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"In eighteenth-century North America, Benjamin Franklin - who owned a firm that printed money for the colonies - hit on the idea of misspelling Pennsylvania on official currency on the grounds that forgers would spell it correctly and the notes could easily be spotted as counterfeit, but that only went so far."

Aimeesue 😂 1w
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Selected Poems and Songs | Robert R Burns
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TheBookHippie Wow!!! Brava!!! 🌸🪻🌺🌷🌻🌼🌹 2w
Captivatedbybooks Ooo i missed this one! 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
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Chrissyreadit you are fast! 2w
AllDebooks So pretty 😍 2w
jenniferw88 @Chrissyreadit to be fair, I'd already bought the cards, stickers, and washi tape - I only had to print the poem out. 2w
Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛 2w
kspenmoll Mine arrived today! Thank you for the poem! When we read/taught Of Mice & Men we started with this poem…” The best laid schemes o‘ Mice an‘Men…” 😀 1w
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Selected Poems and Songs | Robert R Burns
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Do you think this is spring-y enough?! 🤣🤣🤣 #naturalitsyspringeequinox @TheBookHippie @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit

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Selected Poems and Songs | Robert R Burns
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Spending the day writing #naturalitsyspringequinox cards. Already had to rewrite one as I forgot to enclose the poem 🤦🏻‍♀️

@TheBookHippie @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit

TheBookHippie 🙃🙂🙃 2w
Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛 2w
AllDebooks ❤️🌷❤️ 2w
kspenmoll So pretty! 1w
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Matrix | Lauren Groff
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The best book for February is Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista, but Matrix is using a bonus space, as it was very close between them.

#readingbracket2024

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A Caribbean Mystery | Agatha Christie
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#roll100 @PuddleJumper

Decided to just post the book I hope to get to this month.

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Contents page!

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H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald
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#bookreport Started and finished the top 3.

#weeklyforecast Finish Storm Front, Continue Restoration Britain, Start The Dictionary People, and maybe How to Say Babylon.

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Leniverse Oh good. I think I might make this my non-fiction for March. 3w
jenniferw88 @Leniverse, it's definitely interesting and frustrating - I learnt a lot about the Philippines, but it is hard-going in places because of the subject matter. 3w
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rockpools I thought this was really well done. But I had to read it mega-fast (for me) so as not to become bogged down in it. It‘s a lot!! 4w
ShyBookOwl I just had a similar experience with My Heart is a Chainsaw 🖤 4w
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JenniferEgnor Just checked this one out from the library the other day. 4w
Librarybelle I‘m hoping to read this from the Women‘s Nonfiction Prize! 4w
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jenniferw88 @JenniferEgnor @Librarybelle, I think you'll get more out of it than I did - American history does affect me emotionally, but this book wasn't as impactful as I'd hoped (unlike tagged or Ibram X Kendi's work). 4w
rockpools …and I‘m hoping my hold for this comes in today 🤞 4w
rockpools Also, we need a hashtag! 4w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4w
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#bookreport #weeklyforecast

Finished Matrix
Continued The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
Started tagged.

Apart from continuing tagged, I don't know what else.

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#threelistthursday several days late @dabbe

1. Grease
2. We Will Rock You
3. The Greatest Showman

Disney version (they're a bit like a musical!):
1. Pocahontas
2. The Little Mermaid
3. The Aristocats

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 You bet Disney counts! So many good ones, too! Thanks for sharing! ❤️💜🩷 1mo
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Matrix | Lauren Groff
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Librarybelle I really liked this one! 1mo
Hooked_on_books I loved this book! It was on my best of the year list the year I read it. 1mo
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Untitled | Untitled
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#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

1. I walked into Broadstone yesterday to return some clothes and to look in the charity shops, and have a hair appt later this week.

2. Nope.

3. In no particular order: Wizard Detective, Prioress, Tourist.

Cupcake12 Thanks for joining in. Have a great week x 1mo
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#bookreport
Started & finished Damaged Goods
Hibernated Notes on an Execution
Started Matrix, Storm Front & Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

#weeklyforecast
Finish Matrix & possibly Storm Front
Continue Time Traveller.

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Damaged Goods | Talia Hibbert
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#bookreport #weeklyforecast

Finished What Writers Read & A Taste for Poison.

Start Notes on an Execution

LoverOfLearning I really enjoyed Notes on an Execution!! 1mo
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@BarbaraBB , you're probably not that interested, but here are the prompts I've completed for #aty24 so far! I've tagged the book you can't see the title of.

BarbaraBB I am very interested! Thanks for sharing this! I will share mine too, we already have three in common! 1mo
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#aty24 #numberintitle @BarbaraBB (as you're the only Litten I know who does this challenge 😆😜)

BarbaraBB I am doing it again indeed! Will tag you from now on too! 1mo
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Hooked_on_books A book about books is hard to resist! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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The Book of Cold Cases | Simone St. James
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It's easily my favourite book of the month! #readingbracket2024

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#bookreport and #weeklyforecast

Finished:
John Aubrey, My Own Life

Started and finished:
The Body on the Doorstep
Lapidarium

Started:
What Writers Read

Continue:
What Writers Read

Start:
???

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Lindy I read this one slowly, just one or two stones at a time. I think you are correct that it‘s better in print. 2mo
Librarybelle I have such a hard time listening to nonfiction. I can listen to memoirs and travelogues, but everything else…I prefer print. 2mo
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jenniferw88 @Librarybelle I'm the opposite - I find my mind wandering if I listen to fiction, unless it grips me from the beginning or the narrator is good. I still prefer print over audio, though! 2mo
Librarybelle I love how everyone responds differently to books and formats! 😁 2mo
jenniferw88 @Lindy, I think I should have only read a few stones at a time, too! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2mo
Crazeedi @Librarybelle so funny because non fiction is easier for me to listen to! 2mo
Crazeedi I'm going to look for this one! 2mo
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@PuddleJumper ##roll100 for February

I'm aiming to get to the tagged, but January didn't really happen, so who knows? 😂

PuddleJumper I really enjoy this series. I'm still ignoring the latest book 🤣 I don't want it to end 2mo
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#naturalitsy #midwintersolace @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

I'm not sure, but this is either the first book that got me into this area or one of the first. It's a fascinating look at the octopus, and Peter quickly became an auto-buy author for me.

TheBookHippie Oooo. 2mo
DebinHawaii This looks amazing! 2mo
Chrissyreadit Im super late but you won the last Friday night share for Midwinter solace! i will send out your prize ASAP ❤️ 1mo
jenniferw88 @Chrissyreadit 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you! 1mo
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The Body on the Doorstep | A. J. MacKenzie
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I really got a sense of place and time in this book, but it was only when I read the author's note at the end that I realised some of the characters were based on real people!

Tagging @RaeLovesToRead for #pop24 #abookwheresomeonediesinthefirstchapter !

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I tried to do a #bookerdozen @vivastory , but out of the ones I've read (18 + 2 bails), these 3 are the only ones that stood out. There's plenty more of them on the list that I want to read eventually, though 😂😂😂!

vivastory I was just looking at my copy of Jonathan Strange the other week thinking I should give it another shot after bailing on it a few years ago lol. 2mo
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jenniferw88
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Apart from a couple of historical inaccuracies (which you'd probably only spot if you know the period as well as I do), this has helped me clarify some ideas for my writing project.

#52bookclub24 #hasastickeronthecover - removed, actually.

@BarbaraBB @Kristy_K @LaraReads @KarenUK @Hooked_on_books @BarkingMadRead @brittanyreads @Magpiegem @BookBelle84 @Larkken @julesG @Deblovestoread @MidnightBookListener @Librarybelle @triplem80 @Tove_Reads

Librarybelle That‘s a shame about the historical inaccuracies, especially for a book like this one. I guess a bookish pet peeve of mine are historical inaccuracies, especially in nonfiction. That‘s probably the historian coming out of me too - check your facts! 😂 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
jenniferw88 @Librarybelle to be fair, the author does describe her account of Aubrey's diary as: "discursive descriptions of events and conversations within specific months or years based on his writing and correspondence; shorter notes about personal events that occurred on particular days; and entries providing brief accounts of public events which begin 'On this day'", but it's still annoying. 2mo
Librarybelle At least she provides a disclaimer of sorts! 2mo
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#bookreport #weeklyforecast

Finished:
The Wager
You Have Arrived At Your Destination
The Book of Cold Cases

Continued:
John Aubrey, My Own Life

Hibernated:
The Memoirs of Cleopatra

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Librarybelle On my to read list! 2mo
BarbaraBB I‘ve been postponing this one and reading your review, I think for a reason! 2mo
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Hooked_on_books I love Grann and love an adventure story, but this one was a little lackluster for me, too. I‘m with you on not quite getting the hype. 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2mo
cariashley I struggled with this audio too, felt like I was the only one! Just couldn‘t get into it. 2mo
BarbaraBB Worth the read 🙌🏽 2mo
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jenniferw88
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TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2mo
Librarybelle I‘m not familiar with this one by him! 2mo
Crazeedi I've not seen this one! But I love this author!! 2mo
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The Book of Cold Cases | Simone St. James
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jenniferw88 by Diana Setterfield could be the other book 2mo
rubyslippersreads @jenniferw88 One of my favorites. 2mo
mom2bugnbee I recently discovered her & have enjoyed everything I've read! This one was particularly good. 2mo
Librarybelle I love her books! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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#bookreport #weeklyforecast

Finished:
Persuasion
Ultra-processed People

Started and finished:
On Writing

Started:
John Aubrey My Own Life
The Book of Cold Cases

Crazeedi I started the cold case book months ago! I need to finish it! 2mo
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Persuasion | Jane Austen
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My third or fourth re-read? 😂

Increased star rating by 1!

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

Ruthiella I definitely appreciated this more upon rereading it! 2mo
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Librarybelle That prompt is a very interesting choice for this year 2mo
brittanyreads What a creative way to use the prompt. Love it. I would have never thought of that. 👍 I do want to read this book though! 2mo
BarbaraBB Great use of the prompt!! 2mo
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Hooked_on_books I read this one a few years ago—it‘s terrific! 2mo
KarenUK That‘s a great one for the prompt… I‘m kinda stumped on this one… 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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jenniferw88
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Hooked_on_books I was planning to join this buddy read but the holds line at my library is a mile long for this book. Looks like maybe that was a good thing! 2mo
Librarybelle Good choice for the prompt! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell
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#bookreport
Started all 4
Finished My Dark Vanessa

#weeklyforecast
Continue Memoirs of Cleopatra
Finish Ultra-Processed People and Persuasion

JenniferEgnor That was a disturbing but good book. 2mo
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An Idea Can Go Extinct | Bill McKibben
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I went on a bit of a #naturalitsy #bookhaul this morning! I don't want to fall out with @Chrissyreadit & @wanderinglynn , so I hope these 2 climate change books will help amend my thoughts! Recommendations on the subject are welcomed, but bear in mind that Maths & Science (well, numbers really) are not my strong points, so the less technical language, the better! 😂

And Winters in the Wild is thanks to @DebinHawaii !

(The Aubrey is research).

wanderinglynn Ah, you won‘t fall out with me. 😉 But I think there are better books on the climate crisis. A good author is Elizabeth Kolbert. She wrote Under A White Sky & The Sixth Extinction. A few others: Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells, & This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. 2mo
jenniferw88 I have a Kolbert & the Klein - I'll move them up the TBR! 😊 2mo
Chrissyreadit Jenny you will not fall out with me either ❤️❤️❤️❤️ but i‘m glad you are reading more about the science of climate change and i‘m adding a few of Lynn‘s books to my TBR. 2mo
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#naturalitsywintersolace #nonfiction recommendation

As this book won my nonfiction bracket for best read of 2023, I can't really not highlight it for this week!

Yes, I know the author is a conspiracy theorist, but this book really opened my eyes to some of the science (NOT A STRONG SUBJECT FOR ME) and some of the possible solutions. I'm NOT a climate change denier, but this book made me question what we're being told in the news.

@AllDebooks

wanderinglynn I haven‘t read this book, but I‘m skeptical just from reading the blurb. Scientists learned back in the late 1950s that CO2 concentrations were rising and climate modeling began in the late 1960s. It sounds a lot like he‘s a debunker trying to frame it as if he isn‘t. If you‘re interested in the topic, I can recommend some better books, with better sourced science, than this one. 2mo
jenniferw88 @wanderinglynn Thanks, I may pick your brain later for recs. I've also read this one, which is sort of 'in conversation with' the tagged 2mo
Chrissyreadit I do worry about this- climate has been surveyed for far longer than that and there is robust science to show the impact of man beginning with the industrial age. We addressed some of this when we changed how aerosols were made and used. The biggest difference in the 80‘ was that it was not just scientists talking about it. Factory farming was growing in an unprecedented way and environmental activists were recognizing there was an impact there. 2mo
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@AllDebooks THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING IN THIS PACKAGE! The 🍫 won't last long 😂

A yearly Xmas tradition in our house is to watch The Tailor of Gloucester, so I'm really excited for the tagged book to find out the meanings (although when I unwrapped it, I struggled to remember if there were any 💐 in the story! 😂)

The Fair Botanists has been on my radar for a while, so you've finally given me the motivation to read it 😂

AllDebooks So glad you like it. Enjoy x 2mo
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Chess Story | Stefan Zweig
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December fiction and nonfiction choices @Andrew65 #12booksof2023

BarbaraBB I loved this one so much! 2mo
Andrew65 Thanks for playing long, a great way to review 2023. See you for #12Booksof2024 on Christmas Day. 2mo
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Sharpe's Siege (Sharpe, #18) | Bernard Cornwell
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Fiction and nonfiction choices for #12booksof2023 @Andrew65 - November edition

Andrew65 Can‘t beat a Sharpe, I‘m currently working through the series. 2mo
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Fiction and nonfiction choices for October #12booksof2023 @Andrew65

Andrew65 I must get hold of Babel. 2mo
Hooked_on_books Clint Smith‘s book is wonderful! 2mo
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MY DARK VANESSA. | KATE ELIZABETH. RUSSELL
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Librarybelle On my to read list! 2mo
BarbaraBB A good start! 2mo
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Hooked_on_books Nice! I‘ve been meaning to read this one, so I‘ll have to keep it in mind for this challenge. I don‘t think I knew this has an academic setting. 2mo
Kristy_K Read this one last year and loved it! 2mo
Deblovestoread I keep putting this one off. Maybe this is its year. 2mo
Ruthiella “It‘s complicated” 😬 That‘s for sure! I thought it was worth reading, but it was tough. 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
KarenUK Great book! 💕 2mo
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The Medici Murders | David Hewson
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Andrew65 I enjoyed The Medici Murders. 3mo
Santie The Seven Ages of Death was very good 2mo
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The Giver | Lois Lowry
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August's fiction and nonfiction choices for #12booksof2023 @Andrew65

Andrew65 The Giver is a popular book. 3mo
dabbe I love this book! 🤩 3mo
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