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@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

I 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

#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 ⬇️

The kind of book Elinor Dashwood might have written about life as a governess. Charlotte wrote a prettier line. Emily wrote a better narrative. Even so, I think Anne would have been a better friend.

Highly recommend the audiobook— the narration of the penguin classic version is excellent! It does a great job of capturing how awful the supposed “quality” can be but without any ire.

📸 hook, line, & tinker project by moi #audiocrafting #stitchitup

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
- John Keats to Fanny Brawne

While reading some of Keats' poetry this morning, I was visited by these four butterflies: Speckled Wood (top left); two mating Gatekeepers (top right: I think they were more focused on each other!); and a Large White. And some water lilies ???