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October 1, 2024

Sunday Buddy Read 2025

Started in October 2017 and since has become my most favorite timeand day and people: Sunday Buddy Read!Here we go YEAR EIGHT!! Here. . .

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October 1, 2024

Children’s Classic Read 2025

Reading a Children’s Classic every day….In 2019 I decided to read a new to me,or long forgotten by me, children’s classic. . .

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November 13, 2023

#FOODANDLIT 2024

My 2024 #FOODANDLIT challenge! YAY!

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Sundays in September

September 30, 2024
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Adult

FIVE STAR READ!!! I AGREE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT with this review:By Na’amit Sturm Nagel – July 1, 2019 The Flight ...

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FOOD AND LIT SEPTEMBER

September 29, 2024
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Adult, Books

🇲🇾Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country occupying parts of the Malay Peninsula and the island of Borneo. It’s known for its ...

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Banned Book Anastasia

September 18, 2024
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Children

September Children’s Classic Read 2024 I absolutely adored this read. September. A much banned book seemed appropriate. (I ...

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Jamaica for August FOOD&LIT

August 31, 2024
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Books

🇯🇲Jamaica, a Caribbean island nation, has a lush topography of mountains, rainforests and reef-lined beaches. Many of its ...

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Sundays in August

August 6, 2024
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Adult

My Sunday August book. I’m so excited to read this with my Sunday Bookclub peeps.  🐘London in the 1920s is no place for a ...

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August and A BEAR

August 6, 2024
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Children

Children’s Classic Read August August. About a bear. The Bear That Wasn’t is a 1946 children’s picture ...

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Sunday Scaries for July

July 28, 2024
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Adult

Simone our FAVORITE Ghost Story Teller! Sundays in July 🖤👻🖤 Good ghost stories and summer are a good mix. Reminds me ...

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Summertime in July with Fifteen

July 6, 2024
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Young Adult

Children’s Classic Read JULY July. Some summer FUN. This is young adult Beverly ...

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July in Turkey ~

July 1, 2024
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Books

My library book stack.  🇹🇷The Turkish people are from diverse backgrounds, a reminder of the many different groups that ...

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Sundays in June

June 23, 2024
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Adult

A Scatter of Light and Happy PRIDE! Sundays in June with this book.  We read Malinda Lo‘s Last Night at the Telegraph ...

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Iceland in June

June 6, 2024
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Adult

🇮🇸Iceland, a Nordic island nation, is defined by its dramatic landscape with volcanoes, geysers, hot springs and lava fields. Massive ...

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June Children’s Classic

June 6, 2024
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Children

The Cuckoo Clock My Children’s Classic Read for June.  This story was like an old fairytale your great grandmother ...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm in May

May 27, 2024
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Children

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm My children’s classic for May. I’ve never read this or heard chatter about it, so I went in blind. I ...

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May in Spain FOOD & LIT

May 27, 2024
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Adult

Spain 🇪🇸 My FOOD & LITERATURE country for May. I have studied Spain in school extensively during my four years of language and ...

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May -with NOT a good book on Sundays

May 27, 2024
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Adult

Manhattan Girls by GILL PAUL. OY VEY. This author was HORRIFIC. She apparently hated the women she was writing about and was just narrating ...

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🇫🇷 📘The Odalisque by Voltaire is a short 🇫🇷 📘The Odalisque by Voltaire is a short story written by the renowned French philosopher and writer, Voltaire. The story is set in the Ottoman Empire, and follows the tale of a young Frenchman named Constantine who is taken captive and sold into slavery. He is purchased by a wealthy Turkish man who keeps him as a servant in his home. Constantine becomes enamored with the man’s beautiful wife, who is an odalisque (a female slave or concubine in the Ottoman Empire). Despite her status, Constantine falls in love with her and they begin a secret affair. However, their relationship is discovered by the jealous husband, who orders Constantine to be executed. The story explores themes of love, jealousy, and the power dynamics between captors and captives. Voltaire’s writing style is witty and satirical, and he uses the story to criticize the treatment of slaves and women in the Ottoman Empire. Overall, The Odalisque is a thought-provoking and engaging short story that showcases Voltaire’s talent as a writer and philosopher. ✍🏼François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. 📘This scarce antiquarian book was a find at Bookman’s Corner: its longtime owner gave me the cheap price because I knew what I was talking about. 🙃 I paid less than two dollars for it. I bought a huge stack that day, and treasure every book I bought. It is so very sad that bookstore is no more. For must be 40 years the owner John was an amazing force of spreading his love of literature and books. He passed away at age 87 in February 2023. He was still working. He is still so missed by his community. #usedbooks #usedbookstore #voltaire #oldbooks #french #france #book #bookstagram
🇫🇷A Parisian Affair and Other Stories 📗S 🇫🇷A Parisian Affair and Other Stories 📗Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes and playboys, in the Normandy countryside and on the French Riviera where Maupassant lived, the thirty-three contes in this new selection are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy ‘A Parisian Affair’ or the touchingly ironical ‘The Jewels’; between siblings, as in ‘At Sea’; and between former partners, as in ‘Encounter’. They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and generosity and also, as in ‘Boule de Suit, its greed and hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassant’s stories lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty. Siân Miles’s vibrant translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Maupassant’s stories as a reflection of the rapidly changing values and beliefs of his society. This new selection also contains a chronology, notes and suggestions for further reading. ✍🏼Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. 🖼️🎨Cover: Detail from The Red Suspenders by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), in a private collection (photo: Bridgeman Art Library). © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London 2004 #classicliterature #book #bookstagram #france
🇫🇷Louvre It would take 100 days to see all 🇫🇷Louvre It would take 100 days to see all of the art in the Louvre…. It is literally impossible to see the entirety of the Louvre in just one visit. In fact, if you were to spend just 30 seconds on each piece of art, it would take 100 days to see them all! This does not even take sleeping, eating, or using the bathroom into account. So, make sure to arrive when the doors open and plan to spend the day here to see so much more than just the Mona Lisa. 66% of the paintings in the Louvre were created by French artists Today, there are nearly 7,500 paintings hanging in the eight departments in the Louvre and more than 66% were made by French locals. This is something that French people take great pride in, and rightfully so. Some of the most famous French paintings to see include The raft of the Medusa, Liberty leading the People and The Coronation of Napoleon. The Louvre and its contents are worth at least $45.5 billion According to French historian Patrice de Moncan, “the Louvre, minus its contents, is worth a staggering $10.5 billion,” and its artworks and objects “have a likely MINIMUM value of $35 billion.” To put this into perspective, it would take someone with a $10 million annual salary 4,550 years to accumulate this wealth. No wonder there is so much security there! #louvre #france #coffeeandbooks #bookstagram
🇫🇷 The fountains of the Sun King Many ofte 🇫🇷 The fountains of the Sun King Many often lavish albums & art books have been published about the park at Versailles, most of them confine themselves to an inventory of its inevitable highlights: grandiose prospects, flower-bedecked parterres, mirror pools, omnipresent statues and secret groves. This book is the first to set aside the splendours of the setting - to focus on the climax, when the fountains are in full play, the Grandes Eaux. This display, one of the oldest and most famous in Europe, admired by nearly half a million visitors every year, is one of the masterpieces of the 17th century, and it has lost none of its vividness. Vivid but fleeting: the fountains play for only a few hours at the weekend during the fine weather. Whence the disappointment of numerous thoughtless tourists. And yet Louis XIV spent more than a third of the total outlay on Versailles on forcing nature to provide water in a place that had neither spring nor river, and at a time when pumps were driven by windmills and horses. It was a gruelling struggle, and it mobilised scientific associations and tens of thousands of men, to supply the 2400 jets of the fountains of that period-600 remain today. The critical director was none other than the King himself, who used the great gifts of his assistants, the gardener Le Nôtre, the painter Le Brun and the architect Hardouin-Mansart. But if water had been available in abundance, as at Tivoli or Vaux le Vicomte, the challenge would not have been the same, and it may be wondered whether the result would have attained the same degree of ingenuity and gracefulness. This book sets out to reveal the hidden aspects of the display, so that its pageantry may be appreciated more fully. It therefore combines between the same covers The battle of the water and The fountains play, The authors hope that this new light on the subject will help inspire more detailed research, contribute to the efforts of local bodies and all those concerned with the conservation, or even the resurrection, of a unique heritage: the hydraulic network and the fountains Sun King. Found at a library sale for $2.00 🎉 #fountains #sunking #france #fountainsofthesunking
Guide books, a fun way to learn a place with its h Guide books, a fun way to learn a place with its hidden history and culture in the descriptions. I’m always looking for them at used bookstores and library sales. These I own of Paris and France, however I frequently take them out of the library as well … Happy Sunday I’m going to go watch some Simone replay on Peacock! #sunday #paris #france #guidebooks #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks
🇫🇷📘🇫🇷 The French language is watch 🇫🇷📘🇫🇷 The French language is watched over by a group of forty “Immortals” wearing Napoleonic hats and carrying swords. Its rules are so complex that few people ever completely master it, its speakers are so insecure they pass laws banning other languages while they spend millions of taxpayers’ francs making sure their own language gets used in literature, music, and film. It is second only to English for the number of countries where it is spoken officially and that it is a language with two million teachers and one hundred million students worldwide. Consider, too, that the number of people who speak French has tripled in the last fifty years, growing to a community of speakers that number some one hundred seventy-five million in sixty three countries. The Story of French is a narrative that spans the time of Charlemagne to the birth of Cirque du Soleil. Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has maintained its global influence despite the rise of English. As in any good story, The Story of French has failures and unexpected successes, and bears the traces of some of history’s greatest figures: the tenacity of William the Conqueror, the staunchness of Cardinal Richelieu, the endurance of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the activism of figures like President Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal. Through this history, Nadeau and Barlow show how French acquired its own peculiar culture. They explain how the culture of the language spread among francophones the world over and why it still remains curiously centered in Paris. As the authors discovered on their travels, francophone countries are increasingly taking the lead in promoting and protecting their language, and French is not only thriving—it still has a strong influence on other languages such as English. The Story of French challenges long-held assumptions about French and shows why it is still the world’s other global language. #french #language #themoreyouknow #france #book #bookstagram
🇫🇷📘🇫🇷 Paris: The Story of a Great 🇫🇷📘🇫🇷 Paris: The Story of a Great City Danielle Chadych, Dominique Leborgne 📘Paris is a city that has been at the heart of much of Europe’s history, from the Middle Ages to the outbreak of revolution, the empire of Napoleon, and the ravages of world war in the twentieth century. Despite all this, it has retained a unique atmosphere, a certain “je ne sais quoi” that makes the City of Light a magnet for visitors from all over the world. Acknowledging the characters – from artists and architects to kings, musicians and warriors – who have contributed so much to its past, The Story of a Great City recalls the salons of the Age of Enlightenment, relives the “Terror” of Robespierre and revels in the Belle Epoque. It also includes a host of stories that shed light on the development of this great metropolis, from its beginnings on the islands in the Seine River and Left and Right Banks to its conquering of the marshy lands of the Marais, to the stylish modern structures of the twenty-first century. Delving into the city’s archives and museums, this delightful book is beautifully illustrated with numerous artworks and photographs, as well as a host of fascinating documents that evoke both momentous occasions and the colorful way of life for which Paris is renowned. For both new and regular visitors, it is a glorious memento of a great city. 💭After seeing the following quote below I figured I’d feature some books during the Olympics on/in/about Paris and France… because good grief the uncultured, uneducated, religiosity people have lost their collective minds and are spreading lies and false narratives about history, art, literature… and the French nation and its people … “stephenamon_ I love when uncultured people get mad at art. The Paris Olympics wasn’t slandering your faith. It was all about Greek culture, French culture and iconic parts of French history. Read a book! Oh wait, you banned them.” #READABOOK #arthistory #readbannedbooks #classicliterature #frenchliterature #history #bookstagram
🇫🇷⚜️🇫🇷 📘The Seine: The River t 🇫🇷⚜️🇫🇷 📘The Seine: The River that Made Paris Book by Elaine Sciolino In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and lively characters—a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cameraman known for capturing the river’s light. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, discovers a champagne vineyard, and even dares to swim in the Seine. Sciolino’s keen eye and vivid prose bring the river to life as she discovers its origins on a remote plateau of Burgundy, where a pagan goddess healed pilgrims at an ancient temple. She follows the Seine to Le Havre, where it meets the sea. Braiding memoir, travelogue, and history through the Seine’s winding route, Sciolino offers a love letter to Paris and the river at its heart and invites readers to explore its magic. #France #thesieneriver #TheSeineTheRiverthatMadeParis #read #book #bookstagram
“Roquefort puffs would complement that dish quit “Roquefort puffs would complement that dish quite well!” Sookie 🍽️FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER🍽️ Gilmore Girls “These tasty treats are the perfect hors d’oeuvre for any town-wide event in Stars Hollow, whether it’s a wedding, in celebration of Rory being in the top 3 percent of her class, or the wake of a 206-year-old cat. How good are these puffs? They’re so good Luke even let Sookie garnish his meatloaf with them. This recipe makes a puff that’s light, flaky, and filled with tangy Roquefort cheese.” And we made Luke’s Meatloaf recipe out of the not official Gilmore Cookbook 🤐🤫 These puffs were YUMMMMMM. I prefer my meatloaf, but it was all tasty! A bit of cheese mashed potatoes too! We’re Olympic watching this weekend, also RAFA carrying the TORCH and the singing of French mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel!! She sang the French national anthem while standing on the roof of the Grand Palais. BOTH things JUST LOVE! Happy Weekend All! Shabbat Shalom! 💙 #gilmoregirls #cookbook #foodie #cookinggilmorestyle #fridaynightdinner
#20BooksByBlackWomen 💜 Three to go in the chal #20BooksByBlackWomen 💜 Three to go in the challenge this year! I have so loved this challenge by @melanatedreader the last few years and found so many new authors to love and auto buy. Check out her highlights for grids etc. 2024 has me finding poetry that I absolutely LOVE. I’m trying to do published in 2024 for this years challenge-so if you know of a good book by a Black woman coming out or that came out in 2024 not on my list, let me know in the comments! #20booksbyblackwomen #reading #bookstagram #readingchallenge #melantatedreader #booksbooksbooks
ARC READING …. This is my plan. ♥️📚♥️ Thursday 📚📚📚📚 🎵🎶🎵 #books #bookstagram #imwithher #kamalaharris
Ruth My chapter a day group read for August. S Ruth My chapter a day group read for August. Should make for some great conversation …. 📔Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her comfort and shelter, only to cruelly desert her soon after. Nearly dead with grief and shame, Ruth is offered the chance of a new life among people who give her love and respect, even though they are at first unaware of her secret - an illegitimate child. When Henry enters her life again, however, Ruth must make the impossible choice between social acceptance and personal pride. In writing Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell daringly confronted prevailing views about sin and illegitimacy with her compassionate and honest portrait of a ‘fallen woman’. Fallen woman ?!?! Oy. ✍🏼Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Wednesday 🖤 #ruth #elizabethgaskell #chapteraday #augustreads #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #classicalliterature
I love Klimt 💛🎨🖼️ Gustav Klimt (1862 - I love Klimt 💛🎨🖼️ Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) was an Austrian painter and co-founder of the Vienna Secession. He is known for his flat, brightly colored, decorative paintings. His work is known for its erotic power and highly personal style. 📔Gustav Klimt: Drawings and Paintings-663 pages-Taschen. Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt’s paintings alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged archival material from Klimt’s own archive to trace the evolution of his astonishing oeuvre.With top-quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his lustrous “golden phase” when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as The Woman in Gold. Tuesday 💛📔💛🖼️💛🎨💛 #art #artbook #klimt #taschen #book #bookstagram
Coffee & Book Ignoring the world til Monday … Coffee & Book Ignoring the world til Monday … 📙If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her fortieth birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves. Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles, and yet the question remained: What now? There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. It was time to create one. #memoir #nonfiction #readmorebooks #coffeeandbooks
🍽️FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER🍽️ Gilmore Girls F 🍽️FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER🍽️ Gilmore Girls Fridays When Rory decided to come out at the debutante ball, Lorelai gave her a crash course on being a lady. Ladies don’t get their own egg rolls. Ladies never kid. Ladies need help with everything. And a great lady can spit the nuts from their chicken right back into the Chinese food container without anyone noticing. This Cashew Chicken marinates in a gingery soy sauce and tastes just as good as Al’s. It’s pretty good. A bit salty. Next time salt free cashews 🫣🤣😵‍💫OOOPS! Happy Friday all. If we’re all running away to a commune I’ll cook for us. 😵‍💫🫣😬 VOTE BLUE PEOPLE. #gilmorefriday #cooking #fridaynightdinner #cookbook #bookstagram
🍽️The World at Your Table: Inspiring Tabletop 🍽️The World at Your Table: Inspiring Tabletop Designs Author Stephanie Stokes, with Judith Nasatir, Foreword by Melissa Biggs Bradley, Photographs by Stephanie Stokes and Mark Roskams I love a good table top. Love. It’s a fun piece of zen for me. This book was so much fun to browse through and get ideas from. It doesn’t have to be pricey either. I’ve used fancy towels with vases and fake greenery atop of it from the dollar store along with fun thrift store finds. It’s a piece of fun and whimsy and light. I recommend it wholly. 📗The World at Your Table features transporting tablescapes set with evocative, eye-catching, and exotic items this adventurous spirit has gathered over the years. To enliven her tabletops, Stokes creates experiences in miniature using china, glassware, linens, candlesticks, and cutlery from such widely different destinations as Japan, Cartagena, Budapest, and London. Each conjures the spirit of a particular place: Palm Beach’s tropical lushness, Provence’s remarkable charm, Portugal’s artisanal refinement, and so much more. By pairing her travel photography with the featured tables, she illustrates how incorporating the treasures collected on one’s travels can capture, express, and spark fresh memories at home. Throughout, Stokes discusses the design principles that inform her choices—from color palettes to indigenous materials. There is also a section on storage. This enchanting tabletop survey is for those who love design, entertaining, and travel—and the idea of incorporating beloved things purchased from far and wide into impressionistic tabletops. #tabletopsetting #tabletops #placesetting #zen #librarybook #bookstagram #findlight
“Freedom cannot be forced; it can only be experi “Freedom cannot be forced; it can only be experienced in the world and alongside others. It is on this condition that we are free to change the world and start something new in it…….Learning to love the world means that you cannot be pleasantly indifferent about its future. But there is a wisdom in knowing that change has come before and, what is more, that it will keep on coming, often when you least expect it; unplanned, spontaneous, and sometimes, even just in time.” “Nazism was undoubtedly tyrannical, and self-evidently fascist in its gray-black glamour, racist mythology, and disregard for the rule of law. However, Arendt argued that modern dictatorship had an important new feature. Its power reached everywhere: not a person, an institution, a mind, or a private dream was left untouched. It squeezed people together, crushing out spaces for thought, spontaneity, creativity - defiance. Totalitarianism was not just a new system of oppression, it seemed to have altered the texture of human experience itself.…” We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism A whole word. #voteblue
Turkey #FOODANDLIT AUGUST 🇹🇷 My library boo Turkey #FOODANDLIT AUGUST 🇹🇷 My library book stack. 🇹🇷The Turkish people are from diverse backgrounds, a reminder of the many different groups that conquered Turkey over thousands of years. The majority of the population lives in cities, and children who want to go to high school must move to a city. The people are primarily Sunni Muslim. One fifth of the population is Kurdish. Children who live in the European side of Istanbul may cross the Bosporus by ferry to visit grandparents in Asia. Turks are family oriented and are very hospitable people. They invite visitors to their homes and make sure they have something to eat and drink before they leave. One of their favorite meals is kebab made from grilled lamb. Their diet includes lamb, eggplant, and yogurt. A sweet flavored candy with rose petals called Turkish delight, or lokum, is sold in many flavors and colors. King Midas ruled western Turkey around 700 B.C. In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great took Anatolia under Macedonian Greek rule until Rome took over and Anatolia became part of Roman Asia Minor. In A.D. 330, Constantine became the Roman emperor and formed a new capital called Constantinople. After the fall of the Roman Empire it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453 and Turkey became part of the Ottoman Empire. After World War I, the country was invaded by Greece, which led to the Turkish war of Independence in 1920, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In 1923, the Turkish assembly declared Turkey a republic. The city formally became Istanbul in 1923. Turkey became a secular country, meaning there is a separation between religion and government. Women gained the right to vote in 1934. ☕️Tradition dictates that Turkish coffee is prepared with finely ground Arabica coffee, resembling the texture of flour, and is known for its concentrated and aromatic qualities. Turkey is famous for its street foods and drinks, but coffee is not simply a drink for Turkish people. It is also a big part of our culture. Here, people drink coffee when they want to share their problems and happiness with their friends. #turkey #foodandliterature #coffee
Soil and Spirit This book is wonderful. Nature r Soil and Spirit This book is wonderful. Nature reading but so much more. What a gem, so happy to have found this read. 📗As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities. Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective—as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall’s ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community Supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico, where he joins a group of Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long Island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech. “Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic”—words that describe his prose as well as his vision of connectedness—Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration. We all need a little hope right now. Happy Monday 💚📗💚 #soilandspirit #nature #reading #book #bookstagram #mondays #hope
Gilmore FRIDAY 🍽️ Some of Stars Hollow’s b Gilmore FRIDAY 🍽️ Some of Stars Hollow’s best Asian cuisine comes from the Pancake House, and you’d be lucky to pull this meal on International Grab Bag Night at Al’s. This Vietnamese noodle dish has marinated sirloin or flank steak, noodles dressed with a limey dressing, and fresh herbs and spices. LORELAI: “We are so in luck. It was international grab bag night at Al’.” RORY: “Cool. Did you peek?” LORELAI: “And ruin the whole point of the mystery dinner? I think not.” It’s been a long day 😅 This is interesting ….. 👀🤣 Happy Friday all! #gilmoregirls #gilmorecookbook #fridaynightdinner #cookbook #bookstagram
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