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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth (E.T., #1)

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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

Cathi Hanauer

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Support Your Local Library!!

Friendly but aggressive reminder that..

IT’S LIBRARY BOOK SALE SEASON!! 📚 Go out & SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!!🫶🏻

You do not need a library card (but you should have at least 1) to participate in any or all of the library book sales near you! ❌Stop giving Amazon your money! ❌Stop giving Target your money! ❌Stop giving Walmart your money! ❌Stop giving your money to big corps!

All you have to do it google “Local Library (your county) book sale” or “Local Library (your county) event calendar” to find out the information.

Yesterday I went with my husband & we purchases ✨16✨ books for $50!

XOXOX

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Support Your Local Library!!

Friendly but aggressive reminder that..

IT’S LIBRARY BOOK SALE SEASON!! 📚 Go out & SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!!🫶🏻

All you have to do it google “Local Library (your county) book sale” or “Local Library (your county) event calendar” to find out the information.

Yesterday I went with my husband & we purchases ✨16✨ books for $50!

XOXOX

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Support Your Local Library!!

Friendly but aggressive reminder that..

IT’S LIBRARY BOOK SALE SEASON!! 📚 Go out & SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!!🫶🏻

All you have to do it google “Local Library (your county) book sale” or “Local Library (your county) event calendar” to find out the information.

Yesterday I went with my husband & we purchases ✨16✨ books for $50!

XOXOX

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hauntedxlore

Blind Book Decision

Picked this book up to annotate for a friend who enjoys reading Self-Help books, especially from a woman’s perspective. I’m hoping this is one that aligns w her other reads. Granted I don’t know what she has read, but she did describe to me what she was looking for the last time we went book buying together 👀 Really hope this book turns out good 🤞🏼🤞🏼 if it doesn’t, that’s also okay bc I only paid $3 for it at a Library Book sale

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!!

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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

Cathi Hanauer

Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House. Women today have more choices than at any time in history, yet many smart, ambitious, contemporary women are finding themselves angry, dissatisfied, stressed out. Why are they dissatisfied? And what do they really want? These questions form the premise of this passionate, provocative, funny, searingly honest collection of original essays in which twenty-six women writers—ranging in age from twenty-four to sixty-five, single and childless or married with children or four times divorced—invite readers into their lives, minds, and bedrooms to talk about the choices they’ve made, what’s working, and what’s not. With wit and humor, in prose as poetic and powerful as it is blunt and dead-on, these intriguing women offer details of their lives that they’ve never publicly revealed before, candidly sounding off on: • The difficult decisions and compromises of living with lovers, marrying, staying single and having children • The perpetual tug of war between love and work, family and career • The struggle to simultaneously care for ailing parents and a young family • The myth of co-parenting • Dealing with helpless mates and needy toddlers • The constrictions of traditional women’s roles as well as the cliches of feminism • Anger at laid-back live-in lovers content to live off a hardworking woman’s checkbook • Anger at being criticized for one’s weight • Anger directed at their mothers, right and wrong • And–well–more anger... “This book was born out of anger,” begins Cathi Hanauer, but the end result is an intimate sharing of experience that will move, amuse, and enlighten. The Bitch in the House is a perfect companion for your students as they plot a course through the many voices of modern feminism. This is the sound of the collective voice of successful women today-in all their anger, grace, and glory.

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness. First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.

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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

J.R.R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

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Unpopular Opinion?

Okay, so I really enjoy posting/responding to posts/commenting on here. It's so nice to get away from the toxic, brainrot "conversations" on BookTok or Bookstagram, or from polite friends/relatives who ask me absently what I'm reading. Ya know? However, sometimes I'll read through a post & see that there are 40+ comments already, then scroll on. If the theme/question is interesting enough, I'll sift through it & try to respond to it. Sometimes, if I'm not one of the first commenters, I just won't comment. It can just be so overwhelming at times, with the number of comments. Especially because the majority of people have such interesting or insightful things to comment!

Absolutely no one's fault, it's just a personal thing. So, I guess my unpopular opinion is that sometimes I'll look at a post & think "that's enough comments", then like it & just move on. Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this?

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Thoughts from 1% (page 6)

I didn't realize this was a religious retelling... now, I feel less like reading it. For contect, I did grow up Catholic, but have since moved on to more Pagan spituality. I've read two of Steinbeck's other books (Of Mice & Men and The Pearl, enjoyed both of them!). How religious is this novel compare to those two? Will I be completely lost without knowing the story being retold? Or, other religious subtext?

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The Seasonal Read-Along

Just curious, but how many of you all partake in the readalongs? If you're someone who does, do you only partake in the one that you have the books of, or do you go out & purchase the books? What about it draws you to do it, also? Is it reading with a group, trying new books, reading a themed set of books, etc?

They always interest me, but I never have the books, & my TBR list is already FAR too long. Or, as of lately, the books haven't interested me. So, going out & purchasing the books isn't something I'm willing to do. I'm of the mindset of being anti-consuming, meaning that I do not aimlessly buy up books. That is the goal at least; no book is safe from me at a used bookstore, though.

I look forward to reading your guys' insights! xoxox

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now… Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Octavia E. Butler

In 2024, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

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Blurb vs Book🥊🥊

What are some of the books you've read where the blurb was so incredible and enticing but the book just underdelivered or was NOTHING like the blurb? For me the most recent one was 'Witch' by Iain Rob Wright And to flip the question... what book did you read that had a sad little blurb but the book blew you away?

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movie/series adaptations

have you guys seen the amount of adaptations of books happening 😭 what are some that you know of? is there any fantasy books becoming adaptations?i know about the twisted series by ana huang, the mindf*ck series by S. T Abby, the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood, the windy city series by liz tomforde...

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Thoughts from 1% (page 6)

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Emma

Jane Austen

The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

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