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BkClubCare

Joined February 2016

Care's Books and Pie www.caresbooksandpie.com
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Happy St. Patrick‘s Day ☘️

#CaresPieShow #KiwiFruitPie #BooksandPie #iLovePie #LitPie

Chrissyreadit 💚💚💚💚💚💚 2d
AmyG Oooooo 🙌🏻☘️ 2d
Ruthiella Back atcha! 🍀 2d
Gissy 💚🍀💚🍀 1d
bthegood 🍀 🍀 18h
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Current audiobook, for book club. Amazing that Libby had a copy available- the eBook and print copies all have over 10 holds.

I am already questioning some of the premise even as the narrative attempts to explain/excuse it. And the hypocrisy of the “mother” is rage-inducing.

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Things We Cannot Say | Kelly Rimmer
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“… managed to escape… [ ], lived with a group of rebels loosely affiliated with the Home Army in the forests of Warsaw.”

I practically DNF‘d this WW2 novel that I didn‘t finish by book club discussion so now I know most of the pieces. But HOW ODD in coinky-dink land that my next random book, *Dear Fang, With Love*, references a grandma from Poland!

Always makes me go 🤔

Ruthiella Book serendipity! 2d
BkClubCare @Ruthiella - Have you read Dear Fang? Rufi T is now on my “read-everything” list. (edited) 2d
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Road Trip
On way to KCMO for St Patrick‘s Day party ☘️

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Boys Weekend | Mattie Lubchansky
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Look what I picked up from the library! Via ILL ❤️

I have gotten away from posting my readings 😢 Let‘s get back to it.

Updated later: found it confusing, but I am glad to have read it. It was a MUCH quicker read than I expected!!!!

AmyG Hahahaha for a split second I thought-a dog???? 3d
BkClubCare @AmyG 🤣🤣🤣 3d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3d
dabbe @AmyG I did, too! 🤩😂😃 3d
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Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder
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This is such a crazy idea! I love nonfiction- especially narrative nonfic; my most memorable entry to reading something “true” for FUN? Let me introduce you to Tracy Kidder. #TLT #ThreeListThursday #NonFiction

1. Tagged book. Inspired me to read all of Kidder‘s books (I haven‘t 🫤) but Mountains Beyond Mountains is another of his extremely inspirational reads.
2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - LISTEN 🎧 to this!!!!
3. See comments . . . 👇

Nameera Hello guys. I am a Clinical psychology student trying to study the psychological well-being empathy and fantasy engagement among Fiction and non fiction readers. It would be great you you take time to fill this form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8dX_2Udab9QKk4CXiI0CeScJNjf-HWh1gTYH8...
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dabbe More for the TBR! Thanks for sharing. 🤩🤗😀 1w
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Lots of pie references (a mention of Thanksgiving will usually always have a pie mention.)

“Later, Amanda would remember this as one of the moments when she fell a little out of love with him. Also when he ate the last piece of pumpkin pie for Sunday breakfast.”

#LitPie #BooksandPie

bthegood love that line!! book is now stacked! (edited) 2w
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“ . . . as well-intentioned and charmless as a store-bought pie”

Happy March 2nd!
Happy Banana 🍌 Cream Pie 🥧 Day!!l
(THIS is home-made pie 🤣)

#PieinLit #LitPie #ILovePie #CaresPieShow

Ruthiella 🍌🍌🍌😃 2w
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Ghosts of the Tsunami | Richard Lloyd Parry
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#Audiobaking #iLovePie #BananaCreamPie #WiaN category Natural Disaster

Wow - this is so good. Devastatingly sad, super-intriguing on the ghosts part!

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Well, THIS has to be the shortest fastest ToB read I have ever experienced! I wish I would have known it would only take me one sitting; I would have devoured it at a bookshop and returned it to the shelf. LOL maybe not… #ToB24 #novella #LibraryBook [Book 15 of 2024] ⛰️🦁

Soft pick, entertaining in a way that fits my mood today.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
AvidReader25 I just read this one too. I don‘t know why, but I‘ve read a string of books narrated by animals recently, but I didn‘t plan it that way. 🤣 2w
BkClubCare @AvidReader25 - it‘s kind of fun when books have linked coinky-dinks… 2w
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Current essay collection for daily reading “dips”

#CopperBopper #whpg #Griff #DogsofLitsy #ReadICT

QUESTION??? Do you think JOY is a virtue? To satisfy a challenge category…

Ruthiella No. It is an emotion. Sorry. 4w
BkClubCare @Ruthiella - no apology needed. Is JOYFUL a virtue? Is the word “TRUE” able to fit a virtue category? (If yes, I can read (edited) 4w
BeeCurious I've seen virtue defined as 'an inherent character trait.' So I guess it depends on if you consider being joyful, a character trait? 🤷‍♀️ 4w
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Ruthiella Honesty is a virtue, so would that work for ? (edited) 4w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4w
BkClubCare @Ruthiella - YES! Exactly the spin I need to make this book fit the category. TY 4w
BkClubCare @BeeCurious - I do feel that capacity for joy is a fabulous character trait 🌟 4w
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North Woods | Daniel Mason
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Starting because I want to read this and it is in the house.

#EstherBester #EstherFest #DogsofLitsy #whpg

Suet624 Worth it! 4w
xicanti An excellent reason. And hey, guess what showed up today with a postmark from OVER A MONTH AGO? (Spoiler: it was a lovely postcard from you.) 4w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4w
Tamra I am loving it! 4w
Reggie Hope you like it! 4w
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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

1️⃣ Fave Female Character: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Because: a letter received today from a friend thanked me for sending her a copy - I knew she would appreciate ❤️ OK is rough at the edges with a heart of gold.
2️⃣ Going with narrator of tagged-in-comments because he was an idealist
3️⃣ Ross Gay might have been my choice for Fave Male Character since his words have fed my 🧠 DELIGHTFUL

BkClubCare Tagged in comment!! 4w
Eggs Thanks for playing 🩷📚💛 4w
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Current audiobook. Reading what I want to. I have ToB fatigue maybe. Not into it this year

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Trying valiantly to get into this. I have been on page 16 for days and days. #sigh

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Permission to bail! Don‘t let it put you in a book slump. 1mo
AmyG Yeah, alot of non-essential minutiae for my taste. #hailthebail 1mo
CBee I think pup agrees, you should bail 😂 1mo
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fredthemoose The beginning and end dragged for me, but I found the middle 70-80% pretty good. But by all means, if you‘re feeling the bail, go with it! 1mo
Tamra Yes, too many digressions. I held out only to solve the mystery. I did like the nonverbal character storyline in the end. 1mo
Tamra I can tell you how it ends in a separate hidden comment if you decide to bail. 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
Deblovestoread I finished but can‘t say it was worth the effort🤷🏻‍♀️ 1mo
cariashley This one fell totally flat for me, so can‘t tell you it‘ll get better. 1mo
BkClubCare @cariashley - wow! Thanks ☺️ 1mo
BkClubCare @Tamra - interesting; I just might have to go search for a spoileriffic review 🤣 1mo
BkClubCare @Deblovestoread - good enough for me! Ty 1mo
BkClubCare @dabbe 😍😍😍 1mo
BkClubCare @Tamra - ack! Hadn‘t read both your comments 🤦🏻‍♀️ Sure! Bring it. You‘ll be doing me a favor. I owe you 🥰 1mo
BkClubCare @fredthemoose - I appreciate the support. 🤗 1mo
BkClubCare @AmyG - it‘s been 20 pages and we are still circling the issue! Dad is gone - let‘s DO something already 1mo
BkClubCare @CBee - Copper wants to got for a walk already. 🐕 1mo
Tamra @BkClubCare presumably the father falls off a ledge into the river in a park saving his son from falling first. That is presumed to be the case because that is what the son communicates via a letter board, but it‘s ultimately left as somewhat of a question. The son was under suspicion by the law for a time. Unbeknownst to the family, the father & son were working with a legit therapist who specialized in spelling boards for nonverbal individuals. 1mo
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The Book of Lost Names | Kristin Harmel
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I enjoyed the story; a bit overwrought. Book 9 of 2024

#DoubleSpin #BookClub #WW2 #FrenchResistance #library #HardCover #ReadICT category: Lost or Found

Painting “People”, currently on show at Wichita Art Museum #WAM (just a photo on my phone)

Ephemera Is the painting by Thomas Hart Benton? 3w
BkClubCare @Ephemera - maybe?! I forgot to note it and couldn‘t find when I searched. But I do recall thinking Benton, but NO. Of course, I could be misremembering THAT, too. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
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Blackouts: A Novel | Justin Torres
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Call me impressed. Dazed, feeling melancholy. This is imaginative and creative without any sense of arrogance. Imho

#ToB24 #HardCover #Purchased Book 10 of 2024

SamAnne Can‘t wait to get to this one. 4w
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Blackouts: A Novel | Justin Torres
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“What the lovest well remains…the rest is dross… What thou lov‘st well shall not be reft from thee… What thou lov‘st well is thy true heritage…

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Untitled | Unknown
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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1. Yes 💌💕 #LetterMo
2. Sure
3. Today! Hub and I are off on a roadtrip right now. Checking out the lake near Ponca City OK and then hoping to discover a cool lunch spot, meandering back to Wichita before doggie daycare needs us to pickup E and C.
🥰🚗👌🌻🚤🎣🐶🐾💖

Eggs Road trip!!! Thanks for joining in♥️ 1mo
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Saga, Volume One | Brian K. Vaughan
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Something to shake up my reading!!! From the library bookstore to support the Friends-of-the-Library

#GraphicNovel #onMyTBRsince2017

RaeLovesToRead Saga is amazing! 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
monkeygirlsmama Thoroughly enjoyed this series! It was, I think, one of my first real forays into graphic novels. 1mo
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BkClubCare @RaeLovesToRead - it literally fell into my lap and I recognized it; I gasped! 1mo
BkClubCare @monkeygirlsmama - I have read a few but this has …. Longevity? I am excited to read 1mo
BkClubCare @dabbe thanks Dabbe ❤️ 🐶 1mo
monkeygirlsmama @BkClubCare Yeah, I'll definitely go back to read this series again, and I know it will be just as good the second time around. 1mo
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The Book of Lost Names | Kristin Harmel
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Current audiobook, for a new book club that is starting with my Theta sorority alumnae group at the end of February.

#CaresPieShow #iLovePie #PeachBlueberryPie

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Started this one yesterday #LitsyTob24 right? NOPE: #ToB24

BarbaraBB No it‘s not! It‘s a play-in book in the real #ToB24. I‘ll add a link to our shortlist! 1mo
squirrelbrain I listened to this - it‘s interesting but not overly exciting. 1mo
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BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - ack! I can‘t ever find the lists! 😫 especially mid-post. 🫤 1mo
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - I search the hashtag but it is pages and pages- how do you save the link for reference? I took a photo but that, too, is pages to track through… I have it printed “somewhere” 1mo
BkClubCare @squirrelbrain - at least, the audio is short. It is tough pressure to want to be a completist. I am working on it. 1mo
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - thank you! 1mo
BarbaraBB Did you find it by clicking on the url I sent above it do you have to scroll a lot then too? Wait, I‘ll tag you in that post again! That should do the trick! 1mo
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB -yes! Went right to the brackets!! And, I have discovered a new way to org my open tabs for Safari on my phone. I‘m good. 👍 🎉 1mo
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Blackouts: A Novel | Justin Torres
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Starting this one. #ToB24

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Panpan

Bleak. One bad decision and consequence after another. Too too long; I suffered through, though, to the bitter ambiguous WTH ending. Listened at 2x speed. People seem to think it brilliant literature but I want a refund. #ToB2024 Book 5 of the year.

Ruthiella I‘m on the fence about this one. I liked but didn‘t love Skippy Dies and everyone raves about it. 2mo
Suet624 I‘m with you. 2mo
dabbe #hailthebail! 🩶🖤🩶 2mo
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LeafingThroughLife Welcome back to the spin! 😄 2mo
BkClubCare @LeafingThroughLife - thanks! I admit, I am already nervous that I am putting too much pressure on myself. #sigh #ALLinFUN 🤩 2mo
AvidReader25 I‘m reading this one right now! 1mo
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BkClubCare @AvidReader25 - Sweeeeeeeet 🍬 I have Inciting Joy up next immediately. It‘s a Ross Gay trifecta. Then back to Poetry. Hey - have you read Beach Music? 1mo
AvidReader25 @BkClubCare Ross Gay is an Indiana gem! I have read Beach Music (Conroy, right?). 1mo
BkClubCare @AvidReader25 - yep. I need to read it. 1mo
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I adored Iona Iverson‘s Rules for Commuting and so I knew I wanted to read the author‘s book just prior. EXACTLY my favorite kind of book! This is another “found family”, great lovable characters, assumptions made, kindness needed, and a happy hopeful ending.

#ReadICT category Lost or Found

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Just started my next library book and found pie on page 11! #ReadICT Category: Lost or Found (I think 🤔) #LitPie #BooksandPie #iLovePie

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Esther is ecstatic to help me review this fast read for #BookClub #DogsofLitsy

Some sentences are more than clunky but it was a good read, characters to cheer for, lots of interesting history, and I am glad to have read it. Plus, I wanted to spend all my time reading — a feeling (?) which I have been missing these last few weeks. (My first book by this author.)

#WiaN2024 Category: Shape #HistoricalFic

Ruthiella Make sure she doesn‘t get too excited there! ❤️🐶😂 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
bthegood I understand that feeling and love when I find a book that gets me there😊 2mo
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BkClubCare @Ruthiella I know, poor thing 😍 2mo
BkClubCare @dabbe - thank you. 🐶 ❤️ 2mo
BkClubCare @bthegood - my current read is also giving me these good vibes, as well! 😃 2mo
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Wellness | Nathan Hill
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Am giving this a pick but it stressed me out; one reason is that it made me sad, I appreciated the humor and knew I should and would usually love this kind of humor but my mood this month did NOT match what I am sure was a lovely read. All that to say, I am glad to close this & move on. The ending was kind of lovely. #LitsyToB24 #WiaN2024 Category: Double Letters #ReadICT Category: a book I meant to read last year

BkClubCare No pie, book 3 of 2024, ebook. My 2nd N.Hill 2mo
Ruthiella Sorry to hear that! That‘s the drawback to reading ToB books. You can‘t easily set them aside and read later…😕 2mo
BarbaraBB You did read it fast though! 2mo
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - it didn‘t feel like it! 😂 I read two other books while avoiding this one and I am way off my pace of 7-10 books a month 😳 2mo
BkClubCare @Ruthiella - drat those ToB chunksters 2mo
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Good Day to Pie | Carol Culver
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Gissy 🥧 😋 2mo
AnnR Yum! 2mo
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Chain-Gang All-Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Put me in the camp of being FOR this book; style, drama, footnotes ❤️, characters, etc. Capturing the pics of books “recommended” at the conclusion of the ebook so I can reference for adding to my tbr. (And always curious, WHY THESE?) I am having such conflicted motivation to read right now, not really a slump, but, the “is it me?” Question on why I can‘t seem to get into Wellness, for example? And The Bee Sting? 😩
#ToB2024

BkClubCare No pie, book 2 of 2024, ebook. 2mo
LeafingThroughLife I‘ve been having that “Is it me?” feeling a lot lately, too. I keep reading books that I recognize as well written but they‘re still leaving me a little cold. Definitely starting to get a complex about it. 😬 2mo
BarbaraBB They are both such chunksters and both family dramas. I‘d choose a weird short book if I were you! 2mo
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BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - I am craving a funny romance! 💘 2mo
BkClubCare @LeafingThroughLife - let‘s start a club 😂 2mo
BarbaraBB Have you read this one already? It could do the trick 2mo
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - 😉 TY, have yet to get/find a copy. 2mo
BkClubCare No pie, book 2 of 2024, ebook. 2mo
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Burst | Mary Otis
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Thank you to @bthegood for tagging me; I have been trying all day to think of a book I read that had a car!

1. Yes, I drive a manual transmission Jeep Wrangler.
2. Going through my recent reads, THIS book starts off with a mother and daughter hitting the road…. I love the cover and the story is good, too.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

BkClubCare A day late 🫤 2mo
bthegood @BkClubCare you're welcome and thanks for sharing - make a great day 🙂 2mo
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2mo
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I am freakin‘ delighted with the mind of Ross Gay and very delighted by how many books he has released to the wild.
In essay #21 “(Foot- End- Etc.) Notes”: “I love few things as much as I love a weird book.” So I tbr‘d Katherine McKittrick‘s DEAR SCIENCE AND OTHER STORIES. He also references Diaz‘ Oscar Wao, “where the author pokes his head through the curtains of the novel” 😃 I thought that novel a wonder. DELIGHTS!

BkClubCare Posdnuos thinking? 2mo
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Chain-Gang All-Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Up next #eBook #ToB2024 #WiaN2024 Category: Shoes 👟

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Wellness | Nathan Hill
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“Whoopie pies with marshmallow fluff.” #LitPie

#LitsyToB24 #WiaN2024 Category: Double Letter #ReadICT Category: Book I wanted to read last year

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Rouge | Mona Awad
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The book was too long and I got bored. I was happily following along until about a third in, and I wasn‘t sensing any critical arc coming anytime soon, so I skimmed through to read the last few chapters or so. 💄🌹🥀😆 Red frame to Copper‘s frank expression.

#LitsyToB24 #DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #WHPG

BkClubCare No pie, book 1 of 2024, ebook. My 3rd Awad. (edited) 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
batsy Copper ? "This book was too long and I got bored" sums up how I felt about this, too. 2mo
BkClubCare @batsy - I am getting impatient with books so far this year. 😢 2mo
BkClubCare @dabbe - thx! He is a sweet boy but a challenge, poor thing. 2mo
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I can‘t wait to read this! The movie 🎥 is SO good.

#ReadICT

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Florida | Lauren Groff
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I need a favor. I need someone to comment here with the following words: “don‘t read this!”

Please and thank you. (I have a reading challenge that has a category to read a book that someone tells you not to. Banned books count but I can‘t find that Florida is on any such list.)

Help me out?!

Pic is Aggieville, Manhappiness, Kansas #ReadICT Category: someone told me not to read

TEArificbooks My home town 2mo
kspenmoll Don‘t read this 2mo
BkClubCare @kspenmoll - THANK YOU!! 😆🤣 2mo
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BkClubCare @TEArificbooks - great place. Always different every time we visit. Had lunch at the Rock-A-Belly 2mo
Ruthiella DON‘T READ THIS! 😱✋🛑🙈 2mo
BkClubCare @Ruthiella - 👌 OKAY I will! 🤣 2mo
marleed Haha - now I‘m following for your review! With two Don‘t read thises you have the go ahead!📖 2mo
BkClubCare @marleed - it‘s a year long challenge. I might not get to it until March. 2mo
tpixie @TEArificbooks @bkclubcare The Famous Aggieville! What a fun place! And DONT READ THAT BOOK! (edited) 2mo
BkClubCare @tpixie 😆 thanks! 2mo
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Cake is fine, but I believe pie is happiness, connection, and love. So this year, I will strive to include all the pies I encounter, in real life and in literature 🔥

First Pie January 1, 2024: Sugar Cream Pie aka Hoosier Pie. It is very good.

Wishing you all much pie, fabulous pie connections, and world peace ☮️

AnnR Yum! 3mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
tpixie That looks delicious! I made a chess pie for bookclub a few months ago- it tasted good but not as beautiful as yours- your pie & crust is beautiful!! 🤩 3mo
BkClubCare @tpixie - aw, thanks! I only can say that I do a LOT of practice, but I feel I still have much to learn and perfect yet. Point is that pie always tastes good pretty or not! Usually 3mo
tpixie @BkClubCare yes! And what a fun thing to practice with! Snap! Now I have to eat a piece of pie! 🥧 3mo
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Day 1 New Year

Rouge and Wellness for #LitsyToB24
The Bee 🐝 Sting for #ToB2024
The Book of (More) Delights for me 😊

Litfluence 37k, Happy New Year! Happy Reading 📚

BkClubCare Goals: 100 books, better tracking 🤣, more commenting/sharing, thoughtful reviews (edited) 3mo
BarbaraBB What a great start of the year! 3mo
squirrelbrain Some great books to start with! 3mo
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Wellness | Nathan Hill
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First Book, #FirstBook2024 #WiaN2024 Category: Double Letters #ReadICT Category: TBR2023

BarbaraBB Happy new year! What does #WianN2024 mean? 3mo
BkClubCare @BarbaraBB - Hello! HNY!! WiaN oooops, I think I might have added an extra N… it stands for “What‘s in a Name” which is my favorite yearlong challenge and I can drop the link 🔗 in the next comment. Six categories to read, it‘s very informal. 3mo
BkClubCare Carolina Book Nook is host, pretty sure she isn‘t on Litsy: https://carolinabooknook.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/whats-in-a-name-2024-sign-up/ 3mo
BarbaraBB Thanks!! I‘ll check it out! 3mo
KAO Wellness is such a good book! I thoroughly enjoyed it. 3mo
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Always a fun ride with McBride doing the storytelling. I had a bit of length- and character-quantity fatigue, though. Still!! Always willing to go where this author leads - I was just in a hurry to finish and my hurry-it-up experience suffered under my own hubris.

#ToB2024 #PieinLit #LitPie #Audiobook

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Happy New Year! 🌟🎉🤩🥂
Dogs are OUT. All current books completed! Ready for 2024

#tob2024 This book hit my heart in all the tender places, gently, respectfully, with urgent prodding to do more, be better, but yet in the right way; with myself in mind.

AnnR Happy 2024! 🎉 3mo
Ruthiella Happy New Year to you! 🥳 3mo
dabbe HNY! And sleep well, little floofs! 🖤💙🖤 3mo
Tamra Smart pups! Happy New Year! 3mo
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Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward
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I found it mesmerizing, fiercely hopeful. Toni M influenced this and Ward gave her character agency. Powerful.

Nutmegnc 😱 what a recommendation!! 3mo
BkClubCare @Nutmegnc - it‘s brutal. 3mo
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New Year's Eve | Caroline B. Cooney
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Happy New Year Everyone!! Be safe 🥰
Question for all of you amazing Littens, especially the big point winners: how can I get my Litfluence number to 37,000 before tomorrow? Is it possible?! Anything special I can do today and still finish all three of these books by midnight? 🤣🤪 TIA 🥂

BkClubCare (And yes, this post gives me a baseline to start 2024, sort of.) 3mo
Ruthiella Multiple posts. It‘s the likes, stacking, and the tags that drive the Litfluance. 3mo
Deblovestoread Good luck! 😊 3mo
BkClubCare HA! I did it?! My Litfluence shows 37,006 at 🕒 3pm. Not sure what I did… I will take it. 3mo
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Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward
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“Her voice lingers in the air: the crust of pie around the edges of the pan, the pan that we scrape to savor in the hot corners of the kitchen, the buttery crumb rich in mouths, but only enough to hint at the cinnamon, the nutmeg, the sugar… p1887-188

#iLovePie #pieinlit #litpie

BkClubCare P227 “The old mother caresses her daughter‘s cheek as tenderly as Cora pats pie dough, then twists back and slaps the lady across the face: once, twice.” 3mo
monkeygirlsmama @BkClubCare Well then! So much for sweet moments. 😳😆 (edited) 3mo
Mccall0113 This one is sitting on my shelf 3mo
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On a road trip, posting this to get it on my Litsy banner of current reads, but I will now go read hardcover of Ward‘s Let Us Descend, which is due tomorrow, which means that it will be returned late to the library, and so I offer an apology to the next person in line and yes, I should be ashamed of myself.

#tob2024

Mccall0113 No shame!! 3mo
BkClubCare @Mccall0113 - want to know what I just realized? The library is closed until Jan 2 so how will they know if I *really* returned it on the 30th?! 😂😁🤩 3mo
Mccall0113 😅😀😆 3mo
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Just delightful! And now starting volume 2, tho maybe Inciting Joy was in between? Anyway, I will read that third.

Prof Ross Gay has such wonderful joie de vivre and his writing puts me in a good mood. I keep writing letters to him in my head - maybe one day, I will put pen to paper. 📝📬

Pic selection random from Gallery; Eggnog Pie with Fig #CaresPieShow

Megabooks Agree and looks yummy! 3mo
Flaneurette I‘m reading his most recent right now and can so relate re: writing him letters in my head! 3mo
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The Librarianist: A Novel | Patrick DeWitt
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Finished this a few days ago and the experience reminds me why ebooks are NOT for favorite. I got all settled in and snuggled to enjoy and WHAT?!?!!! It ended. I had no idea I was on the second to last page 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️😳🤦🏻‍♀️

Book ends abruptly. I was not expecting it.

And I was finally getting into it and liking all the characters!! Oh well. If I had read the physical book, I think I would have liked it even more. Maybe.

Pic: Homemade eggnog

Tamra Oh no! 3mo
BkClubCare @Tamra - certainly not a big deal, really. But you know when you finally get time to find the right comfy spot and settle in…. LOL 3mo
Billypar I can sympathize - it's so jarring when that happens 😅 I use Libby and it says how many pages are left but I always forget about the acknowledgements, footnotes, or any other material after the end. 3mo
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BkClubCare @Billypar IKR?! Yes, which is why I prefer hardcovers that don‘t usually have anything after the last page. 3mo
bthegood that eggnog looks like it might have made the experience a bit less harsh (looks yummy) - agree on ebooks (physical copy I feel better knowing where I really am in the book )❄️ 3mo
BkClubCare @bthegood - truly, a physical book is easier to flip back and check things. Yea, I can in ebook use search but you lose a sense of where along in the story it is. I am old school 😔 3mo
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