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A little late posting my February #Roll100 picks but here goes:

#60 Any Retelling (of Sense and Sensibility-also reading for #Pemberlittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow ) Would work for #6 Any Kindle too since it‘s been in my Kindle TBR a while.

#42 Any Mystery (also reading as part of @JacqMac ‘s #AuldLangSpine list)

#82 Any Non-Fiction (a library e-book loan)

I‘m excited about all 3 of these! 📚

I enjoyed this more than I expected!
@PuddleJumper #flerken #hauntedshelf
#spookoween @TheSpineView
#birthdaybash @TheAromaofBooks
#psreadathon @Bookwormjillk

Two really excellent books involving a #Heist .

#SpringSkies #LitsyLoveBingo #LitsyLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

My January choice for #12Booksof2023

It took a while to get into. Once I did though, I found the heist to be fascinating.

Has been on my TBR List for a while. Finally, got around to reading it. I didn't care for it. If I was a fly fisherman I would have liked it better.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

A coworker loaned me her copy of this book. I was immediately sucked in to this story. A musician who plays the flute steals exotic and colorful birds from a natural history museum. Add fly fishing lures and you've got a page-turner that sucked me in. Loved the info regarding the birds and the history of feathers in fashion and in sport.

My first finish for #joyousjanuary

This is the story of a musician who was an avid fly-tyer (think fishing). He was so obsessed with the hobby and the lack of exotic bird feathers that he broke into the Natural History Museum at Tring to steal bird skins.

The author does a good job of briefly explaining the history of exotic birds before getting into the central story. Surprisingly riveting.

The narrator did a wonderful job.

Fascinating non-fiction book about a real #Crime. Reads like a novel. So good! Who knew feathers could be so interesting? 🪶🦚
#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Wanted to give a shout out to this interesting nonfiction book on sale on kindle today!

It‘s a fascinating deep dive into feather collecting, fly fishing lures, and rare birds after very rare feathers are stolen from the British Museum of Natural History.

Sounds kinda weird and quirky, but I loved it! Would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes a nonfiction crime story or thriller.

Amazing! A true story, well-researched, wonderfully written. Captivating. An American teenage flautist steals hundreds of thousands of dollars of bird skins from a British museum, some more than 100 years old. The author‘s obsession with finding the skins showed just how engrossed he was in the topic. This book was hard to put down. I learned a lot about birds and the fly tying community. Hard to believe true story. Absolutely loved it!

Sometimes the universe knows what you need to read. I just couldn‘t with my TBR. Checked this out & was engrossed from the first page. Also, as a person who frequents natural history Museum, super annoyed by the end.

I didn't finish #fourfoursin21 in 21, but still finished the last two prompts this week. This was for centenary (century is in the subtitle) @Lauredhel

This has been on my library wishlist for long enough I couldn't remember why I put it on there... I think to give true crime a try (not a genre I have read) with a non-violent crime. It was a compelling read, parts very upsetting for human destruction of nature via exotic animal trade. However ⬇️

This book made me so livid. I had to put it down multiple times because of how angry it made me. The loss to the scientific community is huge and you have this smug little white boy named Edwin Rist who still thinks he did nothing wrong.

More #audiostitching for #20in4! I'm about two thirds through the tagged audiobook and now up to about 9h15 total for the readathon.

#ThisWeekinNewBooks : one Kindle bargain and 3 Litsy swaps. Total for October: 13 purchased, 8 read. I‘m ready in case any supply chain issues affect the publishing industry. 😝 #MountTBR

Favorite fruit - pluot (delicious hybrid between a plum and an apricot.
Book I‘m Anxiously Anticipating - The next in the Outlander series, even though I‘ve got several books in the series to read before I‘m ready for that.
Today I‘m grateful for - the fact that we were able to easily find a new home for our puppy. It was sad to let her go, but it‘s for the best.

Story of young college kid who breaks into the Tring Natural History Museum to steal a bunch (flock) of rare bird skins (299). He was into the art of Victorian fly tying and the author‘s obsession of what happened to all the birds.

Interesting. Good story, great narrator. (MacLeod Andrews)

Been listening to this one while driving. Really liking the narrator — MacLeod Andrews.

I wasn‘t sure what I was picking up with this book - a man obsessed with making fishing flies steals rare bird feathers from a British museum. It was such an atypical story and I was drawn into the drama right away. The author writes about the history of these collected birds - how naturalist Wallace traveled and captured them for years. Then some history of Victorian fly fishing lures and how they‘re an art form.

1. I don‘t know if I would say helped me per say but the Feather Thief helped me appreciate the natural world around me a little more.

2. J.K. Rowling. Never read anything but Harry Potter but that series comforts me.

3. Social media apps! This app, podcasts, Goodreads. They keep me on track and up to date on new things

#sundayfunday

I really liked this book. I like nature and science books and true crime so this was sooo up my alley. I had no idea how things worked in the fly thing community! This book made me so angry though with the thoughtless people in it. I totally recommend as a true crime book if you aren‘t into violence. All around engrossing book.

I laughed out loud at this picture. What is the guy at the bottom doing? He looks like a dead body 😆

I feel like that is so spot on. Maybe this is why these men have so much disinterest and are so unmoved by everyone else‘s care for these things. This is their own quest for status and self-importance.

I agree. I can‘t stand people thinking they own or are owed nature and will kill indiscriminately.

The audacity of some of these men! Why would anyone have to prove anything to them for their HOBBY. ugh they disgust me. The fact they think science and advancements are second to their free time passions is so mind boggling to me.

Ugh the highlighted passage above makes me sick. I despise animals being hunted for nothing but sport or “fashion”. Being Indigenous I do believe in proper harvesting but not this. No way.

Finally got my bag of coffee I ordered two weeks ago 🤦🏽‍♀️ and now I‘m gonna begin this book from the library.

Looking forward to reading this book. I gushed about The Orchid Thief so much that a friend loan me his copy.

I know it's a different spelling, but I just keep picturing Bruce Willis... Yippee-ki-yay, mother fucker...

If they ever make I movie, I hope they cast him for a cameo, it would just be too perfect!

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A strange and fascinating case about The Tring Heist, where hundreds of priceless preserved skins of 299 exotic birds were stolen. The question is: "??? ????? ????? ? ????? ?? ???? ??????" The answer may surprise you!

Rating: 5⭐

For my full review please visit https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3329025822?book_show_action=false&from_rev...

#truecrimethursday

This is the kind of nonfiction I can really dig into!

I had a brief knowledge of fly tying before reading this, but I learned so much about that hobby, and the obsessive world attached to it. I can‘t believe how easy it was for the culprit to break in to a major museum collection and make off with so much! I love the way the author pulled everything together.

Thanks to all of you who recommended this for me!

This is the fascinating true story of a young man‘s obsession with salmon fly-tying which drove him to break into a British natural history museum to steal hundreds of rare bird specimens. The back story of Alfred Russell Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin, who collected the specimens was really interesting too. I found this to be a non-fiction page turner that I couldn‘t put down.

Great audio unbelievable story.

You can‘t make this stuff up. Seriously. 20-year-old American virtuoso flautist studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London also happens to be an obsessive—& one of the world‘s best—Victorian Salmon Fly tiers. The only problem? The feathers used in the ties come from extinct (or near extinction) birds. It‘s illegal to trade in them & there are few available for purchase. So what‘s an enterprising young man to do? Well, steal them of course.👇

My next nonfiction read...

#newyearwhodis

So excited to get this list of @Mdargusch favourite books of 2019. Thank you so much for choosing these fab books..I can‘t wait to dive in - yeah for January!

For the past week or so, I've spent my workouts listening to this nonfiction journey that begins and ends in a river in New Mexico. In between, Kirk Wallace Johnson investigates the brazen theft of feathers and preserved birds that are significant to scientific history, a source of hope for endangered species, and an obsession for a group of present-day fly-tyers.

Surprisingly engaging for a book about feathers. A Litsy rec success story!

Great book! Audio narrator was perfect, too.

Audio-calligraphy! This book is SO GOOD I don't want to stop. Getting lots done!

What I see is a story of the struggle for authenticity...What they‘ve done is enshrined this in a period where English fishermen were members of a colonial power that ruled the entire globe and could extract fascinating things from it, then sell them in commercial markets.
“But that dream is extinct,” he said “That world is gone.”

Had it not been for the Book Riot Read Harder challenge, there is no way I would ever have read a book about fly tying and a theft from a natural history museum, but I'm very glad I did. A quite remarkable investigative work that reads more like a thriller novel. This is a fascinating, gripping read and an insight into a niche world I was completely unaware of.

#ReadHarder challenge 18: a book of non-violent true crime

#7covers7days #coverlove Day 5

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Who knew there was such drama in the fly fishing and fly tying worlds? The author did a fantastic job bringing all the research and interviews into a great story.

This was such a bizarre story. It would be difficult to believe if it weren't a true story. A man broke into a branch of the British Natural History Museum in order to steal rare bird skins. He sold these to fellow fly-fishing lure-making enthusiasts, as well as using some in his own work.

Library haul! Which one should I read first?

Another one seen, then purchased, because of the beautiful cover. It also sounds quite interesting.

Finishing up this one this weekend for the book challenge prompt *Non violent true crime*
It is a wild ride and really educational to boot.