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Leftcoastzen

Joined June 2016

“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson
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The Cider House Rules | John Irving
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#ItTakesAllKinds #WithPhysician Dr. Wilbur Larch , a great character in a book loaded with great characters! 🍎Tom Tom looks on #CatsOfLitsy

Ruthiella When I see an Irving cover, I know that it‘s probably a @Leftcoastzen post! 😃👍 1h
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No Exit: A Play in One Act | Jean-Paul Sartre
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1d
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Dead Like You | Peter James
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#serieslove2024 I didn‘t read any Peter James last year so I thought it was high time to check one out again . Roy Grace is on the case of a rapist with a fetish for women in designer high heels .Roy wonders if there are more than one perpetrator and if it links back to an old case that was never solved . A Page Turner!

TheSpineView Great job! 2d
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Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller
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#ItTakesAllKinds #controversial I probably have more buried in the stacks!

Eggs It‘s seems like there have been a lot over the years… 2d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love your bookends! 2d
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#ItTakesAllKinds #WithLawyer Still on my TBR. Darrow left the relatively normal career as a railroad lawyer to defend people most at the time would consider undesirables . Most would have heard of him as the lawyer defending John Scopes , the infamous monkey trial , about the teaching of evolution.

Eggs Which was the story behind the drama “Inherit the Wind” … ? 4d
Leftcoastzen @Eggs yes , a fictional interpretation based on Scopes 4d
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#TLT #ThreeListThursday In no particular order!
1. The World According to Garp- John Irving
2. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger polarizing, yet I love it.
3.The Go Between - L.P. Hartley a bunch of us read it in the #NYRBBookclub a treasure , more people should discover it.
Everybody play!

AmyG Garp 🙌🏻 5d
lil1inblue I'll always have appreciation for The Catcher In the Rye. My favorite teacher in high school assigned it, and it really tickled my brain at the time. It was independent study, so we worked in small groups for discussion and it really made it interesting. Then I revisited in college with a favorite professor, so I just have good memories of reading and discussing it. 5d
Leftcoastzen @AmyG can‘t get over it. Also, came upon it when my reading life was sort of tapering off,it pulled me back in. 4d
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Leftcoastzen @lil1inblue I was kind of surprised I wasn‘t assigned it in school. For good or ill love Salinger , especially all things Glass family. 4d
dabbe I'm making a list, checking it twice, and I'll make it available to all whether naughty or nice! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚

Catcher was a favorite of mine to teach. Loved The Go-Between; it reminded me of Atonement in a way. And I can't believe I've never read Garp. 😱
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Leftcoastzen @dabbe well , I get it though, when a book is really popular for a time I sometimes say I‘ll get to it , then I don‘t 😁 4d
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No shelf control! #bookhaul

Graywacke Lovely! 🙂 5d
LeahBergen These look super interesting! 5d
Hooked_on_books Oooo, looks like an awesome haul! 5d
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The Thousand-Mile Summer | Colin Fletcher
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#ItTakesAllKinds #WithMap gotta love a book with a map! I don‘t think even in my hiking prime I could walk this backbone trail of California, as the map indicates Colin Fletcher walked north from Yuma to Oregon from March 8th to September 8th. book was published in 1964, not sure what year he walked it.

Eggs Amazing trek👏🏻👏🏻 5d
Bookwomble Wikipedia says he did the walk in 1958 😊🥾🥾 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thousand-Mile_Summer 2d
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The Crossing | Michael Connelly
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I really dropped the ball on #serieslove2023 Never posted a summing up !This is a photo from January last year, I read 8 Connellys , 2, Leons , 1 Silva. Shocking but true, couldn‘t find the next Thompson though as you can see, I own several! I didn‘t put Karin Slaughter in these stacks ,yet I read 3 last year.😁🤷‍♀️ Thanks to @TheSpineView and @Andrew65 for hosting!

Ruthiella Nice job! 👏👏👏 5d
TheSpineView A very good showing. I think even one book off my TBR list is a step forward. Well done! 5d
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#ITTakesAllKinds #WithTherapist I remember first hearing this wonderful song by Nancy Tucker on the Dr. Demento show. (WOW,I‘m old) this is a lovely version!😄 https://youtu.be/jCwYve87iKA?si=e0unDp1WamJ-_6vO

Ruthiella Dr. Demento! 😂 Fond memories! 6d
Eggs Wow! Love this 🎶👏🏻 6d
AmyG I‘m with @Ruthiella ….there‘s a memory! (edited) 6d
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Untitled | Unknown
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#TuesdayTunes years ago, a friend of mine who knew I was feeling blue, sent me this tune. Still one I revisit when I want to dance around the room and feel fine!
Say Hey(I Love You) https://youtu.be/LYTBok8Ol7k?si=XxsmKxlvx7c-cyPq

rretzler I had forgotten about this song! My sons used to play a soccer video game with a ton of great world music and this was one of the songs. Digging back out that old playlist now. Thanks for the great memory!😁 6d
TieDyeDude I like Michael Franti! His stuff can be a little repetitive, but very upbeat and positive; just the things when you're feeling down. Thanks for sharing! 6d
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Erasure: A Novel | Percival Everett
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You can rent American Fiction on Amazon Prime aka the evil empire. WOW , this was a wonderful film! And no , ashamed to say I haven‘t read the book.

monkeygirlsmama I saw this at the cinema and found it quite good. 1w
SaraBeagle The book is so good! Much more hard hitting. 1w
Tamra I so enjoyed the book! 1w
Megabooks Oh thanks for the heads up!! 1w
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#TLT #ThreeListThursday
1.The Warmth Of Other Suns -Isabel Wilkerson
2.Evicted -Matthew Desmond
3.Rites Of Spring The Great War & The Birth Of The Modern Age-Modris Eksteins

dabbe You've given me more to explore! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 2w
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#ItTakesAllKinds #TrueCrime 2 I really enjoyed and my current read tagged , borrowed from the library.

Eggs Excellent picks👏🏻🤗 2w
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Mercury: A Novel | Amy Jo Burns
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When Marley & her capable single mom end up in a new town,the Joseph brothers gain her attention. They have a roofing company, are known all over town. Two brothers, both vie for her attention. A family story that has great characters , even the ones with flaws you root for. Marley longing for family, falls hard, not knowing the secrets of the past can make for problems down the road.A well written book looking at the complex lives of reg.people

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Dead Like You | Peter James
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#BookSerendipity Close to the end of Mercury, just starting Dead Like You , both have a character named Jade!

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#TuesdayTunes many moons ago as the mix tape gave way to the CDMix , I put this live version of Lyle‘s You Can‘t Resist It on a seduction mix , it worked!😉 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DemInjXsYVU

TieDyeDude Ha! 2w
vivastory I'm old enough to remember when Lovett & Roberts were an item #unrepentantGenX (edited) 2w
Leftcoastzen @vivastory the odd couple! I remember too! 2w
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I‘m not currently living in a super Tuesday state, just want to say get out & vote !

Ruthiella Dropping off my ballot today! 🗳️ 2w
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella awesome sauce! 2w
AmyG Mailed mine. 2w
AnnCrystal 👏Voted👍. 2w
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A League of Their Own | Sarah Gilbert
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#ItTakesAllKinds #InspiredByTVorFilm 😁👏⚾️
Fun film! There‘s no crying in Baseball!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 😍 2w
Eggs Lovely collage! Is that a tablecloth? 2w
Leftcoastzen @Eggs it‘s the weirdest thing I found when I went on a baseball tour, a Red Sox pillow sham! About the size of those small pillows that would decorate the couch 60s & 70s? 2w
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Eggs @Leftcoastzen It‘s so cool. I love vintage cloth 2w
Leftcoastzen @Eggs we definitely have that in common! 👏😁🙌 2w
CatLass007 I loved the movie. I didn‘t realize that there was a book adaptation available. Cool find too. 2w
CatLass007 And I just discovered there‘s a “making of” book called, appropriately, No Crying in Baseball by Erin Carlson. Cool. 2w
Leftcoastzen @CatLass007 I need to check that book out, thanks! 2w
CatLass007 You‘re welcome! 2w
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Creative Mythology | Joseph Campbell
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#ItTakesAllKinds #mythological Always loved the cover on this one!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 📚👍🏻 2w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2w
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#Bookplates found a book I wanted with a nice bookplate at the library shop today!

LeahBergen Wow!! 😍 2w
Aimeesue Very cool bookplates, Clinton Elouise Conrad! 2w
batsy That's very cool! 2w
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#ItTakesAllKinds #Roadtrip I think it said that they took these signs down in 1963 ,but at its height ,there were 7000 sets in 43 states. Fun car game to look for these on your travels back in the day.Found this little gem ,at the big book sale I went to a few weeks ago . Published in 1965. So six signs spread out a ways , you get a poem!
NO LADY LIKES——-TO DANCE——-OR DINE——ACCOMPANIED BY———A PORCUPINE ——-BURMA-SHAVE

Aims42 Fascinating! I love little random facts like this 😁 2w
Leftcoastzen @Aims42 thanks! I do enjoy old Americana! 2w
Eggs Oh they were fun (I‘m a 1950s kid)! 2w
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It | Stephen King
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#ItTakesAllKinds #FavoriteBookmark of course, couldn‘t pick just one!😁 These are both for that company Out Of Print , that makes fun bookish stuff .

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🖤❤️ 2w
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A wonderful book about a person who is a talented writer, husband, & father who looks at the feminine version on face app & realizes who she was meant to be. Lucy recognizes her self repression,yet once the awareness comes she can only move in one direction. She wrote one of my favorite books of all time ,Low Life & lived through those wild NY downtown art scenes of the late 70s & 80s, while many perished in addiction or AIDS.A very moving book!

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Untitled | Unknown
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#TuesdayTunes A unusual song about San Francisco. It still makes me chuckle. I lived in San Francisco for awhile , left for a relationship not realizing that indeed San Francisco was my best boyfriend ever!

https://youtu.be/drehDgCkask?si=3mKjXQo-B6odOssD

vivastory Great choice 3w
TieDyeDude That was a fun listen! Thanks for sharing. 3w
Bookwomble Good track 🎵👍 3w
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Here‘s what happened when I popped in the Scottsdale Library to let the Giants/Cubs game traffic
clear📚📚📚

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The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence
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I wanted to show one of those cute bookstore stickers from the old days with an object people would recognize for size comparison. Just a reminder of the store you bought it from. Or maybe attract new business if it was a gift. I love finding these and bookplates.🥰

underground_bks We call them bookseller tickets in the trade! 3w
charl08 Love this! 3w
Leftcoastzen @underground_bks found this a treasure trove. Though an article in fine books said binders call it a ticket bookstores , it‘s a label 🤷‍♀️ http://sevenroads.org/Bookish.html 3w
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LeahBergen That‘s very “deco” shaped! 3w
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen the book was originally published in the teens , this is a later printing 1924 , so right timing 3w
batsy That's very cute. Love the unobtrusive personalised touch. So different from the stickers of today that ruin covers and seem to almost shout at you 🙃 3w
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#FirstLineFridays
Bosch arrived late and had to park on a cemetery lane far from the grave site.

vivastory I noticed that the actor who played Bosch was in a recent adaptation of a Coben book 3w
Leftcoastzen @vivastory I haven‘t read any Coben books , shhhhh. 😬😃 3w
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#vintage paperbacks from the sale I went to two weeks ago now almost. From half price day. Always love the Oxford World‘s Classics.
#trollopeing

TheBookHippie Doris!!! 4w
Leftcoastzen @TheBookHippie oh yes ! I see you are doing her chunkster as a buddy read 4w
TheBookHippie @Leftcoastzen 😅 yes. At long last I‘m reading it. I have read a lot of her writings, now the finale 🙃. 4w
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Spring Training: Baseball's Early Season | Dan Shaughnessy, Stan Grossfeld
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Happy first day of spring training games for all who celebrate! ESPN live now. Dodgers vs Padres!

Bookwormjillk Yay!! 4w
Librarybelle Yay!!!! 4w
dabbe Go, D-backs! 🥎🥎🥎 4w
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Aims42 Wohooo!! ⚾️♥️ 4w
Leftcoastzen @dabbe Go, Giants!😁 4w
dabbe @Leftcoastzen Ooh, our competitors! Let the games begin! 🤩😂😘 4w
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What fun! The 2nd in a series on Paris neighborhoods. Think windmills along the streets , Renoir, Van Gogh ,Toulouse-Lautrec & the Moulin Rouge. Later, into the jazz age , with lost generation writers & Josephine Baker. Baxters style is conversational, like he‘s taking you through history, culture ,architecture through time. Brief chapters make it a fun break from my chunksters! I will continue to seek out more books in this series!

youneverarrived Can‘t resist a book about Paris. Stacking! 4w
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#bookplates Another one I just fell in love with!

LeahBergen Wow!! You always find the best bookplates! 4w
IndoorDame This one is so cool! 4w
Tamra 😍 4w
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen and the thing is , I‘m focused on the book first , I get lucky with the bookplates .😂 4w
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#bookplates another great one made me buy the book ! Well , the book was in nice shape with a dust jacket too!

sisilia I love this! 😻 1mo
Texreader 😂😂 1mo
Aimeesue 😂 🐄😂 1mo
NotCool FYI, Los Angeles Public Library has a database of bookplates https://tessa.lapl.org/c07 1mo
LeahBergen So awesome. 😆 4w
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The Late Show | Michael Connelly
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Another wild Saturday night! Nacho approves!
#catsofLitsy

Texreader ❤️ 🐈 1mo
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 1mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
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#LuckyInLove My #BookCrush seems to be more about an author rather than a character! 😄

AmyG Oooooo I love John Irving. And your little china dogs 🙌🏻 1mo
Ruthiella I love seeing the hardcovers of his books. 😍 1mo
Eggs I remember watching this film with Robin Williams many years ago 🙌🏻 1mo
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Leftcoastzen @AmyG thanks, I kept finding the little dogs here & there,suddenly, a collection. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs in this case , I like the movie & the book!😁 1mo
Amiable I share your book crush! Good thing there‘s enough John Irving to go around so we don‘t have to fight over him. 😀 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Amiable indeed! 😄 1mo
Centique So many great books! I love his work too. 1mo
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Heart-Shaped Box | Joe Hill
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#LuckyInLove #Hearts This has been on the TBR for a long time! 📚📚📚😁

DHill I loved this one! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🖤❤️ 1mo
Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 1mo
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Sir Adam Disappeared | E. Phillips Oppenheim
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#Bookplates Sometimes if I am shopping a book sale and I have a kinda maybe in my hands a great bookplate will push me to buy it!

Aimeesue Clifton L. Reed had quite a sense of humor! 😂 1mo
Ruthiella That is a particularly good one! 😃 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Aimeesue indeed! It was a lol! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella I agree! The wonders of the used book sale 1mo
LeahBergen I love this one! 1mo
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#ReadingChallenge #poetry #readingwithmaja
This book I grabbed from the book sale. Grove Press was founded in 1947, known for international works & being the first to publish in the U.S.books formally deemed obscene by censors. Think Henry Miller & D.H. Lawrence. I didn‘t know this author, apparently Khrushchev wasn‘t thrilled w/him, but during the Cold War “thaw” Voznesensky was able to travel. A strong collection that carries a mid century vibe.

maich An interesting decision💕 1mo
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The Yale Shakespeare | William Shakespeare
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The universe must want me to have a set of The Yale Shakespeare.I found 5 at a thrift shop, then 4 more at a weekend book sale!

Soubhiville So cool! 1mo
Meshell1313 😍 destiny! 1mo
Suet624 Amazing. 1mo
Ruthiella Clearly it‘s kismet! 1mo
AvidReader25 What a find!!! 1mo
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Valentines | Ted Kooser
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Maybe you have a date with your special person or maybe you have a date with a bookstore,or both!
Happy Valentines Day , everybody !❤️❤️❤️📚🎁

vivastory Happy Valentine's Day. Hope it's a good one 🙂 1mo
AmyG Happy Valentine‘s Day! ❤️ 1mo
Ruthiella Happy Valentine‘s Day 💘 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Valentine‘s Day 💞 1mo
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Great American Songbook | Sam Allingham
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#TuesdayTunes Thanks @TieDyeDude for bringing up music. I listen to so many different types of music . Samara Joy is just amazing! Not only does she sing great American standards with great style, she has also written lyrics to instrumental jazz classics, I saw her live last year . https://youtu.be/X03lvK7qoco

TheBookHippie I love her!!! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @TheBookHippie she is just so amazing! 1mo
BarbaraBB I don‘t know her but that‘s gonna change! 1mo
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CSeydel Oh man, I loved her Christmas album! Somehow I never thought to look up her non-Christmas music, but I should! 1mo
TieDyeDude Ooo, sounds good! 1mo
batsy One to discover! 1mo
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Miriam Haskell Jewelry | Cathy Gordon, Sheila Pamfiloff
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#LuckyInLove#Jewelry A costume jewelry queen! And my favorite Haskell piece I own .

LeahBergen That‘s beautiful! 1mo
cinda.marie Gorgeous! 1mo
Eggs Beautiful jewelry and book 📖 1mo
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My Name Is Barbra | Barbra Streisand
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#LuckyInLove #FaceBodyOnCover I am reading and enjoying but been reading it for months!I set it aside for other reading deadlines & it‘s so heavy, I use a book prop with it .She is such a perfectionist she often writes about things she would have done differently in old projects.Maybe I should have done audio!😁

Eggs I‘m sort of curious about this book but on audio it‘s over 48 hours😳 but I‘d rather listen than hold the giant book 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Chunkster!! 1mo
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An Unofficial Rose | Iris Murdoch
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The great thing about the book sale , lovely old Iris Murdoch was priced $3 , I got it on half price day for $1.50!

jlhammar That is lovely. What a bargain! 1mo
Aimeesue Pretty copy! 1mo
Ruthiella What a steal! 😃 1mo
LeahBergen Ooo, nice! 😍 1mo
batsy Nice! 1mo
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Another obsession. I went to a big book sale today. I really love the tiny stickers Booksellers used to put in books!

Tamra I wish they still did that - instead sometimes we get gaudy ones you can‘t peel off! 1mo
LeahBergen That‘s a pretty one! I just found one this past week in one of my books. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Tamra I know , right? The old ones are subtle & elegant 1mo
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#LuckyInLove #Loveletter I have been dipping into this one for awhile.

Eggs Oh this looks good 💌💌 1mo
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1.Harry Bosch “Everybody matters or Nobody Matters.”
2.Commissario Brunetti has 2 kids,a smart & opinionated wife,& glorious Italian food !
3.Matthew Scudder nobody seems to be reading Lawrence Block anymore.Gritty NYC & a detective w/a drinking problem.though not the first in series,When The Sacred Ginmill Closes was so good I wish I could read it again for the first time.
3.5 Phillip Marlowe & Sam Spade! Chandler/Hammett so good !

Ruthiella I‘ve never read any Laurence Block, but I think he and others of that era , like John D. Macdonald will be revived at some point in the future…🤔 1mo
dabbe Never heard of all 3; now on my TBR. Thanks for playing! ❤️💜🩷 1mo
AlaMich And also Bosch has that AMAZING house in the hills (edited) 1mo
Leftcoastzen @AlaMich love the house & his love for Jazz! I lived in LA area for awhile. Miss some of the places he goes. 1mo
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street | Avery Cunningham
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#BookMail is the best mail! Did I read last month‘s selections , no , I did not. 📚📚📚📚📚

BarbaraBB 😂 1mo
AmyG Hahahaha, you are not alone. 1mo
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Hollywood musicals | Ted Sennett
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#LuckyInLove #Dancing An older coffee table book on Hollywood Musicals . Fun to browse through! Fred & Ginger , classic.

Eggs Ohh that looks good! 1mo
AnnCrystal 💕🕺💃💝. 1mo
CSeydel So cool! Is Ted Sennett related to Mack Sennett?? 1mo
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Leftcoastzen @CSeydel I didn‘t know , so I looked it up, Mack Sennett was actually born Michael Sinnott ! Who knew? Litsy makes learning fun!😄 1mo
TieDyeDude Mmm, now I want to rewatch That's Entertainment! 1mo
Leftcoastzen @TieDyeDude wow. Now I want to rewatch That‘s Entertainment! 1mo
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The Mothers Recompense | Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss
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I too , read the introduction tonight. Auchincloss writes too about upper crust NY, but of course, more contemporary 1950s - 60s ? I think. Glad to be joining in the #WhartonBuddyRead

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