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My awesome co-worker randomly got me a shirt!

I found this memoir fascinating. Set against the backdrop of her family story, Sally Mann reflects on how she assigns meaning to both her photographs and her life.

“Photography would seem to preserve our past and make it invulnerable to the distortions of repeated memorial superimpositions, but I think that is a fallacy: photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.“

Picture is a favorite from the book

Is anyone interested in a #NFNovember Readathon this year? Or is someone already hosting and I missed it? #NFNovember

#haikuhive #haikuaday

I was devastated to learn of the passing of Diane Keaton, one of my favorite actresses. What a light and a legend. It seems a lot of my favorite actors, singers, etc. are dying and are adding to the despair that is this year.
RIP, Ms. Keaton. Time to revisit your gold standards, especially THE FIRST WIVES CLUB. 🧡💜💛
#ladeedaladeedalala

“Friends don't let friends buy books on Amazon.“ 😉

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I I had a good reading month. Not enough time to read but lots of good stuff to read.

So… yeah… zero nonfiction this month, so I guess my bracket will get an extra book from October. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wasn‘t a Swamplandia fan and thus initially passed this one up, so I‘m glad the #NBAlonglist for fiction got me to read it. I found this unique Dust Bowl historical fiction with some fantastical components to be fully engrossing. The characters are great and I like that we hear rotating perspectives from them, which helps keep the book moving. I really liked it!