#Fairyelfpixie
#Charactercharm
@eggs
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#Nurse
#CharacterCharm
Dress up costume made by my Aunty Jean many moons ago
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#elderly
Callie aged 16 years
#charactercharm
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This just arrived in today‘s mail!
#FirstlineFridays
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#scientist
#Charactercharm
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#seamstress
#Charactercharm
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One of my favourite writers

#spy
#Charactercharm
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Somewhere in New South Wales
#WhereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

#King
Also showcasing my Windsor Castle bookends
#Charactercharm
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#motherandchild
#charactercharm
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My daughter at the Palace in March 2020 just before she had to fly home because…..
#Charactercharm
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Just realised that autocorrect had changed it to ‘character harm‘ - a future category?

A faint smear of rosy brightness hangs out in the west- a September haar, sea mist reflecting the sunrise.
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@AmyG not sure if this is same one? I visited it in 2023....

In Biloxi MS in the late 1990s.
We visited Biloxi in 2018, so it‘s interesting to have some local context.
#WhereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Only an idiot would travel without a book.

A great opening line!

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Back in my home state -Tassie
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The age of humans will pass.

Started this one as an library audio loan, but finished as a library book loan. Fascinating learning about the duck women of Vega.
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In London about to go to a lavish garden party on an estate in the countryside.
#WhereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

I wake up on houseboat wearing a trilby.

A street library find!
#FirstLineFridays
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Popped over to beautiful Bruny Island for a couple of nights. Surprised to see so many tourists in the middle of winter.
They have 6 little libraries on the island, made by the Men's Shed. I've visited 5 and will swing by no.6 on the way to the ferry.

Breakfast with a view on Bruny Island

At Mansfield Park in Northamptonshire
#WhereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

The marine layer was as thick as cotton and had formed a thousand-foot wall that shrouded the enter to the harbour.

I have jumped about 10 Connellys on my TBR but this is a new series, and a library express loan!
#firstlineFridays
 @ShyBookOwl

I enjoyed this read, including a glimpse of the irascible Vera's family history. Though I would have liked a map to track the action as Vera criss-crossed the countryside!

In Ghent, Belgium
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Frankly, Olive was a bit on the fence about this whole grad school thing.
#FirstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

The knife teetered atop the bag of chicken pellets, feathers dancing along the length of the blade like yellowing snowflakes.
Maybe one of the most unique first lines!

#FirstLineFridays
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#librarylove

The knife teetered atop the bag of chicken pellets, feathers dancing along the length of the blade like yellowing snowflakes.
Maybe one of the most unique first lines!

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
#librarylove

Back in my home state, a fictional town called Beggar Rocks (which has a strong resemblance to Stanley including the home of Tassie's only Prime Minister and The Nut)

And it has a map!

#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Bitch.
#FirstLineFridays
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1 - draughts; hide and seek
2 To Kill A Mockingbird
#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

‘In a remote valley lying between the mountains of south-west Ireland, near the Flesk river of Killarney‘
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Happy Sunday! Another gem from the #HOTAGoldCoast Writers Revealed exhibition - Beatrix Potter

Nora‘s first thought when they brought her the body was that it could not be her husband‘s.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Exquisite, so tiny. Smaller than a Penguin Classic.
@HOTA Gold Coast, on loan from the National Gallery.

Hanging out in US bookstores
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

This book is a Psalter - a Wiradjuri Book of Prayer.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Preparing for a wedding in Baltimore USA.
#whereareyouMonday
@cupcake12

I have to confess I'm not 100% sure where in the US Baltimore is, but I have been to Baltimore, Ireland - a beautiful coastal village.

#bookmail

Rotating about the earth in their spacecraft they are so together, and so alone, that even their thoughts, their internal mythologies, at times convene.
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In an Edinburgh townhouse
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Geraldton - childhood home of Randolph Stow. I was surprised there was so little acknowledgement of his work. But we did find the modern day version of the merry-go-round in the sea.
#bookloversday #AustralianWriters
#writershomes #merrygoroundinthesea

Ryder Carlson stands perfectly still in the shadowed hallway of Clarendon House‘s upper east wing.
And it‘s set in my home state!
#FirstlineFridays
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On a remote Norwegian island preparing for the eider ducks to arrive for nesting
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

Thomas Albert Wrenfether was a man unusually exposed to fortune.
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On a lake on the south coast, NSW
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@Cupcake12

Reading this while heading to the Tropic of Capricorn. Worlds apart!

Arrive finally at about three.
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Guess where?
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The best way to spend election day!
Fingers crossed 🤞