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30 day #bookchallenge 📚💙🖋️ Day 2, all the favourites in one fell swoop: Favourite book by Favourite author. I don't like playing favourites. Instead: a Fantastic book by a Fantastic author. It may seem a fine line. Jamaica Inn is gorgeous and atmospheric and full of passion and twists and turns.

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Chapter 25 of Candide is a thing of beauty. It's the best thing that's happened to me all day. If I have a spirit animal, it might actually be Pococuranté.... 🖋️📚💙📚🇫🇷 #literaturesky #frenchfebruary

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And on the subject of Candide, does anyone else read for pleasure outside their native tongue? I started reading in Italian last year (a new language for me). This month for #frenchfebruary I'm reading Candide and thinking I should read more in French, too, now that I've remembered I can. 🖋️📚💙📚🇮🇹📚🇫🇷

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On the subject of Moby Dick... I think it's cute that Pococuranté (Candide, Voltaire) has a similar opinion of Homer 🤣 💙📚🖋️

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Whenever I get a Kobo notification that something on my wishlist is on sale: 1. I have to click on it: I can't not. 2. Part of me hopes it's not much reduced: I don't need any temptation to add to my TBR. 3. Part of me wants it to be 99p because: well, I don't have to explain why I want that. 🖋️📚💙

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I do like it when people talk about how long Moby Dick is, and how little of interest actually happens in it.... 💙📚🖋️

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30 day #bookchallenge. Which I'll do as and when I think of it because that is how I roll. 📚💙🖋️ Day 1, Favourite book in a series. I'm not hugely into reading book series or choosing favourites, so not a rocketing start! But, if forced to pick a favourite Discworld novel, it's probably this one 😁🧹

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The first Temperance Brennan book made me want to chuck it all in and move to Quebec. The second one has made me very glad I live somewhere with a temperate climate. That aside, it's exactly what you expect from Kathy Reichs, a romping police procedural with adequate gross bits! 💙📚⚡

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The world is rewriting famous first lines and I'm here for it. The world is also saying out loud that Moby Dick is quite boring and far too long: I'm here for that too! 📚💙

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Count Of Monte Cristo 💙📚 spoiler alert! . . . Why oh why did Dantes wait until the very last agony before he let Morrel know everything was going to be alright? It certainly adds drama, but the price was very high! And what if (just for example) Julie had been five minutes late home? AITA? Yes.

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Aliens, time travel, Nazis plus the deaths of 135,000 innocent civilians in Dresden. Many things to take from this strangely real yet unreal novel. One is Billy's response to his new wife, who worries that she isn't good enough for him. He knows that she is going to be always good enough.

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Billy Pilgrim's mother "made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all." Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut 🪐📚💙

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Every du Maurier book I read is different. Similar themes but different time periods, different vibes... This was an exciting tale of piracy and difficult decisions, with an ending that satisfies but that also leaves you with... questions. 💙📚🏴‍☠️

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I don't trust masters who can't be down-to-earth. For me they're like those eccentric poets who can't write like everybody else. I accept that they're eccentric, but I'd like them to show me that it's because they're superior to the norm rather than incapable of it. Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet

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Rivers Of London - a fun adventure about policing the supernatural, with just a soupçon of darkness. Right up my alley - I'll definitely be reading more in this series 😁

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Who else hears written words as they read? Today I come across "entryphone". Say this aloud: "What the hell is an en-tryphone?" A reasonable question? Yes, if you pronounce it to rhyme with TIFFany: en-TRIFF-ony. Just seen the same word again, and guess what? That's just how it's pronounced now.

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I did #januaryinjapan on a whim, and it was so good that now I'm going to try #februaryinfrance I'm the kind of idiot that has to go all-in, so I'm not just going to read The Count Of Monte Cristo in English - that would be way too easy (!?) - I'm also going to read Candide in French. Wish me luck!

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This book was so strange. Now that all is said and done, I think I loved the concept. But I also think that it didn't, quite, work. It's a book club read so I'll save the rest of my thoughts for book club!

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Time for a new list! Current long reads: War and Peace Book Of Disquiet Va'dove ti porta il cuore Other books: Barnaby Rudge Count of Montecristo Death Du Jour Frenchman's Creek A Wizard Of Earthsea Rivers Of London

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In today's Italian lesson: testa di cazzo

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Well that was dark. I mean it was brilliant and I can 100% recommend it. But I suspect it makes more sense if you are already familiar with 1984. And there is one frighteningly dark chapter that is not for the squeamish! Side note: I am squeamish, I could hardly bear to read that chapter! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚💙

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Bookmarking this list of recommendations for my next foray into Japanese literature! #booksky

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This was the best! I heard about #JanuaryInJapan this week and I had this book in my TBR so on a whim I decided to participate! I'm so glad I did, and I'll definitely be reading more Japanese literature in future (um, once my TBR pile is <300!) #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/12b3...

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In Va'dove ti porta il cuore, the first chapter describes a girl wanting a rose and a fox, after reading The Little Prince. I had the urge to re-read it, and my local library had an audio version available for immediate download (no waiting!) So this is what I've done this evening 👱🌹🦊🎧 #booksky

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So I just finished Book 1 of War and Peace. Nothing much happens, except a whole lot of drawing room entertainment and a peculiar episode with a bear. Also, an old guy dies. Not to worry, there are 14 more books to go, and two lengthy epilogues. I'm sure something will happen soon!

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I've reached the stage where if I neatly pile up all the used tissues and cough sweet wrappers that I've dropped next to my bed, I feel like I've done something useful and should reward myself with one of the GOOD cough sweets.

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Our hero has somehow landed an awful job at a horrible new university, working with contemptible people. Now he has to try not to get sacked. Oh, there are girls, too, and that's not going to go well, either. He drinks and smokes too much, and he's not very likeable. Somehow, it manages to be funny!

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Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality. and nervous excitability. (Book Of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa)

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The bloody cat's climbing on me. AGAIN. "Mate, can't you see I'm trying to sleep, go on, clear off! "That's better. "Look, settle down NEXT to me, that's fine. But you absolutely cannot sleep ON MY HEAD. "OK? Good? "No. Get off now. It's not funny anymore. Get off! Off!" Oh. He's gone now. 🥹

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Family first, always has been, always will be. So I iced the guy. Rotten scrawny fishmonger, should have known better than to turn his back on a shakedown. Cos when Il Gatto shakes, you got to pay attention. No second chances. Now he's sleeping with his own fish. And tonight, we eat. 😾🔪🐟

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Finally! This was a phat book that definitely could have been thinner. Nevertheless I really did enjoy it... It also occurred to me that I could just screenshot my Storygraph review so here it is 😁 💙📚😨💙 #booksky

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