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May Flowers, 2024 edition
It is the last hours of May on the West Coast, and I wanted to share a bouquet of books—that is, everything I’ve been reading recently: A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux. A friend had been telling me to read this French author (and Nobel Prize winner) for years, and this memoir about her mother Continue reading
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Books with Unusual Titles – Two Short Reviews
It’s been a while since my last post, but I have been reading intermittently. I am still reading Sherlock Holmes (!) and Noli Me Tangere. Most recently, I have been spending more time at the library and read a couple of short books to mix things up a bit. Jacob’s Hands: A Fable Jacob’s Hands Continue reading
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Greek Tragedy & Huxley’s Pacifism – Two Short Reviews
I’ve been reading as slow as a tortoise, but I did manage to finish The Oresteia and Huxley’s Ends and Means. The Oresteia As a friend pointed out to me, it’s important to recognize that these plays were religious plays, first and foremost. For me, their strong religious and cultural underpinnings resulted in a divide Continue reading
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“O brave new world, that has such people in ’t!”
As promised…Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is all kinds of cray-cray. Basically it starts out with an average guy named Bernard who is unhappy in the hedonistic, manufactured, drugged-up society he lives in. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, conformity in this world means a continual stream of carnal self-indulgence, and if you don’t fall in line, you Continue reading
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