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This book was for my #readingaroundtheworld challenge, for the country of #Comoros. For me this was a hard book to read, not because of the subject matter but the way it was punctuated.

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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

My next book for#ReadingAfrica2022 . Looking forward to this one! #Comoros

BarbaraBB It‘ll be my next one too! 2y

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The Chimpanzee Whisperer: A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation | Stany Nyandwi

Last challenge update. My apologies for taking over your feed tonight!

These are the books I own and hope to read for #readingafrica2022. Some of the books cover multiple countries, so I‘m hoping I‘m capable of getting this done. I still have a few countries I haven‘t gotten books for yet, but I have high hopes! @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I just realized I can move #Comoros and #EquatorialGuinea to the books I‘ve read! Whoohoo!

KristiAhlers That‘s an impressive list! I‘ve found I‘ve been enjoying the treasure hunts to find books for this challenge. And I‘ve read books I probably wouldn‘t have picked up if not for this challenge. 2y

Librarybelle Amazing! Thank you for sharing your progress and your to read titles! 2y

Kammbia1 Have you read The Famished Road by Ben Okri? Okri is from Nigeria and that novel is his most well-known novel. 2y

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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

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An unusual fish known from the fossil record and believed to go extinct 70+ million years ago was found by an amateur icthyologist in a 1930s fish market, leading to an all-out manhunt for a live coelacanth. This is the story of the fish‘s heroes and a little about its villains (those who “discovered” its mythical medical properties leading to attempts to poach it like ivory). An excellent history if a bit dated. #comoros #readingafrica2022

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

IamIamIam Woah, this looks so cool!!! 2y

Texreader @IamIamIam I could hardly put it down. Very interesting and well written. 2y

Librarybelle So much love for this one, and because it‘s hard to find another book about Comoros, that‘s probably the one I‘ll read too. 2y

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Simona

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

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I never thought that I will like book about fish … but I did. Till 1938 scientists were convinced that Coelacanths were extinct. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was curator in the small museum, always in the hunt for unusual species, and as soon as she saw to her unknown fish, she contacted the ichthyologist JLB Smith… and the treasure hunt has begun. Surprisingly readable, even a tense story about the fish that is supposed to be a missed link 👇

Simona … between fish and humans, a fish that has possessed quite a few people and caused some international conflicts. 2y

Simona #ReadingAfrica2022 #Comoros @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle 2y

Simona #NonFiction2022 #Free @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 2y

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Simona #ReadAroundTheWorld #Comoros @BookwormM (edited) 2y

Librarybelle Your review really makes me want to read this! 2y

Simona @Librarybelle It was the only book that I could find for Comoros and I wasn‘t interested in it at all, but what a surprise. Well research, well written and not at all boring. 2y

rockpools *in very small letters* I think I read about 3 pages of my Comoros Book. I‘m doing REALLY badly at this! Glad you enjoyed this one though - always nice to get a good surprise! 2y

BarbaraBB I remember @Hooked_on_books enjoying this book too. I am definitely reading it for Comoros as well! 2y

Simona @rockpools I feel you … although, I already finished book for Czech Republic, and now I only have to read for Solomon Islands and I‘m back on track 😁 Are you saving your power for Booker Prize marathon? 😘 2y

Simona @BarbaraBB If you need it, I can send you the book. It is used book with yellow edges, but still in ok condition. 2y

Hooked_on_books Yes, this one took me by surprise, too! What a great story! 2y

rockpools @Simona Definitely not! The reason I get through the IBP is because translated books are so nice and short…. 🤔… Oh, wait…! No, seriously, one prize list a year is enough. I‘m going to do #campLitsy though. And true to form, haven‘t even started Saturday‘s reading yet! 2y

BarbaraBB That is such a kind offer but I ordered a secondhand copy already. Thank you so much 🤍 2y

Kitta Ooh I love fish and fish science, this seems right up my alley. 🐟 2y

Simona @rockpools You still have enough time 😘 2y

Simona @Kitta Oh, than you definitely need to read it. 2y

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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

Status of the #readingafrica2022 challenge. I‘m trying to finish the following for #20in4readathon:

1) When the Ground is Hard (audio), #Swaziland #Eritrea
2) Dark Inheritance (ebook), #EquatorialGuinea
3) A Fish Caught in Time (IRL), #Comoros

Librarybelle, Andrew65, BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Incredible 🤩 2y

Andrew65 Doing brilliantly 👏👏👏 2y

Freespirit Wow amazing!! 2y

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Librarybelle This is so amazing! 2y

Texreader @BarbaraBB @andrew65 @Freespirit @Librarybelle Thanks y‘all! I love coloring in more countries! It feels like such an accomplishment! 2y

Adventures_of_a_French_Reader Great! After having read North to Paradise (about the immigration to Spain of a boy born in Ghana), I just began Walking the Bowl, a non-fiction about street children in Lusaka, Zambia. So far it's quite an interesting read, even if it's a difficult subject to read about. Wish you a speedy recovery ;) 2y

Amiable Great progress! 👍🏼 2y

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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

Since I‘m down for the count with my right arm almost immobile until at least next Tuesday, the timing of this readathon is impeccable. Plan: finish all 3 books I‘m reading now for #readingafrica2022:

1) When the Ground is Hard (audio), #Swaziland #Eritrea
2) Dark Inheritance (ebook), #EquatorialGuinea
3) A Fish Caught in Time (IRL), #Comoros

I may try to start my next book for #foodandlit #Colombia, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree

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Andrew65 Good luck, great to have you playing along. 😊 Looks like you are making good progress with #ReadingAfrica 2022. Hope the arm improves soon. 2y

Sapphire I am reading fruit of the drunken tree for Columbia too, but holding off till Wednesday in hopes of finishing Mexican Gothic. Also, cooking Afghan food tonight. It never feels right to move on till I‘ve had the dish! #foodandlit 2y

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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

“Homo sapiens first walked on earth only a hundred thousand years ago; the fish before me, suspended in murky formalin, pre-dated modern man by 399.9 million years.“

#Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

DrexEdit This book is my pick for Comoros also! Looking forward to it! 2y

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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth | Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

I love getting such a nice descriptive vision of the islands I‘m soon to read about. #Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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