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Cynthia D. Bertelsen

@cynthiabertelsen.bsky.social

Award-winning author/historian/librarian. 3 Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Culinary history, Europe, reading, cooking, travel, politics, oceans, Ormond Beach, Orwell. More at medium.com/@gherkinstomato and gherkinstomatoes.com

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Release the Epstein Files The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of ...

The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand that the Department of Justice and White House publicly release the files. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ep...

08.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this for real?

06.11.2025 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My latest post about George Orwell - cynthiabertelsen.substack.com/p/george-orw...

06.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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George Orwell's formative years at English public schools taught him more than the classics.

cynthiabertelsen.substack.com/p/orwell-the...

25.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you.

20.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am aiming to cover as much of what he wrote and also what people wrote about him. I've always admired his work and finally have the time (and place) to do so. Thanks for commenting!

20.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where was this?

20.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My latest post about George Orwell. cynthiabertelsen.substack.com/p/george-orw...

20.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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15.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reading George Orwell | Substack "Reading George Orwell" presents brief commentaries and analyses about Orwell’s work and life. Not only was he a prescient and prolific writer, but also one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th...

I write a free Substack newsletter, Reading George Orwell.

Check it out!

cynthiabertelsen.substack.com

14.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Reading George Orwell”: My New Substack Page I am writing on a new website over on Substack: "Reading George Orwell." Please subscribe - it's free and will remain so. What's it about? "Reading George Orwell" presents brief commentaries and analyses about Orwell’s work and life. Not only was he a prescient and prolific writer, but also one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century.

“Reading George Orwell”: My New Substack Page

I am writing on a new website over on Substack: "Reading George Orwell." Please subscribe - it's free and will remain so. What's it about? "Reading George Orwell" presents brief commentaries and analyses about Orwell’s work and life. Not only was he a…

13.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Goodness, what is he talking about???

06.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In a Kitchen Library: Reflections on Reading My newest book is now available on Amazon. And it soon will be listed on other online locations as well. I've loved to read since that eureka moment when I cracked the code and made sense of the squiggles on the page. Since then, I've read thousands of books. And that's one of the reasons why I wrote In a Kitchen Library…

In a Kitchen Library: Reflections on Reading

My newest book is now available on Amazon. And it soon will be listed on other online locations as well. I've loved to read since that eureka moment when I cracked the code and made sense of the squiggles on the page. Since then, I've read thousands of…

29.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill (Resending so you can share over email without my inadvertent notes after the "share" button)

What you need to share about the "one big beautiful" ugly horrible bill
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

22.05.2025 17:21 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

16.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 47246    🔁 10305    💬 2835    📌 997

Looks like a book I'd like to read!
#reading #literacy

08.04.2025 14:47 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Exactly. Repeating the same words, switching them around.

08.04.2025 00:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Doesn't anybody hear how demented he sounds?

07.04.2025 21:03 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy

I really detest the attacks on libraries.

#librarians #libraries #censorship #reading #books

07.04.2025 20:31 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I just can't with the stupid.

07.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No surprise. Now get them out of there and for the 25%, due process!

07.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A true hero.

06.04.2025 20:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

5 million people stand against Trump and Elon and the NYT has nothing on their home page about it???

06.04.2025 11:37 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Final count showed about 2000 people showed up in Gainesville, FL, plus many ruby red areas in FL saw tremendous numbers. Amazing! And encouraging.

05.04.2025 23:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Protest in Gainesville, FL. At least 1K in attendance, no counter protesters that I saw. One guy not carrying a sign or wearing a T-shirt with a slogan bumped into me pretty hard and didn't turn around to apologize. I didn't make a big deal out of it, and everyone else was spirited and polite.

05.04.2025 17:45 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Good one.

04.04.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, very Orwellian. “It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.”

04.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot! His reading of American history is shockingly stupid, even for him.

A VERY important article:

newrepublic.com/post/193614/...

04.04.2025 20:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What a jerk.

04.04.2025 19:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for calling BS on the orange clown, Warren Buffet.

04.04.2025 19:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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