Stay Single 😆) and 🍩 sticker, some notepads from a cute new stationary place, and a couple👖 from my favorite consignment shop.

julesG Love the shirt! 🥰 4w

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shortsarahrose

Pierre ; Israel Potter ; The Piazza Tales ; The Confidence-man ; Uncollected Prose ; Billy Budd, Sailor | Herman Melville

“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville

“The Immortals” by Jorge Luis Borges

“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

And an honorable mention to “Super Human” by Nicola Yoon from the collection Fresh Ink that I recently read

dabbe

dabbe #1: 🤩 “I would prefer not to.“
#'s 2 and 3: on the good ol' TBR! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 1mo

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dabbe

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems | Carl Sandburg

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TheSpineView Good one! 💜 Sandburg 2mo

dabbe @TheSpineView #metoo 💚💙💚 2mo

lil1inblue I posted the same poem! 💙 Such a good one. I've been re-reading it all day. 2mo

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funkelbunt.liest

The Complete Little Women: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys | Louisa May Alcott

1. I think Anne Elliot is my favorite, but I also love Lizzy and Elinor.
2. I can‘t decide. It‘s obviously one of Jane Austen‘s characters, but I love them all. Okay not all, but Mr. Darcy, Mr. Knightley, Captain Wentworth, Edward Ferras, Colonel Brandon - they all share 1. place 😬
3. Little women. I really like it, but I have to admit it‘s going slooow 🙈
Thanks for the tag @BeeCurious 😊
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

SpellboundReader Great answers! It is really difficult to decide on just one favorite character.
Even if you finish Little Women before June/July, I hope you'll consider following along with the chapter-a-day buddy read via #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade.
Little Women will be a reread for me but I always learn something new from other reader's perspectives and comments. 🙂 2mo

SpellboundReader If you are looking for people to follow on Litsy, you could try looking up the books you like (such as Little Women or Persuasion) and then follow the readers who posted reviews for that book. Someone made that suggestion to me when I joined. 🙂📚 2mo

Eggs Thanks for playing🩵🩵 2mo

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Eggs @BeeCurious Great suggestion❣️ 2mo

funkelbunt.liest @BeeCurious thanks for the suggestion! I tried to do that with a few lesser known books I read recently but most of them aren‘t even listed here 🙈 2mo

funkelbunt.liest @BeeCurious can you explain the # to me? I still don‘t really get how it works here 😬 2mo

funkelbunt.liest @BeeCurious and one other thing - do you know why this post was once posted with and another time without a picture? 🤔 2mo

SpellboundReader @funkelbunt.liest - As this recommendation was kindly made to me upon joining Litsy, I'd also suggest referring to a few helpful Litsy 'how-to' websites and videos that were created by the awesome @Chelleo and, @Chrissiereadit among others. 🙂 They really help new members figure out how Litsy works, which is a bit overwhelming at first. (There are more buddy reads now than listed but you'll get the idea.) Links to 'how-to' in a message below.

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SpellboundReader The # hashtags are often used to tag or indicate buddy reads or groups on Litsy, that way you can follow a buddy read you are interested by looking up the hashtags. For example if you are interested in seeing everyone's posts related to #hashtagbrigade , then just look it up using the search function. Hashtags are also used to describe book genres, readathons & holiday team competitions like #scarathlon in October. You can make up hashtags too! 😁 2mo

SpellboundReader Litsy Welcome Wagon tips:
https://sites.google.com/view/litsywelcomewagon/home

For additional groups, buddy reads, readathons, etc that aren't listed, I'd suggest looking through the old LitsyEvents posts and following them, which I think you already did. 👏

Litsy How-to videos on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwcuqcJRwNwEdLzipg_la3Q

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SpellboundReader As for why you post was listed 2x, once without the photo, I'm not sure. I've had a glitch with it taking an exorbitant amount of time to post, & I think it didn't work. Then I try again, and it ends up posting 2x times. For a double post, you could always go back and delete one of the posts. I'm not sure if you are using the app or the web version. For the web version, just tap the 3 dots ... in the lower right corner. Tap delete. Then tap 'ok'. 2mo

SpellboundReader I didn't mean to write a book here, but I hope this info helps. 😁

Everyone is nice here so if you have a question about someone's specific buddy read or readathon or hashtag, etc, then feel free to ask in the comments below their posts, too.

Thank you to @BethM and @tpixie for originally making some of the suggestions listed in comments above, to me. (edited) 2mo

funkelbunt.liest @BeeCurious thank you so much for all these information! I‘m really slow at typing so I especially appreciate your time! 2mo

SpellboundReader @funkelbunt.liest - I'm happy to help. 🙂🙂🙂 2mo

funkelbunt.liest @BeeCurious ❤️ 2mo

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monkeygirlsmama

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems | Carl Sandburg

Day 1 An old favorite of mine that I think has an air of tranquility. 🐱🌫️

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView #tranquil

TheSpineView Great poem and choice. 3mo

Dragon 😻🐉 3mo

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vivastory

Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (LOA #338) | Octavia Butler

Starting on New Year's Day I have read an Octavia Butler story daily. The edition I read from is the recently published LOA volume containing Kindred/Fledgling & Collected Stories. Bloodchild is missing one story (The Childfinder) that the LOA volume contains. I have read a few of Butler's novels & a couple are all time-favorites. It is tempting to call Butler's stories cynical & dark; yet, in many ways she was one of the most realistic (CONT)

vivastory writers, following the narrative demands where it takes her; yes often to grim realities, but also to hopefulness. This is the rare short story collection, not a single dud. My favorites: Speech Sounds, The Book of Martha, Bloodchild. 4mo

Ruthiella I‘ve had the Bloodchild collection for ages now. Looking forward to it…whenever that might be? 4mo

vivastory @Ruthiella Today. Today is the day. 😅 4mo

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Larkken Oh, wow! It never occurred to me to look for short stories by Butler. You're inspiring me to pay better attention to anthologies! 4mo

vivastory @Larkken There are notes by her at the end of each story that were really interesting, too! 4mo

Reggie Is Bloodchild about humans being on an alien planet and their only ask is that we carry their babies? I loved that one. 3mo

vivastory @Reggie Yeah. I actually had a dream about that story the day I read it *shudder* There is another story in here along somewhat similar lines as Bloodchild that I found even more disturbing: “Amnesty“. 3mo

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dabbe

Essential Gwendolyn Brooks | Gwendolyn Brooks