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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne

Having trouble nailing down a historical reference. Was there some precursor to night-vision goggles utilitized in the 1800s?!

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Texreader

Jaguars and Electric Eels | Alexander von Humboldt

Written in the early 1800s, I appreciate that the author was sensitive to the slaves‘ plight in #Venezuela.

#foodandlit @Catsandbooks

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

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My son is planning a thru-hike next summer on this trail and I‘ve taken a few backpacking adventures on the Appalachian Trail so I enjoyed learning about the Pacific Crest Trail and search & rescue. My son is looking at National Park and/or Forest careers and possibly search & rescue so it was a great way to explore what a career like this would look like. My heart breaks for the families of the missing.

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Eggs

Transall Saga | Gary Paulsen

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Fascinating story of Mark, camping in the desert alone, who awakens to a powerful light that transports him to another time and place. Survival instincts compel him to defend himself and prove his strength.

#LitsyLove
#Readaway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon

DieAReader, TieDyeDude, Read4life, Andrew65, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader 🥳Great! 6h

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JuliaTheBookNerd

Daughter of the Pirate King | Tricia Levenseller

My new bookends from LitJoy with my collection of pirate/sea sprayed edges books 💙🏴‍☠️⚓️🌊🧭

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

TheBookHippie This is lovely!!! 8h

Bookwomble Bookend love/envy 😍💚 8h

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tpixie

Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren

I went to the library to find Pippi to look at the illustrations. This edition is the cutest!!! #ChildrensClassicRead2024

TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie I agree I took out the same one! 9h

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Bookworm04

Neverending Story | Michael Ende

I have the paperback but read lot more since got my kindle scribe so bought the ebook Q9.99 had to be done. Classic book vibes today

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TieDyeDude

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Novel | George Lucas, Campbell Black, Lawrence Kasdan

#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

I wasn't going to participate originally, because I didn't want to rack my brain for 80's pop songs, but I thought of a category I could narrow down enough, soundtrack scores 😁

🎷 Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone from The Mission
🐍 Theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark by John Williams
🦇 Theme from Batman (1989) by Danny Elfman

TheBookHippie John Williams is fantastic! 22h

CatLass007 I‘m not familiar with The Mission. Was it based on a book? I think you‘ve done an excellent job of narrowing down your category. I‘m fairly certain that if I started thinking of music from the 70s or 80s or any other decade, I‘d have those songs running through my head for the rest of the year. John Williams‘ Raiders of the Lost Ark theme is very memorable. But I remember very vividly sitting in the theater watching the maze that became (cont)⬇️ 22h

CatLass007 the Batman symbol and almost physically being pulled in by the music. Not long ago I was having a conversation with my brother about that scene and I said something about Seal singing Kiss from a Rose for the movie and he had no idea who or what I was talking about. Everyone thought Michael Keaton was going to be a terrible Batman, but he was fabulous! 22h

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dabbe Added to our new Spotify Playlist: LITSY SONGS OF THE 1980s! Thanks for sharing! 🤩🎶🤩

Click below for the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sZRAAKVORN1SRh7S6l60g 21h

archaeolibrarianologist
1. (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew: My favorite vampire song 2. The Final Countdown - Europe: My impending apocalypse theme song 3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears for Fears: My popcorn song (IYKYK) 17h

Itchyfeetreader @dabbe late to the party but adding a couple of personal faves that I don‘t think you already have 1. Karma chameleon by culture club, how will I know by Whitney and for something a bit different your latest trick by dire straits 16h

dabbe @archaeolibrarianologist All are now on the playlist! 🤩 5h

dabbe @Itchyfeetreader All are now on the playlist! 🤩 5h

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

@DebinHawaii It‘s been a good week ❤️ The tagged book is my current audiobook. @Graciouswarriorprincess Share your positives! #5JoysFriday

DebinHawaii What a lovely joy list! 💛💛💛 I love time in an arboretum-it‘s good for the soul. Thank you for sharing the joy! 🤗 1d

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MaGoose

Treasure Island | R L Stevenson

I've never met any authors in person. But I'm friends and talk on the phone with Garrett James, a new indie author whose books I have blurbed here on Litsy recently.

I'd love to meet Neil Gaiman. I own a few of his books, but they're still residing in my humongous TBR piles. Yeah, that's piles with an s.

I wish I could have met Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Louis Stevenson.

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern @DaveGreen7777 @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Thanks for the tag! I‘d love to meet Neil Gaiman too. I got to hear him speak at Wolf Trap several years ago—I could listen to him talk for hours! 1d

Ddzmini Yes Leigh Bardugo it was at the LA book fair before her TV series on Netflix came out there was a panel the a book signing it was awesome Then there was Henry Thomas and a few others that aren‘t as popular 🙌🏽 it was an amazing day 1d

BookmarkTavern How fun! And Robert Louis Stevenson would be so interesting. Thanks for sharing! 24h

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