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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope | Eleanor Herman

At least our healthcare is better than this!!

#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit

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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope | Eleanor Herman

This author is an awesome nonfiction writer. Talk about bringing the 17th century to life!! This! 😂😂😂

#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit

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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope | Eleanor Herman

Last Wednesday daughter and I went to our favorite Italian restaurant and had pizzas that rivaled the best we had in #Italy. #Jubilee #foodandlit

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Literature and Food Studies | Amy L. Tigner, Allison Carruth

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The results are in! These are our #FoodAndLit countries for 2026. To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Texreader and new teammates!

Welcome back to our founder @Butterfinger and welcome to our new artist @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick ! We will miss @Catsandbooks long-time teammate!

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Winter Fun | Rita Schlachter

It‘s time! Following publication of the ToB shortlist yesterday, here‘s your voting form for our very own #wintercamplitsy!

https://bit.ly/3MB5rGz

And here is our list to choose from. We also took out those books that we already read at #camplitsy25 in the summer plus a couple more that aren‘t available outside the US yet, but you still have 43 to choose from!

https://bit.ly/4oQvaZ8

Voting deadline is next Weds 17th December. ENJOY!

Hooked_on_books, BarbaraBB

squirrelbrain @Addison_Reads @Amiable @AmyG @BarbaraJean @Bkclubcare @BooksandCoffee4me @Bookbuyingaddict @BookNAround @Bookwormjillk @Butterfinger 1d

squirrelbrain @BookwormAHN @Cariashley @Caroline2 @Catlass007 @CatGusMax @CarolynM @CBee @CatMS @ChaoticMissAdventures @Chelsea.Poole @Christine 1d

squirrelbrain @CogsOfEncouragement @Cseydel @Cuilin @Dabbe @Daisey @DavidDiamond @Debinhawaii @Deblovestoread @DGRachel @ErikasMindfulshelf @Flaneurette @fredthemoose 1d

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squirrelbrain @Gatheringbooks @Gissy @Graciouswarriorprincess @ImperfectCJ @JamieArc @Jas16 @KLyn1 @Megabooks 1d

squirrelbrain @JenP @Jenreadsalot @Jess @Jhod @JoyBlue @JulesG @Karisa @Kitta @Kristy-K @Kspenmoll @kwmg40 @Larkken @Laughterhp @LeeRHarry @Leniverse @Lesliereadsalot @maggie4483 1d

Chelsea.Poole Eeekk! Thank you! 1d

squirrelbrain @Mcctrish @maich @MeganAnn @Merelybookish @Meshell1313 @Monalyisha @Oryx @peaKnit @Prairiegirl_reading @PuddleJumper @quietjenn 1d

squirrelbrain @Read4Life @RaeLovesToRead @Reggie @rockpools @Roary47 @Ruthiella @Sace @Sapphire @Sarahbarnes @Soubhiville @Skygoddess1 @Suet624 @Susanita @Texreader @sblbooks 1d

squirrelbrain @TheBookHippie @Thekidupstairs @TheBookDream @Triplem80 @TrishB @Vonnie862 @Well-ReadNeck @willaful @youneverarrived @yourfavouritemixtape @zukeeyah 1d

Susanita This is a bridge too far for me, but have fun! 1d

Jess Voted. Thanks so much! 1d

Bookwormjillk Between this and #FoodAndLit this is going to be a very fun Friday filled with book research. 1d

BarbaraBB Cant wait to see what we‘re going to read! Off to vote now 🤍 @Hooked_on_books 1d

AllDebooks Oooh, please add me. I always mean to join in and then forget! 🫣 1d

BarbaraBB @AllDebooks You‘re very welcome! Just vote for the six books you‘d want to read and we keep you tagged when we share the winning books that we‘re going to read 💕 1d

Kitta Thank you!!! I am so excited. 1d

mcctrish Voted 1d

squirrelbrain Welcome to camp! @AllDebooks - thanks for voting and we‘ll make sure to tag you going forward. 1d

squirrelbrain Looking forward to seeing your picks! @Chelsea.Poole 1d

squirrelbrain @Susanita -what, you don‘t like camping in the freezing cold?! 🥶 1d

squirrelbrain Enjoy! @bookwormjillk - nothing better on a Friday! 1d

squirrelbrain Thanks for voting! @jess @Kitta @mcctrish 1d

TheBookHippie You can remove me 🙃 none look good to me. 🤫🤐 1d

Ruthiella Thank you, I voted! ✔️ 1d

AmyG I voted. Very excited! Thank you! 1d

Megabooks I voted! (Such a weird experience!) Thank you, @barbarabb, and @hooked_on_books for putting this on. 💜💜 I'm really looking forward to it! 1d

ImperfectCJ Voted! Thank you for hosting! 1d

BkClubCare Ooops - if any of my nom-6 aren't available outside US, I'll forfeit those to the consensus. 🗳️ (edited) 1d

squirrelbrain Will do! @TheBookHippie 1d

squirrelbrain Thank you! 🤩 @Ruthiella @AmyG @ImperfectCJ 1d

squirrelbrain Don‘t worry @BkClubCare - we already took those out so anything on the list is fair game 😊 - thanks for voting! 1d

squirrelbrain It must have been odd to ‘just‘ be voting! @Megabooks 1d

kwmg40 Although there are a number of books that I'd like to read, I'm going to skip winter camp, mainly because it'll be challenging enough for me to read through the shortlist in time! 😅 1d

BkClubCare @squirrelbrain - I didn't look 👀 at your list; I went off the ToB list so just throw out, no big deal. Me = not following instructions 🥴 1d

squirrelbrain No problem! @kwmg40 1d

squirrelbrain @BkClubCare - well, all 6 you picked were on our list! 😜 1d

BkClubCare @squirrelbrain whew! Because I can't open your list on my phone!! 😬🥸😆 1d

BarbaraBB Missing you Meg! @Megabooks 24h

Lesliereadsalot I voted! 23h

squirrelbrain Thank you! ☺️ @Lesliereadsalot 23h

squirrelbrain @JamieArc - your voting went a little bit awry, with books from last year‘s list! Not sure how that happened - we‘ve deleted your votes so the system should allow you to vote again, if you‘d like to. 23h

Meshell1313 Just voted! Can‘t wait! Soo many good choices! 22h

DebinHawaii Just voted. Thank you! 🤗 21h

KT1432 Oh dear. I want to read so many it‘s hard to choose even 6 lol! 21h

JamieArc @squirrelbrain That‘s so strange! I was thinking that the choices seems old but thought I was misremembering 😂 (edited) 21h

BookwormAHN Done 😺 19h

ChaoticMissAdventures Voted!! So excited! 18h

Soubhiville Yay! Thanks to the councilors! 17h

Megabooks @squirrelbrain it was!! I‘m enjoying the suspense though!! Miss you, too @BarbaraBB 😘 17h

Larkken Awesome! Voted, thank you! 17h

Gissy Voted😃 16h

vonnie862 Voted! 14h

squirrelbrain So many good books! @Meshell1313 @KT1432 6h

squirrelbrain Thanks for voting! @DebinHawaii @BookwormAHN @ChaoticMissAdventures @Larkken @Gissy @vonnie862 6h

squirrelbrain You‘re welcome! @Soubhiville - we love doing it! 6h

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Food and Literature | Gitanjali G. Shahani

The results are in! These are our #FoodAndLit countries for 2026. To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Texreader and new teammates!

Welcome back to our founder @Butterfinger and welcome to our new artist @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick ! We will miss @Catsandbooks long-time teammate who gave her ♥️ to us!

Texreader @Outandabout @Liz_M @DHill @BarbaraBB @DebinHawaii @pageturner1 @sapphire @bookbelle84 @libby1 @lunakay @blackink_whitepaper @yourfavouritemixtape @MaGoose @cortg @ferskner 2d

Texreader @Jerdencon @LitStephanie @Bcncookbookclub @Bnp @ChasingOm @Thebookhippie @mcctrish @JenLovesJT47 @texaschaitea @Bookworm54 @Jess861 @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @Dilara 2d

Texreader @megabooks @vonnie862 @StolenBookmobile @liseworks @kwmg40 @reading_rainbow @TEArificbooks @Q84 @catebutler @dilara @teresereading @roary47 @maggie4483 @soscha @karisa @ElizaMarie @tineke
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Texreader @Sblbooks @AmyK1 @SamAnne @Bookwormjillk @TheKidUpstairs @BookNAround @Tdrosebud @Thegreensofa @PatriciaU @AbigailJaneBlog @Itchyfeetreader @LeeRHarry @Daisey @Crazeedi @Simona @Chrissyreadit @amiable 2d

Maggie4483 This is a great list! I‘m so glad y‘all are continuing with this! 2d

ChasingOm Hooray! 2d

TheBookHippie Yay!!!! So excited!!! 2d

Liz_M Nice mix of repeats and new countries! I hope to join in for the countries I haven't read from yet. 2d

Bookwormjillk I have so much to google tomorrow! I love this list! Thank you! 2d

kwmg40 Looks great! I‘m hoping to participate more regularly next year than I did this year. 2d

Dilara Thank you for your hard work! Looking forward to Cambodia next month 😁 2d

BarbaraBB I‘ll try to jump in whenever I can. Thanks for organizing! 2d

Roary47 Looking forward to new countries. 🥰 14h

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Dilara

Gastronazionalismo | Michele Antonio Fino, Anna Claudia Cecconi, Andrea Bezzecchi

Today, UNESCO awarded an intangible cultural heritage status to Italian cuisine: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/travel/italian-cuisine-unesco-status
On the one hand, good for Italy, and no doubt well deserved; on the other, Meloni and Italian nationalists who have been shamelessly instrumentalising the issue are happy 😖

How serendipitous for #Italy #FoodandLit
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Dilara French article (probably behind a paywall) on the politics of it https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/101225/le-gouvernement-meloni-tra... - the tagged book is mentioned 3d

Bookwormjillk Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. 3d

julesG That's interesting, fascinating and somehow very great. But I might be biased by having read the comments under a cooking video about an Italian dish the vlogger butchered. 3d

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Texreader Great timing!! 3d

Dilara @Bookwormjillk You're welcome 😁 3d

Dilara @Texreader We couldn't have asked for better! 😄 3d

Dilara @julesG I can picture those comments exactly! 😂 😅 3d

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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope | Eleanor Herman

😂 ♦️ ♠️ ♥️ 💰😂

#foodandlit #Italy #Jubilee

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Food and Literature | Gitanjali G. Shahani

The countries for 2026 #foodandlit have finally been determined!! Hold on tight because we are traveling the whole world again this coming year! We are in the process of assigning countries to each month (it‘s not random—can you guess how we decide when to read which country?). I‘m so excited to share 2026 with you with our new and returning hosts! @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick So keep watching this tag!!

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!!!!!!! 4d

TheBookHippie We did Brazil before yes? 2d

Texreader @TheBookHippie Brazil and Mexico are the repeats this year. 2d

TheBookHippie @Texreader thanks 🙃 2d

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