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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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Eva_B

Three Daughters of Eve | Elif Shafak

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A great find from the ‘Little Free Library‘ around the corner from my house. Such a wonderful author. There are always passages and lines in her books that I went to highlight and treasure but never do as I‘m compelled to keep reading! A story of Peri, who lives in Istanbul with her family but is pulled back into memories of her student days in Oxford. Of an enigmatic professor and his influence on 3 students and questions on religion and God.

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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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Moss_Croft

My Name Is Red | Orhan Pamuk

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lil1inblue

My Name Is Red | Orhan Pamuk

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Short description: The book begins with a murder in Istanbul 1591. The aftermath is told from the perspective of several sometimes unreliable narrators.

But it's so much more complex. It explores art history and cultural history. It explores the influence of the West on the Ottoman Empire. It's creative, ambitious, and quite simply a masterpiece. The quote above is from my favorite chapter.

I read this for a personal #readtheworld challenge.

Ruthiella I read this last year. It is so very layered! 9mo

lil1inblue @Ruthiella I'm still in awe. What a great read. 😍 9mo

Leftcoastzen I need to read this one. 9mo

lil1inblue @Leftcoastzen It's worth it! I hope you like it as much as I did. 🥰 9mo

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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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Texreader

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West | Roger Crowley

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For 50+ days, Constantinople defended itself and its 1200+ years of history as the eastern-most bastion of Christendom against the Turkish Ottomans‘ assault. This is a very detailed account of the siege and battle, and some of the aftermath. Sultan Mehmet was only 21 when he felled the city that had withstood many previous attempts. I suspect age aided his endurance. But he was also a young military genius and had extraordinary control of the ⬇️

Texreader men who fought his battles, both by use of carrot (you get to plunder the city) and stick (you will die a lingering death if you fail to fight). The author writes in never boring detail, but it is a slow, monotonous read—the nature of a siege. The atrocious killing, taking of slaves, and plunder—the author is quick to note—was common at the time, regardless of creed or religion. I strongly recommend the book and its evenhandedness in its telling. 11mo

sisilia I‘m so going to read this!!! 11mo

Texreader @sisilia It‘s good. 11mo

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Texreader

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West | Roger Crowley

The author of the tagged book describes the sources he most trusted to write this historical account of the siege and fall of Constantinople, Doukas being one of them. How crazy that Doukas‘s account stops mid-sentence!

GingerAntics I still have a question with that. If he was captured. If he was executed. Whatever it may be, then they would have destroyed his account. I always question the validity of anything that says “oh they were there when it fell, and we just don‘t know what happened to them.” Yeah we do, because if they had been captured, the account would have been captured too. 11mo

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