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thewallflower0707
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My first stop was #Amsterdam 🚲 and I enjoyed it SO MUCH. I went to the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum 🌻, id a walking tour, bought a Miffy, ate the best fries 🍟 in the universe and also went to this lovely bookstore, where they have a replica of the #TFIOS bank. Never forget your roots!

#holiday

TheBookHippie ♥️ 3w
Amiable Love Amsterdam! Enjoy! 3w
BarbaraBB Ooh my hometown! Glad you enjoyed being here! Which bookstore is this? 3w
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jenniferw88
Tulip Fever | Deborah Moggach
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Birthday #bookhaul, featuring bookish puzzles!

Tamra Happy Birthday! 🎈🎈 4mo
Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 4mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🎂🎈Happy Birthday!🎈🎂 4mo
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Chelsea.Poole Happy birthday! 4mo
AnnCrystal
🤩 Happy Birthday 🥳🎂🍰📚💝.
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BarbaraBB Happy birthday 🎉🎂 4mo
Suet624 Happy birthday!! 4mo
TheSpineView Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 4mo
TheLudicReader Happy birthday! 🎉 4mo
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Imagen_leigh
Girl in the Blue Coat | Monica Hesse
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I love historical fiction and am glad to find such a great read in the YA section! Reading through this novel I was hanging on every word wondering about this girl in the blue coat and how she disappeared. I‘d like to think that by reading these types of historical fiction, I will have an idea of what to do if I were in a similar situation. But, one can never know for sure what they would do in such rough and dangerous times.

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Deblovestoread
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#Bookrelated

Today‘s section in our #TreeADay reading. My question to you is if you have read the tagged book, any factual history or historical fiction set during WWII how you cannot see the parallels from that time to this? What is keeping you from recognizing how our freedoms are being taken away piece by piece? It is happening again and you are not only cheering for it you are praising God for it. God help us all.

Ruthiella I‘m currently reading Maus by Art Spiegelman and also see the pattern. Particularly in the swiftness. Laws and institutions will only hold up if we collectively support them. 6mo
Jess861 The Dutch Orphan was a very interesting book to read at this time. Some spoke up, others didn't as freedoms were slowly taken away. The parallels are scary. 6mo
Deblovestoread @Jess861 Stacked! Thanks for the recommendation. 🩷 6mo
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TheBookHippie I‘ve seen the replanted of this tree by the World Trade Center. I agree with your post… and am just making mine… 6mo
Soscha We‘re past the punch a Nazi in the face days. And days of not wanting to be friends with Russian oligarchs. 😒 (edited) 6mo
dabbe To add to your thoughts, you made me think of this allusion from my Book of Allusions:
•Bread and Circuses: This phrase was used by a writer during the time of the Roman Empire. He deplored the fact that the Imperial government was able to keep the populace content merely by distributing free food and providing entertainment spectacles, such as the fights in the Coliseum between people or between people and animals. ⬇️
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dabbe The writer declared that it was shameful that people could be so easily kept in line simply by receiving “bread and circuses“ from the government.

The term today refers to policies designed to PREVENT UNREST BY KEEPING PEOPLE HAPPY and thus DEFLECTING CONCERN about troubling issues.

How many dystopian novels show us that if you keep people quiet and happy (plugged in like F451), most will do NOTHING to save us all. #ranttime
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kspenmoll Thank you all for #ranttime Visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was one of the most moving experiences of my life. 6mo
TheBookHippie @Jess861 I agree. 6mo
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JayBarb1027
Annelies: A Novel | David R. Gillham
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It was good but the ending wasn‘t super satisfying, it felt like a lot of loose ends, as well as Anne being quite whiny and ungrateful at times, it almost felt disrespectful to read at times.

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BarbaraBB
The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton
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This book had been on my shelves for years and I now finally picked it up. It‘s set in Amsterdam, where I live, in the 17th century, when we sailed the oceans and colonized countries and were a very wealthy trading country. That background is interesting to me, more interesting than the plot to be honest. But all in all a fairly good read and a light pick.

Suet624 Great to finally get it off your shelf! 6mo
Lesliereadsalot You live in Amsterdam!? I was there once at tulip time on a small boat cruise around all the waterways. Lucky you to live in such a cool city! 6mo
TheBookHippie I liked this light read. I‘m with you the background was the best part. 6mo
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BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie we obviously feel the same. An enjoyable read! 6mo
BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot It is a good place to live. Let‘s hope it stays that way in this world going crazy. 6mo
Rissreadswithcats I didn‘t realise you lived in Amsterdam! My son spent 6 mths in Rotterdam in 2023 playing cricket and is going back again for 3 mths this year, but this time he will be in Utrecht. I wish I could go over to spend some time with him. 6mo
BarbaraBB @Rissreadswithcats Did he have a good time in Rotterdam? Utrecht is great too, though smaller. Is your son a professional player? I wish you could come too. Where do you live? 6mo
Rissreadswithcats He isn‘t a professional player but he‘s very good, one step down so the cricket clubs will sponsor players from other countries like Australia. They get there flights and accommodation paid for and a small wage while they are there. He is 23 so I‘m glad he is doing his thing and having fun and seeing the world. If I do get over (I would have to win some money! But stranger things have happened!) I would def let We live in Perth, Western Australia. 6mo
BarbaraBB @Rissreadswithcats That is quite the trip for your son as “young” as he is! But you‘re right to be glad for him, it sounds so cool! ❤️ 6mo
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