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LibrarianRyan
The Prey of Gods | Nicky Drayden
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#thisisnotamerica it's South Africa. #septembowie

Cinfhen Really!?? SA?!? Cool 😎 6y
Cinfhen Do you have a challenge for October?!? 6y
LibrarianRyan @Cinfhen yes. #monstermadness2017. I will repost my graphic after my iPad charges. 6y
Cinfhen Ok! 👌🏽 6y
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AMVP
J R | William Gaddis
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#catchingup on #septembowie #day22 - #thisisnotamerica

I feel like any use of this expression these days either has to be oblivious or ironic.

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DebinHawaii
Red Sun: The Invasion of Hawaii After Pearl Harbor | Richard Ziegler, Patrick M. Patterson
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#septembowie #ThisIsNotAmerica Catch up from yesterday. This prompt made me think of alternative history or 'what if' novels. I read the tagged book about what if Japan conquered Hawaii after Pearl Harbor several years ago & finished American War recently with its second American Civil War. The other 4 books are in my #TBR stacks. I have to read books like these in small doses as any more it seems like it actually could be America & that's scary😱

Marchpane Great choices! And I agree about small doses... 7y
Cinfhen Such a great group of books!!! I took a screenshot for #FutureReference 7y
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JazzFeathers
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#SeptemBowie

#ThisIsNotAmerica this is the fantasy world of Earthsea, one of the most popular and well-crafted.
And this us my brand new omnibus with all the stories. Bit intimidating. But l've been meaning g to read this series for ages

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Lizpixie
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#SeptemBowie #day22 #ThisIsNotAmerica This is a photo I took from a lookout at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, my favourite place in the world. Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson & Dorothea MacKellar all wrote beautiful poems about Australia.
I Love A Sunburnt Country,
A land of sweeping plains
Of rugged mountain ranges
Of drought & flooding rains
I love her far horizons
I love her jewelled seas
Her beauty & her terror
The wide brown land for me

LeeRHarry ❤️ 7y
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Centique
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#septembowie #thisisnotamerica

Well of course I went with my own country! But I added Australia - our good friends and neighbours - for brownie points! We're two very different countries with two very different indigenous cultures. But both originally mapped by Captain James Cook. (Cant say we were discovered by him because he wasn't the first!) These are his journals 🤓

Marchpane We ❤️NZ! Watching the election result with interest. 7y
AceOnRoam I married a Kiwi 💜💛💙 7y
LeeRHarry NZ rocks! 💕 7y
Centique So am I! Looks like we're heading for a coalition again. 😳 (Slightly raised eyebrows but nothing seems too bad in comparison to some other countries election results) 7y
Centique Thanks @LeeRHarry Good choice @AceOnRoam 😉😊 7y
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JacintaMCarter
Tropic of Kansas: A Novel | Christopher Brown
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I'm using this for #ThisIsNotAmerica, even though it one day could be. #SeptemBowie

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gossamerchild
The Nakano Thrift Shop | Hiromi Kawakami
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Set in a thrift store in Tokyo, I'd say this fits the bill for #thisisnotamerica. Not a lot happening, but the characters are great.

#SeptemBowie @Marchpane @Cinfhen

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Dragon
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#thisisnotamerica #septembowie I bought this book at the Raise-A-Reader booksale. According to the inscription on the title page " This book may cause you to chuckle, snicker and even snort while reading " so I had to buy it. Now to find the time to read it ?

Centique I love Bill Bryson so much! 7y
LeeRHarry Bill Bryson is great! This is a good one 😊 7y
rabbitprincess Our family has a running joke about "Is THIS the train to [place name]?" thanks to this book ? 7y
Dragon Thanks @Centique @LeeRHarry I'm looking forward to laughing and enjoying this book 📚😀🐉 7y
Dragon Thanks @rabbitprincess now I have to read it to get the joke! 😂👍🐉 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Strangler Vine | M. J. Carter
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#ThisIsNotAmerica This is India, 1837, in the callous grip of the East India Company. A Watson/Holmes-esque duo (who start out at odds) are tasked with finding the awesomely-named poet Xavier Mountstuart, who disappeared while researching the cult of Thugee.

Lush descriptions, a flawless narrator, some twists I saw coming and some I did NOT which had me pounding my steering wheel and shouting expletives. Highly recommended on audio. #SeptemBowie

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Thanks for the recommendation @Seshat I'm totally down for the next 2 books. 7y
vivastory I'm super tempted to read this one next 7y
GatheringBooks well-played! :) 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk @vivastory It starts out kind of slow, but it's the good kind of slow that really builds the world and the time period. When the plot kicks in, it does so hardcore. 7y
ValerieAndBooks Wow looks very intriguing! Is this actually part of a series? 7y
ValerieAndBooks I‘ll look to see if my library has it! 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @Jabberwocky This was awesome on audio too! 6y
Jabberwocky Ooooooooooooooooo 6y
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