Learning about lives you haven't lived is good for your soul, especially if those lives faced challenges and choices you'll never experience. This life was beautifully written.
Learning about lives you haven't lived is good for your soul, especially if those lives faced challenges and choices you'll never experience. This life was beautifully written.
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Day 5: This book helped me to think through what identity is. He explains the combination of factors that make up identity: race, gender, religion, etc. change in importance to us according to how secure or attacked we feel.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5
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Day 5: This book helped me to think through what identity is. He explains the combination of factors that make up identity: race, gender, religion, etc. change in importance to us according to how secure or attacked we feel.
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My day 10: I love Murakami but Kafka on the Shore is my favorite because it's so captivating and complex. It explores deep themes of identity, memory, loneliness. Plus …a guy that can talk to cats—got to love that.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10
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My day 10: I love Murakami but Kafka on the Shore is my favorite because it's so captivating and complex. It explores deep themes of identity, memory, loneliness. Plus …a guy that can talk to cats—got to love that.
Sometimes, I just like to be entertained. I'd read Tarzan, and then decided to give the 'other guy' a try. Burroughs was 'no mean penman'
Sometimes, I just like to be entertained. I'd read Tarzan, and then decided to give the 'other guy' a try. Burroughs was 'no mean penman'
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Day 8: Read this as a choice book project in 5th grade, very stubbornly finished despite its darkness & difficulty. Animal experimentation is heavy stuff. Probably allegorical, too.
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Day 8: Read this as a choice book project in 5th grade, very stubbornly finished despite its darkness & difficulty. Animal experimentation is heavy stuff. Probably allegorical, too.
#PlagueDogs
#RichardAdams
Loved The Dead. Went to a performance at the American Irish Heritage Mansion in NYC, where you're just a guest at the party. Excellent food and booze, great music, great show. The street was quiet when we came out. It was very cold, but it didn't snow.
Loved The Dead. Went to a performance at the American Irish Heritage Mansion in NYC, where you're just a guest at the party. Excellent food and booze, great music, great show. The street was quiet when we came out. It was very cold, but it didn't snow.
This one required a lot of attention, but was written so well and convincingly. I confess a little 'confirmation bias' on the whole, and though there were a couple of items that I had doubts about, I might be wrong about them (incredible as that sounds).
This one required a lot of attention, but was written so well and convincingly. I confess a little 'confirmation bias' on the whole, and though there were a couple of items that I had doubts about, I might be wrong about them (incredible as that sounds).
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I read this in a class on colonial & post-colonial literature to mark a line between stories of colonial superiority and stories by indigenous people. It offers a nuanced critique of colonialism from a British writer.
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I read this in a class on colonial & post-colonial literature to mark a line between stories of colonial superiority and stories by indigenous people. It offers a nuanced critique of colonialism from a British writer.
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Book about the railroad monopoly’s stranglehold on water in California as told through the story of farmers. Sprawling and epic. It was supposed to be a trilogy on the story of wheat but unfortunately he died.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20
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Book about the railroad monopoly’s stranglehold on water in California as told through the story of farmers. Sprawling and epic. It was supposed to be a trilogy on the story of wheat but unfortunately he died.
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Day 9: Vignettes tell the history of Latin America, from the dawn of the indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The many stories of suffering and oppression are told in a poignant and rich prose.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9
Technically a trilogy but only because the spine would bust I one volume, lol
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Day 9: Vignettes tell the history of Latin America, from the dawn of the indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The many stories of suffering and oppression are told in a poignant and rich prose.
Never finished watching the show, but the book kept me engaged all the way through. Fascinating study of culture based morality, and what defines a barbarian.
Never finished watching the show, but the book kept me engaged all the way through. Fascinating study of culture based morality, and what defines a barbarian.
Day 4: I enjoy books that teach about the lived experience of people from other cultures through great storytelling. It’s also important to understand the difference between culture and religion.
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Day 4: I enjoy books that teach about the lived experience of people from other cultures through great storytelling. It’s also important to understand the difference between culture and religion.
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Day 14: This was one of my first post-apocalyptic read, and I was fascinated by the idea that one brilliant scientist could destroy (and save?) the world in one go. Almost an environmental science fight club.
#Oryx&Crake
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Day 14: This was one of my first post-apocalyptic read, and I was fascinated by the idea that one brilliant scientist could destroy (and save?) the world in one go. Almost an environmental science fight club.
#Oryx&Crake
Both are easily accessible introductions to WWII.
I chose not to have more than one book by the same author, so Century 2 had to give way to Pillars.
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Both are easily accessible introductions to WWII.
I chose not to have more than one book by the same author, so Century 2 had to give way to Pillars.
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Day 7: a notable first exposure to some of the horrific things our government has done. Plus an amazing author. Part of a freshmen year college course,marking the start of my true education.
#TheBeanTrees
#BarbaraKingsolver
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Day 7: a notable first exposure to some of the horrific things our government has done. Plus an amazing author. Part of a freshmen year college course,marking the start of my true education.
#TheBeanTrees
#BarbaraKingsolver
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Day 8: In high school, feeling very independent and sophisticated, a friend and I rode the bus to the local college and saw a production of the Glass Menagerie. I was spellbound. I got it from the library the next day
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8
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Day 8: In high school, feeling very independent and sophisticated, a friend and I rode the bus to the local college and saw a production of the Glass Menagerie. I was spellbound. I got it from the library the next day
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Day 3: I actually don’t know why I love Mansfield Park so much. Jane Austin is a favorite but Fanny is almost priggish. I think I love her powers of observation and moral compass.
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Day 3: I actually don’t know why I love Mansfield Park so much. Jane Austin is a favorite but Fanny is almost priggish. I think I love her powers of observation and moral compass.
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Day 16: A few years ago I was in a terrible reading slump, and this book snapped me out of it. I was hooked from the opening line, and the story only got better. It was just such a unique and fascinating new fantasy world.
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Day 16: A few years ago I was in a terrible reading slump, and this book snapped me out of it. I was hooked from the opening line, and the story only got better. It was just such a unique and fascinating new fantasy world.
With its companion, War & Remembrance, it presents the effects of WW2 across a good chunk of the world. Although written decades ago, the rally Pug attends in pre-war Berlin bears an uncanny resemblance to those held more recently in the US.
With its companion, War & Remembrance, it presents the effects of WW2 across a good chunk of the world. Although written decades ago, the rally Pug attends in pre-war Berlin bears an uncanny resemblance to those held more recently in the US.
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Day 3: A gift from my uncle, my first serious introduction to philosophy. Began to solidify my own spiritual & philosophical beliefs while reading it. Reread often.
#SophiesWorld
#JosteinGaarder
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Day 3: A gift from my uncle, my first serious introduction to philosophy. Began to solidify my own spiritual & philosophical beliefs while reading it. Reread often.
#SophiesWorld
#JosteinGaarder
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14: My mother and I read this book together when I was 14. The fictionalized story of the last empress of China’s rise in a brutal court system. It was riveting. Now days, I live about a mile from Buck’s birthplace.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14
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14: My mother and I read this book together when I was 14. The fictionalized story of the last empress of China’s rise in a brutal court system. It was riveting. Now days, I live about a mile from Buck’s birthplace.
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Day 11: The daemons in this book were a dream come true. The fantasy was unique, but the critiques of religion and the magic of witches and science meant a lot to me, too. A childhood favorite I've reread again and again.
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Day 11: The daemons in this book were a dream come true. The fantasy was unique, but the critiques of religion and the magic of witches and science meant a lot to me, too. A childhood favorite I've reread again and again.
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Day 1: This was an easy first pick, as it's my go-to "favorite" book. "I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing, everything is sacred." The cowgirls! The cranes!
#EvenCowgirlsGetTheBlues
#TomRobbins
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Day 1: This was an easy first pick, as it's my go-to "favorite" book. "I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing, everything is sacred." The cowgirls! The cranes!
#EvenCowgirlsGetTheBlues
#TomRobbins