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Reading Tag
Saw this at Rosamund’s blog Shoes of Paper ♥ Stockings of Buttermilk. It looked fun, and I don’t believe I’ve done it before – so here goes! Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack: I don’t snack, but I drink tea! What is your favourite drink while reading?A nice large cup of… Read more >>
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Weekend Quote: Prison
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept thinking that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent… Read more >>
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Meditations with Marcus Aurelius
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. One of my methods of minimizing bias in my readings and reviews is to avoid introductions. For Meditations (tr. by George Long), I made an exception since the biographical note was at… Read more >>
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Notes from Underground
© Yanis Chilov [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons My introduction to Fyodor Dostoyevsky was through (surprise!) Crime and Punishment. Unable to swallow its psychopathic elements, I gave up just when the story was picking up and could not, in fact, bring myself to finish it. Fast-forward to summer/fall 2011 – I was taking History of Russia… Read more >>
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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