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The view from my current favourite reading spot. You can‘t see it, but the seat is a big swing inside the hedge. Nice and shady in the afternoons☀️📖💜

Couldn‘t resist this beautiful cover! Diving in blind after finding this on sale. #prettycover

Oof. Do you think they‘ll rescind my MLIS?

Pigeons!😂

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Summer is here!

“One of the best-known struggles of the nineteenth century was the Great Game, when Russia‘s threat to British interests in India initiated a lasting rivalry and bloodshed that would continue until the beginning of the twentieth century”
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#middlegrademagic #summerofmiddlegrade

#middlegrademagic #summerofmiddlegrade

Quick middle grade read; I can see why this is so popular at work and why my niece loves these books. 12-year-old Ben is suddenly accepted into a spy school, but of course is dumped into a life-threatening plot involving bombs, bullies, and bumbling adults.
#summerofmiddlegrade #middlegrademagic

One of the main points of this book is that the rise of modernity was built on Africa and Africans. A very serious, multi-faceted, and well-written argument, but I keep being reminded of the British Things song from Horrible Histories, which makes a sort-of similar basic point in a vastly different tone (and complexity level). But seriously, I am enjoying the book, earworms aside. https://youtu.be/sb56cMQEflA?si=YpzOCmbGrxceB6m0

#bookhaul part two
These are the ones for me:)

#bookhaul
Went on more of a shopping spree with my sister than I meant to today; these are the books for the niblings. Tagged store is where the majority of these came from.

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“People often asked them:
Why try so hard to save
one little otter?”
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Such a cute book so far! I‘m trying to actually read more of the middle grade novels from work this summer, and I‘m so glad I picked this one up. #middlegrademagic #summerofmiddlegrade

I literally snorted when I read this. #middlegrademagic #summerofmiddlegrade

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I am so curious now about the meaning behind putting peppers on the roof as a form of celebration/commemoration.

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I am enjoying this scholarly examination of the relationship between the Korean and Canadian churches, but it really needed better editing. I‘m honestly not looking for typos, but they keep popping out at me.

“The specific outcome was less significant than the act of defiance itself”

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The right way to celebrate a long weekend is curled up with a new book:)

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Really enjoying how global the viewpoint of this book is.