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LeslieO
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Love me some nonfiction! #TLT #ThreeListThursday

Aims42 Bill Bryson & Erik Larson are in my Top 10 favorite authors 🤩👏🙌 3w
dabbe Love all 3 of these authors, and I haven't read any of these! You know where they're now going! 🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 3w
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Walaka
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The path to a calculator takes us from counting rods to abacuses to slide rules and through mechanical and electrical adding machines to get to the glory days of the late 20th century and the ubiquitous TI-81. Houston rides us into the sunset as well, detailing the calculators replacement by - and assimilation into - the computer and mobile device. A great read all the way through, and I will be looking for his works on Punctuation and The Book.

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OriginalCyn620
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This is a book geared towards kids, but it‘s interesting reading for adults too! I certainly learned a lot about Indigenous peoples and how much they have contributed to the world through their inventions and creative thinking.

#bookspinbingo
#pop24 - nonfiction book about Indigenous people

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3mo
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Faranae
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Alright, it's November, so it looks like only half my #URC2023 is going to be queer romance. Meanwhile, I went back to my past unassigned reads and found 4 books that fit prompts - the one not included here is The Story of My Life by Helen Keller for a blind author.

I'll actually be reading Lady Susan a second time later this month for my read-along Twitch stream.

willaful I've never actually read Lady Susan, IIRC.

I'm annoyed at myself because I had a queer romance for the rescue prompt, with a paramedic, but the second LI is a cop. D'oh.
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Faranae @willaful Oh the “no cops“ rule is just that cops don't count as rescue personnel for the prompt, not that they can't appear at all.

And most people skip Lady Susan. It's one of her juvenilia that she never reworked and wasn't published until decades after she died. It's delightful but it's not something you can mine for social commentary and older Austen was a tad more conservative in her morals than this book.
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willaful Yeah, I never got much into her juvenalia.

Thanks for the allow! One less prompt to worry about. But you will absolutely *hate* the book.
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Faranae @willaful 😂 glad to know I will have good fodder for the blog next year then! 5mo
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iread2much
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This book has an excellent beginning but gets really caught up in architecture and especially Frank Lloyd Wright, and does not go enough into the science and engineering of modern concrete use.
3/5 really good for the first half, not so great for the 2nd half. Read to learn a lot about prehistoric and Roman use of concrete (Really fascinating!) and to read a lot about Frank Lloyd Wright (meh for me).

dabbe It's Castle! Hello, sweet boy! 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
iread2much @dabbe castle says woof 😊 6mo
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iread2much
Rust: The Longest War | Jonathan Waldman
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So, this book is AMAZING, I learned so much & I loved that. The author‘s writing is irritating at times, he is obsessed with mustaches and doesn‘t explain things until far into the chapters.
This is a fascinating read, I learned so much about so many industries and found a canned food brand that I feel comfortable eating from.
4/5 read to learn about how corrosion affects most aspects of human life, how costly it is & technology for prevention

Leftcoastzen 👏🐶👋 8mo
catiewithac Sounds good! 8mo
Yuki_Onna Seeing pictures of Castle makes my day better 😊 8mo
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iread2much @catiewithac it was soooo interesting but the writing style was sometimes irritating. I learned a lot and that makes me very happy 😊 8mo
iread2much @Yuki_Onna thank you! I am glad if we can make your day better 😄 8mo
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Sharpeipup
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A great book about an outstanding individual.
#childrensbook #bbrc @librarianryan

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Librarybelle
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Amazing. This biography on Edith Clarke introduces little ones to the first female electrical engineer. The text is simple, but what I love most about this is the extra content at the end - a fuller biography, timeline, glossary, other noted electrical engineers, bibliography, etc. The watercolor illustrations work very well with the text. One of the best #PictureBook bios I‘ve read so far for #BBRC ! #LetterB

LibrarianRyan I liked this one. 8mo
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iread2much
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Bailedbailed

I really wanted to like this book, but alas, I just couldn‘t finish it. The author‘s writing was rather dry, and went into a lot of tangential philosophical writings. I gave up to read more interesting books.

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Susanita
The Forth Bridge: A Picture History | Sheila McKay, H G Weaver
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Eggs Awesome photo 🤗 10mo
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