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FLANDIDLYANDERS

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God of Small Things is beautiful. Any synopsis would undermine it.

Now here's a nother amazing book, halfway thru it:

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES

By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Chapter on the duality of Woman and the interrelated dog-like duality of Man very good.
 
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Here's some amazing quotes for today...

So often we entertain the fantasy of being fed from the deep nature, through a love affair, a job, or by money, and we hope these feedings will last for a long time. We would like not to do any further work. In truth, there are even times when we would like to be fed without doing much work at all. In reality, we know nothing of value ever develops this way. But we wish it anyway.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who run With The Wolves​
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All of life is a journey. We are carried along at life’s pace, whether we choose to run or sit still.
Brian Herbert, Hunters of Dune​
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I am almost done Jesus has left the building. Did you know that even after the Philistines had captured the ark (which was supposed to have God's presense in it) the Isrealites continued to make offerings at the empty tabernacle and continued doing everything the same even though it was obviously missing the most integral part.
 
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ChavaK said:
I have never read these nor seen the movies....
they are worthwhile?

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I think they're ok. The books are better then the films, in the books Bridget Jones is a normal 30 something woman who sometimes makes some unwise decision and depends on her friends a bit too much, in the films the directors turned her into a complete bufoon who couldn't fight her way out of a wet paper bag.

To make up for my lapse in to bubble gum books I'm now reading 'What's so Amazing about Grace' by Phillip Yancey - v.g
 
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Dee235 said:
Still busy with Reaching for an Invisible God - Philip Yancey, in my defence we were on a four/five day course squashed into a three day course. I think tired doesn't begin to explain the feeling at the mo.
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I been reding Yancies graphic version of his Grace book. Anyone else seen it? It's like a collage/digital rendering of aspects that illustrate grace. And it looks nice too.

Not all wordy like me
 
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George MacDonald: The Gifts of the Christ Child & Other Stories and Fairy Tales

I've usually got several books going at once.

I'm reading a few stories here and there in The Complete Short Fiction from Borges also.

Just got done with CS Lewis' The Four Loves (I've had the audio tapes for 20-years but never actually read the book before). It's not one of his better books but is still worth a read.
 
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The Julikenz said:
I've just finished The Inquisitor, so its new replacement is The White Australia Policy , Keith Windschuttle.

I'm also waiting on my copy of "Hammer of the Gods", Friedrich Nietzsche.
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I'm getting seriously annoyed with this Windshuttle guy. I thought 'Oh yeah, I can see he's a got a little bit of a right slant' when I briefly skimmed the book, but I thought it was called "The White Australia Policy" not "The Australian Government has never made any mistakes, has never been even slightly discriminatory about ethnicity and or race and all those darned left wing politicians and historians deserve to rot for portraying history in any other way!"
 
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I've started taking Ritalin again, and have found reading a novel much more feasible because of it. After not reading much of anything for way too long, I've chopped through
Hannibal Rising before Christmas,
then Hannibal and
Red Dragon after. Yes, in that order.
Then And Now, Miguel. I can't remember the author for that now. It's a very strange book. Basically, the author had one interesting conversation in his head, which lasts around 10-15 pages, and he built a book around it. The whole point of the book is wrapped up in that conversation. The 219 pages before it were just setting the scene. It's a coming of age story.

Yesterday I swiped a book of classic essays from a friend and quickly devoured the chapter of George Orwell. Now I'm jumping through it at random.
 
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