04-13-2021, 09:57 AM | #29941 |
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My 3 star review of The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilization, #4), by Will Durant:-
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04-14-2021, 06:37 AM | #29942 |
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Sixty pages into Australian Poetry since 1788, just 1030 to go. Some very interesting poetry already, "How McDougal topped the score" was literally laugh out loud funny. This is a 4 week library loan and I would love to have the book to keep, but if I did buy a copy, I'd have to slice the pages and scan them - the physical difficulty and sheer tediousness of reading a dead tree book again after so long, having to turn pages, hold a heavy, awkward object, and have to look up words separately all reinforcing my love of ebooks.
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04-14-2021, 08:16 AM | #29943 |
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I'm now 11% of the way through Australian Poetry since 1788 and eleven is a number larger than the total number references to the continent's Indigenous People so far. Twenty-five named poets, three Anons, and only one of them has written about the people who were there first. Scary stuff.
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04-14-2021, 08:18 AM | #29944 |
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Almost finished with Killing Commandatore, by Haruki Murakami, one of my favorite authors.
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04-15-2021, 08:46 AM | #29945 |
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Thirty pages short of 1/4 done with Australian Poetry since 1788, and FINALLY a poem about its indigenous people, in a poem published around 1950. Apart from a handful of lines in other poems, like "Fears had she; the blackfellow's cruel spear" from the first 170 years of poetry in this anthology, it would be possible to think there were NO humans in Australia before the Europeans arrived.
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04-15-2021, 09:12 AM | #29946 |
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Finished up the Traveler's Gate trilogy by Will Wight. I thought it was good. Now reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.
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04-16-2021, 08:41 AM | #29947 |
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04-16-2021, 08:44 AM | #29948 |
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I'm just starting Songs of Autumn by Guy Donovan, book 3 of the Dragon Treasure series. This series has been really holding my attention!
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04-17-2021, 02:50 AM | #29949 | |
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Next up: A random pick from the TBR: April Lady by Georgette Heyer. Her 44th novel. Good fun, as expected. |
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04-17-2021, 01:48 PM | #29950 |
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04-18-2021, 05:00 AM | #29951 |
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Nearly halfway through Pretender, book 8 of Cherryh's Foreigner series. I'm going to read this one and Deliverer back-to-back then take another break from the frantic pace of these stories.
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04-18-2021, 10:54 PM | #29952 | |
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Next up: Interzone #216. Bought way back in July 2008 from Fictionwise! (Another random pick from my TBR pile.) |
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04-19-2021, 09:31 AM | #29953 |
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The clip at which you're finishing books is astonishing. You're an amazingly fast reader. I'm envious. I'm lucky if I finish a book in a week. Although I guess I only get to read maybe for a half hour to an hour a day if I'm lucky, with work and kids.
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04-19-2021, 12:13 PM | #29954 |
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I listen to a lot of audiobooks but I've been reading literary magazines that I have been so behind on. Just finished Asimov August 2011 with some quite good stories and one kindof weird one. As always, a combo of novellettes and short stories. I might have read this one before because I remember The End of the Line by Robert Silverberg, which I very much enjoyed before.
Currently reading The Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics). Bought this back in 2011. Several good stories here so far. |
04-20-2021, 04:21 PM | #29955 | |
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Interzone seems to be dragging a bit. I've found I really prefer longer works to short stories. |
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