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A Trail Through Time | Jodi Taylor
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My daughter spent the day at Pompeii, so I had to post this perfect framing of her photo of Vesuvius for this book I read recently, where an extremely important part of the book takes place in Pompeii. #serieslove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65 @julesG

TheSpineView Great photo! 3h
TheBookDream Oh wow 1h
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I‘m not the least bit sympathetic having read this book (one of the best books in my opinion). In fact, just 11 years? A man died and many more could have died thanks to her fraud.

More here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12136295/Elizabeth-Holmes-spends-final-...

GinaKButler Zero sympathy for her. Her kids, maybe, but her? No. 2d
Susanita Yeah. Boo freaking hoo. 2d
manifestsanity She can rot. 2d
Vansa She is an absolutely heartless, unscrupulous person who seems completely amoral,and not remotely contrite. It's good justice is being served and she's going to prison. 2d
mrp27 Agreed! No empathy for her. 1d
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The author, a Mennonite (or anabaptist), traveled via motorbike from his birthplace in #Canada to #Argentina stopping at Mennonite settlements along the way. First, a number of practices and beliefs are similar to how I was raised as a Baptist but I‘d never associated them with religion. That was very eye-opening. The author, now a very modern resident of Hong Kong, seemed hypercritical of the people he met and their ways. But eventually he ⬇️

Texreader was able to recognize the Mennonite ways deep in his own personality. This book definitely faced Mennonites in all its forms. Even more eye-opening and downright scary were the mass rapes in the community in #Bolivia. The uneducated population are kept that way to ensure they maintain their old ways, but also left the women without the understanding to say what had happened to them. Tragic. An excellent coverage of many Central & South ⬇️ (edited) 4d
Texreader American cultures. #foodandlit #readingtheAmericas #Mexico #Belize #Paraguay #Guatemala Thank you @Bookwormjillk for making me aware of this book. It was very interesting (edited) 4d
Librarybelle Between your review and @Bookwormjillk ‘s review, I think I really need to read this! 4d
Bookwormjillk I‘m glad you liked it! If it wasn‘t for #FoodAndLit and #ReadingTheAmericas would have never found this in a random search. 3d
Texreader @Bookwormjillk I agree. I love the challenges for introducing me to books I wouldn‘t have read. And I learned a lot from this one! 2d
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I‘m getting a head start on my book for June for #foodandlit set in #Australia. @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Yay! 🇦🇺 4d
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I finished this book while cleaning up my tomato plants and discovered this hitherto undiscovered beauty!! Review to come (book/tomato? Maybe both)

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Listening to this audiobook during my walk around the neighborhood today.

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The First Man in Rome | Colleen McCullough
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Not quite book related, but here‘s my daughter today at the Roman Forum, which is where parts of the first chapter of the book is taking place

TheBookHippie How very exciting !!! 6d
TheBookgeekFrau Fun!!! 6d
marleed Oh cool! 5d
Texreader @TheBookHippie @TheBookgeekFrau @marleed I am loving her photos!! I can‘t wait to see her photos when she goes to Pompeii next week! And I promise to post lots of photos when I get there. I‘m so excited. 5d
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Since the book is about pirates, I guess I‘d better know the ships!

#readingtheAmericas
#Bahamas
#Barbados
#Cuba
#Jamaica
#Martinique
#USVirginIslands or #USVI

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Today‘s Audible deal of the day. I bought it to listen to for #Greenland #readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Librarybelle Awesome! Thanks for sharing! 1w
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Christmas Present | Jodi Taylor
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This short story is even better the second time around. I previously just listened to all the short stories (1 released each Christmas) but now I‘m reading the entire series in order for #serieslove2023. It‘s even sweeter having read it this way and I can‘t wait to start the next book. Love love love this series. @julesG I understand why you keep rereading the series!! @TheSpineView @Andrew65

julesG Can you believe book 14 is releasing in less than a month? 7d
Texreader @julesG I had no idea! Have you also read the Time Police books? 7d
TheSpineView Fantastic! 7d
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julesG Yes, I've read the TP books. I think I read the first TP (Doing Time) after book 10 (Hope for the Best). I wouldn't read the TP series before that point. In the short "And Now For Something Completely Different" (#9.7) Jodi's intro says she was fiddling with the idea of the TP. So it seems most natural to read it either before book 10 or just after. 6d
julesG Having read an ARC for book 14, I am tempted to say, wait until you've read all 14 St Mary's books and then read TP. Then again, there are no spoilers for St Mary's in the TP books and vice versa. 6d
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 6d
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Christmas Present | Jodi Taylor
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I‘m going to sneak in this short audiobook. I‘ve already read it years ago but since I‘ve started the series from the beginning, I‘m going to listen to this one again so I stay in order. And this author just puts me in a good mood. #serieslove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

julesG My daughter started listening to Christmas Past before leaving for school. 😁 Made me rethink my listening plans for today. 🤪 1w
TheSpineView Excellent! 1w
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My next audiobook.For #foodandlit #Paraguay and #readingtheAmericas

@Catsandbooks @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Thanks to @Bookwormjillk for bringing it to my attention

Librarybelle Looking forward to your thoughts! 1w
OrangeMooseReads That looks interesting 🧐 1w
Texreader @Librarybelle @OrangeMooseReads Well, first things first, I‘ll have to figure out what a Mennonite is. I‘ve come across the term in some of the books I‘ve read for #readingtheamericas so now it‘s my chance to learn who they are. 1w
Bookwormjillk @Texreader he gives a good background. Enjoy! 1w
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Venice: A New History | Thomas F. Madden
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I have fallen in love with ancient Venice thanks to this book. It was the oldest republic in the world, for 1300 years its people opposed a strong central government. The author destroys old myths about its “all-powerful” doges who were nothing of the sort. Doges were chosen by a process so complex no one of power could possibly influence it “other than God,” and were replaced easily. Not until Napoleon—who “forced” liberty on it (another myth ⬇️

Texreader because according to the author they were the most free people through antiquity)—did one man force the Venetians to erect a statue to one man in St Mark‘s Square. Napoleon. It didn‘t last long. Venice was formed when Romans escaped to its islands fleeing Attila the Hun. Because land was scarce, there was no landed gentry, and thus no nobility, unlike everywhere else in the ancient world. And yet the people were and are noble. An excellent book!! 1w
Texreader By the way, the narrator was fantastic as well. I just don‘t have enough praise for this book. While I‘m not as enamored with Venice‘s modern history (no fault of the author‘s of course), I now cannot wait to see it in a few weeks!! 1w
thereadingreference Interesting review! We probably have a lot of similar interests based on your enthusiasm for setting the record straight regarding Venetian doges lol 1w
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Texreader @thereadingreference You have me very intrigued! Do you like nonfiction history or Venice or both? Very very cool!! 1w
thereadingreference I love nonfiction! I really enjoy reading about different places. I studied art history in undergrad and I'm just such a nerd for buildings, cities, cultures. I also went to Venice alone once and spent a couple of days just ghosting through the museums and buildings, trying to conceptualize the history. I loved it. Obviously I'm obsessed with Rome as well ... you got me dreaming of Italy! 1w
thereadingreference I am also a very boring attorney 😂, perhaps a capacity for tedium is my gift 1w
Texreader @thereadingreference Yes we do indeed have a LOT in common! Except my practice is far from boring. I‘m an employment law attorney representing employers. And they keep me hopping all…the…time!! Be sure to watch for my posts when I get to Italy. I usually bore littens to tears with my trip photos but I can‘t help myself. I have countless museums planned. 1w
thereadingreference So fun!! I work in the admin law world 😂. Have a wonderful time 💕. 1w
Texreader @thereadingreference Yikes! I took that class in law school and decided admin law was for the smart ones. 😂 I clerked for an appellate court in Austin where all the admin cases in the state are appealed. So I “dabbled” in it for the year I clerked. 20+ years later, I‘ve got the basics down but that‘s about it. But no offense, while very intellectually challenging, I do think it might be on the boring side of the law. 😂 1w
thereadingreference The fantasy lit helps with that 😂😂 1w
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Venice: A New History | Thomas F. Madden
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Trying to get in shape before my vacation so I‘m walking the neighborhood every day (weather permitting) and listening to this awesome history of Venice.

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SamAnne Love this! 2w
CarolynM 👏👍 1w
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A Trail Through Time | Jodi Taylor
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Book 4 of the series, this may be the best yet. But when I started it I was so disappointed. Book 3 ended with what felt like a deus ex machina, and this book started with chases and emergency jumps through time to escape the mysterious Time Police. I hate car chases in movies—they bore me to no end. I was afraid this entire book was exactly that—a long car chase. But it turned out the author was far more clever than I gave her credit for by ⬇️

Texreader ending book 3 the way she did and how the events in that book mattered so much to this book. A smart move! As always, full of historical stories, action, adventure, near death and death, sci fi moments, and sexy moments, tears, and laughter, a little dystopia thrown in—this series has it all. Quite a fantastic book. Whatever you do, don‘t read them out of order. #serieslove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView (edited) 2w
TheSpineView Sounds good! Well done! 2w
julesG 🥳🥳🥳 2w
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1w
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The First Man in Rome | Colleen McCullough
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When I chose to read this ebook I knew that somewhere I had the enormous chunkster. And thank heavens I do. The glossary in the ebook was so lengthy that it was practically useless. So this will serve as my reference guide because it‘s just too heavy to read and hopefully I‘ll have enough figured out before I need to go to Rome without it.

azulaco I adore this series. The first two are on my list of all-time favorite books. My husband and I read them to pieces. 2w
Texreader @azulaco Oh! That is so great to hear! 2w
azulaco Depending on which printing you have, there are some inaccuracies in the glossary. Also, I thought it was weird that in the listing of nicknames, my editions said that no one knew where the nickname Sulla came from. Uh, really? They make sulla honey in Italy. Look up a picture of the bright red sulla flower, red like Sulla‘s hair. NO ONE ever twigged to this? I doubt it. That has to be a weakness in her pre-Google era research. 2w
Texreader @azulaco I love all your comments! I may be fact checking with you! 👍🏻 I‘ll have to look for that red honey when I‘m in Italy in a few weeks (edited) 1w
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Happy World Bee Day!!

CaitZ That made me laugh out loud 2w
Texreader @CaitZ I love Boynton‘s sense of humor 2w
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Deep Roots | Nick Sullivan
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I decided to start a second ebook when I needed a lighter read from my other ebook, The First Man of Rome

The tagged book is set in #Belize. I enjoyed book 1 by this author so I‘m hopeful for this one.

#readingtheAmericas

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Vespasian became a bookmaker in Florence, Italy at a tender age and grew up to become the greatest bookseller and bookmaker at just the moment scribes and illuminators were being replaced by the printing press, a technology Vespasian refused to accept. He could find just about any book that existed in the known world for a discriminating buyer, or he could hire the best scribes and illuminators to transcribe (& translate) if need be for kings & ⬇️

Texreader the wealthy across the western world. His work was superior. A marvelous book describing the history of writing on papyrus to parchment to paper made of linen, of making the ink and colors, of the printing press and typesetting, and the creation of fonts. We learn about the work of scribes & talented illuminators to typesetters & printers. Extraordinarily interesting on the one hand, and boring on the other as the book covers the rise ⬇️ (edited) 2w
Texreader and fall of the kings and rulers and the battles they fought—important because they were Vespasian‘s customers. He often found himself supplying manuscripts to people on both sides of conflicts. Sadly, that part of the book was tedious. Overall, a brilliant read and well-researched about a “common man” that we don‘t normally get to read about. (edited) 2w
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The First Man in Rome | Colleen McCullough
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Today was daughter‘s 1st full day in Rome to start her studies there & she took this photo today of Circus Maximus

“Circus Maximus The old circus built by King Tarquinius Priscus before the Republic began. It filled the whole of the Vallis Murcia, between the Palatine and Aventine mounts. It held somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 people, even in Republican times; during the Republic, only Roman citizens were admitted.”

Larkken It‘s so green! It‘s always fun to see classical ruins all green and lush when usually people are there in august and everything is baked out and brown 😆 hope your daughter enjoys the trip! 2w
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The First Man in Rome | Colleen McCullough
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The first of what I suspect will be many maps. Ok so here we are at 30 BC! Fun!!

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City Of Illusions | Ursula K. LeGuin
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I‘ve decided to make this one my next audiobook once I finish The New History of Venice. If I time it right it will work for June‘s #authoramonth. Since I‘ll be traveling most of June, I‘m trying to get a head start on my June book challenges. @Soubhiville

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The First Man in Rome | Colleen McCullough
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I‘m almost certainly biting off more than I can chew with this #chunkster (at 1127 pages) but I‘m going to give it a try. This is my next ebook which will serve two purposes:
I‘ll still be reading it when I fly to Rome (how perfect, right?) in early June, so it fills my Italy obsession at the moment. And it works for #Australia #foodandlit in June because the author is Australian. @Catsandbooks @Amiable

Amiable I read this years ago —too many years of Latin classes in high school and college! I remember liking it, if that helps. 😀 2w
CatLass007 The Audible version is abridged. Abridging books is a sin against the natural order of things.😩 2w
Itchyfeetreader With the fear of adding to your chunkster problems if you are an Italy kick I recommend both the tagged book and it‘s second part called the splendour before the dark 2w
marleed I listened to this in my car commute to and from work years ago on audiotape! It was the book that got me hooked on audio format as an option. I kept a notepad in my car so I could jot down all the names ending in ‘ius‘! I must have renewed my loan 4-5 times because my commute was 20-30 minutes depending on traffic and there was no speeding up of a cassette tape! (edited) 2w
Catsandbooks Good luck with that chunkster! 2w
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A very favorite time, time to pick out my next books to read since I‘ve just finished my ebook and am soon to finish my audiobook and IRL book. Tagged is my next IRL book for #readingtheAmericas

Works for:
#Bahamas
#Barbados
#Cuba
#Jamaica
#Martinique
#USVirginIslands or #USVI

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Bookwormjillk Almost as much fun as actually reading! 2w
Texreader @Bookwormjillk Right? 😁 2w
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I‘m woefully behind but I want to get back to sending my #litsylove mail. So here‘s a start to two wonderful littens!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m behind too 🥴 2w
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@GingerAntics and I loved this series (ok she‘s a bit fanatical about it), so whenever it‘s free I have to highly recommend it.

GingerAntics 😂🤣😂 I‘ve fallen in love with the concept! I also love how they can solve all these crimes without any forensics. 1w
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Bookwormjillk This would be good for #FoodAndLit in August too. Tempting. 2w
Librarybelle Thanks for posting! 2w
Sapphire I need to join you all for Cost Rica. I have family lore involving this beautiful land 2w
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Peter Allison was a former long-time African safari guide who despised his desk job. So he decided he needed to travel and admire wildlife in South America. First stop was to spend a month volunteering on an animal reserve. He chose to help tend Roy the puma. Sold as a cub, Roy‘d never be rewilded so to help keep him as wild as possible, a volunteer ropes himself to Roy and gives him the run of the jungle. It‘s absolutely brutal and he became ⬇️

Texreader Roy‘s chew toy. Then he spends months on many adventures in different countries. The last was living with an Amazon tribe thick in the jungle for 3 weeks. The author is continuously self-deprecating describing his personal misadventures, making this an often laugh-out-loud experience. I enjoyed it very much. #readingtheamericas

#Argentina
#Bolivia
#Brazil
#Chile
#Ecuador

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
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Librarybelle Glad you enjoyed this one! Sounds like it can be a fun read! 2w
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Kristin Lavrensdatter | Sigrid Undset
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The ebook for this chunkster is on sale! It‘s very long but such a good read.

TheBookHippie It‘s so good!!! 2w
AmyG It‘s a wonderful book. I have read the first 2…1 more to go. 2w
SamAnne @Texreader thanks for the tip! Bought. 2w
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dabbe Bake the ONE cookie! 🤣🤣🤣 2w
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I‘m in a hotel for a stressful meeting in the a.m. I‘m delivering news to a client with survey results about the workplace culture, which had a lot of bad news. I worried way too much until this afternoon when I realized there was a lot of positive news as well. So I made a list of all the great things the client is doing, and then we‘ll discuss ways to improve. I‘m reading loads tonight to try to destress. Here are my current reads. Wish me luck!

Andrew65 Best of luck for tomorrow 😁 2w
Texreader @Andrew65 Thank you. I‘m really so nervous. I made the CEO promise me he‘d be upbeat about this. He‘s a negative nelly and I fear he‘s just going to make excuses when there‘s so much opportunity here. Geez, I don‘t want to sound desperate with him. I‘m just the employment attorney. But there‘s so much to gain for his employees!! 2w
Bookwormjillk Good luck! I work in market research so I‘ve been there. Focusing on the opportunity is a good call. You got this! 2w
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Andrew65 @Texreader Hopefully it will go well and he‘ll be true to his words. 2w
Texreader @Bookwormjillk I wish you could walk me through it!😉 2w
Tamra Great strategy! 👍🏾 2w
dabbe LOL! (Lots of Luck!) 🤩🤗😍 Though you won't need it! 💙 2w
Bookwomble I hope your meeting went well 🙂 2w
Texreader @Bookwomble I felt like I came under fire quite a bit but it seems the CEO and I are in an even better place—ready to tackle the issues. 2w
Bookwomble @Texreader Good outcome! 😊 2w
Texreader @Bookwomble Thanks for checking in. It was so stressful. And I‘m very proud of this CEO. He is somewhat part of the problem but I‘m giving him lots of suggestions to mitigate his problem behaviors. 2w
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I‘m almost finished with this book and I don‘t want to miss an opportunity to share the author‘s humor. He‘s spending some nights alone in the Amazon, and to help him go to sleep he‘s listing all the things that could kill him. This description of the lethal snakes 🐍 is just great. The “Roy” he mentions is a Puma he volunteered to care for for a month when he first arrived in South America, and what a wild ride that was. #readingtheamericas

Librarybelle 😂 2w
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This looks so good and has 100% litsy score so I nabbed it while on sale. It says sale last for a limited time, so maybe another day or two if you want to get it

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Michelangelo was a grumpy and admittedly ugly man who was so talented it‘s almost unreal. A sculptor, he reluctantly accepted the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel with almost no knowledge of how to paint alfresco, much less of painting the correct dimensions of humans or anything else on curved surfaces that would look normal while standing 60 feet below. And yet he did, creating a monumental work of art I simply cannot wait ⬇️

Texreader to see (scheduled for June 9)! This book was an intimate look at Michelangelo, his relationships with Pope Julius II, his family, his assistants, and with the famed artists at the time: Rafael and DaVinci. We hear his words in his poems and letters to his father and brothers, who probably did indeed take advantage of Michelangelo‘s hard-earned money. I‘m so glad I read this in advance of my trip. 2w
lynneamch I'm sure you will appreciate it even more having read this book. Many, many years ago, my English teacher took a group of us to Italy and made us all read this one first 2w
Texreader @lynneamch What a great idea! I‘m going to stack it! 2w
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A Trail Through Time | Jodi Taylor
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I‘ve purposefully been reading everything about Italy I can get my hands on, but not this book, which I‘m reading for #serieslove2023. This wonderful time travel series can land its characters anywhere. So ironically, part of it is set in Pompeii! I wish I were going to see Pompeii but my daughter will during her studies in Rome. If we get a chance after I get to Rome, we‘ll try to visit to Ostia Antica.

@TheSpineView @Andrew65

julesG Volcano Day! This sets the groundwork for a wonderful friendship. 2w
julesG And now I want to reread the book. Not that I haven't done so only a few weeks ago and continue to audiobook reread snippets of the book when my daughter listens to it. 🙄 2w
TheSpineView Great opening for a story. 2w
Andrew65 Hoping to get to this series soon. Well done 👏👏👏 2w
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Guilty! Anyone else? Even if it‘s in a country where you don‘t speak the language? Yep!

https://apple.news/AmDS3J0KGS7SGs96cjLY6Cg

AvidReader25 Yes! Every trip I take! 2w
Bookwormjillk I‘m interested in the job title Professional Traveler 2w
Vansa Definitely. Visit much more than just one local bookstore anywhere i go! 2w
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Happy Mother‘s Day Mom! @Doll8455 and to all the moms out there!!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Mother‘s Day!! 🩷 3w
mrp27 Happy Mother‘s Day! 💐 2w
Doll8455 Thanks Karen ❤️ 2w
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Doesn‘t everyone worry about these kinds of things?

Ruthiella Totally! 👍 3w
AllDebooks The 1st one upsets me greatly 🤬 3w
Cuilin I just turned 50 and that third one is starting to haunt me. Lol 3w
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😂

If only all warfare was something like this.

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Are pessimists happier than optimists? Hmmm. Food for thought.

#readingtheamericas

#Argentina
#Bolivia
#Brazil
#Cuba
#Ecuador

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Venice: A New History | Thomas F. Madden
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My next audiobook!

AlaMich I listened to Edoardo Ballerini narrate Beautiful Ruins and he was delightful! 3w
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The Monster of Florence | Douglas Preston
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On my Italy splurge kick, this just arrived! #litsymail

JamieArc I really enjoyed this one. The author‘s commentary at the end on the Amanda Knox case was really interesting. 3w
Texreader @JamieArc It looks so good. I just couldn‘t resist 3w
BarbaraBB This one is on my wishlist too! 3w
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Thank you everyone for your support yesterday as I was recovering from the vestibular testing yesterday morning. After another nauseous morning today I‘m pretty sure I‘m back to normal. So here‘s me picking a batch of tomatoes, this was the largest and look at that bumper crop coming in behind it!! ❤️ 🍅

TheDaysGoBy I had to do it a few years back when I suddenly had vertigo for seemingly no reason. It was three months living with it til I could get tested so by then I think my body had been learning to adjust to the constant vertigo. The only thing that had truly set me off was when they dumped ice water in my ear. That was fun 🫤 Glad you‘re feeling better! (edited) 3w
Texreader @TheDaysGoBy The cold water and then the hot water—that‘s what made me so sick until this morning. I hope you got some relief! 3w
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This was my book of choice today while undergoing vestibular testing this morning. Anyone else ever do this? After a lifetime of motion sickness, headaches, dizziness, and tinnitus, I can chalk today‘s tests in my top 2 worst physical experiences of my life. Still recovering. Can anyone tell me if there‘s an upside? 🙏🏻

Needless to say I read about 1 sentence in chapter 9. It‘s very interesting.

Sapphire I don‘t know what vestibular testing is, but I hope you are feeling yourself again quickly. 3w
ravenlee Did you have to do the Barany chair? I had several sessions of that when I was in the Air Force but having motion sickness. After a week straight of daily spins, I tapped out. It wasn‘t helping, it made me feel airsick on the ground, and it made me feel sick constantly for the entire week, even when I wasn‘t in the chair. My story didn‘t end well for my career, and I still have motion sickness with no explanation or remedy. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
Texreader @ravenlee One test is very similar I think to the Barany chair. I was put in a pitchdark tube and spun both directions in a chair causing a panic attack, a scream, and fierce crying. They had to skip that test for me. It was the worst of the day. But further tests made me wickedly sick and I‘m still dealing with the side effects. So sorry for your experience and its impact on your career. That‘s so sad. Motion sickness is horrific. 3w
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Texreader @Sapphire Thank you. I‘m hoping a good night‘s rest will solve the problems, but I‘m afraid it was so bad I‘ll have lingering side effects from the memories/flashbacks 3w
Bookwormjillk Wow @Texreader I hope something good comes out of all that, and that you feel better today. 3w
ravenlee That sounds horrible. I‘m so sorry you had to go through it. I hope you at least get some sort of answers. I‘ve been afraid to seek any follow-up (my experience was in 2006) because I‘m afraid of this kind of testing. I wish you the very best in recovery and good luck in the outcome. 3w
Aimeesue Sorry you had to go through what basically sounds torturous to me. Hope it helps them figure things out for you. 3w
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Who‘d watch this one? 🤚

Bookwomble Yes, me too, but we've got to come up with a name for it! 🤔💭📚 3w
Bookwomble I've only got "Shelf Life", but there's definitely something wittier than that! 3w
Prairiegirl_reading I would 100% watch this! 3w
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Bookwormjillk I might, but would probably have to stop because it would cause me to order more books 😂 3w
julesG Here!!! I'd binge it. Like "Shelf Life" @Bookwomble 3w
ozma.of.oz Me! 🤚🏻🤚🏻 3w
Larkken Only if I wanted to be tempted to kidnap them to build ME a booknook. None of that donating talk tho, now. 3w
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I‘m 100% in favor of these

julesG Strongly agree to #2 especially. 3w
TrishB Just chapters would be good! 3w
Cazxxx Yes to maps! 3w
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Bookwormjillk I am strongly in favor of the second one! 3w
youneverarrived 💯 to the synopsis on the back! 3w
Hooked_on_books I hate it when there‘s no synopsis or you have to hunt for it. Come on! I like the idea of numbering series books on the spine. 3w
TNbookworm Yes! 3w
Ruthiella Table of contents! Bring it back!!!! 3w
Leftcoastzen All of them! 3w
Bookzombie I agree with all but especially having a synopsis and numbering on the spine for series. (edited) 3w
swynn Also an introductory "Story so Far" recap at the beginning of any series book numbered higher than 1. 3w
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The 1893 World Fair in Chicago sounds amazing and I would have loved to have visited the White City! The devil, on the other hand, was an atrocious mass serial killer who fooled just about everyone. How could I have not known about either? What an incredible book to fill a huge gap in knowledge of American history and to make it infinitely interesting. I‘m so glad I finally had a reason to finally read Erik Larson! #authoramonth

dabbe I LOVED this book, too! I spent at least a month after still looking up photos of the exhibition online (there's quite a few out there). So much I didn't know--even about the Ferris Wheel! 😃 3w
Texreader @dabbe Same! The Ferris wheel! Who knew? I‘ll have to look up photos. Wouldn‘t it have been marvelous to have gone and experienced it? With my luck I would‘ve ended up in Holmes‘ hotel. 😉 3w
Cheshirecat913 Really enjoyed this book too! And was totally creeped out. I looked up pictures of the world fair right afterwards as well. It sounded so amazing, I would have loved to see it. 3w
KathyWheeler I recommend this book all the time. I loved it. I expected the serial killer part to be interesting, but I was truly surprised about how interesting the White City part was. I expected to bored by it, but I was anything but bored. 3w
Larkken The descriptions of the white city had me totally entranced when I read this too. Would love to do some touristing to see what is left of it sometime! 3w
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