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The Stranger | Albert Camus

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📖 The Stranger by Albert Camus

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Texreader

The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates | Des Ekin

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Almost the entire Irish village of Baltimore was taken captive by pirates in the early 1600s and sold as slaves in #Algeria. With little records about their lives as slaves, the author relies on a number of accounts by other slaves to try to describe what their lives could have been like. The author also posits a hypothesis that the taking was an elaborate plan of an evil mastermind who wanted to rid the coastal town of its inhabitants for his ⬇️

Texreader own reasons—and the hypothesis seems to make sense! I had heard about this historical event but I‘d never realized how many “northerners” from England, Iceland, etc were captured as slaves by Barbary pirates and not just sailors from captured boats, but hundreds of women and children. I also learned how the women may have had a better life as slaves than in the cold northern climes. Islam treated women more equally! A very interesting read for ⬇️ 2w

Texreader #Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks 2w

Catsandbooks 👍🏼🇮🇪 2w

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Teresereading We visited Baltimore in 2016, it‘s a fascinating story and one I hadn‘t heard before. Thanks for sharing. 2w

Butterfinger So interesting. 2w

tpixie Wow! Interesting part of history! 2w

Cuilin One of my favorite places. I grew up near there. #🩷Cork 2w

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FelipeChapulaS

La peste | Albert Camus

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Un malade a besoin de douceur, il aime a s‘appuyer sur quelque chose, c‘est bien naturel. - Albert Camus, La peste

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Anna40

The Rabbi's Cat | Joann Sfar

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An Algerian rabbi‘s cat can speak, argues with the rabbi about theological matters, demands a bar mitzvah, is jealous when his mistress (the rabbi‘s daughter) falls in love with a young rabbi from Paris and accompanies the couple and rabbi to France to meet the in laws. Funny, clever. Thanks @Adventures_of_a_French_Reader for recommending! 🥰

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Texreader

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts | Joshua Hammer

Ebook on sale today. It works for #Algeria in November (plan ahead!) for #foodandlit. I for one am looking forward to finally reading this one that‘s been on my tbr list a long time!

@Catsandbooks

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motty

The Stranger | Albert Camus

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A book about a murder portrayed as meaningless.
The emotional experience Camus delivers by refusing to provide an explanation for the murder perfectly reflects our struggle to cope with the complexities of life and our need to find a reason for evil. (Through the mechanism of projection, we try to locate the cause of evil outside of ourselves to make sense of the complex parts within.)
An emotionally fascinating journey.

tpixie I remember reading this in French class in high school and enjoying it. Unfortunately, I‘m no longer as fluent in French…. 3mo

motty @tpixie There's nothing like reading a book in its original language 3mo

tpixie @motty yes! 3mo

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Texreader

Generosity: An Enhancement | Richard Powers

Ebook on sale for $1.99 for a limited time. And you can start planning your reads for #foodandlit2025. This works for #Algeria!! @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Awesome! 🙌🏼 4mo

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Michellesibs

The Sirens of Baghdad | Yasmina Khadra

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The US occupied Iraq from 2003 to 2011 under the pretense that they they were saving the world from weapons of mass destruction. We know now that the US obliged the UN experts to do their dirty work and only when they were certain there was no nuclear weapons in Iraq, they unleashed their military onto the Iraqi population for 8 long years.

With its cast of characters, this examines what drives a man living in a bedouin town into a human bomb.

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