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Listening to homage to catalonia. Great book

Oxford words and phrases of the year

Rizz Swiftie Deinfluencing Beige flag Heat dome Parasocial Situationship Prompt I must move with the times, I’m still struggling with ‘bagging area’. And I’m yet to move into ‘goblin mode’.

Gotta find Noldius' Concordance of the Hebrew Particles now!!

Good morning sa7 , How is your day so far ?

Have you ever read a book that was 'banned'?

And did it make the experience much more enjoyable?

Running a Free Book Promotion on Kindle for my book "Letter to Future"

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How much of a linguistic pedant are you?

Three examples of shitty language being - Eating healthy. Gifting. And the worst offender.... My bad. :)

Letter to Future Just relaunched my book on Kindle Direct Publishing.

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Emile Zola ~ Les Rougon-Macquart

I was pleased to discover all the books in this series have a release from Oxford World's Classics, most under 10 dollars, so i might read this major work this way instead of the delphi classics versions. It'd be great if Balzac's Human Comedy were...

worried about reading old paperbacks in case pages fall out

i have quite a lot of old 2nd hand paperback books which i bought online, but i'm scared to read any of the books in case pages might fall out...would i need to be careful how i read them and open the books, so pages don't fall out? anyone else have...

Reading aloud to your child is a very special experience

I have happy memories of doing this.

Any other fans of the Dresden Files?

I have an eclectic taste in many things, reading being one of them. Harry Dresden is my guilty pleasure, I can’t believe it has taken over 50 years for me to discover this series by Jim Butcher.

1/365 Miguel de Unamuno

I shall begin a new series here highlighting some authors and books that mean something dearly for me at this time. Aiming at a calendar of my selective faves. Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life hits the spot so well, he stands in the rich...

is anyone else worried about reading old paperbacks in case pages fall out

i have quite a lot of old 2nd hand paperback books which i bought online, but i'm scared to read any of the books in case pages might fall out...would i need to be careful how i read them and open the books, so pages don't fall out? anyone else have...

have you ever read any books by John saul

i have a collection of old books by saul now, i think i will read 'hellfire' soon, then 'the unloved', then 'shadows'....he always described himself as a thriller author not really horror, but i always liked his writing style.

What was the last book you read?

Mine was The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch.

Monsieur Junky's Reading journey

When i write about my reading and stuff, i don't see it as egotistical, but rather a separate entity, like Caspar the friendly ghost a special imaginary friend, that i go on and on about. So in that spirit i wish to document in a rough draft, the...

I came across a Post-it that has the words "Monday morning" that I wrote onto it...what is happening Monday morning?

Today marks the inclusion in my readings of the classics

Oh how sweet secular literary entertainment is after uninterrupted religious reading. On an equal footing now in time projected to be spent with them, i begin with including Homer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dumas, Zola, & Dostoevsky.

They're cracking down on this ladies, just so you know

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