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I read and write reviews. And make quilts.
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#palaceofdeception
#darrinlunde
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#netgalley
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#palaceofdeception
#darrinlunde
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#netgalley
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hand embroidered and hand quilted, my Regency Redwork #quilt with scenes from #PrideandPrejudice #janeausten
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hand embroidered and hand quilted, my Regency Redwork #quilt with scenes from #PrideandPrejudice #janeausten
My #prideandprejudice story book #quilt shows scenes from the book with images from copyfree illustrations from books, art, even a dance manual. Hand appliquéd and hand quilted. #janeausten
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My #prideandprejudice story book #quilt shows scenes from the book with images from copyfree illustrations from books, art, even a dance manual. Hand appliquéd and hand quilted. #janeausten
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#abiographyofammountain
#matthewdavis
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📚 #bookreview
#abiographyofammountain
#matthewdavis
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The Biography of a Mountain by Matthew Davis
To echo Emerson, if all history is biography, then what can we learn about our country from a biography of a mountain? from A Biography of a Mountain by Matthew Davis Confession: previous to readin…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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#gemini
#jeffreykluger
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#netgalley
📚 #bookreview
#gemini
#jeffreykluger
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
#netgalley
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted
Sometimes...we can look into each other's faces and see that, beneath the differences, we are all of us outward bound on a voyage for parts unknown.
Frederick Buechner
The Hungering Dark
#sundaysentence #frederickbuechner
Frederick Buechner
The Hungering Dark
#sundaysentence #frederickbuechner
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sometimes...we can look into each other's faces and see that, beneath the differences, we are all of us outward bound on a voyage for parts unknown.
Frederick Buechner
The Hungering Dark
#sundaysentence #frederickbuechner
Frederick Buechner
The Hungering Dark
#sundaysentence #frederickbuechner
Curiosity is, at heart, courage; readiness not for a fixed or foretold outcome, but rather a type of uncharted encounter—an adventure.
#sundaysentence
#fearless
#tracyksmith
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#sundaysentence
#fearless
#tracyksmith
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November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Curiosity is, at heart, courage; readiness not for a fixed or foretold outcome, but rather a type of uncharted encounter—an adventure.
#sundaysentence
#fearless
#tracyksmith
@wwnorton.com
#sundaysentence
#fearless
#tracyksmith
@wwnorton.com
theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/e...
📚 #bookreview #evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
#netgalley
📚 #bookreview #evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
#netgalley
Evensong by Stewart O’Nan
They weren’t too old to learn. They knew they weren’t perfect. […]they felt that urgency now, the need to finally make things right, or at least as right as they could be. They ha…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reposted
"the eye like the eye of faith believes"
AO Scott's poem explorations are such a joy
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AO Scott's poem explorations are such a joy
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This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art (Gift Article)
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"the eye like the eye of faith believes"
AO Scott's poem explorations are such a joy
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
AO Scott's poem explorations are such a joy
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/t...
📚 #bookreview
#thelandinwinter
#andrewmiller
@europaeditions.bsky.social
#netgalley
📚 #bookreview
#thelandinwinter
#andrewmiller
@europaeditions.bsky.social
#netgalley
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
The world, the fog-world in its brittle glass sheath of now, was aching for an arrival. from The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller 1962. Rural England during a snowstorm. Two couples, both women preg…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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#LadiesinWaiting
#gallerybooks
#netgalley
#JaneAusten
Fun imaginings of Jane Austen’s supporting characters stories
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#LadiesinWaiting
#gallerybooks
#netgalley
#JaneAusten
Fun imaginings of Jane Austen’s supporting characters stories
Ladies in Waiting
I have been enjoying all the books coming out to celebrate the 250th birthday of Jane Austen. Ladies in Waiting features stories based on Austen’s more minor characters. Nine novelists chose …
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November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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📚 #bookreview
#LadiesinWaiting
#gallerybooks
#netgalley
#JaneAusten
Fun imaginings of Jane Austen’s supporting characters stories
📚 #bookreview
#LadiesinWaiting
#gallerybooks
#netgalley
#JaneAusten
Fun imaginings of Jane Austen’s supporting characters stories
theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/i...
📚#bookreview #introducingmrscollins
#rachelparris
@littlebrown.bsky.social
#netgalley
📚#bookreview #introducingmrscollins
#rachelparris
@littlebrown.bsky.social
#netgalley
Introducing Mrs. Collins by Rachel Parris
If a marriage lacks passion, it is to be hoped that it will make up for it in etiquette. from Introducing Mrs. Collins by Rachel Parris I am drawn to novels based on Jane Austen’s more minor …
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November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#bookmail #theykillpeople Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#bookmail #theykillpeople Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks
My #janeausten 250 years display case at the local library.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My #janeausten 250 years display case at the local library.
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#winningtheearthquake
#lorissarinehart
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📚 #bookreview
#winningtheearthquake
#lorissarinehart
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
Winning the Earthquake by Lorissa Rinehart
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin quoted in Winning the Earthquake In Gilded Age Montana, the Anaconda Copper Mine was all powerful, controlling government …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
That feeling. Fear and joy. Irritation without mark. A nauseating, awful, pleasurable longing. Like craving a cigarette without knowing what a cigarette is.
#sundaysentence
#television
#laurenrothery
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#netgalley
#sundaysentence
#television
#laurenrothery
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#netgalley
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
That feeling. Fear and joy. Irritation without mark. A nauseating, awful, pleasurable longing. Like craving a cigarette without knowing what a cigarette is.
#sundaysentence
#television
#laurenrothery
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#netgalley
#sundaysentence
#television
#laurenrothery
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#netgalley
theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/s...
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#seascraper
#benjaminwood
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
📚 #bookreview
#seascraper
#benjaminwood
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Not a soul will ever look at him and think, My God, that fella catches shrimp so well, it takes my breath away–he’s very sure of that. from Seascraper by Benjamin Wood Thomas’s gr…
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November 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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New books, reading challenge, quilts
New books, reading challenge, quilts
Books, Quilts, News
New on my NetGalley shelf is The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World by Bruce Nichols Book mail included Bad Asians by Lillian Li was a LibraryThing win. Also, another win…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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New books, reading challenge, quilts
New books, reading challenge, quilts