GriX Etc
Frankenstein 1831 | Mary Shelley
updated
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@saintdonoghue Sci-fi Top featuring a fire upon the deep among other great titles:
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@ShawnDStandfast stream where I saw the dying earth book and talked about City:
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@anotherbibliophilereads Video where he talks about his favorite books and Dhalgren:
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@GrammaticusBooks Video about Babel-17 and Samuel Delany:
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@_jared Video about philosophical Sci-Fi features A Canticle for Leibowitz:
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@KDbooks video about a potential Great American Novel
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The canonical @saintdonoghue
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The wonderful @M-J
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The one sword to rule them all!
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2. Natasha Rostova: A book with a bad start but that through the reading it became one of your favorites.
3. Andrei Bolkonski: A book that plunged into despair.
4. Marya Bolkonski: The Book that you have gifted or recommended the most.
5. Nikolai Rostov: A character that you loved and hated and the same time.
6. Mikhail Kutuzov: An unpopular book that you love.
7. Boris Drubetskoy: A book with a social ascent
8. The Kuragins: A disappointing book with a beautiful cover.
9. Anna Pavlovna: A gossipy book
10. Dolohov: Favorite Villain
11. Platoon Karataev: A book that made you reconsider you life or an specific aspect of it.
I Tag :
@ThatReadingGuy28 @michaelk.vaughan8617 @aaronfacer @CriminOllyBlog @richarddelanet @JoeSpivey02 @bighardbooks770 @davidnovakreadspoetry
@ToReadersItMayConcern @saintdonoghue
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@davidnovakreadspoetry
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My Amazon Wish List:
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@ShawnDStandfast livestream about City:
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@michaelk.vaughan8617 video about his favorite books with City at the Top:
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Open letters review of books 2019 Top by @saintdonoghue :
openlettersreview.com/posts/the-best-books-of-2019-nonfiction?format=amp
On social media shaping your mind:
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Middlemarch reading announcement from @ClassicsAndCompany
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My Amazon Wish List:
amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/NG79OHHVE2G4?ref_=wl_share
youtu.be/W9aJUd2RP_M?si=hD3bXP6SrtM0yMjv
@AnnNovella video:
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1. Do publishers ever do things that you find annoying? Share an example.
2. Have you ever been annoyed by a spoiler? Even something as simple as someone else telling you there's a great twist?
3. Have you ever been annoyed by what discovered in a Little Free Library, a book sale or used bookstore? Tell us what you found and why it was so annoying.
4. When it comes to short story collections, are you annoyed if there's a novella in the middle of the collection?
5. Deckled edges: beautiful or annoying?
6. Other people's annotations in a used book or library book: Annoying or are you OK with it?
7. If there's a series or a collection of certain kinds of books (like an imprint) and changes are made, are you annoyed or OK with it? If yes, give us an example.
8. Do the decisions of characters in a novel every annoy you? Share the book and what decisions you found annoying.
9. Are you ever annoyed by how someone organizes their books? What do you find annoying? 10. Share something bookish that you find annoying,
11. Tag other people!
This Tag was created by Kelly at@booksimnotreading
I was tagged by @aaronfacer
I Tag :
@polyglotreading
@BookTimewithElvis
@TriumphalReads
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I was Tagged by @saintdonoghue
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I Tag
@SailingThroughBooks
@ShawnDStandfast
@anotherbibliophilereads
@thelefthandedreader6632
@NicholasOfAutrecourt
@davidnovakreadspoetry
@DavidWiley7
@bookstalgic
@KDbooks
- How many books do you think you will be able to read before you die considering your age and statistical life expectancy?
- How does this number affect your choice of books?
- What will happen to your book collection once you have passed away?
- Is there a book that helps you cope with the disturbing fact of a limited life span?
- Do you have a specific nonfiction book on the topic of death that you would like to recommend?
- Humor can be helpful to confront death. Do you have a favorite witty quote on this topic?
- Does this Tag make you feel uneasy or are you quite relaxed about this Topic?
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
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@timstoomanybooks
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@davidnovakreadspoetry
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@HannahsBooks
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@saintdonoghue
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@anotherbibliophilereads
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My own:
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@M-J video:
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@anotherbibliophilereads video:
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@anotherbibliophilereads video:
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Here’s the video from @saintdonoghue
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Ps: I am aware I have miss pronounced the name of the book at least 20 times so I refer you to the correct name in the video title.
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@BookTimewithElvis youtu.be/53fWlOofnfg?si=3JAA-y9TgWe_KPPE
My video on religion and narratives:
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@ShawnDStandfast
- Hyperion/Orwells complete essays
@alanaestelle2076
- Jane Eyre (of all time), the grapes of wrath, tale of two cities, A little Life
@SailingThroughBooks
- Anatomy of Melancholy
@jamesholder13
- The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi | A world Beneath the sands the golden age of egyptology | Weavers Scribes and Kings by Amanda Pedeny
@DavidWiley7
- Lord of the rings/Hyperion
@anotherbibliophilereads
- Dhalgren - The Day of the Triffids
@aaronfacer
- The magic Mountain / Brothers Karamazov
@somebenfen
- Brothers Karamazov, middlemarch, duck’s new report
@saintdonoghue
- Middlemarch, metamorphosis divinecomedy
@KDbooks
- Midnight children
@michaelk.vaughan8617
- The histories herodotus/dracula/conan/Landmark Tucidides
@HannahsBooks
- The spirit catches you and you fall down
@LiterateTexan
- Lonesome Dove/Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
@bookssongsandothermagic
- The dispossesed, the day of the triffids
@BookTimewithElvis
- Les miserables/ Count of Montecristo/Shaka Zulu
@abookolive
- H is for hawk
@JoeSpivey02
- Lord Byron, Middle March
@RememberedReads
- Shamana Persian book of kings/Herodotus histories/ Shakespeare
@CriminOllyBlog
- Sadie When she died Ed Mcbain | Dracula
@MattWall - Hunger by knut hamsun | The trial Kafka | Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
@myhouseisalibrary - Thirsty by Ursula Leguin | Plutarch’s lives - The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life
Sophocles’ Plays
Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina
George Saunders’ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Stanislem’ Solaris
Boethius’ The Consolations of Philosophy
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Douglas’ Life of Frederick Douglas
Adorno & Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment
Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Mentioned books:
Critique of Pure Reason & Phenomenology of Spirit.
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Honorary Mentions:
Tolstoi a Confession
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Foundation Trilogy
WordsWorth Collected Poetry
Sappho
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