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Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game | Peter Hopkirk

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Excellent companion piece to one of my favourite books.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578213655

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Anna40

To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account | Saul Bellow

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I expected more of a travel rather than a political book but perhaps it is impossible to write about Israel without focusing on politics. It‘s shocking how current To Jerusalem and back is: left wing antisemitism was the same 50 years ago, so was the accusation that Israelis are colonialists, also Israel was and still is held to a higher moral standard than any other country and no other nation‘s right to exist is questioned. The book is outdated

Anna40 because times have changed. Many of the people Bellow met during his Israel visit are no longer alive, there have been more wars, Rabin was assassinated, more peace talks and October 7. It is ok even hip and cool today to say F..k Israel. Where are we headed from here? Peace is the only solution but will it stop the hate? People are concerned about dead children but taking hostages and killing civilians in their sleep is ok? Because those crimes 1d

Anna40 are committed by freedom fighters? I don‘t know what will happen. But I don‘t think the hate and antisemitism will ever end, it will only get worse. 1d

shortsarahrose Yes, the murder of 1200 people and hostage-taking of 250 more by Hamas is wrong, but I don‘t understand how that justifies broad attacks on Gaza that have killed 50k people, the displacement of 1.9 million people (over 90% of the population), and now an ongoing blockade creating an entirely manmade famine. 1d

Anna40 @shortsarahrose I never said the killing is justified. You‘re putting words in my mouth I never wrote. I said peace is the only solution. And I will add here that do not understand how anyone can see Hamas as freedom fighters. 1d

shortsarahrose Fair enough. Perhaps I misunderstood, but the wording made it sound like the two were equivalent. I‘m just saying that they‘re not. 1d

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booklover3258

Cats of the World | Andrew Marttila, Hannah Shaw

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Beautiful and stunning photos of cats from around the world.

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

https://youtube.com/shorts/dOOivltXvu8?feature=share

Enjoy!

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Susanita

Road Fever | Tim Cahill

1. Trivia last night didn‘t earn us any prizes, but I got a book recommendation.
2. I created my list of 14 books and in the process streamlined my StoryGraph tags.
3. Last Friday: program on aging which included a cooking demo, peonies seen during my walk at the lake, town hall with my congresswoman.
4. She liked my USNA shirt. Annapolis is part of the district as well as where she lives.
5. Cookout on Saturday. More in comments.
#5joysfriday

DebinHawaii

Susanita Because I needed to make a dish to take to the cookout, I missed another local event that turned unexpectedly exciting due to a fire at a food vendor. Then someone tried to drive down the closed street because they had to get to work but instead got arrested. 3d

Aims42 Omg, all that happened at one local event?? 😳😆 3d

Susanita IKR?! 3d

dabbe 💙💚💙 2d

mcctrish I laughed out loud but seriously oh my gosh 2d

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JuliaTheBookNerd

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon | David Grann

#SetInSoAmerica 🇧🇷 🇵🇪 🇪🇨 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇬🇫 🇸🇷 🇬🇾

#Bibliophile 🎧💌❤️📚🤓📖🐛

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3d

KCofKaysville @JuliaTheBookNerd I really liked it too. There is a movie of it also but that was not so great as I recall. 3d

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peanutnine

Less: A Novel | Andrew Sean Greer

#Bibliophile #PulitzerWinner
I heard this author speak at a book event a couple years ago and have been meaning to read his book. I own them both... on Mount TBR

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Oh I enjoyed this book! Didn‘t know there was a second one! 4d

nanuska_153 I didn't know there was a sequel! I loved the first one! 3d

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BooksandCoffee4Me

Untitled | Untitled

If I ever get to NY, the Library Hotel would be where I‘d like to stay! Anyone been there? #libraryhotel #travel #newyork

Leftcoastzen A friend of mine stayed there and really liked it ! I‘m thinking of going there when I go back there , who knows when! 5d

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