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melissajayne
Midwinter | John Buchan
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Looks at how our Christmas celebrations are linked to solstice celebrations #mistletoemaniacs #wintergames2021 +6pts

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Yahui07
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Pickpick

Cannot believe this book takes me almost 1 month to finish.

I enjoyed this book but sometimes got lost or had the feeling that why I read this book. I wouldn‘t say that I love this book but I could say I liked it.

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Susanita
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Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for in #London there is all that life can afford. #JulyJourneys

Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻📚❤️ 3y
Susanita @Eggs Would you believe, I got this from Wimbledon coverage! 3y
Eggs I would believe!!! @Susanita 3y
MayJasper I used to live in the birth place of Samuel Johnson. 3y
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BarbaraBB
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon
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#BookReport 09/21

Except for the tagged one I had a great reading week. I enjoyed all of these books.

TrishB Great week 👍🏻 3y
squirrelbrain Shame about the Johnson, but a good week otherwise! 3y
Cinfhen What my friends said ☝🏼💕 3y
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BarbaraBB
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon
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Panpan

Rasselas lives in complete happiness in an Ethiopian valley and is bored by it. ‘You find it boring because you‘ve never known misery‘, someone says to him and this leads Rasselas to go in search of the meaning of life, misery and happiness.
These two sentences pretty well sum up the content of this book. Samuel Johnson needed a lot more pages though. A very boring book but it‘s another #1001books ticked off!

#FoodAndLit #Ethiopia

JennyM Eek. Sorry it was a pan. But you have spring flowers popping up 🌸 Hope warmer days are coming for you 😘 3y
BarbaraBB @JennyM The first I saw. I am so looking forward to warmer days! 😘 3y
Megabooks I can‘t believe it‘s almost spring! It was 65 F/18 C here yesterday! 3y
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emilyhaldi Those crocuses though 😍 I have a bunch planted in my yard and they‘re just starting to come up! 3y
BarbaraBB @Megabooks You‘re kidding! You had a decimeter of snow only last week 😧 3y
BarbaraBB @emilyhaldi It really means the end of Winter and I can‘t wait! 3y
Megabooks That is the life in Kentucky! 😂😂 3y
CarolynM Are they crocuses? Lovely😍 3y
BarbaraBB They are, @CarolynM They come up everywhere here when Winter is over. 3y
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BookwormM
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Mehso-so

#Reading1001

Nothing really happens and no conclusion is drawn. As a story this pretty much sucks as a study of happiness or lack there off this was quite interesting and highlighted the human condition which is never satisfied

Full review here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3325034831

Homemade spring onion and cheese loaf

rockpools That looks great! 4y
Sace Looks yummy! 4y
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GoneFishing

Not for nothing was Smith‘s first book about moral philosophy. His concern, as Foley says, was the one that has haunted economic thinking ever since: “how to be a good person and live a good and moral life within the antagonistic, impersonal, and self-regarding social relations that capitalism imposes.

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GoneFishing

An Irish clergyman was present at a dinner where someone asked what the greatest pleasure was, and Johnson replied, “Fucking.” He added that the second best was drinking, and therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards, for all could drink, though not all could fuck.

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Palimpsest
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My to read stack is getting out of hand. Some of these I‘ve started and pick up when I‘m in the mood. Especially the poetry collections. I guess I should get to it. 📚

Palimpsest @rubyslippersreads Yes, thanks to you for such a wonderful present! 😊😊 4y
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ElaineR
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The English language ladies and gentlemen. Ain't she fun ;-)