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Bedside Books
I got to go to a very bookish place! It is a very cool place with a reasonable tour fee. It has an incredible amount of family items because the women of Concord made their husbands buy the property to… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I am STILL working my way through A Suitable Boy, so I thought I would share a bookish adventure my oldest daughter had. She was attending a week long event at the Air Force Academy, where her belongings were checked… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I am still plugging along through A Suitable Boy. Google made me feel better when it said that this book is one of the longest single volume books in English! My current devotional is Heart of God by Elisabeth Elliott.… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I always read more (and therefore get less sleep) when life gets busy, and this May has been no different. A friend of mine said they call it Mayhem, and that sounds about right. Anybody else? On my continuing 80… Continue reading
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I will be finishing the novel In the Time of the Butterflies, a historical fiction about the Dominican Republic struggling against the dictator El Jefe. It has been quite an intriguing book! I will be moving to France next on… Continue reading
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I am finishing Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, an Ethiopian author. It has been an intriguing 18th book in my 80 books around the world challenge. This challenge won’t take me quite 2 years at least! My next stop… Continue reading
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I was going to read The Alchemist next, but after a bit of research I realized that the author, Paulo Coelho, is Brazilian. I have already read a book from this amazing country, so I moved on to Don Quixote… Continue reading
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Hi all! What are you reading? I am finishing my literary travel through Turkey with There Are Rivers in the Sky. This is my favorite book so far, besides Anne of Green Gables, which I have read many times before.… Continue reading
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Hi all! What are you reading? I just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez, a native of Colombia. It was an interesting book, partly a realistic tale of several generations of a family, partly folklore. Next in… Continue reading
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I finished The Poisonwood Bible, which ends with The Congo, and all the Price women, figuring out what they want for their futures. I have journeyed on to Columbia with One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is a 1967 novel… Continue reading
