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mom2bugnbee

Joined September 2016

▫️Mother, Teacher, Reader, Wife▫️Ravenclaw 💙▫️Wholockian▫️Biology prof▫️Boston U mom ♥️🤍 ▫️Dean College mom 🐾▫️Raising readers
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Hey, Littens! This month's #Authoramonth is Ursula K. LeGuin & I know nothing except for her name & that she writes fantasy. Where do you suggest I start?

mom2bugnbee @TheSpineView Thank you! 16h
julesG She wrote Sci-fi too. 13h
RamsFan1963 If you're into political/social theory I recommend this one. 3h
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Bailedbailed

I tried. Twice. 😔 Just couldn't get into it. I typically enjoy narrative non-fiction, but this just wasn't an interesting subject for me. I do think Larson is a lovely writer! #Authoramonth @Soubhiville

Soubhiville (I bailed this one too) 21h
mom2bugnbee @Soubhiville As I say every month when I bail, I'm just glad that you've encouraged me to try a new-to-me author! 21h
JackOBotts I loved this, but my friend did not enjoy this as a whole…she just skipped to the HH Holmes chapters…💜 21h
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I listened to this on audiobook and enjoyed it well enough, but I don't think I could've finished it visually. 19h
Sarahreadstoomuch This was an audio for me. I also think I‘d have bailed if read in print. I just don‘t have the attention span anymore 17h
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service

Welp, I didn't get any reading done on Sunday or Monday, but I'll take my two day total of 12 hours 16 minutes during #20in4, especially since I've been in a huge slump recently! Thanks for the push @Andrew65! Onward!

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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service

Day 2 of #20in4 = 7 hours, 35 minutes.

Finished Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton (audio) & Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen (Kindle). Started In the Great Green Room (biography of Margaret Wise Brown) by Amy Gary (audio).

@Andrew65

Andrew65 That‘s great, well done 👏👏👏 4d
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Other Birds: A Novel | Sarah Addison Allen
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Good grief, I love her writing. Read this in one sitting. I've missed her so much - obviously out of her control because she fought cancer. I'm so glad she's writing again.

As always, her twists/revelations made me sigh with happiness.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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#20in4 Day 1 = 4 hrs, 41 mins
Listened to 1 hour of The Alchemist & bailed
Started this gem because I'm a Potterhead. ☺

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Bailedbailed

Even Jeremy Irons' narration couldn't save this one. Just not for me. 😔

Tamra I tried in print as well and bailed. 6d
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Mehso-so

Meh. It was fine. Unbelievable story, obviously. And I wanted to scream at people throughout. While the narrator was great, I would have loved to have heard the author read it - but I'm sure there were reasons that she didn't.

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Hey, y'all! I've missed you!

The past six months have been a crazy journey. My younger daughter graduates from high school next week, & she is pursuing a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. This means that in addition to academic applications, she had to audition for the programs. 13,125 miles & 18 auditions later, she is thrilled to be attending Dean College in Franklin, MA & I am thrilled to have time to read once again!

I'm back! 😁

TrishB Hi 👋 4w
Bookwormjillk Very cool! Congratulations to you and your daughter! 4w
Amiable Congratulations! Great pick! 4w
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mom2bugnbee @Amiable My girls will be a 45 minute train ride from each other! Not at all what we envisioned, & very exciting! 4w
kspenmoll How wonderful!!! 4w
Amiable @mom2bugnbee Massachusetts is a terrific place to be a college student! 🙂 4w
MaureenMc 👏👏👏 to your daughter! 3w
Hooked_on_books Holy cow that seems like a long haul! Great that you‘ve come out the other side and she‘s set to go. Good for her! 3w
mom2bugnbee @Hooked_on_books My husband compared it to being recruited for college athletics, & he's not wrong. Some of these programs have a lower acceptance percentage than Ivy League schools. It's nuts! But it's been wonderful quality time spent with her. The upside to an empty nest = reading time! 😁 3w
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Dreaming of the Bones | Deborah Crombie
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I just love Duncan & Gemma.

That is all.

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The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
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16% in and this simply isn't for me. I always appreciate trying new authors for #Authoramonth, but she won't be added to my list. On to February! ☺ @Soubhiville

Soubhiville It‘s ok! She‘s not for everyone. Don‘t forget bails count towards the Every Month Club. 🙂 5mo
mom2bugnbee @Soubhiville Oh, thank you! 5mo
Bklover Oh, I can‘t tell you how happy you just made me! I have read the first 20 pages of Tracks for #aam about three times and I keep realizing that I‘m planning my dinner or thinking about money or what I want to eat right now or loving on my dogs or just about anything but the book and I have no idea what I read. And of course I think it has 100%positive reviews so I feel like a failure at life altogether. I may be exaggerating a bit, 🥴🙄😊 5mo
Bklover Oh, and it‘s the first month of the year! But now there‘s two of us so it‘s OKAY!!👏👏👍👍 5mo
mom2bugnbee @Bklover 🤜🏻🤛🏻 5mo
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McKay's | Chattanooga, TN (Bookstore)
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My family's trip to McKay's (we actually visited the Nashville location, but it wasn't in the database) was incredibly successful, as we had $185 in credit after trading in books! Had to laugh at the "subgenre" labels in the romance section! ?

AlaMich That‘s pretty funny! I never thought of “small town men” being a romance sub genre. 5mo
AlaMich omg, I just noticed the shelf labeled “men who lost their shirts”!! 🤣 5mo
Clwojick 😂😂😂 5mo
mom2bugnbee @AlaMich "Men Who Lost Their Shirts" is what made me lose it. They also have "Bikers". Obviously tongue in cheek, but very funny! They reposted my IG story, saying "definitely our best shelf labels yet". ? 5mo
Amiable I love bookstores with a sense of humor about labeling shelves. My local used bookstore does this. My favorite shelf is the one in the history section: “Dudes with Short-Man Syndrome.” That‘s where you‘ll find the biographies of Napoleon, Stalin and Mussolini. 😄 (edited) 5mo
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For any Littens interested, these sold out quickly a few weeks ago, so this next batch will likely sell quickly as well. I just purchased this for my 20yo - this is one of her all-time favorites. Signed with a personal inscription by Ben Saenz, & it's not any more expensive than a typical hardcover book.

https://www.benjaminsaenz.com/benjamin-ink/p/signed-by-ben-10-anniversary-editio...

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A World of Curiosities | Louise Penny
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Louise Penny never disappoints.

⭐⭐⭐⭐✨/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#Booked2023 - set in 2+ time periods

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Happy New Year! | Greg Roza
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Not my best reading year - life was just busy. Good news is that I didn't read many bad books, evident by the fact that I bailed on only one. (I'm not shy to bail on books.) I had six five-star books (I'm stingy with my stars) and a whole lot of four-star. Looking forward to starting fresh tomorrow & being more active on Litsy in 2023!

britt_brooke Nicely done, my friend! 5mo
Amiable I‘m stingy with stars, too. Six 5-star books would be a big year for me! 5mo
MaureenMc Well done! 5mo
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mom2bugnbee @Amiable To be fair, three of them were three of the four in the Track series by Jason Reynolds, which are middle grade books. I adored that series so much & they just kept getting better. 5mo
Amiable @mom2bugnbee Valid scoring—one of my very few 5-star reads in 2021 was a Jason Reynolds book! His books are phenomenal. 5mo
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Christmastime | Alison Jay
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My newest t-shirt - Christmas gift from my mom. ☺

TNbookworm Love it😍 5mo
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A World of Curiosities | Louise Penny
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Yesssssssssssssss. I adore skip the line surprises!

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Becoming | Michelle Obama
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I decided to ask friends from Facebook for their recommendations for this challenge - love the diversity of genres shown here!

Soubhiville I did the same! I‘m waiting for 4 more spaces to fill. Nice variety there! 5mo
Suet624 Fascinating choices. 5mo
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Hey there, Littens! My reading life was WAY down during the second half of the year, & I was terrible about posting on Litsy. 😔 Determined to be back in force in 2023!

Goals: 80 books, #Booked2023 & #Authoramonth2023. And reading my shelf - isn't that always a goal? 😁

Happy New Year! 🎉

Amiable Happy New Year, Amy! 🎉🎊 5mo
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Love on the Brain | Ali Hazelwood

So thankful to have gotten over my reading slump. Now I need to get back into the habit of posting! Since my last post, I went on a romance semi-binge.

My August reading:

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Stuck with You, Below Zero, & Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 🎧
Finding Me by Viola Davis 🎧
The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Monster Blood by R.L. Stine

sprainedbrain I‘m glad your slump is over! I‘ve been on a romance kick for months. 😂 9mo
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Lu (Track, #4) | Jason Reynolds
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I read/listened to this entire series in two days. Some of the best middle grade books I've ever read.

Thanks for the book @Soubhiville! And for including Jason Reynolds in the #Authoramonth2022 list. Now to read everything he's written.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Ghost | Jason Reynolds
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Yup. Lived up to the hype. Starting the next one on audio tomorrow. What a fantastic middle grade novel!

#Authoramonth2022 @Soubhiville

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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The Golden Hour: A Novel | Beatriz Williams
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Littens! Life has been BUSY & I've been lurking a bit but not posting, because I haven't been reading much. 😔 I've missed you, as I always do when life hits hard.

Here's to finishing the year strong! 💪

kspenmoll Good to hear from you! 10mo
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Snuck this picture of my 19yo reading The Fellowship of the Ring for the first time. Notice her tools for annotating. Color-coded post-it flags & pens for things like favorite quotes, character development moments, important plot points, etc. Anyone else read like this? She doesn't do this for every book, but she does for most of the classics that she reads. ♥

Chrissyreadit Love it ❤️ 11mo
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The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith
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Yeah... 20% in & I'm bailing. Tom Ripley just isn't for me. 😔 As always, I'm so glad that #Authoramonth2022 introduces me to new-to-me authors, even when I don't love them! @Soubhiville

Soubhiville It was worth a try! 12mo
mom2bugnbee @Soubhiville Absolutely! I'm not at all sorry to have tried her! 12mo
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Perfect timing - many of us in the USA have a long weekend (Memorial Day). Here we go! #20in4 @Andrew65

Andrew65 Good luck, great to have you with us 😊 12mo
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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

☝🏻= me, reading the twist at 95% of the book.

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

☝🏻 = me, not believing that I didn't see it coming

Wow. Just wow. I'm stingy with my 5⭐ reviews. No question with this one. She's just phenomenal.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Megabooks This is a wonderful book!! 12mo
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Book Lovers | Emily Henry
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Did I mention she's an auto-read? ☺ So nice to relax with some cute romances as summer begins!

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KathyWheeler I‘m reading this now and really like it so far. 12mo
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Book Lovers | Emily Henry
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This was funny - because since Patricia Highsmith is May's #Authoramonth2022, The Talented Mr. Ripley is next in my queue. @Soubhiville

keithmalek I found that The Talented Mr. Ripley is one of those rare instances in which the film is actually better than the book. 12mo
mom2bugnbee @keithmalek I've heard that! I've neither read nor watched it, so I'm going in fresh. 12mo
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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Another lovely surprise from Libby! I'd better get reading! 😁

BkClubCare What is this? How does it work? 12mo
Megabooks Awesome!! 12mo
mom2bugnbee @BkClubCare I don't have any magic answers - Libby will just occasionally offer me skip-the-line books that I have in my holds. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 12mo
BkClubCare Oh. Interesting. I have not had that happen. In fact, I usually get the opposite! Whenever I attempt to put a hold on a 2 week delay, it turns into 4 weeks 🤣 12mo
mom2bugnbee @BkClubCare I don't know if it's a regional thing or not? I'm in Nashville - maybe we don't have as many readers here. 😔 12mo
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She's become an auto-read for me. Just started her newest! So much fun.

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This was a nice surprise! These Libby holds came in on the same day, & neither was supposed to for weeks! 😁 Diving in!

aperfectmjk I just finished Beach Read, really enjoyed it. Waiting on Book Lovers. 13mo
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Jane of Lantern Hill | L M Montgomery

"Good-bye, Jane Stuart. May you never drink out of an empty cup."

How lovely.

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I blame @britt_brooke & #NashvilleLittens for this one! ? Still wrapping my brain around "language that is cultish" versus "the language of cults".

⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

britt_brooke 😚 13mo
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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An extra day helped 😉 - 13 hours this weekend! I've been in a HUGE slump, so this definitely helped. Thanks, @Andrew65!

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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Hey, Littens! It's been a crazy season, & I've hardly read at all this month, but this and @DeweysReadathon is just what I need on a not-terribly-busy weekend to get back into the groove! @Andrew65

Andrew65 Great to have you with us. Good luck with both readathons 😊 13mo
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The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood
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Well, this was just delightful. ☺

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britt_brooke So cute! I recently read her two newest novellas (she has a 3rd novella and a full length novel coming out this year still, I believe) set in her #STEMinist world. I didn‘t know until a friend mentioned it, she started off writing Star Wars fanfiction. 14mo
mom2bugnbee @britt_brooke I heard that recently! Many think Olive & Adam = Rey & Kylo Ren. And I think she has three books in total coming out this year! I bet she took short stories that she had already written & expanded them. 14mo
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The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood
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What a nice surprise! A skip-the-line loan from Libby! Love these!

Suet624 It WAS a fun surprise. 14mo
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Chemistry | Weike Wang
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Still wrapping my head around this gift from @BookNAround. What a heart-wrenching story. Extra special that the author got her MFA from Boston U, where my daughter attends!

Also, this is a perfect cover.

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britt_brooke I liked this one a lot! 14mo
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84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff, Frank Doel, Marks & Co
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As good as advertised! What a sweet, yet heart-wrenching, book! I love epistolary novels.
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A quick flight = a short book! Been looking forward to this one for a while, & this was my #jolobokaflodswap present from @BookNAround !

Soubhiville Such a sweet little book. 1y
Aims42 Loved this sweet read! Definitely recommend the sequel 😍 1y
mom2bugnbee @aims42 Thank you! Didn't know that existed! 1y
Aims42 @mom2bugnbee You‘re welcome!! I wish there was a whole series, I‘d read them all 😍😍😍😍 1y
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Carpenters: The Musical Legacy | Mike Cidoni Lennox, Chris May
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Up next: my Christmas present from my 19yo daughter. She knows me well. ☺

Texreader That‘s so sweet. My daughter has been known to follow me around the bookstore taking photos of the books I say I want to read someday. 1y
robinb ❤️ the Carpenters. 1y
LeslieO My first concert was the Carpenters. 1y
mom2bugnbee @Texreader Thats so sweet! 1y
mom2bugnbee @robinb @LeslieO I was 11 when she died, so I never saw them in concert, but my parents were huge fans, so I listened to them a LOT during my teenage years. It's still comfort music to me. 1y
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Have to admit that there WERE places in this book that made me sigh in delight. I love sweeping, multi-generational family epics. This one just didn't grab me like, say, Pachinko did. I continue to love that #Authoramonth2022 is introducing me to unknown-to-me authors. @Soubhiville

⭐⭐✨/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Soubhiville I‘m sorry you didn‘t love it. 1y
mom2bugnbee @Soubhiville Oh, that's okay! Not every author is for every person. I appreciate that you've introduced me to so many new authors! 1y
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The Four Winds: A Novel | Kristin Hannah
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After a ridiculously long reading slump, I think I might be coming out of it. ☺

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Suet624 Yay!!!
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Grading midterms is more enjoyable with a good cup of coffee in an awesome mug from a more awesome friend! Thank you, @HeatherBookNerd ! #NashvilleLittens

Sleepswithbooks Love your mug!!! 1y
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*sigh* Unpopular opinion coming. I didn't love this like I wanted to. I'm not against reading difficult memoirs - I've read many that I've given higher star ratings. This just wasn't for me. I do, however, understand & appreciate what Maya Angelou has meant to literature & particularly POC, especially in 1969, when such things were rarely written.

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Finally. Thanks to #Authoramonth2022 & @Soubhiville for "forcing" me to read her.

And, no, I am NOT increasing the speed of the audiobook.

AmyG Same here. And I am listening to this, too. I also didn‘t speed it up. Her voice is quite soothing. 1y
mom2bugnbee @AmyG Exactly! I actually rarely speed up audiobook, because the usual reason I listen is for the narrator. 1y
AmyG Same here. Especially if the author is reading it. 1y
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An Unexpected Peril | Deanna Raybourn
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I just adore Veronica Speedwell.

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#Booked2022 - real/fictional Royal

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His was the only poster hanging on my wall as a teenager. He was my first - and, truly, my only - celebrity crush. I remember the devastation of the early Parkinson's diagnosis announcement. What an amazing outlook on life. I always love to listen to memoirs read by the author - this one was a bit tough at times, because you could hear the struggle. But what a story. Thanks to @Cinfhen for putting it on my radar!

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Cinfhen It really was a bittersweet read/listen! Because it was difficult to understand his narration at times. What an inspiration. I give thanks to @Hooked_on_books for putting this one on MY #ReadersRadar 1y
Hooked_on_books This is what Litsy is all about! One person piques the interest of another and another and on. I love it! And what a wonderful book. He‘s quite a guy. @Cinfhen 1y
Bklover I just finished this one too- I love this guy- and what an amazing book! 1y
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An Unexpected Peril | Deanna Raybourn
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Snow/sleet/slush in the south = shutdown = Sunday full of football, reading, & cuddling cats. ☺ #catsofLitsy

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