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A farmer‘s wife living in England begins a relationship with a museum curator in Denmark by way of exchanging letters and emails. I thought this was a charming and thoughtful little tale. It‘s well written and very engaging. I enjoy epistolary type of books and this one fitted the bill exactly. I read this for my local book group where we all chose two of our favourites and then picked one or more of the ones we hadn‘t read. An enjoyable read.

Aims42 Oooo, this sounds right up my alley! Stacked! 🤩 13h

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Nessavamusic

Bingo! | Rosemary Wells

Here is my #bookspinbingo board for my #SeptemberTBR

My #bookspin pick is Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
My #doublespin pick is Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

I am also continuing to work on my physical TBR with #roll100

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 16h

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kezzlou85

The Lost Letters of William Woolf | Helen Cullen

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This was an interesting premise and a nice story but it didn't draw me in like I'd hoped. It struggled to hold my attention and I enjoyed the other letter mysteries he solved more. The ending was right for the book but it also felt a little rushed. I would have liked to have seen more with him and Clare at the end. That being said it was still a good read. #Netgalley 3*

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VanessaCW

Meet Me at the Museum | Anne Youngson

My local book club have decided the theme this time is for us each pick and submit two of our favourite books, and then read as many of the ones we haven‘t read as we want to. Next time we meet up (24 September) we have to let the club know what we thought of them. Hope that makes sense! ‘Meet Me at the Museum‘ is the second on my list. It‘s a library book.

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

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The coffee table book format may suggest a shallow read, but there's an awful lot of information packed in here! Although it acts more like an appetizer for any one life story you might want to read more about, so many of the original journals, diaries, featured here have been published in book or excerpt form that it simultaneously acts as an introduction and a reading list. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Perhaps reflecting the changing technology, moving from handwriting to typing and online, three quarters of the book focuses on accounts from before 1900. Even given that much space, of course, it's no doubt just a sample of a fraction of what is out there in the world, though it tries to feature a number of nations, cultures, languages, even if it seems to me there were more white, western faces. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? The accounts are careful to indicate the wrongdoings of a number of historical figures, even if their place in history still secured them a spot for discussion. 😑
The formatting is interesting because you'll see in images a sample of the diary, perhaps other examples of that person's work or things from their life, and a bit of in context imagery and wording besides the basic bio and what's significant about the diary and their life. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Some diaries get two two-page spreads, the second set 'in detail', with more aspects of the journal and their life.
The 'directory' at the end of each section of time covered felt a bit odd, because all of a sudden you'd get a two-page spread of columns of text covering a handful of extra diaries from the same time period without any further visuals or details. I mean, if you're going to include them, give them the page spread too! 3w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? It wouldn't have made the book that much longer. 🤷🏼‍♂️
It makes sense that a good number of the entries are about writers, though I guess from the cover, I was surprised there were not more artists, or people who had made their diaries into art objects. It's really more of a who's who beyond the very first journals which are significant just for their place in the timeline of the medium's existence. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? No surprise, unfortunately, that a number of diaries center on those who experienced or commented on conflicts, wars and revolutions, considering how often they feature in humanity's history.
The collection does include a fair amount of female contributors, the percentages feel as though they represent the timeline, the historical disparity in women having the ability to be recognized for literary achievement or work outside the home. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 It's a pleasing item to flip through, but if you're planning to read it cover to cover, I recommend taking it slow, it's an awful lot of disparate historical snippets to cram into your brain in a short period *cough* library loan period *cough*, though many figures and events will be familiar.
An interesting read, but I think I like focusing more on the life of one individual at a time. More memoirs to come! 3w

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

Such elegant phrasing of such an ugly thing.

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

“Color possess me...“ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

Not just a prolific inventor, Edison apparently possessed stylish penmanship. A lot of photos of pages from the original journals or their manuscript copies in this collection, this is the first one in I could easily read.

StaceGhost “Slept as sound as a bug in a barrel of morphine” okay eddy you ball 3w

julesG That is remarkable penmanship. 3w

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