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Sailing to Sarantium
Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic | Guy Gavriel Kay
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Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive-and unexpectedly discovers it high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.
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xicanti
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THIS BOOK, Y‘ALL. It gets more magnificent every time I reread it.

Catsandbooks Your doggie is so cute!! 💕 3y
xicanti @Catsandbooks his little face gets me every time! 3y
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Nutmegnc
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@xicanti made me do it! I last read this in print a million years ago...can‘t wait to listen this time!! With $3.99 ebook, the audio is $7.49–which is cheaper than just buying the audiobook. [Which people of a certain age can relate—I still call “book tapes” in my head!]

xicanti Excellent purchase! 3y
Nutmegnc @xicanti 😍😍😍 3y
BkClubCare Two of my penpals 😍📝📬 3y
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xicanti
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I‘m back to rereading faves. It‘s been eleven years since I last read SAILING TO SARANTIUM and I‘m so frickin excited to revisit it.

Nutmegnc That book was sooo goood. 3y
xicanti @Nutmegnc it‘s one of my very favourites. 3y
DrexEdit Sorry, off topic, is that LIFE cereal? 😊it‘s my fave! 👍 3y
xicanti @DrexEdit it is! I buy it whenever it goes on sale. 3y
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xicanti
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1. I don't usually plan my reading too far ahead, but I like to revisit faves in April and it could be time to reread the Sarantine Mosaic.
2. Nah, but the local kids started theirs today.
3. Hollyhocks.
4. If we're talking Jelly Belly: jelly beans. If we're talking those big jelly beans where the only flavour you get is generally sweet: chocolate eggs.

#ManicMonday @JoScho

JoScho I will have to look up hollyhocks. 6y
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Jabberwocky
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I‘m not usually an energy drink person, but I‘m working a long night shift today so I thought it might be best. This book is stunning by the way- loosely based on early Constantinople, Kay is able to play with history and the mid Roman Empire in a way I find breath taking and fascinating.

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Jabberwocky
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Happy thanksgiving to My American littens! Wishing I was home with a book today and a big family dinner. Alas, it‘s a regular working Thursday and I‘ll be spending another 5 hours at the hospital afterwards. It‘s been work, hospital, sleep since Sunday. I‘m exhausted but so beyond grateful for the love and support from all of you here. 💛🐡

cobwebmoth Hope you can get some rest soon! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I hope you get rest and that she gets better soon!! 😘💕 Sorry y‘all didn‘t get to go home 😪 6y
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Jabberwocky
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So, another night in the hospital for my partner. But, if she stays stable until noon tomorrow she‘s clear to come home! Also this gelato is adorable and made in #yyc! 🍦

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I hope she does!!! I‘m sorry y‘all have had such a bad week... 😔 xxxx 6y
cobwebmoth The gelato looks yummy! I hope she's ok to go home tomorrow. Hugs to you both! 6y
jfalkens I hope she's able to come home soon and is feeling better xxxxx 6y
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ReadingSusan Oh no! Sorry to hear this. I hope she gets to come home soon. 6y
Cinfhen Hope you get good news tomorrow - for now enjoy the gelato! 6y
Dragon Fingers crossed 🤞 that she gets to go home! And that sorbetto looks yummy. 6y
Jabberwocky @Dragon @Cinfhen @ReadingSusan @jfalkens @cobwebmoth @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you all so much for the love, I‘ve needed it so much. I‘m hoping just as much as you all that she‘s home tomorrow. 💛💛💛 6y
AmyG Hope she can come home for Thanksgiving. ❤️ 6y
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Jabberwocky
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You know what goes well together? CFS/Fibro and spending hours hunched over a hospital chair. Bring on the fibro fog, bring on the body pain. Side note, I‘m sorry if my last few posts are kind of whiny but I love litsy and I feel like it‘s my safest place to vent/ exist/ be. #fibrofog #chronicpain

cobwebmoth Aw, I hope things improve soon. Gentle hugs to you. 6y
Jabberwocky @cobwebmoth Thank you friend. 6y
LeahBergen Take care of yourself. ❤️ 6y
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CouronneDhiver Thinking of you both 🙏🏽 6y
Eyelit 💜💜💜 6y
tournevis I share the pain amd fog! Spoonies unite! 6y
Jabberwocky @tournevis She asked me to bring her a new book today and I managed to bring 3 books that she‘s already read. 😅 Go fog! @LeahBergen @Eyelit Thank you all (edited) 6y
tournevis @Jaberwocky I hate when that happens. For me, words dissapear. All I want to say are in my head, but they die on their way to my mouth. Luckily, they don't on their way to my fingers, so even if those hurt, I can do some work or communicate some. #spoonies 6y
Jabberwocky @tournevis That sounds really difficult. For me my memory goes. I don‘t know where keys are, where parking passes go, that kind of thing. I‘m totally spoonless this week. 6y
tournevis @Jaberwocky I get you. I was essentially spoonless last week. I've spoken to my doc about this, because I've been worse since Septembre. 6y
BookishTrish Take care, sweet @Jaberwocky and vent here anytime! 6y
SconsinBookyBadger Sending lots of hugs to you and your partner 🤗 6y
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Jabberwocky
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Thank you to everyone for your love! ? The fiancé will probably have to stay again tonight, but she‘s stable now and responding well to treatment. #litsylove #litsyfamily

TheKidUpstairs Diabetes sucks. Glad to hear she's stable and hope she's out of there and you guys can be home together soon! 6y
LeahBergen ❤️❤️ 6y
DebinHawaii Glad she is stable and doing better. Hugs💜💜 6y
AmyG Oh my. Hope she is well soon. 6y
Jabberwocky @TheKidUpstairs @DebinHawaii @AmyG @LeahBergen thank you all friends. Things are better today 💛💛💛 6y
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Jabberwocky
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Not how I had planned on spending my Sunday. Thank god for books as distraction. Fucking diabetes. 🚑🏥

DogEaredBooks ❤️❤️ and hugs! (edited) 6y
Bambolina_81 Oh no, I hope you feel better soon. Please take care and rest up c 6y
Jabberwocky @Bambolina_81 @DogEaredBooks thank you friends, it‘s actually my spouse which is like a million times scarier 6y
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Bambolina_81 @Jaberwocky it's awful when you aren't in control and have to watch your loved one go through it. Hugs and best wishes to you both x 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So sorry!!! I hope y‘all are feeling better soon 😘❤️ 6y
CouronneDhiver Thinking of you both! 😘 6y
cobwebmoth Sending positive thoughts to you both! 6y
LeahBergen Hugs. ❤️ 6y
Jabberwocky @cobwebmoth @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @CouronneDhiver @LeahBergen Thank you so much friends. She had to stay the night but I‘m hoping she can come home tonight. 💛 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Jaberwocky I hope so too!!! ❤️ 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks How are y‘all? 6y
Jabberwocky @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks she‘s stable now, they‘ve got her sugars mostly under control, but they are thinking they‘ll have to keep her another night 6y
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Jabberwocky
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For the most part I in no way shape or form miss taking the train to school everyday for half an hour each direction. What I do miss though is how a commute like that carves out the perfect time to be alone with a book. ❄️🚂

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Jabberwocky
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And so a new adventure begins. #firstpage

monalyisha 💖💖💖 6y
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msflewell
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Thoroughly enjoyable.

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Mehso-so

I enjoyed it a lot, especially Kay's ability to incorporate religion into his world. I had some issues with how Kay portrays women - they were some of my favorite characters but seemed to be mostly there for the men in the book to lust after.

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nanoauthor
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Spent the afternoon reading in the park. California's treating me well!

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nanoauthor
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A bit of reading while on the plane to Philly today. Last bit of traveling for a while. (And probably last bit of just for fun reading, at least until I settle into my schedule this semester.)

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nanoauthor
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This morning's reading, featuring local fluffball and reading distraction Delilah

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Jessicav
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Guy Kay has got to be my favourite in the stack. And the Atwood is obligatory. Us Canadians have an interesting relationship to Atwood as an author that I don't think translates to foreign audiences. Great idea @Liberty

Kammbia1 Guy Gavriel Kay has become one of favorite authors. I've read 5 of his novels over the past couple of years. Enjoy this book! 5y
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