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Shamtroll22
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05 Apr 2019, 6:54 am

Lukeda420 wrote:

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Currently, I'm reading Christopher Hitchen's Why Orwell Matters

I read "Arguably" which is just a collection of Hitchen's essays. I swear he mentions George Orwell in nearly every single essay, and the book is over 700 pages long. It's was actually kind of funny.

Sounds interesting. I always had a thing for folks like Hitchens and Orwell.

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07 Apr 2019, 5:36 pm

I’m reading “Unbowed: A Memoir” by Wangari Maathai for my book club, and I’m rereading the Harry Potter series. I just finished “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” and as soon as I finish “Unbowed,” I’m going to start “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

I’m also reading a lot of my cookbook collection looking for vegan recipes.

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07 Apr 2019, 5:56 pm

Peter Hitchens - Abolition of Britain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abo ... of_Britain

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abolition-Brit ... 0704381400

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07 Apr 2019, 7:03 pm

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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I really enjoy her treatment of multi-bodied intelligences, and she plays with gender in a fun way.

That sounds like a great read!

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07 Apr 2019, 9:02 pm

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Barker, Juliet. The Brontës : A Life in Letters. London: Little, Brown, 2016.

Add this one to my list. It arrived in the post and looks wonderful. :heart:

Wow -- I finally finished this book, which I began February 5

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I read other books concurrently, but took my time with Barker. She never ceases to amaze me ... Brilliant.

Next up:
Dark Quartet

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07 Apr 2019, 10:02 pm

Interruption:

I'm going to read Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) before Dark Quartet. I'm in the mood for Clarissa.

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08 Apr 2019, 6:18 am

Right now I am attempting to read literary works by physicians, mostly writerly physicians and surgeons. Like 'When Breath Becomes Air' by Paul Kalanithi and 'Being Mortal'. Even Susan Sontag actually. Most interestingly though, I am looking at a survey of psychology texts to understand myself better as a teacher.

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08 Apr 2019, 9:03 am

I'm in the mood for a different sort of Clarissa :heart:

Like the one in the novel "Clarissa."

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08 Apr 2019, 9:08 am

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I'm in the mood for a different sort of Clarissa :heart:

Like the one in the novel "Clarissa."

Did you know that's one of the longest books in English lit?

I'll set some time aside for her, after the fourteen books I have queued for this year.

Maybe we can have a Clarissa reading club.

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08 Apr 2019, 9:18 am

She was certainly an interesting character.....

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08 Apr 2019, 10:54 am

At long last, I've got round to starting Dostoevsky's Devils.

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08 Apr 2019, 11:43 am

“Clarissa” was long...but I couldn’t put it down.

I once read an 800-page biography in one day. And I’m no speed reader.

“War and Peace” is around 1,500 pages of soap opera, with grand themes mixed in. And 100 pages totally devoted to the military hardware of the Napoleonic Wars.

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08 Apr 2019, 11:50 am

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At long last, I've got round to starting Dostoevsky's Devils.

Let us know your thoughts later on, it's always fascinating (to me) to hear different perspectives when it comes to Dostoevsky.

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08 Apr 2019, 11:52 am

I think of Dostoyevsky as a psychological realist with considerable tinges of idealism.

The way, say, he depicts someone with “consumption” (tuberculosis) is incredible.

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08 Apr 2019, 11:57 am

Prometheus18 wrote:

At long last, I've got round to starting Dostoevsky's Devils.

Been wanting to read this for a while too. (If only i had time..) let us know your thoughts.

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08 Apr 2019, 12:06 pm

I'm reading 'The End' by Karl Ove Knausgaard which is the last in his 6-volume account of his own life in microscopic observational detail.

the guy is a definite candidate for a bit of remote spectrum diagnosing if you ask me

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