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JacqMac
Earth | John Boyne
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“I dreamed that I dreamed about the musty grey soil of the island and the sweet perfume it emits after rainfall, a double remove from a place I will never visit again. My mother explained to me once… We find the scent comforting, she told me, because we want to believe there‘ll be a welcoming place for us one day, when we‘re buried deep inside it.”
Phenomenal. John Boyne never disappoints me.

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JacqMac
Earth | John Boyne
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Hubby is at a late meeting. I‘m in my blanket fort with a flashlight. Shhh….

Clare-Dragonfly Sounds cozy! 6d
PaperbackPirate Fun! 📖🔦 6d
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BooksandCoffee4Me
Poems of John Donne | John Donne
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Just started this tonight.
#poetrymatters

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bibliothecarivs
One Hundred Middle English Lyrics | Robert David Stevick
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Random book from our home library:

📖 One Hundred Middle English Lyrics edited with an introduction by Robert D. Stevick

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bibliothecarivs
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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Prelude: The Four Texts: 1798, 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth

Graywacke I‘ll be reading a little Wordsworth this week - for the 1st time. Just for a few minutes each day. 3w
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bibliothecarivs
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Six Middle English Romances edited by Maldwyn Mills

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LeahBergen
The Stories | Jane Gardam
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Look what I found today, @Centique , and right after your glowing review! I also found another Beryl Bainbridge, @Cathythoughts . 👏

Just doing my best to support my local secondhand bookshop on #IndependentBookstoreDay , of course. 😉

Tamra 👏🏾👏🏾 A successful day! 1mo
BarbaraBB That‘s the only Bainbridge I read! I must find other books by her too! 1mo
Ruthiella I love it when a book you have just read about pops up like that! 😃 1mo
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Centique Yay! That is serendipity 😍 it is such a great collection - it was out there looking for you! 1mo
LeahBergen @Tamra It was! 1mo
LeahBergen @BarbaraBB You might enjoy this one (it‘s quite dark!) 1mo
LeahBergen @Ruthiella It‘s like magic! 😆 1mo
LeahBergen @Centique I think it was! 😆 1mo
BarbaraBB Thank you Leah, will absolutely check that one out. 1mo
BarbaraBB I wanted to stack it but see I did that already! 1mo
Cathythoughts Great finds Leah ! I think I have The Bottle one on Kindle .. 1mo
LeahBergen @Cathythoughts Thanks, Cathy! And it‘s always good to have a little stockpile of the authors we like. 😆 1mo
vivastory Just wanted to say “Hi!“ 💙 (Hope you are well, & Johnny too!) 1mo
LeahBergen @vivastory Hello!! All is well here and Johnny is as bad as ever! 😆 1mo
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Gleefulreader
Earth | John Boyne
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After reading Water I moved immediately to this book and for a short book (148 pages) it dealt with a lot of big issues such as sexuality, sex work, abuse, and guilt. Again, a difficult read (and at times I struggled with the timeline of this book and how it fit with the previous, loosely connected book). Still, I am interested in finishing the series.

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Centique
The Stories | Jane Gardam
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I‘m kicking myself because i had almost finished this book and then the library insisted i bring it back 😂 But it was probably the best collection of short stories I‘ve ever read! That is - if you like authors like Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, maybe Penelope Lively. These are frequently bittersweet stories where the main character is a woman, often an older woman, and they focus on love and grief and ageing and mistakes and chances lost and ⬇️

Centique …who we admired and who we should have noticed…They were written in the 60s onwards throughout her writing career. Very English, often a village or coastal setting, and often sweet on the outside with a hidden blade inside! 1mo
Cathythoughts Wonderful review 👍🏻❤️ Stacked 1mo
Centique @Cathythoughts thank you Cathy! 1mo
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kspenmoll Lovely review. Stacked! 1mo
LeahBergen You hooked me here! Stacked! 1mo
Centique @kspenmoll @LeahBergen i hope you both like this! I am definitely going to be gifting it to a few people 💕 1mo
Rissreadswithcats Sounds like my kind of book! 💙 1mo
CarolynM High praise! Stacking, obviously😊😘 1mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Ennui | Maria Edgeworth
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You logophiles and Francophiles might like this story:
I was at my coffee shop in this sweater today and the barista asked me what it meant
After I taught him to pronounce the word I say "Ennui, French for sort of morose..."
Him: "Isn't morose French?"
Me "It is but this is like, more so, but without the anger."
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Let me be your French teacher! I am on the ball

dabbe Merci beaucoup! 🤩 2mo
BarbaraBB Good translation 😀 2mo
Amiable I always thought ennui meant “a feeling of boredom.” Thanks for the lesson! 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Amiable it sort of is, I couldn't think in the moment, I have heard it described as a type of blues coming from listlessness and dissatisfaction. Where morose is more of an ill tempered dissatisfaction. But I am happy for a French person to correct me if I am wrong 😀 2mo
Texreader ❤️❤️🐈‍⬛❤️❤️🐈‍⬛ 2mo
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