Tess of the D’ubervilles was one I hated. You could literally see the disaster coming from about page 10. Kept reading…got 3/4 of the way through and said “I’m out”. Enough tragedy in the world. I don’t want to read it.

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An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣ Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC)⁣

genuinely this just became one of my favorite jwst images ever. it looks like a cosmic painting!!!

what a GREAT way to start 2025.

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It’s a wonderful series and Nicole Poole does a fantastic job of narrating and voice acting.

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Magical Midlife….love it!

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Leveling Up series is so fun!

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I listened to the Magical Midlife books by KF Breene, narrated by Nicole Poole. Love those. I tried the first book on graphic audio and hated it. Stopped listening after about an hour.

15.01.2025 18:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Magical Midlife series is my favorite. I’ve read and listened to the books multiple times and I still laugh out loud at some of the stories.

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I have read all the books in the series. Book 2 is my least favorite. I enjoy going back to book 3 because the parents make me laugh. KF Breene said she modeled them after her own parents (who brought clam dip in a dirty cooler for Christmas this year).
I hope you hang in there. Love them.

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He was so full of himself. I think we have all met that type (many times). Was glad he was dismissed.

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A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes.

A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line

The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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