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dariazeoli

Joined November 2016

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Goodreads @dariazeoli IG @plannedreads | DA-ree-uh. Vegan. Reader of books. Roller of eyes. NJ, born & raised.
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The Survivors by Jane Harper
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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
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Ok, really considering this readalong! I have almost all of the books on my TBR abut have yet to read ‘em. Anyone else considering it? #maaseffectreadalong

Read4life Thanks for sharing this, Daria. I need to check this out. 🤓 2w
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Clutter: A Tidy History | Jennifer Howard
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“Clutter, like emotional chaos, has a way of running in families, passed down like curly hair or blue eyes or musical ability.”

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Bag Of Bones: A Novel | Stephen King
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Scarier than King meant in the late nineties…

Texreader Whoa!! 😂😂😂 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly King is so good at horror! 😂 1mo
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Yellowface | R F Kuang
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I think my jaw actually dropped as June‘s thoughts and beliefs were vomited into the page. What a terrible person! And yet, there are no angels in this story. What a twisted tale Kuang weaves here; I‘ve finally read her for the first time, and surely not the last.

Another winning #AuldLangSpine pick courtesy of @jenniferw88 !

jenniferw88 I haven't got around to any more of yours yet - I'm SUCH a mood reader, but I will tag you when I do, as I doubt any more will be read by next week. I'm glad you've enjoyed my list, though! 2mo
Itchyfeetreader I read this from my partners list also ! Loved it 2mo
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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He ardently loves her! Have I read far enough where I can rewatch the BBC version yet? 😁

#AuthorAMonth

Leftcoastzen Sigh ❤️ 2mo
Deblovestoread Yes! Always, yes. Swoon… 2mo
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Binti | Nnedi Okorafor
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I listened to Binti last week and was impressed with how much the author packed into such a short novella! This is my second book by her and I‘m struck by how vivid a picture she paints with her words.

You‘re two for two with #AuldLangSpine picks, @jenniferw88 !

jenniferw88 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
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The Giver | Lois Lowry
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I‘m so glad I got to go into this one blind! I was 14 when it was released and never had it as part of my high school curriculum.

Is ignorance bliss? Is a sanitized, safe existence any more than just existing? This book is beautifully written and definitely poses some great questions. I think I will always answer that the choice can‘t be to stay asleep.

Wonderful pick to start off #AuldLangSpine, @jenniferw88 !

TheBookHippie Oh wow! It has been required reading here for so long- but many evangelicals refuse to let their kids read it. It wasn‘t in my day but I think I would have enjoyed it younger as well. 3mo
monalyisha This is one I‘m sure I‘d enjoy revisiting! 3mo
jenniferw88 I also went into this blind, but I live in the UK, so I was not assigned it as part of my curriculum! (I was also 3 when it was published! 😂) 2mo
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My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell
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No other #fiction I‘ve read since February managed to knock the tagged book from its top spot this year. I still find myself thinking of Vanessa. #readingbracket2023

rachelk I loved that book too. 3mo
jenniferw88 I've only managed one #auldlangspine book so far, but it was this one - and I'm still thinking about it a couple of weeks after finishing. It's definitely going to be a tough one to beat! 2mo
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Wizard and Glass | Stephen King
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For the past couple of years I‘ve read a classic during the span of twelve months. In thinking about 2024‘s yearlong project, I‘m considering ramping up my #chronologicalkingread and trying to finish one book every month. If I can do it, I‘ll head into 2025 about to complete The Dark Tower!

Nothing like spur-of-the-moment reading goals on the last day of the year…

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My Name Is Barbra | Barbra Streisand
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No more #nonfiction to finish this year, so the #2023readingbracket goes to Barbra Streisand! I highly recommend the audio version of her nearly 1000 page memoir; it was like listening to a friend chat for many, many hours.

UwannaPublishme A lot of my favorites are on your list, but I agree. Barbra topped them all! 3mo
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With all due respect, if you couldn‘t answer that question the first time, you shouldn‘t be running for the office you‘re running for. I don‘t want a president who panders to a base who can‘t accept an honest answer.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221988690/nikki-haley-didnt-say-slavery-caused-t...

marleed That was shocking. What I used to believe to be true was that our national lawmakers understood history, the constitution, and were privy to real world situations in discrete ways that constituents didn‘t have access to. It was the job of the lawmaker to present truth and fact to his constituents even if that was not what the constituent wanted to hear. So wrong. Now lawmakers spew what they believe a constituent wants to hear as a truth. 3mo
Susanita “It was all about the government telling them what to do.” 🙄 3mo
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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My first tentative TBR for 2024! I like to start the year at zero current reads, so I won‘t be cracking these open before Monday.

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Well, that was fucking bleak.

AmyG Ha! 3mo
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Yellowface | R F Kuang
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I‘m so excited that there are so many books I haven‘t read on @jenniferw88 ‘s #AuldLangSpine list!

I‘ve read two, and I‘ve tagged a bunch of these on Libby, Hoopla, and Amazon for 2024. In January, I plan on reading the tagged book (the only one I currently own), as well as Binti and The Giver, both books I‘ve wanted to read for awhile.

jenniferw88 Yay! 3mo
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#AuldLangSpine About Me! Like you, Jenny, I carried over some items from last year but added a few new ones, too.

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One of my first role models. 🌟#WonderWoman

TheBookHippie Me too!!! 3mo
TheBookgeekFrau Me too!! 3mo
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It‘s the last #AuthorAMonth book of 2023, and I might just DNF it. There‘s been some interesting plot points so far but I‘m mostly not feeling it. I switched from the hardback to audio today; I‘ll give it another session or two to change my mind.

Anyone else underwhelmed?

LapReader I love the ending of this one. It still haunts me. I hated the beginning. 3mo
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir | Michelle Zauner
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I love it when my reading comes together like this. I‘m feverishly trying to finish Bab‘s audiobook before the library takes it back and here she appears in Crying in H Mart, after I listened to a chapter about her difficult relationship with her mother earlier today.

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Signal Boost | Alyssa Cole
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It‘s the most wonderful time of the year! #AuldLangSpine2024 sign ups are open! 🥰

I‘m asking Santa to magically make my matches list already exist on my owned TBR.

BarbaraJean That is an ingenious Christmas wish--well played. 😄 3mo
Billypar I had the same wish 😆 I'm not sure how mine exploded so much this past year 🤷‍♂️ 3mo
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Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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I‘ve reached the last hundred pages of #LesMisCAD! I‘m excited to check it off my list at the end of the month.

Anyone doing a yearlong read next year? I was considering a series like Throne of Glass or something on those lines.

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The Survivors | Jane Harper
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Someone is getting ready for #authoramonth2024.

It‘s me, hi. I‘m the someone, it‘s me.

Thanks, Soubhi, for keeping it going and working hard to keep us organized!

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Well that‘s a crappy gift, PRH. Booooo ☹️

Jas16 Agreed 4mo
JamieArc I saw this too and was disappointed, and then saw they are suing Iowa for censorship, so I feel a little less bad about it. 4mo
dariazeoli @JamieArc That was definitely a good counter action and I hope they win! 4mo
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Oh, gosh. This might have been the headline I read when I burst into real tears at the terrible news that Patrick Swayze was dying. I thought I had already known he was sick, but the thought of a five week timeline really made me cry.

Tabloids should be ashamed of themselves.

Clare-Dragonfly That‘s awful. 💔 4mo
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Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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I just don‘t know if I‘m ready for this…

#LesMisCAD

dabbe I tried three times and finally bailed. After seeing the Broadway musical 9 times, the book moved way too slowly for me, so I #hailedthebail! 😀 4mo
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Coffee and an audiobook on this chilly Saturday morning. I‘ve felt down this past month, unable to help those needing help, unable to shake the feeling that whatever I say will be the wrong thing. And so I continue to listen, to hope I understand, to never stop learning.

BarbaraBB I loved this book. It taught me a lot and I am so sorry Israel and Palestine haven‘t been able to find their way to peace with so many people wanting it at the time 4mo
lynneamch Well said. Truly listening to seek more to understand than to be understood. I'm trying too. 3mo
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Here are some of the contenders on my #nonfictionnovembet TBR, made up of things I own and end of October Hoopla credits. We‘ll see what I make it through!

Today is my 7th Litsyversary and I thank each of you who has made this place such a great community over the years! ❤️

Librarybelle Happy Litsyversary! 4mo
wanderinglynn Happy Litsyversary! 🎉🎈🥳💜 4mo
TheBookgeekFrau Happy Litsyversary!! 4mo
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Enough | Cassidy Hutchinson
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Chrissyreadit Happy Litsyversary 🎉🎉🎉 4mo
dariazeoli @Chrissyreadit Thank you! Where did seven years go?? 4mo
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The Broken Girls | Simone St. James
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This is not the big, terrible thing I wanted to hear about today. I read Matthew‘s book last year and was really rooting for him in recovery. He didn‘t get enough time.

He sure made me laugh as Chandler for a lot of years, though. Thanks, Matty. RIP.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/28/friends-star-matthew-perry-dead-dies-drowning/

DebinHawaii I just heard this. So sad! 💔 5mo
RamsFan1963 Such a f**king tragedy 💔💔😫 He had worked so hard to get clean and sober. Life is truly unfair 5mo
Deblovestoread Broken hearted. 💔 5mo
dabbe 💔 5mo
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The Woman in Me | Britney Spears
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I regret how I viewed Britney Spears at the height of her fame, and letting the news stories and edited interviews sway my opinion so much. Looking back over her career, it‘s impossible to deny how hard she worked. In hindsight, a lot of the behavior she got brutalized for wasn‘t so different than what others get to do without the flash of paparazzi. You stumble, you get up and try again. Fuck her family.

And yes, JT is a TOOL. Fuck him, too.

Soscha Indeed! Same for her father! 5mo
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Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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#LesMisCAD

A little fall of rain, can hardly hurt me now…

Today was the day. (I‘ve been reading forever.)

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I don‘t know if I feel seen…

…or judged!

RaeLovesToRead Hahaha, it looks like the next part of this comic goes on to say how hoarding is unhelpful and we should put less of an onus on possession of material things? Good job you pasted over that bit 😉😉😉😉💃💃💃 TO THE BOOKSHOP!!!!! 5mo
wanderinglynn 🤣 so true. And public libraries are great . . . but they don‘t have *every* book (and a lot of what I like to read I can‘t find at the library). So there‘s that. As @RaeLovesToRead said, to the bookshop! 5mo
TheLudicReader Please, everyone knows it‘s not hoarding if it‘s books. 😂 5mo
dariazeoli @RaeLovesToRead @wanderinglynn @TheLudicReader See you all at the shop! 📚🛍️ 5mo
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Had no idea when I posted this as an answer to a QOTD in the company water cooler channel last week that halfway across the world, stress and trauma were being experienced by Jewish civilians 80 years after these words were written in a diary.

I haven‘t the knowledge nor the understanding to pretend my opinion means anything today. But I‘m horrified for all the innocent people who are suffering during this terror.

How DO we improve this world?

Cinfhen I agree!!! What happened on Saturday isn‘t about “sides” - it‘s about EVIL savages massacring, abducting, raping and harming innocent families, elderly people, party goers, infants and children. It was PURE HATE and an attack on humanity. Either you condemn this type of behavior or your moral compass is out of whack. (edited) 5mo
TheBookHippie Just astounded and horrified at the EVIL and HATRED. Babies women elderly young men families slaughtered … and people are cheering in the streets 💔 we all must condemn this. (edited) 5mo
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Lcsmcat @Cinfhen I think autocorrect changed your meaning. Condone means to approve of. I think you meant to type “condemn.” 5mo
Cinfhen Thank you @Lcsmcat !!!! Damn autocorrect!! Fixing now 🤓 5mo
Cinfhen Did you see in UK @TheBookHippie they smashed the windows of Jewish owned shops!!! Its kristallnacht. What we are witnessing is 1939 Germany! Never Again has already occurred 💔 5mo
TheBookHippie @Cinfhen yes…and ppl thinking they‘re safe because of where they live…. They comment here to my daughter over her name in Hebrew tattooed on back of her neck she‘s been hiding it lately afraid to show it. (edited) 5mo
Cinfhen I‘m so sorry your daughter is experiencing that type of fear - for having a Jewish name. For proudly sharing her name in Hebrew. And now she has to hide it. We are living in dark times @TheBookHippie 💔 5mo
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Enough | Cassidy Hutchinson
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This is your ride or die, Trumpers? Aren‘t you embarrassed?

I‘m about halfway through this memoir, and I believe Hutchinson was naïve and in over her head. I‘m grateful for her J6 testimony, but I‘ll never understand how she still identifies as a conservative.

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Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
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The Broken Girls | Simone St. James
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I‘m definitely reading the tagged book for #AuthorAMonth in October, but I wanted to build a potential #FallTBR from books I already own. Here are the potential contenders.

BookBelle84 You have some good ones there. Vengeful is fantastic! It's one of my all-time faves. 6mo
dariazeoli @BookBelle84 Ooh, that‘s great to hear! I thought Vicious was a pretty good start so glad to hear you loved its sequel. 6mo
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Desperation | Stephen King
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I see it. Happy Birthday, Stephen King!

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Leslie F*cking Jones | Leslie Jones
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I dunno about you, but I think I‘m MORE likely to read Leslie‘s memoir with that title 🤷🏻‍♀️😉

UwannaPublishme Agreed! 6mo
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Greetings from Bury Park | Sarfraz Manzoor
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It‘s the Jersey in me. I can‘t help raising a fist and yelling, “Bruuuuuuuce!” at this.

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Ok, this is just ridiculous. #mounttbr #bookhoarding

Bookwormjillk I thought I was doing better until I added up how many audio and e-reader books I have 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ 6mo
kspenmoll I am too scared to count & face my mountainous TBR! 6mo
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Bklover Oh I loved The Green Mile! 6mo
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The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern
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Who else is a member of “The Books Became the Room” Club? 🙋🏻‍♀️

IMASLOWREADER loved that book especially when you read along with jim dale 7mo
wanderinglynn 🙋🏼‍♀️ that is a great description! 7mo
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The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern
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Books and dogs. Name a better combo.

Soubhiville Books+dogs+cats+tea(or coffee) 7mo
Soubhiville +snacks 😆 7mo
Itchyfeetreader Ooh lovely - is he a beagle? 7mo
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dabbe + Baileys in the coffee? 😃 7mo
dariazeoli I like the way you think, @Soubhiville & @dabbe 😁 7mo
dariazeoli @Itchyfeetreader She is! We‘re pretty sure she‘s mixed with another type of hound as she‘s tall. Maybe a tree walker coon hound? 7mo
dabbe @dariazeoli She's adorable! 🖤🐾🖤 7mo
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There is so much that is problematic about Vince McMahon and about professional wrestling. And still, somehow, Donald Freakin‘ Trump has to infiltrate.

He has been a pompous asshole since he was a kid. Source, this friend.

TheBookHippie 😵‍💫 7mo
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East, West: Stories | Salman Rushdie
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I‘ll be finishing my #AuthorAMonth pick today, but first I have to show off my lovely new bookmark from Christy Robinson Design! The Morrissey book quote sold me, and I had it personalized with “Daria‘s Libraria,” a play on words that only recently occurred to me and that I wish I‘d branded my Bookstagram with! 👇

dariazeoli The quote reads: “There‘s more to life than books, you know, but not much more.” Morrissey is wrong about a lot of things, but I agree with him on this one 😉 7mo
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East, West: Stories | Salman Rushdie
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Today‘s #libraryhaul is random! I‘ve been wanting to read Hannah Pick-Goslar‘s book for ages, and picked up the McMahon bio on a whim.

The Rushdie was an #AuthorAMonth decision after a week of struggling to pick Midnight‘s Children or The Satanic Verses as my first of his work. Instead, I‘m going with short stories!