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First read of the new year, revisiting Orczy's Dandy-hero.
"We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops."
Jan 4, 2024
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I'm working my way through some of the great literature of the 19th century, which over the last year has included Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Count of Monte Cristo.
Ivanhoe, this story of Saxons vs Normans, knights, and high adventure, has been an unexpected pleasure.
Next up: Middlmarch
Feb 26, 2025
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weaveworld by clive barker
the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield
master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov
the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky
howl’s moving castle by diane wynne jones (for the second time)
Jul 17, 2024
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omg I hadn’t read in years and all of a sudden I listened to this audiobook(amazing amazing voice actor) and have been reading ever since-I definitely recommend. /a man wakes up in a spaceship with no memory of how he got there…/
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
if you’re feeling more historical-it’s very long but the revenge/romance/drama is unmatched and it kept me interested
Apr 17, 2024
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When I was 13 the only things that I can remember being particularly fond of were baseball and the Lonely Island - watching the Royal Tenenbaums on TV one night was (at risk of seeming trite) 'life changing' for even just the fact that my adolescent baseball career was on the decline and I needed something new to invest my time in. The montage of Gene Hackman playing with his Adidas tracksuited grandsons set to 'Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard' indoctrinated me into a life of whimsy, for better or worse.
Jan 5, 2024
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Leaves you feeling a bit sillier about your laments.
Dec 20, 2023
"One of the most common and saddest spectacles is that of a person of really fine sensibility and acute psychological perception trying to write fiction by these qualities alone. This type of writer will put down one intensely emotional or keenly perceptive sentence after the other, and the result will be complete dullness. The facts is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."
Jan 13, 2024