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Leftcoastzen

Leftcoastzen

Joined June 2016

“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson
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The Last Widow: A Novel by Karin Slaughter
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Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
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My gems from the Barnes and Noble that opened in Phoenix,Az . yesterday. Lawless has been on my radar for awhile, The Acid Queen , a discovery. Love books about 1960s counterculture, no surprise, the women have been less written about than the men. The little tabby is a Folkmanis finger puppet!

HeyT omg last time i was at b&n i got the same finger puppet! (I do not plan to use it as a puppet but i loved it) 5d
dabbe I think I'm going to have to go there. We should meet up sometime! 💙🩵💙 5d
Leftcoastzen @dabbe yes , we should! 4d
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#WeDoNotCareWednesday #WDNCW
Because I was having a low energy day I did not care that I put off all the phone calls and emails that would require an appointment or a follow up ! All I wanted to do was go to the New B&N opening up , it was great a many people showed up ! Grabbed some groceries and read . Sometimes you gotta take a break!

Sarahreadstoomuch Ooh, a new B&N?!!🤩🤩 6d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 6d
lil1inblue 🙌 🙌 🙌 5d
dabbe Amen, sista! L🤩VE your #WDNCs! Phone call responsibilities will always be there ... take a break! 😍 5d
AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼🥳👌🏼📚💝. 5d
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#JuneSpecials #Beatles Of course I‘ve browsed the McCartney photo book many times, I grabbed the other one at a concert at the Musical Instrument Museum a while back & haven‘t read it yet . Definitely an iconic group in the Rock canon !

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 😍 6d
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Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood
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#JuneSpecials #Canada Some Canadian authors in the stash !

LeahBergen Nice!! 👏 7d
Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 7d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfection ❣️ 7d
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Absolute Beginners | Colin MacInnes
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#JuneSpecials #Music A touchstone for me forever,I am an Absolute Beginner ! https://youtu.be/v9glU6WzsdM?si=QxWmOu1Gq6NlxvDO

Eggs Well played 👏🏻 1w
Andrea313 Love The Jam! ❤️💙 1w
CarolynM Weller ❤️‍🔥 1w
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Yay!

TEArificbooks Excited for you. But I love The Poisoned Pen and will go there. 1w
Leftcoastzen @TEArificbooks I was just at The Poisoned Pen last Saturday, love that place! Also go to Changing Hands often. 1w
tpixie The more books, the merrier. 1w
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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1w
Ruthiella Love to see a bookstore chain expand, even a corporate one. So sad that Borders couldn‘t stick it out. I loved my local one so much. 1w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳 Triple excited for you!!! How amazing...🥳📚💝📚💝📚💝.

Now hoping B&N eyes my neighborhood too! Any bookstore opening nearby would be nice! ☺️📚💝.
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AnnCrystal @Ruthiella 🤩 miss Borders 📚💝, spend hours there as a teenager 💝📚💝📚💝. (edited) 1w
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella I liked Borders better as well , more depth to their stock ! 1w
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The Web and the Rock | Thomas Wolfe
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Still need to downsize the stash ,went to Goodwill,oops!😄📚

bibliothecarivs Story of my life haha 2w
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#wonderousWednesday
1.I liked Tag , Hide & Seek ,we had some weird croquet and bocce ball games when I was older.
Indoor board games, especially Monopoly ! Clue !
2.Someone mentioned pre VHS ,DVD days Wizard of Oz was on network TV once a year , you marked the date ! Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and all the Peanuts holiday specials we looked forward to! I was a horse book girl,also remember fondly when mom & I read Little Women together!

Eggs Lovely responses👏🏻 Thanks for playing 🥳 2w
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Took 3 months for this hold to come in ,started today. I was around to clearly know that the Reagan years were the beginning of the end and predicted how we got here. I‘m sure it will fill in some details and I get to get mad all over again!😡

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#serieslove2025 a CDC doctor gets taken , a month later,a big blast near CDC , a university,2 hospitals and a FBI field office. As Sarah and Will rush to the scene ,chaos ensues,Sarah is abducted, and there is no doubt a larger conspiracy is at hand.
Dark forces have bigger plans , both Will and Sarah will be challenged to even survive, let alone stop a group who doesn‘t tip their hand about the plan . Very intense read .

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America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction | Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum
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#JuneSpecials #Flag playing catch up. This book was published in 2004 .So much has changed in the political climate since then .🙄😱

Eggs ❤️🇺🇸💙 2w
dabbe So has Stewart‘s hair, which also shows the weight of things. I have this book, too! 🤩 2w
TieDyeDude This was on my shelf for years. I don't own it anymore, but after the first read, it was a fun book to flip through every now and then. 2w
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My #NoKings Scottsdale,Az. It was super hot ,even though I love the bigger numbers down by the Capitol, it‘s hard to get in & out of there quickly if you are sensitive to the heat and I am .Was blown away by the amount of people on 4 corners of Camelback and Scottsdale road . People were connecting, passing out water , seniors in large numbers .Bless them all.It started at 8 am to leave before businesses opened. lots of honking as cars rolled by.

lil1inblue 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 2w
BarbaraBB 💕 2w
uncommonlycozies Imma AZ desert rat too! Born & raised. 🏜️ 2w
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PaperbackPirate 👏👏💪🏼🚫👑 2w
KadaGul 🤍💪🤍🚫👑🤍🫡🤍✊ 2w
AnnCrystal ✊🏼😎👍🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲. 2w
bibliothecarivs 🚫👑✊️ Solidarity, neighbor! I'm in northern Utah. 2w
Leftcoastzen @uncommonlycozies hello ,desert rat ! I am not a native but grew up here . 2w
Leftcoastzen @bibliothecarivs I like it up there ! Used to visit Logan & Ogden occasionally. 2w
uncommonlycozies @bibliothecarivs & @Leftcoastzen hello neighbors 👋😊 (edited) 2w
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It‘s #caturday After going to a protest I wanted something sweet and gentle to calm myself down! This sweet book did the trick. While using the alphabet to describe cat characteristics, they describe different breeds of cats and the general domestic house cats most of us rescue or adopt!

AnnCrystal ✊🏼😻📚💝. 2w
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Uncultured: A Memoir | Daniella Mestyanek Young
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Her story,fascinating. Yes,TWs galore,to read her experiences growing up in a cult called the Children of God ,shocking & sad .It is really amazing how she decided to leave at 15, tried to start at school,had to be tested to be placed , she didn‘t exist! Though born in the US she lived in many places to stay one step ahead of problems for the cult .joined the Army,was in Afghanistan,an era where her right to be there was challenged .

Christine Great review! I‘ve been meaning to get to this one for a while. She‘s a very interesting follow on social media! 3w
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Susanita 😳 3w
TheBookHippie 🫣😵‍💫 3w
AmyG Good times. 😬 3w
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dabbe 😳 3w
AnnCrystal 🧐🥺🤔😳😱. 3w
MemoirsForMe 😳😬 3w
bibliothecarivs 😯😬 3w
Bookwomble Hard core! 😬😳 2w
Jari-chan 😯😯😯 2w
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#JuneSpecials looks like it could take place on a #DarkAndStormy night! Still on my #TBR

Eggs Definitely 👍🏼 3w
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Just one more , she is fabulous!

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So many delightful designs! Her inspirations span history, cultures , trends,& traditions

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Needed a different day ! Especially since it‘s 100 at noon!😡

LeahBergen Fun! 👏👏👏 3w
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#JuneSpecials This is the first book in Cathers #prairie series

Eggs Cather is classic🧡 3w
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#JuneSpecials #Cheese I remember really enjoying this years ago. I don‘t have a copy to refresh my memory!😄

Eggs My daughters loved this! 4w
marleed Loved this - still have it in my collection of 90s children‘s books! 4w
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#JuneSpecials #Egg Kenny Shopsin begged an Arminian grocer to sell him his corner bodega .Kenny continued cook their signature roast beef for sandwiches, with a simple set up eventually had over 900 offerings. A neighborhood favorite in the Village , NYC for decades. Kenny also had a temper , and fools probably wouldn‘t get served. I ate there twice, guess I didn‘t act like a fool! Love this slider on the cover of this book.

Tamra How fun is that?! 4w
Leftcoastzen @Tamra thx ! I agree!😄 4w
Eggs Great story👏🏻👏🏻 4w
Leftcoastzen @Eggs thx ! I love people with character & spunk! 4w
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#JuneSpecials #GoBarefoot a deck of poses , I should do more yoga again . balance is important ,also maybe I could calm down!🧘‍♀️

Eggs I would like to restart yoga too…body pain and inflammation 😣 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Eggs oh no! Sorry you‘re suffering, hope there‘s something that helps! 1mo
uncommonlycozies deck of poses! this is such an approachable & intentional way to practice new poses or just to get yourself familiar. thank you for sharing this 🤗 1mo
Leftcoastzen @uncommonlycozies I agree , there are suggestion cards to guide you to a purposeful practice, but it is easy to use it to fine tune a pose or randomly break out of routine . 1mo
Eggs @Leftcoastzen Thank you! 🙏🏻 1mo
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Sherlockian | Graham Moore
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Thought of you @dabbe 🤩

dabbe Sheer awesomeness! Thanks for sharing. I now have it as a birthday wish! 😍 1mo
Leftcoastzen @dabbe yay! 👏🫶 1mo
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#Bibliophile #FoundInTitle Bet there are some great and not so great in here . I was browsing on the B&N site, will definitely take a look if I find it somewhere.

LeahBergen This sounds good! 1mo
Eggs Vintage cookbook👏🏻🥰👍🏼 1mo
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Dusty wants to remind everyone that it‘s #Caturday
😻😁👏 #CatsOfLitsy

Eggs 🩶🩶🩶❤️🩶🩶🩶 1mo
JenReadsAlot Gorgeous kitty! 1mo
Gissy 😻🤎🤎🤎 1mo
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Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
Bookwomble Hi, Dusty 👋🐈‍⬛ 1mo
RaeLovesToRead Happy Caturday, Dusty 🥰🥰 1mo
TheBookHippie Awe. 1mo
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 1mo
AlaMich He matches the couch! 🩶 1mo
AnnCrystal Beautiful 😍💕😻💝. 1mo
dabbe #darlingdusty 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
JenlovesJT47 😻😻😻😻😻😻 3w
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#Bibliophile #LostInTitle one of my favorite books about the time period. She knew everyone who came through Paris at the time.Hemingway,Fitzgerald, Stein, James Joyce . She was the first to publish Ulysses.

Eggs Sounds wonderful ❣️ 1mo
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😡I like @DogMomIrene have a “Prevent Democracy Dying “shelf where it will have a space.I too struggled with online version Mandate for leadership (992 pages).Reading this distilled version clarified so many things that we see happening everyday.
Bullet points from back cover.Enforcing traditional gender norms.😡decimating civil service 🤬performing mass deportations 😡reducing corp. regulation & worker protections 😡 An important read.

EKonrad Don‘t know if I have the stomach to actually read this. 😩 1mo
Leftcoastzen @EKonrad oh I get it . Thankfully 130 ish pages 1mo
Texreader @EKonrad I don‘t think I could read it. The headlines already stress me so badly!! 1mo
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AnnCrystal 😢🙏🏼🇺🇲🦅🇺🇸. 1mo
sarahbarnes Yes, this agenda is keeping me very busy at work these days. 😡 1mo
DogMomIrene The 130 pages really helped me prioritize this one. I kept skimming the actual Mandate document because so much is their backwards “rationale” for just stripping constitutional right after right from people! It was exhausting filtering their BS. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @DogMomIrene you sum it up nicely. I‘d dip in and out of that mess , glad Graham did the dirty work & wrote this book!😄 1mo
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How could I resist 2 Bookish cat postcards ?!?😸

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 1mo
tpixie Love them 🐈‍⬛ 1mo
MemoirsForMe 😍😍😍 1mo
AnnCrystal 😻😸👍🏼💝. 1mo
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Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
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My highest praise. It is written as diary entries, what is happening to him & society as Hitler rises to power. He sees the stupidity,the cruelty,the arrogance.How such a regime destroys everything in its wake .The past ,the present,the future.Unfortunately, It is too relevant in this particular moment. Very moving, so glad I read it. I had heard of it years ago, then Tim Miller mentioned it in The Bulwark podcast.Beautiful writing,sharp insights

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The Case of the Haunted Husband | Erle Stanley Gardner
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#Bibliophile #AuthorWPseudonym playing catch up !

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🙌🏻 1mo
Eggs Love these💖📚👍🏼 1mo
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It‘s just Goose being Goose ! #CatsOfLitsy

TheBookHippie ♥️ 1mo
BooksandCoffee4Me Love this! Oh how I wish I could have a cat like this! Family allergies 🤧 1mo
dabbe #goofiestadorablegoose! 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
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AnnCrystal 💕😹💝. 1mo
Leftcoastzen @BooksandCoffee4Me awww ! Well at least you can enjoy his photo! 1mo
Aims42 😻😻😻😻😻 1mo
Gissy 😻🤎🤎🤎 (edited) 1mo
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#Bibliophile #ZInTitle I read this years ago and really liked it . Captures the culture of Germany between the Wars .Rainer Werner Fassbinder did a 15 hour film version of this book. This book was also in the list of titles in this week‘s #ThreeListThursday quiz. Franz is out of prison, trying to built a life , gangsters, petty thieves,unemployment lines,& other challenges stand in the way of his stability.

dabbe Looks like a W🤩WZA one! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 1mo
Eggs Sounds awesome 👏🏻 1mo
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#TLT #ThreeListThursday should say 1900s actually.
I‘m surprised I am not a bit higher. Really read many around the WWI era.
Room with a View , Howards End EM Forster fantastic. I love James Joyce, you don‘t need to read Ulysses, read Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man, The Jungle , Great Gatsby of course. E E Cummings Enormous Room is an impressive book about the WWI era.

dabbe I fixed the error; thanks for catching it. #TFPAS (Thanks for playing and sharing). 😊 1mo
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Gissy Is that a bookmark? 😍 1mo
Leftcoastzen It‘s actually the spine of one of the volumes in a little leather set of GOT @Gissy (edited) 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 1mo
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BethM Soooo pretty! How‘s the inside readability? 1mo
Leftcoastzen @BethM they are small , the typeface is about the same as a mass market paperback 1mo
Eggs ❤️ 🐉 💚 1mo
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I Married a Communist | Philip Roth
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#Bibliophile #RedCover What other color would this one be? 😁

Eggs 🤣❤️🥰 1mo
AmyG Ha, right? 1mo
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#SundayFunday well , I have read Gone With the Wind , Anna Karenina, War & Peace .With the Tolstoys it depends on what edition you read what the page counts are (a lot) . The old hardcover edition of GWTW has 1,037 pages . Also have read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 1168 pages . I was amazed when I saw Littens reading the giant Clarissa, I do have it here somewhere but I haven‘t attempted it .😄

BookmarkTavern Wow! Lots of chunksters there! Thanks for sharing! 1mo
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#Bibliophile #LongTitle I love the Glass family.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 1mo
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Anguish | Graciliano Ramos
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#Bibliophile #SetInSoAmerica this Brazilian novel is still on my #TBRMountain

Eggs Excellent find👏🏻👏🏻 2mo
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Diary of a Man in Despair | Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
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Someone recommended this book to Tim Miller of The Bulwark, he added to footnotes, I borrowed it. Originally published in 1947, Reck details the rise of Hitler and Nazism with appropriate horror. I‘m only a bit into it , this paragraph !

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Lonesome Dove: A Novel | Larry McMurtry
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#Bibliophile #PulitzerWinner Very worthy of all the love it gets ! Incredible read #chunkster

Eggs Agree absolutely 💯 2mo
Texreader Yes!!! 2mo
Ruthiella Agreed! 👍 2mo
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AmyG One of my favorites! Great, great book. 2mo
Daisey Completely agree! 2mo
youneverarrived Absolutely 🤍 1mo
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Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth
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#Bibliophile #NewburyWinner published in 1930 It‘s probably one of the reasons I love cats and have some compassion.

Eggs How precious❤️ 🐾 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🐾 ❤️ 2mo
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TheBookHippie This can end at anytime if republicans had a backbone or ethics or even morals…. 2mo
Librarybelle Exactly, @TheBookHippie ! If all congressional members, no matter political leaning, actually took a stand, it would be a massive help. (edited) 2mo
Scochrane26 They all infuriate me. And that‘s before I start freaking out about Medicaid cuts. 2mo
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Puzzle was on sale , I know this book will take awhile. I stubbed 2 toes this afternoon, not thrilled. Guess I will have to keep it up & read the rest of the afternoon.

Ruthiella Ouch! The danger of open toed shoes! 2mo
Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella well , I was barefoot in my house , you think I would remember where all the corners in my house actually are by now ! 😂 2mo
TheBookHippie I have this same problem… 🫣👣 2mo
AnnCrystal Hate when I do that 🙏💝. 2mo
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Seen at Barnes & Noble , just feels right! 😂

Suet624 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2mo
dabbe 🙌🏻🤩🙌🏻 2mo
TheBookHippie Oh need this!!! 2mo
AmyG Perfection! 2mo
Reggie LOL 2mo
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Sophie says happy #Caturday
#CatsOfLitsy

Chrissyreadit She‘s gorgeous! 2mo
dabbe #stunningsophie 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 2mo
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Reggie Love those eyes. 2mo
DogMomIrene ❤️🐾 2mo
RaeLovesToRead Sophie 🥰🥰🥰 2mo
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#BOTM #BookMail is the best mail! 👏I have eaten at McNallys Balthazar a few times over the years , I love that place !

TheBookHippie Cannot wait to read it! 2mo
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A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomas Hardy
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Found for cheap at a Library store, one even has an old Borders sticker on the back,sigh.

BooksandCoffee4Me I loved the atmosphere at our Borders. I still remember a Friday night date there with my husband when the guitarist Benise was playing. Gosh, that was way back! #tuesdaytunes https://www.benise.com/ 2mo
bibliothecarivs Nice! I have that edition of A Laodicean. 2mo
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Libraries | Bjarne Hammer
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Libraries are helpful in so many ways .

ElizaMarie I love this! Yay for Libraries! 2mo
Ruthiella So very many ways. ❤️ 2mo
sarahbarnes I love this. ♥️ 2mo
lil1inblue 💓 💓 💓 💓 💓 2mo
Tamra Serving all in the community! 2mo
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Front Desk | Kelly Yang
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picked this up on indie bkstore day from Changing Hands pop up shop of banned books. The Tangs move to the US for a better life. This book is really upbeat,yet doesn‘t sugar coat how they are exploited by a hotel owner as mom,dad,& daughter Mia do everything to run a motel owned by a guy who only pays them part of the cost of a nights stay. I was joyful to watch them slowly find some success while not losing their empathy. Mia, a super character

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