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Darlene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Darlene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Darlene Foster
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Thursday Doors: Valencia, Spain
Another favourite Spanish city of mine is Valencia. It is the third-largest city in Spain, located about 2.5 hours south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast. It has a rich history and amazing architecture. It is also very modern and combines the new and the old very well. There is so much to do and […]
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How I Became a Sailor in Three Lessons & Other Stories: 2025 Anthology: by Isle of Arran u3a Writing Group (Isle of Arran u3a Anthology Book 2):
"I enjoyed the first anthology, The Wife, The Mistress, and the Guinea Pig and Other Stories, so much I immediately bought this one when it was published. I was not disappointed. Many of the pieces took me back to Arran which is such a wonderful place"
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I visited Kalaupapa as part of the official tour, which is very closely escorted and is designed, rightly, to protect the privacy of the residents; I met one or two people in passing, but there was no opportunity for a long exchange. Later I contacte
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"Pachinko’ highlights the horrific side of Japanese society, the treatment of women, and the struggle of immigrants to fit in and in the end never belonging to the country they immigrated to or the country they left. The book is a slow read but it is "
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“Writing for children is important to me because I want children to develop the same love of books I had as a child.”
― Amanda in Alberta: The Writing on the Stone
― Amanda in Alberta: The Writing on the Stone
“If you don’t like the weather in Alberta, just wait a few minutes and it will change,” said Sarah.”
― Amanda in Alberta: The Writing on the Stone
― Amanda in Alberta: The Writing on the Stone
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| The Lost Challenges: August 2016 Scavenger Hunt | 27 | 49 | Aug 31, 2016 05:25AM | |
| The Challenge Fac...: The Really, Really, Really, Really, Hard 2016 Challenge! | 103 | 522 | Jan 04, 2017 08:29PM | |
| UK Book Club: Caroline's Around the World in 80 Books | 161 | 157 | Mar 16, 2017 08:43AM | |
| The Bookworm Chal...: Young Adult Fiction | 31 | 52 | Nov 08, 2018 11:01AM |
“The Bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.”
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All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.”
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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