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29 Oct 2018, 8:06 am

"Mind of Clover" by Roshi Robert Aitken.



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29 Oct 2018, 11:28 pm

The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

Joseph K finds himself charged with a crime, though no one will tell him what that crime might be. What follows is an absurdist and surreal nightmare of bureaucracy that he must fight through.


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30 Oct 2018, 3:25 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

Joseph K finds himself charged with a crime, though no one will tell him what that crime might be. What follows is an absurdist and surreal nightmare of bureaucracy that he must fight through.


Great book, even in unfinished form. The film by Orson Welles is also well done.



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30 Oct 2018, 10:11 am

HighLlama wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

Joseph K finds himself charged with a crime, though no one will tell him what that crime might be. What follows is an absurdist and surreal nightmare of bureaucracy that he must fight through.


Great book, even in unfinished form. The film by Orson Welles is also well done.


I'll have to catch it.


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30 Oct 2018, 7:27 pm

"She Has Her Mother's Laugh" by Carl Zimmer

All about Heredity & Genes. CRISPR in it caught my eye...



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01 Nov 2018, 11:53 am

Solaris by Stanislav Lem



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01 Nov 2018, 4:34 pm

A book called "we regret to inform you " . About a girl that got rejected from all schools.

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She made it sound like the end of the world

But it was not the end of the world

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While I finished school, it reminds me to keep things in perspective

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01 Nov 2018, 6:26 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

Joseph K finds himself charged with a crime, though no one will tell him what that crime might be. What follows is an absurdist and surreal nightmare of bureaucracy that he must fight through.


This book terrified me.


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01 Nov 2018, 8:10 pm

blazingstar wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

Joseph K finds himself charged with a crime, though no one will tell him what that crime might be. What follows is an absurdist and surreal nightmare of bureaucracy that he must fight through.


This book terrified me.


As it should. :skull:


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01 Nov 2018, 8:45 pm

I have put aside "She Has Her Mother's Laugh" and have just started "The Winter Fortress" by Neal Bascombe. It is about a daring raid on a heavy water plant in Norway during WWII. Looks fantastic. It is amazing all the history I never learned in school. Of course there was just so much occurring all over back then.



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03 Nov 2018, 9:27 am

For the first time in my memory I'm not reading ANYTHING!


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05 Nov 2018, 8:04 am

I am re-reading Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. It's been a long time since I picked it up. I forgot, the story weaves in the internment of the Japanese Americans during WWII. I remember thinking we (US) would never to that again. Chilling in light of current affairs.


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01 Dec 2018, 9:57 pm

"anything but ok" . Fiction

A girl named Stella's brother Rob got back from Marines with PTSD

Stella is trying to run for class president

Rob's friend, a veteran , committed suicide

Rob has been patrolling his house at night, with a gun


An awesome book

Thus far

Page 80


Bit then again , :D I am obsessed with the military



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01 Dec 2018, 10:13 pm

The Rainbow, DH Lawrence

The Belgian Essays of Charlotte and Emily Brontë: A Critical Edition, Edited by Sue Lonoff

The Brontës' Haworth, Stephen Whitehead


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03 Dec 2018, 11:24 am

Botticelli's Muse



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04 Dec 2018, 4:35 am

The Talented Mr. Ripley