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And this book does a lot of interesting stuff that is well beyond that plot framework

I really don’t like the tone of the article. They’re obsessed with plot similarities, but it’s a Victorian plot, a simple picaresque framework. Literature always talks to other literature and art and always reworks in some way.

Whoa. Contrived negativity. So we can’t rewrite and rework Victorian era ideas?

Congrats. Such a special book

Good morning. Three big books going: Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1532), Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (1919), and on audio, The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

Fun book. Cute decoration

Sounds fascinating

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Hello Womble. I’m late again. Late evening here. Hope you’re having great dreams. Three big books going: Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1532), Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (1919), and on audio, The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

They all sound good!

A tough, if curious, GGM. About then and “now” (1989 now)

Volume 6 is out in Danish. Enjoy!

Enjoy Playground. Clever book. I wished it was shorter. But it’s relevant to us.

Such a fun book

Thank you!

I’m so pleased to see that. It’s an easy enjoyable read and also fantastic

I really loved it. And still love. Weird and complex and so 1970’s. But I have found myself in the minority among like readers…

Small Comfort by Ia Genberg

My 7th book from the International Booker longlist is a philosophical novel that focuses on the money and how it affects people. It left this reader wondering, how dumb are we?

But I enjoyed it.

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One of only two Dickens I’ve read. Enjoyed them both. Love the author/narrator personal interludes. The house boat. Little Emily. Unforgettable Uriah Heep. So much good stuff here.

Looks fascinating

All great suggestions. Of course, Margaret Atwood. And peak at the Giller Prize books.

I spent ten months chipping away at these 900 pages. Fun stuff. Fun language. Knights and damsels and very strange morality.

I have a sort of personal review here: www.librarything.com/work/6821891...

Good morning Womble. I have three going, hope to get to all today. On 🎧 The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje. Then I just started Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1532) and Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (1919)

Nice to see Mantel here. Beyond Black is such a dark and powerful novel

I’m listening to The Remembered Soldier right now. It’s romantic. I have a ways to go. It’s 24.5 hours. Yeah, the head-start is nice. I started at zero. But i don’t read many new books. Just Booker, mainly. ☺️ I’ve enjoyed the mixture this year.

Hi. Kudos for getting 11 read already. The Director has been my favorite. But i still have 6 to read. What is your favorite, or your take on those 11?

St Vitus dance from the movie Paracelsus, directed by GW Pabst (1943)

The Director is my 6th from the longlist

I found it chilling. It’s an easy read, fast paced. The non-Nazi movie director working for Goebbels in Nazi Germany. But this is also a non-maga in a Project 25 America. That us. Me. That’s close to home.

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March reading. Same thing, different apps