Ruthiella Nice! I‘m hoping to re-read “Cousine Bette” next year. (edited) 10h
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I made a pot of Maghrebi tea with gunpowder green tea, dried mint, and tree wormwood, which is in season right now and traditional in winter. Wormwood makes it bitter, but gives it an interesting, more complex taste. It's normally served hot, sweet, and foamy, in a glass.
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pickA good introduction to the notre-dame cathedral and what it has inspired.
Ken Follett wrote this to support its rebuilding when it was burnt.
pickThere is a lot of detail- approx 1/3 of the pages are footnotes- in this accounting of a 500 year old crime. It is well researched & I was impressed at how much documentation survives. It starts out by following the Provost of Paris who did some fine detective work w/i the technological limits of his time. We also get a fascinating look at French politics of the time- and there are unfortunate parallels to be drawn. Once the murder is solved the
There's so many! Apple picking, hot chocolate, a stew in the crock pot, apple cider, chicken soup.
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Almost done. I've read the series over many years and so I don't remember everything. Loved the chocolat movie. I feel like I need to read them all again to appreciate her writing and the interesting tale. Her books have such fairytale sort of language and pacing but really grounded in the real world.
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D'Agoult...returned an hour and a half later....and announced that he had new orders specifying that he arrest councilors Duval d'Éprémesnil and Goislard de Montsabert. At that point, according to several accounts, all the magistrates replied with one voice, "We are all Duval and Goislard. It is all of us you must arrest."
France 1788 #ImSpartacus
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pickA history of the Capetians from Hugh through to Charles IV (before it passed to the Valois) focussing on each of the kings. I was familiar with some of them before (like Philip Augustus and Philip IV (the fair) but this helped to put them in sequence in a very readable way.
