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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys
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UglyOldBat
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Just making a (slow) start on this. Has anyone else read it? If so, what are your thoughts?

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Clutterbucks_Queen
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October's BOTM's from my fiance! 😍 Never knew that it was possible to have Samuel Pepys diary in two volumes until today! And they have that AMAZING old book smell! 🤤😍

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Texreader
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This was not my birthday gift to myself from Booked Up. Even though I can‘t recommend the bookstore I do have to admit there were some amazing OLD collections. I took a picture of one of the earliest collections I saw, the tagged books from 1892. There was a complete illustrated Jane Austen set from about 1905 printed in England. And a complete works of Edgar Allen Poe from early 1900s. Mixed in with the everyday stuff. Sets were $$$$$

tpixie What a fun browsing experience! 💚📚💚 3y
Leftcoastzen I was looking for a video I saw to send a link , can‘t find it anywhere, but the story was Mr McMurtry had a big sell off/auction that greatly reduced his inventory & shuttered several of his buildings of Booked Up.Guess it was a semi retirement move. His son is a musician, maybe didn‘t want to run it? 3y
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Sarah83
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Just got back home from the book market and since I bought so much there will be two posts. 🤩😊

rubyslippersreads I read that Alice book and really enjoyed it. 😊 5y
Sarah83 @rubyslippersreads really? I didn't find an English translation. . 5y
Sarah83 @rubyslippersreads oh yes. It is. I was looking for it some days ago and there wasn't an English edition at Amazon. Thank you. 😊👍 5y
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batsy
Diary of Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys
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"However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."

Samuel Pepys is famously known for his #lustforlife & the detailed diary he kept that chronicled every aspect of his 17th-century life, even his bouts of indigestion & colds. I've long been meaning to get a copy. There's a Twitter account that tweets his entries in real time. He sounds like quite the character!

#MayMovieMagic @rohit-sawant @Cinfhen

JamieArc This has been on my TBR for quite a while now too. Thanks for the reminder! 6y
Bertha_Mason The great cold quote is such a mood. Every time either my girlfriend or I get one, we spend all winter passing it back and forth. x_x 6y
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batsy @JamieArc You're welcome! Here at Litsy we enable and remind each other 😂❤️ 6y
batsy @Bertha_Mason Haha, right? And endless back and forth about how we fell ill and who got it first and passed it to the rest 😷 6y
Cinfhen I love that this dude has a twitter account!! Hilarious 😂😂 6y
Cinfhen And of course I‘m tagging @LeahBergen who probably already follows good ole Sam 😉 6y
LeahBergen @Cinfhen I‘ve always wanted to do a read along of these diaries (I have some nice editions waiting on my shelves 😆). I HAVE read a bunch of it but not sequentially. 6y
Cathythoughts Butter-ale 😳.. not sure I‘d try it even if I did have a great cold 6y
Theaelizabet I‘ve long wanted to read Pepys. Someday I should just do it! 6y
batsy @Cinfhen 😆 6y
batsy @Cathythoughts Haha, I had to look it up! Sounds decadent. 6y
batsy @LeahBergen @Theaelizabet Me too. I just have no idea when I'll get to it. 😁 6y
Centique @LeahBergen okay that‘s a read along I would join in with! 6y
Centique @batsy @Cathythoughts I liked the sound of the butter ale 😂😂 I had Butter Beer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and gave it 8/10 would definitely butter the beer again 😋😛 6y
RohitSawant This is the first I've heard of him! Definitely quite the character! 6y
batsy @Centique I forgot about the HP butter beer 😁 Bucket list for sure! 6y
batsy @rohit-sawant He sure is! 6y
readordierachel Interesting! 6y
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Seshat
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1932 "Cameo Classics" edition I got at NOPL's "very old" used book sale.

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Sarah83
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So these books I bought and now I have a big problem. They don't fit on my shelves. What do I do now? 😖😖

MidnightBookGirl Time to add another bookcase! 7y
Sarah83 @MidnightBookGirl there isn't any more space for one more shelf. 😖 7y
quirkyreader Time to double stack, triple stack, do face outs. Whatever works to fit them in. 7y
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Sarah83 @quirkyreader I will try my best 7y
Bambolina_81 I love that Father Brown!! 7y
Sarah83 @Bambolina_81 should I take another pic of the third, fourth and fifth edition? 😉 7y
LeahBergen Buy more shelves. 😂 7y
Moony Vielleicht hilft eine Inventur? Ich überprüfe regelmäßig mein Bücherregal, was ich noch lesen will und was nicht. 7y
Sarah83 @LeahBergen I don't have any space for more shelves. 😖 7y
Sarah83 @Moony mache ich schon regelmäßig. Trennen fällt mir immer schwer. 7y
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Centique
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#septembowie #ashestoashes

What sprang to my mind is The Great Fire of London 1666 which I'd just been hearing about on the BBC History Extra podcast (I recommend that!) Much of what is known is thanks to the diary of Samuel Pepys. I plan to read some of it, but it's 9 volumes, so not all! The fire destroyed 90% of the city's homes and although documented deaths were few, its likely that hundreds, probably thousands of the poor perished.

Cinfhen I wasn't aware of this tragedy..sounds like a fascinating read but 9 volumes 😱maybe I'll just google this one😜 7y
Centique @Cinfhen it's an event that shaped the London you see today! But yes - plenty of other shorter books except Pepys is the main source. 🤓 7y
Libby1 I know very little about him except that he buried his cheese in garden during the fire to protect it. 💚🧀💚 7y
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Marchpane London has a fascinating history - great choice for today 👍 7y
Centique @Libby1 gotta love a man that treasures cheese! I'm a cheese fan for sure! 🧀🧀🧀 7y
Centique Thanks @Marchpane 💕 7y
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