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Joined May 2016

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UwannaPublishme 😆😆😆 9h
dabbe 🤩🤣😍 4h
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Yellowface | Rebecca F. Kuang
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#MayMontage Day 31: An ironic #NatlSmileDay with the missing mouth in this fascinating cover of RF Kuang‘s book. Bound to be my 5th Kuang novel for this year. Thrilled to finally get my hands on this one.

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 9h
BarbaraBB Will you be joining us for the #CampLitsy23 discussion of the book in the first half of July? Let me know when you like to, we will tag you! 7h
TracyReadsBooks Such a good book! 3h
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#MayMontage Day 30: #IntlJazzDay - this story told in verse revolves mainly around a famous photograph published in Esquire magazine in 1958, featuring American jazz. Art Kane did not even own a camera at the time, but pitched the idea of gathering as many jazz musicians as he could in front of a Harlem brownstone. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-iUK

Eggs Perfect 🎺 🎶 🎷 (edited) 2d
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dabbe Love RF! 🩵🤍🩵 2d
TheSpineView Love this poem!💙 2d
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#MayMontage Day 29: For #MemorialDay, I am sharing photographs I have taken of the Neue Wache (English: New Guardhouse) in Berlin back in 2017 which serves as the “Central #Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Dictatorship”. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-eG5

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks for sharing! 2d
Eggs Powerful 😢 1d
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TheSpineView Love Dickinson ❤️ 4d
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water | Rene Watson, Nikole Hannah-Jones
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#MayMontage Day 28: #Water - The book begins with questions. Written in verse, this is a story that cannot be told in prose. Poetry distils the essence of pain, courage, wisdom – the enormity of emotions unbound, in rhythm and heartbeat. There is unmatched power here that started off with shame transformed into discovered joy in one‘s unexplored ancestry. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pf2

ozma.of.oz Oh that looks beautiful! ❤️ 4d
Eggs Perfect 💧🩵💦 4d
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#MayMontage Day 27: A story that spans 3 generations of Arab women seems the perfect fit for #GirlPower or #WomenPower. Book club pick of the month for the Emirates Lit foundation. Better start cracking with this one. Paired with the local cheese mousse in Romania - telemea cheese from sadu, beet powder, crispy charcoal flavored cheese with caraway seeds, fresh radishes and chlorophyll oil; and kohlrabi cream soup with nettle and poached egg.

BarbaraBB That looks delicious 4d
TrishB That food looks amazing! 4d
Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 🫕👏🏻 4d
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TheSpineView I love the imagery! ❤️ 5d
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Nostalgia: A Novel | Mircea C?rt?rescu, Julian Semilian
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#MayMontage Day 26: A Picasso-like #FaceOnCover. Reader in Romania overlooking the famous Bridge of Lies in Sibiu.

Eggs Lovely 🥰 5d
thewallflower0707 Lovely picture! 5d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 💛 4d
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IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 7d
TheSpineView 💜 Whitman 7d
dabbe 🩵🤍🩵 6d
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#MayMontage Day 25: “Maybe Death Isn‘t Darkness After All, But So Much Light Wrapping Itself Around Us” #Dark.
More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-l1k

Eggs Powerful! 7d
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Nostalgia: A Novel | Mircea C?rt?rescu, Julian Semilian
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#MayMontage Day 24: Liquid #Therapy (lemon mint for me and margarita for ze husband) as I read Cărtărescu while in Romania this week for a transnational research meeting. 💕

wanderinglynn Ooh, a lemon mint sounds delicious! 1w
Eggs 🍋 💛 🍸 1w
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#MayMontage Day 23: In this book, the reader gets introduced to Marcus Brutus (assassin of Roman Leader Julius Caesar), Charles VI of France (who “suffered from a strange illness that caused his hair and nails to fall out” p. 20), Queen Victoria and Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. #VictoriaDay. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-1Q7

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🙌🏻 1w
Eggs Well played 👍🏼 1w
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Poems of Marianne Moore | Marianne Moore
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TheSpineView " You lack half wit." ??? Love this poem ❤️ 7d
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The Witches | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
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#MayMontage Day 22: #GlovesOnCover. As Iphigene wrote in her comprehensive review: “It is the seemingly (or supposedly) dark, cruel and violent story that makes these moments stand out and makes the point even more poignant and even more profound. After all, we only do appreciate the good things in life when we‘ve seen the ugliness it has to offer.” More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-2fO

Eggs 💜🤍🩷 1w
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Nostalgia: A Novel | Mircea C?rt?rescu, Julian Semilian
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Just arrived last night in the country of Mircea Cărtărescu‘s “Nostalgia”. Started reading this while in a 12 hour layover in Istanbul - the lounge was absolutely perfect with shower facilities and never-ending buffet that gets replenished every so often.

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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 2w
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My Brother Is Away | Sara Greenwood
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#MayMontage Day 21: This picturebook portrays #Incarceration quite movingly. The shame, the guilt, the anger are all treated here with a light-feather touch that never felt contrived or heavy-handed. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pej

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🧡🧡🧡 2w
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Deed: Poems | Carole Simmons Oles
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#PoetryMatters Day 20: #Steal - posting a day early since traveling early tomorrow.

TheSpineView Excellent poem! 2w
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#MayMontage Day 20: Posting a day early since will be traveling. There were #ArmedForcesDay in some of the places the overlanders went to with checkpoints and visa issues. What a trip!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 2w
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TheSpineView 😍😍😍 2w
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The Beatrice Letters | Lemony Snicket
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MayMontage Day 19: #Letters - May you find a kindred somewhere out there in the world who would capture your soul in the same way that Lemony Snicket expressed his undying love to the lovely Baticeer Extraordinaire, Beatrice – through word play, silence knots, and utterly absurd and senseless declarations of shining devotion. Full feature here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-Pq

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Small Island: A Novel | Andrea Levy
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#MayMontage Day 18: one of the protagonist‘s name here is Queenie, thus #Queen. Paired with Nando‘s kunafa cheese cake (may be available only here in this part of the world) and watermelon mocktail. 💕

Eggs OMGosh - yum 🤤 😋 2w
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TheSpineView Great choice!🌞 2w
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The Bridges of Constantine | Ahlem Mosteghanemi
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#MayMontage Day 17: #Bridge - This is the first book I can recall reading with the tumultuous and revolutionary history of Algeria as backdrop to a romance that is doomed to fail. While the first quarter of the novel appealed to my sensibility with its vulnerability, longing, and willingness to open unhealed wounds, the rest left me feeling impatient with a “Get on with it, please.” My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-oUJ #DecolonizeReading2023

Eggs 🧡🌉❤️ 2w
Bklover Whatever you are eating looks delicious! 2w
GatheringBooks @Bklover this is ferrero rocher tiramisu. Chocolate is melted using blue flame - it is delish. Too bad we can‘t post videos here. 💕 2w
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The Complete Poems of W.H. Davies | William Henry Davies
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TheSpineView Love this poem! I choose this too and so did @Eggs We are all on the same page today! 2w
Eggs 💗💗💗 2w
GatheringBooks Lols! I love it! You know what they say about great minds hehehehe @TheSpineView @Eggs 2w
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dabbe 💙💚💙 2w
TiredLibrarian Always liked this one ❤
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#MayMontage Day 16: In every road trip (and this one is pretty epic from Singapore to London), there is always the #MellowCharacter - this is an #EmiratesLitFest Emirates Lit Foundation book club pick for the month, to be discussed Thursday this week. 💕 Paired with hot and cold mezze - to die for. All yum. Middle Eastern cuisine at its finest.

Eggs Book & Feast👍🏼 2w
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The Dragon Republic | R. F. Kuang
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#MayMontage Day 15: This is just the #Authors2ndBook yet it is so hands down brilliant. RF Kuang is a literary gem filled with rage. Well at least her characters are.

Eggs 🖤🩶🖤 2w
Pageturner1 what is that piece of yumminess!! where is this at? 2w
GatheringBooks @Pageturner1 it‘s a chocolate crepe with homemade vanilla ice cream on the side, plus moroccan tea. 💕 It‘s one of our go-to places here in the UAE: Shakespeare and Co. Yup, it‘s not a bookstore here but a restaurant. 💕 2w
Hooked_on_books Your crepe looks amazing! 🤤 2w
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Your Mama | NoNieqa Ramos
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#MayMontage Day 14: Perfect for #MothersDay, this book is spoken through a child‘s voice describing a mother who happens to be larger than life. The child‘s gaze towards her mother is adoring and joyful with an intimacy that is well-defined and embodied with grace. I love how contemporary the sound of this narrative is: it jives with a beat, a stomp, a rhythm of its own that is distinctive and true. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-oBE

TrishB Lovely review ♥️ 3w
Eggs Beautiful 😍🌹💗 3w
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Standing Female Nude | Carol Ann Duffy
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#PoetryMatters Day 13: #Stand - I featured this poem when I shared a post celebrating the nakedness of women here, its physicality and vulnerability: https://wp.me/pDlzr-khf

IndoorDame Love this!!!!! 3w
kaysworld1 I have read afew of her book's and there fantastic 3w
TheSpineView Love!❤️❤️❤️ 3w
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Collected Poems | Mark Strand
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TheSpineView I choose the same poem! Great minds!😍🤩🌞 3w
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Strange Weather in Tokyo | Hiromi Kawakami
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#MayMontage Day 13: These two books fit the #150To225Pages prompt - while I own tagged book, I have yet to find the other one. @bookriot actually did a pretty good job curating a list of books under 200 pages here: https://bookriot.com/best-books-under-200-pages/amp/

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks for sharing ❤️📚 3w
Eggs I‘ve always liked this cover with girl in air🤗 3w
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#MayMontage Day 12: #ReadDuringStorm - featuring 5 stories in all from different countries across different time periods. I find this to be very effective as the narratives are also juxtaposed against a historical timeline (starting from the 1600s to 2016) of various people migrating from one country to another, traveling by boat - either caused by famine, war, terrorism, persecution among others. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gzi

Eggs Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻 and beautiful art (edited) 3w
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Wild Song | Candy Gourlay
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#MayMontage Day 11: There is something infinitely #generational about these historical fiction novels - how lucky I am that the tagged book was gifted to me by the author who hosted our stay while my husband and I were in London for over a week. Candy is such a generous-hearted soul.

Eggs Perfect 🤩 3w
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Mortal Trash: Poems | Kim Addonizio
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#PoetryMatters Day 10: #Stall - such a powerful poem.

TrishB Wow 😯 3w
IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 3w
TheSpineView 😍😍😍 3w
dabbe Holy moly. 💙💚💙 3w
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All Our Yesterdays | Natalia Ginzburg
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#MayMontage Day 10: I really like the #DesignOnCover of books published by Daunt Books - the same bookstore I went to during our last full day in London. I didn‘t realize they published books, too! I like their designs way more than the monochrome blue of Fitzcarraldo which I find to be uninspiring and frankly, lazy rather than ‘minimalist.‘

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Those are awesome 🤍🖤 3w
batsy I don't really mind the look of the Fitzcarraldo covers, but it's a type of cover that gets smudged and scuffed within seconds. That's incredibly annoying to me because I do like new books to look somewhat pristine! It must be a bit of a nightmare for booksellers... 3w
GatheringBooks @batsy when i first saw it, i was intrigued. When i bought one, i swore i will never get another again. There is something comforting in the eye with an actual book cover. Now, I deliberately try to find other editions of titles they publish, and if there isn‘t any, too bad. 3w
Eggs Love the B&W photos on these covers 🖤🤍🖤 3w
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#MayMontage Day 9: #InvolvesAWedding - my friend took this photo of tagged book I gifted to her while she was in Brussels. Bought it for her when we spent a week together in Madrid since she was dating an Italian-American guy at the time - now the father of her child. 💕

Eggs Lovely 🥰 3w
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CSeydel 😬 3w
TheSpineView Yikes!😳 3w
dabbe #ruhroh 😊 3w
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Collected Poems | Paul Auster
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TheSpineView Excellent poem!🤩 3w
dabbe 💙💚💙 3w
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#MayMontage Day 8: Sherlock Sam is a nerd who is a science freak, hence #ScienceRelated with loads of hijinks and adventures. Glad to have seen my good friends, husband and wife author tandem of the Sherlock Sam yesterday in Sharjah. They were invited by the Sharjah Book Authority for the ongoing reading festival.

Eggs Lovely choice and photo🤩 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful photo!! 3w
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Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit
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#MayMontage Day 7: This is clearly a #DiscussionBook - found my copy at Daunt Bookstore in London. Literally had to hunt it down since Foyles and Waterstones have run out of copies. 💕📚

Eggs Beautiful bookstore 🤩🤩 3w
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Plath: Poems | Sylvia Plath
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TheSpineView Great poem!❤️ 4w
dabbe 💙💚💙 4w
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Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami
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#MayMontage Day 6: #SunSunglassesOnCover - didn‘t know about this book cover version. Interesting.

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 4w
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#MayMontage Day 5: Possibly #22ndOnYourTBR - husband and I watched the final (available) season of The Crown and naturally I had to hunt this book down while we were in the UK two weeks back. It wasn‘t easy finding a copy, actually. More on my book hunting expedition post on Sunday.

Eggs I went through a serious obsession with all books Diana a few years back—it was fun to watch on The Crown how that book came about 👏🏻👏🏻 4w
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