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christine
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primarily reading classics, contemporary literature and non-fiction | occasionally watching movies | east coaster living on the west coast | she/her |💙📚
i knew that cormac mccarthy profile was going to be especially awful as soon as the author used “womenkind” - like i beg your pardon??
November 20, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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"How can I celebrate literary excellence at a gala that’s financially tied to the destruction of a small strip of land where most books have been burned and destroyed?"

Former Giller Prize–winner David Bergen on boycotting this year's award ceremony

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
Opinion: David Bergen: Why I won’t be attending the Giller Prize gala this year
My family is Mennonite, and one of the tenets of the Mennonite faith is pacifism.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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We’ve given away more than 350,000 free ebooks this week!

Thanks to all of you who have been reading with us and sharing, and thanks for your patience as our servers have at times struggled to keep up.

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Another world is possible if we fight for it

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November 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
repost with 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order):

- augustus by john williams
- lie with me by philippe besson
- blessings by chukwuebuka ibeh
- mourning a breast by xi xi
- swallowing mercury by wioletta greg

#booksky #books
repost w/ 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order)

-mongrel by hanoko footman
-trespasses by louise kennedy
-say nothing by patrick radden keefe
-I who have never known men by jaqueline harpmen
-my friends by hisham matar

#booksky #books
repost w/ 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order)

james - percival everett
blue sisters - coco mellors
mongrel - hanako footman
adelaide - genevieve wheeler
talking at night - clare daverley

#BookSky #books #booklover
November 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
george herbert's easter wings from a 1633 edition of the temple
November 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
just finished barbara comyns's juniper tree which flips the grimm fairy tale of a similar name (mother trudy) on it's head. comyns has such a way with her hurried, off-kilter prose that makes the banal so haunting. lovely read for autumn. ★★★★¼/★★★★★
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 PM