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Sheila Dougal's avatar

Tresta! You are a woman after my own heart! I don’t have a former homeschool room with wonderful books, but my bedside table is always stacked with books with posted notes poking out the edges, and a book wherever there is a shelf that I haven’t finished reading, as well as five or six in the back seat of my car. I too find a hopeful thing to see people reading books!

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Beth's avatar

Just commenting to let you know I'm here and still love reading your words! (And just realizing I can comment and like. Lol!)

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Tresta Payne's avatar

I’ve been thinking about you! I’ve been off the ‘gram and I do miss seeing what you’re up to. Glad you’re here!

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Beth's avatar

I'm not on the gram much either. I'll try to start posting on Substack. I just moved over everything from my old blog and have been copy-pasting my IG captions here as well.

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Tresta Payne's avatar

Yesssss! I’m excited about that 🥰

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Callie R. Feyen's avatar

"Please believe me that I am filtering 65% of my thoughts...." HAHAHAHAHA.

I think I am filtering probably 35% of them, so I have someone to look up to. :)

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Tresta Payne's avatar

😂

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Elizabeth Perkins's avatar

Tresta, this was lovely. Thank you : )

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Laura B.'s avatar

This gives me hope too. Happy New Year, Tresta!

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Megan Willome's avatar

So happy that room is all yours now 💛

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Ashlee Gadd's avatar

I feel the same way every time I step foot in a B&N. I bought Maggie’s book at an independent bookstore the week it came out and with tax I swear it was like $34. All these months later I’d still say it was worth the price!

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Tresta Payne's avatar

Definitely worth the price.

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Stacy Bronec's avatar

I went to B&N before Christmas and left with the same feelings as you! I hadn’t been to B&N in a really long time, but I was so excited to see so many people reading and buying books.

Maggie Smith’s memoir is so good and worth the hardcover price! Happy reading!

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Tresta Payne's avatar

I’m glad to hear my visit wasn’t an anomaly!

I finished Smith’s book this morning. So very good.

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Stacy Bronec's avatar

I was thinking I would like to re-read it. But I also have so many other books I want to read too. 😜

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Tresta Payne's avatar

It’s so hard for me to re-read books, for that reason! It’s a good practice, though.

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