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The Big Red Book of Beginner Books | Al Perkins, Philip D. Eastman, Robert Lopshire, Joan Heilbroner, Marilyn Sadler

A bookstore opened in my town! Best day of 2023 hands down! A really good selection of books, diverse authors, solid sci-fi/fantasy, poetry and a lot of good romance authors mixed in with the fiction section. #shoplocal

charl08 👏👏👏 1mo

kspenmoll Lucky you! How wonderful!!!! Love it‘s look- so inviting & cheery! (edited) 1mo

TheBookgeekFrau Yayyyy!!!!! 🎉👏🏼 1mo

Tamra So cute! 1mo

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LaceyDoesLit

None of This Is True: A Novel | Lisa Jewell

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Check out my latest #bookreview at www.LaceyDoesLit.com! @AtriaMysteryBus @AtriaBooks @lisajewelluk

#books #bookworm #booknerd #reading #reader #bookblog #bookblogger #bookreview #bookish #newbook #currentlyreading #bookmail #read #bookshelf #bookphotography

DenaeReads How did you manage to get your hands on this!?! 4w

LaceyDoesLit @DenaeReads I review books for publishers so I requested it several months ago and they sent me an advanced copy. 😊 3w

DenaeReads @LaceyDoesLit I want your job 😍😍 3w

LaceyDoesLit @DenaeReads you can! Start a book review Instagram, TikTok, etc and then request books! 😊 3w

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HaleyAnnaMarie

The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie

Curled up on the couch with a book is utter perfection.

#quote #fantasy #grimdark #reading #reader #bookmark #readinglife

HaleyAnnaMarie

Blade Itself. Joe Abercrombie (Revised) | Joe Abercrombie

Thoroughly enjoying #grimdark genre, as always. I can't believe it took me this long to get started on this series.

#grimdarkfantasy #darkfantasy #fantasy #fantasybook #reading #reader #books #bookworm #bookstagram #booknerd #booklover #bookish

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rockpools

The Worst Helper Ever | Richard Scarry

Help!

I need recommendations for biographies/autobiographies which are good on audio, short (ideally under 8 hours. Shorter=better), not celebrities, quite light-hearted or up-beat & (VERY importantly) not a total miseryfest.

The lady asking is in her 90s, and we are really struggling to find her anything to read! I am Malala went quite well. I would totally go with Born a Crime if I could get it on cd… I am stumped!

Thanks in advance.

JamieArc Frances Mayes has a newer one that is 8 hours and not a misery fest. More memoir of places she has lived than autobiography.

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

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rockpools @JamieArc That absolutely could work. We‘ll try it. Thank you! 2mo

Itchyfeetreader I M not a great audio book person but coming in on audible at under 6 hours there is a Roal Dahl book at 5 hours called Going Solo which sounds intriguing and potentially of interest to someone in that age bracket. Celeb but also of potential interest might be Dick Van Dykes ‘keep Moving‘. One of my issues with audio is that they are so long! 2mo

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Megabooks So I was looking through memoirs I‘ve read this year, and not sure if either of these would be appropriate but both are under 6 hours and not bleak.

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

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Megabooks And

Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

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Megabooks Tagging fellow memoir queen @Chelsea.Poole 👸 2mo

sblbooks How about

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

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BkClubCare Twain‘s Feast narrated by Nick Offerman was really interesting. 2mo

BarbaraJean My caveat is that I don't know how any of these are on audio! But I think @Itchyfeetreader has a good suggestion with Roald Dahl's Going Solo. Dahl also has a memoir called Boy, about his childhood, which would be fantastic on audio if it has a good narrator! Steinbeck's Travels with Charley might be of interest, too. And the tagged book could be a possibility. It's not lighthearted, given the subject, but I thought it was fascinating & inspiring.

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

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fredthemoose What about Stanley Tucci‘s book? A little under 7 hours and I remember it being charming on audio.

Taste: My Life Through Food

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fredthemoose I‘ll put a few more in the comments. I‘m guessing most won‘t work, but just in case…

The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

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fredthemoose Not a biography but features Queen Elizabeth as the main character, so feels like it could be. And only a couple of hours.

Uncommon Reader

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fredthemoose Charming on audio of not too much of a celebrity

How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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fredthemoose

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick A bit more of a memoir about his work with animals and his travels, but this wasn't a misery fest and rather enjoyable.

World Wild Vet: Encounters in the Animal Kingdom

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rockpools @Itchyfeetreader @BarbaraJean Thank you both! These are absolutely worth a try! I‘m often looking for shorter audio myself (39 hours is just unacceptable!!), so I might well try them myself as well. Roald Dahl sounds like it could work really well. Thanks! 2mo

rockpools @Megabooks Brilliant - thanks Meg! You may well see those popping up in my own feed at some point 😁 2mo

rockpools @sblbooks That is a really good idea. And I can probably convince the library to buy a cd copy. Thanks you 😊 2mo

rockpools @BkClubCare Nice! I‘d not heard of that - I‘ll see if I can track it down. Thank you! 2mo

rockpools @fredthemoose Ooh. I think you might have cracked it. Thank you. I LOVED a Shepherd‘s Life, and I reckon Alan Bennett might be the tone we‘re going for, even if it‘s not biog. And I can get both of those straight away on cd. Thank you so much. 2mo

rockpools @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I think memoirs might be more likely to work as shorter audio, so that‘s probably the way to go. I‘ll look it out. Thank you 😊 2mo

Chelsea.Poole Thanks @Megabooks 😊 I‘m a misery reader apparently…every single one I think of couldn‘t be considered “happy” 😂 I did find this link from the Seattle Public Library https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/86922331/201137603 2mo

Chelsea.Poole Here‘s a few that might work…?

Inciting Joy: Essays

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Chelsea.Poole A bit sad but I wouldn‘t consider it “misery fest” lol

Smile: The Story of a Face

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Chelsea.Poole Kind of about dolly but also really focused on the author, so I don‘t know if it‘ll work because of the celebrity aspect but

She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

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Chelsea.Poole

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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Chelsea.Poole LOVED

Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

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Chelsea.Poole

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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fredthemoose @rockpools glad to help! Let us know how it goes! 2mo

rockpools Thank you so much @Chelsea.Poole ! Wonders and Butterflies sound amazing - I think I‘ll stack them myself. Smile could actually work, though, if she‘s ok with medical stuff… I‘m tending to look at ‘cosy‘ stuff but I think she‘d prefer something a bit edgier/more interesting if it was hopeful. Hmm. We‘ll see what we can find. Thank you so much! 1mo

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EliLiszt

Pneuma: The Celestial Beings Trilogy Book One | Eli Liszt

A new beach read coming soon... #Quintĕssĕncĕ #TheCelestialBeingsTrilogy #scifi #iamwriting #author #reader

www.eli-liszt.com

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TheBookHippie

Little Bear's Visit | Else Holmelund Minarik

School things in library closet

Totes- lanyard- picture is collage of LitsyLove letters
Entire collection of Little Bear readers
Picture books and required HS reading and YA

Bklover Lanyard is such a great idea! 2mo

TheBookHippie @Bklover I change the pins constantly each pin has a story - IF you read with me, you get a story and you pick the pin to hear the story. It also is in your face on my beliefs on social justice issues, it's brought some fun conversations in the store when I run errands after school .........bahahahahahaha....... 2mo

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TheBookbabeblog84

Harry Potter 01: And the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling

Marking Harry‘s birthday with the re-listening of the books. I haven‘t re-read them in over two years. Reading the entire series on Harry‘s birthday was a long time tradition of mine….time to revisit my favorite series. #jkrowlingstillsucks #books #booklover #reader

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resham.musings

I WAS THE WIND LAST NIGHT: New and Collected Poems | RUSKIN. BOND

Last few poems left
What I loved, the momentarily poems are there, no hard and fast literature rules, just writing for the fun of it
#jamshedpurBlogger #reader #indian #bhartiya #RuskinBond

LibrarianRyan

Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower | Peggy Parish

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4 ⭐ Amelia Bedelia was a staple of my childhood. She was the lady who always got it wrong. But she got it wrong in a funny and lovable way. In this book the surprise shower is a wedding shower. Amelia still thinks it‘s a shower with water. She‘s asked to scale and ice to fish and covers them in chocolate. She‘s asked to cut some fresh flowers and she chopped them up in a bowl. It‘s a simple word misunderstanding that most kids would have if they

LibrarianRyan didn‘t know better. Well Amelia Bedelia is an adult in the book, she has the same qualities and misunderstandings as kids which makes her such a lasting character in our modern society. The story was quite lovely, but it‘s a level two I Can Read book, and is more difficult than many other publishers level three and level for readers. 3mo

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