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madonna in a fur coat by sabahattin ali
A love story between quiet, lonely people. Very Normal People! It kind of pissed me off but it's a very well loved book as far as I know.
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@haileyd4wn
May 16, 2025
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@grape
I have a pdf downloaded but I cannot wrest this from my library’s hold list and it is infuriating
May 16, 2025
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@haileyd4wn
@GRAPE Woah I just checked my library's hold list and there are over 100 holds!!!! People are frothing at the mouth for this book!!!
May 17, 2025
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@grape
@HAILEYD4WN Doesn't help that one of the two copies - IN THE STATE - has been due since December!! I don't know if this was a Tiktok book or what but I saw a tweet a few months ago saying to read it and have been trying to track it down since then
May 17, 2025
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@haileyd4wn
@GRAPE that’s crazy I didn’t know it was that popular, I got it on sale in an airport bookstore!!! I hope you can find it somewhere, or settle for the pdf (gross)
May 17, 2025

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