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dabbe

dabbe

Joined May 2018

Retired English teacher • Lover of dogs (liker of cats) • Sherlock Holmes Fanatic • Reading is Life
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War and Peace (Revised) by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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kspenmoll Nice!!! 5h
IndoorDame ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 4h
TheBookgeekFrau Love the creativeness!! 💕💕 3h
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TheSpineView Beautiful! 4h
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I am beyond angry at my state's (Arizona) education department for the following:
“Arizona‘s top education official launched a hotline this week for state residents to report K-12 class curriculum and lessons that they deem “inappropriate,” the Arizona Department of Education said in a press release.

Championed by state Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne, the “Empower Hotline” ⬇️

dabbe allows residents to voice their concerns about classroom materials that “detract from teaching standards,” including lessons that “focus on race or ethnicity rather than individuals and merit, promote gender ideology and social emotional learning,” the department said.

Horne, a Republican, unseated the Democratic incumbent last fall, running on a campaign platform of “fighting critical race theory” and stopping the “liberal indoctrination” ⬇️
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dabbe of schoolchildren, according to his campaign website“ (CNN article; we made the US news).

I've been subbing this week at my old school, and the teachers are TERRIFIED to say or do anything. ANY piece of reading must be approved by the district and, if deemed 'questionable', can't be done or must get parent approval first. I couldn't even read an article from NYT without district approval first. What. Is. This. World. Coming. To? 🤬
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DivineDiana I am so sad to read this. As a former high school teacher, my heart goes out to you and all the teachers. 🙏🏻 1d
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marleed This is so sad. 1d
Pikathulhu This is horrific and obscene. 1d
IndoorDame Terrifying! 1d
Leftcoastzen He is a total scumbag! Look up the Wikipedia entries! He threatened to sue over gay marriage in Bisbee , he was cited over 6 times for speeding in school zones! Anti dreamer . https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tom-horne-won-again-heres-four-of-his-sexie... (edited) 1d
Susanita Horrible! 1d
TheBookgeekFrau I apologize in advance for my language but, what. The. Actual. Fuck?!!!! 1d
willaful It's all so horrifying. 24h
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Infuriating. So much for learning things that will ignite critical thinking and analyzing ideas that might be different from your own. 🤯 I had a conversation last week with a mom of a nearly three year old daughter. She was spouting far right rhetoric but when I played dumb for a moment & asked what CRT was, she couldn't even explain it. Just knows it's bad & thrust upon kids. 🙄 I am so glad I never went into teaching. 13h
dabbe @DivineDiana, @marleed, @Pikathulhu, @IndoorDame, @Leftcoastzen, @Susanita, @TheBookgeekFrau, @willaful, @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
Litsy is supposed to be the place where only good things happen. I hate being political, and I'm sorry for posting something so egregious. I just know there are lots of teachers on Litsy, and I wanted to share what's going on with my colleagues. Thank you for your concern and solidarity. Litsy people are the best.❣
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TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe It actually lead to quite an animated dinner discussion in my house. My daughter and I both agreed we would have used it to complain about algebra and geometry, respectively🤣 .... other than that everyone was just as angry about this as you. Hope it's a flop and goes away! 4h
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Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer
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#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

“Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaska dawn.“ ~INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer

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Cannery Row | John Steinbeck
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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BookofPoetry

Taking a different spin here: this is a narrative book of poetry about Billie Jo's life living in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma in the 1930s. The entire tale is told from BJ's POV, all in poetry. Haunting, lovely, and heartbreaking all at the same time. I included a little poem because I can't get enough of this book. In my top 5 of all time.

Eggs Great book! I‘ve enjoyed many Hesse books💗💗 13h
dabbe @Eggs 🥰 8h
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Wouldn't this make a great bucket list: to visit every one of these gorgeous libraries? Starting with this one in Austria. 🤩

If you want to see all 20, click below:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/architecture-design/worlds-most-...

DivineDiana Absolutely! I was very fortunate to visit The George Peabody Library last year. My sister arranged a tour for my birthday. Truly grateful. ❤️ 1d
dabbe @DivineDiana I bet it was the trip of a lifetime. 🥰 1d
tonymp That one is huge! 1d
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dabbe @tonymp I know! In a way it's like being in the Sistine Chapel! 🤣 1d
jamield1993 Google "Barter Books, Alnwick, Northumberland, UK" we went for a weekend away to Northumberland last year, and Barter books is adorable. The quaint little shop was like my Disneyland! 1d
dabbe @jamield1993 You know, the ones I shared are like GRAND cathedrals; I'd probably just stand in them with my jaw dropped to the ground. Yours is PERFECT. I'd want to bring my sleeping bag in there and live (as long as there was food and a bathroom nearby). I'd cuddle in and be home. ❣️ 1d
jamield1993 @dabbe it's the cutest. There is actually a cafe there and it's dog friendly! I couldn't stop petting everyones dogs, even more than reading. Heaven 🤣 21h
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#poetrymatters

For our poet Maestro, @TheSpineView. 🥰

TheSpineView Too cute!🌞🤣 2d
IndoorDame 🤣🤣🤣 2d
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#weirdwords, late by a day
@CBee

I wish I was still teaching just so I could do a unit on Weird Words. Such fun! 🤗

CBee But you are teaching! Just in a more casual way on Litsy 💚 I‘m learning all sorts of new words and you‘re a part of that 😊 2d
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Publishedin2020

Read this one last year and loved it. 💜

Cupcake12 I read this last year and really enjoyed it. Have you read ‘How to stop tune‘ by the same author? 2d
dabbe @Cupcake12 No, I haven't. I'm assuming you have, though. Which one did you like better? 2d
Cupcake12 How to stop time. It‘s being made into a film this year x 2d
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dabbe @Cupcake12 Added to the never-ending TBR list! Thanks! 🤗 2d
Eggs Perfection 👏🏻👏🏻 2d
dabbe @Eggs 🥰 2d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Loved this one 💙🧡 2d
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TheSpineView Great poem but I wouldn't hand over my first born! 2d
dabbe @TheSpineView Glad to hear! 🤣❣️😊 2d
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I finally decided to clean out our office (where all of our “teacher“ stuff has been since retirement), and I came across this. After reading THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING with my freshmen honors students years ago, a student made me a Merlin statue in her ceramics class. It's now my proudest object on my desk. Plus, I now actually have a desk to work on!❣️ #asweetteachingmemory

Aimeesue I love that book. What an excellent Merlin! 3d
dabbe @Aimeesue She modeled it after the Merlin in THE SWORD IN THE STONE. The gold stars on his hat just slay me. 🤣❣️🥰 3d
Amiable That‘s adorable! 3d
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IndoorDame Awww 🥰 Art from students is the best! 3d
Bookwomble 💖🧙🏻‍♂️💖 3d
jamield1993 That's so thoughtful 😍 3d
bthegood What a nice reminder of the positive impact you had on students (can make days dealing with a rude student not so bad) - 🙂 (edited) 3d
ChelseaM6010 🧙‍♂️❤️ 3d
dabbe @bthegood Karma, right? I re-find this lovely treasure during a week of a rude student. Time to continue to focus on the lovely ones. ❣️ 2d
BkClubCare Wonderful! And timely 1d
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Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes
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#neurodiverseprotagonist
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

An oldie, but still a favorite of mine.❣️

TheBookgeekFrau A favorite of mine, too!💕 3d
tpixie So good! 3d
TheBookHippie Oh I remember this one! 3d
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AmyG Some books I can actually remember, feel, when I read them. This was one of those books. And I remember watching the movie after I read it. A favorite. 3d
dabbe @AmyG Remember the sentence Charley punctuates in the movie? At first, it looks like this: “That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is.“

To show Ms. Kinnian how much he knows, he adds the commas:
“That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.“ 🥰

@TheBookgeekFrau, @tpixie, @TheBookHippie ... 🥰
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Eggs Beautiful choice💞 3d
AmyG I remember the commas. I read this as a teen. Such a great book. (edited) 3d
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Thanks, @Eggs for the tag! 😊
1️⃣ A morning of doggy solitude: coffee, my NYT puzzle, and pups on the couch with me. #heaven
2️⃣ While subbing at my former high school, I asked a student to be quiet (she was loudly chatting with her friend while I was talking), I receive this reply: “Seriously, lady; what's your problem? It's Monday, I haven't seen her all weekend, so I'm chatting.“ Times have changed. 😳
3️⃣ introvert, softie, curious

Read4life Could you even imagine saying that to a teacher (or any adult) when we were in school? Where has respect gone? 3d
jamield1993 My problem is your attitude and rudeness, Hun! Jeeeeez! 3d
ShelleyBooksie I would never speak to a teacher like that!! 3d
dabbe @Read4life, @jamield1993, and @ShelleyBooksie ... I used to have some excellent school-cred at that school. Now that I'm 2 years retired, that's no longer the case. The kids don't know me from Adam. Still, it was only one misfiring brain cell, onward and upward! 🤗 3d
Eggs The ugly but real side of being a sub; I do understand that💔 3d
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IndoorDame 💚💚💚 3d
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TheSpineView Love the closing lines! 😍 3d
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Cannery Row | John Steinbeck
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Most of the Steinbeck books I had read to date had been tragic in some way. Not this one. While no intricate plot is detailed (except throwing Doc a party), I adored the vignettes of life in and on Cannery Row. As Steinbeck said, the stories here “crawl“ into and out of the pages. His language has a gift to bring you directly into the story. Doc, Mack, Lee, Dora ... I won't soon forget you.❣️
#AuthoraMonth
@Soubhiville

UwannaPublishme Great review! Totally agree. Loved these characters! 4d
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Beloved | Toni Morrison
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#AuthorofColor

Just a highlighted few of many accolades for this momentous woman:
1988: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved
1993: Nobel Prize in Literature
2000: National Humanities Medal
2011: Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction
2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom
2016: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
2023: Featured on a USPS Forever stamp

IndoorDame What a kick ass mural!!!💚🖤💚 4d
dabbe @IndoorDame 🖤💚🖤 4d
ChaoticMissAdventures I read all of her novels last year. Absolutely stunning. 4d
Eggs Great author ✍🏻 ❤️ 3d
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#Two4Tuesday
Thanks for the tags, @Eggs and @TheSpineView! 🤗

1️⃣. Possibility. 😊
2️⃣. I would have my permanents: my Sherlock volumes and my Peanuts Comics volumes. Then, I'd have a rotating library from my TBR list/shelves. Once those books were read, I'd go into port, give those books away, and bring up another batch. 🥰

TheSpineView Love that name choice! Thanks for playing! 4d
Eggs ❤️❤️❤️ 3d
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TheSpineView Great imagery!💙 4d
IndoorDame 💙🤍💙 4d
dabbe @TheSpineView @IndoorDame ... seems like a LOT of my poems are about rain and dark, grey skies! 🤣 4d
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Catcher in the Rye | J D Salinger
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#FavoriteBannedBook

As a high schooler and as a teacher, this is a favorite. I always read Ch. 25 out loud to my students--even the “fuck yous“ because to not do so would be censoring the book--something I would never do. That was fine for ALL the years I taught. Not one parent complaint. Until 2020. In the 21st century. I am terrified a Handmaid's-Tale world is not far away.

IndoorDame I get more scared of that world becoming real with every passing year! 5d
dabbe @IndoorDame We gotta hang in there, sista! 💪❣️🤗 5d
Eggs Great choice - love Holden! 5d
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TheLudicReader I don‘t censor when I read aloud either. There are always furtive looks shared across the room. It‘s just a word people! Things are not too bad here….yet. It‘s so scary what is happening in your neck of the woods. 5d
dabbe @Eggs 🥰 4d
dabbe @TheLudicReader It is. Teachers are scared to even say anything. Our newly crowned state superintendent has created a hotline where any parent can call and complain about what the teachers say/teach. I'm tempted to call to voice my complaint about him. 🤣 Sometimes, the situation just seems hopeless. 4d
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IndoorDame 💚💚💚 5d
TheSpineView Love the descriptions. 😍 5d
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#BookSpin #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

It just didn't work well for me with exact titles; my mood is too mercurial. 🤣

Let's try this for April! 😊

robinb Love your graphics! 🐣 5d
dabbe @robinb 🥰 5d
wisherwishinguponastar That is a really good idea. I have found it difficult to stick to particular titles, too. I might have to try that if April doesn‘t go well. 5d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5d
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Double Date | Rosamond Du Jardin
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#SetinHighSchool

Ah, yes, the 1950s ... such a wonderful time to be a woman: staying at home, keeping house, caring for the children. And what's a high school girl's dream? To find a man, of course! So that she can be just like her mother hanging chintz curtains in the kitchen window. I still love them, though, and I love the history that comes from them. Even if the history is a wee bit complicated. 😊

rubyslippersreads I have the same copy of Double Feature shown, but haven‘t read it. I‘m glad Image Cascade is reprinting a lot of these old titles. 6d
dabbe @rubyslippersreads These books are nostalgia in all positive ways for me, even with the 50s-wife-at-home expectation. 6d
Eggs Nostalgia Heaven 👌🏼 6d
dabbe @Eggs The book covers scream of it don't they? 🤣 5d
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For me, when I am so engrossed in a book and I look up because the natural light in the room has gone from day to dusk, that is the power of a book. Nothing else can hold me so enraptured that I don't even notice the day turning into night.

@Ozma.Of.Oz

Deblovestoread The best kind of day and book!💜 6d
Skygoddess1 They‘re an escape from reality. 6d
ozma.of.oz Oh that‘s lovely! Thank you for answering! 6d
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#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#spaniel

A hard one for me today. I lost my cocker spaniel, Caramel, back in 2006, but today has me thinking about her with this poem (though she would never have killed a rabbit!). She lived to be almost 17, and I included a photo of her with the poem, the last photo I took of her. She was a big-time granny then, and I know how lucky I was to have her that long. I still miss her. 😢❣️🥰

Ruthiella 🐶💔 6d
IndoorDame She was beautiful 💔 6d
dabbe @Ruthiella @IndoorDame ... I got choked up typing the blurb and made (gasp) quite a few errors, which I hope I have since corrected. 🤣 Thanks. She was my Caramelita. I'd even sing the Mona Lisa song to her: “Carmelita, men have named you. 'Cause you're so like the lady with the mystic smile.“ ❣️ 6d
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BkClubCare Aw, and I love that your beloved pup has a song. I sing to my Esther the You Are My Sunshine song. I have yet to find a good one for Copper 🎶 6d
TheSpineView It is true, even the four legged babies who have been gone for years can still make you tear up. She was a beautiful pupper! 5d
dabbe @TheSpineView She got me through my late 20s, all of my 30s, and my early 40s. My Caramelita. 🥰 Thanks. 🤗 5d
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IndoorDame It definitely counts! 1w
Eggs Perfect 🤩 7d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💚💚💚 5d
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IndoorDame 🤍🤍🤍 1w
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TheBookHippie I always found this fascinating as they more than likely knew the properties of Queen Anne‘s lace ingested is birth control in essence. It‘s a bit more involved but none the less intriguing. 1w
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dabbe @TheBookHippie Interesting points! Funny: for “theme“ for this poem on poets.org, all it said was “flowers“. Really? 🤣 1w
TheBookHippie @dabbe HA. There is so much more. I mean all the miscarriages of Queen. Anne and the symbolism in the flower and so much more but okay 'flowers'. 1w
TheSpineView 💙💙💙 5d
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#MarchMagic
#KickAssFemale
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Going with a recent one: Elizabeth Zott from LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY.❣️

thewallflower0707 This is Waterstone‘s Book of the Month and it was advertised everywhere! At this point, half of London must have read it. 1w
Eggs Well chosen 🧪❤️🔬 1w
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#20in4 #Readathon

My overall goals:
1️⃣ Finish CANNERY ROW. (#AuthoraMonth)
2️⃣ Get to 25-30% in WAR AND PEACE (the never-ending #chunkster).

That should take around 20 hours, I think. If not, then next on my list is INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES.

Thanks for hosting, @Andrew65. 🤗

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North: Poems | Seamus Heaney
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TheSpineView Perfect choice!🤩👍😊 1w
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The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle
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Eggs Great image ❤️🖤❤️ 1w
dabbe @Eggs 🥰 1w
UwannaPublishme I‘ve lately been watching the old Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone movies and loving them! 1w
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dabbe @UwannaPublishme The HOUND is my favorite BR movie as well! 🤗 1w
UwannaPublishme Mine too! 🙌🏻 1w
ChelseaM6010 I love Sherlock Holmes!! 🙂 5d
dabbe @UwannaPublishme Have you seen any of the Jeremy Brett videos? He's my all-time fave Sherlock. 4d
dabbe @ChelseaM6010 Yay! Another SH fanatic! 🥰 4d
UwannaPublishme I haven‘t…but I will now! 😄 4d
dabbe @UwannaPublishme Quite a few are on youtube for free. Here's a link to “The Red-Headed League“; one of my all-time faves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTtiR9j-IQw 4d
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TheSpineView I really like this one. I think it is the sense of longing this poem conveys that draws me in. Great choice 1w
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The Flame and the Flower | Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#EnemiestoLovers

I still have my threadbare copy from the 70s. What I found out from good ol' Wikipedia: “Known as the first modern 'bodice ripper' romance novel, the book revolutionized the historical romance genre. It was also the first full-length romance novel to be published first in paperback rather than hardback.“

Who knew? I'll have to go back and read the good parts (y'all know what I mean). 🤣

Leftcoastzen A blast from the past! 1w
Eggs Awesome 👏🏻 😊🤩 1w
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LeahBergen Oh, this one makes me think of my Mom! I read it as a young teen and passed it on to her. She loved it and we talked about the characters for years. I should reread it as an oldie. 😆 1w
marleed Omg - I saw this title float by and a rush of junior high (as it was called in my day) memories floated by. This is the only title I recall in the collection of books we catholic school kids read on the sly. We had hallway lockers but no locks so we‘d read then pass the book to the next locker. And this was my sex education ;) 1w
dabbe @Eggs 🥰 1w
dabbe @LeahBergen Woodiwiss was a favorite of mine. I also read SHANNA and THE WOLF AND THE DOVE, but FLAME is by far my favorite. 😄 1w
dabbe @marleed This one was more acceptable to my mom than FOREVER was by Judy Blume! Can you believe it? We passed FOREVER around the same way you did FLAME. Our intro to the so-called world of romance! 🤣❣️😊 1w
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TheSpineView Cool poem!😎 1w
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#weirdwords
@CBee

Sometimes using a longer phrase works; sometimes not. 🤣

IndoorDame 🤣🤣🤣 1w
CBee The elongated yellow fruit 😂😂😂 1w
peanutnine I love this! I feel like there are some authors out there who suffer from an abundance of periphrasis 😂 1w
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wisherwishinguponastar This post caused me to fall down the #weirdword rabbit hole. Thanks! 1w
dabbe @wisherwishinguponastar When I was looking for examples, I couldn't really find one where the longer phrase was better. I tried! 🤣 1w
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Thanks for the tags, @IndoorDame, @TheSpineView, and @Eggs. Of course I'll play! 🤩

1. Scarlett O'Hara because she just doesn't give a damn! Or is that Rhett? 🤔 🤣
2. Jane Eyre for her ability to survive: “Reader, I married him!“
3. Belle da Costa Greene: same reason as #2 (without the quote).

TheSpineView You're welcome! 🥰 1w
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle
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#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Hard to believe, but this book came out in 12 short stories in the Strand Magazine between 1921-1927; it's the final 12 cases of the SH's canon. The book form came out in 1927. Not as good as the earlier stories (IMHO), but more than ample for SH fanatics who craved more ACD SH stories. 😊

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻📚👏🏻 2w
Bookwomble Have you read any of August Derleth's "Solar Pons" Holmes pastiches? They're pretty good. The teenage Derleth wrote a letter to the aging Doyle asking for more SH stories, and Doyle wrote back good-humouredly suggesting he wrote his own, which he did! 2w
Eggs Great choice 🖤🕵🏻‍♀️ 🖤 2w
dabbe @Bookwomble No, I haven't, but I just stacked it. Thanks! 🤗 2w
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Thanks for the tags, @TheSpineView, @Read4Life, and @Lynnsoprano!

1️⃣ Our favorite restaurant in Phoenix is Christopher's, where old-style Italian food is prepared. They just happen to be conveniently located in the same shopping area where we get our hair cut, so we have to visit at least every 6-8 weeks! 😄
2️⃣ Most definitely. I would have NEVER even tried fried green tomatoes if I hadn't read FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE! 🤣

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love that book! I won‘t eat a red tomato but I‘ll eat a fried green one!! 😂 2w
dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks They are delicious! Kind of like fried zucchini but better! 🤣 2w
Read4life You‘re welcome! I love the haircut date night. 2w
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Bklover I think I would love Christopher‘s! 2w
dabbe @Bklover If you're ever in Phoenix, I'll take you there! 🤗 2w
Bklover Deal❤️🍝 2w
TheSpineView You're welcome! Thanks for playing! 1w
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Gerard Manley Hopkins
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TheLudicReader Love Gerard Manley Hopkins. I always use him as an example of a poet I love even though I don‘t know what he‘s talking about half the time. 2w
TheSpineView This is a great poem. Short but love the rhythm of the verse. Great choice 2w
dabbe @TheLudicReader Again, another thing we have in common. The kids would be stunned when they'd inevitably ask me what a certain phrase in a poem meant and I'd answer, “I have no idea, but doesn't it just sound great?“

What a gift to give your students: a love of poetry just for the sake of loving poetry. ❣️
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#20ThingsAboutMe

My favorite thing to do all day has been to read these. Thanks, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for the idea a few years back and for revisiting the idea so us newbies could also join (her creativity knows no bounds! ❣️) ...

and to #wordslinger42 for the tag. ❣️

Please, if anyone can spare the time, inquiring minds want to know! 🤣❣️😊

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A little bit behind. 😊
18. Between Sagan and Tyson; how about both?
19. My cheat-sheet book to the classics. What to read, what to skip, even the sexiest scenes. Who could resist? 🤣
20. Always and forever Poe.

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🖤🖤 2w
Eggs 🖤💚🖤 2w
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IndoorDame Love ❤️❤️❤️ 2w
TheBookHippie Favorite 💚💚💚 2w
TheSpineView A fabulous poem! I loved reading it again. 💗💗💗 2w
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Pickpick

Since joining Litsy, I've tried reading more contemporary novels, this being one of them. While enjoyable (almost thoroughly so), I felt a little preached to by Elizabeth, though she was teaching the ladies in the 60s, not this jaded and worn-out 57-year old. I did laugh out loud at parts, found it jarringly sad in parts, and discovered Six-Thirty to be my favorite character (a dog, of course). All in all, a fun-kick-ass-woman read with 💜 and 💪.

Karisimo I disliked the preachy parts too- it slowed down the story. But the side characters are all so lovely, especially six thirty! 2w
marleed I really love book dogs and their names. I‘m still deciding on my book dog name because it has to be great! 2w
dabbe @Karisimo I wonder how I would have felt reading this as a 20-year old; maybe the preachy parts wouldn't have bothered me. I feel now that I've been over that bridge and am confidently assertive on the other side--and I'm extremely grateful to not have been an adult female during that period! 🤣 And many others, I unfortunately have to say. 2w
dabbe @marleed Me, too! And Six-Thirty was just the perfect name. I'd love to read a book where just he is the main character! 🤣 2w
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My first chapter book that I read all by myself was PIPPI LONGSTOCKING. I adored her books. 😊 #thanksforthehappyfeels ... @Ozma.of.Oz

Monica5 Loved Pipi Longstockings 2w
dabbe @Monica5 🥰 2w
IndoorDame Pippi is the best!!! 2w
dabbe @IndoorDame When my 5th grade teacher wanted us to do the dreaded “book reports“, I asked if I could read a PL book. She said, “If it's not on the list, you can't read it.“ ?????? She wasn't my favorite teacher in elementary school. 🤣 2w
ozma.of.oz That is a really fun story! Thank you for sharing! 2w
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Byron's Poetry | Lord Byron
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#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sorrow

Lord Byron added an additional stanza that he never published. Wonder why?
🤔🤣😉 Here's the (not-published) last stanza:

Then—fare thee well—Fanny—
Now doubly undone—
To prove false unto many—
As faithless to One—
Thou art past all recalling
Even would I recall—
For the woman once falling
Forever must fall.
[The poem was about Byron's failed affair with Lady Frances Webster.)

IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 2w
TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️ 2w
TheSpineView He should have published it.🤩😍👍 2w
dabbe @TheSpineView Maybe with her full name, too! If I remember right, she dumped him (a rare thing for the man who was “mad, bad, and dangerous to know!“) 🤣 2w
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#FunFacts #Arizona
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@LitsyLove
√There are
-22 national parks and monuments in Arizona
-more than 100 wineries and 22 varietals of wine produced in Arizona
-75+ licensed craft breweries (and growing)
√Arizona chefs and restaurants have received more than 50 James Beard nominations since 2010.
√Arizona's Sonoran Desert is the only place on earth where the iconic saguaro cactus grows.⬇️

dabbe √Arizona has 35 state parks and natural areas preserving the state's natural, cultural and recreational resources.
√The Arizona Trail is 800 miles long and is dedicated to hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding and cross-country skiing.
√Two of the top-rated waterfalls in the United States are located in Arizona: Grand Falls and Havasu Falls.
√Grand Canyon National Park is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, and the only one ⬇️
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dabbe located within the United States.
√According to Travel + Leisure, three of the 10 world's best destination spas are in Arizona (two in Tucson and one in Sedona).

Oh, and of course (#drumrollplease): Phoenix is the HOTTEST city in the entire country (fact). Probably in the entire world (not a fact, but that's how I feel in July).
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sounds amazing!! I definitely need to travel there!! ❤️ 2w
dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Same with Mississippi! I've driven through the south but never experienced it. And is your Mississippi Mud Pie the best on the planet? I've NEVER had the real thing. ❣️ 2w
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TheSpineView Kind of sad, kind of cute, a lot of mixed feelings with this one. 2w
IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 2w
dabbe @TheSpineView I know; I felt exactly the same way. It was difficult to decide what the best background to this poem would be. Now there's a person I would love to have cocktails with, if anything, just to pick her brain. 2w
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I know Litsy is about books, but the only social media I am on is Litsy (the BEST social media on the planet), and I want to share with you Littens that I have never scored 100% on one of these stupid quizzes before! I'm horrible at who-said- what tests! Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket? 🤔🤣😊

Plus, as a former teacher, I just love quizzes! #imweird #friendsfanatic #thanksforlettingmebrag 🤗

JenReadsAlot Litsy is the only social media I use as well! 2w
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jamield1993 I love Friends! Monica is my spirit animal 🤣 2w
dabbe @Dragon ❣️ 2w
dabbe @jamield1993 🤣❣️ 2w
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Eggs 🖤❤️🖤 2w
RobES Read this translation at uni and loved it ☘️❤️ 2w
dabbe @Eggs @RobES ... ❣️❣️❣️ 2w
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TheBookHippie I love the graphic! 2w
TheSpineView Love it! ♥️ 🧙‍♂️ 2w
dabbe @TheBookHippie and @TheSpineView ... I never get tired of Merlin and all things regarding King Arthur. Even in this post-modernist (or whatever they call it now) era! 💚 2w
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