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NovelNancyM
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Another beautifully written novel by Elif Shafak. Humanity is united by water as this story illustrates in the telling of Arthur who lives near the River Thames in the 1840s, Narin who lives by the River Tigris in 2014, Zaleekhah who lives in a houseboat on the River Thames in 2018.

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VanessaCW
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I loved this one. It‘s about how one drop of water can connect us. It‘s told via the unique voices of three people. Arthur who born very near the Thames, Narin who lives near the Tigris and Zaleekah who is renting a houseboat on the Thames. Beautifully written and very moving at times, I was very immersed in these characters‘ lives and found it a page turner.

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LiseWorks
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2w
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VanessaCW
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A library book. I loved The Island of Missing Trees by this author so looking forward to this one.

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CSeydel
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#bookspin and #doublespin

I probably (ok, DEFINITELY) won‘t finish both of these in May since I still have my April pick, The Ghost Map, to read. But they‘re in the queue!

TheBookHippie I enjoyed the Dinosaur book very much. 3w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic!! 3w
quietlycuriouskate The dinosaur book is brilliant. 3w
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TieDyeDude
Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers | John J. Palmer, Colin Kaminski
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#tuesdaytunes

I am not at all current on pop music, which really hampers our bar trivia performance. Our trivia host gives weekly hints, and they were having a category on Coachella, so I did some research before, and, not only did I learn about an excellent song and artist, but it was a trivia question (we still came in 5th, but I got that question right 😜)

https://youtu.be/XoiOOiuH8iI?si=_miU_VdmijFkf-YF

TheBookHippie Yay for getting a question right! 1mo
Kitta Great song! 1mo
lil1inblue I am never current on music, either. Thanks for sharing this - I dig the song. 1mo
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bekakins
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#roll100 another absolutely beautiful novel from Elif Shafa - she has such a talent for description and drawing you into the lives of her characters. Heartbreaking that so much of this is based on true events.

PuddleJumper Beautiful cover! 1mo
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kspenmoll
Twenty Poems | Anna Andreevena Akhmatova
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#NationalPoetryMonth #April #day18 #water #AprilPoetryChallenge
These poems were translated by Jane Kenyon with Vera Sandomirsky Dunham in 1985. They are included in her book, Collected Poems, which is how I was introduced to this Russian poet.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova

BooksandCoffee4Me Ah, someone else who knows and appreciates Akhmatova‘s poetry! Last year when I was teaching adult Ed English language learners, one of my students from Russia read one of Akhmatova‘s poems with me for the class, I reading in English and he reading stanzas then in Russian. 1mo
dabbe 💙🩵💙 1mo
quietlycuriouskate @BooksandCoffee4Me I am haunted by the one with the line about the miraculous being so close to the ruined houses. 1mo
wanderinglynn Love! And thank you for introducing me to a new (to me) poet. 1mo
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dabbe
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Leftcoastzen Nice ! 1mo
Texreader Excellent!! 1mo
dabbe @Leftcoastzen TY! 💙🩵💙 1mo
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dabbe @Texreader TY! 💙🩵💙 1mo
BooksandCoffee4Me That last line. 💛 1mo
dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me TY! 💙🩵💙 1mo
wanderinglynn Fantastic! 💙💙💙 1mo
kspenmoll Just love your poems! 1mo
dabbe @wanderinglynn TY! And thanks again for hosting this! It has made my April much more meaningful! 🩵💙🩵 1mo
dabbe @kspenmoll TY! You just made my day! 🩵💙🩵 1mo
wanderinglynn I‘m so glad you‘ve enjoyed it! 1mo
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dabbe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
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If you want to hear the audio from the ANCIENT MARINER BIG READ, where even Iggy Pop reads a stanza, here is the link:
https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/1

TheSpineView Awesome! 1mo
dabbe @TheSpineView I don't like that it turned out blurry, but, hey, it works! 😍 1mo
TheSpineView @dabbe It worked. I read all of Coleridge's work in college in a romantic lit. Class. It brings back memories! 1mo
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TheBookHippie Oh gosh this bring me back 😂 1mo
dabbe @TheSpineView Hopefully happy ones! 😍 1mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie IKR? This is basically the only part I remembered! 😍 1mo
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