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My reading life.❤️
Proud New Yorker🗽
& East Hamptonite🪻🌊
Now Princetonian🧡🖤
Author, lawyer, journalist, musician.

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What book would you love to be able to erase from your mind … so you could read it again for the first time?
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This post came from a moment I had recently when my hands started doing the stomp-stomp-clap from Queen’s 1977 anthem We will rock you. I can’t remember the first time I ever heard that but wow, so simple but so insanely good.
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So here are three songs, three films and three books that I would love to be able to erase from my mind so I could hear/see/read them again for the first time:

THREE SONGS
🎤 No woman, no cry, Bob Marley. A song that changes my heartbeat. Soul stirring.
🎶 Stay with me baby, Lorraine Ellison. To be fair every time I hear this one, it’s like the first time. I’ve never listened to it without getting goosebumps and I must’ve listened to it hundreds of times. Just the raw emotion.
🎸We will rock you, Queen. Pure genius. Hundreds of listens later it would be easy to think that this was just another song. But no, it’s an anthem.

THREE FILMS
🎥 A Matter of Life and Death. A Powell and Pressberger Classic, which is endearing, charming innovative and wildly ambitious.
🎦 Das Boot. Tension and drama in a German submarine. There seem to be a lot of versions of this, including a TV miniseries, so I’m not sure which version I watched but my goodness it was impossible to look away. 🍿Star Wars. The first film I ever saw at the cinema. I think it was for my 10th birthday. What a way to start your cinema-going life.

THREE BOOKS
📘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie - pretty much the ultimate murder mystery, with the twist so good it makes you laugh at how well you were fooled.
📗The other/ the book of sand, Jorge Luis Borges - I did not read or has until I was 49, and then I was born again reader. Other worlds, other dimensions, new colours, other ways of thinking all became possible.
📒O the brave music, Dorothy Evelyn Smith. Just the most gorgeous narrative voice. And a gorgeous story. I loved it from the first page to the last.

Let me know your choices for books, films and music.
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Tagging this challenge:
🏷️ #doyourememberthefirsttime

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🎉 Our first community baby shower of 2026 is underway — and it’s already an incredible day for moms-to-be in our community!

Huge thanks to @firstchoicebyselecthealth for hosting us and creating such a warm, welcoming space. 💛

And a big shoutout to @jlcharleston for the generous diaper donation that’s helping us support so many families today. Your kindness is making an immediate impact.

We’re here, we’re energized, and we’re so grateful to be part of these joyful moments with expectant moms. 🤰✨

#MaternalHealth #HealthyPregnancy #Pregnant #Pregnancy #MyEmpoweredPregnancy

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Back in December I asked you guys to recommend me some books for 2026. I have received dozens of book recommendations and coincidentally I have owned some of these for a while. Hence, here is the list of books YOU have recommended to me that I already have on my hands and thus will be prioritizing in 2026:

✔️ A Family Matter by Claire Lynch
✔️ In Memoriam by Alice Winn
✔️ Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
✔️ Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
✔️ Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (@craigsreads I know you have recommend her newest book but I really need to check this one off my list first 😀)
✔️ Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
✔️ Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
✔️ Honor by Thrity Umrigar
✔️ The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
✔️ Death Valley by Melissa Broder
✔️ Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (@what__v__reads again, I will most definitely get to Shuggie Bain soon but need to get through this first hence modified your recommendation ❤️)
✔️ Clear by Carys Davies

Thanks again to everyone who shared their recs, I have added everything to TBR, so if you don’t see your book here - no need to worry, I will be getting a digital copy sooner or later 💕

How many of these have you read? Any favourites?

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रास्ते में कांटे बहुत हैं,लेकिन रूकता कौन है!
मौत कल आनी है,आज आ जाए पर डरता कौन है !! #ashok_pandey #sangarsh #autocracy

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Do you ever dream about books?
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Last night I dreamt I was in a Waterstones. Former poet Andrew Motion happened to be there and he pressured me into buying an expensive hardback edition of his poetry. He was adamant I should analyse the poems so I made some notes in the book (in biro no less😲, something I would never do) but then discovered the book was faulty and there were loose pages fluttering to the ground. I tried to find a till to get a refund (already worrying about how to explain the notes I made in pen), but every till on every level of the bookshop was closed 😫
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I think that's what they call a bookish anxiety dream 🤣😱 How about you? What was your last dream about books?

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Happy birthday @sclarandis and thanks for a fun party!! Also! Happy anniversary of our first date to me and Ellie.

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🙋‍♀️¡Hola lectores! /Hello Bookstafriends!
/ENGLISH IN COMMENTS/ 🟦

🆕De forma satírica, se nos ofrece un brevísimo esquema histórico del desarrollo de la democracia, empezando por la revolución.
Ya se sabe que Orwell plasmó metafóricamente la Rusia estalinista, pero que el lector encuentre similitudes con su propio país es cosa suya.

🆒El escenario es una granja con el granjero Jones, que destacaba por su embriaguez y crueldad con los animales.
La rebelión en la granja comenzó después de que el viejo y sabio cerdo Major se dirigió a sus compañeros. Luego fue la Revolución y el triunfo de la victoria animal. Un conjunto de mandamientos, justos y democráticos. Los animales querían libertad e igualdad.
Tras la consolidación del poder detrás de un cerdo llamado Napoleón, una a una las reglas originales empezaron a ser rotas por los de arriba, mientras que otros animales fueron persuadidos de que así era originalmente y su memoria les falló. Orwell describió los rasgos de la guerra de la información como arma para influir en la población.

🆓Las inspiradoras y justas ideas iniciales de construir una sociedad empezaron a ser radicalmente violadas. De la desigualdad en el reparto de la renta, a la injusta distribución de los deberes, cuando los animales trabajaban de sol a sol, y los de arriba, habiendo ocupado una confortable casa señorial, se limitaban a descansar, comer, divertirse. Se llegó a matarse unos a otros por falsas acusaciones, buscando un enemigo imaginario, necesario para que la clase alta llevara a cabo acciones punitivas.
❗ Considero el libro una lectura esencial, al igual que su obra 1984. ❗
Hay un fuerte tema de los mandamientos, su transformación gradual y su adaptación a los tiempos modernos para convenir a las autoridades, y al final, en el desenlace, queda un único mandamiento modificado de los siete originales: « Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros».

🆙Este libro fue prohibido en la Unión Soviética, Cuba, Corea del Norte, China y algunos países africanos. Pero he aquí por qué también fue prohibido en algunos estados de EEUU...?

¿Habeis leído este libro y qué os pareció?

#georgeorwell #rebelion

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Have you seen the #NewYearScavengerHunt doing the rounds? I spotted it on the grids of @priestlakepie and @myownbookjourneys and thought it looked like fun! I've put a vintage Penguin twist on this challenge 😁🐧

🎆 Find a book that has 'Happy', 'New' or 'Year' in the title:
The New House by Lettice Cooper

⭐ Gold on the cover:
A Connoisseur's Case by Michael Innes

🍷Food or drink on the cover:
Village Diary by Miss Read

🗼Somewhere you could celebrate:
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell

🥰 Someone you could celebrate with:
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

✨ One of the following on the cover: stars, night time, more people, or fireworks:
The Ever-Interesting Topic by William Cooper

Consider yourself tagged if you'd like to have a go 🙌🏼

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‼️EXCITING NEWS‼️

The ARCs of SIX DAYS IN BOMBAY just arrived! It’s like a holiday present and an early birthday present rolled into one. These are very early, uncorrected proofs. So fascinating to imagine what people were thinking and feeling in 1937 Bombay, Istanbul, Paris, Florence, London and Prague. Are you one of the recipients of this ARC? If not, would you like to be? Should I do a giveaway?

#reesesbookclub #mirabooks #historicalfiction #amritashergil #sixdaysinbombay #alkajoshi #sixdaysinbombay #newbookalert #mirabooks

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smiley babies 😍🥳 #tbbiscuitsandbath #tribecapups #doggydaycare

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i’d mistaken sunny for a little horse too frankie 😭🩷 #tbbiscuitsandbath #tribecapups #doggydaycare

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ziggy loves to play with sunny !🥹🌞🩵 #tbbiscuitsandbath #tribecapups #doggydaycare

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