J Booksy
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Here to share books I've read & liked. Mostly.
Boy lives in a mansion with Father and he has not left it. Outside is luring beauty and ghosts--figments of life taking human shape. If you get near them, they will possess you. This is what Father has told him. Except now Father is aging & wants him to leave the mansion. Father is making friends /
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Boy lives in a mansion with Father and he has not left it. Outside is luring beauty and ghosts--figments of life taking human shape. If you get near them, they will possess you. This is what Father has told him. Except now Father is aging & wants him to leave the mansion. Father is making friends /
The Coast Guard's civil rights manual has been revised. This guy is denying it after the fact.
The manual is freely available online. Here is a screenshot of the page in question.
The manual is freely available online. Here is a screenshot of the page in question.
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The Coast Guard's civil rights manual has been revised. This guy is denying it after the fact.
The manual is freely available online. Here is a screenshot of the page in question.
The manual is freely available online. Here is a screenshot of the page in question.
Devoured this in 3.5 hours last week. 21 yo woman learns how to act to get men to give her money for her looks & for sex. Held off on posting bc it seemed wrong in Epstein climate. But it could be viewed as a behind-the-scenes tale of how readily rich men will pay for ego inflation & sex. /
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Devoured this in 3.5 hours last week. 21 yo woman learns how to act to get men to give her money for her looks & for sex. Held off on posting bc it seemed wrong in Epstein climate. But it could be viewed as a behind-the-scenes tale of how readily rich men will pay for ego inflation & sex. /
With a title like that, how could I resist? She is a young chef looking for potential wealthy clients--and a virgin in a red dress. He is a race-car driving playboy w emerald eyes who is strangely captivated by her, dammit. She does not remove her mask but she discards all else. /
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
With a title like that, how could I resist? She is a young chef looking for potential wealthy clients--and a virgin in a red dress. He is a race-car driving playboy w emerald eyes who is strangely captivated by her, dammit. She does not remove her mask but she discards all else. /
Not my fave J Trollope. Stacey gets fired the same day ber husband gets a big promotion. One of her friends--Melissa, Gaby, or Beth, very hard to tell them apart--recommended the husband for the promotion & didn't tell Stacey. Apparently this was Quel Betrayal, but it seems like [shrug] to me /
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Not my fave J Trollope. Stacey gets fired the same day ber husband gets a big promotion. One of her friends--Melissa, Gaby, or Beth, very hard to tell them apart--recommended the husband for the promotion & didn't tell Stacey. Apparently this was Quel Betrayal, but it seems like [shrug] to me /
Another library find: The Executioner's Song on DVD. Watched this for the Tommy Lee Jones, for the 1970s stuff, to be reminded what actually happened. Taut plot, moves inexorably, media are vultures, Tommy & Rosanna Arquette are excellent.
Bonus fact: the priest who gives him his last rites /
Bonus fact: the priest who gives him his last rites /
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Another library find: The Executioner's Song on DVD. Watched this for the Tommy Lee Jones, for the 1970s stuff, to be reminded what actually happened. Taut plot, moves inexorably, media are vultures, Tommy & Rosanna Arquette are excellent.
Bonus fact: the priest who gives him his last rites /
Bonus fact: the priest who gives him his last rites /
Not as good as Girl on the Train, which totally sucked me in. This has multiple POVs, each read by a different actor (one person voiced 2 parts). Felt manipulative. One person would feel spooked by someone else, to make you think that could be the suspect. Final chapter was the best.
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Not as good as Girl on the Train, which totally sucked me in. This has multiple POVs, each read by a different actor (one person voiced 2 parts). Felt manipulative. One person would feel spooked by someone else, to make you think that could be the suspect. Final chapter was the best.
6/ And this is where it's at. All people are brothers and sisters, and we should love one another and have compassion for each other, and then all will be well. Anything else is either fear or pride. Simple as that.
October 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
6/ And this is where it's at. All people are brothers and sisters, and we should love one another and have compassion for each other, and then all will be well. Anything else is either fear or pride. Simple as that.
5/ Tolstoy even implicates the tsar. The demands on us as humans are greater than the demands on us by any role we might assume. /
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
5/ Tolstoy even implicates the tsar. The demands on us as humans are greater than the demands on us by any role we might assume. /
4/ For another priest involved in the incident, any challenge to his faith does not inspire curiosity or a close look at himself, but only hardens his convictions further. And he uses his faith as a weapon against anyone who believes otherwise. We see this happening around us all the time. /
October 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
4/ For another priest involved in the incident, any challenge to his faith does not inspire curiosity or a close look at himself, but only hardens his convictions further. And he uses his faith as a weapon against anyone who believes otherwise. We see this happening around us all the time. /
3/ Father Mikhail is the boy's religion teacher, who is told what the boy has done, & humiliates the boy. His dad who is an atheist, has words w him. Tolstoy informs us that this man of the church only believes in forcing others to believe what he was forced to believe.
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
3/ Father Mikhail is the boy's religion teacher, who is told what the boy has done, & humiliates the boy. His dad who is an atheist, has words w him. Tolstoy informs us that this man of the church only believes in forcing others to believe what he was forced to believe.
2/ Story begins here, when a teen-aged son asks his father for money to repay a friend, & the father gets furious & yells at his son. After this the son uses the forged coupon, which is what connects all the other stories. But the roots are here, in the father "pleased with his own anger." /
October 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
2/ Story begins here, when a teen-aged son asks his father for money to repay a friend, & the father gets furious & yells at his son. After this the son uses the forged coupon, which is what connects all the other stories. But the roots are here, in the father "pleased with his own anger." /
A Tolstoy thing I did not know existed! Found this in the library. Written at the end of his life, is a moral fable with the Sermon on the Mount at its center--literally. Leo still packs a punch, and he calls out hypocrisy like no one else. Plot follows a forged coupon, all the lives it touches
October 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A Tolstoy thing I did not know existed! Found this in the library. Written at the end of his life, is a moral fable with the Sermon on the Mount at its center--literally. Leo still packs a punch, and he calls out hypocrisy like no one else. Plot follows a forged coupon, all the lives it touches
Another one I finished in less than a day. I got hooked reading about a guy in 2022 who finds out he has cancer & climbs unto the freezer case in the grocery store. He does not share his news w his daughter. Then it jumps back to 1982 to Dawn, who it turns out is his wife, meeting a woman Hazel /
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Another one I finished in less than a day. I got hooked reading about a guy in 2022 who finds out he has cancer & climbs unto the freezer case in the grocery store. He does not share his news w his daughter. Then it jumps back to 1982 to Dawn, who it turns out is his wife, meeting a woman Hazel /
Woman's husband apparently drowned--you know what that means--and finds out he left her in a world of debt w a daughter. She goes back home to TN with syrupy daughter, finds perfect job, man, etc. Amazing how boring a novel gets once you know she's going to get every single thing she wants.
September 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Woman's husband apparently drowned--you know what that means--and finds out he left her in a world of debt w a daughter. She goes back home to TN with syrupy daughter, finds perfect job, man, etc. Amazing how boring a novel gets once you know she's going to get every single thing she wants.
Macabre, gripping, can't stop thinking about it. Sheriff/undertaker/pastor in small-town Friendship, WI in late 1800s faces impossible choices during a diphtheria epidemic. Is it heroic or tragic to keep doing his duty as all is falling apart? Oh, and here comes a wildfire. Oh, and here's more
September 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Macabre, gripping, can't stop thinking about it. Sheriff/undertaker/pastor in small-town Friendship, WI in late 1800s faces impossible choices during a diphtheria epidemic. Is it heroic or tragic to keep doing his duty as all is falling apart? Oh, and here comes a wildfire. Oh, and here's more
I finished this book a couple days ago, and I miss it. I miss the people in it. Very tall Dylan MacRae has lived in London w his mother & g'mother until recently when they both died. He has to close up the indie cinema they've run bc it's broke. He goes to Scotland, aiming
September 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I finished this book a couple days ago, and I miss it. I miss the people in it. Very tall Dylan MacRae has lived in London w his mother & g'mother until recently when they both died. He has to close up the indie cinema they've run bc it's broke. He goes to Scotland, aiming
Today I read a thing and I cannot un-know it. Fascism has always been part of how the US works bc fascism is, by nature, part of colonialism. Non-white people's experiences of the US have always been of living among fascism.
August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today I read a thing and I cannot un-know it. Fascism has always been part of how the US works bc fascism is, by nature, part of colonialism. Non-white people's experiences of the US have always been of living among fascism.
I. LOVED. this. I read it in a day & a half. The librarian told me when I checked it out that it's her favorite book of the year and I know why. Normally I say what happens, but I don't want to give you any spoilers. It's sincere, hilarious, wise, goofy, introspective, real. READ IT.
August 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I. LOVED. this. I read it in a day & a half. The librarian told me when I checked it out that it's her favorite book of the year and I know why. Normally I say what happens, but I don't want to give you any spoilers. It's sincere, hilarious, wise, goofy, introspective, real. READ IT.
Perry Mason knew right from wrong. Why didn't we get that part of the nostalgic past?
August 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Perry Mason knew right from wrong. Why didn't we get that part of the nostalgic past?
