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Great pile! I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on all of them, but especially Moo; Her A Thousand Acres is one of my top 5, and one of the reasons I do what I do for a living! The Language of Flowers is my next read after my current book: Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips📚
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I tried to one other time & used the wrong hashtag. 👀
So here it is tagged correctly.
A wonderful listen while walking. As a photographer, it found it inspiring to how I experience the world of AWE and all about that feeling when humans experience it, and often do it together.😍
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I am back to reading architecture, engineering, and urban planning books.
These are dated but they usually have great historical material.
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As far as international book recommendations go, I really enjoyed reading "The Palace of Illusions" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. It tells the story of the Mahabharat from Draupadi's point of view.
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Good🌞morning, Susan!
@sdcushing.bsky.social
May I have a cup of your delicious #BlueBrew #coffee?
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Happy #Easter to all who celebrate!
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#Art by Komako Sakai from
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Audiobook cover for "Five Ways to Forgiveness" by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Good morning everyone! I'm slowly working my way through Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, and each book is unique and amazing. I started listening to the audiobook "Five Ways to Forgiveness" this week.
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I finished Everyone in this Bank is a Thief, by Benjamin Stevenson and loved it. A great who done it. Reading now this Julian Barnes book, an ending of sorts, “this is my last book.” First time reading this author, but will get The Sense of an Ending next. Funny, he’s about endings!
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Good Morning, Susan! Hope you're having a good day with
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I just started reading ‘Compendium of Lost Tales’, the third book in Heather Fawcett’s series. The first two were excellent.
A cup of your #BlueBrew ☕️ while I’m reading 📖 would be great.
I hope you have a wonderful day ☀️
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Have a wonderful #BlueBrewBooks Day
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Photo of four books purchased as few days ago: - The Proof of my Innocence, by Jonathan Coe. Coe can be laugh out loud funny and I am really looking forward to reading this. Also Coe is on Bluesky, so give him a follow if you wish. - Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. The book the movie was based on. - Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Read another series by Maas last year and really liked it. Would describe her books as “romantacy” a blend of hot romance and fantasy. - Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer. Heyer wrote a lot of historical fiction and some nice mysteries too. I love reading both of her genre’s and was excited to find this copy of an early book. Set during the 100 Years War between England and France.
Another #BlueBrewBooks post. Bought these interesting books this week and just started the Maas book last night. More in alt text.
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![A bronze sculpture of a figure reclining inside a large circular ring, reading a book. The statue sits atop a rough-hewn stone pedestal on a grass lawn, with bare winter trees and a white-columned public building — partially labeled “Main Entr[ance]” — visible in the background.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b46pckobwmmixpnj37brpleb/bafkreigoqtu6qqcgum2b73kqv34sjj544uh6eazcsyvdqirihs3xtq3adm)
A bronze sculpture of a figure reclining inside a large circular ring, reading a book. The statue sits atop a rough-hewn stone pedestal on a grass lawn, with bare winter trees and a white-columned public building — partially labeled “Main Entr[ance]” — visible in the background.
Good morning 🌞☕️ Have a wonderful day Circle of Friends was created by sculptor Karen Crain of Littleton, Colorado. She described it as a tribute to her family and all the books her children enjoyed while growing up. The titles on the band encircling… #BlueBrewBooks
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Jump in to #BlueBrewBooks my friends, happening right now!! 🤓📚
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The cover for "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. LeGuin is shown.
Good Morning Susan! Hope that your morning is glorious. I almost never re-read books because my TBR is endless. But when I found this in a little library, it was a signal to revisit the trilogy I read forty-some years ago.
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Good morning Susan, for #BlueBrewBooks I just began reading this lovely book, a true story of a biologist who becomes friends with a wild fox.😊
Have a beautiful day😊
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Photo of the book Queen MacBeth by Val McDermid. McDermid is known as a mystery writer, but she did an excellent job with this historical novella. Set one thousand years ago, she brings the woman known as Lady MacBeth alive with a bit more facts than Shakespeare did. The story begins with Queen Gruoch (her real name) in hiding after MacBeth has been defeated in battle by Malcolm. The Queen is supported by her loyal friends, notably three wise women (aka Shakespeare’s three witches). McDermid weaves past and present into her tale as she gives Queen Gruoch the life I hope she led.
For @sdcushing.bsky.social and #bluebrewbooks
Read this one this week, and it’s a quick read, just a little slip of a book, but I enjoyed it a lot. McDermid tells the tale of Queen Gruoch, also known as Lady McBeth. More in the alt text.
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A book cover of Benjamin Wood’s novel SEASCRAPER illustrated with a painting in pastel colours, ranging from an orange beach with a horse and cart in silhouette, light blue sea, shading to dark black and grey sky with foggy sun. To the right a pier’s lights glimmer through the murk. A badge at top right notes that the book was nominated on the Booker Prize longlist 2025. The book deals with a small life and how it is affected when the world comes calling in the shape of a Hollywood movie director who sees a young man plying his traditional trade of shrimping with horse and cart in the foggy reaches of the Lancashire shoreline in post-war Britain. Mystical and magical. Told with poetic precision. The version on BBC radio also contained some folk music, which was central to the dreams of Tom, the shrimper.
Good day Susan and happy Sunday to all at the #BlueBrew café. As I have said elsewhere, I read painfully slowly, so my choice for this week’s #BlueBrewBooks is a radio version of a Booker Prize nominated novel - Seascraper by Benjamin Wood set on the foggy post-war Lancashire coast.
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#BookLovers #BookSky
"She'd stare at you for hours,
and you'd never know why."
Tim Burton
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
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Always happy to see #BlueBrewBooks day. My newest read is by a wildlife biologist. I’m continually fascinated by wolves 🐺.
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Good Morning Susan. While I took a three week break from Blue Sky recently, I throughly enjoyed these two books on my daily long walks on audible. They brought me joy and made me smile! The stories and narration were wonderful. 😍
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•Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett •Moo by Jane Smiley •The Testaments by Margaret Atwood •Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit •The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan •The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh •The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green •Underland by Robert Macfarlane
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Just Finished
“The Language of Flowers” by
David George Haskell and loved it!
(See my comments last week)
Here’s my latest To Be Read Pile
(many recommended by folks right here at BlueBrewBooks - thank you!)
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Hello friends! Happy #StunDay, #ImageAndVerse, & #BlueBrewBooks Sunday! How are you? 🙋♂️
It’s about 6:30am 🕡 EDST here with light rain. I’m making our rich & aromatic #BlueBrew in the coffeehouse. Who’d like a cup? ☕️
Please do stop by & say hello! 👋
We close at 10:30am 🕥 EDST 😊
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Suggestions for Sarah here, international books recommendations needed.
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Are you ready for #BlueBrewBooks?
Sundays during
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6:30-10:30 EDST
Share a book or a pile.
•A Favorite Book,
•A New Book,
•A Recommendation,
•What You’re Reading, or
•To Be Read (TBR)!
Please don’t forget to use the hashtag #BlueBrewBooks
Have fun!
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Cover of The English Teacher by Lily King. Though the cover quote says "A domestic drama with the adrenaline-fueled beating heart of a thriller," I think that's reaching a bit. The story's about a woman (Vida) and her teenage son(Peter) and the mystery of her past which has colored their lives and relationship. You know pretty early the gist of what happened to her and it all comes to a head in this book. Though King is good at fleshing out characters, I didn't fully understand Vida's thinking and found it hard to like her. Peter is the hero of the story, to me. A quick and worthy read, I gave it 3.5-4 stars for my impatience with Vida.
This week, I read another Lily King novel. Her books are a good read and easily accessible online via Hoopla while I'm waiting for other books from our library.
I would recommend any of her books. She conveys characters and relationship intricacies pretty well.
3.5-4/5 ⭐️
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Thank you for another great #BlueBrewBooks today!
To see the books mentioned and recommended, just scroll the hashtag above 👆 and start with the “Latest” feed!
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Orwell’s Roses seems like a good book for these times. Anyone who can combine passions for gardening & anti-fascism is genius🌹📚🙏🏻 #BlueBrewBooks
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Sounds good, Susan. Reminds me of Finding the Mother Tree by a forestry scientist named Suzanne Simard. She was the first to discover trees do better together than alone. Thanks to the network of roots joining them underground. Fungus also plays a role as I recall.🌳🌱🌲🍃🌳 #BlueBrewBooks
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Book cover for "Slow Gods" by Claire North.
Good morning everyone. I started reading "Slow Gods" this week. I had some trouble getting into it at first, but I'm glad I've stuck with it. Reading it is like slowly pulling back the petals on a rose, only to find there's a burning light at its center.
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