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@HighlandHeathen @RGeirsson @MathJonesPoet @GtPoems @msladybrute @DeeringRachel @HeatherMoulson @Dennis_W_Wise @murreyb @IdgieStark @patitogotico @SueBursztynski @cheja @arienmaia @Dragonsinger52 @locktowndog @NordicAnimism 'Not So Black and White: History of Race' by Kenan Malik, 'Half of It' by Madison Beer and 'Haggis MacBrawn's Dishy Secret' by Karen McCompostine. Which tells you all about me. Whatchureadin'? Tag 5 people. @queensasylum @MaximeJaz @FionaWestAuthor @plstuartwrites @karen_heenan

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@QEisenacher Everything by Helen Hoang (not funny, but deep and the sort of books I'd like to slam critics on the head with when they say romance isn't Real Literachoor) (also see Marian Keyes' Rachel's Holiday and Again, Rachel) + books by @Gibknight and @Kyles137 (comedic fantasy).

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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." First sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. It will be two forevers before I'm THAT good.

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@JCDuncan7 I just post macro pictures of flowers from our garden on Insta. TikTok is unfortunately where the audience for #WhyOdinDrinks lives. Facebook is where the audience for Storytellers lives. Twitter is (mostly) fun and apparently sells books, which is a nice bonus.

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EVERYBODY needs a copy of A Quiet Vengeance. Start a book blog now. Or buy it. I'm fine with either. My review: https://t.co/5THMadupCa – I tried to come up with something to criticise. I failed. https://t.co/Y7fnWeb6NM

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Do you have books you HAVE to re-read every few years #readingcommunity? Mine: Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) The Wall (Marlen Haushofer) The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) Hyperbole & a Half (Allie Brosh) The Hours (Michael Cunningham) Almost everything pre-1993 (Joanna Chmielewska)

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Three best books I have read this year so far: Empire's Heir (Marian L Thorpe), Miss Percy's Guide (Quenby Olson – out in THREE DAYS), Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar. BUT. The book that kept me thinking the longest and still does – A Drowned Kingdom by @plstuartwrites.

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"Staff were instructed to display author and TV presenter Richard Osman’s novel The Thursday Murder Club in the #1 slot in stores, regardless of sales figures, because publisher Penguin Random House had paid for the space." https://inews.co.uk/news/whsmith-bestselling-book-chart-rankings-publishers-paid-feature-1415545

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'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt. It came out 30 years ago and something tells me every agent would reject it today. A 544-page debut? LOLOL Donna. Open with a fast-paced action scene, replace academia with a nuclear plant, make everyone look hot, add puppies and car chases. https://t.co/lL7XFNtwHH

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@IIronglove Books for a #TerryPratchett lover in endless grief/withdrawal, please. My recs: Miss Percy by @QEisenacher Thursday Next by @jasperfforde Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater The Part About the Dragon… by @Gibknight and #WhyOdinDrinks by @bjornlarssen: https://t.co/244ItmZiGc