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I read and write reviews. And make quilts.
theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p...
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#bookreview
#palaceofdeception
#darrinlunde
@wwnorton.com
#netgalley
about 15 hours ago
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Gorgeous
#bookmail
from
@algonquinbooks.bsky.social
#theferrymansndhiswife
#frodegrytten
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#bookreview
#tilt
#emmapattee
@simonbooks.bsky.social
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Hand embroidered and hand quilted, my Regency Redwork
#quilt
with scenes from
#PrideandPrejudice
#janeausten
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My
#prideandprejudice
story book
#quilt
shows scenes from the book with images from copyfree illustrations from books, art, even a dance manual. Hand appliquéd and hand quilted.
#janeausten
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#bookreview
#abiographyofammountain
#matthewdavis
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
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The Biography of a Mountain by Matthew Davis
To echo Emerson, if all history is biography, then what can we learn about our country from a biography of a mountain? from A Biography of a Mountain by Matthew Davis Confession: previous to readin…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/the-biography-of-a-mountain-by-matthew-davis/
4 days ago
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My
#JaneSusten
Family Album
#quilt
now at
#blairmemorialLibrary
5 days ago
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#bookreview
#gemini
#jeffreykluger
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
#netgalley
6 days ago
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New books in the shelf Quilt in progress
7 days ago
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Chuckling Duck
7 days ago
Sometimes...we can look into each other's faces and see that, beneath the differences, we are all of us outward bound on a voyage for parts unknown. Frederick Buechner The Hungering Dark
#sundaysentence
#frederickbuechner
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Curiosity is, at heart, courage; readiness not for a fixed or foretold outcome, but rather a type of uncharted encounter—an adventure.
#sundaysentence
#fearless
#tracyksmith
@wwnorton.com
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#bookreview
#evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
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Evensong by Stewart O’Nan
They weren’t too old to learn. They knew they weren’t perfect. […]they felt that urgency now, the need to finally make things right, or at least as right as they could be. They ha…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/evensong-by-stewart-onan/
8 days ago
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Jennifer Messner
10 days ago
"the eye like the eye of faith believes" AO Scott's poem explorations are such a joy
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This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art (Gift Article)
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/06/books/robert-hayden-poem-monets-waterlilies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.23mw._AfXDehYL10T&smid=nytcore-android-share
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#bookreview
#thelandinwinter
#andrewmiller
@europaeditions.bsky.social
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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
The world, the fog-world in its brittle glass sheath of now, was aching for an arrival. from The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller 1962. Rural England during a snowstorm. Two couples, both women preg…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/the-land-in-winter-by-andrew-miller/
11 days ago
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#bookmail
#themahnificentruins
#nayantararoy
@algonquinbooks.bsky.social
11 days ago
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#bookreview
#LadiesinWaiting
#gallerybooks
#netgalley
#JaneAusten
Fun imaginings of Jane Austen’s supporting characters stories
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Ladies in Waiting
I have been enjoying all the books coming out to celebrate the 250th birthday of Jane Austen. Ladies in Waiting features stories based on Austen’s more minor characters. Nine novelists chose …
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/ladies-in-waiting/
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📚#bookreview
#introducingmrscollins
#rachelparris
@littlebrown.bsky.social
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Introducing Mrs. Collins by Rachel Parris
If a marriage lacks passion, it is to be hoped that it will make up for it in etiquette. from Introducing Mrs. Collins by Rachel Parris I am drawn to novels based on Jane Austen’s more minor …
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/introducing-mrs-collins-by-rachel-parris/
13 days ago
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#bookmail
#theykillpeople
Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
#KirkEllis
@librarything.com
#highroadbooks
13 days ago
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My
#janeausten
250 years display case at the local library.
14 days ago
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#bookreview
#winningtheearthquake
#lorissarinehart
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
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Winning the Earthquake by Lorissa Rinehart
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin quoted in Winning the Earthquake In Gilded Age Montana, the Anaconda Copper Mine was all powerful, controlling government …
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/winning-the-earthquake-by-lorissa-rinehart/
14 days ago
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I completed this
#snowman
kit
#quilt
so I guess I am ready for winter!
14 days ago
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That feeling. Fear and joy. Irritation without mark. A nauseating, awful, pleasurable longing. Like craving a cigarette without knowing what a cigarette is.
#sundaysentence
#television
#laurenrothery
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#netgalley
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#seascraper
#benjaminwood
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Not a soul will ever look at him and think, My God, that fella catches shrimp so well, it takes my breath away–he’s very sure of that. from Seascraper by Benjamin Wood Thomas’s gr…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/seascraper-by-benjamin-wood/
15 days ago
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Happy Halloween!
#edgarallanpoe
#quilt
by me
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New books, reading challenge, quilts
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Books, Quilts, News
New on my NetGalley shelf is The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World by Bruce Nichols Book mail included Bad Asians by Lillian Li was a LibraryThing win. Also, another win…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/books-quilts-news-43/
17 days ago
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#bookmail
#seascraper
#benjaminwood
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
18 days ago
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#bookmail
#tilt
#emmapattee
#marysueruccibooks
@simonbooks.bsky.social
18 days ago
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#bookreview
#patchwork
#janeausten
#kateevans
#versobooks
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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans
I loved this book so much that after looking at it I preordered it. I am organizing a display for Jane Austen at the local library, showing my Jane Austen quilts on the walls and Austen related eph…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/patchwork-a-graphic-biography-of-jane-austen-by-kate-evans/
20 days ago
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#badasians
#lillianli
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20 days ago
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David Abrams
28 days ago
So go ahead, pray to whichever god Makes you the most happy Me? I'll take that chevron of geese Just now, over your left shoulder Crossing in front of the moon.
#SundaySentence
from "We All Have Our Gods" by Charles Finn
#todayspoem
What was YOUR favorite sentence of the week? Share with us!
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“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” Tennessee Williams
#SundaySentence
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He could be so reasonable, that Zen acceptance of everything. It was the trait of his she liked the least.
#sundaysentence
#evensong
#stewartonan
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
22 days ago
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#bookreview
#becommingsarah
#dianebotnick
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Becoming Sarah by Diane Botnick
How do you connect to a character who is closed off, closed down? Who does not know her name, her heritage, even when she was born? Who lives her life on her own terms. Who is difficult to love, wh…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/becoming-sarah-by-diane-botnick/
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New books on the shelf, quilts, news
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Books, Quilts, New
New books on my NetGalley shelf include: Possession(s): Stories by John Smolens Late Invocation for Magic: New and Selected Poems by Jim Daniels Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s b…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/books-quilts-new/
23 days ago
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Finished! Appliqué blocks based on 19th c New York State quilts shared by Barbara Brackman. Hand appliquéd and quilted by Big City Quilts.
#quilt
#appliquéquilt
23 days ago
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Andy Kostrub
25 days ago
Updating my LEGO White House
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#bookreview
#badbadgirl
#gishjen
@aaknopf.bsky.social
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Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen
If I write about you, if I write to you, will I understand you better? from Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen Gish Jen began to write her mother’s story as a memoir but realized she had to imagine too…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/bad-bad-girl-by-gish-jen/
27 days ago
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#bookmail
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#piecebypiece
#kimdanielson
#cornerstonepre
#appleandpalm
#patriciahenley
#shewritespress
27 days ago
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My latest
#quilt
finish completely made with
#vintagefabrics
28 days ago
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“What do you think holds an old couple together?” Lizzie asked. “Patience.”
#sundsysentence
#ladiesinwaiting
#thebennetsofjanestreet
#adrianatrigiani
#gallerybooks
#netgalley
29 days ago
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#theliestheytold
#ellenmariewiseman
#kensingtonbooks
#bookclubcookbook
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The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman
In 1928, Lena Conti and her baby daughter, mother, and brother left Germany for America where they would live with a distant cousin, Silas, in the Shenandoah Valley. After a rough voyage they passe…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/the-liew-they-told-by-ellen-marie-wiseman/
29 days ago
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#bookmail
#winningtheearthquake
#lorissareinhart
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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#encounterswithjaneausten
#jenniebatchelor
#netgalley
@aurorametro.bsky.social
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Encounters with Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 Years
This diverse collection of essays, fiction, criticism, and poetry shows the wide ranging impact of Jane Austen over 250 years. Austen readers who are always looking for new stories will enjoy the f…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/encounters-with-jane-austen-celebrating-250-years/
about 1 month ago
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#bookmail
#TrueNature
the Pilgrimage of
#PeterMatthessen
by
#LanceRichardson
@pantheonbooks.bsky.social
A big book about a big life!
about 1 month ago
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#unabridged
#strfanfatsis
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
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#bookreview
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about 1 month ago
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#bookmail
#AnnekeJansintheNewWorld
#SandraFreels
#shewritespress
#sparkpointstudios
about 1 month ago
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#thelastadieu
#ryanlcole
#harperhorizon
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The Last Adieu by Ryan L. Cole
A rushing stream of progress had pushed America into a new era. There were twenty-four states now, and people traveled by steam. Sleepy crossroads had burst into bustling cities. There were few mon…
https://theliteratequilter.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/the-last-adieu-by-ryan-l-cole/
about 1 month ago
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I felt if I could do this, express just one thing perfectly, then I could die because my happiness would be complete.
#sundaysentence
#TheDefinitions
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#MattGreene
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about 1 month ago
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New
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#quilts
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#thecassattsisters
#lisagroen
#blackrosewriting
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