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Started this doorstop of a book today. Rom Chernow is one of my favorite authors. #MarkTwain #history #biography #RonChernow

Mark Twain joined The Quaker City, a ship heading for a tour of Europe, the Mediterranean, & the Middle East. His trip was paid for by the Alta California, in exchange for 50 letters. Many of the Quakers on board were “wounded” by his irreverent take on all things religious. #familieswhoreadtogetherstaytogether #familybuddyread

I did it! 🙌 All 45 hours! This was an extremely thorough biography of Mark Twain. While understanding Twain‘s importance in American literature, I‘m not sure his biography needed to be at this level of detail. Still, it was very well done, & the narrator was excellent.
(I‘m going to be insufferable at my next book club meeting wherein we‘re discussing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 😆)

Poe enjoyed listening to us read aloud from the tagged biography. #familyread #MarkTwain

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Early morning coffee & a book. Reading one chapter a day as a family. #MarkTwain #familyread #coffeeandbooks

I have a question and I know my Litsy friends will be able to answer it. How do you classify a book on Goodreads when your time runs out on a book from Libby and there are people waiting for it. Do you keep it as currently reading or what? I know Storygraph and Bookmory let you pause a book. My time is running out fast for this book and I'm not even half way through it. Thanks for your help.

After reading ch. 1, which focuses on Twain‘s parents & his early life, this statement struck me as quite poignant. His father was undemonstrative, stoic, grave, was a failure in supporting his family until they moved to Hannibal where he was appointed Justice of the Peace.
We are loving the language & at times, fun, ironic tone to the book. Our reading will pick now that our lives have somewhat settled down. #MarkTwain #familyread

Enjoyed it.

When we registered to hear the author of the tagged book, Ron Chernow,speak at The Mark Twain House in Hartford, we each received our own signed copy of his biography of Twain.We plan to read it together,round robin by paragraph,all 1040 pages.It may take us a year! We started today,finishing up the Prelude.Even Poe joined in! 🐈📖

What a fantastic evening! My family went to hear Ron Chernow being interviewed about the writing of his biography of Mark Twain at the Mark Twain House in Hartford.The sold out venue was a Congregational Church nearby.That picture of Mark Twain on a stick is a hand fan they gave out to the audience because like most old churches, it was not air conditioned.Very creative & community building I thought!
The book is 1030 pages plus appendices.

So excited to arrive home from vacation to find this in the pile of bills and junk mail!