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Reading "San Marino la storia in miniatura" and the passage about people acquiring RSM passports in the mid C19 reminded me of the Customs officer who was stumped by the RSM stamp on my passport as we left Rome (a gimmicky tourist souvenir that cost €5 then) - he looked at at it and asked "did you enter San Marino directly?" D'Oh! 🤦♂️ (if it WERE possible, RSM is not a Schengen state, so maybe the 90 days wouldn't start until we left 😀 ) #AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
Reading " San Marino la storia in miniatura" for a reading challenge @thestorygraph and the vocabulary, with lots of 19th century officialese, is a challenge, but so is the absence of commas in lists. Not just the "oxford comma"; the author will pile adjectives together or lists of objects, with not a comma in sight. Is this standard practice in #Italian ? #AmReading#ebooks#nonfiction#History@bookstodon
Reading The Bangalore Detectives Club book 1, and really enjoying it. I hadn't realised was set in the 1920s, when my great-grandmother was living there, so learning more of the place is fun. As is the reference to Lady Molly, I might have to dust off my Orzcy and check her out #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#India#mystery@bookstodon
I'm no expert at maths in much the same way ostriches are not experts in flying , but something still seems a bit suss about this, from "Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year" by Susie Dent. Unless, of course, my copy "had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a hundred years in the future" 😀 #Nonfiction#etymology#language#AmReading#ebooks#Kobo@bookstodon
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Trying my (and the) second Jack Haldean mystery "Mad About the Boy?" - 1/4 in and I'm (a) glad I have never had any so-called "friend" as utterly unsympathetic, uncaring and obtuse about others as Jack Haldean and (2) wondering why someone hasn't killed HIM yet. #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#aurumzeitlich#Mystery@bookstodon
"He asked me to play a guest spot in his outrageously good series The Games."
Sam Neill's mentions of John Clarke are a bittersweet highlight of his memoir "Did I Ever Tell You This?" and the quote above made me want to watch that marvellous show all over again. The 100-metre track episode timeless comedy genius, imo
Another snippet of Romagnolo in "San Marino la storia in miniatura" once again stumping all the online translators I know of
"S’t’vù che ai tu penn al tignol a n’ dega dan fai ciapé la guaza ad San Zvan"
Sam Neill's "Did I Ever Tell You This?" enteraining descriptioon of Ngaio Marsh proving that in #Aotearoa going as high as SIX degrees of separation ain't nevah gonna happen 😀 #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#Theatre
Reading "San Marino la storia in miniatura" for a reading challenge @thestorygraph - very interesting and VERY personal history of the author's home country. I'm grokking more unaaided than I thought I would but the Romagnola brings me (and translators) to a screaming halt😂
"A j'ho la moj so l'uròla"" non capisco! #History#Nonfiction#Italian#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
18% I mean… the level of smut… I don’t know why but I wasn’t expecting this! Even my husband has to do with it 😂😂 (because he is reading with me) 🔥🔥🔥 @bookstodon#books#ebooks#editor#indiepublishing
"Writely or Wrongly" by Joanne Anderson is my third 5/5 read for 2024 @thestorygraph but the first to tagged as a personal "top read". Its closing paragraph nicely sums up why I enjoyed it so much. #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#Language@bookstodon
I just remembered that I created an EPUB of one of my favourite short stories, “The Tower” by Marghanita Laski, a while back, just to practice making e-books (with Calibre).
It's not exactly horror, but I think fans of horror will like it. The story seems to have been forgotten now, but to me it's a classic.
Link here if you're interested—material shared for educational purposes only.
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"Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This book fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery."