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Years ago, my Mother-in-law began reading, "The Exorcist". She said it was the most evil book she ever read. So evil in fact, she couldn't finish it, took it over to the beach and threw it into the ocean off a fishing pier. | went and bought another copy, ran the faucet over it and left it in the night table drawer by her bed. My Father-in-law said that night was the first time she ever screamed and fainted. I'm going to Hell, but I'll go laughing.

Meme of Samuel L. Jackson as a Jedi looking enquiring. Caption: Me trying to decide which of my bookmarks best matches the vibe of the book | just started.

If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!

Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.

Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way.

Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!

If you like a story with a big heart and …

A white smartphone plays the audiobook of Taken by the Mountain Man. In the background, snow falls over a cozy mountain cabin. A sticker in the bottom right corner says: "Available in Audio."

What litterature is it when the characters are having affairs and suffering, the author is having an affair and suffering, the reader is having an affair and suffering πŸ€” πŸ˜‚

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Four panel meme with two pictures. First a woman in a carrige. Russian lit: The characters are suffering, the author is suffering, the reader is suffering. Second a picture of a fancy people dancing in a ballroom. French lit: The characters are having an affair, the author is having an affair, the reader is having an affair.

Too many novels is definitely how I want to go, but I'm probably more likely to suffer from a stong bout of drawing-room anguish πŸ˜œπŸ˜‚


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Historic painting of a woman lying in bed. Caption: Things Women In Literature Have Died From The list: Cold hands Pony exhaustion Beautiful face Strolling congestion Missing slippers Sherry served too cold Wrist fevers Ship infidelity Night brain Going outside at night In Italy Shawl Insufficiency Clergyman's dropsy Too many pillows Flirting headaches Garden troubles River unhappiness Someone said "No" very loudly General bummers Letter-reading fits Mmmf Drawing-room anguish Beautiful chestnut hair Not enough pillows Spinal degeneration as a result of pride Haven't seen the sea In a long time Parents too happy Too many novels The Unpleasantness

As an author and artist, I'm a small business doing my best to be seen and heard in the loud and crowded marketplace. Each week, I share one of my creations with you. Maybe one of them will ring your chimes.

Book details, table of contents and plenty of places to buy it that aren't named after a South American river: https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/ariadnes-thread

A paperback copy of Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in Our Modern Lives by Laura Perry. The book stands in front of a watercolor background in shades of cream, tan, and bronze. The book has a light blue cover and features the Blue Ladies Minoan fresco from Knossos. The book is surrounded by snippets of text that connect to the book with arrows. The text reads, "Inclusive Minoan Spirituality, seasonal rituals, rites of passage, Minoan culture, goddesses and gods, sacred sites."

Comic from Unshelved about a boy asking librarian about what books he can check out and the librarian telling him he can check out any book. The teacher says it's above the child's reading level and they have a policy. The librarian replies he loves the sound of a breaking policy breaking.

In Arabian folklore, Sinbad the Sailor found his way to the City of Apes. The city's inhabitants must sleep in boats on the water since at night savage apes come down from the mountains and enter the city to steal its fruit and attack any humans they find.

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So, putting the book down where you finish reading it until it organically evolves into a pile of books doesn't count as "arranging"? Rude! πŸ˜œπŸ˜‚

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A meme with pictures of six diffrent bookshelves. Caption: How do you arrange your books? 1. HEIGHT 2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE 3. COLOR 4. STACKED 5. ALPHABETICAL 6. CHRONDLOGIAL

2025.12.12 β€” What's the longest book you've ever read?

Don't laugh! My nose was in that book a lot as a teenager and university student. Read the .

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Thicker than three reams of paper, smellier than most libraries, with enough dust to kill a bear, weighing in at 11.5 lbs. my black hardbound Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia 4th Ed 1968 sits on an office chair with reading glasses atop it for a size comparison.