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
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-...
pickThe 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 ⬇️
I finished this book while cleaning up my tomato plants and discovered this hitherto undiscovered beauty!! Review to come (book/tomato? Maybe both)
Listening to this audiobook during my walk around the neighborhood today.
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
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
Today‘s Audible deal of the day. I bought it to listen to for #Greenland #readingtheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
pickThis 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
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
My next audiobook.For #foodandlit #Paraguay and #readingtheAmericas
@Catsandbooks @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
Thanks to @Bookwormjillk for bringing it to my attention
pickI 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 ⬇️
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.
pickBook 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 ⬇️
I‘m starting this one now and nothing like starting with a map
#readingtheAmericas
#Bahamas
#Barbados
#Cuba
#Jamaica
#Martinique
#USVirginIslands or #USVI
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
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.
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
pickVespasian 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 & ⬇️
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.”
The first of what I suspect will be many maps. Ok so here we are at 30 BC! Fun!!
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
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
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
I‘m woefully behind but I want to get back to sending my #litsylove mail. So here‘s a start to two wonderful littens!
@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.
pickPeter 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 ⬇️
The ebook for this chunkster is on sale! It‘s very long but such a good read.
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!
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
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
pickMichelangelo 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 ⬇️
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
Guilty! Anyone else? Even if it‘s in a country where you don‘t speak the language? Yep!
https://apple.news/AmDS3J0KGS7SGs96cjLY6Cg
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If only all warfare was something like this.
Are pessimists happier than optimists? Hmmm. Food for thought.
#readingtheamericas
#Argentina
#Bolivia
#Brazil
#Cuba
#Ecuador
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
My next audiobook!
On my Italy splurge kick, this just arrived! #litsymail
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!! ❤️ 🍅
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.
Who‘d watch this one? 🤚
I‘m 100% in favor of these
pickThe 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
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