The Coffee Trader

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My favorite type of HF combines Jewish History, with World History and sweeps me away to a specific time and place. Here it‘s Amsterdam mid 1600‘s when Jews are still fleeing from Spain & Portugal following the Inquisition and the Netherlands is offering them home, hope, refuge and freedom. Liss creates a world of schemers, scoundrels and fortune seekers as the first Financial Market is also taking roots. This book was fascinating and compelling.

Cinfhen Thank you @BarbaraBB for gifting me your copy ~ PERFECT PICK 3y

BarbaraBB Very happy! I have a few books lined up gifted by you years ago too! I‘ll show them tomorrow in my #weeklyforecast! 3y

Cinfhen ♥️😁 @BarbaraBB 3y

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Cinfhen

Coffee Trader | David Liss

This book was gifted to me ages ago from @BarbaraBB I picked it up the other day and I‘m LOVING IT!!!! I have a strange obsession/ fascination with the Spanish Inquisition and specifically the Converso‘s (Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism or face death) This book is SO in my wheelhouse. Hubby keeps asking me questions as this book also covers the beginnings of the financial market in Amsterdam, which TOTALLY appeals to him!

BarbaraBB I am super glad to hear that! I thought it might be so I am glad it is! And especially that M is interested too! 😘 3y

SarahBookInterrupted Have you read Hungers Bride by Paul Anderson? It‘s beefy but covers those topics as well (not the financial one) and is an excellent book. I highly recommend it. You just have to get over it‘s size. 3y

Cinfhen I have #PageCountPhobia @SarahBookInterrupted BUT im willing to conquer the fear for a great read!! Thanks for the recommendation/ I‘ll search for it 🤩 3y

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Cinfhen I don‘t know why I hadn‘t picked it up before now @BarbaraBB but it‘s SO PERFECT for me & M!!!! 3y

Cinfhen OMG 😳 it‘s over 1300 pages @SarahBookInterrupted 😱 @TrishB have you heard of

Hunger's Brides

TrishB I‘ve not heard of that one! And it‘s not easy to find either. 3y

CarolynM This sounds good! Stacked. 3y

SarahBookInterrupted Yes the 1300 was intimidating and it‘s a pain to carry around. But I really enjoyed it. It was recommended by my local used bookstore. 3y

BarbaraBB Have you read this one? My BFF is raving about it

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Cinfhen No, I haven‘t @BarbaraBB I will look for it!! Thanks for the recommendation Just finished Coffee Trader!!! LOVED IT 😍 I think you will like it too @CarolynM 3y

BarbaraBB Happy you loved it! Will M read it next? Is Nir Baram as hot in Israel as he is here? 3y

Cinfhen I am not at all familiar with that author 🙈🙊 @BarbaraBB I will go to the local bookstore and see if I can find that book!! And Yes!!! M is planning on reading Coffee Trader!! He‘s gonna love it, as he‘s a security & fraud litigator. 3y

BarbaraBB That is so funny, Nir Baram has been a literary hero in the Netherlands since his first book but I never read about him on Litsy! And he lives in Tel Aviv and you don‘t know him either. Maybe he doesn‘t exist, are our media making him up 😂. Hope M will like the book! 3y

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StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

The Coffee Trader: A Novel | David Liss

#AprilBookishMadness #photochallenge @maich

#coffeetime

It's really hot chocolate in my mug, as I don't actually like coffee. 😉

Dolly I LOVE coffee. I hope you‘ll review it when you read it - sounds good! 7y

jamie_in_the_library Now I just want hot coco 🤤 7y

Traci1 ❤ the mug. 7y

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Swe_Eva Lovely mug! 7y

kspenmoll Great mug! 7y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks The mug!! 💗💗 7y

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @kspenmoll @Traci1 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Swe_Eva Thanks. I got it from FrostBreard. The mostly make book candles, but they have some cute merch too. https://www.frostbeardstudio.com 7y

dgingo Fabulous mug!!! 💕📖 7y

maich Love that mug😍😍 7y

revenge4porgy Love that book! ❤️ 7y

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SharonGoforth

The Coffee Trader: A Novel | David Liss

Now this is an occupation I could get into! #fallintobooks #occupationintitle

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kspenmoll 😍☕️ (edited) 7y

BarbaraBB I've had that one on my TBR forever. Maybe your thoughts will convince me to finally read it! 7y

SharonGoforth @BarbaraBB It's been on mine forever, too! But after pulling it off the shelf today, I might go ahead and read it! 7y

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drokka

The Coffee Trader: A Novel | David Liss

It took me three months to read this for an online book group. I hated the characters so much, then it dawned on me that perhaps that was the point.

The book is about the creation of futures (trading terminology that I'm ill equipped to explain) in 17th century (IIRC) Netherlands. It also explores how Jews were viewed at the time and as traders. #unlikeablecharacters #aprilbookshowers

Photo from the Google images.

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