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BarkingMadRead
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TheBookHippie 😬 #itsfineitllworkout 😵‍💫🫣 12mo
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Bookwormjillk So many things in this chapter. What is Piers up to? Does going to Rome mean becoming Catholic? If so is it really that easy to switch religions like that? #Confused 12mo
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I wouldn‘t think it would be so easy to switch, but I‘m not sure! Seems a little fickle to me 🤣 12mo
CatLass007 Going to Rome does not mean becoming Catholic. In order for someone to become Catholic they do have to go through some sort of religious training. My Mom was Catholic but my Dad wasn‘t. They started attending a class together in order for my Dad to learn about the religion. My Mom had hoped he would convert but he never did. 12mo
Bookwormjillk @CatLass007 that‘s why I was confused- my husband is Catholic and I‘m not. I‘ve had to do a lot just so we could get married. To think I could have just taken a trip instead 🤣 12mo
Cuilin I was raised Roman Catholic, I guess I‘m technically called a lapsed Catholic but yes, you can convert to Catholicism. It‘s actually pretty easy thing to do. You can take classes but many have converted on their deathbed, Oscar Wilde being one. 12mo
CatLass007 My Mom was 27 and my Dad was 30 when they got married. When I turned 24 Mom said “Congratulations, you‘re an old maid in the eyes of the church!” She then explained that if she had remembered that when she and Daddy got married, all the hoops they had to jump through would have been waived. Craziness. @Bookwormjillk (edited) 12mo
Cuilin The term “going to Rome”, said by an Anglican would mean converting to Roman Catholicism. (edited) 12mo
Cuilin @CatLass007 my in-laws faced the same issue. He had to promise that the children would be raised Catholic. 🙄 12mo
Bookwormjillk @Cuilin thanks! In my Church I‘d have to take 8 weeks of classes, get a sponsor, and go to confession. I like the church and I‘ve been going for 20 years but no thanks to all that! 12mo
Cuilin @Bookwormjillk I hear you. It seems harder to convert in America than it does in Ireland. 🤷‍♀️ 12mo
CatLass007 @Cuilin I didn‘t know that about the phrase “Going to Rome.” Interesting. My Dad had to promise that we would be raised Catholic. I‘m glad he didn‘t have to promise that we would remain Catholic. LOL. My brother hasn‘t attended any church in years. I am a member of a very progressive Presbyterian church. I do like Pope Francis because he doesn‘t seem as rigid as his predecessors. But it‘s really just a matter of degrees, no doctrinal changes. 12mo
Cuilin @CatLass007 agreed re: Pope. I haven‘t attended in years. I miss the community, but I can‘t be part of some thing that excused so much abuse. 12mo
CatLass007 @Cuilin Did you say you live in Ireland? I know in the States we have so many options for the type of community in which we choose to belong. I would imagine in Ireland there would be fewer options. But I never thought about it until just now. 12mo
Cuilin @CatLass007 I grew up in Ireland but now live in New Hampshire. 12mo
CatLass007 @Cuilin I bet that‘s a big difference. 12mo
rwmg For those wondering what the fuss about the Church of South India was about, Wikipedia has some information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_South_India#Origins 12mo
dabbe You'd think I would have looked up some of this stuff since I didn't get it, but no, I had to look up the #pinkblancmange. Perfect photo, @BarkingMadRead. And thanks for the info above, @Cuilin, @CatLass007, @Bookwormjillk, and @rwmg! You save me extra research! 🤩 12mo
CatLass007 @dabbe 📚👍🏾 12mo
Cuilin @dabbe the beauty of buddy reads, right? 12mo
dabbe @CatLass007 🤩🤗😃 12mo
dabbe @Cuilin YES! 🤩🤗😘 12mo
BarkingMadRead @dabbe it‘s funny what attracts our attention 🤣 I had to know what it looked like 🤣 12mo
Aimeesue I would absolutely eat all the currants off that pink blancmange. Looooooove them! 12mo
rwmg @dabbe Pym mentions the S. India church quite often but I'd never been able to find out anything about it before. It was obviously a big deal in high church circles at the time but almost completely forgotten about now 12mo
bthegood @dabbe I also did not look it up but wondered about it - thanks for the info @rwmg - 🙂 12mo
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LibrarianRyan
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3.5 ⭐This book is full of questions. A child is going for a walk with their father and one question leads to another and leads to another, etc. It‘s when new words are introduced that you begin to realize that this may not be coming from your current experience. Buddha told everybody to always question. Question why things work, know that things come from one thing to another, and on and on. This book is basic beginnings questions and how things

LibrarianRyan come after each other and how ohm covers everything. Anybody could read this book and get something out of it. It does not have to be read or is not strictly for those who follow Buddha. The information about Buddha is in the very end, as a note to parents rather than part of the story which makes this book open for all. 1y
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kspenmoll
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story | Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Company
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Just a few quotes among the many pages of notes I took while reading. #1619groupread #Origins

alisiakae I highlighted the same passages while I was reading. 3y
Chelsea.Poole Powerful. 3y
megnews I highlighted these as well. 3y
kspenmoll @4thhouseontheleft @megnews It would be much easier to highlight & sticky note if I can get over my squeamishness about writing on this book…easier than pages of notes!!!! 3y
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kspenmoll
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story | Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Company
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#Origins #1619group

“…we all suffer for the poor history we‘ve been taught.”

ravenlee That really struck me, as well. 3y
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Ast_Arslan
Dracul | Dacre Stoker, JD Barker
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New week, new reading!
This is the last vampire's book I planned to read during March.
Even my March TBR is almost finished, only one book more 😆🤟

#tbr #Marchreadings #Dracul #DacreStoker #vampires #JDBarker #Stokerfamily #origins

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GatheringBooks
This House, Once | Deborah Freedman
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#ForeverNovember Day 15: This book is a lyrical demonstration of the mud, stones, dust, trees that form the foundations and substance of what constitutes the physical structure that make a house. Told in a lilting, almost-ethereal voice with #fog-infused art, it pays tribute to that which came before everything else was built – not so much lost or gone – but transformed into something else entirely. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-iUu

OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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TK-421
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Here‘s a few eclectic shelves I don‘t think I‘ve shared before. Left: corner shelf in the bedroom that‘s mostly my hubby‘s sports books & some chunksters I didn‘t have room for anywhere else. Top right: mostly to be read or to be reread books on a shelf at the foot of our bed. Both double as cat perches for Minerva. Bottom right: living room shelf that started as a tbr shelf & ended up being a sort of mix of tbr & tbrr. #shelves #30JuneBooks

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Megabooks
The Scars of Evolution | Elaine Morgan
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I was an evolutionary anthropology minor at Duke, and this is one of the strangest books on #Evolution I‘ve ever read.

The author presents an argument that humans evolved from dolphins and whales as opposed to apes. It‘s ummm...interesting. 🤔😏 I remember being especially shocked at the part where we lost our fins! 😱

#StarTrekSummerMay

Cinfhen Oh god!!! Although I totally believe in mermaids so why not?!?!! 6y
Megabooks @Cinfhen Maybe mermaids 🧜‍♀️ are not fully evolved humans??? They‘re like the Homo erectus of the sea?? 🤔 6y
rretzler Ah - so that‘s the missing link!🤣 6y
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Megabooks @rretzler You never know!!! 😉 6y
dariazeoli I knew I connected to Ariel on a deep level! 🧜‍♀️ 6y
Geeklet :O Is it Aquatic Ape Theory? I fell down an Internet rabbit hole reading about that one day. I don‘t believe it for a second but it was so strange to read about it. 6y
tournevis Shaking my head so much right now I'm dizzy. 6y
Megabooks @dariazeoli 😁😁😁👍🏻 6y
Megabooks @Geeklet Yes, I believe so? I haven‘t read it in 20 years. 6y
Megabooks @tournevis It was an interesting class discussion with two major academics in the field. 6y
tournevis @Megabooks No doubt! 6y
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BillBlume
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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One of the books that influenced my current work-in-progress is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson, so I decided to go through his earlier book with Donald Goldsmith called Origins to see if anything there might offer more inspiration before my recent writing trip to the Porches. Honestly, it turned out to be more of a refresher of what I got from the other book but still good stuff. #science #origins #AmWriting

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violettemeier
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Yeah, I'm a nerd. Great book for those who love to learn the meaning behind things.

LiteraryinPA Cool! 7y
KCorter Ooh, I think I need this. 7y
minkyb Looks good! (edited) 7y
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