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books & such • intj • solitary pursuits
art • photography • avid walker
bits of my life • tennessee • humor
water walker > boat hugger = have faith

Really, I just want to talk books. No world news, politics or other BS.

Isaiah 40:31

If the world comes knocking, tell ‘em I’m not home . E Church

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Upside down? Sideways? Just be you.

Blume, lying on her back, sideways.
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When I was a kid, someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said I wanted to be a doctor because I assumed that's just what the "gifted" kids do, but luckily my dad quickly interjected and reminded me that I can't even look at a papercut without feeling sick, so I decided to major in computer science so I could try to avoid paper as much as possible.

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@Alice Completely logical 👍

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Cujo has nothing on this girl.

Blume, looking up, while sitting against several S King books, Cujo being the one next to her.
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Books always make a room better.

T Boteju

An old picture of a colorful stack of NYRBs and one string of colored Christmas lights hangs down the spines.
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Blume, trying to think of ways she can be nicer next year, when in reality she relishes being a bully.

The elf sitting atop some books, while Blume, wearing a red ribbon looks off to the distance.
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When you're strange, faces come out of the rain
When you're strange, no one remembers your name
When you’re strange

An old picture of Blume (sitting in some books ) when she was a kitten and new to our home.
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Some pink and peach dahlias with the lake in the background.
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The books are right here, no need to go anywhere else. 📚

Blume sitting atop some books, while motioning with her paw.
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Hey—how do you charge this thing?

Blume, standing next to some books, with a little black porcelain phone in top, that is surrounded by white charging cords.
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This is a helpful and frightening perspective on why Americans have such different views of who Charlie Kirk was. Screenshot from FB; original poster's name is in the screenshot but I'm not typing it because she might not want it searchable outside FB:

"One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

"I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

"Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

"I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be 'right'.

"None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didn't believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.

"Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story."

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@faab64 @SpaceLifeForm @msbellows 100% correct. Mastodon/Fediverse is simply one side of it all. Just like the original post said, we don’t have the whole picture, both sides always do this to further their agendas. One is not less guilty.

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A very blue sky over the ocean, a pier stretches across the water.
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We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

C Mochrie

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Sunset on the pier at PCB, FL. A few people are walking on the pier and one light reflects in the water.
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Fancher Falls, TN
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The beauty of books is that one will always be able to find something to read—just not these.

These are mine.

Blume, on top of a few books, looking to the left.
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An updated picture of one of my favorite views on Lake Chatuge. Two Adirondack chairs, with the lake in the background.
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Livin’
on
the
edge.

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Two chairs on a deck with the lake in the background.
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An old favorite of mine. A line of different colored beach chairs under red umbrellas, the ocean is in the background.
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Read any good fiction lately?

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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group Brooklyn and Long Island, both by Colm Toibíin. Just started Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito .

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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group Toíbín has written others, but Brooklyn and Long Island are related (start with Brooklyn if you decide to read), but could both be read as standalones. Also there’s one called Nora Webster (I’ve not read), that’s a story about a character in Brooklyn.

I read Mrs. March by Feito when it came out a few yrs ago. It was strange but good, I think Victorian Psycho will be even stranger—so I’m totally game 😊📚

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That's good to know.

If you write an address on a snake and put it in your mailbox the mailman is legally obligated to take it.
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@lowqualityfacts This actually is not too far from the truth. We ordered our snake and he arrived in a tiny little box on our porch. 😊

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica I’ve never had one, never understood the draw to it in the first place.

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Quite frankly it has been hard to read with everything crumbling all around us here in the U.S. but I have ensconced myself in the library (fewer distractions than at home) and I'm determined to try! First up: The City and Its Uncertain Walls, the latest novel by the incomparable Haruki Murakami.

I like it so far. The tone is much more wistful than I expected, at least at the outset.

The epigraph, which gives us a hint about what to expect, is taken from Coleridge's Kubla Khan:

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘱𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘢𝘯
𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯
𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘢.

I found that moving.

Let me know what you are reading, and what you are doing to help concentrate on the joy of reading.

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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I’m reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez.

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bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group Are you reading anything over the holiday break (if you get one)? I find it to be a great time to read.

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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I’m reading The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

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@willaful @kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I liked Rules of Civility and I really like the Count character in AGIM. I think it’s a cool book, but its leisurely pace doesn’t have me itching it to get back to it when I put it down. It’s taking me forever to get through it.

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Year to date
Finished Reading: 63 books
That's about 2 books a week. With more in winter, fewer in summer.

DNF: 26 (after at least 20%)
DNF is higher if I include books where I ditched them after 20pages, usually due to poor writing quality.
My days of reading till the end are long gone when a book is badly written or bores me.

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Hanging out in 700s nonfiction. If it starts to get loud, I'll mosey over to Presidential History in the 970s. Where are you reading today?

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Five tier tall bookcase with shelves of mostly graphic novels. Carpet is industrial gray. Reading chair is blue and green patterned fabric covered low stuffed furniture (surprisingly comfortable). Edge of low white oval table is also in frame.
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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group Lilith by Erik Rickstad and The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

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I need to reorganize my fiction bookshelves. What system has worked best for you? I'm leaning towards going by author, though that leaves the question of how to treat anthologies. Maybe anthologies could be first, or shelved by the editor's name. Alphabetical by title (preceded by numbers) might work just as well as by author.

I had been doing them by height size, except for the graphic novels, which tend not to match any standard size.

These particular bookshelves are all fiction (except for graphic nonfiction) so organizing by subject seems unwieldy.

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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group You know I do my fiction by author alphabetically (but the individual books aren’t alphabetized). My graphic novels are just in their own section. What about doing the anthologies like that, too?

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@kimlockhartga @MissConstrue @BackFromTheDud bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I think color organization can look neat, but realistically I like to be able to find my books easily, also it would drive my mind crazy to have an author’s books spread about the whole room.

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Book Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book One: bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

The cover of Daytripper is, well, kind of trippy. A man sits on a park bench, with a dog in front of him. Pretty normal so far, right? Except we can see his thoughts, which are presented in watercolor splashes of imagination. There is the precarious love he shares with an adventurous woman, represented by them both standing up in a boat. There is an image of a great modern city. And there us his trusty typewriter. Sure, he uses it for his newspaper job, but he writes about life and death; it's impossible to think about the beginning and the end without considering all the chapters of one's own life, and about what it all means.
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@kimlockhartga bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group Just looked this book up, it looks really interesting.

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Ooh exciting news! I loved Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys and My Name is Lucy Barton and this new one sounds like they’re all coming together, what a treat! New Elizabeth Strout out in September bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b7bd5236-9356-4df8-aa6c-f3804f00defe

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@sarahmatthews bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group I love Strout and OK is one of favorite books. Excited for this one. Did you read Olive, Again ( a sequel of sorts to OK)?

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these jokes write themselves

Bike fall meme

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant's operations
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@djlink Wow , that’s so weird that something doesn’t work as well when you don’t have the appropriate work force 😂

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I ❤️ seeing all kinds of book, art, & photography posts. If this describes your acct. please introduce yourself.

If you ❤️ seeing & posting ad nauseum, news, politics, & stuff of that nature, keep on scrolling, as you will never see that on this acct. Please & thank you. bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

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Hi😊 I just moved here from another server, so I thought I’d introduce myself: My name is Lisa.
My 1st love is books, a close 2nd is drawing/painting. I walk a lot & place a high value on daily exercise. I work in the field of ophthalmology, but have a background in teaching & aviation. I am married, w/ 2 teenaged boys. Originally I’m from SoCal, but have lived in TN for many yrs & love it. I am definitely a country mouse (vs. city mouse).The older I get, the more I enjoy cold weather, which has led to an obsession w/ sweaters & sweatshirts. There is also a corkscrew in my purse for red wine emergencies. bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

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