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Cuilin
To Autumn | John Keats
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lil1inblue ❤️🧡🤎 2d
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Cuilin
To Autumn | John Keats
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dabbe Love a stanza a day! 💜🧡🩶 3d
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Cuilin
To Autumn | John Keats
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#APoemADayIsh #PoetryPals

Monday, Stanza I, Ode to Autumn

@dabbe @lil1inblue

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dabbe An absolute fave of mine. 💜🩶🩷 4d
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OutsmartYourShelf
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Visitors to London, especially those from outside of the UK, who wish to see the remnants of early Victorian London are probably going to be somewhat disappointed, although this is not just a recent thing, As the author argues, the truth is that the London of Dickens's time was already being lost before the end of the Victorian era & his writing was beginning to be thought of as 'old hat' by then too.

OutsmartYourShelf London is most definitely a living palimpsest where the evidence of previous centuries can occasionally be glimpsed through the modern city, but the rookeries & crowded tenements have been erased. In truth there is not much of 'Dickensland' left apart from the survival of an odd coaching inn or two immortalised in Pickwick Papers & the Charles Dickens Museum at Doughty Street where he lived between 1837-1839. 2w
OutsmartYourShelf In fact the most popular sites such as the purported original Old Curiosity Shop or Nancy's Steps are linked with Dickens more by tradition than hard evidence as this book points out. The last chapters deal with Dickens's work adapted for film & TV, especially the musical 'Oliver', & were really interesting too. I do wish I had known of the brief existence of actual tourist attraction 'Dickensland' as I would have liked to 2w
OutsmartYourShelf have visited before it closed but I'd never heard of it before this book. Overall it was a really interesting & informative read & has made me want to dust off my old Dickens books for a re-read at some point. 4🌟

My thanks to #NetGalley & publishers, Yale University Press, for the opportunity to read an ARC. (Catching up on some older ARCs)

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5892506887
Read 13th - 18th Sept 2025
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shanaqui
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As usual with these “fashion in detail“ books, it's beautifully illustrated, and the line drawings are helpful, but arrrghhh please show photos of the whole garment as well as the details!

Clare-Dragonfly Oh, that‘s frustrating! 4w
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lil1inblue
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@jenlovesjt47 - I'm on season 3, episode 3. Had to share a rough haiku because the change in dynamic between these two is hilarious! 🤣

#haikuhive #haikuaday

JenlovesJT47 Ohh how the turn tables!! 😅😅😅 When I tell you, the scream I scrumpt the first time I saw it when Bannister addresses Ada as head of the house 😍😍😍 2mo
lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 And then when they print Ada's name as the donor and not Agnes' - I nearly peed laughing during that scene. 🤣😍🤣 2mo
JenlovesJT47 Ooh so you‘re just now watching these eps for the first time?! Ohhhh you are in for a treat, season 3 is the best so far imo! Can‘t believe there‘s only one episode left this season 😭 BUT luckily they already got renewed for season 4 🤓 2mo
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JenlovesJT47 I watch this show on my kindle so I can rewind certain scenes with ease. This season has had me cackling multiple times! 😅 2mo
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🎬🐝💝. 2mo
TheBookHippie @lil1inblue 🤣🤣🤣🎯 2mo
lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 It's so good! I can't stop watching. 🙃 Oh, and I watch it on my tablet for the same reason. 😅 2mo
JenlovesJT47 Great minds! ☺️ 2mo
dabbe Excellent #haikureview! 🖤🐝🖤 2mo
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kspenmoll
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#libraryfind #coffeeandbooks 1891. Set in NYC & the Berkshires(MA). Pamela Thompson,intelligent,gutsy, & bold,lost everything,is in debt due to her husband‘s bad investments,& resulting suicide.She is hired by her lawyer Prescott, to catch suspecting thieving at Macy jewelry counter.A success,she is placed with the wife of a ruthless robber baron, H.Jennings, to investigate threats to her life.Complicated shenanigans & red herrings go on ⬇️

kspenmoll 🔼 before Mr.J‘s murder. Social issues such as the wide gap between the incredibly wealthy & the unemployed “ tramps”, & lower classes are explored, as well as the utter ruthlessness,lack of empathy & blissful ignorance of the rich. Light pick. #GildedAgeMystety (edited) 2mo
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Bookwomble
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"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
- John Keats to Fanny Brawne

While reading some of Keats' poetry this morning, I was visited by these four butterflies: Speckled Wood (top left); two mating Gatekeepers (top right: I think they were more focused on each other!); and a Large White. And some water lilies ???

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Leftcoastzen Nice! 3mo
AnnCrystal 🦋🤩🦋. 3mo
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RowReads1
Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories | Honor de Balzac, Peter Collier, Patrick Coleman
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