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cdcnmac

cdcnmac

Joined September 2019

Former Globetrotting Maryland girl that has landed in N Central Florida, cat mom and organization geek. Lover of all things Pink💕
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The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
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Got a signed edition in my book haul today from Friends of the Library 🤓

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Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo
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#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView @bthegood
1. I have a hard plastic Case/stand that has a keyboard and can be folded up as a stand for Zoom.
2. I Love ability to hi light passages and post them.

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 🤩📖📚 3y
bthegood 😊👍 3y
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The Wife Upstairs | Rachel Hawkins
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A twist on Jane Eyre w/multiple cons. Starting w/competitively wealthy, gossipy women (loved the snark!), good-looking Eddie from a questionable background that can be an A, Eddie‘s wife Bea, who came from nothing and ended up successful, besting her friend, copying her style, to Jane the dogwalker engaged to Eddie. #NetGalley

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This is the Best book I have read in 2021! The oral history format works wonderfully and the writing in this debut is outstanding. Readers of Daisy Jones and the Six might be expecting a copycat story and instead they may be pleasantly surprised as this is so much more. Each new clipping or interview weaves together the story Sadly, there is no real Opal, Nev or Sunny to follow on social media. Thanks for ARC #NetGalley Simon & Schuster

Nute Nice review! I love music! Stories about musicians (even fictional) are always intriguing! Can‘t wait to read this book!🙂 3y
cdcnmac @Nute I highly recommend this one and it has a number of Instagram sites devoted solely to this book. The story was so real you wanted to look people up online to get more! Did you also check out Daisy Jones and the six? I like this better but since you love music I think you would enjoy that also. 3y
Nute I purchased Daisy Jones and the Six immediately because I was into Taylor Jenkins Reid at the time. I haven‘t read it yet. I think that this book might appeal to me more as well. The funny thing is that I was actually going to pass it by until coming across your review today. 3y
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cdcnmac @Nute 🤓Which books do you recommend from TJR? I just connected that she wrote Malibu Rising and Seven Husbands… 3y
Nute Top three include the two that you have mentioned with Malibu Rising being her latest novel and Evidence of the Affair which is a tiny impactful short story. 3y
Nute Also enjoyed After, I Do and Forever, Interrupted. These are her debut novel and early work so she was developing. I think that readers always need to give that grace period to authors as they discover and then hone their talents. (edited) 3y
cdcnmac @Nute Thank you, I will add these to my TBR🤓. Great talking with you and looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Opal & Nev. 3y
Nute Enjoyed sharing some early Sunday morning time with you. Looking forward to our future conversations. Have a wonderful day! Happy reading!☺️ 3y
cdcnmac @Nute Me too! Enjoy the rest of the weekend!📚📚 3y
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Something in the Water: A Novel | Catherine Steadman
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Best quote 🤓

LapReader I own that lamp. 3y
cdcnmac It‘s gorgeous-is it very small? Hard to tell from the picture 🤓 3y
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Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver
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Thank you for the invite @EadieB ! #ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

1. My parents came up with an original spelling using an e and an i instead of an a and y for Meribeth so I have been Beth, Beth Ann and Meribeth throughout my life and “Meribeth Ann!” When I was in trouble as a little one.

2. A colleague gave a glowing endorsement of me and my work to our new office Director who has been very positive and enthusiastic so far (day four🤓)!

EadieB Thanks for playing! Good luck with your new boss! 3y
Cosmos_Moon Love the spelling! Thanks for sharing and glad so far good with a new director 🥰 3y
Nute Answer Two - It‘s such a cool vibe when coworkers recognize internal value and strengths of one another and then speak those compliments out loud. Always good to spread positivity!🙂 3y
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Dark Places: A Novel | Gillian Flynn
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#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon Thank you @UnidragonFrag for including me😁😱👻
I shy away from scary books so I didn‘t have many to choose from. The Movie with Charlize Theron was pretty scary too! A runner up would be Ruth Ware‘s In a Dark, Dark Wood🤓
1. While I‘ve had strange dreams where I could naturally fly I‘ve never seen a ghost or had a supernatural 👽experience.
2. I‘m thankful For my husband and two cats and that we are all healthy!

Cosmos_Moon Thanks for joining in this week 🤗 4y
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#wondrouswednesday @Eggs @KarenUK 1. Oyinkan Braithwaite and Candice Carty-Williams.
2. Covid life= Maybe You Should Talk to Soneone by Lori Gottlirb and The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
3. Reading: I love to get lost in a great story where i‘m invested in the characters and I don‘t want it to end. Audio: I love having someone tell me a story esp if their voice is a good match for the accent/expressing the story all the better!

Eggs Well said! Thanks for playing 📚🤩📚 4y
cdcnmac Thank you! 🤓 4y
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Thanks #NetGalley @NetGalley for an copy of #Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items This book starts off with a bang including a catchy poem warning of the dire consequences of stealing this book, what qualifies as a cursed object and the stories about specific objects by category. The first chapter tells the fascinating history of the largest blue diamond in the world, the Hope diamond.

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Thanks @NetGalley #488RulesforLife #NetGalley. A light read by Australian comedian Kitty Flanagan of ABC TV's The Weekly. I wanted more laughs so this fell short. A book of lists to make the world a better place. It‘s interesting in small doses. Shopping: Do not call anyone older than you are Darling. Don‘t say a book/movie has a twist or they spend the whole time thinking “I wonder if this is the twist?”

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#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks @KarenUK
1.🤓🐒🐗🐘🦓🦏☀️⛰
2. Yes it counts! I don‘t cook but enjoy watching food tv and have been researching vegan/vegetarian eating for a few years. I especially like Forks over knives and Triumph of the lentil🤓

Interested in joining? @ImperfectCJ @TheNeverendingTBR

ImperfectCJ Thank you for the tag! I'm not good at emoji speech, but I'll see what I can come up with! 4y
TheNeverendingTBR Thank you! 😃 4y
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 📚 4y
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#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks @KarenUK
1.🤓🐒🐗🐘🦓🦏☀️⛰
2. Yes it counts! I don‘t cook but enjoy watching food tv and have been researching vegan/vegetarian eating for a few years. I especially like Forks over knives and Triumph of the lentil🤓

Interested in joining? @ImperfectCJ @TheNeverendingTBR

KarenUK I‘m pretty sure this is Barbara Kingsolver.... Poisonwood bible? 4y
cdcnmac Out of Africa😉 4y
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 😊📚 4y
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#ThoughtfulThursday
Both 😋
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Both again
Sweet every time!
Thank you to @ImperfectCJ for the invite and @MoonWitch94

MoonWitch94 Thanks for playing 🎂✨☺️ 4y
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Thanks to @ImperfectCJ for invite!
@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday. One day later 🤓
1. Love all fresh fruits, esp. Tomatoes 🍅 and strawberries 🍓
2. The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Yes, dolphins🐬 in Maui, Hawaii on a catamaran

MoonWitch94 Thanks for playing ⛵️🍉♥️☺️ 4y
ImperfectCJ Great Gatsby is an excellent summer book! I forgot about that one. 4y
cdcnmac It‘s one of those rare books that I can re-read and enjoy! 4y
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#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
1. Both are appreciated!
2. Barbara Kingsolver in Prodigal Summer
3. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

BookmarkTavern I loved Tiny Beautiful Things. I‘m pretty sure I cried through most of it! Thank you for posting! 4y
cdcnmac Yes, some of it was truly heartbreaking. I just discovered she also has a podcast called Dear Sugars that started in 2017 and still has new episodes that is very similar to the audiobook! 4y
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I grew up reading advice columns like Dear Abby and have always loved reading “advice” questions and answers. I also love to give advice. Needless to say I enjoyed so much about this audiobook. Looking forward to discussing it at book club and subscribing to the Dear Sugar podcast for more advice!😉

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Audio for upcoming book club

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Picked this up from our office kitchen free library shelves last year and it has been sitting in TBR pile and then moved across state and I didn‘t realize it was written by a former employee! Looking forward to a relaxing weekend of reading 🤓

KarenUK Enjoy my lovely! 💕👍😊📚 4y
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Expected to really love this book because of the original concept. It was a little slow to get into and then incredibly confusing to keep track of all the players. I wish I had realized at the start that they were thoughtful discussion questions at the back of the book. I think if the pacing was tightened up and the story edited and shortened it would‘ve been a great read.

rubyslippersreads I found this very confusing, as did everyone in my book club. 4y
cdcnmac I bet it was a great discussion! I like hearing how everyone interprets events that are left open to interpretation 🤓 4y
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Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams
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Great 🎧! Loved this story and Queenie...she is maddeningly frustrating when she continually makes irresponsible and poor decisions professionally and personally. When she lets us in on how her lack of worth and poor self esteem are rooted w/details of her upbringing...just heartbreaking.

KarenUK I had a feeling you would love Queenie just as much as I did... 😘💕 (edited) 4y
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Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver
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Thank you @KarenUK This has not been a year of 5⭐️ reading so far, but these were my faves🤓

KarenUK Nice list! Read 3, and already added other 3 to my #tbr pile 😊👍💕📚 4y
cdcnmac Great 🎧 on all but How Could She which isn‘t available as audio🤓😉 4y
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Exciting: Thermostats w/algorithms compare sleep, set optimum temp. Bulb w/filters vary light from warm yellow to strong blue w/sleep tracker to dialdown light in eve & increase in am. Car dashboard w/blue light for am commute
We need more than 7 hrs of sleep/night to maintain cognitive perf. After 10dys of 7 hrs sleep the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be w/o sleep 24hrs
Scary -drowsy driving and mirco sleeping when driving.

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Never Have I Ever | Joshilyn Jackson
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Rainy day, hanging out with my tea, audiobook and solitaire game 🤓

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Clock Dance | Anne Tyler
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Our magnolia tree bloomed this week- smells amazing! Just finished audio of Clock Dance- love this style of book where it is a place I am familiar with and a everyday story with flawed characters.

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Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Broward Mall | Plantation, Florida (Bookstore)
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#quarantinereadschallenge
📚The Secrets We Kept by Lara Presott
📚The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
📚Gainesville: Book Gallery West, Third House Books
📚Not a re-reader
📚White Oleander
📚The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
📚Under the Tuscan Sun
📚 The Double Bind
📚 80 books
📚Indoor patio with view of our yard hanging out with my cats
📚 Charlotte‘s Web, Nancy Drew series
📚Sending love to @Tex2Flo and @Harrykdaily💕

robinb Welcome to Litsy! 😊 4y
robinb Not much of a re-reader either...too many books on my TBR! 😩 Love Nancy Drew! 👍😊 4y
cdcnmac @robinb I agree, life it too short for re-reads! 😎
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Why we sleep is an interesting study and also perfect o😆pre-slumber reading, average 2-3 pages per night🤓. It is a bit too scientific for me as I‘m more interested in how to get more than all the data and statistics if I‘m honest. I balanced out the month with The Testaments after reread of The Handmaid‘s Tale for book club.

KarenUK Yay! Your first post! I‘m so excited 😘💕💕💕💕 4y
cdcnmac Still trying to figure it all out! But it is a start😆! 4y
Nute Welcome to Litsy! It‘s a warm and friendly community. I know that you will enjoy yourself here. I‘m looking forward to getting to know you!🙂 3y
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cdcnmac @Nute Thank you! I am very active on GoodReads and occasionally active on Litsy. I Love listening to audiobooks🤓. 3y
Nute Audiobooks is still an aspiration for me. I have to figure out how to listen without drifting off in thought and getting distracted. To be fair in this conclusion, I have attempted to listened to an audiobook only twice. Both occasions I spent most of my time hitting the rewind button. I will try again because I was really enjoying the full-cast reading. 3y
cdcnmac @Nute I am a multitasker so I can‘t just sit and listen. try this next time you have a lot of dishes or dusting, basically something a little boring/mindless and put on headphones and enjoy. It is important to like the narrator‘s voice too so suggest listening to a sample first and then testing between 1.25 or 1.5 to speed it up a little. Once you find a great audiobook you will be hooked. Prodigal Summer, narrated by auth was a great one. 3y
Nute Thanks for those tips. Maybe headphones 🎧 are the key. Maybe a more intimate auditory connection will keep me focused - hearing the story right in my ear, up close and personal. Yes! It so good to talk with you this morning, Ms. Meribeth!😊 3y
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