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Lemprire's Dictionary
Lemprire's Dictionary | Lawrence Norfolk
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An international best-seller and winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Lempriere's Dictionary is the debut novel from Lawrence Norfolk, one of England's most innovative, internationally acclaimed young authors. In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. He discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years. Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this astonishing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery, multinational financial conspiracies, and a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunken aristocrats, whores and assassins, and octogenarian pirates, all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology.
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Ast_Arslan
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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#FallTreasures

Day 16 - #ThriftStoreFind

Some books collected from a thrift store all over the years ๐ŸคŸ๐Ÿปโค

Eggs โค๏ธ๐Ÿ“šโค๏ธ 3y
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Ast_Arslan
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.

Day 13th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

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Leniverse
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#ILikeBigBooks and here are some of them. (I tend to read big books on the kindle these days, for portability.) I left out the "complete/selected works of" books because that seemed like cheating, though I love them passionately. I also left out the text books and dictionaries, except for Lempriere's which isn't really a dictionary at all. #booktober @RealLifeReading

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MrBook
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So here's the borrowing part of yesterday's #libraryhaul. #Coale spent a great deal of time sniffing out their pasts, I guess from previous patrons, lol. Anything stick out to you as yah or blah?

Shemac77 Alan Bradley! Big, huge, overly enthusiastic YAY!! 8y
RealLifeReading What @Shemac77 said. โค๏ธFlavia de Luce 8y
Nuwanda Love Flavia and Horrorstor! 8y
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LeahBergen Yep. I'm a Flavia fan, too. 8y
[DELETED] 3323341091 Elementary Particles ๐Ÿ˜ฌ 8y
bookandcat Bradley and Erik Larson are great, horrorstor is supposed to be great (tried reading it in ebook from the library but it just doesn't work in that format) 8y
bookandcat What's the book farthest left in the lower row? 8y
Cobscook I'd like to try Horrorstor. 8y
Godmotherx5 I want to try Horrorstor, too. 8y
Kathrin I love me some Houellebecq! I read Submission this year and it's such a gripping book! 8y
MrBook @Shemac77 @RealLifeReading @Nuwanda @LeahBergen @bookandcat A lot of Bradley fans, I see ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป! @Nuwanda @bookandcat @Cobscook @Godmotherx5 And a lot of Horrorstor familiarity as well ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป. @fern @Kathrin Yep, good tastes are to be found on #Litsy ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป. @bookandcat Thousand Splendid Suns, but that was a buy ๐Ÿ˜Š. 8y
Dogearedcopy 'In the Garden of Beasts' was barely passable as a So-So read. It takes most if it's material from the diary of a diplomat & his daughter during Hitler's rise in 1930s Germany. The book is oddly shallow and carries very little tension :-/ 8y
MrBook @Dogearedcopy Thank you for your insight ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป. Perhaps we can banter about it when I'm done with it ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป. 8y
Dogearedcopy I made the mistake of listening to 'The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie' on audio. The narrator, Jayne Entwistle was absolutely perfect for the role - and that was ultimately the problem: Flavia came across as too precocious for my tastes, nails-on-chalkboard-annoying. I never could get her voice out of my head even when I tried just reading in print! I think those who just read her, as opposed to listening to her, like her better! 8y
Ammar25 I enjoyed sweetness at the bottom of the pie 8y
MrBook @Dogearedcopy Lol, audio can do that to you ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป. @Ammar25 Awesome ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป!!! 8y
missjenniferlowe I have trouble with the audio, too, @Dogearedcopy ! The narrator sounds too amused sometimes or something. I haven't tried reading one yet but hope it goes better. 8y
MrBook @missjenniferlowe ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป! 8y
Gennic I read Horrorstör earlier this summer! It was so funny 8y
MrBook @NicoleGentry ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป! 8y
LiteraryLona Horrorstor was great! My Best Friend's Exorcism is gold too, if you like this one! 8y
MrBook @LiteraryLona Ah, yes, I've seen that one make the rounds here on Litsy ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป. 8y
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