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I listened to 3 versions of the audiobook and chose this one. It is also on sale for two more days for slightly more than the one in my previous post. #whattheDickens @Cuilin
It‘s not very expensive to begin with but if you want a deal, this version of the audiobook is on sale for two more days.
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
Finally posting my November stats
Eight books read last month, four were chunksters: two with 500+ pages and two with 400+ pages! Litsy challenges:
Curiosity Shop for #whattheDickens
Democracy for #authoramonth
Happy Isles for #Samoa and the remaining 5 for #Algeria for #foodandlit
#wordoftheday
“Late-fifteenth-century popes pondered what to do with the tottering basilica, hesitating to destroy something so sacred. But the irascible warrior pope Julius II (reigned 1503–1513) had no such scruples. The ancient basilica was torn down, its ancient papal tombs relocated and some of the art incorporated into the new church. Throughout the sixteenth century the new basilica was raised by fits and starts… ⬇️
Audio coloring tonight
I ♥️ how the 🦔 is making 🫖 probably preparing for a nice good 📕 to read.
Revenge, served 32 years later, was very cold indeed!!
#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
#wordoftheday
“There were two signs that a pope had been elected—the bells of Saint Peter‘s would ring out in jubilation, and carpenters would demolish the masonry that blocked the windows of the loggia overlooking Saint Peter‘s Square. The tradition of sending smoke out of the Sistine Chapel chimney after each scrutiny—black for an unsuccessful vote, white for a successful one—was not instituted until 1903.”
Why knowing history can be helpful! He chose to be “Pope Innocent” instead of Eugenio. Good choice.
#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
pickOur French Algerian main character describes the events in her teen years growing up alongside her family‘s hotel on the French Riviera. Sagesse (a beautiful first name) is a devil-may-care teenager, who along with her loud annoying friends, trigger the hotel‘s owner—her grandfather—to confront them with his rifle. While describing the aftermath of that event, Sagesse recounts the history of each family member. The most poignant story involves ⬇️
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pickListening to this book was an unparalleled experience. Our own @ImperfectCJ narrated it and she is marvelous!! An extraordinarily unpleasant man (whose voice appropriately grates) falls dead into florist Lila‘s marigold display at the town‘s festival. Feeling framed, and an intuition that the official investigation was not being taken seriously, Lila teams up with the pet shop owner Ethan to discover the murderer. It so happens, their pets, cat ⬇️
Today‘s adorable mini-story
https://www.instagram.com/p/DR1_0kZDhrx/?igsh=MXY0amdpajlpcWExbg==
#wordoftheday
“Some were offended by his dismal and saturnine aspect, the reflection of a contumacious and restless soul, and in him one could see customs poorly suited to the placidity that the person carrying the name of the universal father should have.”
Listening to this audiobook now.
I‘ve reviewed the #auldlangspine booklist from @LeafingThroughLife
These are the top six, from which I will choose at least one & hopefully more to read in January & 2026. Turns out I own the ebook of Indifferent Stars so it may be first. I‘ve put library holds on Canticle and Phoenix Pencil because they‘re weeks out. The rest of the books I have sort of ranked in my order of interest because so many sound so good. It was a good match for me!!
This is my reading list from @LeafingThroughLife for #auldlangspine
@monalyisha did a marvelous job matching the pairs! I‘ve not read any of these books but I just recently added the tagged book to my tbr list and it‘s no. 1 on the list. So I know for sure I‘ll be reading that one! I‘ve put it on hold with the library. 14-16 week wait! But sometimes it goes faster. 🤞🏻
I‘ll be exploring the rest of the books. Looking forward to it!
#wordoftheday
“Allegorical figures were extremely popular at the time; actors and actresses representing Divine Justice, Holy Religion, and Saintly Sacrifice would declaim onstage and then fly straight up to heaven.”
#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Set in Ireland 1865
Coming June 2!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DReaantCaMF/?igsh=MTczbjdxYXMxNHRoMA==
I‘m sending this book to a dear friend, my now retired paralegal. She wrote a book (tagged below) about her great grandfather, a famous Mexican physician and a senior health official in the presidential administration who was forced out of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. He was part Aztec and she‘s done so much research there. Doesn‘t it look awesome? I‘m actually stacking it myself! I hope she likes it!
A good elderly friend and distant relative died on Halloween. I‘m sending her daughter this book. I love Charlie Mackesy books so much. A dear friend on Litsy sent me his first book after a very close friend died during Covid. I‘ve passed on the kindness, giving a copy to a friend when her breast cancer recurred. And now I‘m sending this book. If you ever wonder what to do for someone who‘s grieving & lives at a distance, this book is marvelous
#wordoftheday
I didn‘t know the second “e” was silent
“Several hundred boats joined the cortège of the river, and almost the entire town participated in the funeral procession that followed the coffin, which was carried by eight sea-captains, up the steps to the grave…. Lucy herself, pleaded to attend the funeral, otherwise I would not have liked to suggest it, fearing it would upset her, and she also wished us to sit on our usual bench and…⬇️
#wordoftheday
“Gianbattista was learned, courteous, and by now, sober. He was also indecisive to the point of paralysis, deeply suspicious of others, and subject to gloomy silent depressions. Over time, he had developed a highly effective defense to prevent others from seeing the doubts that lurked inside him—a wall of inscrutable dignity.”
Elliott Roosevelt wrote 20 mystery books with his mother as the sleuth! I‘ve got to find these!
More here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRR6TDfD_d1/?igsh=b2t5dWt2OGFyZHRp
Audiocrafting again, working on the #naturewintercardswap cards! Loving listening to the narration by @ImperfectCJ
@TheBookHippie I got your card! 😁
I‘m super excited to be listening to this audiobook, narrated by our own @ImperfectCJ !! I‘m already loving mischievous Clementine the cat! 🐈♥️
#wordoftheday
“He had little capacity for such [scholarly] tasks and applied himself slowly to studies, passing his youth more in the pastimes of a cavalier than in learning the law. Despite his uncle‘s assiduous efforts, he could not make him forget his nocturnal pleasures.”
Audiocrafting tonight listening to an audiobook
#Algeria #foodandlit #naturewintercardswap @TheBookHippie
I am fortunate to have my parents and my whole family here. It was eventful to say the least, starting with our son in Arizona, missed his plane due to traffic in Phoenix, took another flight all the way to Orlando, Florida, to fly back to San Antonio. Mom and Dad are dealing with Dad‘s dementia, so we are grateful he still knows us all, but for a brief and scary time this morning when he was lost in our house, and he is so loving, Mom an angel.
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