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Joined May 2016

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Random tiny detail, but I love the little dog-walker strolling through the book!

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AnnCrystal 🤔👏📚💝📚💝📚💝📚😉👍. 3d
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tpixie Good one!! #bookish 3d
Bookwomble It was probably me! 😆 (Hopefully this character isn't a mass murderer!) 3d
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The Mystery Guest | Nita Prose
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TieDyeDude 😂 1w
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Meet Me at the Lake | Carley Fortune
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darklydreaming I loved this book!! Enjoy 😊 2w
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The author was a journalist and it shows in his writing. He is clear and factual in his analysis of Southeast Asian politics and society. It also shows that his heart is breaking for this region that has been his life‘s work, first as a journalist and then as a mediator. Overall, a very depressing pick. Also, it should be noted that this book was published in 2017, so obviously some things have changed.

julieclair Great review. 3w
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AnnCrystal 📚💕🤩💝📚. 1mo
oddandbookish ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
kspenmoll 💜❤️🩷 1mo
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What?! What nonsense is this?

AnnCrystal 😂💝! We're just Kidults! 1mo
Aimeesue Oh, brother! 😂😂😂 1mo
Texreader 😂😂😂 1mo
Graywacke As my 19-yr-old daughter would say: WHAT 1mo
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Christian Book & Music Centre | Victoria, BC, Canada (Bookstore)
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“for some reason…” Huh, wonder why they had that idea?

Suet624 🥴 1mo
AnnCrystal 😢 1mo
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So, today I learned that
a. Mt. Everest was named for, but not by, George Everest.
b. George Everest was actually a proponent of learning the local name of mountains he surveyed, rather than coming up with new English names.
and c. He hated it when people pronounced his name Ever-est, rather than Eve-rest.

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“We instinctively think of mountains as eternal, but they‘re not. They are falling to bits and being remade like the rest of nature - like us.”

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Anne of Ingleside | L.M. Montgomery
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Singout The ever-sensible Susan. 1mo
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Anne of Ingleside | L.M. Montgomery
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Just a #prettycover appreciation post before I dive into this re-read. The end papers even match the floral design of the letters:)

BookNAround Gorgeous! 2mo
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Empire and Righteous Nation | Odd Arne Westad
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Empire and Righteous Nation | Odd Arne Westad
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Snow day=Reading day!

TheSpineView Love snow days! Enjoy your reading! 💜📖💜❄️💙 2mo
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😳

bibliothecarivs What?! Wow 2mo
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The Christmas Guest | Peter Swanson
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… And a lovely afternoon at Munro‘s. I definitely went in just for a calendar, but Christmas books were on sale, and who could resist that forest stories book? Not me, apparently. #bookhaul

mabell These all look great! 2mo
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A perfect Saturday morning moment:)

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“The past is the ultimate abyss.”

bibliothecarivs I have always loved this quote from Simon Schama: 'Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.' 3mo
Purpleness @bibliothecarivs I love that! 2mo
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Last book of 2023: Persuasion, the last in my Jane Austen reread.
First book started in 2024: Finally getting around to Imagining Head-Smashed-In, which I think I bought in 2018.
#lastfirst @BookNAround

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Persuasion | Jane Austen
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ShyBookOwl A mouthful, but one I appreciate 😌 3mo
AnnR Austen sure has some really long sentences! 3mo
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Reading by the Christmas Tree😀
One of my favourite parts of the holiday season.

Julsmarshall It is one of my favorite things about the season too! 3mo
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The Kindness Book | Todd Parr
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One of my amazing co-workers randomly made this necklace for me!

Texreader Beautiful!!! 4mo
5feet.of.fury So pretty! 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it!! 💜 4mo
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marleed It‘s beautiful! 4mo
Ruthiella Cute! 🤩 4mo
Captivatedbybooks This is beautiful 4mo
batsy Very pretty! 4mo
LittleBowBook It‘s so pretty!!! 🤩 Great colours! 4mo
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So, if Henry III was the one appointing the popes, did he dismiss one for buying the title from…himself? Bold move, Henry, bold move.

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I enjoy Bown‘s writing style and his ability to concisely convey complex histories, while still providing interesting details. In this case, he tells the story of the building of the CPR. However, this may only be a pick for history buffs. See the previous quotes I posted to get a sense of the writing.

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Gotta love chapter titles like this😂

Aimeesue 🤣 4mo
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