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Bookwomble
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"He enjoyed the sunshine on his face and the patterns of the white dust at his feet. The persistence of the aeroplane's noise, however, reminded him of an uneasiness in himself. Uneasiness seemed to be the background of all ruminations belonging to the twentieth century, just as all its landscapes were presided over, somewhere in the distance, by an aeroplane." ☀️✈️?️

Bookwomble The story opens on a sunny September day, with the drone of planes as its soundtrack, and I'm reading it on a sunny September day with the drones of planes (and the melodies of Everything But The Girl) as my soundtrack. Snap!🫰🏻😊 15h
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Bookwomble
Hackenfeller's Ape | Brigid Brophy
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"Once we acknowledge sentiment in other animals, we are bound to acknowledge what follows: their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
- Brigid Brophy

[Quotation not necessarily from the tagged book ?]

AnnCrystal
👏🏼🥲 Truth ✊🏼☺️💫.
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Bookwomble
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A 1953 satire about animal rights. The blurb says that Brophy's 1965 manifesto, "The Rights of Animals," kick-started the modern animal rights movement, so she has good credentials. Her other biographical details say she also campaigned for prison reform, gay rights, pacifism, humanism and vegetarianism, so I'm expecting to find "Hackenfeller's Ape" hitting my marks ??

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Teresereading
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#BigMoon three moon titles
I saw PaperMoon at the drive in as a child and loved Tatum. Apparently its based on an obscure novel?
#falling
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

TheKidUpstairs I just read Moon Tiger this year. Soooo good. 1w
willaful I actually own that novel and love it! They left the second half out of the movie. 1w
Bookwomble Because of the cover sticker, I initially thought the Aaronovitch book was about London being attacked by dirigible cows! 🎈🐄💣😂 1w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1w
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LeahBergen
Mr Wrong | Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I‘m currently reading my 7th Elizabeth Jane Howard with @shawnmooney and this one is a volume of her short stories. We‘ve been working through her books in publication order (and may even get to the start of The Cazalet Chronicles next year 😆).

Ruthiella I plan at a minimum to read at least one Cazalet Chronicle volume a year. You may finish before I do! I have three more to go. 😆 2w
Tamra I‘ve had Cazalet on my TBR shelf for so long! 😬 I know I‘ll love it too. 2w
LeahBergen @Ruthiella 😆 The first Cazalet book was the very first EJH I bought … and I‘m still waiting to get to it YEARS later. 😆 2w
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LeahBergen @Tamra Right? Yeesh. 😆 2w
Tamra Love that cover by the way. 2w
BiblioLitten I have to read the second book in the Cazalet Chronicle this year. But might have to reread the first one to jog my memory 🤭 1w
LeahBergen @BiblioLitten That always happens to me with series 😆 1w
Bookbuyingaddict Oh the cazalet chronicles you are going to adore 🥰 my favourites - binge read them all In lockdown your in for a real treat 😍 have you read something in disguise & falling yet ?? Xxx 4d
LeahBergen @Bookbuyingaddict I‘ve read Something in Disguise (loved it!) but haven‘t got to Falling yet. 😊 4d
Bookbuyingaddict ☺️😊🥰😍 3d
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shanaqui
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Pickpick

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!

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mom2bugnbee
May Day | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Didn't share my May stats!

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CarolynM
Linden Rise | Richmal Crompton
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Pickpick

Found this in a 2nd hand bookshop & couldn‘t resist after Family Roundabout. Tilly enters service as a 15 year old in the late C19th and watches as the family she serves grows up and grows old. Unhappy marriages feature again & there is a degree of contempt for the social norms of the monied classes. Tilly has more sense & more empathy than all of her so called betters. I‘ll be looking out for more Richmal Crompton.

Ruthiella Nice edition! 😍 4mo
Leftcoastzen Nice! 4mo
LeahBergen Oh, that‘s a nice edition!! I have a new edition of this and need to get to it! 4mo
Cathythoughts Nice review 👍🏻❤️ and edition. (edited) 4mo
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shanaqui

I'm having to do a first post on some of the books I've started reading concurrently in order for them to show up properly as I can mark them as current reads! The list is just growing and growing and growing... I'm very whim-driven at the moment, just reading a little of multiple books at the same time, and that's fine.

I'm finding this one more interesting than I thought, even while it's still just describing how the census was set up!

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Imagen_leigh
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And now it‘s a classic 🤣