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I've created a new activity for #Litsolace events called #WednesdayWanderings where we discuss our favourite walks every week.

🧭 Where is your favourite local walk?
🌄🌇 Do you prefer urban or rural settings?
🗺 Describe the terrain, atmosphere, and any local wildlife?
😊 How does the walk make you feel? Does it hold any special memories for you?

Please include any photos on your posts so we can all see. X

I liked this, but I think I either needed more context for the historical aspect than the few minutes of online reading I did or more love for Great Expectations to truly appreciate it.

#ReadingOceania2024 #PapuaNewGuinea #ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld #audiobook

It was a beautiful evening, so I spent a bit of time in the hammock in the back yard with Gandalf and my current audiobook. Mr. Pip is set in Papua New Guinea and includes the only white man remaining on the island reading Great Expectations to students in the local school.

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A charming re-imagining of how Dickens was inspired to create his classic Christmas story 🎄

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But, if the spirits of the Dead ever come back to the earth, to visit spots hallowed by the love—the love beyond the grave—of those whom they knew in life, I believe that the shade Agnes sometimes hovers round that solemn nook. I believe it none the less because that nook is in a Church, and she was weak and erring.
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He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
#AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #Fiction #Christmas #Classics #Fantasy #Audiobook #Literature #HistoricalFiction #Holiday 🩷🩷🩷

This was an okay read. It was interesting to read about Marley from A Christmas Story. Overall an okay book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge.
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#readingoceania2024 #Papuanewguinea A story about the inspiration of teachers and their ability to open horizons through the love of a good book, in this case Great Expectations. However, set in the middle of an horrific and brutal civil war. Moving read.