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The Crypt Thief: A Hugo Marston Novel | Mark Pryor

#weeklyreport #weeklyforecast
Listening to In the Blood-ch 46/69;read/finished Murder in Chianti;on ch.2 In Orwell‘s Roses;This life-plan to make up last 2weeks of assigned reading; 1ch left to read of How the Irish Saved Civilization;The Crypt Thief;50% more reading to finish. Goals are simple: read what I can, no pressure. #audiomystery #geneology #winecountry #Italianbistro #OrwellsRoses #deadphilosopherssociety #ThisLife #celtichistory #kindle

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Cinfhen I like your goals!!! That‘s the way it should always be!! I hate seeing people feeling “pressured” by their reading. 3y

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rwmg

The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe | Graham Robb

so-so

The author's theory is that the Druids were ancient geocachers who used meridiens, and solstice and equinox lines to construct a mental grid mapping Gaul, Iberia, and Britain, which was then used to site oppida, tribal boundaries and battlefields.

He may be on to something, but I suspect that if you look at enough scattered points and lines on a map you can find a pattern.

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rwmg

The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe | Graham Robb

Not much sunlight today 😠

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GingerAntics

The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

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MOTHER OF PEARL THIS BOOK SUCKED!!!
Gird your loins, because here it comes (complete with rant)...
Half the book isn‘t even about what the whole book claims to be about. The first half of the book is about the “philosopher” in Greece and Rome and what he would have heard about the Gauls from there. There is only one chapter that involved Druids. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics It‘s full of cliches and myths that were debunked in the decade before this was written, making it outdated before it was even published. The entire book boils down to “this is how it was for the pre-Christian Irish, so it must have been similar.” I don‘t get why everyone raved about this book. Even his epilogue wasn‘t what it promised. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y

GingerAntics “The Celtic Heritage” turned out to be “Rome never conquered Ireland or Scotland.” Whoopy! I should have stopped reading when he said Julius Caesar was a great source on the Celts and implied it was accurate. Was this book actually written in the 1950s?! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y

GingerAntics If you want actual, factual history, look else where. If you need something to help you fall asleep and don‘t care about facts or only making suppositions you can support with sources, this is the book for you. 4y

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GingerAntics #PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts #rant #sarcasm (edited) 4y

GingerAntics @Texreader 🎶🎵🎶Mama's pearl, let down those curls won't you give my love a whirl find what you been missin' Ooh, ooh, now baby Goody girl, let down those curls let me give your heart a twirl don't keep me wishing... 🎶🎵🎶 look what you did!!! Everything is a bloody song now. I swear, there is a musical inside my head. 🤣😂🤣 4y

slategreyskies OMG I‘m so glad I read your review before I bought this! This looks awful! 🤣 5mo

GingerAntics @slategreyskies it was stunningly awful! I had such high hopes for this book, but they have all fallen dead out of the sky! 5mo

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The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

This book has some annoying and repetitive spacing issues. Who edited this thing? The content is good, but clearly it needs an editor. There is NEVER a space between “century” and “B.C.” Never mind that it should actually be BCE.
#PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts

Texreader Arg! 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader not to mention, I‘m on chapter 7 of 15 and Freeman still hasn‘t gotten around to what his book is supposedly about. If he doesn‘t get to the bloody point, this is going to become a DNF. I think I would have stopped by now if I wasn‘t limiting myself to 2 chapters a week. 5y

rabbitprincess Hmmm looks like some goofiness associated with small caps. Maybe a formatting issue? Formatting could have been applied after the main edit and the book not given a proofread after formatting. And ebook formatting is its own level of goofy, from what I hear. 5y

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GingerAntics @rabbitprincess true, the tiniest things can throw that off. Good point. You‘d think publishers would purposely want to put a good foot forward and check against after formatting. 5y

rabbitprincess @GingerAntics Yes, I think one last proofread after formatting is a good idea! I am an editor and just spent my day fixing goofy spacing and formatting things in a previously edited document, which is why that jumped to mind 😁 5y

GingerAntics @rabbitprincess formatting stuff is absolutely annoying when you‘re doing them and then they go totally wonky. I‘m glad you‘re looking out for the formatting wonkiness. We need more people like you. 5y

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The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

Here she is, popping up again!!!
#PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts

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GingerAntics

The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

🤣😂🤣#PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts

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GingerAntics

The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

It‘s like Cleo is just part of my life right now!!! She‘s creeping up everywhere.
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa #Cleopatra
#PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts

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GingerAntics

The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

My plan with this one (and someone please feel free to throw this statement back in my face if I start going buck wild with this thing) is to read two chapters a week, so I don‘t get too overwhelmed, I remember it better, and I finish around the same time as Cleopatra.
#PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts

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The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe | Graham Robb

the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, their sophisticated knowledge of science, the authors travels reveal a lost map of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The Ancient Paths bring to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. “ #nonfiction reads✨🌳

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