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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 3h

Our dog, adopted from a shelter 8 months ago, doesn’t do pets and avoids hands. We have been training her to eat treats from our hands, then sneak in touches. We hope that someday she will trust us to pet her. she loves to play and loves walks, beautifully trained, and is happy.

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Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 3h

"the eye like the eye of faith believes"

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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 3h

I also read and loved this today.

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 1d

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📚 #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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 1d

#bookmail
#themahnificentruins
#nayantararoy
@algonquinbooks.bsky.social

nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 2d

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📚 #bookreview
#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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 3d

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📚#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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you❤️

nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 3d

#bookmail #theykillpeople Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 4d

My #janeausten 250 years display case at the local library.

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you

nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 4d

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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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 4d

I completed this #snowman kit #quilt so I guess I am ready for winter!

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 5d

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

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 5d

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📚 #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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you❤️

nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Halloween!
#edgarallanpoe #quilt by me

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 7d

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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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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 8d

#bookmail
#seascraper
#benjaminwood
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 8d

#bookmail
#tilt
#emmapattee
#marysueruccibooks
@simonbooks.bsky.social

nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 10d

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#bookreview
#patchwork
#janeausten
#kateevans
#versobooks
#netgalley

Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans

I loved this book so much that after looking at it I preordered it. I am organizing a display for Jane Austen at the local library, showing my Jane Austen quilts on the walls and Austen related eph…

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nancyadairb.bsky.social @nancyadairb.bsky.social · 11d

📚 #bookmail
#badasians
#lillianli
Thanks to
@henryholtbooks.bsky.social
@librarything.com

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 18d

So go ahead, pray to whichever god
Makes you the most happy
Me? I'll take that chevron of geese
Just now, over your left shoulder
Crossing in front of the moon.

#SundaySentence from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn

#todayspoem

What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!

The cover of "A Mountain's Idea of Time: poems" by Charles Finn lies on a porch deck surrounded by crisp, dry fallen leaves.

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Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social · 12d

“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” Tennessee Williams
#SundaySentence

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and saying everything is fine .

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and saying everything is fine .

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