pickAs usual with these “fashion in detail“ books, it's beautifully illustrated, and the line drawings are helpful, but arrrghhh please show photos of the whole garment as well as the details!
@jenlovesjt47 - I'm on season 3, episode 3. Had to share a rough haiku because the change in dynamic between these two is hilarious! 🤣
#haikuhive #haikuaday
pickI found this surprisingly riveting at times, though some parts are slow. It charts both the census itself and the things it recorded, touching on things like industrialisation, the Highland Clearances, the Potato Famine, emigration, immigration, WWI, WWII... all kinds of things which affected the population of the UK. Also there's a bit on the wider “British Empire“.
Today's reading is getting me off to a good start with #BookSpinBingo!
Before dinner reading and libation. 75 degrees,soft breeze,sunshine,blue skies,birdsong-so peaceful.Time to contemplate on the day. #porchlife #serenity
#booksandlibation #HappyFridaydrinks #HappyFridayReadingHour
We just got home from a five-week road trip in our trailer—our first long trip! Of course, bookstores had to be visited along the way! This is my multi-state haul. It includes books from Vroman‘s in Pasadena, CA, The Last Bookstore in Burbank, CA, Powell‘s in Portland, OR (of course!!), the Smith Family Bookstore in Eugene, OR, and one from Bend but I forgot the name of the store. 😬 I think I showed remarkable restraint for that many stores! 😂
Mid-day coffee and a book. #coffeeandbooks
pick#libraryfind #coffeeandbooks 1891. Set in NYC & the Berkshires(MA). Pamela Thompson,intelligent,gutsy, & bold,lost everything,is in debt due to her husband‘s bad investments,& resulting suicide.She is hired by her lawyer Prescott, to catch suspecting thieving at Macy jewelry counter.A success,she is placed with the wife of a ruthless robber baron, H.Jennings, to investigate threats to her life.Complicated shenanigans & red herrings go on ⬇️
pickI had way more to say about Anne Brontë so I had to do a second post (sorry!)
She‘s SO smart. Her religious philosophy has such a Unitarian vibe— “G!d is love; love each other.” Her answer to the patriarchy was female community. Always choose integrity over comfort, even if defending your principles means discomfort. Wield a quiet persistent power & providence will answer your prayers. Be kind but have boundaries.
The stoic philosophy of Agnes♥️
