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I have solved my non-fiction reading slump! Loving @librofm for audiobooks. I feel like I’m basically listening to a podcast. Especially lovely when authors narrate. Though after my one horrific fiction narrator experience, I
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Work trip means finally diving into the 🫖! 

I’m expecting a lot tbh, and not all of it good necessarily. But I can’t not. Farrrr too compelling to pass up lol.

What about you?? Have you?? Will you??
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#spare #audioboo
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Jane Austen stans, another super fun P&P remix is here! 

There was really terrific character development. I especially appreciated Liza’s arc. I loved loved loved the Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella coupling
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Y’all.

That’s it, that’s the review 😅

I’ve seen this one making the rounds, often with an advisory for new mothers. Perhaps having 8-year-olds still qualifies me as a “new mother” because phew
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“We do not go gently into the night; we spend the final years and days imparting everything we have learned to make this thing survivable. We teach people how to live with the daily heartbreak on your chest, and still laugh a
Anyone else find comfort in old favorites when the rest of life is messy?? 
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If you need me today, I’ll be at the beach with January and Gus ♥️⛱
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What’s your favorite book to re-read? And how often? This may or may not be the fou
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“But even the best inventions for confinement and subjugation cannot account for life’s resolve to freedom.”
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This line fairly sums up the book. We meet Nahr, a Palestinian woman, in solitary confinement in an Is
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This book is a balm. Cannot recommend more highly…and I’m only on page 42!
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[ID: Genay, wearing glasses, salmon pants, and bare feet, in a delightful clear round hanging bubble chair, reading “This Here Fles
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👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽32 books for 32 years! Also, anyone else ever clean 32 books off their shelves, only to look back at them and see nothing changed? 😭 Swipe to see the loot!

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Wow, I loved this book! The writing was beautiful. The characters layered. The insights like 💯
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I’ve often heard the phrase, “Revolutionaries make bad fathers (mothers).” It has been this dichotomy that I’v
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They are both few and many. 

TL;DR EVERYone should read this book.

So straightforward. So unyielding. So full of grace. Gosh, what a world we could create with love at the center. Mariame Kaba says, in her abolitionist texts, &ld
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It’s such a delightful gift to have friends who write books because, hello, I LOVE to read books!
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These two ladies are so different from one another, and each have something incredible to offer the world! 
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I encourage you t
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I had a terrible time trying to figure out what to read in the wake of my Lisa Kleypas hangover. I wanted something non-Romance but not terribly heavy, and this one had been on my shelf for a bit. The cover! Can we talk about the co
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I couldn’t help myself, friends. So, I read ONE book by @lisakleypas at the recommendation of @chloe_liese, and now I’m making my way through her entire backlist (almost 20 years 😱😆) soooo I’ll be busy for a whi
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Twill be a long day. But, it’s starting off here, and I’m grateful. I’m about halfway through @elisembryant One True Loves and 🔥. I mean I was tearing up at the author’s note, so…
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Wow! Honestly, the longer this book sat on my shelf, the more afraid of it I became. The hype just kept building in my brain, and then I was like, “what happens if I don’t love it?” But I needn’t have feared