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GatheringBooks
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#ItTakesAllKinds Day 23: There are indeed #Superhero(es) in this Tommy Taylor series - very clever and well put together.

Eggs Cover Love ❤️ 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cool cover! 1mo
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IndoorDame
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#weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday I read a great article this week titled “Italo Calvino's 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic” and when I googled the highlighted word most of the results linked back to the article I‘d started from. Apparently Calvino uses it in the tagged book too. It never shows up in a dictionary but the consensus seems to be that he‘s Anglicized the Italian verb for to pulverize (I don‘t speak Italian).👇🏼

IndoorDame I‘m all for adding more nuanced words to writing when a language don‘t have one. When I write poetry I‘m frequently wishing English had words we just don‘t. 4mo
CBee @IndoorDame I agree! Thanks for sharing. Funny how the English language is so vast but still sometimes limiting 🧐 4mo
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Yuki_Onna
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Here's my #December #Bookspin /#Bookspinbingo list! ❄️
@TheAromaofBooks

This also gives me some options for the prompts of the December #winter #Pokémon #GottaCatch'emAll challenge created by @PuddleJumper 😊
Super excited for December and lots of cozy reading while it's raining or snowing outside!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo
PuddleJumper ❄️❄️ 5mo
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Jen2
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Pickpick

This is a wild ride!!!!

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wanderinglynn
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Group C- Y‘all, I‘m having a tough time narrowing it down. Let me know what you prefer.

#coldweatherreads

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Bookwormjillk I haven't read any of these, but The Winter Garden and The Winter People sound most intriguing to me. I'd be happy with any of them though. 6mo
suvata I read The Winter People, but I haven‘t read the others. I‘m not a big fan of Calvino. Personally, I would pick The Winter Garden, but I will go with whatever the rest of the group picks. (edited) 6mo
TheBookHippie I read 12 dates but none of the rest. All the others look good! (edited) 6mo
wanderinglynn @suvata @Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie I‘ll go with The Winter Garden. 😀 6mo
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Creadnorthey
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It has taken 25 years + to finally reread this book and it was well worth the wait. It is amazing how a book can get you thinking and inspire you to approach the big questions with humour and humanity. This is that type of book.

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Creadnorthey
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This book was one I had read way back in 1988. I loved it! I promised myself that if ever I had a life changing event, I would use it as an anchor to stabilize me (if you know the book you see the irony). With time and life changing events passing I came to fear that I may have put this book too high on a pedestal. With a triple bypass looming it came off the shelf. Pleased to say both bypass and book are standing the test of time admirably.

BookwormM Great book and glad you are doing well 9mo
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LeahBergen
The Comforters | Muriel Spark
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My latest find from a charity book sale. Isn‘t this cover fantastic?? 💙

BiblioLitten It‘s so cool 💙 11mo
AmyG Cover is great. 11mo
LeahBergen @BiblioLitten @AmyG It‘s so vibrant! 11mo
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squirrelbrain Love it! 💙 11mo
Leftcoastzen OMG!!amazing! 11mo
Cathythoughts This is fab 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁 11mo
quietjenn So good! 11mo
batsy Very cool! 11mo
britt_brooke Definite #coverlove! 11mo
youneverarrived Ohh 😍 11mo
MaureenMc 🤩 11mo
AlaMich Trippy! 🫠 11mo
jlhammar Wow, I love it! 11mo
LeahBergen @AlaMich Exactly 😆 11mo
vivastory I've never seen this cover before. This is one of my faves by Spark. 11mo
LeahBergen @vivastory Oh, good to hear! 👍 11mo
Aimeesue Wow! I love Spark. I am emerald green with envy, which means that I would match that book perfectly in an aesthetic sense, so obviously I shall now have to find my own copy. I wouldn‘t want to clash. Fantastic find! (edited) 11mo
Aimeesue Holy cow, that seems to be a first edition! 😍 11mo
LeahBergen @Aimeesue A first edition, second printing unfortunately! Although it‘s still pretty rare. Not bad for $4, though! 😆 (edited) 11mo
Aimeesue @LeahBergen See, I find that fortunate, because then I‘d never be tempted to sell it! I have a FE Canadian edition of The Grapes of Wrath, which is also virtually worthless, but is gorgeous and I want to HAVE it, so $$ worth never enters into the equation, lucky for me! 11mo
LeahBergen @Aimeesue That‘s a perfect way of looking at it. 😆 11mo
Aimeesue @LeahBergen I may have some practice in finding ways to hang on to my treasured old books. 😂 11mo
kspenmoll Love the cover- you have such a knack at finding older treasures! (edited) 11mo
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JenDR
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So this is a buddy read pick with a co-worker. Know nothing about it except that she was excited to read it. Decided to start reading it in a new independent coffee shop that opened in the town next to mine. Liking both so far.

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Sophronisba
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“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in any place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and the when in which you vanished.“

#SundaySentence

Cathythoughts Great sentence 👍🏻 12mo
Sophronisba @Cathythoughts This book can be confounding, but it has tons of great sentences and paragraphs. 12mo
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