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MrsMalaprop
Salonika Burning | Gail Jones
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How pretty is this cover? 😍 It belies the content within. I love Gail Jones. Her writing is beautiful, and I was reminded this week that she is Western Australian. Quality #ozfiction

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Auntynanny
Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault
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I'd never read a novel about Alexander the Great before this. I quite enjoyed it. This is the first in a trilogy, so it mainly dealt with his early life. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.

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Lucy_Anywhere
Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault
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#TBRPile 📚 “The child was awakened by the knotting of the snake‘s coils about his waist.”

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ReadingEnvy
Spare Life | Lidija Dimkovska
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Reading Envy Podcast Episode 228:
Full of Secrets with Audrey Morris @DreesReads

Audrey Morris, one of the people I chat with most in Instagram about books and baking, joins me to talk books. She also shares some award lists that have her looking forward to the next few months.

Listen and subscribe:
https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy228

Reggie So I haven‘t read Cutting for Stone but at least read his first memoir, My Own Country, which is about him living in rural Tennessee and being a new Dr. when HIV was first showing up. It‘s pretty good. Great show. 3y
ReadingEnvy @Reggie oh I didn't know he'd written more, good to know. 3y
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ReadingEnvy
Spare Life | Lidija Dimkovska
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This rather long novel is the story of twin sisters who were born conjoined at the head. It's also the story of Yugoslavia, Macedonia, and the split of the country through war, religious, and political change. The author tries to use the sisters to speak metaphorically about the region, and it wasn't too obtuse to grasp, even in translation. The very long chapters cover specific time periods for the sisters.

Cinfhen Sounds interesting 3y
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ReadingEnvy
Spare Life | Lidija Dimkovska
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Whoops to the editor

Texreader Oops. An old man gate…. I‘m trying to picture that! 😁 3y
Ruthiella I‘ve just finished a book where a woman‘s wedding dress was white and then two pages later green. In another book, a character lives in a three bedroom house and the in a couple of chapters, it‘s an apartment. 😬 3y
ReadingEnvy @Ruthiella wow that's not even an editor issue, that's just bad writing in general 3y
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ReadingEnvy @Texreader I imagine he's grumpy for sure. 3y
saresmoore I‘m picturing Carl‘s white picket fence from the movie, Up. 😆 3y
ReadingEnvy @saresmoore perfect lol 3y
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SkeletonKey
Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault
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Reading in bed.

I‘d love to take a nice photo of the book but they REALLY DO NOT WANT YOU TO FORGET THAT IT‘S AN INTERLIBRARY LOAN!

I‘m starting the Alexander the Great trilogy.

#historicalnovel

Crazeedi I hate when they do that 4y
SkeletonKey @Crazeedi - Me too! 4y
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STORYBOOK-CAFE
The Virtues of War | Steven Pressfield
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I am an Alexander the Great admirer, and love reading about his adventures. This is a wonderful, way to read about Alexander and where he went, who he fought, and even what he may have thought. Pressfield (always) does a splendid job with historical fiction - enough fact to make it believable but the reader still comprehends that this IS fiction. I recommend wholeheartedly. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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arielmonsen
Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault
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read in january 2021