Month: July 2015
Hilary Mantel: A Place of Greater Safety
The 2015 BookLikes Group Read Conserving the buddy read (or what’s left of it) for posterity — one of the few that actually took place in the relevant discussion group. BL group discussions were public and visible even to non-BL-members, but I’ve removed the links to the participants’ member profiles for purposes of this repost. […]
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Books With Numbers in the Title
Shout-out to URL Phantomhive for the idea! All of these are taken from my “Read” shelf. Sometimes, the numbers are in the subtitle. Books with several numbers (e.g., history books with a date range in their title) are entered for all numbers. Note: Updated as of March 2021. Zero / None Half […]
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The Telegraph: Unesco’s new World Heritage Sites – 2015 – Travel
This year’s additions to the list of Unesco World Heritage sites, from Edinburgh’s Forth Bridge to a pie factory in Uruguay. Ephesus, Turkey What Unesco says: “Located within what was once the estuary of the River Kaystros, Ephesus comprises successive Hellenistic and Roman settlements founded on new locations, which followed the coastline as it […]
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