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Septober, Octember, Nowonder…
WHERE did October go?? Two weeks since my last post, can’t believe it. Book-wise… I did finish The Art of Loving and need to write up my final post this weekend. For a short book it was quite a journey, and thought-provoking – I’m grateful Cleo hosted it as a readalong! Also in non-fiction land,… Read more >>
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The Art of Loving – Questions on Chapters 2.2-2.3
Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Previously: The Art of Loving – A Ramble on Chapters 1–2.1 This post will be rather more disjointed than my first one, as these sections left me with more questions than conclusions. Bear with me! As for the picture – especially in this part, I was having… Read more >>
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The Art of Loving – A Ramble on Chapters 1–2.1
This month, Cleo is hosting a readalong of The Art of Loving (1956) by Erich Fromm and On Friendship by Cicero. It’s a sequel to the Four Loves Readalong – which feels recent but was actually back in June(!!). Fromm and C. S. Lewis were contemporaries (and Lewis’s book was published just four years later),… Read more >>
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Moby-Dick – Chapters I-XVIII – Quick Check-In
Though dreadfully behind on Brona’s readalong, I am still plugging away at this American tome and really savoring it. This is my second time reading Moby-Dick, the first time being nearly a decade ago. The familiar scenes and phrases are coming back to me like old friends. NASA Johnson Space Center – Earth Sciences and… 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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