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Tombland | C. J. Sansom

repost for @Dabbe

#ShardlakeBR

Thanks to all of you who gave me your thoughts. Here are the results! I can't believe we're on the last book! Its is a humdinger!!!

#BuddyRead

dabbe TY! 😍 7h

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dabbe

Tombland | C. J. Sansom

#ShardlakeBR #LitsyEvents

So sorry I'm late, Shardlakians! I just got home from vacation yesterday? How are we doing on TOMBLAND? And thoughts or comments? I am wwwaaayyy behind, so I have nothing to say except that I hope to be catching up this month! If you're like me, no worries! You're definitely not alone! Next check-in will be 8/31 with a final discussion on 9/30 over the entire book. Have a great week! 🩵💙🩵

Daisey, Cuilin, Amiable, PurpleyPumpkin, Texreader, AnneCecilie, Gissy, Centique, OutsmartYourShelf, jenniferw88, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, batsy, Chrissyreadit, kwmg40, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, dabbe, Fr3NcHtOaSt, RaeLovesToRead, bthegood, lil1inblue, PageShifter, LiseWorks, The_Book_Ninja, Karisimo, BookWrym

LiseWorks I love this book. This time, it seems to be all about the legal system, and boy, it's sad. 1d

AnneCecilie I love this one as well, as I‘ve mentioned before this series is a reread for me. But I had completely forgotten why Shardlake was in Norwich. I remember more of what happens later. I completely agree @LiseWorks about the legal system, imagine being put in trial and not being allowed to pay for someone to defend you. I can‘t imagine how many have been wrongly convicted because of it 1d

kwmg40 I‘m enjoying this book very much. The length is a bit daunting but it is interesting learning about the legal system in that time. 1d

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dabbe @LiseWorks It is stunningly sad, isn't it? 1d

dabbe @AnneCecilie Pretty much everything about living during the Tudor times was tough, whether you were poor or the wife of the king. As bad as our modern times may be, nothing compares to that! 1d

dabbe @kwmg40 🩵🎯🩵 And thank goodness for 3 months! 😂 1d

Daisey I‘m also way behind and currently working on catching up on Kristin Lavransdatter as well, so we‘ll see how that goes with school about to start as well. 1d

dabbe @Daisey 🩵🎯🩵 22h

lil1inblue I'm plugging along! I like the book, but compared to some of the others I feel it's dragging just a bit. But I still have 65% to go, so we'll see what happens! 6h

lil1inblue @liseworks @annececilie The legal system is infuriating! And the punishments are so excessive for many of the crimes! Yet again, those with means can game the system, and those without suffer - often wrongly. 6h

dabbe @lil1inblue I hear ya! 🩵🎯🩵 6h

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Texreader

Daughter of Venice | Donna Jo Napoli

Daughter is helping me organize and add my new-to-me books to my database including this one.

Butterfinger Beautiful cover 5d

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KellyHamHer

Fools and Mortals | Bernard Cornwell

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July reading done!! The winner this month was Fools and Mortals. I don‘t know why I was drawn to this book but I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the banter of all the characters. The Likeness was a close 2nd and The Kingdom of Sweets came in last. Beginning vacay in 2 days and headed to South Dakota. Whoot Whoot!!

TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1w

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Butterfinger

Courtesan | Diane Haeger

so-so

I chose this for two reasons. It was free, and it was about Henri's mistress. Watching The Serpent Queen, I wanted to visit the perspective of Catherine de Medici's nemesis.

I didn't learn anything new, except Dianne raised all of Henri's children and Queen Mary of Scotland.

I might as well have read a Danielle Steele.

TrishB That last line made me snort! 2w

Butterfinger @TrishB I should not have been so harsh 2w

TrishB You definitely should 😁 2w

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dabbe

Tombland | C. J. Sansom

#ShardlakeBR

Thanks to all of you who gave me your thoughts. Here are the results! I can't believe we're on the last book! Its is a humdinger!!!

And TGIF!!! 😍

Mollyanna TGIF Denise! Thank you for organizing this buddy read. I am going to miss spending time with Matthew and his gang when we finish. 😂 2w

Daisey Sounds good, especially since I‘ve yet to start. If I get caught up on my current audiobooks, I may give in and find this one on audio. 2w

dabbe @Mollyanna Me, too! 💙🩵💙 2w

dabbe @Daisey Boy, do I hear ya! I'm behind on all of my group reads, so I'm glad to have more time to read when I can with this one. 💙🩵💙 2w

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trifleneurotic

Complete Works | Michel de Montaigne

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

(from "Of solitude", Book I, Essay 39)

#coffeeandabook #montaigne #essays #classics

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Mattsbookaday

Perspective(s) | Laurent Binet

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Perspective(s), by Laurent Binet (2023, transl. 2025)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: An epistolary mystery set in the midst of the political, social, artistic, and religious upheavals of Renaissance Florence.

Review: An ‘entertaining‘ and accessible Binet novel is still smarter and stranger than most literary fiction. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday He superbly wrangles a vast cast of characters and correspondents to craft a novel that is simultaneously an effective mystery, reflection on the importance of perspective in shaping (or blinding us to) the truth of an event, and discussion of artistic freedom. I didn‘t think this would get full marks from me, but the more I think about it, the more impressive it seems.

Bookish Pair: Umberto Eco‘s The Name of the Rose (1980) 3w

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dabbe

Tombland | C. J. Sansom

#ShardlakeBR
Hey, Shardlakians~
Maybe I'm in lazy mode because it's the summer, but I have a proposed idea for reading this last book. Please read the two choices above and let me know below which one you would like to do: choice 1 or choice 2. Whoever has the most votes by Sunday, 7/21, wins! I'll then let everyone know. 🤩

LiseWorks I like the discussions it keeps me fresh. But periodically, check-ins will do until the last part. Do I win? Lol 3w

Mollyanna Similar to @LiseWorks I like the idea of check-ins until a final discussion at the end. 3w

Karisimo Check-ins, then a final discussion sounds fine to me 3w

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lil1inblue I agree with @liseworks @mollyanna and @karisimo - check-ins and final discussion work for me! 3w

PurpleyPumpkin I‘m am nowhere near caught in my reading of this series!😅 But if you need votes, I‘m happy to add to the tally. And I agree with my fellow Shardlakians, check-ins along the way with a final in-depth discussion at the end sound good. 3w

OutsmartYourShelf I‘m not fussed either way. I tend to read it only a few days before the discussion date anyway. 3w

Deblovestoread I haven't even started so I'm good with a final discussion at the end. 3w

kwmg40 I too am good with check-ins and a final discussion at the end. 3w

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trifleneurotic

Complete Works | Michel de Montaigne

...what we ordinarily call friends & friendships are nothing but acquaintanceships...in the friendship I speak of, our souls mingle and blend with each other so completely that they efface the seam that joined them...If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I.

(from "Of friendship", Book I, Essay 28)

#coffeeandabook #montaigne #essays #classics

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