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Kappadeemom
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#NewYearNewBooks #shipsorsailing great non -fiction about a container ship that sails from Florida during a Hurricane. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ⛵️📚👍🏻 10mo
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rockpools
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Started this this morning, which Emma somehow remembered I was after the best part of a year ago - thank you @Oryx !

A trip from the UK to Singapore on a Maersk general cargo ship (a tad bigger than these ‘teensy‘ ships in the docks here - one day I‘ll post a picture to show just how teensy they are 😬), and an insight into the global shipping industry. Fascinating and really well-written- I think I‘m going to enjoy this!

julesG Maybe @Oryx keeps secret ledgers with notes. Or spreadsheets like, @squirrelbrain? 😁😁 14mo
Oryx @julesG I have a drawer of presents and things I'm going to give to people. At any time it might have Xmas gifts, charity shop book finds for the nieces, random things for my mum, and litsy books 14mo
Oryx @rockpools glad you are liking it. I found it really fascinating. 14mo
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julesG @Oryx I have a similar drawer, but my gift-giving talent is not as strong as yours. 14mo
squirrelbrain Sounds great! Hmmm @julesG you‘ve given me an idea for a new spreadsheet. 🤣 14mo
rockpools Somewhere in the last few years, I completely lost the ability to social media. Sorry for the non-replies! Loving the idea of a secret ledger @julesG -I might work on that… and I was actually eyeing new drawer-units just before you posted @Oryx. Obviously I need to hit the buy button now. I think you might like this one Helen @squirrelbrain. 13mo
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TheEllieMo
Trade Winds (Choc Lit) | Christina Courtenay
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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LiseWorks
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Frederick Stonehouse
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May 12 #MayMontage Read in the Storm. I don't have any recommendations for any book read in a storm, but I do have a song from a Canadian icon who passed away last week. I grew up with Gordon Lightfoot singing in our living room. I was sad to hear he was gone. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Me too, listened to lots of Lightfoot in early 70s🥰 2y
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Oryx
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Paperback to the rescue.

TrishB Phew… 2y
squirrelbrain Phew indeed! 😁 2y
rockpools Close shave there! Look forward to hearing how this one is - I haven‘t quite turned into a freight-ship-spotter - but I am curious! Currently eyeing a nuclear fuel carrier moored in the bay, which I *think* is a new thing for here… 2y
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Oryx @rockpools it's really interesting. I do not know why I'm so interested in the merchant navy, but I do have a fascination with the idea of being at sea for months. Not enough to actually do it, but to know more about what it's like. Similar to my fascination with people living in Antarctica. She's a good writer. I'll pass this one on to you when I'm done, if you don't mind waiting. 2y
dabbe Cutest pup! ❣️🐾❣️ 2y
rockpools @Oryx Aw thank you, if you decide to pass it on, that would be amazing. And no, of course not - realistically I was going to add it to my ‘track down in the next 5 years‘ list, rather than my ‘read next week‘ list! I do know what you mean. One of my not-regrets-but-what-ifs was that I wasn‘t brave enough to apply for the librarian job with Antarctic Survey when it came up years ago. Reading about it‘s a much less stressful option tho! 2y
Oryx @rockpools librarian in Antarctica - that's the dream. Just nipping off to do an Librarianship MA so I can apply next year. I'll bring the book to Gladstone's if I don't get around to posting it before. 2y
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rabbitprincess
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I am about 99.9999999% certain that psi is actually POUNDS per square inch, not parts per square inch, especially when talking about boiler pressure 🧐

wanderinglynn You are correct. That‘s a terrible mistake. 3y
BookDadGirlDad So much for research and editing........ 😂 3y
rabbitprincess @wanderinglynn I did quickly google to see if I was wrong, and parts per square inch seems to be a measurement used in component packing 😆 @BookDadGirlDad The author normally writes about aviation, but psi would be pounds per square inch in that field too! The other research might be fine, but this went straight back to the library. 3y
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keithmalek
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vlwelser
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Pickpick

This book is really about what it's like to live at sea. The title refers to the fact that we import just about everything but the book is about the people that make that happen and the dangers they face. The author actually lived on a cargo ship as part of her research. I liked it.

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TheAromaofBooks I quite like that cover as well. 4y
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Erynecki
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Can you name a ship transport line? What do you know about traversing the Suez Canal or Somali pirates? Do you know who serves in these ships and how long they‘re typically at sea? Ninety Percent of Everything offers a good first person journalistic account of life aboard a Maersk ship.