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Feb 2022
8:32pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Dooogs
Sophie's World! I've not heard of that for years! I had a copy in the early 90s - I was 15 in 1990 and pretentiously, performatively interested in philosophy in my mid-teens, so I was the perfect target market... 
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Feb 2022
9:22pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Columba
LazyDaisy “a very earnest school friend” yes, that is the only sort of teenager I can imagine appreciating Sophie’s World. But did you actually enjoy it, Dooogs? |
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Feb 2022
9:23pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Columba
Glad you’re enjoying it, Dio. What Zola series is that, GregP? |
Feb 2022
9:36pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Diogenes
I use Audible a lot, so I was troubled by this thread on Twitter. twitter.com (I hope that link works properly) I’d like to use Amazon a lot, lot less in general. That’s easier done with physical books and other items than audiobooks where Audible pretty much have a monopoly. I used to use my library app, but the range of books available was very limited. It would be great if there was an independent provider as an alternative. I wonder what it would take? |
Feb 2022
10:29pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Hanneke
I read Sophie's World. As I am an artogant so and so, I poopoo'd it as trying to be clever but never really hitting the mark. It will probably appear out of my boxes soon, if it does, I shall re-read it. I am putting lots of books on the: give away you will never read this again shelves, then take them.off and think: hmmmm... And start reading. I am annoying myself! I am NOT getting on! I STILL haven't built the additional book rack 🙄 |
Feb 2022
10:37pm, 16 Feb 2022
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Fields
- building more Ivars? I use one of the side units as a towel rail - there’s no room for one in my bathroom but it’s thin enough to fit in the gap between the sink and the wall!
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Feb 2022
12:14am, 17 Feb 2022
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Hanneke
Yup! More Ivars! Lower ones to fit under the sloping roof: 8x long shelves and 4x half shelves... Hopefully, that is enough. I just unpacked a box with my books on Buddhist art... Didn't make much progress 🙄 but it is so very very nice to have my friends back and have them accessible! Going to take a fair bit of time to get things organised by categories that make sense between the buildings though! I will be walking up and down between with books under my arm for months to come I think... |
Feb 2022
6:13am, 17 Feb 2022
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GregP
Columba Les Rougon-Macquart
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Feb 2022
8:55am, 17 Feb 2022
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Hanneke
Oh I like Les Rougon-Macquart.
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Feb 2022
11:10am, 17 Feb 2022
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DazTheSlug
Rougon-Macquart should keep you busy - think there's about 20 of those aren't there? I've read Germinal, and have La Debacle in my TBR, but no intention to complete the series :oO although more doable than Balzac's Comedie Humane, which I've read a few of but won't get to all 80-odd!! oh, and re Kurkov - I asked for (and got!) Grey Bees for crimbo, but not read it yet... |
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