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Kendra Bean

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Photography curator. Film lover. Voracious reader. Occasional writer. Author of books on Vivien Leigh and Ava Gardner 🍷 🇺🇸 —> 🇬🇧 https://linktr.ee/kjbreads

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Dec 28

25 books I want to read in 2025 (a thread)

1. BETTY by Tiffany McDaniel

#booksky #25in2025 💙📚

Cover of the book Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 13

Every photo of this man projects “mean dumb asshole” which is exactly what you’re looking for in a Librarian of Congress

NPR @npr.org · May 12

Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.

The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.

Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · May 13

Lunchtime reading: THE HEARING TRUMPET by Leonora Carrington. Delightfully bizarre.

#booksky 💙📚

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · May 11

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Apr 30

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · Apr 28

It was so wonderful to meet up with @kendrabean.bsky.social while she's in Georgia for a Vivien Leigh event! We hadn't seen each other since 2015!

A photo of myself and Kendra. We are both smiling and wearing sunglasses

A photo of Kendra and myself. We are both smiling with no sunglasses

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · Mar 18

I just

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · Mar 20

My 6-yo grandniece always asks me if whoever I am showing her a video of has died. When I showed her Gene Kelly doing the barn dance routine from SUMMER STOCK ‘50, she asked me if he died. I said, yes, and she replied “he probably danced too hard”

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 13

Such a great read!

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 13

Finished this little gothic gem this evening. I need more Caroline Blackwood books in my life. Thank you to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for the copy

📚💙 #booksky #nyrbassics

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 13

Don’t threaten me with a good time! I loved VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito 🔪

#booksky 📚💙

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 11

I love this for you, my friend! ♥️📚

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · Mar 11

Went to the Rizzoli bookstore in Manhattan today with @812filmreviews.bsky.social to see my book! I signed a few copies. It was surreal.

Signed copies of CINEMA HER WAY with other film books

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 6

Loved Master and Margarita!

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 2

I love that!

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Mar 2

Just finishing up BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison. Heartbreaking but full of fighting spirit. Bone is such a great character.

#booksky 📚💙

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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · Feb 28

The look on Zelenskyy’s face when Trump says “they respect me” is *chef’s kiss*🤌

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · Feb 28

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · Feb 26

Wow - we got access to rare earth minerals and all we had to give up was our global reputation

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 25

How interesting!

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 25

I think the author is British but just lives in Spain 🤔

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 24

Don’t threaten me with a good time! I expected VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito to be dark and bloody but I did not expect it to be funny as well. A razor sharp (pun intended) gothic satire of classism and the country estate in Victorian England. A+. No notes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#booksky 📚💙

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 17

Can’t forget BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Burtino. Don’t sleep on this one, guys, it’s so good!

#booksky 📚💙

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 17

Some books I have read and enjoyed recently:

LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky

MARGO’S GOT MONEH TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe

RAZORBLADE TEARS by @blacktopkid.bsky.social

FINDING ME by Viola Davis

#booksky 📚💙

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Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’ve got that one on my shelf!

Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social · Feb 13

What a great book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@blacktopkid.bsky.social

#booksky 📚💙

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · Jan 28

Felix Gonzalez-Torres ‘Portrait of Ross in LA’ represents his lover’s weight (in sweets) before AIDS took its toll.
Each day, as visitors help themselves to sweets, the weight drops, only to be replaced by the museum, granting a longevity denied to Ross.
Heartbreaking.
www.out.com/gay-news/fel...

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all

By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...

www.out.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jan 27

Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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