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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 13h

my oldest friend said that the pictures I take on my walks remind her of the vibe on The Spirit Room and there is NO higher compliment tbh

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 16h

ultimately I don’t think I will ever recover “normal mouth feelings” but I can see through time now

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 16h

they are of course entitled to feel however they want about it but it always bummed me out that promise ring didn’t really like that album

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

This is a terrific essay. I ate it in three or four giant bites and now am full.

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

"After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Call of the void, that’s a thing we all have, right?" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

Cassandra at the Abyss

A bookseller recommends a novel about suicide.

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 16h

a real privilege to be seen like this! Thank you so much for reading it and for the thoughtful, kind words. May we all keep holding those bridges at a distance.

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 17h

heeelll yeaaahhh! Thanks Matt!

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 17h

Our very own Elizabeth has written a stunningly good piece. We very highly recommend it.

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

"After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Call of the void, that’s a thing we all have, right?" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

Cassandra at the Abyss

A bookseller recommends a novel about suicide.

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 17h

ate the spiciest noodles of my life and now all I can think of is youtu.be/Earx6f2NZLc?...

See God

YouTube video by Trapped Under Ice - Topic

youtu.be

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Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social · 18h

We wager this beautiful, (and sometimes painful) essay in the Oakland Review of Books will capture the hearts of all those who love books and who love Oakland, in equal measure. It certainly captured ours. #books #bookreviews #writingcommunity #writing

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

This stunning piece by @eafreem.bsky.social exemplifies the kind of "books writing" ORB wants to publish: it's written around and through and about A Book, but is less a "review" than an effort to understand what it means to live in the world (in Oakland) and how books are part of the way we do it

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

"After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Call of the void, that’s a thing we all have, right?" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 17h

❤️ thank you

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 18h

thank you! at one’s leisure is exactly how it should be read :)

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks for reading it!

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 18h

dang, that is so kind of you to say! Thank you for reading it so thoughtfully

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 19h

thank you Caroline!

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 19h

This is really beautiful, just as an essay itself, but also a picture of how deep engagement with a book & reading can look

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 23h

🥲 I have a new piece out today with ORB! Would love for you to read it. Truly a labor of care on everyone’s part & I’m grateful for that & the insistence that off kilter, slightly dark work Around Books fits & is in fact, the point. ORB forever! Messy girls with mental health challenges forever!!

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

This stunning piece by @eafreem.bsky.social exemplifies the kind of "books writing" ORB wants to publish: it's written around and through and about A Book, but is less a "review" than an effort to understand what it means to live in the world (in Oakland) and how books are part of the way we do it

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 19h

ahhh, thanks Josh! Means a lot to have my bookseller peers Get It

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 19h

as is my nerd ass tendency, I will be making a Cassandra/Liz playlist 🫡

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 21h

gonna be even more annoying about it, not sorry at all

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 21h

sorry, going to be annoying about this for a little bit

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 23h

🥲 I have a new piece out today with ORB! Would love for you to read it. Truly a labor of care on everyone’s part & I’m grateful for that & the insistence that off kilter, slightly dark work Around Books fits & is in fact, the point. ORB forever! Messy girls with mental health challenges forever!!

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 21h

sorry, going to be annoying about this for a little bit

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 23h

🥲 I have a new piece out today with ORB! Would love for you to read it. Truly a labor of care on everyone’s part & I’m grateful for that & the insistence that off kilter, slightly dark work Around Books fits & is in fact, the point. ORB forever! Messy girls with mental health challenges forever!!

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

This stunning piece by @eafreem.bsky.social exemplifies the kind of "books writing" ORB wants to publish: it's written around and through and about A Book, but is less a "review" than an effort to understand what it means to live in the world (in Oakland) and how books are part of the way we do it

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 21h

thank you for sharing ❤️

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

"After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Call of the void, that’s a thing we all have, right?" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

Cassandra at the Abyss

A bookseller recommends a novel about suicide.

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 23h

it lives! It looks so nice on the new site!!

🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 23h

🥲 I have a new piece out today with ORB! Would love for you to read it. Truly a labor of care on everyone’s part & I’m grateful for that & the insistence that off kilter, slightly dark work Around Books fits & is in fact, the point. ORB forever! Messy girls with mental health challenges forever!!

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

This stunning piece by @eafreem.bsky.social exemplifies the kind of "books writing" ORB wants to publish: it's written around and through and about A Book, but is less a "review" than an effort to understand what it means to live in the world (in Oakland) and how books are part of the way we do it

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

"After I had sent a few customers home with Cassandra, I started to feel a bit uneasy. Should I be warning them? Am I obligated to tell adults to brace themselves? Call of the void, that’s a thing we all have, right?" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 1d

A real artist and a real icon. I learned a lot about his work in production as well as his vast back catalog that is as yet unreleased from Dan Charnas’ book Dilla Time (which I highly recommend.)

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🌞liz🌞 @eafreem.bsky.social · 1d

when I worked at Pegasus, everyone on shift took turns playing music. When Black Messiah came out we were playing it multiple times a day, checking in with each other like “kind of want to hear this again… you guys good with that?” Must have been a million times. Deeply imprinted in my brain.

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