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Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude | Stephanie Rosenbloom

We do not care what else is happening this weekend, or what may come up. We will be attending the protest Saturday (if our joints cooperate), then promptly heading home to hermit up for the rest of the weekend. We do not want company. We will be reading, napping, and watching trash.

#wdncw #wedonotcarewednesday @dabbe

Sparklemn Sounds like the perfect weekend! 2w

Aims42 Fingers crossed your joints cooperate!!! ✊🏻💙 2w

dabbe After a day of protesting you need a day of rest and watching trash. I'm hoping to do the same. May our bodies cooperate. 😂😍😂 2w

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Amiable My joints and I will be protesting on Saturday too! 👊🏼💙💙👊🏼 2w

lil1inblue @Sparklemn I'm so excited. 🥰 2w

lil1inblue @aims42 @dabbe @amiable I have a plan to sauna Saturday morning, which should appease the joints long enough to protest. The weather and pressure have been so up and down, it's been a rough week. My mind loves Autumn; my body does not. 😂 2w

AnnCrystal Be Safe 👸👏🏼🥳✊🏼💙. (edited) 2w

Dilara Good luck for Saturday. I think it's fair to say that people all over the world are rooting for the protesters... 2w

AmyG 🙌🏻 2w

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal We will be! I'm fortunate to live in an area where protesting is still safe. 2w

lil1inblue @Dilara Thank you! 💙💙💙 2w

lil1inblue @AmyG 💙✊🏻💙 2w

AnnCrystal That's good @lil1inblue 👏🏼😉👌🏼💝. 2w

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RaeLovesToRead

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities | Bettany Hughes

https://youtu.be/IDSdg_etAkM?feature=shared

^ made a YouTube video showing off the books I bought in Istanbul

Sorry about the terrible audio on this one.

If anyone has read any Elif Shafak or Orhan Pamuk drop me a message... where should I start????

Thank you for supporting the channel. I keep working on it 😊

lil1inblue My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk was EXCELLENT. I highly recommend that one! 6mo

RaeLovesToRead @lil1inblue I have that one! 😊 6mo

RaeLovesToRead @lil1inblue Maybe this shall be my starting point!!! 6mo

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JenReadsAlot Istanbul by Pamuk.... I'm also hoping to get there one day 🤞 6mo

RaeLovesToRead @JenReadsAlot This also may be a good starting point 🤔🤔 I wish I was still there... such an incredible city. 6mo

RaeLovesToRead @JenReadsAlot I dragged my friends to the book bazaar and the Pera Palace Hotel library for drinks because they were in my 1000 libraries book 😅 6mo

JenReadsAlot That sounds amazing! Some day.... 6mo

Andrea313 I read the following by Orhan Pamuk a number of years ago and really enjoyed it:

Istanbul - Memories and the City

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Liz_M @RaeLovesToRead There's a 1000 libraries book?! 6mo

BarbaraBB Did you go to this museum? I loooved it:

The Museum of Innocence

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Nicos

The Black Book | Orhan Pamuk

so-so

Quite hard going and very convoluted descriptions. You can see how with a bit of refinement it could have been great. Don‘t pick it up for a comfort read 🙂

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KCofKaysville

Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak

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Finally finished colorful book about Turkish-Armenian family connections. Some magic realism included. Has food and culture and family secrets both in US and Istanbul. Quite different from what I usually read. Will likely read more from her.

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KCofKaysville

Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak

Now I will start this book and if I like it will read more of hers.

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Ruthiella

My Name Is Red | Orhan Pamuk

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I‘m ever so slowly making my way through my #10BeforetheEnd stack.

This was a dense and thought provoking read. Translated from the Turkish and set in the 16th century during the Ottoman Empire, this reflects a culture which is largely unknown to me. It does have a murder mystery as its overarching plot, but that‘s just a framework used to delve into larger philosophical questions about art and religion.

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Ruthiella

My Name Is Red | Orhan Pamuk

#WhereAreYouMonday

This Monday finds me in 16th century Istanbul among the scribes, miniaturists, gilders, and other artists of the empire who have been commissioned to create book which will also be a work of art for the sultan. Only 50 pages in, but definitely getting The Name of the Rose vibes.

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bookandbedandtea Every time I see a mention of this book I think it sounds good. 12mo

Ruthiella @bookandbedandtea It has been on my list for ages. 12mo

BiblioLitten Ohhh!! I loved this book when I read it years ago. Death is a narrator, I believe. 12mo

Ruthiella @BiblioLitten Each section is narrated by a different character, but yes, there is one narrated by Death. It‘s such a dense historical and philosophical book, it‘s taking me ages to read it. 12mo

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GinaKButler

Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 | Philip Mansel

So, @Kelly326 and I decided to DNF our Q3 chunkster…we‘re going to use the rest of that time to read this instead!

@Amiable

Amiable Looks interesting! 1y

Kelly326 And ended up not finishing this one either… 14mo

GinaKButler @Kelly326 @Amiable 200+ pages was a valiant effort! 14mo

Amiable @GinaKButler @Kelly326 They can‘t all be winners, I guess! 14mo

Kelly326 I guess not to shabby in the few years we have been doing the chunksters, this is our 1st DNF. 14mo

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Texreader

The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak

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Armanoush (Amy), an American Armenian teen, travels to #Turkey to learn more about her family. She befriends Asya and her family of kooky but wonderful aunts—each of whom must come to grasps with Amy‘s harsh family‘s past due to the slaughter and ouster of Armenians. The book reveals a delicious commonality between the cultures: food. A bit of mysticism helps tell this story. Amy‘s broken family in America don‘t know she‘s made this trip. The ⬇️

Catsandbooks

Texreader underlying story back in America is good but I felt like there was a missed opportunity for a more meaningful conclusion to it. A good book I absolutely recommend, for the references to the food, the history of the Armenian genocide, or just a good story. #foodandlit 1y

Catsandbooks ❤️🇹🇷 1y

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Texreader

The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak

I finished this book last month and as I was going to write my review I remembered highlighting this from the author‘s notes. Unreal…

#Turkey #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks 😱that's crazy! 1y

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