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17 Jul 2021, 2:29 pm

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I only managed a few chapters of Armadale, because the print was really small and faint. I've lost my good glasses and I was getting a headache trying to stumble through. I'll have to try again when I get my new glasses in September. I love Wilkie Collins too, though! I've read The Moonstone and The Woman in White - both superb. :heart:

Today's read was Brothers Grimm:

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Observations - I love reading about evil women villains and witches. So far I read Hansel and Gretel, Little Redcape, Rapunzel, Briar-Rose (Sleeping Beauty), and Snow White. In this edition Rapunzel gets pregnant during the Prince's visit, and she has twins. I recall Sleeping Beauty getting raped while asleep and having twins, but it didn't happen in this version. Snow White's evil stepmother is forced to dance in burning hot slippers until she dies. The wolf has his stomach cut open with scissors to rescue Little Red. Hansel and Gretel's mother is a psychopath.


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17 Jul 2021, 2:40 pm

Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson.



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19 Jul 2021, 4:27 pm

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19 Jul 2021, 4:27 pm

Udinaas wrote:
Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson.


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20 Jul 2021, 1:47 pm

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Gotta love YA books with the larger print :heart:


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21 Jul 2021, 3:47 pm

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I'm seriously not keeping up well with my reading ambition...
but I just picked up a few classics for a bargain at a downtown bookstore... So here we go:

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Onwards!

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1 down, 5 to go.



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22 Jul 2021, 11:50 am

All Quiet on the Western Front
World War I: A Definitive Visual History


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24 Jul 2021, 7:05 pm

Does it fart? The definitive field guide to animal flatulence
Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti: Illustrated by Ethan Kocak
Quercus Editions: ISBN 978 1 78747 480 2

Ideal for the smallest room in the house! :D


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26 Jul 2021, 5:53 am

Just finished Sakura's Story: Love Riding the Spring Breeze by Ohsaki Tomohito.



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27 Jul 2021, 4:21 pm

Just began reading the classic swashbuckling novel Captain Blood!


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02 Aug 2021, 10:00 am

Shikamaru's story: Mourning Clouds by Takashi Yano



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02 Aug 2021, 5:48 pm

The End of Your World - Adyashanti



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03 Aug 2021, 5:29 am

Ham On Rye, by Charles Bukowski.

Perhaps Bukowski's most autobiographical work of fiction, telling the story of his regular anti-hero, Henry Chinaski and his painful, lonely childhood, raised by a monster of a father. Emotionally not always an easy read, but hard to put down, just the same.


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03 Aug 2021, 9:03 pm

Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer.