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Suet624
Frozen River | Ariel Lawhon
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Pickpick

I enjoyed this story of the life of a midwife in the 1700‘s. It definitely held my attention. The story includes details of experiences of delivering babies but primarily focuses on Martha Ballard‘s pursuit of justice through the newly created legal system for a woman who was raped as well as working to hold a murderer (and all around bad guy) accountable for his deeds. This story was inspired by the journal written by Martha during that time.

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tpixie
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Pg 409
The “Collège des Quatre-Nations” (College of Four Nations) in Paris was established in 1661 by Cardinal Mazarin in his will. It was created to educate students from four territories that had recently come under French control through the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

tpixie The four “nations” represented were:
1.Alsace
2.Roussillon
3.Artois
4.Pignerol (Pinerolo) – a town in Piedmont, now in Italy

These regions were incorporated into France during the mid-17th century, and the college was intended to integrate elites from these new provinces into French culture and administration.
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dabbe Thanks for the info! 😍 43m
tpixie @dabbe ❤️🤍💙 @TheBookHippie after that four nations was mentioned twice I started getting curious about those nations. I can‘t believe I got a month behind with traveling hopefully I get further caught up this weekend! # 15m
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tpixie
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May 1
Book Six Petit-Picpus
IV Gladness pg 442

Fun facts about 2 of the Perrault brothers. Between 1667-1670 Claude designed the East façade of the Louvre & Charles published Tales of Mother Goose in 1697. ?️????

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 42m
tpixie @dabbe 🖤 🐾 🖤 15m
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Roary47
Night of the Ninjas | Mary Pope Osborne
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Mehso-so

3✨My son loves to listen to the story and then gets excited about the pictures each time. The treehouse is back and they need to look for some things for Morgan to help her.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 37m
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Blueberry
Zorro: A Novel | Isabel Allende
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JillR
The Night Tiger | Yangsze Choo
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Pickpick

Weretigers, severed fingers, mysterious dreams. Chinese and Malaysian superstitions and mythology in 1930s Malaya clash against colonialism and the medical world; for the large part I thoroughly enjoyed this (although got tired of all the severed finger talk until the action ramped up!) The romance didn‘t do it for me, but otherwise a compelling story.

sarahbarnes Severed finger talk! 😆 4h
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annahenke
The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova
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I‘m rereading this old favorite via audio. It‘s such a good narration. I‘m hoping to finish my reread and then read Dracula by Brad Stoker for the first time - like a buddy read.

Texreader One of my favorites of all time. And Dracula is marvelous!!! 13h
Ddzmini Love this book 📖 🥰🧛🏼🧛🏼‍♂️ 13h
BookBr Ooo is the audio good? Love this book🥰 8m
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vivastory
Funny Girl | Nick Hornby
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Early 2025 was truly my own my own winter of discontent (second drumpf term, having to move in the middle of Feb, covid for the second time etc etc) Hornby's novel about a winner of a beauty queen pageant in a British village who proceeded to revolutionize tv has so far been one of my favorite reads of the year. Sophie Straw is absolutely terrific & the cast who surround her are in turns interesting & infuriating. This books has MUCH to say (CONT)

vivastory about the potential of thoughtful mass media, all too easily dismissed & those who only want to consume it if they can apply a label to it that makes them feel superior which persists to this day (ie elevated horror: a bullshit label...unless the movie actually is set in an elevator lol)
Sophie is a character that I just cannot forget & although this is only the second Hornby I read, I absolutely adored it. #bestreads2025
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TheKidUpstairs Ooh, I haven't read this one. I read a bunch of Hornby's books a long time ago, and always enjoyed them. I'll have to stack this! 17h
vivastory @TheKidUpstairs High Fidelity was a great experience, Do you have other favorites? Def taking recommendations! 17h
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TheKidUpstairs @vivastory it's been about 20 years since i last read him (i can hardly believe that, even as i type it!) But I loved About A Boy, and Fever Pitch. And Polysyllabic Spree was fun, a collection of his magazine columns missing on his reading life. 17h
TheKidUpstairs (That should say musing, not missing 🤦‍♀️) 17h
TheBookHippie Ugh. I feel ya. 16h
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itsjustme40something
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The witch museum looks amazing from here