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Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War | Julius Caesar
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mabell
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Pickpick

A surprisingly engaging read! A little dry for me in description of the military operations, but personal as to the individuals involved. It was also just one d—— thing after another for Caesar and the Romans. But for the most part, you knew Caesar would prevail, just how would he make it happen.

Side note - Ariovistus was a proper villain - his arguments back to Caesar were “oh snap”. 🤣 (I believe he appears in issue 4 of serial reader)

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writerlibrarian
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Rewarding read. My inner ancient history geek loved every chapter of it. Combined with the amazing Caesar‘s Gallic wars it is really entertaining. This was my ancient classic of 2020
#12booksof2020. Day 3
#goodthing

Andrew65 Sounds good. 4y
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writerlibrarian
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Pickpick

Rewarding read. My inner ancient history geek loved every chapter of it. Combined with the amazing Caesar‘s Gallic wars it is really entertaining. My poor, battered copy went through a lot. Rain. Forgotten in the car during a really cold night. Dropped in the snow. Compressed inside my work bag, cover got crushed. 🐈 pushed and spilled a glass of water next to it on the dining table rendering it water stained beyond repair. #classics

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writerlibrarian
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Valentine Day with the 🐧
I'm gonna try to finish the last book, book 8, of Caesar's commentaries. I'm satisfied I've persisted and read it. 🙂
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian Tanger 🚨 1-0 🐧 👊🏻. 3 🚨 in a row. 2 🐧 first and second with the pens Zucker with 🍎 from Sid and one for the Habs 3-1 🐧. Empty net 🚨 by Zar. 4-1 🐧 (edited) 5y
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Making some progress on book 7. 🐧 hockey this evening. So tired. Work is being a bit too much. I need a day off soon maybe at the end of the month. Maybe.
#readingandwatchinghockey
Go pens!

writerlibrarian 🐧 on PP. Geno is 🔥 1-0. 🐧 lose in OT. 😕 (edited) 5y
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I finished a problematic ARC, started the next one. I only have 2 left in my current ARC pile. I still have 3 more from months ago that probably won't be read in the near future. Read the next Maigret on my list. Both my classic text and #booked2020 books stayed frozen. A so-so week in the quality of reading.
#bookreport

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Book 6 is done and done while listening to the Hawks and Jets game.
Book 7 is all about Vercingetorix and the last book attributed to Caesar. The last book, book 8 is by one of his friends.
#readingandlisteningtohockey

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Third lucky jersey. Afternoon game. Finishing book 6. Got distracted by Toews' game last night.
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian Boston 🚨 right away. They another one. 2-0 Murray is having problems. 3-1 Boston. Sid doing Sid things. 🙂 🐧 open second period with a 🚨3-2. 🐧 on PK. We are tied at 3. Geno to Rusty blind pass and 🚨 4-3 🐧 Two headed monster is on. 🐧 WIN (edited) 5y
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Finishing Book 6 tonight after taking a detour in French noir.
🍁 vs Hawks
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian Hawks 2-0. Toews 🚨🤟🏻 5y
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#bookreport week 2
🆙 Caesar's Conquest of Gaul. 49% and finished book 4 and 5.
▶️ Started Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line. ARC 10%
🆕 Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries arrived. Print to replace the French copy from the library.
🆒 New Plain Jane edition with bonus new story.

Cinfhen How‘s the ARC??? I‘ve seen good buzz around that title!?!! 5y
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Friday night hockey see the 🐧 in Colorado. Good thing I received my McKinnon Funko this week. My Book haul of the week + Nathan and I‘m hoping to finish Book V of Caesar's Conquest of Gaul.
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian The book haul includes the new edition of (edited) 5y
writerlibrarian MacKinnon makes it 1-0 Avs. Less than 5 m to go 🐧 go ahead 3-2. Geno is so 🔥. He's an arsonist. 🐧 killed a penatly but got scored on in the last 30s. We're in OT. Teddy to Jared and...🚨 🐧win in OT 4-3 (edited) 5y
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#bookreport week 1 2020
Not a lot of reading done in this first week of the new decade. I did finish Lucy Parker's upcoming book. Funny, witty and wonderful romance. It did #makesmeLOL #booked2020 #booked2020spring
Knocked another ARC off my list.

Cinfhen Hooray for #LoL 😄 5y
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Part of my Holidays knitting is done.
Snake 🧣
Crow hat
🦊 mittens

The rest of the day will be devoted to reading Caesar and listening to podcasts.

Sace I love that snake scarf! 5y
TheBookHippie Oh my word!!! These are lovely! 5y
ShelleyBooksie Amazing knitting 5y
writerlibrarian @sace @TheBookHippie @ShelleyBooksie thank you. I frankenstein patterns for the mittens and the snake scarf. I like my variants better. 😀 5y
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Leafs in Columbus. Go Leafs. #readingsndwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian Leafs on PP. Marner 💥 🚨 5y
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It's a hockey night in Pittsburgh. So my team is back. Go 🐧. Beginning of a 🥶 is nagging at me. 🙁
So Caesar tonight as reading material.
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian My pens are losing 1-0. Former 🐧 Sheary scored for Buffalo. Geno has to shoot. Malkin 🚨 1 all. Sheary again 2-1 Buffalo. Sabres 🚨 right at the end of the second period. 3-1. 🐧 lose 3-1 (edited) 5y
LeahBergen First game of the season on TV for me, too! 🔥🔥🔥 5y
writerlibrarian @LeahBergen 🔥 are in Colorado. Should be a good game 5y
CarolynM Hope 🐧 are going to get better - that was pretty dismal to watch. 5y
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serllolo
The Conquest of Gaul | Julius Caesar
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#7covers7days #7days7covers #day3
The first propaganda campaign of the West?

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writerlibrarian
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Automn nails. Saturday night preseason hockey night. Taking it easy.
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian 29 s in 🍁 🚨 5y
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tournevis
Gallic War | Julius Caesar
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My son and husband made a very puzzling discovery yesterday. If you run "alea jacta es" in Google translate into French, you get something really, immensely wrong. It should read either "le sort est jeté" or "les dés sont jetés" if you prefer the contextual translation. There is no matrix and it ain't sunk. In English, the translation works. ???

teebe 😂 6y
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Hobbinol
The Conquest of Gaul | Julius Caesar
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"No western German claims to have reached its [the Hercynian Forest's] eastern extremity, even after traveling for 2 months, or to have heard where it ends. The forest is known to contain many kinds of animals not seen elsewhere [...] There is an ox shaped like a deer, with a single horn in the middle of its forehead [...] and at the top branches out wildly like a man's hand or a tree."

As a student, I had the best time with J. Caesar's memoirs!

LeahBergen This Caesar is so hot that he has light-reflecting nipples. 8y
saresmoore @LeahBergen Ahahahaha! 8y
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Hobbinol @LeahBergen That's how he blinded the Gauls ! Gaw!! 8y
Suet624 @LeahBergen @Hobbinol You two!!! You both had me giggling over here on the cold coast. 8y
Hobbinol The word nipple always makes people giggle. If you don't believe me just try it @Suet624 , just throw in the word nipple in the middle of your next conversation and see😉 8y
Hobbinol BTW, that's Marlon Brandon as Caesar with some of my special effects). 8y
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writerlibrarian
Gallic War | Julius Caesar
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Recently stacked and currently reading. Polar opposites or opposites attract. Roman history and contemporary hockey romance, bio picks and hard science-fiction. #stacked #seasonsreadings2016 #lastbookstacked

CocoReads I'm all over the place in reading myself. Although not so much non fiction. But like romance (love those hockey ones) to literary fiction. I usually meander through a sci fi or fantasy or two, some mysteries, at least a couple nonfictions (mostly memoirs). Well, you get the drift 8y
writerlibrarian @CocoReads I need my dose of romance monthly. I usually pick one or two non fiction to read in between fiction. Right now it's Roman history but it could have easily been art history. I'm a librarian, i just can't resist non fiction 8y
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Pinkmeghan
Gallic War | Julius Caesar
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True story! @mrsmarch knows what I'm talking about!

LeahBergen Yes! 😩😩 8y
Owlizabeth Hahaha, have you read The Great Library series? 8y
Pinkmeghan @Owlizabeth omg no that sounds awesome! Thanks! 8y
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