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bnp

Joined March 2018

My hobbies are reading, listening to music, and food ( cooking or gardening.) booksnpeaches on GR, markon on LT
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#lmpbc, @Laughterhp Your copy should arrive Monday.

bthegood just checking in - hope you are well - 2mo
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Imagining motherhood opens the door to imagining every power relationship, every profound connection . . . Far from depriving me of thought, motherhood gave me new and startling things to think about and the motivation to do the hard work of thinking.
Jane Smile, quoted in the tagged book.

bthegood It's been a while since you posted - hope you are well 🙂 3mo
bnp @bthegood Let's just say I've had to focus on the day-to-day. I've been reading but not writing. Thanks for noticing. 2mo
bthegood @bnp glad to hear from you 🙂 2mo
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Dragonfly Sea | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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To cross the vast ocean to their south, water-chasing dragonflies with forbears in Northern India had hitched a ride on a sedate "in-between seasons" morning wind, one of the monsoon's introits, the matlai.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

2nd try at this book. May have to buy it to finish, as it's long and I don't want to rush. I'm seeing different things in it than the 1st try. It's beautiful and sad.

ShyBookOwl That's why I always try to go back to a dnf at least once! Hope u enjoy it 🤗 4mo
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Thrust by Lidia Luknavitch? (My library has a copy.)

Buffalo is the new Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel?

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Deep wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles
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I enjoyed this, but may have to reread it in English to see what my mind makes of the ending. (Read as printed with Orkney dialect and English on same page.)

Poetry & science fiction at the same time.

#bookspin

rwmg It sounds intriguing. Wishlisted 4mo
Dilara @rwmg Same here! 4mo
bnp @rwmg @dilara It win the Arthur C. Clark award in 2022 if that's further inducement. 4mo
Dilara @bnp It is! 😄 4mo
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Daughter of Mystery | Heather Rose Jones
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This was a soft pick for me. The writing was good and the romance was not the focus of the book, but it was too predictable for me.

#Lmpbc 18, @laughterhp @pogue @5feet.of.fury

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Excited to learn about this festival in Nashville, especially since the Decatur Book Festival has moved to a date I can't attend.

Anyone from Georgia interested in attending?

https://sofestofbooks.org

#LitsySouthernFestival @BooksNBowls @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2615385

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The Coral Bones | E. J. Swift
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We found the body in an orange inflatable off the south coast of Lizard Island.

#FirstLineFridays @ ShyBookOwl

Graphic in lower right from https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html

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The Dragonfly Sea: A novel | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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Daughter of Mystery | Heather Rose Jones
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Your #lmpbc book is on its way @Laughterhp .

Laughterhp Sounds good! I‘m out of town until this weekend just FYI. 4mo
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Deep wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles
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Im loving this science fiction novel in two languages in verse.

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Deep wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles
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Started Deep wheel Orcadia and my #LPMBC Daughter of mystery.

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Feral cattle, slag heaps, exotics out of bounds, barren earth for 100 years - what happens when humans abandon a site that has been heavily used? Journalist Cal Flynn gives us a glimpse of various places around the world. None have come back to what they were before we were there, but many have regrown and diversified. #Naturalitsy

# @AllDebooks

bnp This isn't a book that makes an argument, but one that gives us a snapshot of a variety of places. This book is hopeful at times (at least that earth will survive and grow, even if humans don‘t) and sobering as well.

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AllDebooks Great review x 4mo
CSeydel I loved this one. Great review ❤️ 4mo
batsy Nice review! This sounds very intriguing. 4mo
SamAnne Loved this one. Poetic writing and so much to think about. 4mo
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This was a June goal, so I don't have things that I can't find.

Bookwomble It's passing these personal milestones that keeps up going! ✊😀 5mo
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The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter
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1. Two books for #Bookspin, and one for #LPMBC. Finish Islands of abandonment. Finish an ARC for #NGGSummerSmashup.

2. I'm choosing the tagged book. It isn't without problems, but it made me think.

3. Jack McDevitt's Octavia Gone. Not awful, but I'm over this series.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Eggs Thanks for joining in 😊👏🏻💙 5mo
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Untilted | Autechre
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My sister is getting her hand splinted while my cousin & her daughter & I wait and read at the house.

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The Complete Stories | Clarice Lispector
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The best books I completed in June 2023.

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Am finding this memoir slow going, but interesting. Not reading much this weekend because I'm with family, but hope to continue on the plane ride home tomorrow.

#NetGalleyGroup #NGGSummerSmashup

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Deep wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles
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Goal is to read Mama Ionesco A Report in Kin & all of Deep wheel Orcadia.

#Bookspin #Doublespin

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I'll be reading one of these two on the plane tomorrow.

Rabiha steps out of her hut, sets out to warn the Mahdi. (River Spirit)

In the beginning I choose kishōtenketsu, the Japanese version of the four-part narrative structure that flows from Chinese poetry. (The Night Parade)

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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River Spirit | Leila Aboulela
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Which one? I am willing to try any of these.

@Laughterhp @Pogue @5feet.of.fury

#Lmpbc @suvata #LmpbcFantasy

Laughterhp Is this your first time doing #LMPBC? We usually each read our own book and write notes in it etc. as we are reading, then you mail it to the next person. So we each read 4 books a round! 😊 normally we get an email from @suvata with the mailing order and addresses, but not sure if she‘s skipping that because it‘s all in the google doc. 5mo
suvata @Laughterhp Yes, I will be skipping that step since all of the information is on the Google spreadsheet. 5mo
bnp @Laughterhp @suvata Yes, it's my first time and I thought we chose & read the same book. Now I know what to do - buy a book! Yay! 5mo
suvata @bnp you may have missed the instruction page on the Google spreadsheet. You can see it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10tI0EuSgqqxQgFpw1tCDfAqJMbfoPJiiXTgCVdYf... 5mo
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River Spirit | Leila Aboulela
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 5mo
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I think I read more from the library - I restrict purchases to books the library doesn't have and/or ones I think I'll want to reread. Also, it restrains the book clutter at home 🌝🌞🥤🌈

Soubhiville I‘m a buyer. I borrow audiobooks a ton through Libby, but I love book shopping for my print reads. Lots of used books. 5mo
BookmarkTavern That‘s smart! I‘ve got enough books they‘re starting to pile up artistically. 😅 Thanks for posting! 5mo
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Happy Pride Month!

WJCintron Love WINS!! Happy Pride!! 🏳️‍🌈🥳😃💃 5mo
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A few miles north, off the coast of Staten Island, lies Shooter's Island. Once an oil refinery and shipyard - it has been abandoned now for nearly a century. . . .

Now owned by the Audubon Society . . . satellite images show it bosky, densely vegetated, and untrodden with paths. . .

See also https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Shooters_Island

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Velocity Weapon | Megan E. O'Keefe
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Gonna try this in July with science fiction.

Sign up & instructions at https://bit.ly/3qEa73B

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Glad to have you with us!! 5mo
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Translation State | Ann Leckie
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1. Florence! Not from a book, but I'm going to Italy next summer!

2. Yes, if you're a science fiction fan. (the tagged title - back to the Imperial Radch)

3. Umm. . . Got two on the go - The baby on the fire escape and Islands of abandonment.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Eggs #1 oh how wonderful 🇮🇹 5mo
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BookmarkTavern Cute! Thanks for sharing! 5mo
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Translation State | Ann Leckie
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#FirstLineFridays @ shybookowl

bnp Fat finger syndrome - it should be mason bots. 5mo
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The Sea Around Us | Rachel Carson
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I'm taking my friend Roxanna, my sisters, and their dog Bella.

First we go to a book and a craft store, then load up on food and drink, and then head to our beachfront condo.

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Sounds wonderful! Thanks for playing 6mo
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Inheritor: Foreigner 3 | C. J. Cherryh
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Repost for @Purpleness.

Count me in - I just started rereading the tagged book 'cause I didn't have the energy for anything new last night.

#rereadingsummer

Purpleness Thanks for joining in! Enjoy 6mo
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Repost for @Roary47 & @Littlewolf1

Original post list.com/web/post/2596956

Count me in.

Roary47 Yay! I‘m excited to see what amazing festive stories you get you read. 🥰💛 6mo
Quirkybookworm I‘ll join ya! I have gotten several bookmails from publishers who sent me Christmas books in January!😳 6mo
Littlewolf1 Super excited to have you both on board 🤗 6mo
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The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter
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Thought provoking and hopeful, yet some things didn't make sense to me. I enjoyed Beatrice's story more than Reiko's. Glad I read this, may be eligible for a reread.

This is also my #doublespin for June! #Bookspin

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Repost for #MidsummerSolace @AllDebooks so I can follow this challenge.

AllDebooks Thank you for the share. I look forward to seeing your pics x 6mo
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It is cool in the tunnels, not cold as it was outside.

Last line: It may already have begun; the enemy may already be inside the walls. But we must find faith enough to fight. For in one hour is thy judgement come.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Enjoy!! 6mo
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My salvia is blooming in my straw bale garden. A few gardenias left on my next door neighbors bushes, magnolia in bloom, and some gladiolas, all as I walked around my neighborhood.

#MidsummerSolace day 2 @AllDebooks

AllDebooks I love Salvia, waiting for mine to start flowering 6mo
TheBookHippie Oh so pretty!! 6mo
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Summertime | Raffaella Barker
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Summer, for me, is overwhelming growth to beat back, air that can be so humid it's hard to breathe, and non-stop interaction at work.

I'll have some fun too, like a concert in the park tonight with friends

#MidsummerSolace @AllDebooks

AllDebooks Sounds wonderful 😊 6mo
TheBookHippie I love summer concerts! 6mo
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The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter
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In the bedroom, Beatrice turned towards the full-length mirror. It was still covered with a dusty sheet. She pulled it off and looked at herself. Beatrice took off her clothes. She stood naked in front of the mirror. This body, she thought. These arms stirred and carried. These hands chopped and minced. These strong shoulders. These capable thighs. These wide hips. This belly that moved with her, that was her.

bnp This body was not decorative, it was not slight, it was not willowy, it was not thin. This body took up space, this body made things. This body was home. 6mo
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The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter
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First time doing this!

#Bookspin, @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Glad to have you along!!! 6mo
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Standing in the Shadows | Peter Robinson
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1. Counting Sappho, though I've read a few poems, not everything.
2. As many as the author can write will. With ongoing series, it seems like eventually there's isn't anything new & fresh.
3. Faye Kellerman's Decker/Lazarus series & Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series. I'm saving the last ones in these series.

TheBookHippie I love Sappho! 6mo
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Terraformers | Annalee Newitz
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1. Terraformers by Annalee Newitz.

2. I seen to be alternating between two books in trying to finish. In May i focused on The Man who spoke snakish (Kivirahk.) In June I plan to focus on the 1000+ pager Kin (Jergovic.)

#Two4Tuesday, @ TheSpineView

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. . . knowledge deepens appreciation. Leopold saw a marsh, veiled in a thin gauze of mist. . . and saw not only this, but the history of the cranes and all their evolutionary predecessors. . . he held to his eyes like binoculars an understanding of how this momentary pastoral scene formed a necessary component to, or a synecdoche of, a greater, wondrous whole.

bnp This to is a form of beauty - a conceptual one, in the way that mathematicians might come to appreciate a particularly elegant equation, . . . 6mo
bnp And, as with other forms of aestheticism, it can be taught. To come into an abandoned mine or spoil heap or quarry or parking lot or I'll terminal, and see it for the natural wonderland it has become is, I admit, a difficult task. But in these environmentally straitened days, it is a taste with cultivating. 6mo
bnp oil terminal, not I'll terminal. 6mo
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bnp And this gives hope that life on earth will survive after humans are gone, and is well worth studying to find out more about how processes work to see if we can shoot or adapt any of them. But wouldn't it be better if we could avoid creating devastations to life and culture like Bikini Island and Chernobyl? 6mo
bnp Adopt or adapt, not shoot 6mo
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Killing of Innocents | Deborah Crombie
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Finished Deborah Crombie's A killing of innocents tonight. Plan to finish To each this world by Julie Czernada this weekend.

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The tagged book is a readable and fascinating description of what we know about butterflies and what we're still learning. Did you know the proboscis is porous? That monarchs navigate using antennae?

On to the next book, a science fiction romp.

#NaturalLitsy, #Andrew65, #20in4

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The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter
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Beatrice Bolano looked down at her almost empty plate. She was hungry. Hungry in the way they warned about in church, whispered about in the girls' bathroom at school, scratched into the wall behind the Buff ' n' Go. Beatrice was hungry for taste, texture, mouthfeel. Crispy, crunchy, silky, chewy. Beatrice was hungry for juxtaposition, and she would never tell anyone as long as she lived.
#FirstLineFridays, @ShyBookOwl

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The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter
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My goals:
1. whittle my library list back down to 10 items
2. request 1 book from netgalley with fall deadline
3. Don't buy any books in June

#NetGalleyGroup, #NGGSummerSmashup, @AllDeBooks

AllDebooks Great goals. Good luck 👍 6mo
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Weyward: A Novel | Emilia Hart
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1. Not yet - but I hope to connect with two friends I haven't seen for awhile.

2. Hmm . . . Enough money to travel & live on for my life, a world that works to restore our planet, and the ability for people to talk through disagreements.

My color is off in the screen cap 'case my phone is in night mode.

S3V3N Your third wish is everything! ❤️ 6mo
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The Female Man | Joanna Russ
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Any Joanna Russ fans out there? Library of America is publishing this volume in October. (Available for request on NetGalley - https://www.netgalley.com/)

#NetGalley, #NetGalleyGroup

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The Sky Weeps for Me | Sergio Ramrez
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Things I may be reading for #20in4 @Andrew65