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The Sea Gate | Jane Johnson
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#SUMMERSPECIAL
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

PROMPT: COUSINS' DAY

HISTORICAL FICTION - ROMANCE - WWII

Who is cousin Olivia? Rebecca remembered visiting her a few times when she was a child.

Finding letters from cousin Olivia addressed to her mother pleading for help had Rebecca on her way to Olivia‘s house.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/4487pfca

Eggs Perfect 🤩 8mo
SilversReviews @Eggs Have you read her book THE TENTH GIFT? It is very good too. 8mo
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Vansa
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The prospect of Internet Archive closing is devastating.When you don't have access to good libraries(or any libraries),it's a wonderful resource and provides you with a wide world of books,several not easily available.These are just a few of the incredible books I've read from it.

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throwmeabook
The Sea Gate | Jane Johnson
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I just finished my February #bookspin title, better late then never! ☺️

Slow to start, I almost gave up less than halfway through. But since I am reluctant to DNF any book I pushed through and was pleasantly surprised by a wonderfully poignant second half. The writing is lovely and the descriptions of Cornwall itself are so vivid and add to the atmospheric nature of the book. I especially enjoyed reading about young Olivia during WWII. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 12mo
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SqueakyChu
Karnak Cafe | Naguib Mahfouz
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I found this book on my bookshelf and chose it to read for the #LibraryThing challenge to read a book by an author born in #NorthAfrica. I‘d read and enjoyed books by this author before, but many years ago. I find this book intriguing. It‘s background is political, referring many times back to the #Egyptian Revolution in 1952. I had to look this up in order to give this read better context. I‘m glad I did.

TEArificbooks FYI I changed my name from mdm139 to TEArificbooks. I am still here. And let me know if there is a zoom meeting 1y
SqueakyChu @TEArificbooks Oh, no! How am I going to remember your new name?! Check out the BC meetings forum before January 21 (the Saturday that the Zoom is scheduled). You‘ll need to get the Zoom link pmed to you from whoever the host will be. (edited) 1y
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Daisey
Hideous Kinky | Esther Freud
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It‘s been a wonderful Thanksgiving week, and tonight I‘m thankful for a quiet evening with good food and a book. This book‘s been on my list for a bit, and I finally started it today. So far, other than not particularly liking the narrator‘s mother, I‘m enjoying it and the descriptions of Morocco.

#1001books #ReadingAfrica2022 #Morocco #ReadingTheWorld #ReadTheWorld #ReadAndEat

Daisey Well, maybe I should have waited to post as I decided to just go ahead and read the rest of this book tonight. It‘s an interesting perspective, watching the mother‘s actions and seeing the journey through a child‘s eyes. I often disliked the mother‘s choices, but I thoroughly enjoyed the tour of Morocco. 1y
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tphil10283
The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles
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It‘s a very good book about some American travelers that run in to trouble in the Sahara in the late 1940‘s. The only thing I didn‘t like about the story is that the ending is somewhat ambiguous for my liking.

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xicanti
Casablanca: My Moroccan Food | Nargisse Benkabbou
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Last night I made my first dish from the tagged book: cheese & sweet chermoula eggplant. I think my eggplant half was a little too thick; the top layer was delicious, but the chermoula didn‘t add any flavour to the bottom, even though I crosshatched the vegetable‘s flesh. Next time, I‘ll try to really dribble the sauce down into the creases and see if I get a better result.

tpixie Looks delicious. Good luck next time!! 2y
xicanti @tpixie I made it again tonight and got much better sauce distribution. Hurray! 2y
tpixie @xicanti yippee 🥳 2y
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Blueberry
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Eggs Gorgeous 🥰🌹🌔 2y
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DebinHawaii
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#BigJuneReadathon #BigJuneReadathonPhotoChallenge

Three foodie books I‘ve read & enjoyed #RelatingToWater 💦 (or with water in their titles).

Clwojick I‘ve heard so many good things about this one, but I‘ve yet to read it. 2y
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Hooked_on_books
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The subtitle pretty much describes the book here: it is the story of Qaddafi‘s rise to power, his years in power, then the uprisings and his demise. Overall it‘s good information, though I do wish it had been a little more meaty.

#ReadingAfrica2022 #Libya

Librarybelle I noticed that it‘s less than 300 pages, so it sounds like it doesn‘t go into everything…but still good that it offers good information! 2y
BarbaraBB It sounds good but I do have a kind of creepy fascination for Khadaffi! 2y
Singout When I was in grade 8 in 1984 if we wanted to get our teacher away from what we were supposed to be doing we would either get him talking about Qaddafi or get him talking about abortion. He was completely outraged by both of them. (edited) 2y
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