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I actually finished a book! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Started this one about 9 days ago. This was an enjoyable murder mystery set in 1896 London with a mother who is also a private detective. A lot of information in this book, and covers the Dreyfus Affair, as well as anti-semitism.

There are a few others in this series and I‘d hope to get to them at some point. This one has sat on my bookshelf since 2014. #SeriesLove2025 #ShelfSweeper @TheSpineView

Setting off on the #ShelfSweeper readathon running throughout May by reading the tagged book set in 1896 and featuring a mother / private detective investigating a murder of a Professor in a library at King‘s College London.

Been sat on my shelf since July 2014.

#Elizabeth @Tove_Reads

I am just not vibing with this narrator. I'll have to try again in print another time...

Written 20 years ago, PR creates an alternative past for the US that hits way different in 2025 than it must have in 2005. As powerful as The Handmaids Tale and just as freaking scary

Starting a new Lego set

“Major Picquart to see the Minister of War…”
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

A novel about the historical Dreyfus Affair, late 1890s France, in which a Jewish officer in the French army was (knowingly) wrongly convicted of treason and sent to Devil‘s Island. Picquart was the officer who came to believe in his innocence.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Series of essays that make a compelling case for her thesis that people love dead Jews and stories of dead Jews more than they care about the lives of the living Jews. Learned a lot (e.g, that last name changes on arrival at Ellis Island is a myth) and thought about unlit I‘d never really had to confront as a non-Jew. I found the narration a little grating, but otherwise a definite pick.

For the first candle of my #Hanukkahchallenge I‘ve picked a book that pushed me towards the idea of celebrating each Hanukkah day by writing about a book about a Jew or written by a Jew. I picked it because I hoped to find an answer to a question: why so many people tear down the portraits of Israeli hostages held in Gaza while respecting dead Holocaust victims. The book is well written, but I didn‘t like the answer #iamthatjew

“The first time I entered Jerusalem‘s Old City, I walked down a flight of stairs that began on the current street level; at the bottom, I was stunned to step onto the paving stones from the street level during the Roman period, as though I had traveled through time instead of rock.”
Have you ever been there? Did you feel the time captured in stone? #told_by_a_woman #iamthatjew