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Into the Mountains: Stories of New England's Most Celebrated Peaks | Maggie Stier

Mountains set against
the backdrop of a dusky
painted sky, aglow.

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dabbe Absolutely L😍VERLY. 🧡🤎💛 2h

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Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey | Mark Moran, Jesse P. Pollack

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2h

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Leftcoastzen

Candy Freak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America | Steve Almond

@dabbe Australia Kit Kat ! Though I think it is crazy to ship stuff this far , it‘s sustainably sourced chocolate if the wrapper is to be believed. Hard to resist,Cost Plus World Market.

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The Age of Wood: Mankind's Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization | Roland Ennos

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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shanaqui

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality | Peter Pomerantsev

so-so

This feels like nibbles around what's going on without getting to the heart of it or how it can really be combatted -- it feels a little helpless. It's also a bit out of date at this point.

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

pick

The coffee table book format may suggest a shallow read, but there's an awful lot of information packed in here! Although it acts more like an appetizer for any one life story you might want to read more about, so many of the original journals, diaries, featured here have been published in book or excerpt form that it simultaneously acts as an introduction and a reading list. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Perhaps reflecting the changing technology, moving from handwriting to typing and online, three quarters of the book focuses on accounts from before 1900. Even given that much space, of course, it's no doubt just a sample of a fraction of what is out there in the world, though it tries to feature a number of nations, cultures, languages, even if it seems to me there were more white, western faces. 13h

Robotswithpersonality 3/? The accounts are careful to indicate the wrongdoings of a number of historical figures, even if their place in history still secured them a spot for discussion. 😑
The formatting is interesting because you'll see in images a sample of the diary, perhaps other examples of that person's work or things from their life, and a bit of in context imagery and wording besides the basic bio and what's significant about the diary and their life. 13h

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Some diaries get two two-page spreads, the second set 'in detail', with more aspects of the journal and their life.
The 'directory' at the end of each section of time covered felt a bit odd, because all of a sudden you'd get a two-page spread of columns of text covering a handful of extra diaries from the same time period without any further visuals or details. I mean, if you're going to include them, give them the page spread too! 13h

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? It wouldn't have made the book that much longer. 🤷🏼‍♂️
It makes sense that a good number of the entries are about writers, though I guess from the cover, I was surprised there were not more artists, or people who had made their diaries into art objects. It's really more of a who's who beyond the very first journals which are significant just for their place in the timeline of the medium's existence. 13h

Robotswithpersonality 6/? No surprise, unfortunately, that a number of diaries center on those who experienced or commented on conflicts, wars and revolutions, considering how often they feature in humanity's history.
The collection does include a fair amount of female contributors, the percentages feel as though they represent the timeline, the historical disparity in women having the ability to be recognized for literary achievement or work outside the home. 13h

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 It's a pleasing item to flip through, but if you're planning to read it cover to cover, I recommend taking it slow, it's an awful lot of disparate historical snippets to cram into your brain in a short period *cough* library loan period *cough*, though many figures and events will be familiar.
An interesting read, but I think I like focusing more on the life of one individual at a time. More memoirs to come! 13h

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

Such elegant phrasing of such an ugly thing.

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Robotswithpersonality

Patriot | Alexei Navalny

Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence..

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

“Color possess me...“ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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ncsufoxes

1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch | Mark William Jones

The last few years I‘ve stepped back from reading about WWII because it felt so overdone. But with the rise of authoritarianism currently happening in the US it has pushed back to reading about that era. The 2 on the left I found at Hachette Books (I signed up for the newsletter & got a 20% off coupon). I have not been able to find “What We Knew” anywhere. The other 2 I found wondering around the bookstore.

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