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I‘ve decided to listen to this audiobook while also listening to Dickens‘ Little Dorrit audiobook depending on my mood. This one is short and I miss Italy. I also need to read another #Italy book for #foodandlit as we celebrate #Jubilee all year long! @Catsandbooks I also need a #letterF for #litsyatoz

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Pope Francis: Pastor of Mercy | Michael J. Ruszala
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A very short biography. I appreciated his message of humility serving the poor. In Argentina and throughout the world. I'm glad I took the time to read it. #Italy #FoodandLit #Jubilee @Texreader @Catsandbooks Also P #LitsyAtoZ

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The complexity of each character had been thoughtfully crafted. Auci has a way of bringing these historical people back to life by giving them likable and unlikeable traits. I'm sad to say goodbye to the Florios of Sicily. I learned a lot about the Industrial Age of southern Italy, especially tuna canning. All thanks to this captivating family. #Italy #Jubilee #FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

Texreader Sounds great! Stacked! 4w
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Italy | Paul Mason
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Today is Italy‘s Liberation Day from the fascist regime. Join all Italians all weekend long as we celebrate (while also continuing to mourn Pope Frances‘ death). Remember we are celebrating #Jubilee all year long for #foodandlit. Read any good books set in Italy recently? (Photo by my daughter when she was there on April 25 two years ago. She reminded me to make this post!) #Italy #catsandbooks

@wanderinglynn What are you doing to celebrate?

wanderinglynn I had to work - sadly we don‘t get off for Italian holidays. 4w
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Rome turns 2778 years old on April 21. Not part of Italy‘s Jubilee celebrations but definitely part of #foodandlit‘s all year celebration of all things Italian. #Jubilee. Throw a Roman birthday party this Monday!

More info here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIcFUz5MA9b/?igsh=ZzFvM2d0MTV2dGk5

Ruthiella Wow! It doesn‘t look a day older than one millennium! 😉 1mo
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Ebook is on sale right now for $1.99

https://rb.gy/ylwf61

#foodandlit #Italy #Jubilee

kspenmoll Thanks! 1mo
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Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
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Finally reporting my books read for March. This was a long-book month, and I was only 2 days away from finishing Cashelmara, which will show up in my April books read. I tagged my favorite book this month. Challenge update:

#foodandlit #Nepal (from last month) 2 (Katmandú Killers & Eight Mountains)
#foodandlit #Ireland 3+ most of Cashelmara
#foodandlit #Italy #Jubilee 1 (Eight Mountains)
#authoramonth (Bardugo) 2+ 1/2 of Wonder Woman

Catsandbooks I love Ninth House! I still have to read Hell Bent 2mo
Texreader @Catsandbooks I was so surprised I liked it so much. I immediately borrowed Hellbent after I finished it. It was just as good imo 2mo
Catsandbooks @Texreader glad to hear! 2mo
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Mistress of Rome | Kate Quinn
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Ancient coliseum battleground, sacrifice, early Christians, politics, and cruel villains are written in the background where two slaves fall in love and are heinously separated. This book truly has it all. I intend to read all of Kate Quinn. TW - coliseum fights and torture are graphic #ancientRome #jubilee #FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

Texreader Yay! I haven‘t been able to squeeze in a Jubilee read this month! Glad to see you did! And the book sounds good 2mo
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Two boys, Pietro the city boy from Milan and Bruno a country boy, become lifelong friends in the mountains of #Italy. Pietro has a complicated relationship with his father, and as adults Bruno develops a much better relationship with Pietro‘s father, creating an unusual but ultimately a stronger bond between Pietro and Bruno following the father‘s death, even when Pietro moves away to #Nepal. A slow, contemplative book in the shadow of the ⬇️

Texreader Italian Alps and Nepal‘s Himalayan mountains. I saw the movie first and I think that made this a harder read. The movie was very good and followed the book closely. I liked the movie better. #foodandlit #Nepal #Italy #jubilee @Catsandbooks (edited) 3mo
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Butterfinger
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My kind of book; a family epic. A rags to riches tale set in Sicily during Napoleon's time and the following revolution. I loved the imagery of the surrounding sea and town and the determination of the men in the family and the stubbornness of the women in their anger and love.

My only regret is that I realized halfway through the book that the Bourbons and the Neapolitans were the same people.

#jubilee #foodandlit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

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Butterfinger @Texreader it's a duology. This is the first one. 4w
Texreader Thanks for letting me know! 4w
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