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brandybear22

brandybear22

Joined August 2018

And so it goes...
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The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
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Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov, A. Scott Duane
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The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library
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Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
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Leadership: Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse
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Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
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Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders by Meg-John Barker, Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman
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With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn by Amber Dawn, Trish Kelly
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Little Bee by Chris Cleave
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Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
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This so resonates with me-especially with the Bible verses and growing up in the 90s. And here, I‘ve just shaved my head today.

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Vox | Christina Dalcher
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My biggest accomplishment of last night and today was finishing this book. Also protecting my sushi from the cat. I thought the book had a good theme but I was very disappointed with the ending, I think this is because it is a debut novel. While this book and theme was compared to Margaret Atwood, there is no way she would have ended a book like this. All in all, well this will never be my favorite book, I would read another by this author

Bry Similar to what our book club members thought - really interesting idea and a quick read but kind of falls apart at the end. 4y
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I drove in circles for 3 hours today, listening to this off and in. I don‘t think it will be my favorite book, but I do sometimes like historical fiction. Settling in tonight with an amaretto sour 🍒 🍊 🍹

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Junk | Les Bohem
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This was an audible original, finally got around to reading. It was ok, decent premise, but didn‘t hold my attention as much as other books in this genre do. Overall it was just ok. I‘ll have to see if it fits any of the categories for my 2020 reading challenge.

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The Dispatcher | John Scalzi
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This is my first Scalzi book, and then I just read old man‘s war. Really good writing, good sci-fi. I did leave some loose ends that I think could have been tied up better in terms of the story, but the overall explanation of things is sufficient. Bonus, my kid made me dinner, so basics life is feeling pretty good. Looking through To find the next book recommendation!

kgriffith I listened to that on my way to school just before the break; I knew it was a novella going in, but I still wasn‘t prepared for it to be over. I think you‘d enjoy Lock In and Head On, a Scalzi duology, maybe differently from how I did, but still. 4y
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My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel | Kitty Curran, Larissa Zageris
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When you get to the end, but you are still in the middle. This certainly wasn‘t the best book I‘ve ever read but it brought me a lot of joy to have an adult choose your own adventure novel.

kgriffith I haven‘t gotten in yet, I was going to get it on my kindle but I‘ve misplaced it again 😬 4y
brandybear22 @kgriffith you can read my copy 4y
kgriffith @brandybear22 I‘ll take you up on that. Bonus points if I can read while you have to work this weekend, and I‘ll cook for you AND your kid if that works out timing-wise. 4y
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Old Man's War | John Scalzi
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Took myself out on a sushi 🍣 date tonight and listening to this as I am driving. I‘m hooked, I can see all the ways this book could go, but I don‘t actually know how it is going. Good sci do, at least so far!

kgriffith Have we ever had sushi together?? I don‘t think we have. We should fix that. 4y
brandybear22 @kgriffith mmmmm I would enjoy 4y
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Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard
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This was our Christmas road trip book! A bit delayed with the post, but the book was good, and well narrated.

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Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin
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“You don‘t have a home until you leave it, and then when you‘ve left it you can‘t go back.”

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The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison
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Watching Sabrina remake with my teenager here. They are advocating to read this book, which is banned, and they go to the library and looked through the card catalogue. With actual cards!

kgriffith I just finished this one for the first time! (The book, not the show. Though there was a witches category at trivia last night and many students were disappointed that Sabrina didn‘t make an appearance) 4y
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Strange the Dreamer | Laini Taylor
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Enjoying this story, so nice to escape into something that has nothing to do with work or other serious business. Onto the last hour of the story. Snuggled in.

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I thought I was going to a cooking talk, but then I soon realized it was a talk about the intersectionality as seen through cooking, African American and Jewish histories entwined. All by a queer southern author. Afterwards I engaged him around his roots and queerness, because it is so important to see and be seen, and to acknowledge that when we can be in invited and respected spaces, whether lecture halls or in print.

With @kgriffith

CoffeeNBooks This is such a good book! I really like Michael Twitty. 4y
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I agree with this and also don‘t. A community without a collective voice, one may bestow ally-ship where another does not... then does it make it so, or take away, or null?

Pleased to be starting this book

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Sooo excited about this book I got 2 copies, that‘s how much I knew it was going to be amazing. One delivered to my office yesterday and one to my house today.

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Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity | Micah Rajunov, A. Scott Duane
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Brunch and a reading of one story from each of five chapters in this book. Enjoyed more with company than would have been alone, on all counts.

Mogoeg We have the same kitchen table! 4y
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All Systems Red | Martha Wells
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I don‘t usually love novellas, but it was nice to have a story that wasn‘t complicated keep me occupied for a bit.

kgriffith Psst, there are two more in the Murderbot diaries: together they kind of make up a whole book? 4y
kgriffith I'm listening to Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries on Scribd. Check it out: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/388393229 4y
brandybear22 Well that wasn‘t the book on my special list... 4y
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Good Omens | Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
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“I don‘t see where it matters what is written... it can always be crossed out.”

Finished my book yesterday. Also, made salsa 😋

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Good Omens | Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
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Had to back up about 3 hours because I was just following the cantor of the voice and didn‘t hear the words!

Reading before I watch!

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Wayward Son | Rainbow Rowell
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My friend does audiobook production. We went on an explore at the oldest bookstore in Maine, as she went through books she‘s worked on or knows who did.

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Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity | Micah Rajunov, A. Scott Duane
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About to get into my October book club read, queer book club-

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Cheers!
It was a really long day and I‘m kind of exhausted. Gave two small presentations, but also I was on all day talking to Mostly pediatricians. Really long drive in the car, so I finished up who spoke on the way up, which I‘ll be discussing in my leadership book club tomorrow.

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Finished this book today. I really appreciated the theory and evidence for hard work. I have been working hard myself

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Game night! My cat kept walking across or sitting on the board, flicking her tail throwing pieces hither and yon.

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This was on my daughter summer reading for ninth grade honors English, and she was really hesitant to read it. Now that she‘s done she‘s really at me to read it also so we can talk about it. I love that she‘s able to make recommendations to me and we can share the joy of reading in a different way now that she‘s older! (this is her when I came to see her at work, with her cash register, refusing to make eye contact)

Alfoster Very cool! (The reading, not her reaction!)😂 5y
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Speak No Evil | Uzodinma Iweala
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I finished this book, yay, not behind on book club reading (last month I didn‘t finish the book before we discussed it). I was enjoying the book but it was kind of like eh, and then suddenly it was like a rock just dropped out of the sky and smashed a car, kind of like this statue that I saw in DC. I had predicted a different ending and I didn‘t see it coming 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Speak No Evil | Uzodinma Iweala
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What! I totally read almost half of this today, my quick flight ✈️. Damned if I don‘t finish the book before book club. Also damn, lots of memories and my own history coming up. But now, at the hotel pool...

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Speak No Evil | Uzodinma Iweala
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I think I accidentally picked the book for book club this month, when I wasn‘t even there, LOL. But it came in the mail today, and I‘m not really upset a bit that I ordered the large print (which I think I did on accident but I may have just done on a whim). I think it will be much easier on my eyes for night reading. Oh being practical as an adult! Looking forward to the reading!

kgriffith You sure did 😋 5y
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The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin
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Well I finished this this morning. My book group met on Sunday and discussed it, but I was a little bit behind. Having finished the book, I am now wondering if we read the same book because I had so many different opinions and thoughts about it! It was very good, and I would read it again.

we made tomato soup from my tomatoes that I grew in my garden last night, and my house still smells delicious.

kgriffith It smelled SO good when I walked into the kitchen yesterday morning. 5y
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Chicken in the Kitchen | Nnedi Okorafor
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I do miss the days of young children, buying books on a whim to read to them. I most certainly would have done that today, with this book. This is the cookbook section of Bellabooks, absolutely lovely, and this children‘s book placed perfectly there.

kgriffith I know it‘s not the same, but you could read it to me sometime, if you were so inclined. 💜 5y
kgriffith The rest of your polo came through today — it had said that your recording got interrupted and that I‘d be alerted when you came back, but I had sort of given up expecting that to actually happen and then, there it was 😊 5y
brandybear22 I clicked on it because it said that I could send you a reminder to watch it, but I thought that was silly 5y
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The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula Le Guin
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“Truth is a matter of the imagination”

ItsAnotherJen The page is all crinkled 😢 5y
kgriffith @JenFowler it‘s a filter, don‘t worry, no book pages were harmed in the making of this Litsy post 😉 5y
ItsAnotherJen @kgriffith 😂 I had no idea there was such a filter! 5y
brandybear22 @JenFowler @kgriffith I find the quote ever more fitting 😝 5y
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Sadie | Courtney Summers
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Exceptionally well done, suspense although not entirely unpredictable. I read the audiobook with my daughter, 14, and got to experience some of the edge of the seat through her, which made it all the better. Hard to recommend in a general sense, as it has a dark theme. Mostly listening on our way back from Montréal, dropping off girls as we drove (safely, with their parents) then stayed up late to finish it last night.

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The Stonewall Reader | New York Public Library
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I‘ve read through the first and second sections (pre and during stonewall), Mostly yesterday on my plane ride, 50 year anniversary.

Pictured are several books/magazines referenced in the Stonewall reader, seen at the Museum of American history in DC yesterday as well.

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Lobby day for NASW, four meetings this morning, Staff of two senators and two reps, Trying to increase support for mental health and access. (PS it‘s quite warm out here!)

Bklover Yessssss!!!!!! 5y
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Sadie | Courtney Summers
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One of my dear people was part of this audio production, and winning an odyssey award. Looking forward to listening. I‘m glad to have such wonderful literary folks in my life!

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This book was delicious 😋 all the way through. I need a recommendation for something that I could enjoy almost as much. I read it slowly, only when I had time for unrequired fiction, and I‘m glad I did so!

brandybear22 @julesG Thank you, I will check it out and see what I think. 5y
kgriffith So glad you enjoyed it so thoroughly 🤗💋 5y
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Sometimes when you miss someone, you go water their garden because they‘re away. And that helps you feel closer.

night_shift Pretty garden! I know those feels 💚 5y
kgriffith Thank you for taking care of my garden, and for making me tear up in the camp van. I miss you, too. ❤️ 3 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes til you land! 😍 5y
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Blaine House, The | Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
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Pride in Maine at the Blaine House. First time there has been an official proclamation for pride month in Maine. First time the governor has received a group of queer people for the intention of celebrating us. Being invited, that‘s a thing. Picture of myself and Governor Mills.

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The Stonewall Reader | New York Public Library
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Book club selection this month, ready for discussion, but I‘m behind on the reading. Too much going on. I‘m in to keep going, it‘s a great anthology. Everyone agrees about the first 2/3, mixed reactions about the last bit. (Wearing my stonewall pride t shirt @kgriffith )

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Killer Bunnies! Favorite game. The two of us can really get into a groove, and this time I won (I was overdue for a win),

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Favorite poems | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Good find at ‘Yes books‘ today, my daughter is very excited about poetry lately.

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My daughter‘s summer reading if she wants to have honors English in the fall.

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The Beatles Lyrics | The Beatles
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I‘m not sure when my kid made a major switch in music, but the past couple months she has become a major Beatles fan. Which is all sorts of fun for me, having spent 7 years with a Beatles/ Lennon obsessed partner. Perhaps those early years really had an influence 🤔

Zelma I think almost every kid goes through a Beatles phase. Something about discovering their music and entering tween/teen years seem to go hand-in-hand. 5y
brandybear22 @Zelma oh good, you give me hope 😊 5y
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Graduation of my 17 year old, a year early and that brought up more emotions, she‘s ready and she‘s not at the same time.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Aww. What a sweet picture of a two. Congrats to her! 5y
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What came in the mail yesterday!

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I‘ve read this book a million times, and I think it holds not only goodness for children, but the best parenting advice I‘ve found. Pretty much sums up the foundation of my parenting. Even with my new “rule” of, you ought to only eat in the kitchen.

(My kid just made the choice to take a bag of Doritos from her room, to instead eat in the living room. I‘m calling it a win).

@kgriffith

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The first half of my raised bed is planted. Following the square foot method, even though my soil mix is off. Getting some more compost before planting the other side. Not sure if you can see, but my ‘big boy‘ and ‘early girl‘ tomatoes are side by side, we‘ll see which set of four has the best yield.

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Troilus and Cressida | Geoffrey Chaucer
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But if you find a word you think is clever,
Use it but once, don‘t harp on it forever!

kgriffith Such sage advice. 😉 5y
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Under the Udala Trees | Chinelo Okparanta
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Just started reading. So far I like the storytelling and narrator.

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I googled, “what is the gayest book?” And these are the book choices that came up. I did this because, according to an algorithm, I‘m the third gayest Litten. 🔥 🤓 🏳️‍🌈 📚 😼

Tagged folks had me beat for gay 🤷🏻‍♂️

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Haha! Glad to know I am peak gay on Litsy 5y
LogiKitty 😍😍 5y
kgriffith @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian the things I learn while packing up merch with Tim downstairs doing genre research 😋 I‘m the gayest if number of posts is allowed to factor, you are when it‘s not 😊 5y
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Soubhiville Fun! Is this stat available somewhere to see? 5y
Soubhiville Also- How is Pachinko on that google list? 🤔 5y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Soubhiville I think Pachinko has a minor gay character? Still weird though! 5y
kgriffith @Soubhiville The goal is to use genres to help users find people they might like to follow, so when we work out the details of how to present the information to that end, we‘ll all be able to see generally who the most frequent posters are in each genre 😀 5y
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Freshwater | Akwaeke Emezi
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Audiobook done! Good telling, the right amount of twisted and the right amount of truth.