Vintage book with pale blue-green cover. Has a decorative rectangular border in black.
Good evening #BlueBrewBooks! First time here. I'm currently slow reading Nerval's 'Les Filles du Feu'. Noting down new French vocabulary and looking up some of the literary references. This is a vintage copy found in a book exchange. Love the cover. 1/2
This sounds really enjoyable.
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'Potin' un nouveau mot pour moi - c'est bien! Dans le village ici en Bourgogne, on entend 'cancans' ou 'commèrages’, mais mon mari, qui est français est d'accord pour 'potin' aussi. J'adore l'illustration sur cet livre. #BlueBrewBooks
Fabulous June and way you have presented this wonderful book is amazing!! ☺️👍🏼
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He’s such a good writer! Will look out for this one. 📚 #BlueBrewBooks
Loved the 1st one in the series “Silver Pigs” in which smart-alec private informer Marcus Didius Falco gets sent to Britain - then the far fringes of the Roman Empire - to investigate who’s stealing from the silver mines there. Great fun!📚 #BlueBrewBooks
Thank you all for another great #BlueBrewBooks!
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Thank you, Susan, for this recommendation! I am not yet done with Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips, but I received Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake yesterday, so it has jumped the queue, and will be my next read for #BlueBrewBooks 📗
@bohumilao.bsky.social Good morning Bohumila. I’ve posted your new book at #BlueBrewBooks
Good morning, Susan! Getting ready to walk Fury 🐕 to the lake and see what’s happening. A cup of #BlueBrew ☕️ would be great!
I didn’t finish reading 📖 the last book in the Emily Wilde’s series so no new book to report for #BlueBrewBooks 📚🤷🏼♂️
I hope you have a wonderful day☀️
The story takes the reader to Paris to the artist community. Artists were arrested as Germany took over France and had to be smuggled out of the country.
Good morning Susan and happy Sunday 😊 ! Today for #BlueBrewBooks I am sharing this one that I liked.
Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, who worked with American journalist Varian Fry to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of France.
The story begins in Paris, 1938.
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This is a true story that is boggling my mind. Just started reading and I’m in it fully. Recommended by my local bookstore and now me to you.
Book covers: Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami and There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak
My current library haul...
I was hesitant to try the Murakami, but I am finding it surprisingly readable and quite fantastical. I'll say more when I finish!
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Farseer trilogy: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest. Liveship Traders: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny. Tawny Man trilogy: Fool's Errand, The Golden Fool, Fool's Fate. Rain Wild Chronicles: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, Blood of Dragons. Fitz and the Fool trilogy: Fool's Assassin, Fool's Quest, Assassin's Fate.
Book cover for "Dragon Keeper: Vol One of the Rain Wild Chronicles" by Robin Hobb.
Good morning everyone! My favorite fantasy series is Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings. Seriously, this is the best fantasy I have ever read.
I'm working my way through my 3rd readthrough, and have started book 1 of the Rain Wilds Chronicles.
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The tender story of a man and his son as they journey to the end of life. A man who all his life has made a garden wherever he lands and finally comes back to his home place to create his masterpiece garden, his legacy. The caring son who walks with his dad to his final day.
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Love this new book Edinburgh Dreams by Bohumila Ottova
It’s my current pack poetry read. You can also find her here on Bluesky. Thank you Bohumila for this lovely visit to Edinburgh.
Great recommendations in #BlueBrewBooks
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Phosphorescence is a natural phenomenon that allows some creatures--glow worms, fireflies, flashlight fish, even entire oceans--to give off light amidst darkness. Inspired by their simple beauty, Baird writes about the things that lit her way through the darkness (heartbreak and cancer): a connection to nature, friendships, her faith, her mother's example, deliberately experiencing awe and wonder, and other habits that changed her life. She also explores how others nurture their inner light, interviewing the founder of the modern forest therapy movement in Tokyo, a jellyfish scientist in Tasmania, and a tattooed priest from Colorado, among others. A moving read that also makes you miss the ocean.
Happy #BlueBrewBooks day! ☕️ I’m recommending an Aussie memoir Phosphorescence by Julie Baird. It explores when we are overwhelmed by tragedy outside our control, how can we survive and bloom? Baird went in search of the magic that sustains us / fuels the light within—phosphorescence. More in Alt
A collection of 17th-century books from Biblioteca Marucelliana Firenze
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Book cover of THE SALT STONES by Helen Whybrow
Good morning, Susan, and #BlueBrewBooks. This week I read The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow. She shepherds a flock of Icelandic sheep on a farm in Vermont and writes about belonging—to the flock, to a family, and to a place. The chapter on harvesting wool will especially interest all the knitters. 🐑
Cover of James S. A. Corey’s The Faith of Beasts
Morning, Susan ☕️
Happy #bluebrew & #BlueBrewBooks Sunday! #eck
Taking mom out for breakfast to her favorite joint, Wolf Moon 🥐 , before a walk at the usual.
Preordered this book last year, that drops tomorrow, the second (and a half) in a new series by the author(s) of The Expanse series. 😊
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Hello, Jennifer and thank you. I have Emily Wilde’s Map of Otherlands here at the top of my pile now! #BlueBrewBooks
Oh I second this recommendation! I enjoyed this book so much and have read on in the series. #BlueBrewBooks
#BlueBrewBooks add Twilight of the Godlings to the reading list as per the info below:
Theo of Golden is about a mysterious elderly man who moves to a small town in Georgia. On the walls of a coffee shop he frequents are hung 100 plus portraits painted by a local artist. Theo hatches a plan to begin buying the portraits and quietly gift them to the subjects. In the process, he has interesting interactions with the recipients, some who become close friends. Throughout most of the book we don’t really know much about Theo other than he is an immigrant and a wealthy, self-made “businessman” who rose from humble beginnings. He is cultured — a connoisseur of literature, music and the arts and speaks several languages. There are a lot of religious undertones and symbolism throughout the book — Theo for instance derives from the Greek word Theos, meaning deity or God. The name Theo itself means “Gift of God” both in Greek and Portuguese. The coffee shop that is central to the story is called The Chalice, a word whose Biblical significance is rooted in the Last Supper and the Christian tradition of the Eucharist. The co-owner of the coffee shop is Shep - perhaps short for Shepherd. Theo throughout the book openly professes his unwavering belief in God and in Heaven. Theo of Golden has received a lot of raving praise from readers but I have also seem plenty of detractors who don’t like the religious overtones or find the story too Pollyannaish. One commenter called Theo misogynistic and another said he was racist and xenophobic. I didn’t see that. An undocumented immigrant who caused a fatal car wreck is treated sympathetically. And Theo himself is an immigrant from Portugal. At worst, I saw Theo as a bit old-fashioned in some of his thinking. Theo of Golden was a satisfying — and uplifting — read. There are a number of big surprises in the last couple of dozen or so pages that some may find shocking. The ending is satisfying, and pulls together the plot well. I would give Theo of Golden 3 out of 4 stars. It is not a classic, but it’s a worthy read.
I finished reading Allen Levi’s “Theo of Golden” about week. I was looking for an uplifting read and I got it. Much has been written about it, but I thought I would add my two cents. Please see ALT for my review. #BlueBrewBooks #BookReview #Books #TheoOfGolden #Novels #AllenLevi #Reading
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Everything in there was a renunciation — but for whom, for what mysterious good?
Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe
Il deserto dei tartari
Tutto là dentro era una rinuncia, ma per chi, per quale misterioso bene?
Relaxing Sunday ahead! I will have a #BlueBrew with #BlueBrewBooks. Just finished a quick read mystery that was a bit quirky in a mostly good way
A fun diversion for me. This book is a fantasy of an “academic” novel, complete with footnotes! A curmudgeonly professor is ostensibly writing notes in a journal for her planned book, but the result is simply wonderful storytelling. As you’ll see on the cover, this book was one of the New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year for 2023. A great book to put on your list for when you want a break, but are still willing to be caught up in another world. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and thank the several others here in BlueBrewBooks who recommended it.
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This week I read the recommended
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By Heather Fawcett
2023
Book One in a Series of Three
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Hello friends! Happy #StunDay, #ImageAndVerse, & #BlueBrewBooks Sunday! How are you? 🙋♂️
It’s about 6:30am 🕡 EDST here and ☀️. I’m making our rich & aromatic #BlueBrew in the coffeehouse. Who’d like a cup? ☕️
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We close at 10:30am 🕥 EDST 😊
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For everyone who wants to discover more about the society of the regency era. Original title "Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society"
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