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LeahBergen
Mr Wrong | Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I‘m currently reading my 7th Elizabeth Jane Howard with @shawnmooney and this one is a volume of her short stories. We‘ve been working through her books in publication order (and may even get to the start of The Cazalet Chronicles next year 😆).

Ruthiella I plan at a minimum to read at least one Cazalet Chronicle volume a year. You may finish before I do! I have three more to go. 😆 1d
Tamra I‘ve had Cazalet on my TBR shelf for so long! 😬 I know I‘ll love it too. 1d
LeahBergen @Ruthiella 😆 The first Cazalet book was the very first EJH I bought … and I‘m still waiting to get to it YEARS later. 😆 24h
LeahBergen @Tamra Right? Yeesh. 😆 24h
Tamra Love that cover by the way. 24h
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shanaqui
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Pickpick

I found this surprisingly riveting at times, though some parts are slow. It charts both the census itself and the things it recorded, touching on things like industrialisation, the Highland Clearances, the Potato Famine, emigration, immigration, WWI, WWII... all kinds of things which affected the population of the UK. Also there's a bit on the wider “British Empire“.

Today's reading is getting me off to a good start with #BookSpinBingo!

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mom2bugnbee
May Day | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Didn't share my May stats!

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CarolynM
Linden Rise | Richmal Crompton
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Pickpick

Found this in a 2nd hand bookshop & couldn‘t resist after Family Roundabout. Tilly enters service as a 15 year old in the late C19th and watches as the family she serves grows up and grows old. Unhappy marriages feature again & there is a degree of contempt for the social norms of the monied classes. Tilly has more sense & more empathy than all of her so called betters. I‘ll be looking out for more Richmal Crompton.

Ruthiella Nice edition! 😍 4mo
Leftcoastzen Nice! 4mo
LeahBergen Oh, that‘s a nice edition!! I have a new edition of this and need to get to it! 4mo
Cathythoughts Nice review 👍🏻❤️ and edition. (edited) 4mo
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shanaqui

I'm having to do a first post on some of the books I've started reading concurrently in order for them to show up properly as I can mark them as current reads! The list is just growing and growing and growing... I'm very whim-driven at the moment, just reading a little of multiple books at the same time, and that's fine.

I'm finding this one more interesting than I thought, even while it's still just describing how the census was set up!

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Imagen_leigh
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And now it‘s a classic 🤣

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Imagen_leigh
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Pickpick

This is about the recovery period of Yozu's life after a suicide attempt. He is kept in a sanitarium along the coast while he is healing. During this book, Dazai continously breaks up the story by including chunks of his own dialogue that don't necessarily add to the story, but they make for an interesting read. I haven't ever read anything like this but could definitely read more like this.

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Kristelh
May Day | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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booklover3258
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Bailedbailed

Sad that I wasn't able to finish this book. It was all pictures of his writings/documents and a few photographs. What I did read was boring to me and didn't want to continue.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/QEVL8VF4KbA?feature=share

Enjoy!

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bcncookbookclub
Modern Dutch Design | Silvia Barisione, Jonathan Mogul
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#foodandlit 🇳🇱
Netherlands with mountains and ocean regions have a great variety of food and also have an interesting production of wine. Noorbeek has its winery village and St. Martinus vineyard has ones own pop restaurant.
Continue reading in the post Comer & Beber en Neetherlands, on my blog (in spanish), https://patriciabarbosa.substack.com

Netherlands travel blog , https://www.visitingthedutchcountryside.com

❤️ @Catsandbooks @Texreader

Texreader This is awesome!! Thanks! I‘m trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo so I‘ll see what I can understand on your blog. 8mo
Catsandbooks ❤️🇳🇱 7mo
bcncookbookclub @Texreader OMG! Well-done! Most of the content in my blog is in Spanish, I hope it can help you! I'm trying to improve my conversation in English, so I took part in English-speaking groups here in Barcelona, even in an English choir! It helps me a lot, so I advise you do the same 😉 7mo
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