Sometimes I delay responding to email just to manage expectations, because everybody needs to CALM DOWN.

If you’ve wondered when middle age officially starts, I’m 44, and this morning I made a wishlist for my dream fiber arts studio and then added extra raisins to my Raisin Bran.

I can’t figure out how to pronounce “Zuikas” in my head and it is distracting! Help?

I’m in if it ever comes to this, @mtbookco.bsky.social

How does canceling $25m in grants result in $15m savings? Is the other $10m a finders fee?

Freezout Lake migration : Montana :: Peak bloom : DC #extremelynichetake

The Stories of Ray Bradbury

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A Journey of Poems, edited by Richard F. Niebling

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Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mystery: A Crime for Christmas. Nancy, Joe and Frank stand in front of the Rockefeller Center ice rink looking very concerned.

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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

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Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angie’s

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. A slice of yellow layer cake with chocolate frosting and a single birthday candle with smoke rising.

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Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own.”

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. A black and white image of Henrietta in a skirt suit and heels over a colored image of cells on a microscope slide.

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Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. A small child is depicted engulfed in flames from the waist up, drawn in a whimsical vintage style reminiscent of a Dick and Jane book.

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful, a memoir by Maggie Smith (not that one)

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If only

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The Penguin Classics edition cover image is a portrait of a young woman sketched in pencil.

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The Likeness by Tana French. An antique gold picture frame surrounds the cover, with the title appearing on a dirty white background in the frame.

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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. The cover image is a 1939 photograph of spectators watching a parade in Harlem.

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Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon. The cover depicts a baby in silhouette over an orange background resembling a microscope slide. The subtitle is “Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

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Man am I tired of having the same opinion about every movie but I’ll tell you what, I’ll stop complaining about the male gaze when you give me something else to f**king watch.

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. This edition is illustrated by Margaret Cook and is bound in green with gold borders and embossed grasses.

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The Keep by Jennifer Egan. A castle on a hill with a dramatic sky behind it. The center of the cover is a trompe l’oeil cut out as if the title page is showing through the cover.

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. A plain white cover with the title in all caps in simple black font. There are multicolored diagonal stripes in the upper right corner.

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The cover of Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery. Emily is a pale girl with dark braids and a plain dress. She is sitting in front of an orchard with a book on her lap and a cat next to her. Her expression is thoughtful and defiant.

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But do you feel that your dignity has been restored?