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Julia S.

@booktweeting.bsky.social

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Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds. No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.


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for everything else, there’s seizing the means of production

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she does seem better at riding the tiger than our right-wingers do in 🇺🇸

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that’s it my 41-year streak of pacifism has just snapped I must have this person’s name and address and also some brass knuckles if you have any

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interesting! here in Boston, it’s the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve and Lunar New Year—🤞🏻that the fireworks enthusiasts don’t add Halloween to our rotation as well I can see why summertime fireworks might not be popular in a vulnerable forest…

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it’s remarkable, isn’t it, that the most annoying bookstore clerk ever and the boyfriend who she met at the Renaissance Faire somehow are leaders of a cult/MLM with millions of dollars coming through the doors

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don’t they think of this as a feature, not a bug?

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are you sitting down, grandpa? because I have some news about Radio Shack

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premature fireworks are disrupting people’s sleep in both 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦

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Hers also has depression medicine women’s two interests: weight loss and not being depressed

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they know no fear I still have wounds from my godkids

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😱 wow, talk about a mixed blessing

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that is pretty amazing

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owning that car would fix me

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very very nice!

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make a band bready Kaiser Chiefs 😉 Bapfinger

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Bob 🥰 what a sweetie

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I mean, it would be great to have better air sanitation/purification in restaurants and bars, but that’s like icing on a cake

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SURPRISINGLY TENDER HORROR tale uses clear, precise prose to capture the profound uncanniness of liminal spaces like a shopping mall in decline, with the accompanying terrors of aging and loss of ability. Insightful and scary! B PLUS

💙📚
#SelfPublishedSunday

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-found-a-...

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that is certainly a strong bench! putting it on my to-watch list

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Jeanne Crain was my father’s biggest movie-star crush, followed closely by Signe Hasso this is a fact that nobody, probably not even my brother, remembers

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I usually like Box’s stuff! I wonder if it was illness or a tight deadline or maybe going down the Dumas père/James Patterson path of collaboration…🤔

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my second watch added even more than I had expected

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okay, but I would buy a lot of the toys if this was for reals

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I am so sorry you experienced that; not that any breakup is ever easy, but that sounds crushing on many levels at once

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why is it that it feels so wrong to watch these during the daytime? I am with you on this

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wow, that is a real heartbreaker of a story!

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I want to see the reverse of this

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Sergeant Murphy is on the take

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fireflies are having a boom year in most parts of the US; I have never ever seen so many in my neighborhood

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always makes me think of Geoffrey Hill, particularly the first of his Mercian Hymns:

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48461/...

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I want a culinary golem now

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introverts unite! we have nothing to lose but our solitude!

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oh, those are really pretty! 🤩

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my college roommate used to call it “Julia’s nut magnet”

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yeah, you all are REALLY getting gouged by Loblaws and Sobeys we fortunately have a bit more competition 🤞🏻

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my commitment to pacifism gets harder and harder every single day of 2024

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those are extremely excellent mushrooms, even by the high standards of your mushroom photos 🤩

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does it rhyme with “schmillotine”?

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protects but does not bind I hate it so much

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that must add even more power!

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another extremely telling thing is that they were all born on third base and most of them are still on third base or at best halfway home

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I think you may be the first but then again, teenagers exist, so perhaps not

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gorgeous photo! sailor’s delight!

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I will out-bully a bully any day of the week

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what a beautiful, powerful work of art

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again, the increase in retail prices does not map, percentage-wise, onto the increases in the cost of labor, utilities, or rents

this data is available and has been analyzed

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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maybe it was about her character and the other character? and wtf look how happy the Jack Sprats have been for hundreds of years now

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SO painful, probably the most painful I have had as well wishing you easier days ahead and lots of treats and comforts to make the rough times better

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Canada Post and the US Postal Service do things at their own pace; I am patient I used to get my birthday cards from my great-aunt in New Brunswick just in time for Christmas 😉

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“Damn your lithia water, it lowers. Whuskey!”

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