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Leah

Leah

Joined April 2016

Librarian, AKA professional know-it-all
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Much ADO about Nothing | William Shakespeare
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Day 19 of #riotgrams - favorite school read. Don‘t know what I‘ve done with my copy (so have a DVD cover and other plays instead), but my pick would be Much Ado About Nothing. I just clicked with Beatrice and Benedick, and had the great joy of seeing two local stage productions while still in grade school, which is probably why I actually understood and loved this play. I didn‘t appreciate most Shakespeare, but Much Ado About Nothing was my jam.

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Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin-Manuel Miranda
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#riotgrams day 18 - music. #YayHamlet

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Red Clocks: A Novel | Leni Zumas
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Day 17 of #riotgrams is an unreturned book - so here‘s one from my library hoard.

PictureandBook Oh! It‘s in my library reader right now 6y
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Black Panther: World of Wakanda Vol 1: Dawn of the Midnight Angels | Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, Yona Harvey, Alitha Martinez (Illustrator), Afua Richardson (Illustrator)
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Day 16 of #riotgrams is #blackhistory - so here‘s a stack of important, fun, and entertaining reads that tell history, made history, or are making history right now.

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Day 15 of #riotgrams - hot books.

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Day 13 of @bookriot #riotgrams - pink, red and white. I came home to my pre-ordered copy of The Prince and the Dressmaker & totally had to use it for today‘s prompt. A very good pupper contributed some more pink with her tongue in snack-eating action (hence the blurring!)

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@bookriot #riotgrams day 12 - leading ladies. Here we have Alexia Tarabotti, Doreen Green, Jade Crow, Kate Daniels, October Daye, Mercy Thompson, Anita Blake.

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The Color of Magic | Terry Pratchett
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@bookriot #riotgrams day 11 - punctuation! Done with one of the best series from one of the best authors ever, full stop. #terrypratchett #discworld

sunnyaltman This is by far my favorite take on this prompt! 6y
Leah @sunnyaltman yay! Thank you 😊 6y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Great photo! 6y
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Beneath the Sugar Sky | Seanan McGuire
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@bookriot #riotgrams day 10 - book and a beverage.

monalyisha Mmmmm! 6y
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@bookriot #riotgrams day 9 - beloved series. All of Tamora Pierce‘s series are deeply beloved for me.

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The Closest I've Come | Fred Aceves
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Spine poetry for day 8 of @bookriot #riotgrams - emo af with my #ya titles 💁‍♀️

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Calling My Name | Liara Tamani
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For @bookriot #riotgrams day 7 - Black writers - here are some recent #ya gems!

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Day 6 of @bookriot #riotgrams is short stories - check out OCTAVIA‘S BROOD for stories at the intersection of science fiction and social justice.

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For Day 5 of @bookriot #riotgrams (royalty), I decided to go deep into my childhood backlist. Did anyone else obsess over Queen‘s Own Fool?

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Shadowhouse Fall | Daniel Jos Older
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Day 4 of @bookriot #riotgrams - purple - with more #ya reads! If you‘ve read book 1, you know why I HAD to include art supplies.

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Labyrinth Lost | Zoraida Cordova
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Day 3 of @bookriot #riotgrams - naked hardcovers.

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Ladycastle | Delilah S Dawson
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@bookriot Day 2 of #Riotgrams is current reads - I‘ve got Ladycastle on deck. Feast your eyes on this magnificence!

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I Spy Letters | Jean Marzollo
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Day 1 of @bookriot #Riotgrams - this #shelfie is perfect for an I Spy-style challenge! 🕵️‍♀️

Can you spot:
📖 Jellicoe Road
📖 Reality Boy
📖 Fangirl
📖 Feed
📖 Vicious Deep

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Trickster's Choice | Tamora Pierce
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Next up for #24in48 - more time spent in my fave book universe!

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Saga Vol. 7 | Brian K. Vaughan
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Hour 12 challenge for #24in48 - best first line from your challenge stack! SAGA Volume 7, by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

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SuperMutant Magic Academy | Jillian Tamaki
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Finished RIGHTEOUS by Joe Ide (second IQ novel, can‘t wait for more from that series) and now it‘s on to #supermutantmagicacademy for the next part of my #24in48

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My #24in48 hour six challenge, belatedly: a book I‘ve held onto since childhood. Broken spine and pages coming out, but I keep it on the shelf to remind me of the magic. #always

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Book haul! So far I‘ve visited 10 #Seattle bookstores - and have more to go! Here are the hubs & my #bookhaul

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An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon
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Book haul from Ada‘s Technical Books in #Seattle - that is one of the best bookstores I‘ve ever seen! Loved it completely.

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One bookstore down, a million to go! #seattle #vacation #theelliottbaybookcompany

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Jellicoe Road | Melina Marchetta
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#RiotGrams day 2 - some 🍊 📚 from my shelves!

Chachic Awesome stack! I'm a huge fan of Melina Marchetta and Ilona Andrews.💕 6y
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#RiotGrams day one - #shelfie time! This is an "artistic" close-up of my TBR bookcase...zoomed waaay in so no one sees my booktastrophe of disorderly shelves.

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In Other Lands | Sarah Rees Brennan
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My order just arrived!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! I cannot WAIT to read this awesomeness.

MrBook Oooh! 7y
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Made for Love | Alissa Nutting
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"Let's meditate on this corporeal terror." ??? I love this book SO MUCH and I'm only in page 37. #24in48

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What We Lose | Zinzi Clemmons
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Different in format than the norm. A beautiful meditation on grief and family and love and physicality and race and dying and parenthood -- and, and, and. So much is contained in this one brief look at a woman's life.

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What We Lose | Zinzi Clemmons
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Starting off strong with a @Liberty rec for #24in48!

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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Catching up on all the #24in48 challenges - here are my messy shelves for #shelfie time! Things I love, and may love in time, if only I would finish that TBR.

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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Some of my options for #24in48 - making sure I have all bases covered for whatever catches my eye. Getting a late start, but that's not the point of this 🙃

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In Leah's Wake | Terri Giuliano Long
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👓Favorite Hobby: Brunching
👓Favorite Drink: Iced coffee, black & unsweetened
👓Favorite Food: Pad Thai
👓Favorite color: Purple
👓Favorite City: Denver, CO
👓Where would my dream house be: Boulder, CO
👓Favorite Accessory: Hair clip
👓Favorite TV Show: Master of None
👓Last Movie I watched in theaters: Moana
👓Currently Reading: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

#asidefrombooks

MinDea Love this photo!! 😂🙄 7y
Leah @MinDea just doing my country-founding thang (as one does) 7y
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I enjoyed this one - the structure was great, and I liked the author's humor & self-awareness. It gave me some thought-provoking questions to ask myself about how I measure success personally. Plus my dog liked it.

MrBook Gorgeous pup! 😻😻😻 #dogsofLitsy 7y
Leah @MrBook thanks! 7y
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One of the things making this book enjoyable is the author's sense of humor.

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"Tokyo gets leveled, but very little gets accomplished."

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Really unique. This is a violent, very odd science fiction title that I enjoyed IMMENSELY. It's definitely not for every reader. I like what Hawkins did with the theme of resilience, and just his pure imaginative creation - this felt new and different. (Nothing is new under the sun, blah blah blah, don't @ me.) I very much liked how it ended, particularly that the conclusion was not where I thought it might have been.

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Pretty good - interesting look at the White House & inner machinery of campaigns and operations from an uncommon perspective. I liked that it was organized around principles/attributes rather than chronology. The ending felt somewhat rushed, not as tight as the first three-quarters. Overall - would recommend it. Another #bookriot #AllTheBooks rec!

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I Spy Letters | Jean Marzollo
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I Spy, messy unorganized #shelfie edition - can you spot these titles?
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.Texts From Jane Eyre
.Blackout
.The Fault in our Stars
.Crank
.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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I thought this was a book of essays about contemporary female sexuality in America, which it is, but I didn't know to expect the surpassingly beautiful writing. I've only been caught off-guard in this way by a few other books in my life; I plan to purchase my own copy after I return this one to the library. Also I need to read everything else Emily Witt has written. Thank you @rebeccaschinsky for rec'ing this on the @bookriot #AllTheBooks podcast!

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Read on the advice of @bookriot peeps - mostly @rebeccaschinsky & Jeff. It has solid advice, & I like Newport's style - logical & straightforward, like a mathematical proof (on brand, as he's a CS professor.) I can tell he wrote this before Deep Work - not as polished of writing. To oversimplify, the premise demolishes the adage "do what you love, & the money will follow" and substitutes "build your competence & the love (and money) will follow."

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The Prey of Gods | Nicky Drayden
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Library & bookstore haul for the week - plus a 🐶 who can't keep her face out of pictures. In her defense, it is a darn cute face.

Tanzy13 🐶 7y
iamliterate I want to read When Dimple Met Rishi!! 7y
iamliterate Also pupper!! 🐶🐶 7y
Leah @iamliterate it's supposed to be really adorable 7y
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Reading another Cal Newport book on the advice of @bookriot Insiders channel!

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This panel is MY LIFE (hint: I'm the one on the left)

#somethingnew #lucyknisley #foodisbae

iamliterate Funny story, when I saw this I thought of you too! 7y
Leah It speaks to me on a spiritual level 7y
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The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin
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#bookhaul from Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH!

I'm in town for a wedding, and didn't even realize this was the home of the Water Street that I've heard so much about from @Liberty via #allthebooks podcast. As you can see, I'm going to severely stretch the limits of my carryon bag...

#libertyrecommended #andiwasnotdisappointed #bookriot #maplecandy

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😻😻😻😻😻 LOVE 😻😻😻😻😻

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High Life | Phil Estes
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I'm not smart enough to understand it, but it was interesting! #poetry #philestes #highlife #personalgrowth

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CrossTalk | Connie Willis
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"Relationships need less communication, not more."
"That's nonsense."
"Wanna bet? Then why does every sentence beginning 'We need to talk' end in disaster?..."