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Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal | David Owen, David Pemberton

#devilish
#hauntsandhexes
@eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
A Lego shop opens in Hobart and they built this wildlife carer with Tassie devils

AmyG Wow! 2h

Eggs Awesome 👏🏻 41m

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The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough

Reposting for @BarbaraJean
Here‘s the next month for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! We‘re just starting the tagged book for #LMMAdjacent, then after one more week back in the #LMMJournals, we‘ll return to the Emily books with Emily Climbs for an #LMMReread. Tag lists are in the comments… but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

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BarbaraJean

The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough

Here‘s the next month for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! We‘re just starting the tagged book for #LMMAdjacent, then after one more week back in the #LMMJournals, we‘ll return to the Emily books with Emily Climbs for an #LMMReread. Tag lists are in the comments… but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

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BarbaraJean Tag list for Missalonghi: @TheAromaofBooks, @julieclair, @lauraisntwilder, @rubyslippersreads, @DrSabrinaMoldenReads

The Ladies of Missalonghi

BarbaraJean Tag list for journals and Emily‘s Quest: @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder

Emily's Quest

BarbaraJean Okay, Missalonghi readers, I have no idea what‘s going on with chapters in this book. I have found no chapter divisions in the print copy. The Hoopla audio has 9 chapters. Searches online say: 1. There are chapters, 2. There are no chapters, 3. There are 19 chapters. All followed by the caveat: “AI answers may contain mistakes.” 🙄 I don‘t know where I got 22 chapters from. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So: read roughly half this week & we‘ll check in on Saturday! 😆 (edited) 3d

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TheAromaofBooks I just picked this up this morning and realized that it has no chapters 😂 Who does that!?!? 3d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Terry Pratchett does that and as much as I love Pratchett it drives me crazy! I started reading last night thinking I‘d read a couple chapters and see how far that took me. At page 30 of a 200-ish page book, I thought the first chapter was getting kind of long, and I started flipping ahead. By page 100 I realized I had yet again made a huge mistake in trusting a chapter count I found online 😂 3d

TheAromaofBooks That has actually been my biggest problem with reading the Discworld books! For some reason, the lack of chapters really turns me off of a book, and I can't even explain why 😂 3d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I feel the same—the lack of chapters turns me off! I think my brain prefers defined units of content so I know how many bits there are to parcel out. I've seen quotes from Pratchett saying he thought chapters broke up the natural flow of a story. But NOT having them kind of breaks my brain a little. I mean, you have to stop somewhere and I'd rather know where the author would stop! I guess he does use scene breaks, but still. ⬇ 3d

BarbaraJean The last Pratchett I read was an ebook version on Hoopla and it didn't even have any designation of where the scene breaks were. It gave me narrative whiplash to start a new paragraph and find I was suddenly in a completely different place with a different group of characters. That pulled me out of the narrative flow more than chapters would have! 3d

TheAromaofBooks Oh wow, that would be SO confusing! He definitely jumps around, so I can't imagine not even having the warning of an extra space! 😂 2d

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CBee

The Secret World Of Wombats | Jackie French, Bruce Whatley

Happy International Wombat Day! Read this, especially if you need a laugh: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats?fbclid=PAVERFWANl7Z1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp2b2j...
(Sorry that link is so friggin long 😅)

dabbe OMG, I adore THE OATMEAL! This is friggin' hilarious! Plus, I learned. A LOT!!! 😂😍😂 Happy International Wombat Day! 🧡💜💛 1w

AmyG The only thing I remember about them…they poop cubes! 1w

Texreader 😂😂😂😱😂😂😂 1w

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ChaoticMissAdventures @AmyG same that is the first thought that pops into my head when someone says wombat! 1w

julesG @ChaoticMissAdventures pops or poops? 🤣🤣🤣 1w

lil1inblue I know not one, but TWO people whose parents almost named them Wombat. One was female, and would have been Wombat had she been a boy, and the other was a boy whose Mom overruled his Dad and went with Cory instead of Wombat. This cartoon adds a whole new level of hilarity to that. 1w

ChaoticMissAdventures @julesG the poop pops into my head 🤣😂🤣 1w

ChaoticMissAdventures @lil1inblue this is absolutely WILD. I wonder how many other animals people were almost named after. "Hi dad meet my boyfriend Giraffe!" ? 1w

lil1inblue @ChaoticMissAdventures 🤣🤣🤣 1w

Ruthiella That link is delightful. 😂😂😂Thank you! 1w

CBee @lil1inblue you‘ve got to be kidding me 😂😂😂 I am very happy for those kids who are NOT named wombat 😂 1w

CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures and here‘s my girlfriend, Hippo 😂 1w

CBee @Ruthiella I‘ve shared it with so many people! I never get tired of it 😂 1w

lil1inblue @CBee They did bond over their mutual near-misses, and they became good friends. But both were quite glad they were not actually named Wombat. 🤣🤣🤣 1w

CarolynM I‘m very glad the people you know didn‘t get named Wombat. Calling someone that in Australia has a rude meaning that I am sure their parents would not have intended😆 1w

CBee @lil1inblue thank goodness. Can you imagine? School would‘ve been a nightmare! 1w

CBee @CarolynM oooo. I‘m intrigued about this rude meaning 🫣😂 1w

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JenlovesJT47

Urn Burial: A Phryne Fisher Mystery | Kerry Greenwood

a disappearing
body, Lin Chung‘s a hottie —
racism abounds.

Phryne goes on a getaway to stay with rich people à la Agatha Christie with her Chinese paramour Lin Chung. They have to deal with racism against Lin and a disappearing dead body along the way. Love this series. 5⭐️

#haikuhive #haikuaday #haikubookreview #PhryneFisher #cozymysteries #audiobook

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader @Susanita @kelly7990 @ImperfectCJ @The_Book_Ninja 2w

AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🐝👍🏼☺️🐝💝. 2w

dabbe 💜🩵💜 2w

lil1inblue 🤩🤩🤩 2w

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag

Picnic at Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay

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The chokehold that Miranda has on the Australian psyche is absolutely fascinating (no doubt in part due to Peter Weir‘s 1975 film adaptation) - this was a reread for me and I was amazed at how much of the story I‘d forgotten and how few pages we have with Miranda (and Marian), given the extent to which her absence haunts the narrative.

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag Originally published in 1967, when Joan Lindsay was 71 years old and with Picnic at Hanging Rock beginning on St Valentines Day in 1900, a time not so far removed from when the author was a school girl herself… the book starts by implying that it‘s based on true events and the author herself was always noncommittal when asked, which has lead to quite a lot of people buying into it as being a true story. 2w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Reading it with modern eyes, there are parts that sit awkwardly- from the only mention of Aborigines being a passing mention of a “black tracker” being bought in to help search for the missing school girls to aristocratic folk who have made Australia their home thinking of the help as peasants. 2w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag It‘s a very white, very colonial Australia - but it is that version of Australia and in those rarified circles that Joan Lindsay grew up and went to school in. 2w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag I had forgotten 90% of this story and was honestly in a state of shock at how the ripples of this story played out. It‘s kind of rare for a story to focus more on the ripples than the “crime” (especially as this is a mystery without a solution, unless you track down the chapter that was cut by the publisher - which imo was the right choice, I don‘t think the book would be a classic if the book had ended the way the author initially intended) 2w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Justice for Sara Waybourne! (I had an absolute blast rereading this and plan on rewatching the movie and maybe even the 2018 miniseries sometime soon) 2w

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Teresereading

Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends | Norman Lindsay

In the kitchen of Norman Lindsay's home, creator of the Magic Pudding - there's a big pot on the stove
#cauldron
#hauntsandhexes
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@eggs

LeahBergen I love it! 🥰 2w

Eggs How fun 🤩 2w

Jeg Looks perfect. 2w

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JenlovesJT47

Ruddy Gore: A Phryne Fisher Mystery | Kerry Greenwood

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there‘s a ghost in the
theater? Phryne solves all
before curtain call. 4⭐️

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #haikubookreview #PhryneFisher #audiobook #cozymystery

dabbe 💙🩵💙 3w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼👻🎭🐝💝. 2w

lil1inblue Ooh, this one sounds good. 2w

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LapReader

Walking The Boundaries | Jackie French

Next op shop was the Red Cross. This was a much better score than I usually get from there. The books were excellent. Lots of which I already own. The scrapbook supplies were super cheap and the clothes were fun. Grand total 🟰 $46.00. I didn‘t spend too much considering I downed 2 delicious margaritas at the Mexican restaurant for lunch along with 3 fish tacos beforehand.

Bookwormjillk Love those sunflowers 🌻 3w

marleed Score! 3w

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