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The English Mediaeval Parish Church | George Henry Cook

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The English Mediaeval Parish Church by G. H. Cook
📖 My Latin Mass Prayer Book by Bart Tesoriero

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Dilara

Que notre joie demeure | Kevin Lambert

I am reading Que notre joie demeure, Kevin Lambert's latest, multiple prize-winning novel, and I have been so confused by his use of the word “plusieurs“ I had to google “plusieurs + québecisme + définition“ to get to the bottom of this. 😂 Here's what the Office québécois de la langue française has to say. Now I know that “plusieurs“ means “some“ or “several“ in Europe, but can be used to mean “many“ in #Québec. Live and learn...

LiseWorks I could have told you that as I'm a French Canadian lol 3mo

IuliaC This is good to know. I had no idea it could also mean "many" 3mo

Kitta Learned French in Canada and yes we use this to mean some/many lol 3mo

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Dilara @LiseWorks lol, I'll think of you next time I am bewildered by a Canadian French turn of phrase 😁 3mo

Dilara @IuliaC Two nations divided by a common language 😜 3mo

Dilara @Kitta Ah just rub it in, why don't you 😂 3mo

IuliaC @Dilara 😂👍 3mo

kwmg40 Interesting comment! I'm an Anglophone who grew up in Quebec, and while I can read novels in French (albeit slowly), I still struggle with vocabulary. However, I tend to have trouble with French books from France and not so much with French Canadian books. 2mo

Kitta @dilara haha my French is terrible but this word I know!! I want to start reading in French again though. I‘ll try and hit up the French bookstore here! 2mo

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Plain Bad Heroines | Emily Danforth

This was an impulse buy on my last trip to my new favorite bookstore. I haven‘t started it yet, but the cover caught my attention and the story sounds intriguing. Have any of you read it? Thoughts?

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Magdalenka

Seeking New York: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City - One Building at a Time | Tom Miller

I got this book few weeks ago in NYC … I hope it‘s fascinating as the city it self ❤️

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DebinHawaii

Hygge: A Celebration of Simple Pleasures. Living the Danish Way. | Charlotte Abrahams

My #JolabokaflodSwap box arrived today! Thank you @fandom_hellspawn99 !! I can‘t wait to open it!
🌲🤗❤️💚

MaleficentBookDragon

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Readergrrl

Hygge: A Celebration of Simple Pleasures. Living the Danish Way. | Charlotte Abrahams

My #Jolabokaflod package has arrived! It was raining hard, but my nice neighbor rescued all my parcels for me today! Can‘t wait for Christmas Eve!🍫📚🎅🏼🎄❄️ @guinsgirlreads #JolabokaflodSwap23 @MaleficentBookDragon

guinsgirlreads Yay!! 5mo

peanutnine What an awesome neighbor! 💖 5mo

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SheReadsAndWrites

Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place | John Morrill Bryan, Richard Morris Hunt

For any Hallmark movie fans out there, this one is FANTASTIC. Time travel, gorgeous setting, great clothes, and of course-romance. ❤️ #romance #hallmark

Bluebird I loved this one too! 5mo

Sparklemn I've been telling everyone to watch this 💕 5mo

SheReadsAndWrites I have watched it more than once, for sure. 🙂 @Bluebird @sparklemn 5mo

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Emilymdxn

St Pancras Station | Simon Bradley

For #decemberdreams today we have the gorgeous bookish Christmas tree at st pancras station this year!

#wintergames #snowangels @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs So awesome 👏🏻 💚📚 5mo

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Hooked_on_books

Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness | Emily Anthes

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I found this look at the indoors super interesting, especially considering that we live so much of our lives inside in modern society. It covers a wide variety of approaches, but maybe take it with a grain a salt, as WeWork gets a lot of praise and, well… Also, it starts by looking at the bacteria all over our homes, so fair warning if you want to skip past that bit.

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Faranae

Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures | Roma Agrawal

Alright, it's November, so it looks like only half my #URC2023 is going to be queer romance. Meanwhile, I went back to my past unassigned reads and found 4 books that fit prompts - the one not included here is The Story of My Life by Helen Keller for a blind author.

I'll actually be reading Lady Susan a second time later this month for my read-along Twitch stream.

willaful I've never actually read Lady Susan, IIRC.

I'm annoyed at myself because I had a queer romance for the rescue prompt, with a paramedic, but the second LI is a cop. D'oh. 6mo

Faranae @willaful Oh the “no cops“ rule is just that cops don't count as rescue personnel for the prompt, not that they can't appear at all.

And most people skip Lady Susan. It's one of her juvenilia that she never reworked and wasn't published until decades after she died. It's delightful but it's not something you can mine for social commentary and older Austen was a tad more conservative in her morals than this book. 6mo

willaful Yeah, I never got much into her juvenalia.

Thanks for the allow! One less prompt to worry about. But you will absolutely *hate* the book. 6mo

Faranae @willaful 😂 glad to know I will have good fodder for the blog next year then! 6mo

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