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Ardent bibliophile 📚 | dog person 🐶🐶 | fundraiser for KERA, KXT 91.7 & WRR 101.1 | 🧶🧵🪴🍞| moon child 🦀 | #booksky
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📚🎧 Libby app: public library ebooks/audiobooks (same narration as Audible)
🎧 Libro.FM: audiobooks benefiting your designated indie booksellers
📚🎧 Bookshop.org: benefits your designated indie booksellers
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It turned out great! I am an experienced sourdough baker, but made the mistake of forgetting to warm the water before the 1st proof & thought it’d never rise. I threw it in a slightly warmed oven for the second proof and it finally got all marshmallowy and just right for baking.
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Beautiful! Fellow knitter here. 🧶 Is this Malabrigo Rasta yarn? The colorway is gorgeous!
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Babel by R.F. Kuang (amazing!) and just started Everyone Who is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer as it’s very timely with the immigration EOs signed this week.
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If you like fun cozy mysteries, the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley is delightful and usually available on Libby. If you like old gothic witchy type books, I have read (and re-read) Thornyhold by Mary Stewart so many times the spine glue disintegrated. Anything by Bill Bryson.
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I’m glad my Mom read it with me because otherwise I’d have asked her, “where do I even begin in describing all that took place in this story?” I also found myself jotting down new-to-me vocab words. I love when I encounter an erudite author’s work!
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She writes The Empyrean series, which has a new release coming out this week (my neighborhood bookstores have sold out midnight release parties planned). I’ve got Fourth Wing but haven’t read it yet. Curious about this one!
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There is a BlueSky Starter Pack directory at this link with keyword search. 📚 blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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I own both James and Everyone Who is Here is Gone. I used to travel for work to Latin America including C.A. countries and the U.S. role over the past century is something the avg American may not know much about: UFC, military coups, proxy wars, immigration policy. Looking forward to reading.
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Meanwhile I got stuck behind a Tesla with blinkers on going 50 in a 70mph lane today.
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Songs that the audience will probably sing along with you:
- Don’t Stop Believin by Journey
- Love Story by Taylor Swift
- Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen
- Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
- Wonderwall by Oasis
- Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- and I second ABBA!
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What a fun coincidence to see this as soon as I opened Bluesky! I was just arranging to pick up tamales from a colleague who’s taking the whole week off to make them for everyone who signed up. 🫔🎄🇲🇽
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Oh wow. I commented on their post and tagged you with credit for your journalism. I mean… !!!
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I’m sure my parents took me to drive-in movies that I can’t remember titles of now, but this was the first one that is a core memory of going to an indoor theater and this scene was terrifying!
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It has been delivered to my Libby queue twice now but I am in the middle of another book so keep sending it back for the next person. I will definitely read it the next time it makes its way back to me. Love the sprayed edge color!