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mayusteapot

Joined September 2016

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Untitled | Unknown
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I'm reading a collection of Fenno-Hungarian folktales.

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Circe | Madeline Miller
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I've been the laziest of Littens while completing my own manuscript but I did manage to read a few books. Amongst them this one. It was thoroughly enjoyable.

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One of my very fave podcasts (and first I ever listened to) Oh Witch Please started their 3rd and final season today. I was inspired to start a re-listen (it's the Audio book by Stephen Fry 😍😍😍)

If you're into Harry Potter, feminism, pedagogy or all of the above plus hilariously funny women, give the podcast a listen. It will make both your life and the Potter books better 😁😚

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My love of writing was kindled properly by Emily of New Moon and I loved visiting that scenery for the first time in this book. A scenery I've inhabited on page at least once a year since I was 8.

Centique I love that people revisit their favourite books like this. I‘m a huge AOGG fan but I never read Emily of New Moon. I must do that soon. Reading middle grade as an adult is pretty sweet ☺️ 6y
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Meet Me at the Museum | Anne Youngson
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A lovely one-sit read. I love epistolary novels and despite some reservations to consistency the thoughtfulness and subtlety of the book made up for it.

Centique Sounds lovely! 6y
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Arsenic with Austen: A Mystery | Katherine Bolger Hyde
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I'm on #OneStoneIsland, reading this fluffy book to have a break from reality which beckons again on Friday. This book still has to surprise me... but it's relaxing.

Centique What a great spot to read in! 😍 6y
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But as he was a man and an Australian, I did not think it was worth while arguing the matter with him.

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2. My parents are both readers, mum read aloud to us even b4 we were born. Also crappy friends and bullies at school. Books were my friends.

3. All.

4. Emily Byrd Starr, Jean Valjean, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mr Crawford(Mansfield Park), Bertha Rochester(Jane Eyre), Cranford, Samwise Gamgee, Aramis, Snufkin(Moomin books)

#manicmonday @joscho

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Setting off to trek across the world. In my garden. With tea. Without shoes.

Centique I just put this on my TBR after listening to the Reading Envy podcast. Have you listened to that before? This book is on episode 200. 6y
mayusteapot @Centique I haven't. I think I saw it on Instagram or Goodreads suggested it to me. It's soooo lovely!! Atlases and islands are a theme in my own manuscript and I'm justifying this as background reading 🙄 6y
Centique @mayusteapot very cool! I‘m writing a book too. I keep going down wormholes about horses and farming and biotech though 😂🤣 Maps are far cooler! 6y
mayusteapot @Centique as you know, grass is always greener and so on 😁 but the book, this atlas that is, is so inspiring that if I weren't already writing on the theme, I might start ☺ it's very poetic 6y
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"I took a sip of the tea, pleased to find it scalding hot and properly strong. I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea."

When I read those lines, I was caught.

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Reading this in accurate environment on our island. Though in Finland. But Sweden's only a short swim away.

Laughing at Wollstonecraft being appalled by the Swedish drinking culture and use of strong spices.

Ooh, just realised that during Wollstonecraft's trip Finland was still part of Sweden... or under Swedish rule. 🤔

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I'm so excited to get back into this world! The first book (The Invisible Library) was a booknerd's dream come true and now I have the rest of the series on my kitchen table.

Do I start now or wait until after work?

Ummm.. totally starting now.

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Sourdough | Robin Sloan
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Really enjoyed this one-sitting read. I dare anyone to read this and not start baking bread 😀

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Invisible Library | Genevieve Cogman
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Setting out on a new adventure!!

A friend swore me into trying this series and the 1st book arrived at the library today.

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Happy International Women's Day! Eat chocolate (if you like chocolate), drink tea/wine/coffee/gin/whisky and be brave!

This has become my morning read. It's entertaining and whets the appetite to learn more about these women.

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The Book of Tea | Kakuzo Okakura
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There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealisation. Western humorists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thought with its aroma. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.

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Really looking forward to getting to read this finally!

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Hot water bottle Hedwig, this book and I will stay on the couch today as it's REALLY cold out (-20C/-4F). It's actually pretty chilly inside as well...

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Truly Devious: A Mystery | Maureen Johnson
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I feel ya, Leonard. Kinda how I feel about 2014.

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Truly Devious: A Mystery | Maureen Johnson
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This is one of those "just one more chapter" books... Luckily the cat has gone asleep on my legs and gives me an excuse to stay on the sofa and read.

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"Maybe Godwin [...] could teach her the rules of syntax -- an unlikely foundation for romance, perhaps, but for Mary, there could be few more intimate exchanges. She wrote to reveal herself to the world; commas, sentences, and paragraphs were the only tools she had. Years earlier she had begun her passionate friendships with both Fanny Blood and Jane Arden by asking them to correct her grammar."

Mary Wollstonecraft = my fave nerd ???

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"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you on to another book, and another bit there will lead you on to a third book. It's geometrically progressive -- all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."

Centique What a great photo! 6y
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DID YOU SEE? DID YOU SEE? My favourite book is being turned into a film and the trailer is here and looks amaze!!

https://youtu.be/HTDNGv61-Dk

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The Book of Forgotten Authors | Christopher Fowler
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I feel like I'm reading a prophesy, and this would probably be the good case scenario. I'm also wreaking havoc on my TBR by reading a book that's going to send me in so many new directions -- but, let's face it, I was never going to get to the bottom of my TBR, who could?

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Wheeeee! I haven't been able to afford many (any) books last year so now that I can afford a few I finally got my own copy of Middlemarch😍😍😍, van Gogh's letters, and... yeah... too many books, macaroni for dinner. But at least I get to read great books while eating it!🤗🤔😒

#bookhaul

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I'd have loved to do the #riotgrams challenge here but every time I try to add an image, the app crashes 🙁 so all my lovely pics are on Instagram. The spine poetry was really successful!

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😍😂😍😂😍this book is just so squelably excellent! I'm fangirling every last bit of it!

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Got this book from the library today, thought I'd just read a few pages, haven't been able to put it down since. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😙😙😙😙😙😙😙😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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I always read several books at a time but I'm spending my morning tea with an alternating Mary. I just left Mary Wollstonecraft in revolutionary Paris being stalked by her future lover and tomorrow I get to rescue Mary Godwin (later Shelley) from off-season Bath where she's working on Frankenstein. #riotgrams #currentread @bookriot

Linsy Love it! 👊 (edited) 7y
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Decided to give some #shelfie #RiotGrams love to my kitchen bookshelves. Mostly library books but some long standing breakfast reads are on there too.

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Am going to take part in this one also here on Litsy this time.

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Untitled | Unknown

😣😣😣😣

I might have just ordered four books online. Before 8 am.

😍😍😍😍

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😍😢😭😭😍😢😍😢😭😭😍😢😍😭

all the feels. reading how the issues of feminism are the same as we have today and how ~230 years ago Mary Wollstonecraft declared women's rights and the opposition still uses the same arguments today and... I just... can't. it's hard to read when it all goes blurry... and I know this, actively, but it's just so powerful to read about it...

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On one of their visits, they scratched their initials into a windowpane with a diamond ring, never dreaming that one day Mary would have fans who would travel thousands of miles to see her wobbly MWG; the cottage became a pilgrimage site until the window was stolen from the house in the 1970s.

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I really loved this book and the author's style of narrating. I only wish she had all the time in the world to traipse across the world recording funeral customs everywhere.

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Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor
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This book has been love from the first sentence!

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Everyone should read Tove Jansson. If you ever read just one book by her, let it be this collection of short stories. One of those classics that never grows old and is as wonderful for a kid as for an adult, yet in a different way.

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My library spoils me by fulfilling all my acquisition requests.

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North and South: Easyread Edition | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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One of my favourite podcasts Bonnets at Dawn is doing a group read of N&S. Got this from the library earlier today.

The book seems to be the exact same copy I borrowed and read 12 years ago... I hope it'll survive one more read.

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Uprooted | Naomi Novik
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You know those books that make you forget to eat and just sleep enough that your brain is again capable of understanding words? Yeeeeeah... this is one of those.

Caution: will cast a spell over you.
Safety recommendation: read as soon as you possibly can.

Honestly, one of the best books I've read this year (and I've read some bloody good books thus year).

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Uprooted | Naomi Novik
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"He pushed himself up, kicking his legs free from mine, and getting to his feet stared down at me, outraged as a cat."

?????????????

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High Wages | Dorothy Whipple, Jane Brocket
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Omg this book is so good. I dare you to put it down after page three.

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The Vintage Teacup Club | Vanessa Greene
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I was actually very positively surprised by this book. True, it was clumsy at times, but I really loved how it concentrated on the friendship btw the main characters rather than their individual love lives. I like an occasional happy ending and this book left me smiling.

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The Vintage Teacup Club | Vanessa Greene
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I dunno guys... I'm bored already 60 pages in... I'll give it 100. But it's just so ridiculously full of cliches. Like, more than normal. And it's hard to distinguish the three protagonists... ... ...

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The Witchwood Crown | Tad Williams
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So this book was totally awesome. I loved how it embraced the old characters and built upon the Norn storyline. And I didn't expect to be wowed, but I totally was. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 The only problem is that Tad' s books are way too short. Luckily it's a trilogy!

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Took me 14 years to get to this book. I bought it from Hay-on-Wye on my first visit May 2003. The tales are well-told sugar-coated Greek myths. Wouldn't read to a child because girls are all vain and weak and mischievous and rather redundant while boys are heroic. But it worked as a refresher for Greek mythology.

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"... the whole chamber seemed as it usually did - as though a horde of crack-brained peddlers had set up shop and then made a hasty retreat during a wild windstorm. [...] and everywhere books, books, books, dropped half-way open or propped upright here and there about the chamber like huge, clumsy butterflies."

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