The 1963 animated film based on T.H. White‘s Once and Future King collection is delightfully clever in characterizations and wit; especially Wart, Merlin, and Archimedes.

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Ashley, wife and mother of two, has just lost her estranged sister as a result of drowning in her pool. But when Ashley brings her niece to their home to live with them, peculiar things begin to happen…great suspense building.

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“Her job is to smile and recite her lines—onstage and in society. But the thankless routine is bringing out her rebellious side.”

Entertaining novella! Setting is 1820s Venice about an illusionist, Oscar Van Hoff, and his wife Olivia…

Not in Litsy DB.

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“Our children never warn us that they‘re thinking of growing up, one day they‘re just too big to want to hold our hand, it‘s just as well we never know when the last time is going to be or we‘d never let go.”

Sigh…
Rich characterizations, flawed but loveable humans in a town whose lifeblood is hockey competition. Third book in the Beartown series-it seems there were so many subplots to wrap up, it grew very long (684 pages), but ultimately⬇️

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🤩📚📝🧡🎧📖🧡

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“Now are the woods all black, but still the sky is blue. May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend.”

#MotherandChild

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“Death, to the ancient Egyptians, was not an end; it was a continuation of the life already lived.”

#Queen

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was considered a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. An essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Frederick Douglass viewed freedom as the absence of slavery, the right to education, and the ability to express oneself. He believed ⬇️

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August 2025

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Bingo Blackout July 2025

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"The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."

A few of my favorite horse books ?

#LoveHorses

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“Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe...”

-Hanako Ishii

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When Reuben learns his ex Beth is getting married, he plans an elaborate distraction with friends, until a phone call changes everything.

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“I kiss you and kiss you
With arms round my own
Ah how I shall miss you
When dear you have grown” -W. B. Yeats

Two favorites that celebrate motherhood! 💖

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“Life is too short to waste on reading a book you‘re not enjoying…you should give a book fifty pages. But if you‘re over the age of fifty, take your age and subtract it from a hundred. So, if you‘re seventy, give the book thirty pages. “

Entertaining vignettes of the lives of librarians, and bookstore owners/employees from across the US.

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“God has a plan for each of us.”

Sweet Violet is the last of the litter to find a home - she tries the bakery, plant nursery, and grocery; but at last she finds her home at a pleasant little bookshop with Alice the owner 🐱 🤍 📚

#Kittens

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“The world is full of miracles. But none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else‘s belief in them.”

Unpopular opinion here - not my favorite Backman. Timelines were confusing, and unlike reviewers implied, I did not laugh or cry. I do, however, appreciate the portrayal of art and friendship as salvation for the messy lives into which we are often thrust when we are young.

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This novel has so many themes in so many characters, but for Count Rostov the themes of loss and loneliness are significant. He is a prisoner in Russia at the Metropol Hotel- were he to exit through the door, he would be shot. He has lost so much but seeks to assuage his pain by making connections with other guests and employees of the hotel💔

#CheerTheLonely
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Mr. Key composed a poem upon viewing the flag at Fort McHenry in 1814 that would become the Star Spangled Banner 🎶. This flag now inhabits a dark and mysterious alcove in the Smithsonian in DC approached with awe by those who tiptoe through…

#Flag

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All the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! The choice of narrator was brilliant, and the first chapter will really grab you! Wonderful debut🩵 Highly recommend 💖

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“…a tent represented adventures and possibilities, giving you the stars every single night. But a house stayed in one place, safe but always the same.”

MG novel of self-discovery and truth finding mixed with tween awkwardness and a last name that nobody wants. 3.7 🌟

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One week until we enter August 2025! I hope you‘re ready!!

Please join us in our August photo challenge🧡 Post a book, song, play, poem, quote, film etc that matches the daily prompt. Use the hashtag and tag us. Everyone is welcome to play🥳

Thanks to everyone who played in July🙏🏻

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Memoir by the late Whitney Houston‘s bodyguard during the late 1980s and mid-1990s. Sad 😢. He could protect her from everyone except herself.

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“Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine

#Patriots

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“I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.” —Little Women

#FamilyReunion

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Between pick and so-so. I expected a lot more. The premise of compulsive lying was attractive and the characters were unlikable. The climax had me confused though and I kept thinking I had missed something. 🤷‍♀️

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Over my head I see the bronze butterfly
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine, behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life. -James Wright

#Hammock
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“You have to love…You have to feel. It‘s the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart…to be swallowed up. And when…you are broken, betrayed, left, hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree,listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.” -LOUISE ERDRICH, The Painted Drum

The above books I lovingly call my Library of Grace

The joy of playing outdoors in any season is depicted in this lush picture book 🌷🌳 🍁❄️

#PlayOutside

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A deliciously beautiful picture book about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman, who became the first full-time solo percussionist in the world.

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Memoir by debut author Katie Fugett, who was thrust into widowhood in her early 20s when her husband suffered limb loss from an Iraqi IED, followed by PTSD/painkiller addiction. Mix that with the author‘s abusive chaotic childhood and you get a serious struggle to survive both within and without marriage 💔

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“What was it about the military that made us believe it was our duty to not only accept violence against our bodies but find pride in enduring it?”

#Bravery 💔

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#Listen

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“Those memories press into me like rude, insistent fingers, as I try to push them away."

Chief Kate Burkholder is investigating a brutal double homicide in the Amish community of Painters Mill. She‘s tough as nails but understands families‘ pain, despite having grown up Amish and later leaving that religious life…

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“Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper thanks.”

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“But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.”

Hidden ice world meets light of day wider world! Setting: Greenland, in the future beyond…

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“…but to be on my own again and free. The thought is a dangerous one, though, and I know that I mustn‘t let it grow too large.”

HF dual timeline - midWWII and postwar 1953. Louise tries to connect clues and memories based on a lost then rediscovered necklace, a department store-turned-Nazi venue for selling seized goods, and her friend Franny…

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“Life is a thread, connecting us all in unexpected ways.”

After losing her mom, Emmalee, a single mom, becomes a friend of coworker Leona, who wanted to be a mom but couldn‘t, at the sewing factory 🧵. When Leona dies suddenly, Emmalee is determined to craft Leona‘s funeral dress 👗

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“Nourish the tree that lives in you.”

Beautifully painted picture book🌳🩷🌼

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The Latin phrase E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One — is our de facto national motto. It was a rallying cry of our founders as they built a single unified nation from a collection of states. It‘s a good reminder of where we need to go.
-Steve Blank

#EPluribusUnum

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#Eagle 🦅 ❤️🇺🇸🤍🇺🇸💙 🦅

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This novel follows the lives of three prominent figures during the French Revolution: Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre.

#BastilleDay (Fete Nationale de France)🇫🇷

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#Picnic 🧺 🍷 🧀 🥚 🥧 🍓🍎🍗🧁 🧺

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“How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.”

Searing, soul-baring verse from the author of Goodbye Vitamin 😔

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“There was gray everywhere.”

WWII HF dual timeline with intriguing subplots. Love, betrayal, holocaust, mystery ….

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#Simplicity

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Photos taken by @geodynamical_nonfiction my daughter on July 4.

#Fireworks

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Finished the Alibis collection of Amazon original stories! These are so good 😊 👏🏻 Favorites were The Skydivers and Death Row

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