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Purpleness
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Texreader 😂 2d
lil1inblue 🤣 1d
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Purpleness
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shanaqui

I think I need to set daily goals for this one, it's such a chonker! I love the in-line colour illustrations, though; I've been seeing that more often in books in the last couple years, but it's still so good.

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AroundTheBookWorld
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Rome753
The Book on the Bookshelf | Henry Petroski
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Happy National Book Lovers Day

Deblovestoread Beautiful kitty 😻 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
AnnCrystal
📚👏🏼🥳📚🤩📚✨😸📚💫.
2mo
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Rome753
The Book on the Bookshelf | Henry Petroski
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Theodora trying to decide what to read next.
Do you have any rules or guidelines for determining what you should read next?
For me, when picking something, I frequently pick something from a category or area that's different from the book I just read. I also might factor in how long it's been on my TBR list. However, there's been times I don't strictly follow these, and go with something that just catches my interest.
#TuxedoCats #catsandbooks

AnnCrystal ✨😸💫... if it's a series that I'm reading, and I have the next book, I continue (unless I need a break from the series). Otherwise, it's what catches me 🪄📚💫. 3mo
Rome753 @AnnCrystal Very cool 3mo
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Rome753
The Book on the Bookshelf | Henry Petroski
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Trying to stay cool in the heat.
#TuxedoCats #catsandbooks #readingcats

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 Hang in there! 4mo
Tamra Mine was willingly outdoors lying under the grill cover when we had the heat wave. Go figure! (edited) 4mo
Rome753 @dabbe It's been a long few days! 4mo
Rome753 @Tamra Wow! 4mo
AnnCrystal ✨😺💫...🙏🏼☀️. 4mo
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Rome753
The Book on the Bookshelf | Henry Petroski
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Tried to get the library a little more organized. Seems like a constant struggle.

AnnCrystal 🤩Good👍🏼📚💫. 5mo
Susanita I know the feeling! 5mo
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rwmg
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Pickpick

The author uses diaries, library records, and other papers as well as elocution guides to reconstruct who was reading what in the 18th century and how. Reading was much more of a shared activity with people reading aloud to each other from newspapers, periodicals, non fiction, joke books, and religious works, and a good reading voice was essential.

rwmg Even with the rise of the novel during this time, reading was much more fragmentary with people reading extracts to elicit emotional responses rather than complete novels such as Behemoths like “Clarissa“ or the more reasonably sized “Tom Jones“.

Fascinating.
5mo
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Hooked_on_books
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Bailedbailed

This book looked great, but after an hour of the audio, I find myself not paying attention to it at all. I‘m not sure if it‘s me, the book, the timing, or the narrator. Maybe I‘ll try it again someday in print.

LeahBergen Too bad! It sounds good. 5mo
shanaqui I found this one very variable per-chapter -- some of the figures he chose to talk about were interesting and some... less so. 5mo
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