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violetpastille

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21. Still working on 1984, halfway though.

Thu Oct 25, 2018, 01:54 PM

Oct 2018

I have the attention span of a gnat, honestly.
Thanks internet!

I'm reading on my laptop, which is probably part of the problem. I have a paperback version but the words are so little...
Thanks turning 40!

But I'm in complete admiration of the writing just the same. It's beautifully written, my gosh! It's so good.

When I read it as a kid, I thought this book was unbearably depressing, but I'm finding it to be oddly uplifting now.
EnCOURAGEing.

And as I read I ask myself what I would give up for the cause of freedom and what I would not...

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 21, 2018? [View all] hermetic Oct 2018 OP

"Year Zero" by Jeff Long dameatball Oct 2018 #1

Oh my hermetic Oct 2018 #2

Just starting "Into the Water". I think "Ready Player One" was a much better sinkingfeeling Oct 2018 #3

That's normal, the book being better hermetic Oct 2018 #4

Think she's Paula Hawkins, who wrote "The Girl on the Train". sinkingfeeling Oct 2018 #6

Aha! hermetic Oct 2018 #8

The Iron Heel by Jack London Cousin Dupree Oct 2018 #5

I'd never heard of that one hermetic Oct 2018 #7

The Shining Girls exboyfil Oct 2018 #9

Good creepy stuff hermetic Oct 2018 #10

I love horror and ghost stories too...especially this time of year...going to try those Demsrule86 Oct 2018 #19

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller pscot Oct 2018 #11

Well, yeah... hermetic Oct 2018 #12

Eggshells by Caitriona Lally sagesnow Oct 2018 #13

Irish literary gem hermetic Oct 2018 #16

"The League of Frightened Men" by Rex Stout The King of Prussia Oct 2018 #14

Frightened Men? hermetic Oct 2018 #17

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware hostalover Oct 2018 #15

The plot sounds great hermetic Oct 2018 #18

Sounds like just my sort of thing The King of Prussia Oct 2018 #20

Still working on 1984, halfway though. violetpastille Oct 2018 #21

I really should hermetic Oct 2018 #22

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami PoorMonger Oct 2018 #23

That sounds...well... hermetic Nov 2018 #24