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BekaReid

BekaReid

Joined April 2017

she/her “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.“ -Joan Didion
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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
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Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
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Just Kids | Patti Smith
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Yesterday was long. Traveling for work. 4 hour flight + 5 hour layover + 2 hour flight = lots of reading time. Finished my audiobook, an ARC, and started a reread of the tagged book, which is excellent. I love Patti Smith's writing.

lil1inblue I am obsessed with Patti Smith. Such a great writer...and artist...and musician. 16h
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Weyward: A Novel | Emilia Hart
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Took advantage of the absolutely gorgeous evening with a walk through the park and this audiobook ☀️🦆🎧📚

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Weyward: A Novel | Emilia Hart
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Spending a cozy evening reading with Edgar

RaeLovesToRead Awwww Edgar!!!! 🥰🥰🥰 6d
BookmarkTavern So cozy! 💖 6d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5d
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the witch doesn't burn in this one | Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad
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The Women: A Novel | Kristin Hannah
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This is definitely a pick! I must admit I was disappointed at first and thought it'd only be a so-so. But by part 2, it became a solid pick. I hadn't realized the level of disrespect vets faced returning from Nam nor did I know how utterly disregarded the women were. Not only was misinformation spread in the US, but the women who served were blatantly told they were never in Nam. I also appreciated the voice given to trauma and it's potent impact.

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Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir
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I spent much of my time in this books saying “WTF is going on?“ and I think that was intentional (perhaps coupled with too much time passing since I read book 1). This volume was about grief, trauma, and dissociation. It's about the feeling of not being able to trust your own senses and perceptions of what's real. And the second person narration lent itself well to the storytelling IMO. And now I'm going to start book 3!

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An American Childhood | Annie Dillard
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“I began reading books, reading books to delirium. I began by vanishing from the known world into the passive abyss of reading, but soon found myself engaged with surprising vigor because the things in the books, or even the things surrounding the books roused me from my stupor.“

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Just wow. I was absorbed in this from the start an read it in one sitting and had no idea my partner snapped this picture until this morning. I definitely found it to be a powerful and introspective story and recommend (but with a content warning of suicide). Edgar was a great reading buddy. I don't think he moved from his spot until I finished.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
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Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir
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Finally starting this book today. Had to do a quick refresh on Gideon the Ninth first since it's been awhile, but ready or not, I'm diving into this one!

BookmarkTavern You are in for such a treat! 🖤 1mo
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“I was like a woman trying to make spaghetti in the dark, destroying the kitchen as I grabbed every ingredient in the cupboard just in case it happened to be the one I needed. In the midst of my verbal wandering, I inevitably reached for the word “shame”—the box where I had lived for so very long, the box I still find myself tumbling back into with less provocation than I‘d like to admit.“

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The It Girl | Ruth Ware
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“She has always felt safest surrounded by books.“

dabbe 🤩🐾🤩 1mo
Leftcoastzen I agree!👏😸 1mo
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Come and Get It | Kiley Reid
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Reading time is an essential for my self-care. Paired with coffee and a croissant is a bonus.

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Hooked by the tagline, I was thrilled to get this ARC! “The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead.“ Funny and dark, I was fully engaged and immersed in this world immediately. Clark's newest is fast paced with the total badass Eveen, who was also a bit of a book nerd.

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Doctor office waiting means more reading time. This one is soo good too!

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Memory. So incomplete and flawed...
Janet Malcolm's Still Pictures is an autobiographical series of essays or perhaps an annotated photo album. She talks about the power of images, that photographs are more than just still moments frozen in time; they are windows into our history, emotions, and an understanding of the world. She writes about the difficulty we have evoking our former selves, the many ways in which they are strangers to us.

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Seren posing me with a reading challenge

RaeLovesToRead Seren 🥰🥰 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
Leftcoastzen Awww!🥰😻 1mo
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Starter Villain | John Scalzi
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This one was a lot of fun!

Leftcoastzen Aww cute reading buddy 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Starter Villain | John Scalzi
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“We have cats because they amuse us and because otherwise our clothes would lack the texture only cat hair could provide.“

dabbe 😂 2mo
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“The glitter of memory may be no less deceptive. The past is a country that issues no visas. We can only enter it illegally.“

Leftcoastzen I really loved this book! 2mo
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My first SJM sucked me in so I guess I'm reading the rest of the series now.

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 2mo
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Finally getting to this book after a week of struggling with a head cold and not being able to focus. Now to see if I can get through i
the 800 pages before it's due at the library.

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And fin. This was so interesting and readable. Loved the humor she mixes in as well.

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Very readable with some interesting information about how cats communicate.

CoffeeNBooks 😻 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Meow. This definitely made me laugh. Truth.

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The Hacienda | Isabel Caas
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When you go to the library to pick up *a* book...this is the result. And, of course, it's in addition to the existing TBR pile on the other corner of my desk. 😂📚🙄

Aimeesue Whoops. 2mo
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Leigh Bardugo's newest book is a standalone novel inspired by her own family history. I was pulled in immediately and absolutely loved it! With brilliant writing, wit, and the use of languages in the magic system, this historical fantasy gets all the stars! And the cover!! 😍
Release date 4/9/24
(Framed picture has nothing to do with the story. It was a gift from my partner. I find it hilarious and just love the juxtaposition of it to the cover.)

RaeLovesToRead That picture is amazing and looks great with the cover! 2mo
Karisa Perfect match! Adding it to my tbr. Sounds fantastic! 2mo
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Excited to start Leigh Bardugo's newest! I love her Ninth House series, and the premise of this one sounds intriguing.

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Surfacing | Margaret Atwood
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“I have to be more careful about my memories. I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone. I run quickly over my version of it, my life, checking it like an alibi; it fits...“

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Faith, Hope and Carnage | Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
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This was a beautiful series of conversations between Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan. Cave openly shares challenging and thought provoking reflections on his life, grief, creativity, art and spirituality, I marked a *few* passages to revisit. 🙄😉

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Eileen: A Novel | Ottessa Moshfegh
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I am intrigued

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Faith, Hope and Carnage | Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
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Merry Jólabókaflóð! Definitely one of my favorite traditions adopted in recent years ☺️📚🍫

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The Old Nurse's Story | Elizabeth Gaskell
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Reading a ghost story at Christmastime is a favorite holiday tradition.

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A Ghost in the Throat | Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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And Seren needed to check out some of my top books of the year. These are the ones from my shelf in my #top23of23 list. The others were library/ebooks.

dabbe Hello, sweet Seren! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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Switch | A.S. King
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#top23of23 part 2 listed in the order completed. And there's actually 24 total. Just couldn't cut any on the list 😉

IndoorDame Love this list! The last week of the year is always so dangerous for my TBR! 3mo
BekaReid @IndoorDame I know what you mean! Too many amazing books to keep up with! 3mo
TheBookHippie I love Clarice!! 3mo
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batsy Great list! The Forbidden Notebook would definitely be on mine, as well. And I read Plath's journals years ago and loved them. 3mo
BekaReid @TheBookHippie yes! I adore Clarice's writing!! 3mo
BekaReid @batsy thanks. It's always hard to pick my “top“ books so I try to focus on those that made an impact/stuck with me. The Forbidden Notebook was definitely one of those! And Sylvia Plath's journals ♥️ 3mo
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#top23of23 part 1 listed in the order completed

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No Judgment: Essays | Lauren Oyler
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Going into this ARC tonight knowing absolutely nothing.

Leftcoastzen Omg ! I have the butter dish that matches your plate!😁 3mo
BekaReid @Leftcoastzen I have a lovely 4 person set that was my grandmother's. 3mo
Leftcoastzen That‘s very cool! I have some grandma & aunts dishes too. 3mo
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Today's reading buddy. Edgar is my cuddler for sure! But getting extra snuggles today since he's getting over a cold.

Leftcoastzen Awww!😻 3mo
dabbe Hello there, sweet Edgar! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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I picked this up based on the title having no idea what it was about. Definitely was a win! I enjoyed both the essays and the segments of his unfinished novel. Now I need to read Afterparties.

Tamra Looks super comfy! 3mo
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Started listening to this one today, and it's so good!

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Surfacing | Margaret Atwood
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I've had barely any reading time this month with insane work deadlines, but the TBR continues to grow...Hoping to dive into at least one of these this weekend.

Tamra Inviting & enticing stack! Sometimes that makes it worse when time is limited. 3mo
TheBookHippie Frida!!! 3mo
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Yesterday was our first snow. The perfect kind with big, pretty flakes and then gone within hours so no shoveling required. And I got the chance to start the tagged book, which I'm enjoying immensely.

rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 3mo
dabbe Hello there, sweet kitty! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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The nutcracker | Alexandre Dumas, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Phillida Gili
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I'm not sure I have actually read The Nutcracker (outside of children's board book versions) so thought I'd give it a go this year.

dabbe Beautiful cover! 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
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Perfect way to spend a Friday night.

dabbe Hello there, sweet floof! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
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Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
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Just a couple of my favorite lines from this book. Pictured quote above and this one:
“Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back.“

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Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
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This was the perfect relaxing read to end the week (once Seren relinquished her hold on the book). While Legends & Lattes was okay, I found this one much more fun personally. Would loved to see more Viv down the road!

dabbe Oh what a beautiful kitty face! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
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Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
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November has been a slow reading month due to a busy work schedule. Glad for the day off, and I'm looking forward to diving into this stack soon starting with the tagged book.

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Horrorstor: A Novel | Grady Hendrix
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Satire. Creepy & paranormal. Horror balanced with the right amount of nuance and humor. Unique IKEA catalog-like format complete with furniture ads at the start of each chapter. I enjoy Grady Hendrix's writing and was immediately connected and invested in the characters. I also found the background on the haunting interesting.

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Horrorstor: A Novel | Grady Hendrix
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This weekend's acquisitions. Now to decide what's up next.

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Reading through some of Poe's stories as I watch through The House of Usher

dabbe bird🐦‍⬛🖤🐦‍⬛ 5mo
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