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Perhaps his absence is a sign of hope. If there is mercy in the world, Captain Harry Balfour of the West Africa Squadron will spy this ship tossing upon whatever sea she sails and board her, set her captives free, right every wrong. It is not too much to ask. It is far too much to ask. It is not.
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A few of them have inscriptions - one from 1831 (but its in French and pretty faint).

My husband‘s parents just dropped off some family heirlooms for us to look after, including some antique miniature books. They‘re so sweet! (Some title pages to follow)

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We visited Beamish "Living Museum of the North" today, which is a fantastic folk museum preserving buildings, furniture, possessions and vehicles of ordinary people from the 1820s to the 1950s. While it was fantastic to ride on an old double decker bus and a tram, and to be transported back to childhood by the distinctive smell of a Dansette portable record player, the most evocative thing for me was this signal box, in which I vividly imagined ⬇️

Perhaps his absence is a sign of hope. If there is mercy in the world, Captain Harry Balfour of the West Africa Squadron will spy this ship tossing upon whatever sea she sails and board her, set her captives free, right every wrong. It is not too much to ask. It is far too much to ask. It is not.
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#5JoysFriday

1) visiting Mom and Dad
2) seeing the sunset at the parents‘ farm
3) coming home to my cat after parent visit, for her to pout about it
4) huge book haul including 6 Dickens‘ books
5) discovering audio coloring

Thanks @DebinHawaii for the tag!!

This short book packed a punch. About the last white man on an island in Papua New Guinea in the time of a Civil War. He teaches the local students about the power of literature using Great Expectations. A tough but good read. #ReadingOceania2024

My second weekend in a row at HPB ended in a massive book haul… so here goes:

Part 2 of 2. I had to get the tagged book having stayed in Bath at a hotel across from the tavern where he allegedly wrote them

And I‘m getting ready for Christmas. Besides A Christmas Carol, which I always read at Christmas, there are many many Dickens Christmas stories I‘d never heard of in this massive book. It was the expensive one, but I felt worth $9.99.