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Book delivery 🙌 Thank you @blackwellbooks ! I will be starting with The Wren, the Wren. Have you read it? Special thanks to @rochelles_reading_journal for recommending a place to start with Alice Munro. 😊 📚 📚 📚 :
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“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended." “We go on our hands and knees, and crawl our way to
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"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect othe
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A heartbreaking story of a young woman trapped by her lack of education, by her sex, by her class and, generally, by the expectations that forced nineteenth century women into roles and living arrangements not of their choosing. Beautifully written. Many
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Introducing Irish speed noodle Lupin to the pleasures of great American literature. 😄📚 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 #whatimreadingnow #dogsandbooks #booksanddogs #johnsteinbeck #a
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Time for some nonfiction. 😀✈️🎴🗾🍙🍥🍱🍜 [From the back cover] When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan, he wondered if he’d made a huge mistake. With n
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“We live so many lives within our lives - smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up - and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame. But whenever I’m in the grips of a fever or infatuatio
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"My shoulders rose and dipped with the long, rolling swells of my breathing as I opened myself to the stillness, to the silence of the long, long years, until it filled me completely." Cannot say enough good things about this novel. I may be biased, beca
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James is a retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of enslaved man Jim. I devoured this book. Percival Everett is SUCH a skilled writer. I was transported and completely absorbed in the story from the first p
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✨Book Review✨ Timothy Garton Ash - Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. "It was that year of wonders, 1989. Freedom and Europe – the two political causes closest to my heart – were marching forward arm in arm, to the music of Beetho
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️"Let us have the luxury of silence."️ (Jane Austen, Mansfield Park) 📚 ️ 🌸 📚 ️ 🌸 📚 ️ 🌸 #classicliterature #janeausten #englishliterature #booksanddogs #dogsandbooks #flowersandbooks
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Book Review **SPOILERS** This one was a bit of a disappointment, to be honest. I had been looking forward to reading it for several months.Don’t get me wrong - it was a good read, but the parts that affected me were their war experiences and the horror an
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Another book delivery. Looking forward to getting stuck into these works this spring. Thank you, @blackwellbooks 😀📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readaboo
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Finally introducing Lupin to the classics 😏😋📖 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readabook #bookrecommendations #greatreads #fortheloveofreadi
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“His head stung and felt perforated. As he lowered into sleep the salty pined breeze and cricket songs and schools of stars poured into and birled around his brains so the night became his mind and his mind the night and the mother owl watching over him s
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"And as if from nowhere I realised, suddenly, with appreciation, that absolutely everything around me was alive. There was no gap separating my body from the living world. I was pressed against a teeming immensity, every cubic millimetre of water densely
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I'm so grateful to be living in the 21st century... ⚓️ 🌊 ⚓️ 🌊 ⚓️ 🌊 ⚓️ #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readabook #bookrecommendations #greatreads #fortheloveofreading #book
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"I don’t sleep much at all, she says, I dream each night of a soundless sleep but that is impossible now, it took me some time before I understood that I was already asleep in a manner, you know, that I was sleeping all the time I thought I was awake, try
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Le Rapport de Brodeck ("Brodeck's report") by Philippe Claudel was my last read of 2023, and what an emotional read it was. I hadn't read anything by Claudel before, but will definitely be reading more. His writing is sublime, and he spares the reader not
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My Year in Books: 2023 My reading adventures in 2023 were something of a mixed bag. It definitely wasn't a particularly memorable year, partly because it's been pretty heart-wrenching, which resulted in mental fog and difficulty focusing; and in part, I
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Welcome home to this "little" black noodle. Lupin has been here just over a week and is showing great promise as my reading-buddy-in-training. 😊♥️He is calm, sweet, and cuddly. I just started reading The Bee Sting, which will likel
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It's been a busy autumn, with a lot of house projects to complete, and I've fallen behind with instagram updates. I hadn't heard of this author before, and the description of the story inspired me to pick it up. I didn't enjoy it very much, simply because
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"I was caught in the machinery of certain manias and maladies, the engines of their compulsory performance urging me on. And so as I tramped daily through the woods, feeling for once in the world, I told myself over and over that I must remember this mome
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"Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them." A big thanks 🙏 to @_lifeonbooks for his recent review of this b
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*Warning: graphic photos* Beautiful Gryffin returned to the adoption group yesterday. 😭 Bear with me - this is a long post. I had not shared any of the details before, but two days after I adopted him he bit me in the face. I had put his raincoat on
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Welcome, Gryffin. #adoptdontshop 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 #greyhounds #ilovemydog #ilovemygreyhound #ptk_pets #greyhoundsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #greyhoundsofi
