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It is really hard to take a square selfie with face and shirt in one 😂 So the shirt wins. I love this #outofprint Twain shirt. @Kimberlone knows that Twain love. Someday I want to be rich enough for us to golden girl it down the Mississippi in a steamboat #Twain #teachersoflitsy

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This book is an autobiographical account of mark Twain‘s years spent piloting a boat on the Mississippi. #river #getmovin #tbr

It‘s referring to the river, but it still works.

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Gorgeous #bookmail from @ScorpioBookDreams today ❤️ 2 stunning folios a HP cushion cover, beautiful bookmark from one of my favourite Etsy artist and a tiny gorgeous glass owl that‘s beyond cute😍😍 thank you Rachael 😘

I have all three giant volumes of Twain's autobiography and now I'm kinda worried I won't be super into them because this did not draw me in. Parts of it were interesting and entertaining but on the whole it was so easy to put down that it took me forever to read.

George: "I never read just one book at a time. At the moment I'm reading one on why we say what we say, a user manual for my new phone, and this one. It's about Mark Twain's experience on the river and how he dreamed about it as a kid. I just came back from a trip on the Mississippi. It's historic. You get a book like this and it talks about how you read the water – there is a raw beauty to it. I really wanted to see it for myself."

This took me a lot longer than it should have (life's been weird lately), but I loved this book. I'm a history nerd with a real affection for the river, and this was a lot of fun. I bailed on Huck Finn last year, but this lays the groundwork for it. Oh, and this also explains why Samuel Clemens took on the pseudonym he did.

I really struggled with this, it's a long wordy book that is basically about a river and nothing apart from the river. It's a very detailed account of said river and wasn't what I was expecting at all, it is however another classic off the list!

My mom and sister found me these great editions of Mark Twain! They were printed while he was still alive! (Although Ms. Cowan received them after he passed!)

I finally finished this after interrupting it so many times! I love Twain, but maybe this was best in small doses. It has his signature tall tale humor, but there are also chapters of statistics and details of the changes in the river which really broke the flow. So this is not my favorite Mark Twain.

I keep setting this aside to read things with deadlines: book club books, library loans, etc. But I'm going back to it today, happy to have a #palatecleanser after 2 dystopian novels and a memoir of overcoming a horrific childhood (The Children of Men, The Road & Etched in Sand.) #feistyfeb

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
I love the innocence evoked by this quote!

First up in my American Lit class this semester is #MarkTwain - my absolute favorite! I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on Twain and the West so I'm looking forward to teaching him this week.

"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book-a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice."

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book — a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

This is what I do when I'm not working, babysitting, or otherwise adulting! We are not big summer people, so Fall marks the beginning of the boating season for us!