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Oh my! After the courtroom scene, how am I to wait for tomorrow to continue reading?!
What a compelling book this is turning out to be!!
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Had Victorian Book Club at the Upton House museum. The coordinator makes up such fun alliteration titles for our snacks! And very thoughtful questions to aid discussion.

I‘m not a fan of the book. Emma got on my nerves and made bad choices. I also learned not to solely use credit for purchases, so I won‘t go into debt.

Random book from our home library:

📖 Geoffrey Chaucer (Bloom's Major Poets)

I‘m tagging my favorite book this month. It‘s one of the two chunksters (500 & 600+ pages) I read this month. I read 3 books by Roxane Gay for #authoramonth, 4 for #Nepal #foodandlit, and 1 for #whattheDickens.

Another chunkster from the #1001books list. ✅. Whenever I read Dickens, it seems my opinion of whoever else I‘m reading at the same time (I never have just ONE book going 😱) is immediately lowered. Also, my command of the English language is dismal. 😕

Recent acquisition:

📖 Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

Well, this was stirring stuff! It makes some of Uhtred of Bebbanburg's escapades look like a church fête!
There's no getting away from its being a matter of masculine heroics in the extreme; part of me wanted to find it all a bit ridiculous on that account. However, I was audio-drawing and more than once I realised my pen had been hovering motionless over the paper for some minutes. Audio is *definitely* the way to go with this.

Finished this 19th century travelogue by famous German poet Theodor Fontane back in Troon. The routes of the tourists in Scotland did not change that much, we did the same one, only the other way round. It was quite interesting to read Fontane‘s descriptions of the countryside abd the different places and compare it to today - especially Edinburgh. I will definitely take it with me again next year when I am going to do second Scotland trip.

I feel like this book could be set in modern times
Thomas Gradgrind is raising his children to only care about facts. It doesn't go well. Tom is a thief, and Louisa marries the walking red flag Josiah Bouderby. The facade starts to crack after Louisa has an emotional affair and flees to her childhood home.
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