The author is still in #Australia, so this isn‘t food from #Samoa. Nonetheless I feel compelled to post the dishes eaten in northeastern Australia: flyswisher stew, fried barramundi, snorkers and googs, roast chook. To be honest I haven‘t a clue what these are. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
My family visited a “new” bookstore here in San Antonio with very old books.
A very mini mini story today
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I‘m finally posting my September stats. A good month for me. And the tagged book was my favorite, which was for #whattheDickens
I read 4 Kurt Vonnegut books for #authoramonth,
3 books about #Nicaragua #foodandlit,
1 belated book for #Peru #foodandlit,
2 Louise Penny Three Pines books for #serieslove, &
1 book for work
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My next audiobook. I‘ve enjoyed everything I‘ve read by Octavia Butler. I‘m hoping it continues. #authoramonth @Soubhiville
Awesome book coincidence reading this book for #foodandlit #Samoa and it crossed over into my reading Dracula for #hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
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#TLT #threelistThursday
1) Drácula
2) The Historian
3) Frankenstein / Salem‘s Lot
Nos. 1-2 are my top 2 favorite books regardless of the season
@dabbe
I want to make and send Halloween cards! Any lists I may have missed? Any book swaps? 😊
The next illustration in my book
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew @BookwormAHN @PuddleJumper
I suppose it‘s important to note that in this book, Dracula is called Draculitz
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This book is chock full of illustrations (whose artists each signed this edition). The is the “first” time Harker sees Dracula
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While there are vastly more details in this Swedish version of Dracula, this is the first substantial difference from the original. If you are a Dracula fan, you‘ll understand right away. Spoiler in the comments.
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew @BookwormAHN @PuddleJumper
Love it that the date in my book is so close to today‘s date.
It would be fun to read the chapters now that correspond with the dates. I don‘t think I‘m capable of not continuing reading.
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew @BookwormAHN @PuddleJumper
This is hilarious if true! Australian Littens: is this true?
#foodandlit #Samoa @Catsandbooks
When I posted the first part of this paragraph a short while ago, and I complained about how petty the author had been already in this book, I hadn‘t even finished reading the whole paragraph. And he proves my point! He‘s petty yet again! A period after the word cathedral would have been appropriate. Then he belittles his literary compatriots back home. If this bad attitude doesn‘t end quickly I may bail. #foodandljt #Samoa @Catsandbooks
pickAmy or “Little Dorrit,” so named by main character Arthur Clennam, was born and raised in a debtor‘s prison, Marshalsea. Arthur meets her when he returns home from abroad, visiting his mother, a monstrous woman. Amy is quietly sewing beside his mother. Arthur is quite taken with this girl. Abhorred by this poor child‘s circumstances, he sets out to improve her family‘s lot in life and even manages to do so. But he ends up jeopardizing his own. ⬇️
so-soWhen the author travels around #Nicaragua, the Cold War is still being fought on the ground there. The Soviets funded the Sandinistas and the US funded the Contras. He recounted talking to numerous folks, most supporting the Sandinistas, and told some of the country‘s history. Occasionally he‘d weigh in on his opinions, which I didn‘t feel were well-supported by his narrative. In other words, I would have liked more academic input to support ⬇️
pickThree Pines offers up another dead body. Inspector Gamache and his team, still recovering from events in the last 2 books, solve the crime in this top-notch Penny book. Clara‘s artwork continues to make waves and it‘s the art community that is under the microscope. Not a simple whodunnit, here are many capable culprits. The team must dig deep to find clues, even infiltrating an Alcoholics Anonymous group. I do enjoy my time spent in Three Pines.
The author is hiking in the woods of New Zealand. This would be a lovely quote but for the author‘s pettiness up to this point. He has brutalized the Māori and New Zealanders.
For example: “Others evolved into enormous and complacent specimens, like the spoiled and overfed children I had seen in Auckland…” & “the most terrible aspect … was that the New Zealanders themselves did not seem to know what was happening to them in their decline”
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I recommend this remarkable book. I‘ve read it so many times now I‘ve lost count. I‘ve listened to this Audible version before. It‘s the best.
Ordinary people take on an abhorrent monster, a vampire. It easily could be the origin story of superheroes facing down a ghastly villain.
It feels as if it could have been written a decade or so ago, not 128 years ago.
#HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew ♥️🐈⬛♥️🐈⬛
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It‘s not too late to still sign up for #HauntedShelf! Join the fun!! ♥️🐈⬛♥️🐈⬛
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I‘m getting a little head start on #foodandlit with my first book for #Samoa
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It took four months to finish this chunkster. And I loved it. Review to come. #whattheDickens @Cuilin
Dickens, on Autumn
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
Such fun opening all these cards tonight! I finally gave myself permission to do so as the last of my cards are going out tomorrow. I‘ll send better thank you‘s soon but thank you!!! #fallcardswap @TheBookHippie
The end is near! I love these chapter titles. Dickens, you always make me smile!! #whattheDickens @Cuilin
How many books do you read in a year? This chart tells you what percentile you are in among readers in the USA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/05/how-many-books-did-you-read-2...
Finally, the infamous Jonathan Harker in the English version (on the right) is now Tom Harker in the Swedish version (on the left).
I had read quite a bit 3 years ago but ran out of time to finish it. But I‘d read enough to remember that in the Swedish version, Dracula is very enamored with Naziism and wants to spread vampirism worldwide. Whoever wrote this Swedish version in 1899-1900 was prescient, foreseeing what was to come.
The opening of the English version (on the right) of Dracula is much shorter than the much lengthier Swedish version (on the left). The Swedish version has the initials B.S. (alluding to Bram Stoker?). The English version doesn‘t attribute this paragraph to anyone.
Husband gave me this unusual book knowing I‘m a Dracula aficionado for my birthday 3 years ago. The history of this book is fascinating, and quite different from the more well-known much shorter Icelandic version. This first paragraph explains its origins. It wasn‘t until 2017 that the translator of this version realized the scope of what he‘d found. A much longer version of Dracula, with some differences that shed no light on its author. Did ⬇️
I‘ve gotten quite a few cards out but a lot remain for the #fallcardswap. I promise to get them out when I‘m not so weary after work! @TheBookHippie
And…the book cover comes with pockets! One with a zipper and three for pens, pencils, etc (which were also in my gifts from @Chrissyreadit #fallingforfallswap2025 )!
What book fits perfectly in my new book cover? Yes! These cute kitties are hiding Dracula! And thank heavens. This edition is rare and valuable and I was pondering how to read it while protecting it. @Chrissyreadit Your gift couldn‘t be more timely!! #fallingforfallswap2025
I‘m starting this audiobook tonight so I can be primed to start October and #HauntedShelf ! This is one of my all-time favorite books so I look forward to listening to it. My other motivation for listening to it now is so I can contrast it with the Swedish version of Dracula, which is much longer, tagged in the comments below. @BookwormAHN @PuddleJumper #blackcatcrew 🐈⬛ 🎃
Almost impossible to fit everything into one photo. Thank you @Chrissyreadit for the amazing gifts. You nailed it, and then some. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
It‘s also hard to know where to start but I‘ve already been through the Enchanted Forest twice. It‘s 😮 🤯 🤩!!!
#fallingforfallswap @Avanders
Midnight approves of my book cover from @Chrissyreadit in my #fallingforfallswap 😍
I just opened the box for #fallingforfall and my heart stopped. Look at all these beautifully wrapped presents!!! Can I even open them? @Chrissyreadit @Avanders
I agree with Fanny on one thing: Mr Sparkler will act foolishly
Yes still slogging through this one. I‘m finally going to start skipping the long-winded and irritating dialogs from certain characters to speed this along, such as Mr Dorrit and Mrs General. Whew! But I still love Dickens‘ writing in this one, too. Take this example about Edmund Sparkler!!
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
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