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wordzie

Joined February 2019

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In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks We miss you!!!! 4y
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The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth
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A really thrilling book that begins with the hiring of an assassin to kill the French president and the making of his plans thereof. As the Jackal executes his plans to execute the president, "the best detective in France" is brought in to catch him before he can do so. The detective is always one step? or a few hours behind the Jackal. With his specially made long-range silenced rifle he treks around France waiting for his handpicked day.

wordzie Book 2/10 for #OWLsREADATHON; 1/10 for the #Unsolvedathon and; 1/10 for the 1/10 for the #AvengersReadathon. 5y
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Son of a Witch INTL | Gregory Maguire
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Perhaps he just didn't have the feeling for faith. It seemed to be a kind of language, one whose gnarled syntax needed to be heard from birth, or it remained forever unintelligible. But he wished he had a faith now, some scrap of something.

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Son of a Witch INTL | Gregory Maguire

All cows 🐮 were like other cows, all tigers like other tigers- what on earth 🌎 has happened to human beings 👦👧?

-Harry Mulisch Siegfried, 2001
#quotsyApr2019

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Rivers of Gold | Janet Edmonds
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Book 1/12 for #OWLsREADATHON2019

After the death of her mother Amity, 19, is left without family in the US and answers an ad for a mail order bride in Alaska. She then embarks on a journey to be with her husband. A romance novel without too much of the romance, Amity faces surprises and challenges that she handles with remarkable resolve and wit. The last ten pages of the book contain the climax of the century and a conclusion that was not 👇

wordzie what I wanted to happen, but it painted a vivid picture of karma. 5y
MrBook Great review! 5y
wordzie @MrBook thank you! 😊 5y
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Number One Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith
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@Klou thx for the tag 🙌 I'm late 😒☺
🌸 birds 🐦, the UCCC (⛪ convention), water in Africa and Iraq
🌸 telemarketer at 14
🌸 The Glister
🌸 tagged
💝 to all

Klou You're welcome 💝 5y
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Zoe in Wonderland | Brenda Woods
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#OWLsREADATHON2019
📕Land animal on cover- The Land that Time Forgot
📕Plant on cover- A Single Rose 🌹
📕 Sprayed edges- Golden Venus
📕Written 10 or more years ago- The Day of the Jackal
📕 2 authors- Capitol Offense
📕Retelling- Politically Correct
📕In the future- Children of the New World
📕Contemporary- Zoe in Wonderland
📕Sequel- Son of Witch
📕Star 🌟 in the title- Star Wars Trilogy

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The Birthdays | Heidi Pitlor
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Thx so much for the #Litsylove #happymail and birthday 🎂 wishes you guys 🙌 🌞. @Sarah24 @Kerrioke @OriginalCyn620 @Lovesbooks87 @IndoorDame 😘😘

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Book 2 of #24b4monday
5 hours 17 minutes
Total reading time thus far: 14 hours
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

An epic tale comparable to LOTR but much more compact. The author invents words for a faraway language in a faraway land complete with three maps. Wisdom is bestowed upon the reader as the pros and cons and the price of sorcery is examined. Sparrowhawk begins as a foolish mage but through seemingly endless trials and tribulations 👇

wordzie he becomes a noble sorcerer on a quest to slay a terror he himself unleashed into the world. Without true friends Sparrowhawk would not have survived. A courageous tale of human fragility, determination and inner demons. 5y
BeansPage Woop woop! You did great hun! 💕😘💕 5y
wordzie Thank you 😊😘 @TheReadingMermaid it was a bunch of fun.🎉 5y
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BeansPage Oh good I'm so glad you had fun! That's the goal sweetheart 😉 5y
Andrew65 A great total, well done. 👏👏👏👏 I need to read the tagged book. 5y
wordzie @Andrew65 ☺ thanks! And I'm sure you will enjoy it! 👍 5y
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Sandhill Dreams | Cara C. Putman
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1st book of #24b4monday - 4 hr 19 min

Total reading time thus far: 7 hours @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65

A sweet romance that takes place in Nebraska during the war in 1943. After training to be a nurse Lainie's dreams are shattered when she contracts rheumatic fever and her friends set sail to help the war effor as nurses without her. 👇

wordzie Determined not to be dependent on her family and particularly her father, Lainie catches a train to Fort Robinson where shd searches for a job to support herself. While she does not find a job she does find more than enough soldiers at Fort Robinson who a 5y
BeansPage Great review! 🙌 5y
wordzie 👆(continued from 'to support herself')* There are many soldiers at Fort Robinson who are interested in Lainie, but she first meets Tom whom she thinks of constantly and feels the others are no comparison to him. Her father disapproves 👎 of Tom but he eventually comes around. 👇 5y
wordzie The story of their developing love 💘 was fun to follow. Their relationship felt real, complete with Tom and Lainie yearning to see one another and then half hating one another when they do. A lighthearted and warm read. ❤❤❤❤ 4.25 5y
Andrew65 Going well! 👏 5y
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The author incorporates numerous Bible Stories into this novel, vividly illustrating the lives of Martha, Mary, Lazarus and later Jesus. The depth of McGerr's insight is amazing and so believable one wonders if it is the truth of it all.

The book takes place mostly in Galilee and begins there in the home of Martha, Lazarus and Mary. Later Jesus and the Twelve are introduced as he begins his earthly ministry 👇

wordzie and is eventually crucified on the cross 5y
wordzie 💝💝💝💝💝 5y
Crazeedi 💖💖💖 5y
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The Shack | WM. Paul Young
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Let's pray the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Suet624 I remember this quote. I was in complete agreement. 5y
wordzie @Suet624 😊 Did you 💝 the book? 5y
Suet624 I did. A lot. 5y
wordzie 🙌 me too so far. About half finished. Thx 5y
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Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus
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The tragedy of Prometheus being bound to a rock by Zeus via Haphaestus for his love of mankind. The play is short and takes place in a single setting, the rock where Prometheus has been bound. Friends visit and share in his commiseration. Very profound. The story induces a strong sadness for the god who is punished for thwarting the destruction of humanity and gifting them with fire 🔥 and other things the gods deem humans unworthy of. 💝
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Crazeedi Got your sweet card! A return note being sent monday!! #litsylove 💜 5y
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Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus
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Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus

How easy for one who fares in pleasant ways to admonish those in adversity.

For sorrow flitteth now to one and now to another, and visiteth each in his turn.

#quotsyMar19 #truthofitall

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1. Treat myself to: a new phone

2. Love about me: my vocabulary

3. Proud of: same

4. 💝 @sudi @SW-T @robinb @Crazeedi @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @whatsthEStorey

Crazeedi Thanks for the tag!! 5y
Crazeedi @wordzie I just edited my post and put you on!!!😉💜 5y
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whatsthEStorey Vocabulary is a good one! 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks for the tag 😘❤️ 5y
sudi Thanks for the tag @wordzie 😘😘 5y
sudi Can i ask which phone you're getting 😁 5y
wordzie @sudi most likely the iPhone 6s its on sale🎉 5y
sudi @wordzie i've wanted an iphone for so long. I'll also be going for the 7 or 8 . Since the X series is way out of my budget 5y
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Needful Things | Stephen King
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I tried to read the ebook version of this, but its so hard for me to read a book without physically flipping the pages. I made it to page 32, and I'm going to pick up there.

I checked for this book at least three times at the library and it was not there. When I called yesterday to request an interlibrary loan I was told they had three copies! I went today and there were 2. 🙌 one is mine. Reread.

Working on #Litsylove 💝

RadicalReader Best news for bookworms 5y
Reagan Love this book 5y
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wordzie @Reagan-reads I'm glad to find someone else who does! It means a lot to me. 5y
bookaholic1 I really enjoyed listening to it, the person that read it made it all the more delightful 5y
wordzie Funny you say that...I'm actually reading it aloud which I NEVER do. Its quite humorous this way and delightful is quite an accurate description! ☺☺ @bookaholic1 5y
Karizma One of my favorites, and worthy of a reread! Enjoy the physical version. @wordzie 5y
wordzie @Karizma I am and also making real progress now. The ebook defeated me. 😞 5y
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Saying Thank You | Monisha Vasa
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Thx a bunch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😘😘 I ❤ the card and my day is brightened 🌞. Love #Listylove ur the best!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🥰🥰😘😘 5y
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Isn't it disappointing and uncool 😎 when 📚 don't live up ☝ to their covers. #uncool

SW-T Yeah. Not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but a great cover kind of builds expectations. 5y
wordzie Yea it does! @SW-T 💯 5y
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Needful Things | Stephen King
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I had to let Chica bite my hand in order for her to remain in one place. Still it took longer than necessary, I believe. #dogsofLitsy 🐕

bullbunny 😍😘😍 loove your dog! 5y
wordzie @bullbunny thanks so much! Me too! ❤☺ 5y
Pricel101 @bullbunny agreed! 🐾🐕 great pic!! 5y
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Needful Things | Stephen King
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Beginning a reread of this. I read it as a freshman in high school. This was the first Stephen King book I've ever read, and it's also my favorite! ❤❤ I'm going to try to finish it today. 🙏 for me. 😁

wordzie Yea...so...I just counted the pages...I'm thinking tomorrow. 😂 5y
wordzie Still thinking tomorrow. 😁😂☺ 5y
wordzie But only because I have other stuff I need to read too...that right...Need. 5y
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wordzie "That's"?(but u guys knew that) 5y
wordzie That's* 👆 (because you love and you learn. And then you get Luvs. 😁) 5y
wordzie Live and learn* (okay, I'm done) 5y
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Untitled | Unknown
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In this Secrets of Castleton Manor Library mystery Faith, the librarian, stumbles across a dead body -of course- with two of her friends, and together they solve the crime before the police 👮 do.
The characters are well-developed and Faith has traits we all probably see in ourselves at one time or another. The story adorably shifts to her cat's, Watson (Holmes pun intended by author), perspective.
A mysterious and easy read with 192 pages.
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wordzie This series isn't listed although I put a request in a couple days ago. 5y
wordzie ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5y
SW-T Sounds like a good mystery series 😊 5y
wordzie @SW-T this was my first one. I admit I can't wait to see what the other hold in store.☺ 5y
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The Giver | Lois Lowry
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1. Summer 🌞
2. Idk they're all so pretty 🌸. Maybe roses, they come in so many colors.
3. The Giver because the boy has to hold all the memories of the community and spring holds so many diverse colors and scents it would be sad 😢 not to experience them all.
4. Allergic to: Dust. Drastic and rapid changes of weather. Places where books cannot be read.
5. Sending ❤ back at you @robinb thx for the tag!

wordzie Can someone pls tell me a good app to use for making pic collages to put on Litsy? 😕 5y
Ash.on.the.line I know a few people on here use pic collage though I‘m sure there are many! 😊 hope this helps! 5y
wordzie @Ash.on.the.line so pic collage is the name of the app? Lol. 5y
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Avanders Lol your question begged the answer @wordzie 😜 (app called pic collage) 5y
wordzie @Avanders 😁😁 5y
robinb I use Pic Collage and also Collage. There are probably more...I just haven‘t investigated them. 🤷🏻‍♀️😊 5y
wordzie 👌 😎 thx! @robinb 5y
robinb @wordzie great job! 👍🎉👏 5y
wordzie @robinb ikr ty! 💃I realized that I had too many pics in my gallery and the new ones weren't popping up when I tried to post them. So my pic collage app was working fine...it was me. 5y
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Super 🙌. We had a meeting about bettering the youth at ⛪ today and when I got home I had some wonderful #Litsylove waiting for me! Receiving these in the mail ALWAYS brightens my day 🌞. Thanks guys!! ❤😘 @whatsthEStorey @Crazeedi @WeeziesBooks @robinb

robinb 👍😘I promise a “prettier” one next time! 🙄🤣 5y
wordzie @robinb no! Not at all! I absolutely ❤ it...wouldn't change it for the 🌎. I mean that, ok. 5y
robinb @wordzie 👍🤗💕 5y
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Crazeedi 👏👏❤️❤️ 5y
shmreads What outreach do u do with the youths at church? 5y
wordzie @shmreads right now I don't think any. We're in the process of reconstructing and improving outreach in general, and I believe this summer will be focused on it. 5y
shmreads @wordzie good on u! we need more ppl to care about the youths. I recently helped a youth center (underprivileged) seek book donations, while it's slow but there's hope :) wishing u guys a fruitful summer soon! 5y
wordzie Thank you! Likewise. 💝 5y
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Yesterday's #libraryhaul. Cutting down the TBR list a smidge.

mariaku21 I really liked Cinderella's Rules. It was a pretty fun, sexy, and quick read. 5y
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Super 🙌. I got LitsyLove in the mail! I received these two days ago 😍 and thank you so much for all the ❤ @JenlovesJT47 @OriginalCyn620 @Stacypatrice I'm really feeling this thing. 😁💃#LitsyLove

wordzie And I love the words on the Precious Moments card: 5y
wordzie ...as you dream, so shall you become. -James Allen 🌠 #quotsyMar19 5y
Sleepswithbooks 💛💌 5y
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wordzie @statistics thank you! 🌸 5y
wordzie @Stacypatrice thank you! 🌸 5y
JenlovesJT47 ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
wordzie Thank you! 💙 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 5y
gradcat Very nice, indeed! 💕🥰 5y
tammysue 💗💌 5y
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A true mystery in which I doubt anyone would be able to correctly guess the culprit. The unfolding of events only enhances the confusion 😣 of the reader and dissuades one from aspiring to be a real live detective for fear of rendering oneself an idiot. A rather heartwarming ❤ ending, if I do say so myself. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

tammysue Love seeing all the stars! I enjoyed this one too. 😊 5y
wordzie Have you see the movie? What did you think of it? Of course I thought the book was better. Maybe I watched the movie too soon after reading the book because it almost made the movie unbearable, although I'm sure its great 👍 @whatshesreadingnow 5y
tammysue I haven‘t seen the movie but hoping to one of these days. 5y
ApplesandSpindles I am reading this now! Just finished And Then There Were None and loved it! 5y
wordzie Thank you...I'm adding it to my tbr. I hope you enjoy! ☺ @ApplesandSpindles ❤Christie 5y
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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough

Between 1782 and 1784 three attempts had been made to deliver felons to America. The Swift was turned away on her 1st voyage, though some of her transportees escaped, assisted in doing so by the Americans.
😅😂😂
#quostyMar19

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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough

He was the only person acquitted during that March of 1785. Six were sentenced to be hanged: Maisie Harding for receiving stolen goods, Betty Mason for stealing 15 guineas, Sam Day for stealing 2 lbs of weaving yarn, Bill Whiting for stealing a 🐑, Isaac Rogers for highway robbery, and Joey Long for stealing a silver watch. The rest, some ten all, were sentenced to 7 years' transportation to Africa...
#quotsyMar19

wordzie 😧😒 5y
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We are judged for today, not for yesterday.

robinb I‘m thinking about reading this one...enjoying it? 5y
wordzie Very much! I'm about 1/4 done. Its big but the more I read the faster I turn the pages and the more I wonder how everything will pan out over the next 600 pages. The author's pace is remarkable as well as her concepts and ideas. Truly interesting and entertaining read. ❤❤ 5y
wordzie @robinb ☝😅 my apologies 5y
robinb @wordzie It sounds wonderful! I‘ve been hearing lots of good things about it. Thanks for your input! 😊 5y
wordzie 👍 @robinb 🌸 5y
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King Henry IV, Part 1 | William Shakespeare
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#currentlyreading + today's #libraryhaul-Murder on the Orient Express and The 🔥 Court.

Are you starting a book today? What is it?

wordzie Nice @SW-T ❤ 5y
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What an adventure we go on with Holmes, Watson and two men from Africa whose relationship is strongly reminiscent of that which we see in Holmes and his companion/roommate. True to Sherlock this is a smart mystery that makes for a fun and at times guns-a-blazing read! Definitely a reccomendation. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#booksyoucantputdown 🔫

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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough
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Oh my gosh. 😱Why did Peg have to die? So suddenly? The most abrupt (because there are other kinds, right?) stroke ever in life. And after two of his children have already died? This can't be real...Things like this don't happen in real books.😢😢

wordzie I want to attend the funeral in a couple pages. I mean, I miss her. I just can't believe this. Can't even. 5y
wordzie Apparently literary grieving produces ranting: Somebody FaceTime Oprah she needs to edit her book club list; This isn't on it. Anywhere. Like at all. 5y
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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough

Then the Government had realized that there was even more money to be made by taxing spiritous liquors made inside England; those were excise duties. For excise had to be paid on every drop of spirits.

"All this in order that ships can sail seas free of mutiny, and folk on land forget their troubles. What a miracle is the mind of man, that so much cleverness has been spent upon producing stupidity."
#quotsyMarch19

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Susa had risked everything for a dream that was not hers. That sort of friendship was something found not more than once in a lifetime. Some might not find it at all.
#quotsyMarch19

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6 chapters in and I am ❤ing this! #booksyoucantputdown #dogsofLitsy 🐕

wordzie I ask her to get down. She (sometimes) does😒. I must enforce thus rule more strictly... Fur 😖 5y
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"But you behaved towards Ada as though you are convinced of her innocence."

"I am unconvinced of her guilt, which is not the same thing."
#quotsyMarch19

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All of my reviews thus far have been "picks." This is mainly because when I don't like a book I simply stop reading it and forget to "bail" it. So-so books also tend to be "bails" for me so I must be more steadfast in reading not-so-interesting books in hopes that I may share how uninteresting they are with everyone.

sprainedbrain You don‘t need to make yourself continue something you don‘t like just for us! But mark it as a bail so we can learn from you. 😃 5y
wordzie @sprainedbrain thank you! I feel liberated! ☺ 5y
karajay Too nanny books to suffer through one you don't enjoy. I do the same thing. 👍 5y
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wordzie @karajay "suffer" is a great way to describe it and we should not inflict that upon ourselves. Thx... I am not alone! ? 5y
Redwritinghood Gosh no! Don‘t read them if you don‘t want to. I would keep doing it the way you like to and not worry about rating something so-so. 5y
CoffeeK8 Same here! I also often don‘t mark a book as a bail if I‘m not in the mood. I only mark it if I actively dislike it. 5y
wordzie Yes...guidelines 😁☺ @CoffeeK8 5y
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These 3 are today's #libraryhaul

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Critical Judgment | Michael Palmer
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A medical thriller with an action packed climax and very a satisfying ending. ⭐⭐⭐⭐4.5

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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough

English outposts are under attack in nearly all corners of the globe-how can a globe have corners?

This is true.

#quotsyMarch19

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Sending cards out tomorrow for @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Sarah24 for being the newest member of #Litsy Love and @JoyBlue. Can't wait for you guys to get them!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!!! Did you @whatsthEStorey and @aprilpohren on your google doc? They are also new and I‘m about to add @LokiDokey 🎊🎊 5y
wordzie Thanks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I'm struggling to decide what book to send you as well 😞okay...sending cards to the newest new members of #LitsyLove tomorrow @LokiDokey @whatsthEStorey @aprilpohren 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @wordzie you don‘t have to send me anything!!! 5y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @wordzie don‘t stress! This is no pressure and low key. There‘s no rush, just send a couple a day! No worries 😘💗🙌🏻 (edited) 5y
wordzie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks it is decided I do! 5y
Sarah24 Sending cards too this week! Can't wait to get started or for the postman to arrive ✉📮 5y
wordzie 🙌 ❤ @sarah24 5y
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Morgan's Run: A Novel | Colleen McCullough

1. Hobbies-reading, writing, music 🎶
2. Genres-historical fiction, mystery, fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, sci-fi
3. Yes a 🐕 named Chica aka Leche Pequena
4. 👍 up-to-date and unowned
5. 📚. Precious moments.
6. Love #LitsyLove
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks thx for the tag!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 5y
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The problem with real adventures is that they're never comfortable.

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Over his arm he carried 2 soft, hooded fur capes lined with silk. " These," he said, "are to keep you warm in the high, cool air." Lisa gasped as she saw her own cloak-

...when you're jealous of the characters in your book. ?❤

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The Runaway Jury | John Grisham
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The plot was interesting and well-thought out. A cigarette company is put on trial for the death of a man who smoked for 35 years and then died because of it. The jury is magnificently the main object of the story, and it was fun and interesting to see how events transpired. I stopped my other current reads when I picked this one ☝. ❤ it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐4.75

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I got my card in the mail today! Thank you so much @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks this is going to be a great group and it already is! 🎉📚❤
#LitsyLoveGroup

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!!! I‘m happy it made it there safely and I love this group!! 💗💗 5y
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This second installment continues the story of Mma Ramotswe. There is less focus on the detective agency and more insight into the life and feelings of the characters, particularly Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi, her assistant. The story was not as mind blowing as the first one but nonetheless the pages kept turning until the end, which held a superb surprise! 4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

CSeydel Loved these! But I thought Tears of the Giraffe was book 2? 5y
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