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📚 Book Briefs: 🎩 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📖

📚 Book Briefs: 🎩 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📖 F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" 📚 is a masterpiece of American literature, set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920s, a period marked by jazz music, prohibition, and unprecedented economic prosperity 💵. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the book's narrator, readers are introduced to the world of wealth, ambition, and illusion that defines the East Egg and West Egg of Long Island, New York. Nick, a Yale graduate 🎓 and World War I veteran ⚔️, moves to West Egg to pursue a career in bond sales. He rents a modest house 🏠 next to the mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a wealthy party-thrower whose origins and source of wealth are the subject of much speculation. Across the bay in the more fashionable East Egg live Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan 🌼, and her husband, Tom, a man of old money and infidelity 💔. As the summer progresses, Nick is drawn into the opulent world 🌎 of his neighbors

📖 Tales to Tell: Dreams Unfold; Amelia's Journey✨

📖 Tales to Tell: Dreams Unfold: Amelia's Journey✨🪶 In the bustling streets of 20th-century New York, a young woman named Amelia stepped off the boat with nothing but a suitcase 🧳 in her hand and a heart full of aspirations. Tucked away among her few belongings was a cherished photograph 📸 of her family, left behind in a faraway land, and a small, intricately carved wooden bird — a token of her dreams to soar high above the challenges that lay ahead. America — the land of opportunity, a place where dreams were said to come alive, greeted Amelia with its vast, overwhelming promise and its equally daunting challenges. With little to her name and a determination as sturdy as the cobblestones beneath her feet, Amelia found herself laboring in the dusty, sunless confines of a garment factory 🏭. Each day was a grueling testament to her resolve, sewing and stitching from dawn till dusk, her fingers nimble yet aching, as visions of her own dressmaking business danced like flickering s