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I've been cat-sitting for my son while he and his partner were visiting friends, and taking advantage of being in the city, I'm having breakfast at Gran T's in Ancoats.
I'm enjoying Gossip from the Forest, with its blend of nature writing & the author's riffs on fairy stories.
It's a two-bookmark-book: the red for the page I'm on, the black for the notes, in, If I do say so myself, an excellent example of #BookmarkMatching 🔖🔖😁
#BooksAndCoffee

TrishB I love those bookmarks ♥️ 10/10 for matching! 1w
LeahBergen Perfect matching!! 👏 7d
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I enjoyed Wassef's memoir of balancing private life and co-managing a chain of independent bookshops in Cairo as much as I'd hoped, and more than I expected. I don't think I'd have liked to work for her though!
It was an engaging insight into recent Egyptian society and culture, as experienced by an educated, middle class, liberal woman in a patriarchal and increasingly conservative country.
Although I didn't get to her shop, Diwan, when we ⬇️

Bookwomble ... visited Egypt in 2008, I did buy a couple of books by authors she mentions: Hussein's “The Days“ I bought from a tiny, packed Cairo “book cave“ (I don't know how else to describe it!), along with a set of papyrus bookmarks. It collects his three biographical works about his childhood in rural Egypt, his young adulthood at Al Azhar university in Cairo (which I've read) and his Parisian sojourn (which I haven't read, but ⬇️ (edited) 2w
Bookwomble ... will try to this year). In Luxor, I bought Mehdawy's book of vegetarian Egyptian recipes, which I've dipped into practically a few times, but not recently. I may revisit this, too, now it's on my culinary radar again. 2w
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Robin | Helen F Wilson
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I thoroughly enjoyed Helen Wilson's cultural history of the robin. Focusing on the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), it includes the American robin (incongruously Disneyfied into Mary Poppins's London in A Spoonful of Sugar, though not as alarmingly as Dick van Dyke's cockney accent), the Asian magpie robin, & other species unrelated genetically but which have been given the name.
Lots of wonderful photos & illustrations: a quick, light read.

Bookwomble #BookmarkMatching There's a robin somewhere amongst the variagated flock of garden birds on that bookmark! 🐦‍⬛🔭 3w
LeahBergen This is the best match yet! 😆 3w
Bookwomble @LeahBergen I got game! 🔖🤓 3w
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The Pitards | Georges Simenon
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The last book I'll finish in 2024 was Simenon's tale of a marriage marred by family interference, bourgeois suspicions, emotional betrayals and psychological abuse.
Set in the claustrophobic environs of a seagoing freighter, dogged by bad luck and paranoid tensions, it's a bit like the film "The War of the Roses" at sea. The story builds to a climactic sea rescue with inevitable tragic consequences.
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Bookwomble Simenon's handling of the offstage malignant force that drives the plot was masterly, and this was a fine book for 2024 to bow out on.

#BookmarkMatching My RNLI lifeboat bookmark finally comes into its own 😊
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Seabreeze_Reader Some nice color coordination going on. 🙂 1mo
LeahBergen @TrishB and I approve this bookmark pairing. 😉 1mo
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Bookwomble @Seabreeze_Reader More by chance than design, but I'll take it! ☺️ 1mo
Bookwomble @LeahBergen It's nice to have it confirmed officially 🏆😄 1mo
TrishB A very excellent matching 😁 @LeahBergen 1mo
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Oh, yeah, a gratuitous #BookmarkMatching photo 📖🔖

Wrong legion for the story, but I do what I can! 😀

TrishB Good match 😁 1mo
LeahBergen I love a good bookmark matching photo! 😆 1mo
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Damnation Alley | Roger Zelazny
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Having just finished the almost pastoral post-apocalypse novel, Earth Abides, I thought I'd stick with the genre but go to the other end of the spectrum: Damnation Alley is from the "sawn-off shotgun, kick 'em in the nuts" school, featuring MC Hell Tanner, "Last of the Biker Angels", on his mission to cross the radioactive wasteland of Damnation Alley, domain of firestorms and hostile mutants, to deliver a plague vaccine to Boston. ⬇️

Bookwomble My edition is a tie-in to the critically panned 1977 movie adaptation, but Zelazny is an excellent writer, so I'm expecting, yes, knuckle-busting adventure, but also some depth. We'll see... ☢️🏍️☢️ 5mo
TrishB Great pic 👍🏻 and bookmark. 5mo
Bookwomble @TrishB Thanks 😊 The bookmark was the closest one to hand, so as Manchester isn't quite a radioactive hellscape yet (despite what some might say [added Oasis reference!]), it's not a case of #BookmarkMatching , but damned if I haven't tagged it now 😄 5mo
TrishB I‘ve sometimes gone with closest to hand! And now we‘ll have to have #lyricmatching 5mo
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Poetic Edda | Carolyne Larrington
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I've read retellings of these stories since I was a kid, and I read the Prose Edda a few years ago, so feeling it was time to read the Poetic Edda. This Oxford World's Classics edition looks like it has good explanatory notes, but not too extensive for the dilettante reader that I am.
#BookmarkMatching Accidentally, a reasonable colour match to the book with this bookmark showing Nordic artefacts, which I bought from the Jorvic Viking Museum 🔖

TrishB Bookmark appreciation 👏🏻 6mo
Cathythoughts Perfect photo 🩵 6mo
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#BookmarkMatching ?
Hmm, I don't have many megalithic/Neolithic themed bookmarks as the sites tend to be in isolated muddy fields without tourist gift shops (obviously a good/bad situation), but I'm pleased to have the ones I've got. La Hougue Bie is a fantastic "passage tomb" on Jersey, the others speak for themselves ?
I've decided to use the Stonehenge one for this book - I mean, it's the Guvnor isn't it?! ?

Bookwomble Also, I'm inordinately pleased with the bookmark trilithon! 😅 6mo
TrishB Oh I love these! Well done 👏🏻 6mo
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The_Book_Ninja Where‘s your Cerne Abbas Giant bookmark? 6mo
quietlycuriouskate Love this post! 😍 6mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Cock up on that one, I'm afraid 😏 6mo
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Set against the lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Desnoes's MC is a petite bourgeois whose furniture shop was nationalised during the revolution, who lives off his compensatory income, and who by turns supports and hates the social changes with a mix of disdain, arrogance, timidity and self-loathing. He's also misogynistic, sexually objectifies women and is completely self-centred. Desnoes is certainly making a socio-political comment, ⬇️

Bookwomble ... though the best I could make of it was, “everything is shit“.
3.5⭐ if you don't mind deeply flawed and rather unpleasant protagonists, whose existential suffering is, nonetheless, human and pitiful.
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TrishB Love the bookmark. And everything is shit is sometimes just the deal. 7mo
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan Doyle
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📔 The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes? ✅ Check!
🔖 Sherlock Holmes bookmark? ✅ Check!
🧦 Sherlock Holmes socks? ✅ Check!
🔎 The game's afoot! 😁

Having read the full Canon last year, I'd decided I would read my TBR Holmes pastiche books, and as we're halfway through the year it's time I got started!
This one is almost canonical as it was co/written by Doyle Jr. (some dispute between him and Carr as to who wrote what).

TrishB Love the book mark matching ❤️ 7mo
Bookwomble @TrishB It's gratifying when it's possible 😊 7mo
LeahBergen What @TrishB said! 👍 7mo
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