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Mercy Hill by Hannah Thurman
If I were to pick the number one strangest thing about my childhood, which was packed to the gills with strangeness, it would be the way the sun disappeared each day at noon. If I was at home and b…
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Wasn’t that the essence of life during wartime—accepting that not all stories had endings? Accepting that things got lost? That people got lost. #sundaysentence #fallenforfrance #elizabethletts @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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When Mikan Road Was Ours by D. K. Furutani
I sit with this realization for a moment, keenly aware now that I’ve spent more energy over my lifetime analyzing fictional characters than my own father, my own family. from When Mikan Road …
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Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli
What happens in the middle is that if life is at all like an arch, and one happens to be standing somewhere near the apex around the age of forty, what one sees on one side is one’s children …
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Uncover Up by Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke
We have a responsibility—to ourselves, to our community, and to our future—to try to see clearly through the noise and nonsense. from Uncover Up First of all–what a great cover! T…
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#sundaysentence I’m a man who’s seen too much to believe in salvation, but not enough to stop looking. #resonance #subplot #michaelstobin #danielschertoff
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A Kingdom and a Village by Simon Morrison
Russia has reductively been called the holy fool among nations, a simpleton speaking the truth, as well as an ideocracy, pursuing ideologies and beliefs that inspired the artists of the Silver Age …
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Birthday present to myself #theviewfromtheeastwing #jillbiden #thebestamericanpoetry2025 @simonbooks.bsky.social
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Unsayable by Michael Cunningham
We are, in a sense, the stories we tell to ourselves and each other. from Unsayable by Michael Cunningham “My earliest memory is a lack of language,” Michael Cunningham begins his memoi…
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Bonus #sundaysentence …that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of. #theprincessandthegoblin #georgemacdonald
Seeing Jesus nailed to the cross above the altar put his own tribulations into perspective. Things could always be worse. #sundaysentence #underthefalls #richardrusso @aaknopf.bsky.social #netgalley
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Eco-Print: The Guide to Natural Botanical Printing on Fabric
Eco-printing encompasses various techniques with which you can transfer colors and shapes from plants onto fabric. from Eco-Print I was a self taught sewer and self taught quilter. The first class …
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Books, Quilts, News
Book mail this week was Resonance by Michael S. Tobin and Daniel S. Chertoff. New on my NetGalley shelf are Clairty by Tim O’Brien Same River Twice by Wiley Cash In Charge of a Woman: Harriet…
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theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/m... 📚 #bookreview #menlikeus #carsonmarkland @algonquinbooks.bsky.social #netgalley
Men Like Us by Carson Markland
Even when it comes to tragedy, his family beats everyone. Whatever the metric, Kennedys don’t lose. from Men Like Us by Carson Markland When I read historical fiction about a subject I know q…
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The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby by Michael Blanding
Truth: I read this book so I can better explain to my quilt group why they should NOT shop at Hobby Lobby. With the demise of Joanne Fabrics and local quilt stores, we don’t have many places …
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Dying may be a certainty, but it’s seldom specific about timing. #sundaysentence #unsayable #michaelcunningham @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #netgalley
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Man Overboard! by Kathleen Rooney
I like to read stories of life and death where something’s at stake. And here I am. from Man Overboard! by Kathleen Rooney Patrick ‘Kick’ Kirkpatrick may have been a competitive s…
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theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/t... 📚 #bookreview #theacrobat @eccobooks.bsky.social #netgalley
The Acrobat by Wislawa Szymborska
Each of us wished to have a homelandfree of neighborsand to live his entire lifein the intervals between wars. from One Version of Events by Wislawa Szymborska “After every war/someone has to…
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Nightjar: Stories by Emily Ruskovich
Each of these stories is beautifully written and mesmerizing. They are also disturbing. The characters are alienated from those they should be closest to. They are not at home in their own lives. R…
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theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/b... New #books to read, #quilt finishes
Books, Quilts
I read 22 books in June. I had to pass on another dozen. I need to read ahead because some things are coming up that will interfere with reading…life things I can’t avoid. Bookmail included Eco-Pri…
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