Mick Jagger onstage at a 1972 concert - the first and only time I saw the Stones in concert, in Minneapolis. Unforgettable!
#Band
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pick“…Native women and girls are 10 times more likely to be murdered than the US national average…a crisis that needs laws and resources to address the 500+ missing US Native women.” Author/Ojibwe Dawn Quigley. Red dresses hung up in the tree limbs are there to honor the missing girls/women.
Novel in verse.
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pickA new audiobook release I‘ve been waiting for! Beautifully crafted by Alice Hoffman, this HF speculates the days and weeks leading up to the Franks‘ move into hiding. Five 🌟
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I made a trip to my favorite library and could not resist some new MG books 📚 ❤️🥳
#WhatsNewWednesday
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“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one‘s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
One of my favorite books from Joan Didion
#Essays
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pickThe story, the art, the wry humor👏🏻👌🏼 An excellent read for the spooky season, without being too creepy for the younger humans💀
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pickToalson excels at writing characters, and both spoken and inner dialogue 👌🏼 This is the 2nd book about Victoria, a 13 yo aspiring writer who struggles with her mom‘s impending marriage…
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Happy Wednesday!! I hope you‘re having a successful week 🧡 Everyone is invited to play😀
1-☝️So good
2- 🎧 I love audiobooks bc I can do other things while listening🤗
3- a tie between MG & HF!
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1. Three or Four. Pjs to exercise clothes, then to shower & casual clothes, if there‘s an outing or appt dressier clothes, PJs again.
2. The tagged MC is a fashion trendsetter but kind of a psycho in a suspenseful mystery…the only book by this author that I‘ve ever read.
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“I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.”
#Diary
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“He had achieved something with those eyes that I had never seen before: he had painted not just their color but also their internal light, the light that makes us human and alive.”
Loved this book. #Paint #SchoolSpirit
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Two - one audiobook, one ebook or physical book
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Excerpt from “varsity”
#Varsity
#PoetryMatters
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pickBook 1 of the Union St. Bakery Series. We meet the McCrae family who run the famous bakery that‘s been in the family since the late 1800s. Daisy, having lost her corporate finance job, returns to work beside her sister in the bakery, while hoping to discover more about her birth mother.
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“This was the magic of books, the curious alchemy that allowed a human mind to turn black ink on white pages into a whole other world.”
#Homecoming
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pickAll the stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Two artists meet at a youth arts camp - Jude, a photographer, and Florence, a dancer who has a degenerative eye disease - their lives will change forever ☀️✨
Witty and compelling dialogue and verse🩵🩵
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pickIn 1992, Sophie turns 90…while she gets ready for her big birthday, her mind returns to the Nazi occupation of France and her work as a midwife some 50 years ago. As she helped her own daughter Camille birth her twins, chaos and death reigned in the streets…
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pickSetting: WWII, Berlin. Sophia Alexander, the daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her ill mother dies and her father dies in a concentration camp, she joins the convent as a nurse. Thus begins her dangerous work in the resistance…
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Spent several days at the coast, with day trips into Corpus Christi: Little Bear liked the TX State Aquarium! The big kids enjoyed the USS Lexington, fishing, and the beach. We also did ceramics one afternoon, and here‘s my bluebird Peek.
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Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. My kids loved this book 🐍
#FieldTrip
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We spent a few days at the coast: beach was beautiful 🏝️ 🌊!! Drove into Corpus Christi yesterday to visit the USS Lexington, the last remaining flight carrier ship of that size.
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Happy Wednesday &Happy Week! Everyone is invited to play 💛🥳❤️
🧡 Eiffel Tower
🧡🧡 one of my all-time favorite books!
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1. So many! Loved the Smithsonians!!
2. 🩷🩷
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“Best get moving. At nightfall they‘ll come for the rest of you…”
#Bus
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pickAlexandra Wickham begins a life of espionage at the start of WWII. Throughout her career, her identity must remain a secret from her husband, children and eventually her grandchildren, until her late-in-life retirement from MI6.
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#Memories
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Over the years I‘ve written and gifted 3 Letters to My Child, and 4 Letters to my Grandchildren. I have one to complete yet for Little Bear 🐻
pickSteel seems to love writing about large families. In this one, Preston and Constance Whittier, parents of 6 adult children, enjoy winter ski trips for just the 2 of them. But this one ends in tragedy and all the children reunite at the Manhattan mansion where they grew up to pick up the pieces…
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pickBeautiful MG fantasy/fairy tale by the author of Girl of Ink and Stars. Three girls and a mage named Rune set off on a wintry icy journey to rescue their brother from the fearsome spirit Bear known as Eldbjorn.
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pickSoft pick. Kate‘s a middle-aged single mom/successful attorney with adult children who have gravitated toward lifestyles that challenge Kate‘s sense of tradition and propriety…
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pickClove has a lovely spouse and 2 young children. When weaning her youngest, she attributes her strange feelings to cessation of the familiar hormones. Then a letter arrives from her mom (in prison: how did her mom find her?) and Clove‘s usually suppressed past revisits her now-simple life…
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Excerpt from CONTENTMENT by Oliver Wendell Holmes
#Vanilla
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“…but behind Katie‘s tilted, dark-lashed eyes lurked a restless intelligence that sometimes looked for trouble.”
#BoardingSchool
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