BOOKS~BOOKS~BOOKS!!!

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I know for sure Santa is bringing me at least two books! I'll report back as soon as the gifts are opened......

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Originally Posted by homoe

I know for sure Santa is bringing me at least two books! I'll report back as soon as the gifts are opened......

Indeed I did receive two books! Well 1 actually and the other is coming Feb 4th!

I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt which chronicles the life of Frank Sheeran, an alleged mafia hitman who confesses the crimes he committed working for the Bufalino crime family and which the movie The Irishman is based on.

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by Jenn Shapland released Feb 4th

While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie—letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language—but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her.

And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, researches McCullers’s days at beloved Yaddo.

As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees how McCullers’s story has become a way to articulate something about herself. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories.

I had first seen this book mentioned in Oprah Magazine and can't wait to read it.

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I just came across an article about a book being released on January 20th titled Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer, and Secret Diarist. Not sure if I'll be ordering it or not.

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Originally Posted by homoe

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I just came across an article about a book being released on January 20th titled Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer, and Secret Diarist. Not sure if I'll be ordering it or not.

Update: I did not order it!

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Originally Posted by homoe

by Jenn Shapland released Feb 4th

While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie—letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language—but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her.

And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, researches McCullers’s days at beloved Yaddo.

As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees how McCullers’s story has become a way to articulate something about herself. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories.

I had first seen this book mentioned in Oprah Magazine and can't wait to read it.

I got it, I read it, I liked it.....

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The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism – by Kyle Chayka


It's not so much of a "how to" manual but more of an in-depth & history look at minimalism I would say.

I first saw it mentioned in The Week magazine Feb 9th issue.

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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Enrich, David



After hearing Rachael Maddow go on and on about this book and seeing her interview with the author last week, I decided to order this book earlier this morning!

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First Edition Romance: A Garriety Romance by Shannon M Harris



Ainslon O’Neil is co-owner of Turn the Page, the most popular children’s and comic bookstore in Garriety. Her life revolves around her business and family. Romance is far from her mind, until one day Lauren Millán, owner of C & C, walks into her store and commissions Ainslon to find a first edition of Mary Poppins.

A book about books, chocolate, and a budding romance between two women.It just arrived yesterday late afternoon but I'm already 100 pages in!