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#Chunkstersof2023 Here are some chunksters I own and ought to read soon. @Andrew65 and I plan on reading a chunkster a month in 2023. Anyone else interested? @EadieB

Yep, I did it. All 1,275 pages! I‘m not sure we‘ll ever see another historical fiction writer like James Michener. He was supremely talented at spewing lots of facts, yet making you enjoy it!

I listened to this on audio and it was about 50 hours long, so it took me a while to get through it. I mostly enjoyed, but - like most of Michener's epic novels - it dragged a bit at times. I feel like I learned a lot about Alaska.

1. Here‘s a pic I snapped yesterday of the thick snow falling in my backyard!

2. I believe in May it‘ll be by 5th Litsyversary. I‘ve always been a big reader but have never gotten so involved in any reading community as I have on Litsy. I love the love for books and each other that we have here!

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs @EadieB thanks for the tag!

#SelfieScavengerHunt #WinterGames #TeamRedNosedReindeer @StayCurious

But in Alaska the sun goes down before 4 pm in the winter...

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Long but extremely pleasant reading. A history and geography class while reading a wonderful novel. Simply in love with Alaska now!

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It was good, but LONG. It took me 2 months to listen to the 57 hour audio. Because it was so long and covered so many time periods, events, families/people/characters, some sections were more interesting to me than others. (Although it‘s so long ago now, it‘s hard to remember), I think I liked the section at the start before humans. I also particularly enjoyed the gold rush and the characters that appeared then and continued later on.

#SpotAReader

In the same row on the airplane there was a reader! Love how she went old school and was reading a physical copy! 📖

I had to rely on Mr Google for today‘s #LetsTravelAugust prompt, which gave me this “sweeping epic” for #Alaska.

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Prompt: Alaska

James Michener classic Alaska is the first book I thought of. Wonderful historical novel. The picture is of Denali which we used to call Mount McKinley but was renamed recently to the native American word for the mountain. Tidbit: Denali means high one.

#Riotgrams #SetinYourState

Great book. Long read but worth it!

RIOTGRAMS DAY 14: Books in Nature

You can just barely see a sliver of mountains through the trees in the background. View from my back porch! #riotgrams #booksinnature

I'm leaving for vacation in Alaska next week and I'm about to start this #doorstopper. Think I can finish before I go away?

It's practically balmy in Anchorage tonight (60 degrees!), so I'm winding down this evening with the window open and a book to read. You know it's finally summer when the sun's still shining bright into the evening 🌞

There's just something so breathtaking and beautiful about snow covered mountains. I bought this as a Kindle deal a while ago mainly for the setting of the novel and that cover. Hoping it's good! #judgedbyitscover #latepost #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading

Got off track this weekend on my #Riotgrams challenge, but I have a legit excuse. Spent President's Day skiing with my sister @Saknicole and had an amazing time. Saturday was absolutely beautiful and a balmy 30-something degrees! #alaska

I missed #Day12 yesterday, so here is a late post:

#Alaska is the most outside place I know! I was gifted this James Michener book last summer and it's still #TBR but I am looking forward to reading it. #riotgrams #outside

I want to go to Alaska! Not a cruise, no, I want to go into the interior. I have a friend, @Betty knows her too, that lives in North Pole, Alaska. I am obsessed with books set in Alaska. I have North Pole as one of my locations in Weather Bug, just so I can see what's happening there. This time of year they have very short days, sunrise is at 10:46, sunset at 3:07. That's a little over 4 hours. Here's what it is right now. #ReadJanuary #lovecold

"I like big books". Hmmm. But, do I? I've mentioned this before....I bought Alaska (all 868 pages of it) in 1988. I have started it a few times in those 28 years. But, every time something jumps in (a book group book, a favorite author's new book, or whatever) and I still haven't finished it. I still have the bookmark in it from my last attempt-page 326. #Booktober #bigbooks #catsoflitsy

The movement of animals across the bridge was by no means always in one direction, for although it is true that the more spectacular beasts—mastodon, saber-tooth, rhinoceros—came out of Asia to enrich the new world, other animals like the camel originated in America and carried their wonderful capacities into Asia.