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📘 The Wish

Read The Wish by Nicholas Sparks

Finished reading The Wish by Nicholas Sparks

* Duration: 11 hours 42 minutes *

From the author of ‘The Longest Ride’ and ‘The Return’ comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.

1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind…until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island.

Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce showed her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town – and introduced her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.

By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.

As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier – and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

©2021 Nicholas Sparks (P)2021 Hachette Audio

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:41:00 -0800

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58666382 (https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3353277)
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💬 This is why the baseline version of Mastodon didn’t implement this feature of Twitter.

Replied to https://twitter.com/rgsunico/status/1736991583902503224 by Rocky Sunico (Twitter)

The Twitter QRT is peak passive aggressiveness as it dances on the very edge of confrontation. You’re no longer talking to the person you’re quoting – instead you’re talking about the person to your followers and making the subject watch you get on your social media soapbox.

This is why the baseline version of Mastodon didn’t implement this feature of Twitter.

In reply to https://twitter.com/rgsunico/status/1736991583902503224 (https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3353251)
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📄 Read: Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #3

Finished reading Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #3 by Sam Maggs

It’s practice day for the most important test of Cadet Picard’s Starfleet Academy career thus far! His first test in actual space…and he is not ready. He may as well be yelling into a black hole after being put into a group with all his least favorite colleagues…and Marty, the girl he kind of, sort of likes. No one’s listening to his commands, and he doesn’t know how on Earth he’s supposed to see eye-to-eye with Resh, his bully and competition for top of the class! Picard’s course is set for failure, and if he can’t figure out a way to change things soon…there goes his future.

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:47:07 -0800

(https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3353237)