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North Carolina Architecture | Catherine W. Bishir

(Off topic😂)

With the aftermath of Hurricane Helene my birth state is having a very tough time right now. I found the below link informative.

https://youtu.be/CbrCyWzF464?si=WixJFQ50WCn-RPfh

Bette Thanks for this. 2mo
wanderinglynn Thanks for sharing. I lived across the state line from Asheville in TN. I have a lot of friends in that region & my heart breaks for everyone. 2mo
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Lcsmcat
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Years ago I saw this in an antique store and was interested, but they wanted over $100 for it. I found it for a quarter of that and pounced on it! I love old houses, and these are close enough to drive by and take a look.

Lcsmcat No “Hudson River Bracketed” down here, but there is “Bracketed Cottage” #whartonbuddyread @Graywacke 4mo
Graywacke How cool! 4mo
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not_gremlin
Plain Bad Heroines | Emily Danforth
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“Brookhants students later told stories of flaming yellow jackets making their way from their now- burning nest, through the woods and onto campus, before drowning themselves, bodies hissing, in the fountain in front of Main Hall.”

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ImperfectCJ
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Aspirational home library. This could double as my dining room and living room, so unlike William Randolph Hearst, I wouldn't need the other 114 rooms and three cottages, just this room, a couple of bedrooms, a bathroom or two, and a kitchen. Totally reasonable, IMO.

Tamra 😍 totally reasonable. 5mo
BarbaraJean This was my favorite room when I toured Hearst Castle!! 5mo
ImperfectCJ @BarbaraJean I like it better than the library for the guests, but I would settle for either, if I had to. 5mo
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BarbaraJean “Settle” 😂😂 5mo
MemoirsForMe 😍😍😍 5mo
charl08 Yes, if I don't have to clean... 5mo
PuddleJumper 😂😂 5mo
ImperfectCJ @charl08 Exactly! 5mo
Gissy 😍 5mo
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Plain Bad Heroines | Emily Danforth
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This was an impulse buy on my last trip to my new favorite bookstore. I haven‘t started it yet, but the cover caught my attention and the story sounds intriguing. Have any of you read it? Thoughts?

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Emilymdxn
St Pancras Station | Simon Bradley
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For #decemberdreams today we have the gorgeous bookish Christmas tree at st pancras station this year!

#wintergames #snowangels @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs So awesome 👏🏻 💚📚 12mo
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Faranae
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Alright, it's November, so it looks like only half my #URC2023 is going to be queer romance. Meanwhile, I went back to my past unassigned reads and found 4 books that fit prompts - the one not included here is The Story of My Life by Helen Keller for a blind author.

I'll actually be reading Lady Susan a second time later this month for my read-along Twitch stream.

willaful I've never actually read Lady Susan, IIRC.

I'm annoyed at myself because I had a queer romance for the rescue prompt, with a paramedic, but the second LI is a cop. D'oh.
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Faranae @willaful Oh the “no cops“ rule is just that cops don't count as rescue personnel for the prompt, not that they can't appear at all.

And most people skip Lady Susan. It's one of her juvenilia that she never reworked and wasn't published until decades after she died. It's delightful but it's not something you can mine for social commentary and older Austen was a tad more conservative in her morals than this book.
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willaful Yeah, I never got much into her juvenalia.

Thanks for the allow! One less prompt to worry about. But you will absolutely *hate* the book.
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Faranae @willaful 😂 glad to know I will have good fodder for the blog next year then! 13mo
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sarahosterle
The Story of Buildings | Patrick Dillon

“The Bauhaus- Each wing of the Bauhaus- one for workshops, one for classrooms, and one for living quarters“ This describes a certain type of building and also shows as ketch of it.

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sarahosterle
The Story of Buildings | Patrick Dillon

This book would be great for middle school and up. It talks about the several dynamics of building and the history of all of the. The illustrations in the book use blue print and sketches.