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Animal Intelligence: The Book of Forgotten History | Will Shin

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This was a very unique read! I hadn‘t read anything like it before.

It blends fact and fiction to create a “history” of animals starting from the Paleozoic Era all the way to present day and beyond. Basically it personifies animals and tells their story in relation to humans. The animals are presented in a very human way.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/review-animal-intelligence/

oddandbookish #book #booklover #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #bookreviewer #booktok #library #doublespin #dashingthrudecember #bookspin #bookspinbingo #animals #history #fun 17h

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day8

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day8

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is actually an activity: cook your favorite recipe.

So, my question is:
🎄What‘s your favorite cookbook? What makes it special?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

BookishMarginalia Right now:

Padma's All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond: A Cookbook

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TheBookgeekFrau lol - I did this activity yesterday when I made Beef Stew from my Betty Crocker cookbook. My mother got this cookbook for her bridal shower, and I stole it from her when I got married 21h

BookishMarginalia @TheBookgeekFrau That counts in my book! 21h

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TheBookgeekFrau @BookishMarginalia Oh good! 😁 21h

lil1inblue My current favorite isn't in the database: It's called Four Seasons of Cabin Cooking. My husband and I love to experiment with campfire cooking, and this is perfect for that. 😍 https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/en-us/product/four-seasons-of-cabin-cooking?sr... 21h

willaful I literally just put one of my favorite recipes in the oven - Butterscotch Brownies from How to Cook Everything. Simply everyone loves them and they're so easy -- it's enormous bang for the buck.

Another favorite is Eggs in a Nest - pouched eggs on vegetables over rice -- from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

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julesG Whoop!!! Did exactly that for dinner. Made a quinoa-veggie-chicken-one-pot dish with almonds and dried apricots from a tiny cookbook. 14h

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day7 #PictureBook

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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount

#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day7

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:
🎄What‘s your favorite picture book?
Maybe one you read as a kid, or one you read to your child, or one you read recently. (Yes, there are illustrated books for grown-ups!)

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

merelybookish My favourite picture book growing up and one I read to my kids and still think it stands up is

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Turtleback School & Library)

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage My favorite as a kid.

The Yukadoos

PathfinderNicole Not one I read as a kid but one I read to my own that we all just absolutely loved

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

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dabbe Mine was and still is the tagged one. 💜💜💜

Harold and the Purple Crayon

TheBookgeekFrau Hands down

The Monster at the End of this Book

LeafingThroughLife I‘ve got a real soft spot lately for

Nobody Hugs a Cactus

kspenmoll Anything Margaret Wise Brown wrote & Mike Mulligans & His Steam Shovel (edited) 19h

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day6

@WanderingBookaneer brought me this lovely little doll! 😍😍😍

TheBookHippie It‘s so cute. 3d

monalyisha Oh, I love it! 😍 3d

Dilara How adorable! 3d

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day6

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:

🎄What‘s your current favorite bookstore? Why do you love it?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

BookishMarginalia Two faves near my home in #Florida: #TomboloBooks in #StPete and #BookstoreOneSarasota in #Sarasota 3d

TheBookHippie Our local shop Bluestocking Bookshop. In Chicago Myopic. Both used bookstores. 3d

TheBookgeekFrau I have two favorites in Colorado Springs: Basecamp Books & Adventure and Road Runner Books, a traveling bookshop in a trailer. 3d

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xicanti I got to visit McNally Robinson just yesterday, and it was wonderful. I also always enjoy Munro‘s Books in Victoria. 3d

dabbe My favorite Indie bookstore in Phoenix is Changing Hands Bookstore. The first one started in Tempe back in 1974. They now have another store in Phoenix and a First Draft Book Bar where you can sit and drink wine and other delights. The bookstores I want most to visit are Powells and The Strand. #someday ♥️💙💚 2d

kspenmoll Indie bookstore I patron River Bend Bookstore 19h

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day5

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day5

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:
🎄What was the most moving book you read this year? Either sad or happy tears count!

Join the fun! Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

@WanderingBookaneer @Cupcake12 @Karisa @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Erinreadsthebooks @Bookperson96 @tpixie @purpleypumpkin @thebookgeekfrau @xicanti @jeg @dabbe @gissy

Ruthiella Hands down

Woodworking

willaful For sad, One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman. For happy, Tom Lake. 4d

xicanti Definitely

The Second Chance Book Club: The new warm, feel-good novel of life, love and friendship from the author of FOUND IN A BOOKSHOP

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Bookwormjillk I can‘t decide- either We Dream of Space or Beautyland 3d

RaeLovesToRead Lonely castle in the mirror 😭😭😭😭 AMAZING book 3d

LeafingThroughLife Not me putting all these books on my wishlist because I love when a book gives me a good emotional wrecking. 🤣 For me, it‘s a tie between Saving Francesca and City of Tranquil Light. 3d

TheBookgeekFrau Happy and sad tears from

Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

dabbe For both sad and happy tears, this one ... the only book I gave 5 stars to this year, and it's a comic book. #gofigure

Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story

Karisa The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his Mother)‘s ending made me cry in the best way. So stinking good and did not see it coming at all! Also cried when Francoise‘s grandmother died in My Life with Picasso… I‘m an easy crier! 😅

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

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