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Emma

@BookAround

#BookBlogger The literary life of a French book lover. Never read Romain Gary? What are you waiting for?

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Joined October 2011
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On the blog today - a look at Octoberโ€™s reading (hint - it was a lotโ€ฆ) plus I think about the many reading events of November!! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordโ€ฆ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ“š/
October reading, plus another wonderful club week! ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ“š

October reading, plus another wonderful club week!ย ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ“š

October really was a bumper month for books, and despite real life being a bit frantic, I have read some amazing titles โ€“ probably because reading has always been my coping mechanism! Hereโ€™s โ€ฆ

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Winding Up the Week #396 bookjotter.com/2024/10/26/wiโ€ฆ via @GaiaBird1 #1952Club #AmReading #BookTwitter @Bookmunch @Bookaround @kaggsy59 @stuck_inabook @tony_malone
Winding Up the Week #396

Winding Up the Week #396

This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce the 1952 Club, focus on past posts deserving to be read and highlight fโ€ฆ

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The available brain time of young Europeans is not a currency for social mediaโ€”and it never will be โณ๐Ÿง  We have obtained the permanent withdrawal of #TikTokLite โ€œrewardsโ€program, which could have had very addictive consequences. The #DSA effect in full swing ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
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With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk ๐Ÿ“งโคต๏ธ
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Histoire de lโ€™extrรชme droite, des ligues au Front national 4 รฉmissions dans Le Cours de l'histoire sur @franceculture #radio #replay #podcast [PODCAST] #extrรชmedroite Les ligues Pรฉtain et Cie Fascismes europรฉens Front national [THREADโฌ‡๏ธ] 1/16 radiofrance.fr/francecultureโ€ฆ
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ยซย Ce quโ€™il y a de frappant dans lโ€™ย ยซย accรฉlรฉration de lโ€™histoireย ยป que nous vivons, cโ€™est que cette vitesse vertigineuse ร  laquelle le monde court vers lโ€™avenir sโ€™accompagne dโ€™une absence de contrรดle sur la direction de la marcheย ยป, Romain Gary
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โ€œThrow everything out of your mind. Read a little, sleep. The world will still be here when you wake up, and there'll still be everything left to do.โ€
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Best of 2023 for Vanity Fair and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction, and now the unanimous winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award. If you havenโ€™t read Those We Thought We Knew, I hope you will.
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The #1937Club โ€“ some reading recommendations for next week jacquiwine.wordpress.com/202โ€ฆ via @JacquiWine
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Today on the blog I'm previewing some of the novels by Irish authors coming in 2024 that I'm most looking forward to! Featuring @CaoilinnHughes @NualaNiC @MumblinDeafRo @thereadparts @catriona_shine @sineadgleeson @SarahCrossan
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Elmet by Fiona Mozley bookaroundthecorner.com/2023โ€ฆ via @Bookaround
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The longest dinner party in literature... #proust #theguermantesway kaggsysbookishramblings.wordโ€ฆ via @kaggsy59
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StuckinaBook's Weekend Miscellany stuckinabook.com/stuckinabooโ€ฆ via @stuck_inabook
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Cโ€™est un chef dโ€™ล“uvre, que dis-je ? Cโ€™est un monument de la littรฉrature mondiale ! Alors oui, la lecture sera longue. Mais elle en vaut la peine. Page aprรจs page, vous dรฉcouvrirez tout le gรฉnie de ce dandy maladif pour sublimer la mรฉmoire et les sensations retrouvรฉes !
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Ronโ€™s new novel, The Caretaker, is about to release, and same as always goes with mine, if youโ€™re looking for an indie bookstore to preorder a signed or personalized copy, give my friends at @citylightsnc a call. Theyโ€™ll be happy to help you out and will ship most anyplace.
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Ranchers vs federal agents and environmentalists: books by Joe Wilkins and C.J. Box bookaroundthecorner.com/2023โ€ฆ via @Bookaround
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Ranchers vs federal agents and environmentalists: books by Joe Wilkins and C.J. Box bookaroundthecorner.com/2023โ€ฆ via @Bookaround
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The Sandhamn Murders series by Viveca Sten bookaroundthecorner.com/2023โ€ฆ via @Bookaround
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20 Books of Summer 2023 - It's a wrap bookaroundthecorner.com/2023โ€ฆ via @Bookaround
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - I got a bang out of it bookaroundthecorner.com/2023โ€ฆ via @Bookaround
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