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I’m crying with laughter. This is so delightfully funny, I love this so much! The worst is when you invite fellow writers over, having enthused over their choice of books when at their house (fakely or not), and they don’t even look at yours. Thank you do your unceasingly wonderful mind and artistry.

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Enjoyed your approach to this. I used to give assignments to student in an Environmental (Not ecological) Psychology class to do this. You can learn a lot by the environment people choose to live in.! I liked your categories based on the number of books an book case organization.

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Brilliant... amused.

My deepest appreciation on creating and sharing a classy contend.

More power to you.

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Also one's CD and vinyl collection. (Husband and I are old school GenXers and don't do much streaming. We've got a um....few thousand CDs and records)

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dear grant,

love this!

i love "install a secret bookcase"!

and "needs more proust"!

thanks for sharing!

much love

myq

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Blame autocorrect - ‘for’ not ‘do’ 🙄

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A red book is a painted cover that is indebted to you for reading.

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Hey, Lord of the Flies is good! But also, I’m a high school teacher, so I guess you judged me well: stuck in high school. The secret bookshelf door is genius. I remember encountering one concealing a climbing gym.

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Greetings!

Thank you for reminding me of the crucial role poetry played in my life during COVID/somewhat of a response to your 6/28 query.

Please go to https://www.805lit.org/post/suzanne-austin-hill

Grateful for all readers, editors and judges.

Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

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Almost all of my books are on kindle, but if you could check out my e-shelf, you'd probably only see two kinds of books - comics and speculative fiction ( I could guess the murderer of each story).

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Omg , this is very good one and it inspired me

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I laughed all the way through this!

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Sometimes it feels like snooping or too personal to look at their bookshelves.

Sometimes I judge people and myself by what’s in their grocery shopping carts…

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I also sneak away during parties to look at the bookshelf. Do I read? Not much. Do I like looking like I read? Yes.

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"Lord of the Flies?" 😂😂😭

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