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IriDas
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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Reading this morning at the laundromat.

#summerreading

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IriDas
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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#chatterday2025

The plan is to go to the laundromat 🧺 this morning. We go super early (it‘s 5:30 am and we‘ll be packing the van 🚐 soon) so to avoid the crowds.

Later we might go swimming. 🏊‍♂️ Even later we‘ll definitely listen to the Dodgers game. ⚾️ Throughout I‘ll read a bit and I should work on my blanket (crochet). 🧶

Edited to add: Yikes, it‘s Saturday. Protest. We are going to the protest. 🪧

dabbe ✊💙✊ 2d
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IriDas
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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Bird watching at the river mouth. Took about a 30 minute hike through the dunes to get there. Definitely worth it for the beauty of the area. Now we‘re at our usual walking park/beach watching the swallows swoop and swirl, picking their lunch out of midair. :)

#birding
#centralcoast

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2d
Bookwomble For a moment I thought your photo showed "an arm clad in white samite shooting above the surface of the lake, brandishing a glittering sword in its hand" as I've just read the passage in my book where King Arthur recruits Excalibur from the Lady in the Lake! I'm very impressionable ? 1d
IriDas @Bookwomble Now I see it. That‘s great. 😀 But you know, “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.” 🗡️(eta: tagged the wrong person at first. Old eyes tricking me. lol) (edited) 20h
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Andrea313
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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Halfway through this book for #MidsummerSolace and it's perfectly lovely. I'm really enjoying the easy pace, and each vignette is building a stronger picture of Grandmother and Sophia and their summer together full of simple pleasures. It's starting to veer toward melancholy but I actually love that; the mood is keeping me hooked. Who else is reading this one right now? #BooksAndBlooms

IriDas I‘m 1/3 through. It‘s a pleasant read. I agree with your assessment of the character development. Looking forward to the rest. 4d
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IriDas
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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Some morning reading with my tea on this cool and overcast day. I can relate to the cold of May mentioned in this book. We don‘t see any warmth until mid-July here.

#naturalitsy #midsummersolace #buddyread #litsolace

TheBookHippie Love your mug! 5d
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AllDebooks
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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#MidsummerSolace #TimeforTea

Sunny snuggles with the ginger one while sipping herbal tea and reading the tagged.

Andrea313 Sounds like a beautiful day! 🧡 6d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 6d
quietlycuriouskate Gorgeous! 6d
AnnCrystal 💕💤😻🐾💝. 6d
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IriDas
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson
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1) Í have almost never preordered a book. The one time I did I had a negative experience with the bookstore. So now I just wait. Of course, with ebooks it makes it so easy that I don‘t need to preorder. Just put the date into my calendar. ?

2) See above.

#two4tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 📚📚📚 6d
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kspenmoll
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson
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#Naturalitsy #midsummersolace #fiction
Starting this today with coffee, of course. 📕☕️

Bookwomble 🩵 1w
AllDebooks Lovely copy x 1w
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IriDas
The Summer Book | Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Kathryn Davis
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#chatterday2025

Shopping. 🛍️ New plants. 🌱 Our day‘s plan had to be altered. 😞 Finally picked up the tagged book at the library. 📚 Tried a new (to us) pizza place downtown. It is Neapolitan, which is crazy because I just this week learned about pizza from Naples. It is pretty tasty. 🍕 My youngest has a birthday tomorrow 🎂 so I should go buy the pancake mix. 🥞 And a speech. I am supposed to write a speech for Monday. 🤦🏼‍♂️

AllDebooks Wow, busy day!!! ❤️ 1w
kspenmoll That pizza sounds yummy! 1w
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AllDebooks
Moominsummer Madness | Tove Jansson
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Our #MidsummerSolace author, Tove Jansson, is renowned for the Moomins. Brooklyn Public Library has an exhibition to celebrate 80 years of Moomin stories.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-moomins-brooklyn-library-2647363

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛 1w
kspenmoll So cool! 1w
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