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Early morning coffee & a book. Reading one chapter a day as a family. #MarkTwain #familyread #coffeeandbooks

PSA: if you like period pieces and you haven‘t seen it yet, you MUST watch The Gilded Age on HBO. The costumes are fabulous & the cast is excellent. Mr. George Russell here (Morgan Spector) has been dubbed Railroad Daddy by the fans & it is very fitting!! 🥵😏😆 Lort, that man. 🥵🥵🥵😋

The union may call him
Robber Barron — but we call
him Railroad Daddy. 😉

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #thegildedage #tvhaiku

I have a question and I know my Litsy friends will be able to answer it. How do you classify a book on Goodreads when your time runs out on a book from Libby and there are people waiting for it. Do you keep it as currently reading or what? I know Storygraph and Bookmory let you pause a book. My time is running out fast for this book and I'm not even half way through it. Thanks for your help.

After reading ch. 1, which focuses on Twain‘s parents & his early life, this statement struck me as quite poignant. His father was undemonstrative, stoic, grave, was a failure in supporting his family until they moved to Hannibal where he was appointed Justice of the Peace.
We are loving the language & at times, fun, ironic tone to the book. Our reading will pick now that our lives have somewhat settled down. #MarkTwain #familyread

“My” sweet hummingbird, loves my garden‘s bee balm. I have a perfect view of him from my porch. The hummingbird‘s presence is reminding me of the tagged book which I started long ago. Now I feel a pull to return to it. #porchlife #hummingbird

Enjoyed it.

When we registered to hear the author of the tagged book, Ron Chernow,speak at The Mark Twain House in Hartford, we each received our own signed copy of his biography of Twain.We plan to read it together,round robin by paragraph,all 1040 pages.It may take us a year! We started today,finishing up the Prelude.Even Poe joined in! 🐈📖

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one‘s lifetime.”

What a fantastic evening! My family went to hear Ron Chernow being interviewed about the writing of his biography of Mark Twain at the Mark Twain House in Hartford.The sold out venue was a Congregational Church nearby.That picture of Mark Twain on a stick is a hand fan they gave out to the audience because like most old churches, it was not air conditioned.Very creative & community building I thought!
The book is 1030 pages plus appendices.

Very enjoyable