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How the States Got Their Shapes | Mr. Mark Stein

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Interesting and informative. Lots of fascinating details. I read this slowly over the course of several months, one State at a time. Now I know that the shapes of the States are not nearly as random as they seem!

#Pantone2025 @Lauredhel

#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #CandyCornies @Bookwormjillk

#BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN

BookwormAHN 💜🐈‍⬛💜 2d

Bookwormjillk 🌽🌽🌽 2d

AnnCrystal 🆒 the shape of states always looked peculiarly outlined 🤗👍🏼📚💝. 1d

julieclair @AnnCrystal I know! Turns out there‘s a lot of history in those weird outlines. 20h

AnnCrystal @julieclair that's kinda fantastic to learn, Thanks for sharing this 🆒😉👌🏼💝. 9h

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vivastory

Plotted: A Literary Atlas | Andrew DeGraff, Daniel Harmon

I was just relaxing with a cup of wine at a theater down the street, reading the tagged story “Return of the Jedi: From a Certain POV“ when out of nowhere people started pouring in to meet some random guy. There was someone there taking pictures, a line forming to meet this guy, I'm giving him the side eye...he's not Chris Stuckmann who is releasing Shelby Oaks this weekend , but I eventually left & had to scooby doo it & it appears to be (CONT)

vivastory Kasim Hardaway, a local filmmaker who has a new movie (The Unbecoming) being released locally *cue sad trombone music* due to the drama, I thought this was going to be someone major*...I shouldn't talk shit..maybe his movie is good!Speaking of awkward encounters at the exact same theater, a few months ago I was there, exact same scenario: relaxing after hours with a book & a drink when a local news crew showed up to interview the owner just (CONT) 5d

vivastory feet away. I had no idea what was happening. I thought it would be over in 3-5 minutes. They talked for an hour! I've never reread the same page more than I did that night. I was literally like 10 feet away in chairs from the interview (AWKWARD) lolol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6P-ddNMRE
(afterwards the interviewer came up to me & said, sincerely, sorry to mess up yr reading time lololol) (edited) 5d

Ruthiella You are a magnet for publicity! 😅 5d

vivastory @Ruthiella 😂 (albeit UNWANTED) Although I did see Brea Grant was at Screenland once a couple yrs ago. That would have been great. Reading Glasses is one of my fave book podcasts! 5d

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Texreader

There and Back Again: The Map of the Hobbit | Brian Sibley

My family visited a “new” bookstore here in San Antonio with very old books.

BookwormAHN I love the name 💚 3w

AnnCrystal 🆒📚👏🏼🤩💝. 3w

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kelli7990

Bears! Bears! Bears! | Bob Barner

I saw this picture on Facebook and wrote this about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Susanita, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, The_Book_Ninja, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

dabbe 🖤🖤🖤 1mo

TheBookHippie Ha. 1mo

JenlovesJT47 Lol so cute 🐻 1mo

AnnCrystal Sweet beauty 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🐻🤩🍯🐝💝. 1mo

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bibliothecarivs

Nicholson London Streetfinder | Nicholson (Firm)

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

#london

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TheBookgeekFrau

Bears! Bears! Bears! | Bob Barner

#Falling #Wildlife

We had a visitor last week 🐻

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Wow!!! 🐻 2mo

dabbe 🤎🐻🖤 2mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🤎🤎🤎 2mo

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TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🤎🤎🤎 2mo

Read-n-Bloom Yikes 😬 lol 🧸 I love bears but not when they‘re that close and we have bears close up in our hills. My husband came across one this past Spring when we had a bad wildfire around our house and he was up fighting it. I guess the fire ran him out of his den 😆 2mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Read-n-Bloom I don't mind them this close--on camera only! 😅 2mo

Read-n-Bloom @TheBookgeekFrau Exactly 😂 Me too 😆 2mo

Eggs Yikes 😳 🐻 🤯 2mo

Dilara 🐻 😲 2mo

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Jehonzy

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Global Politics | Tim Marshall

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Geopolitics is my passion, therefore I really enjoyed this one. For people who are not familiar with conflicts and the world map - could be diffcult to follow. It still is a pick if you wanna understand the world‘s politics !!

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JoeMo

How the States Got Their Shapes | Mr. Mark Stein

so-so

This was okay. Reading about how state borders came into existence was way more boring than expected. These facts were so obscure they‘ll never even show up on Jeopardy. Worst of all, the book was organized in alphabetical order instead of by region, so there was a lot of repeat information. For example you learn about the border between North and South Dakota when you learn about all of North Dakota‘s border and then again when you get to SD.

JoeMo @TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo 3mo

The_Book_Ninja Does it tell you why Missouri took a little chunk out of Arkansas? I need to know! 3mo

TheAromaofBooks This was also a TV series at some point (can't remember what platform) and it was more engaging in that format - I also found this book to be rather flat. 3mo

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Rome753

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet | Nicholas Crane

Falling asleep reading
#TuxedoCats #catsandbooks #readingcats

AnnCrystal ✨🐈🐾💫. 4mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4mo

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Rome753

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet | Nicholas Crane

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I really enjoyed this book. It's well-written and engaging. It serves as a good biography of Mercator, covering his life as well as the influences (personal, religious, political, etc.) that went into his work. It also discusses alot of the different developments that occurred in cartography and map making during this period, as well as how the unknown parts of the world were dealt with. Definitely recommend.

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