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Retired. I read, walk the dog, make art, lunch with friends. Life is slow but full.

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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Portugal has many gifts to bestow to visitors. For me, it was the bookstores! This is just one of the books purchased and read. Kandaqji is a Palestinian author and he wrote this novel while in prison. A challenging novel about identity, religion and history set in a refugee camp.
Book cover for A Mask the Colour of the Sky written by Bassem Khandaqji. This book is the winner of the Arabic Booked Prize.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Holiday soundtrack!
Album cover of the Beach Boys’ Spirit of America.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I admit my knowledge of democratic socialism is very limited so I was glad to find this insightful balanced book. Chapter 6 provides a deep but accessible explanation. Highly recommend to others wanting to learn how our society could benefit from caring for each other apart from capitalism.
Leeloo, the Boston Terrier, is showing off her red ball. The book cover is from This Life:Secular Faith and Freedom by Martin Hägglund.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam by author Thi Bui. She documents the story of her family's escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s. Haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art.
Leeloo the Boston shares a photo with the cover of The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. There is also a page from the illustrated memoir showing a family tree.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Happy Pet Day from Leeloo!
Leeloo is relaxing at a local dog park after chasing a tennis ball.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“ Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come...”. Beautiful autobiography by Yusuf/ Cat Stevens. His songs inspire peace and his story challenges readers to look beyond a Western view of Islam. Insightful and personal.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens autobiography with Leeloo.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Readers seeking a cozy locked-room mystery will love this one from Ross Montgomery. An elderly aunt, a maid and the second footman must solve a murder that occurred while everyone was locked down to escape the Halley Comet apocalypse. An entertaining whodunit with twists and a comet!
Leeloo, Lobster and the novel, The Murder at World’s End.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Nothing enrages a tyrant more than hope.” A beautifully written novel that explores how the past can haunt. The author is an amazing artist of language.
Leeloo the Boston poses with a cover of Held by Anne Michaels. The cover is a winner scene with shadows and dark trees.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Last read of 2025–Possession by A.S. Byatt. Byatt wrote all the Victorian poetry featured in the novel as well as letters and diaries. It’s a literary mystery and romance that asks questions about possession of scholarship, relationships, secrets, poetry. A gorgeous novel.
Book cover for Possession by A.S. Byatt and Leeloo, the Boston Terrier. Possession is my last read of 2025.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“Truth and Falsehood are arbitrary terms.... There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other.... The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little whether it is true or false.” US politics today mirrors the democracy of 1917-20.
Cover of American Midnight by Adam Hochschild. History about United States between 1917-1920.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Lauren Groff has been on my list for too long! This novel is genius. Marie is exiled from court by Eleanor of Aquitaine to an impoverished abbey in England where Marie uses all her powers to create an amazing community of creative women. A tapestry of violence, sensuality and mysticism.
Leeloo sleeping next to a Matrix, a novel written by Lauren Groff.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Winter is a great time to travel to Western Africa—at least in a fantasy written by the talented Nnedi Okorafor. So beautifully written! Great characters and a thrilling story.
Boston terrier, Leeloo, her red ball and a paperback copy of Akata Witch, by Nnedi Okorafor.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Finished! This book was not what I was expecting from a novel centered on WW2. I’m glad I traveled with this absurd circus of characters to the end. It was a dark, weird tour.
Leeloo, a black and white Boston terrier is happy her reader has completed The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The great challenge as a reader is to recognize brilliance. This book seemed to me, at first, boring. Then daunting. Then, with a humbled mind I realized I had misunderstood and went to back to reread chapters and paragraphs. This is a memoir that reads like great literature.
Book cover of My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss. Next to the cover is a dozing Boston terrier named Leeloo.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Great read for a windy October Sunday!
Book cover for The Drowned, by John Banville
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I love this novel! Written by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka this book is a murder mystery, political thriller & poignant discourse about love & friendship. Main character Maali Almeida has 7 moons to solve his own murder, reveal the horrors of a civil war and fight demons. Highly recommend!
Book cover of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka accompanied by sleeping Boston terrier.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I finally read this one! So good. Here’s some other historical fiction I’ve read that include the gods or this time period: The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault; Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker; and Thessaly, Jo Walton which includes robots which is awesome! Here’s to fate and fallen heroes!
Leeloo, Boston Terrier, with book on my lap. Book is The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Just starting Trust by Hernan Diaz. A friend recommended it so I moved it from my TBR shelf to the reading chair which I’m sharing with Leeloo and flat squirrel.
Leeloo is a Boston terrier with a squirrel toy posing with Trust, a novel by Hernan Diaz.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Sometimes the book doesn’t survive the reader…Finished this one finally but the book paid the price. RIP to a good book with a glued spine.
Broken book, Great Shame by Thomas Keneally. Reader broke the spine.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Swinging in a hammock on my front porch, reading about Murderbot. It’s a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Book cover of Exit Strategy, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Fourth in the series, cover shows Murderbot floating away from space pod.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This remarkable memoir by Beaton is a graphic wonder. She captures the scale of the machinery and the mining sites and writes candidly about the alienation and harshness of the labor. We learn with Beaton about the exploitation and alienation of large corporations on indigenous communities.
Book cover for the graphic novel by Kate Beaton—Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands. Published by Drawn & Quarterly, 2022.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
“Who can forget having been master of herself? … Those who remained can’t forgive us for having a key to our own room.” From the 1938 novel about the hidden lives of women by de Cespedes and translated by Ann Goldstein.
Leeloo the Bossy Boston Terrier is napping while I read There’s No Turning Back by Alba De Cespedes.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17/06/2025
There is no greater moral failure than stealing a child from their family. It is evil, full stop. Those who carry it out have forfeited their humanity. I’m hoping karma is real & she exacts her full vengeance upon them. We are called to act. Show up. Speak out. Call every single day.
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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Who’s really behind book bans? It’s not just concerned parents… 72% of book censorship efforts come from pressure groups and government officials. Only 16% come from parents, and 12% from others like teachers or library users. #FreedomToRead #StopBookBans #FactsMatter #LetBooksBe #ProtectLibraries
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Intense psychological thriller. Nordic noir can be twisty and dark so it’s not always my first choice. This was well-written but I always worry about Sweden’s mental well-being when I finish a book like this. No happy endings with this one!
Book cover for The Crow Girl written by Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson and Hallam Axlander Sundquist. Translated from Swedish by Neil Smith. Nordic noir thriller.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Read this so fast, I almost forgot to post it. Look this awesome cover! A compelling mystery that compassionately includes mature topics faced by young students. I read this in one day because the writing is so good and the characters were amazing.
Book cover for Where Sleeping Girls Lie, written by Eridah Abike-Iyimide. YA mystery set at a boarding school.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
My read this week. Set during the Dustbowl in Nebraska. Beautiful characters, a little witchcraft and magic. Depth and humor deftly written to impart the importance of hope for the future by giving respect to the past.
Book cover for The Antidote by Karen RussellQuoted text from The Antidote by Karen Russell.  “Why should money make evil compressible to anyone? …Evil’s genius is to costume itself as sense.”
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This amazing novel spans the lifetime of Zorrie Underwood. After The deaths of her parents and guardian, she moves West from Depression-era Indiana to work in a radium processing plant then back home where trials and pain must be faced with tenacity.
Book cover for Zorrie by Laird Hunt.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This week’s read. Historical fiction with a great story of the influences that inspired her to write Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. Lots of gothic atmosphere and eerie imagery.
Cover from book—Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Every time they come for my fam, I’m gonna get louder📚📣❤️
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is the first year that Francisco has harvested mandarin oranges. He's working near Sanger CA and shares: The work is dangerous. I've seen other workers get injured so I'm very careful. The pay is low but I do it as my family depends on me. #WeFeedYou
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This one is going to break my heart.
Book cover for Isola by Allegra Goodman. A Reese’s Book Club selection.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
These novels ask can a story be stolen? And if the story is stolen, can someone else profit? How can the industry and society protect artists and their rights? And, after reading the reviews for both, I never want to see the phrase “dark side of female relationships” for the rest of 2025.
Book cover for The Writing Retreat by Julia Bart’sThe book cover for Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
My resistance is advocating for libraries. I maintain a LFL at my home and support my community library and now have an alumni card to my college library. It’s a little thing but libraries are under attack so this is my resistance!
Covers from books, including: The Writing Retreat, Isola, I am Homeless if this is not my Home, Goliath, Nobody’s Fool
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wow! This is an amazing novel! A broken family healed with emotional kintsugi. A respectful voice when writing about mental health and the pain of abuse and loss. Also a gorgeous reminder of the strength of nature, art, and strong creative women.
Book cover for Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
New book started. This novel does what a good book should it moves me to examine my experiences against the beautiful lives of the characters created by the author. Open a book. Open your mind. Open your heart.
Fiction novel cover— All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathew’s.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Winds are gusting and the skies are gray—so I’m staying in with this prize.
Book cover for The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tell Congress that the mental health of kids shouldn’t be sacrificed to give even more tax breaks to billionaires. Say NO to Medicaid cuts! QUICK SIGNATURE: action.momsrising.org/sign/medicai... via @momsrising.org #MedicaidMatters action.momsrising.org/sign/medicai...
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Protect Kids’ Mental Health – Defend Medicaid!
Children need Medicaid for mental health care! Congress is considering devastating cuts that would harm millions of kids and families. Add your name now to protect Medicaid and ensure children get the...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/03/2025
Rep. Jamie @raskin.house.gov: "Here's something every American can do and ought to do: Get your FOIA request in" to DOGE. Congressman Raskin explains how he's fighting back against Elon Musk's DOGE. Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYnN...
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Celebrating St.Patrick’s Day with historical nonfiction by Thomas Keneally, The Great Shame and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World.
Photo shows shamrock plant and The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Upright Women Needed from Sarah Gailey. Just the alternate reality we all need right now. Are you a coward? Or are you a librarian?
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. Alternate fiction. Fight the State. Be a librarian.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There’s a blizzard so I’m dusting bookshelves while the wind howls. Organizing books for me is personal as it should be. Sort of genre. Kind of by feeling. Mostly by mood. And, of, course, this isn’t even all of them. Stay warm and read!!
Stacks of books from my personal collection. Cleaning shelves and moving books around during the blizzard.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I want the blanket she’s laying on so I can cuddle up with this amazing book. But as we know, moving while she is sleeping violates the Geneva Convention.
Boston terrier is sleeping on blanket next to book, Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Look at this beauty! From Akashi Books. There may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war. I’m going to have a great weekend with this one!
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Elon Musk is attempting to shut down government agencies, take over our federal payment systems, and bring our government to a grinding halt. Tell Congress to use every procedural tool they have to stop Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on democracy! action.momsrising.org/sign/stop_el...
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SIGN NOW: Stop Trump and Elon Musk's Assault on Democracy
The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is attempting to shut down government agencies, take over our federal payment systems, and bring our government to a grinding halt. Congress must fight back.
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mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social @mrwreadsbooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Ever read the first line of a book and fallen in love? I thank my past self for adding this to my shelves. Amazing! Beautiful and lyrical.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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