Month: September 2022
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september wrap-up
📚September Wrap-up📚 My favorites from this month:🏞And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 🖤God Help the Child by Toni Morrison🐻❄️30 Animals That Made Us Smarter by Patrick Aryee🫑Grow More Food by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm Note: I switched from what I’ve been saying recently of “What made me think the most this month”…
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and then there were none by agatha christie
📘And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie📘 – Review Ten guests are invited to the privately owned island Indian Island, the new owner of which is a complete mystery and has been a question of societal talk. Ten guests arrive to Indian Island but ten guests do not leave because each has been marked…
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Being tagged in instagram challenges
I have 3 or 4 tagged post “challenges” to do on instagram. I like them, they’re fun (at times). But I think it’s so sad that people are doing these just to keep their accounts afloat. I’ve been thinking of changing my instagram. I might post the same pictures as I do on here, but…
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new shelf additions
The newest additions to my shelves but not new additions to my tbr! Surprisingly I’ve done well asking for (bday) or buying books that are already on my tbr…and then continuing to add new titles to my list every time I see something I want to read.
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the invention of wings review
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd At the age of eleven, I owned a slave I couldn’t free. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Grimke Sarah Grimke is gifted Hetty “Handful” for her eleventh birthday, a child slave her family has owned in addition to the others they claim to…
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two series near and dear to my heart
📖Series that got you into reading📖 I’m so appreciative to my bookstagram friends for tagging me in challenge posts – it’s one of those things that get blogs out there and to new people since the algorithm doesn’t help with that much anymore. I’ve been so busy and barely able to work on reviews or…
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sex and vanity by kevin kwan
✨️Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan✨️ – Review While in Capri for a childhood friend’s wedding, Lucie Churchill meets George Zao and instantly hates him. Whether through the romance of the wedding or their chemistry or the heavily enticing environment of Capri, lucie and George grow closer in a short amount of time. Years after…
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Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer
📙Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer 📙 Max travels from Argentina to Poland in hopes of changing his life after his son dies and his wife’s depression becomes too much for him to handle. “Either the dead live, or the living are dead.” These notes that I took about halfway through sum up pretty much how…
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library haul 9.9.22
Today’s library haul ✨️📚 Since work ended early, I’ve been doing really well with reading the books I have at home, and I haven’t been in my library for months, I felt I needed a visit. And got more than I was planning on as always. ✨️Sea Witch by Sarah Henning🌙We Were Never Here by…
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