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Poetic Edda | Carolyne Larrington
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I've read retellings of these stories since I was a kid, and I read the Prose Edda a few years ago, so feeling it was time to read the Poetic Edda. This Oxford World's Classics edition looks like it has good explanatory notes, but not too extensive for the dilettante reader that I am.
#BookmarkMatching Accidentally, a reasonable colour match to the book with this bookmark showing Nordic artefacts, which I bought from the Jorvic Viking Museum 🔖

TrishB Bookmark appreciation 👏🏻 1mo
Cathythoughts Perfect photo 🩵 1mo
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Hmm, I don't have many megalithic/Neolithic themed bookmarks as the sites tend to be in isolated muddy fields without tourist gift shops (obviously a good/bad situation), but I'm pleased to have the ones I've got. La Hougue Bie is a fantastic "passage tomb" on Jersey, the others speak for themselves ?
I've decided to use the Stonehenge one for this book - I mean, it's the Guvnor isn't it?! ?

Bookwomble Also, I'm inordinately pleased with the bookmark trilithon! 😅 2mo
TrishB Oh I love these! Well done 👏🏻 2mo
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The_Book_Ninja Where‘s your Cerne Abbas Giant bookmark? 2mo
quietlycuriouskate Love this post! 😍 2mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Cock up on that one, I'm afraid 😏 2mo
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Set against the lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Desnoes's MC is a petite bourgeois whose furniture shop was nationalised during the revolution, who lives off his compensatory income, and who by turns supports and hates the social changes with a mix of disdain, arrogance, timidity and self-loathing. He's also misogynistic, sexually objectifies women and is completely self-centred. Desnoes is certainly making a socio-political comment, ⬇️

Bookwomble ... though the best I could make of it was, “everything is shit“.
3.5⭐ if you don't mind deeply flawed and rather unpleasant protagonists, whose existential suffering is, nonetheless, human and pitiful.
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TrishB Love the bookmark. And everything is shit is sometimes just the deal. 2mo
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan Doyle
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📔 The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes? ✅ Check!
🔖 Sherlock Holmes bookmark? ✅ Check!
🧦 Sherlock Holmes socks? ✅ Check!
🔎 The game's afoot! 😁

Having read the full Canon last year, I'd decided I would read my TBR Holmes pastiche books, and as we're halfway through the year it's time I got started!
This one is almost canonical as it was co/written by Doyle Jr. (some dispute between him and Carr as to who wrote what).

TrishB Love the book mark matching ❤️ 2mo
Bookwomble @TrishB It's gratifying when it's possible 😊 2mo
LeahBergen What @TrishB said! 👍 2mo
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