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BG from the Burgh
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🏳️‍🌈 lesbian. writer. ESL teacher. cat haver. Pittsburgher.

Chatting about work and interests. I’m politically minded, but my posts usually aren’t

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(I don’t use my name for safety reasons because I work with very vulnerable populations)
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Breaking—Both 2017 and 1990 Alvin Marsh have endorsed Andrew Cuomo
Alvin Marsh from the 2017 film It Alvin Marsh from the 1990 miniseries It
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇧🇯 Benin 🇧🇯

Snares Without End by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum
Cover of Snares Without End, showing a seashell surrounded by a sun
August 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇧🇧Barbados 🇧🇧

Fire in the Canes by Glenville Lovell
Cover of Fire in the Canes, showing a woman holding up a baby beneath a palm tree
August 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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In honor of National Dog Month I’m posting memorable dogs from books I’ve enjoyed

Day 5: Apollo from The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

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Cover of book The Friend, showing a harlequin Great Dane position on a picture frame in primary colors
August 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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In honor of National Dog Month I’m posting dogs from books I’ve enjoyed

Day 4: The Yellow Dog from Le Chien jaune by Georges Simenon

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Cover of The Yellow Dog, showing an illustration of a dog wearing a trench coat while smoking a pipe
August 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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In honor of National Dog Month I’m posting memorable dogs from books I’ve enjoyed

Day 3: Banjo and Rip from The Hunter by Tana French

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Cover of The Hunter, showing an illustration white house on a country landscape, the entire photo has an orange tint
August 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In honor of National Dog Month I’m posting memorable dogs from books I’ve enjoyed

Day 2: Kojak from The Stand

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Cover of The Stand, showing an illustration of a person in white brandishing swords, fighting with a demon-like creature wielding a scythe
August 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇧🇩Bangladesh🇧🇩

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Cover of A Golden Age, showing a woman’s profile overlooking a city skyline
August 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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In honor of National Dog Month I’m posting memorable dogs from books I’ve enjoyed

Day 1: Old Dan and Little Anne from Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

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Cover of Where the Red Fern Grows, showing a boy running behind two dogs
August 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇧🇭Bahrain🇧🇭

The Pearl Thief by Noor Al Noaimi
Cover of The Pearl Thief, showing an illustration of a face with its eyes hidden behind a red pearl necklace
July 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇧🇸 Bahamas 🇧🇸

If I had the wings by Helen Klonaris
Cover of If I Had the Wings, showing a pair of black feathered wings
July 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 20: Samantha Schweblin

Favorite work: Little Eyes
Cover of Little Eyes, showing doodles of green eyeballs
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 19: Madeline Miller

Favorite work: Song of Achilles
Cover of Song of Achilles, showing a Hellenistic helmet
July 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 18: Ellen Raskin

Favorite work: The Westing Game
Cover of The Westing Game, showing an illustration of a house made of money beneath colorful fireworks
July 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 17: Celeste Ng

Favorite work: Little Fires Everywhere
Cover of Little Fires Everywhere, showing an aerial view if a suburban neighborhood
July 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇦🇿Azerbaijan🇦🇿

Stone Dreams by Akram Aylisli
Cover of Stone Dreams, showing a mountainous landscape
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 16: Mildred Benson

Favorite work: The Hidden Staircase (under name Carolyn Keene)i
Cover of The Hidden Staircase, showing an illustration of Nancy Drew illuminating a shadowy stone staircase with a flashlight
July 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 15: Agatha Christie

Favorite work: Murder on the Orient Express
Cover of Murder on the Orient Express, showing an illustration of a train emitting a cloud of blood red smoke
July 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇦🇹Austria🇦🇹

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaller
Cover of A Whole Life, showing the title and author’s name in gold letters against a stark white background with black pine trees, meant to represent a mountainside
July 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 14: Julia Phillips

Favorite work: Disappearing Earth
Cover of Disappearing Earth, showing two children beneath a blue mountain and a lavender sky
July 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇦🇺Australia🇦🇺

Taboo by Kim Scott
Cover of Taboo, showing the title spelled out as a human skull and natural elements, including stones, fur and twigs
July 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 13: Donna Tarrt

Favorite work: The Goldfinch
Cover of The Goldfinch, showing an illustration an illustration of a goldfinch peering out through a tear in a sheet of paper
July 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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#BookSky Reading Around the World Challenge

🇦🇼Aruba🇦🇼

Nights in Aruba Andrew Holleran
Cover of Nights in Aruba, a minimalist design with a white background, red lettering and a palm tree set at an angle in the lower left corner
July 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 12: Judy Blume

Favorite work: Deenie
Cover of Deenie, showing an illustration of a tube of lipstick with a D monogram against a hot pink background
July 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#BookSky Challenge

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 11: Rachel Beanland

Favorite work: The House Is on Fire
Cover of The House is on Fire, showing a party of people in 18th century dress attire below an abstracted red and brown background. A doodle-like illustration of flames is superimposed over the entire image
July 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM