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📚 In a Sunburned Country
📽 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
🎶 I'm On My Way - The Proclaimers

#ManicMonday @JoScho

This is what used book stores are all about - chancing upon a book you never knew existed, but simply must have because it resonates with you.
I grew up very close to The Mount, Wharton‘s home in Lenox, MA. They reprinted this, her account of a Mediterranean cruise written when she was 23, along with new photos taken especially for this edition. It‘s some of her earliest writing, and it‘s gorgeous. Proceeds went to The Mount restoration.
❤️❤️❤️

Nonesuch, MI once prosperous between 1867-1912 became a #ghostown when it‘s copper mine closed for the fifth and final time.

📖Tagging this book since the abandoned Nonesuch copper mine is within the Porcupine Mountains State Park.

#MOvember @Cinfhen

#weeklyforecast

This weeks #libraryhaul and a bit. (The Dickens is from the shelf)

For Dad - The Search for the Sydney - The Oregon Trail
For Kid - Trapped! - the last one in the Framed series

For me - Human Voices - been on my TBR for a dozen years. It won the Booker in 1979. And getting back to Our Mutual Friend which I‘d put aside for more urgent reads. Fingers crossed I can get back into the groove without having to restart 🤞

Day off reading spot #4. Different library, different chair - still just as comfortable! I've finished my first book of the day (The Alcatraz Escape by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman), and now I'm moving on to the tagged book.

I really like the way Douglas Adams tells stories. And I like animals. So this book was good.

🎶I want to be where the sun warms the sky
When it's time for siesta you can watch them go by
Beautiful faces, no cares in this world
Where a girl loves a boy, and a boy loves a girl🎶

Though this is not #laislabonita per se, this is a beautiful island with great memories: Negril, Jamaica with its crystal clear bays

#movember
@Cinfhen

This was a charity shop purchase and has been on my TBR shelf for a year or so.... I *will* get round to reading it sometime....

#laislabonita
#Movember

The only book in a very long time that I‘ve genuinely bought by accident. I was looking for a book for a photo challenge prompt, and well, that one click malarkey‘s a dangerous thing!

Anyway, started it this afternoon and am really glad I got it. I think the first ‘grown up‘ books I ever read were Clare Francis‘s stories of sailing round the world, then solo round Britain. So the latest in a long-running theme!

#nfnov @rsteve388 @Clwojick

#NFNov It looks at marriage in different cultures. Piazza visits different places to understand what makes a marriage work and what doesn‘t. She tries to look objectively without letting her preconceptions come in the way. The best advice is from Michelle Obama, “If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don‘t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.”