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Angeles
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Really fun microhistory about something I am obsessed about: notebooks. It is very well written, with each chapter covering interesting historical vignettes about notebooks from mainly Renaissance to the present. I feel it is not thorough, but it is illuminating and well written, and you can enjoy it even if you are not a notebook nerd.
My cat also enjoyed it, as you can see.She gives it a definite Paws up!

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Zuhkeeyah
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#whereareyoumonday @Cupcake12

I‘m hanging out in New York, New York this week. I‘m enjoying diving into the science behind many of the forensic techniques we accept as standard practice today.

Thanks for the tag @KadaGul

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Lcsmcat
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Well researched and written like a thriller, this was a fast, fascinating read. I had no idea that Pepys had gone through anything like this. And the dangers of “populist” movements are hard to ignore. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4h
Ruthiella Sounds fantastic. Stacking! 2h
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Sleepswithbooks
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Completed ✅

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Dilara
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Today is the 233rd anniversary of the Baiser Lamourette (Lamourette Kissing), where priest and representative Lamourette enjoined his colleagues to make peace with each other after some stormy debates in Parliament. Hence the hugs and kisses portrayed in this ink drawing kept in the Louvre museum. I cannot picture the same thing happening today 😁
#readingispolitical

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Librarybelle
Common Sense | Thomas Paine
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Paine‘s passion against a monarchical government is present in this short treatise. It may be short, but it packs a punch.

250 years later, it‘s a reminder of the struggle for independence in the American colonies. I‘m glad I took the time to revisit this and ponder how much this relates to today‘s political climate.

Librarybelle @Butterfinger @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kspenmoll @IriDas So sorry I did not follow up sooner—yesterday was not a good mental health day. I‘m glad I read this…I hope this reading brought you what you had hoped, whether it is the feeling of hope or better understanding past struggles or even how eerily similar the struggles are between then and now. Thank you! 1d
kspenmoll Please do not apologize for taking care of yourself! I read it in spurts & it helped reinforce just what our founders were thinking, hoping, & felt forced to do-demand independence from England. And fight a war to get it. (edited) 1d
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TheBookHippie I enjoyed the reread. It helps to see thoughts of what the dream was. Always take care of you first. 💙💙💙💙 1d
Deblovestoread Agree with @kspenmoll Taking care of yourself is the most important thing. The rest will happen when it happens. I didn‘t make very good progress. My Libby copy didn‘t give me an option to open on my kindle and I hate reading on my phone. So I‘m going to get a physical copy and try again. 1d
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Rome753
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""The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age. To the eyes of some it has been represented by the venal suffrages of a few of the satellites of power; to others by the votes of a timid or an interested minority; and some have even discovered it in the silence of a people, on the supposition that the fact of submission established the right of command."

Rome753 -Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" 1d
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shanaqui
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I really enjoyed this one, though it's full of example after example and I can see how that'd get wearing for some readers. It's surprising how much Golden age crime fiction ignored this history of female detection...