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Definitely a slow reading week here. 🤷🏼♀️
I finished Three Little Words. I started and finished Pure. I‘m almost done with The Only Plane in the Sky. I‘ve just started Bridget Cleary and I‘m not convinced I‘ll stick with it so we‘ll see. #bookreport
pickLes Innocents was a cemetery in Paris that opened in the Middle Ages and was excavated and removed in the 19th century after a subterranean wall was breached and flooded local homes with corpses. This is the fictional account of the removal. I would have preferred more focus on the decaying bodies and the like (for instance, my research tells me that the “grave wax”, a remnant of decaying bodies, was removed during the excavation and used to ⬇️
Here is the response I got from Book Depository regarding the book I ordered from them. They sent me one with a completely different cover.
I wasn‘t so nice in my reply and I probably won‘t be ordering from them again. I‘m not willing to chance it as they apparently don‘t see anything wrong with a good ole bait and switch. 🤷🏼♀️
WtaFFFF Book Depository! I ordered the copy on the left and received the one on the right. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ So not cool. Probably not a big deal to some but it is a big deal to me. The one I received is ugly. #sorrynotsorry
Has this happened to anyone else?! It makes me nervous to order from them.
#7days7covers #covercrush Day 7
If you haven‘t participated in this challenge and you‘d like to, consider yourself tagged. 7 photos of favourite book covers over 7 days.
Thanks for the original tag @Lizpixie 🙏.
So good! I am loving the voice and tone of this thoughtful cataloguing of the carryings-on of an 18th-century French engineer digging up a cemetery..,
so-soThe writing is quite good and the underlying true event is interesting, but the story sprawled a bit so I lost focus occasionally. It‘s really character development with not much of a plot line to drive it forward. (I‘m okay with that in general, but in this case it seemed to meander.)
It‘s dawned on me why I audio-book so much. 💡 Missing is the dirty sheet pan on the other side and full dishwasher. 🙃
#reallife
I read this book a few years ago and I think it really deserves a re read as I don't think I fully absorbed it when I read it. I also gave a copy to a friend as I found myself with 2, and while she was in Paris she went to the site the book is based on. She sent me a few photos and they're all horrifically fascinating. Our relationship with our dead is a strange one.
pickHad no idea what I was getting into when I started this one, but what it turned out to be was a compelling story mixing Paris history with fiction and interesting characters and challenges. An easy and quick read.
pickA great quick read about the removal of the cemetery 'Les Innocents' and transfer of the bones to the Catacombs of Paris at the end of the 18th century. Nala particularly enjoyed the descriptions of the cat, Ragoût! ? #catsoflitsy
Trying out vanillapen 😊. This quote resonated with me, I'm trying to figure out how to explain why, but it won't fit in 451 characters! In short: We're all shaped by our pasts, but more so by our own versions of our pasts. Not just what you experienced, but how you experienced it and how you think about it now. If you could erase the memory or forget it, does it change who you are?
