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Darlene’s 2025 Year in Books
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Darlene Foster
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March 07
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Barcelona’s most famous citizen is Antoni Gaudí, a brilliant architect and designer (1852-1926). And he is everywhere. I love walking along the city streets and coming upon one of his buildings. Today I’m featuring some of his designs. The most well-known and impressive structure is his Sagrada Familia, started in 1882 and is now almost […]
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Darlene Foster
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Carla's review
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Amanda in Arabia: The Perfume Flask (Amanda Travels #1):
"I've read a few of the Amanda Travels books, so decided I would go back and start from the beginning. In this book, Amanda heads to the United Arab Emerites (UAE) to visit her aunt and uncle who are teachers there. This is also where she meets Leah, "
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Amanda in Arabia: The Perfume Flask (Amanda Travels #1):
"Amanda in Arabia is a creative story based in UAE with the main protagonist, Amanda, on a visit with her aunt and uncle. Amanda is adventuresome, curious and resilient. She meets another teen her age, Leah, and they become BFFs.
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Lauren's review
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut:
"Freya Stark was a remarkable woman who travelled throughout the Middle East in the 1930’s. She was fluent in Arabic and Arabian history and wrote many popular travel books at a time when women did not travel alone. When travelling through Yemen, she "
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| This is an incredible book, a true story about a normal couple living a comfortable life who, in a short amount of time, lose just about everything. It totally blindsides them, as it would many people. How they make it through and come out the other ...more | |
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| This book has been on my bookshelf for at least fifteen years, and I'm not sure why it took me so long to read it, as it's excellent. The author cleverly combines history, politics, geography, and a fictional family saga to create a compelling story. ...more | |
“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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