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Bright I Burn | Molly Aitken
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I really enjoyed this #AtoZReadathon challenge, just 4 away from a full set! I'll tag my reads in the comments. It's been a great month with some fantastic reads. Thank you for hosting @Texreader

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The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times | Xan Brooks
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This was so much fun. Thank you for hosting @PuddleJumper and @Emilymdxn for being a great team captain. My apologies for the dwindled posts, I have shingles. I have still been racking up the points tho'.

Finishing up with the tagged for my last read of October. #LetterX for #AtoZReadathon @Texreader

AllDebooks @Marmie7 @PageShifter @Seabreeze_Reader @PathfinderNicole @majikia @MatchlessMarie @JoeMo @kelli7990 @Pageturner1 5d
AnnCrystal 🙏💝. 5d
Emilymdxn Incredible work! Well done and get we soon. I‘ve loved having you with us on the skeleton crew 5d
Bookwormjillk Sorry about the shingles. That‘s a tough one. 5d
Seabreeze_Reader Well done. 🎃💀 Hope you feel better soon. 3d
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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles | Simon Winchester
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March was another excellent reading month for me. I read 4 Jane Harper books for #authoramonth, 3 of which are also for #serieslove2024. I read 4 books for #SouthKorea #foodandlit (5 when I finish the tagged book—I couldn‘t squeeze it in for March) and 5 for #readingOceania (Pacific worked for two challenges). XOXO worked for the ever-difficult #letterX for #litsyatoz @Soubhiville @Catsandbooks @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Librarybelle Awesome job!! 7mo
Catsandbooks That's amazing!! 🎉 👏🏼 💖 7mo
TheSpineView Great job! 7mo
marleed Oh how fun to binge a series in one month! 7mo
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XOXO | Axie Oh
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I‘m going way outside my comfort zone for my next ebook for #SouthKorea but opted for it because it also satisfies the #letterX for #litsyatoz, which is always hard to find. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks This one is on my TBR! 8mo
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Dermot Turing
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A thriller unlike any other I‘ve ever read—because it all was true, with the world at stake. The French created an alliance before WWII, between X (Paris), Y (London, and Z (Warsaw) to share knowledge to break and continue breaking the Enigma cipher each time the Nazis improved it. Breathtaking were the risks taken by the Pole code breakers, the French super-spy, and the German super-spy stealing his country‘s secrets. Truly nerves of steel. ⬇️

Texreader It‘s hard to have complaints about such an amazing book—and they are wholly my own problems. The spies had many names, so it was very hard to keep track of who was who. And the author, Alan Turing‘s nephew, is clearly brilliant explaining in detail how each iteration of the Enigma machines worked and how each time the code-breakers broke them, sometimes with cardboard mock-ups of the machines. I couldn‘t follow the technical details to save my ⬇️ 12mo
Texreader life. But I just took it all in stride because the real-life story going on was so awe-inspiring. Strongly recommended. #litsyatoz #scarathlonatoz #LetterX #scarathlon @Catsandbooks (edited) 12mo
AlaMich This is very up my alley at the moment. I just finished a book about deciphering the Rosetta Stone. Then I went straight to the library and borrowed one about deciphering Linear B. Enigma is basically the same thing. 12mo
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Texreader @AlaMich What was the Rosetta Stone book? I‘d love to read that! 12mo
AlaMich The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone https://a.co/d/jjfSrU1 12mo
Texreader @AlaMich Awesome, thank you! 12mo
AlaMich @Texreader I thought it was fascinating. 12mo
ravenlee @AlaMich what‘s the book about Linear B, please? 12mo
AlaMich @ravenlee I‘m only a few pages into it, but it seems interesting. The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris https://a.co/d/5D46X0z 12mo
ravenlee @AlaMich thank you! 12mo
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Dermot Turing
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#litsyatoz #scarathlonatoz #LetterX #scarathlon @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Yikes! 12mo
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Dermot Turing
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It‘s heartbreaking to know what happened in Poland after the Nazis were defeated. Poland code-breakers were instrumental in breaking the Enigma code, in winning the war, having been in the initial alliance against the Nazis, and then to be occupied by the Soviets. This is just a tiny bit of the horrors suffered by the Poles once the Soviets “saved” them from the Nazis. 😢

#litsyatoz #scarathlonatoz #LetterX #scarathlon @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Awful! 12mo
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Dermot Turing
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I am learning so much from this nonfiction spycraft book we don‘t generally learn about in history class. Again, dumbfounded! The Nazis wanted to poison Alexandria en masse!

#litsyatoz #scarathlonatoz #LetterX #scarathlon @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 😮🤬 12mo
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Dermot Turing
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As sayeth the queen (any Star Wars fans know who said this?):

“So this is how liberty dies. To thunderous applause.”

#litsyatoz #scarathlonatoz #LetterX #scarathlon @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 👍🏼👍🏼 12mo
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Dermot Turing
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Who knew that the British set out to destroy the French Navy during WWII? I didn‘t!

This was in the Port of Oran, Algeria

#litsyatoz #scarathlonatoz #LetterX #scarathlon @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 😮 12mo
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