From the author of News of the World.
#SpringSkies #OneWordTitle
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 🧡💛 2w
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Susanita How did I not hear about this book before?!? 2w
From the author of News of the World.
#SpringSkies #OneWordTitle
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
He was held up three days at Columbus because the ferry cable had broken, and so he watched from under a verandah roof....
They spoke of little things, things that mattered. The death of a baby from fever, that Jameson's mare had come home herself after being sto- len, that a man had come who read aloud from newspapers gathered from the entire world over, including stories of polar explorers and sinking ships in the Atlantic Ocean...
Deckled edges. 😀
panI had hoped it would focus more on the social and cultural tidbits, but the bulk of the book focused on politics. So I found it very dry, very academic. It is also a fat book with small font, so even when I skimmed, it was slow-going. There were a few parts that I found a bit more interesting and did slow down and take in a bit more, and it is a time I really don‘t know much about, so I did learn a few things. Cont in comments...
4 months and 700 pages later… and immediately following Marx‘s Capital. As God intended. 😛 Not an easy book to constantly pick up & put back down, so I enjoyed dedicating a lot of time this break to seriously pushing through the last 300 pages. A masterpiece.
I picked up 3 books at #TexasBookFestival this year. Can‘t wait to read them all! (Though I also just got Iron Flame and Bookshops & Bonedust should be here tomorrow, so I don‘t know what order I‘ll get to them!)📚 I had a fun time at the fest even though it was chilly and drizzly.
I also saw Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talk about Chain-Gang All-Stars, but it was in a theater and they didn‘t allow photos.
