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TWITTER POLL Hello Can you help us choose the next book we read for Twitter Book Club. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams A Month in the Country - JL Carr Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead A pic of each book & blurb follows. Pls RT. THANKS

Rethink your relationship with “stuff.” https://t.co/nZoYV7sI1C

if you listen you can hear a faint pulse in it, a mirage, a release of seeds into the air where wind insists, & my heavy hands which rise now, palms up, shining, say to me, touch, touch it all ‘Then the Rain’, a poem by @jorie_graham: https://t.co/Vl5gBNkr0G

The first straight-up picture book to win a Caldecott Honor and the Newbery Medal. https://t.co/pUQreB4ldO #Caldecott Eye-Openers https://t.co/SU9rSsoItH

Exclusively with @Waterstones, we're giving you the chance to win a gorgeous afternoon tea in central London in celebration of #SomeoneElsesShoes, the new book by international bestseller, @JojoMoyes! For more details on how to enter, visit ➡️ https://t.co/IpV1YRwFwE https://t.co/mxHA8Rqbtp

🎡 Did you know that Coney Island used to be an actual island? https://t.co/Woiq6tiSfY

Here's all the funky fresh jazz (the pictures of each of the covers and a bit about each book), that you might need to help. Please vote. It won't take you long. If you wanna join the Twitter Book Club (it's a book club and it's on Twitter) let me know. https://t.co/ZA3Yyr9CNK

Harry wants to love. He wants purpose. He’s nobody’s ‘spare’. He can’t quite say it out loud, and neither could his aunt Margaret, but he’s pissed about being number two, and he takes all the unfairness and makes of it a Molotov cocktail. Andrew O’Hagan: https://t.co/rSG44Bi3v3

Christopher Paul Curtis: “Keep Fighting” | The Newbery at 100 https://t.co/FTdChRlG8T #Newberyat100 https://t.co/rSVdHgaHKq

“We had been given a small radio as part of the welcome package from the refugee settlement program. There were other items in the box, such as snow pants, mittens, and new underwear, but it was the radio she cherished most.” https://t.co/oeWqg10Qfo

I know it's just a poll and all that. And you probably have far better things to do on Twitter than retweet it. But I doubt you'd lose any followers by doing it and it might make the voting more exciting. Hey, I don't care that much. I'm off to eat my tea. But you know.

Time has made it a different film, in certain ways closer to Shakespeare. Or closer to a certain Shakespeare, who loves terrible jokes and cheerfully allows them to accompany violence and distress. Michael Wood re-watches Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’: https://t.co/gI4LweMdb0

“The main job, the main task, let's put it that way, for the writer in the tribe is to really clarify for the rest of the tribe what it is to be human for better or worse” –Russell Banks (1940-2023) https://t.co/xAGlPYBoaC

Elon Musk Is Why We Need Librarians | From the Editor https://t.co/dRhN6JqwC8 https://t.co/iZm1q0BsFp

I ate my tea. Thanks for all the retweets whist I was doing it. (it was chcken)