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Jennifer is Currently Reading

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Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

by Simon Welfare

bookshelves: currently-reading, historical, history, ireland, biog, irelan, sco, scotland, victorian, nobility, architecture, art, aristocracy, ar, decorating, dec, interior-design-deco, iculture, philanthropy, charity, chari, house-home, royals, royalty

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Moon Olympic Peninsula: Coastal Getaways, Rainforests & Waterfalls, Hiking & Camping (Travel Guide)

by Jeff Burlingame (Goodreads Author)

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“I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own.
GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN”
― Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

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“Others said--and they meant it as a compliment--- that he was 'utterly unconventional in everything that he did.”
― Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

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“You cannot have two stories. You can end with only one.”
― Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune

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“It's not every day that a hippopotamus asks for a fruitcake!”
― Ethan Reed, Santa Stops at Disneyland (Disney Classic)

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“And putting something in words----
naming it --- allows us to recognize it
a little better when we come upon it.

It's sorta the point of all this.”
― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue

tags: language, words, written-word

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Anyone who enjoys historical fiction or history books about Tudor England will like this group. Whether you have been all the way to England just to t ...more

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