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I read that and am sure it’s why the last summers I have seen fewer birds: they tore down a school across the street and have been preparing to build 38 houses 😢

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The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems by Michael Ondaatje I was captured from the first poem which describes looking at old family photographs on slides and the memories of the people captured in them. “These are the fragments I have of them,”…

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The Vineyard: A Poem by Jonathan Galassi The fact what seems eternal’snot eternal makes itall the more lovely.from The Vineyard by Jonathan Galassi I loved this poem, this celebration of the ephemeral, the short lived beauty of this…

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Stories by Helen Garner I have enjoyed reading Helen Garner’s reprinted fiction as the books have come out. Garner’s voice is so unique. She wrote about women during a transitional period of time, exploring se…

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When I listen to great music, it feels like my ears have become passageways to my heart. And when I read poetry, it seems that poetry is the music of language and language is the tool of consciousness. #sundaysentence #poetrysaysitbetter
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Quilts of Valor: 37 Patriotic Patterns from Star Designers The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover all service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. from Quilts of Valor Early in my reviewing lif…

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Why We Click by Kate Murphy I had many kinds of jobs over my work life. I remember some work environments just burned me out right away with people telling me what a lousy place it was to work, warning me about the other empl…

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20 books read in February!

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A Good Animal by Sara Mauer Leaving the Upper Peninsula was never easy. The Lower Peninsula waited on the other side of the bridge like the opening to another world. If we stayed on I-75 long enough, there were cities and sub…

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I loved this bio, my favorite 2025 read

Encounters with Unexpected Animals by Uncertain, Texas, is where you wind up if you’re lost. Or aim to be. from Encounters with Unexpected Animals Marvelous short stories about the odd, the everyday, parents and children, our rel…

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Maybe the Body: Poems by Asa Drake I’m not interested in making myself legible or accessible to others. I try to write my poems as clearly as possible for myself. I’m the only person that I have to make comfortable. Asa Drake in an …

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More Than Enough by Ann Quindlen Maybe everyone’s mother was a kind of mystery to her daughter. Maybe every daughter was a mystery to her mother. from More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen Polly has a good life. She is a teacher…

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The fact what seems eternal’s
not eternal makes it
all the more lovely.
from #TheVineyard by #JonathanGalassi
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Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff She had just wanted to know what it was like to brush up against the dazzling future again. from Between the Shadow and the Soul Her face was so artificially plumped and frozen that it resembled a …

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Ashland by Dan Simon All anybody could hope for me–all I could hope for–was that I’d be different, that I’d break the age-old family tradition of early ruination. from Ashland by Dan Simon The p…

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Bad Asians by Lillian Li A book about a Millennial, Asian, peer group is not something I can personally relate to, but I do have a son who could. When he graduated from college in 2008, he could not find a job. So when thi…

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I loved Mary Barton, too. Also I have read North and South.

The branches of bare bushes were a glossy black, like a licked pencil lead.
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Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief
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For #blackhistorymonth my original #quilt celebrating women who were abolitionists and Civil Rights leaders is hanging at the local library. Each woman is shown with a quote. #embroideredquilt

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