Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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5% complete! Barbarius has read 2 of 40 books.
This third book seems, currently, completely disconnected from the first two; so far it's about life as a fellow on a college board. Is Lewis just telling us about a day at work? We're almost thirty pages in; where's this going?
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used to say it would get …
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that …
This was a really beautiful read. It's very short, written intentionally to be read in one sitting. It tells the story of an elderly lady presently in Australia 2023, and when she was five and being removed from her village in Palestine in 1948. And the parallels of what has and hasn't changed in 75 years. Very poignant. Almost poetic. Definitely essential reading to help understand our current times.
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because …
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that …
Everyone should read this. Like, now.
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because …
Book two, "Perelandra", done. I would've finished it a few nights ago, but I kept dozing off (not for lack of interest!).
Book 2: Perelandra. Here we go!
The Great Crusade that has taken humanity into the stars continues. The Emperor of mankind has handed the reins of …
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because …
The Great Crusade that has taken humanity into the stars continues. The Emperor of mankind …
I'm out and don't have access to my current tome. So on to the ereader!
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of …
Had this on my list, but another friend just recommended it to me, so I may have to bump it up!
Just finished the first book: "Out of the Silent Planet" I'm very much enjoying this so far!
Amidst the lake there rose like a low and gently sloping pyramid, or like a woman's breast, ...
— The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (Page 96)
C. S. LEWIS!?
