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lspear

@lspear412

MLIS and Art Historian

 Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2014
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5 books to get to know me better (?) Mulliner Nights by P.G. Wodehouse Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov The Walled Orchard by Tom Holt A Cold Red Sunset by Stuart Kaminsky A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
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I wish they would release works by Marguerite Yourcenar in ebook format in the United States.
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Five favorite American authors John Steinbeck Shirley Jackson Stuart Kaminsky Zora Neale Hurston George Carlin
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Happy New Year, my library holds came in all at once.
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My favorite books this year.
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R.I.P. Patricia Routledge.
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Congratulations Google AI. Somehow you managed to misidentify a character from The Gilded Age with accused ax murderess Lizzie Borden. Tell me why we should use this thing again?
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Part of me wants to 🔒 the 🚪. Lose the 🤳 and inhale this all in one go. But I did that with the last novel so I'm going to pace myself this time
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You really can't claim Harry Potter made you a better person in your childhood and then post this
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I want all of these plus a vat of tea, plenty of biscuits, a better couch than I currently possess and zero interruptions. #CWA_Daggers
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!!📚***Book Giveaway***📚!! 'The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World' by Bettany Hughes. (Hardcover). Simply retweet to enter. Winner will be drawn at random. Entries up until 21st April '25. I will post anywhere so feel free to participate. Good luck! 🤞😊📚
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I'll just leave this right here. Dissent is a protected right.
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Honestly this year!!! One of ways you know an actor is one of the best is when you can immediately hear their voice in your head after just seeing their face. nytimes.com/2024/11/13/theat…
Timothy West, Who Portrayed Kings and Prime Ministers, Dies at 90 (Published 2024)

Timothy West, Who Portrayed Kings and Prime Ministers, Dies at 90 (Published 2024)

A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman.

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Texas has more than twelve hundred school districts and Texas has attempted to ban thousands of books. Book bans will cost Texas at least 3.6 million dollars per year.  bit.ly/4gz55ek via @everylibrary #bannedbooksweek
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I have a special place in my heart for librarians who let me check out extra books! 📚
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Neo-Noir Night
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You can help @AuschwitzMuseum reach 2 million followers for the 80th anniversary of the liberation. Amplify our voice. Your interaction is more than a click. It is an act of remembrance against forgetting. Repost, quote, or write your message to encourage others to follow us.
A contemporary view of the Gate of Death at the site of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The gate is visible in the mist in the background. In the foreground, you can see the rails and stones of the rail line leading to the gate.

ALT A contemporary view of the Gate of Death at the site of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The gate is visible in the mist in the background. In the foreground, you can see the rails and stones of the rail line leading to the gate.

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For English teachers, you can never appreciate enough the magic that was Donald Sutherland's narration of the Great Books series. His voice made every work dazzling to me and my students. Thank You.
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What is a BTC Airdrop and how do I make it go away? Actually I know what it is and I don't want it.
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