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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

What a gripping, heart wrenching novel from Charlotte McConaghy. Glad I decided to lug it with me over to Italy. Unforgettable. Brilliant.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Oh my gosh, what a book. When I first started reading Christopher Bollen's HAVOC, I thought someone foisted this Bertie-Wooster-like delight onto me as a thriller. But then it became Jeeves meets American Psycho, and I truly became smitten. I absolutely LOVE this deliciously dark, dark book.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Got more grief and complaints in 14 novels from one dog intentionally hit by a car than all the abuse and murder inflicted on people. I don’t get it either.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Still House Plants last night in Los Angeles. I have wanted to see them live for a very long time. What a blast.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last week I read a brand-new book that was so awful I was afraid I wouldn't read again. Then I picked up THE NIGHT GUEST by Hidur Knútsdóttir and it saved me. An absolute ace of a thriller/horror like nothing else out there. @hildur.bsky.social

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I love her so much. Although I’ll be leaving for Europe when it comes out, it’s one hardback book I’d be willing to heft along for the ride.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

been waiting for this one for a long, long time

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Phantom of the Mall: Deiric's Revenge @deiricroc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Found a hardback copy of Grasshopper Jungle by @marburyjack.bsky.social to replace the one I gave to a friend 😁

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Over the years I have been gifted some pretty incredible fan art. This is one of my favorites. Mad praise for whoever created this.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The dissatisfied face of someone who can’t go outside because I don’t want her to get bird flu.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

hi. just poppin in to be a little bitch

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I love my cat so much. But to be honest, nobody else does; she’s such a prick, so I totally get it. This is the most important work pets can do for our souls.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My family is from Trieste. I was the first one born in the States, and grew up with a non-English-speaking mother, who came here after/because of 1954. I still go back there for several months every year, and also have relatives who emigrated to Brazil. I will get that other book. Nice to meet you!

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My Best Albums of 2024. Overall best goes to Romance, by Fontaines D.C.—all bangers and no mash. Also,MJ Lenderman, This Is Lorelei, Still House Plants, Sturgill Simpson, The Cure, Mount Eerie, A Place For Owls, Adrianne Lenker.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Last month, they sent me an email saying they had decided to reimburse me, but they wanted me to email them my bank account routing number and account number. Not sketchy at all, right? I told them to just put a fucking check in an envelope, the USPS knows how to get things delivered.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A very small victory: In the past 18 months, Lufthansa has lost my luggage on two out of two flights. Dealing with them was utterly exhausting; like their strategy is totally based on getting people to give up. My foul mouth and I have finally prevailed. Go to hell, Lufthansa. Don’t bring luggage.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My Best Books of 2024--all of them absolutely spectacular and original. THE HEART IN WINTER by Kevin Barry; BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino; PARASOL AGAINST THE AXE by Helen Oyeyemi.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’m so happy to welcome all the new people here. I will always be grateful to the person (whom I’m a ridiculous fanboy of) who sent me an invite code way back when. JSYK. I have undocumented friends. I will go to the streets for them. I post pictures and stuff about books and music. And my mean cat.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

She’s looking at holiday lights.

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

One of the things that helped me get through this weekend was a re-reading Andrew Smith's Grasshopper Jungle. I'm so in love with his books. Thanks @marburyjack.bsky.social!

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

It’s a decent place. I’m happy you made it over.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

hey @aplaceforowls.bsky.social i preordered the next album and the first two singles are incredible but i’m over in europe so it’s confusing when the new single is dropping today or tomorrow or what can you please explain time zones because trying to watch baseball here sucks

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

when life gives you lemons, make limoncello

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Last 4 albums I listened to. What are yours? (Mk.gee, This Is Lorelei, Still House Plants, Wednesday)

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

This is a baby Blainville's Horned Lizard, a threatened species that has a few nesting areas in the hills around my home. When they hatch (this photo was 2 days ago), they come out by the dozens. Trying to keep them safe for the future.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Gluten-free lemon blackberry bread. A+

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

How to weed-whack on a gorgeous day in Southern California.

Sitting in the sun, reading while my donkeys and horses trim the grass in my yard.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

definitely seems like kids being noisy outside john mcwhorter's classroom is more important than anything else happening to kids in the world

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

rn I'm reading the new one from Tana French (also a fan of her), a big shift from Helen Oyeyemi.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

I’m a big fan of Helen Oyeyemi. Nobody (NOBODY!!!) writes like she does. This book is absolutely perfect. Pure joy, immersive, funny as all hell. PARASOL AGAINST THE AXE by Helen Oyeyemi. My favorite book of 2024 so far, and my favorite Oyeyemi novel. *chef’s kiss*

Photo of the novel PARASOL AGAINST THE AXE, by Helen Oyeyemi

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

I flew a couple flights on KLM a few months ago, and each time before takeoff they made an announcement that passengers were prohibited from taking pictures of other passengers inside the plane.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

it's caturday and heads will be shmooshed

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

so there is something worse than dying at work

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Same with my wife and me--small rural community; one school K-8; no grocery stores. Our home is paid off now and I can't imagine how impossible housing is for young people in America. Also, the entire idea of a "starter home" is obscene. We bought our home to live in, not to dump and move up from.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

This is the first photo I took in 2024, a bobcat who lives in the hills behind my house. I know exactly where she lives, but she always disappears when I try to get a picture. Today I mesmerized her by telling her she's pretty in my Ultra-High-Pitched-Kitty-Voice™ and she was momentarily intoxicated

A bobcat nestled in some grass and a patch of elder.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

I agree we need to give full support to Ukraine. I also believe Kinzinger is a senselessly cruel hypocrite when it comes to his views on US aid to Israel and how that aid is used. He has expressed several times a big fat “oh well” to the war crimes being inflicted on the innocent people of Gaza.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Kinzinger is part of the “turn Gaza into a parking lot” crew, and because of that I would look for other former statesmen for policy takes on pretty much anything.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Oh, I totally support assisting Ukraine. Russia must be stopped. It’s Kinziger’s hypocritical blind support of the massacre in Gaza that nullifies anything he has to say about US defense expenditures for me.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

As a war guy, Kinzinger delights in seeing grand-scale destruction. More weapons, bigger bombs. He may have an honorable take on the Constitution and rule of law here, but he's a bloodthirsty grunt when it comes to squandering the lives of innocent civilians.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

This is a beautiful little book. Originally called Lo Stralisco; one of the most popular children's books in Italy. There aren't strict kids' categories in Italy, but this is a lovely story for all ages; about a painter hired to decorate the interior walls of a sick child's room. GLOWRUSHES.

The book cover for GLOWRUSHES, by Roberto Piumini. It shows a blue, nighttime background with colorfully illuminated flowering plants in the foreground.

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Andrew Smith @marburyjack.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

it's the four-wheel version of a pluralizing apostrophe

a side image of tesla's cybertruck, which looks like something a child drew using only a ruler and a wedge of cheese as a model

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