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“They’re so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with ‘em. They’ve such a passion for Liberty, that they can’t help taking liberties with her.”

“Martin Chuzzlewit”- Charles Dickens

#reading #currently reading #quote #classic #charles dickens #martin chuzzlewit

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“Isn’t it dreadful to think what slaves we are to custom? I wonder shall we ever be able to tell the truth, ever be able to live fearlessly according to our own light, to believe that what is right for us must be right! It seems as if all the religions, all the advancement, all the culture of the past, has only been a forging of chains to cripple posterity, a laborious building up of moral and legal prisons based on false conceptions of sin and shame, to cramp men’s minds and hearts and souls, not to speak of women’s.”

“Now Spring Has Come”- Mary Bright/ George Egerton (“Keynotes”)

#quote #reading #george egerton #mary bright #keynotes #short stories #now spring has come #reclaim her name

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Whilst I enjoyed the premise, this was hard-going for me. The narrator’s constant detours made it hard to follow Jim’s story as clearly as I could have done

#joseph conrad #reading #lord jim #classic

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The synopsis I think held more promise for me than the actual book. Smith’s descriptions are lush and vivid, but the plot was so Shakespearean as to feel a bit much. I found myself visualising it as a stage show

#reading #atla #atla: a story of the lost island #ann smith #atlantis #reclaim her name #ann eliza smith #mrs j gregory smith #fantasy

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I think I struggle a bit with Bond as a modern reader, but it was fast-paced and gripping enough to keep me going

#reading #ian fleming #james bond #goldfinger #spy

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If you love Billy Connolly, this is like having your own pocket-Billy. His voice comes through so strongly, that I laughed out loud even when I already knew the sketch

#reading #comedy #billy connolly #scottish comedian #tall tales and wee stories

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This was a recommendation from a friend of mine currently doing her masters. It’s fascinating, and definitely recommended for anyone with an interest in mythology

#reading #non fiction #the hero with a thousand faces #joseph campbell #mythology #psychology

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Rensch’s history of the harp examining it’s development, place in society, and it’s repertoire, is well set-out and thoughtfully conveyed. It’s such a vast subject, perhaps certain sections weren’t quite so well covered or researched as they could have been, but still essential reading for anyone interested in the harp

#reading #history #non fiction #roslyn rensch #harp #harpists #harps and harpists #music #music research

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World Map of literature

The Americas

Canada - Anne of Green Gables U.S.A - To Kill a MockingBird  Mexico - Pedro Paramo  Guatemala - Men of Maize  Belize - Beka Lamb  Honduras - Cipotes  El Salvador - Bitter Grounds  Nicaragua - The Country Under my Skin  Costa Rica - La Isla de los hombres solos  Panama - Plenilunio  Colombia - 100 Years of Solitude  Venezuela - Dona Barbara  Guyana - Palace of the Peacock  Suriname - The Price of Sugar  French Guiana - Papillon  Ecuador - The Villager  Brazil - Dom Casmurro  Peru - Death in the Andes  Bolivia - Bronze Race  Paraguay - I the Supreme  Argentina - Ficciones  Chile - The House of the Spirits  Uruguay - Soccer in the Sun and Shadow  Cuba - Havana Bay  Haiti - Breath, Eyes, Memory  Dominican Republic - Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao  Bahamas - The Measure of a Man  Jamaica - A brief history of Seven Killings  Puerto Rico - When I was Puerto Rican  Lesser Antilles - Wide Sargasso Sea  Greenland - Islands, the Universe, Home

Europe & Russia

Norway - Hunger  Iceland - Jar City  Sweden - Gosta Berling’s Saga  Finland - The Unknown Soldier  Denmark - Feeling for Snow  Latvia - Nāvas Ena  Estonia - Truth and Justice  Lithuania - Black Sheep  Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl  Ukraine - Death and the Penguin  Moldova - A Siberian Education  Romania - Forest of the Hanged  Bulgaria - Under the Yoke  Poland - Pan Tadeusz  Germany - Buddenbrooks  Netherlands - The Discovery of Heaven  Belgium - The Sorrow of Belgium  Luxembourg - In Reality: Selected Poems  United Kingdom - Great Expectations  Ireland - Ulysses  Czech Republic - The Good Soldier  Slovakia - Rivers of Babylon  France - The Count of Monte Cristo  Spain - Don Quixote  Portugal - Baltasar and Blimunda  Austria - The Man Without Qualities  Switzerland - Heidi  Italy - The Divine Comedy  Slovenia - Alamut  Croatia - Cafe Europa  Hungary - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon  Bosnia and Herzegovina - Zlata’s diary  Serbia - Dictionary of the Khazars  Montenegro - Montenegro: A Novel  Albania - The General of the Dead Army  Macedonia - Freud’s Sister  Greece - The Iliad  Russia - War and Peace

Asia and The Middle East

Turkey - My Name is Red  Georgia - Knight in the Panther’s Skin  Armenia - The Fool  Azerbaijan - Blue Angels Iran - Shahnameh  Iraq - The Corpses Exhibition and Other Stories  Syria - The Dark Side of love  Lebanon - The Hakawati  Israel - Mornings in Jenin  Syria - The Dark Side of Love  Kuwait - A Map of Home  UAE - The Sand Fish  Saudi Arabia - Cities of Salt  Qatar - The Emergence of Qatar  Yemen - The Hostage  Oman - The Turtle of Oman  Kazakhstan - The Book of Words  Turkmenistan - The Tale of Aypi  Uzbekistan - Chasing the Sea  Kyrgyzstan - Jamilia  Tajikistan - Hurramabad  Afghanistan - Kite Runner  Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist  Nepal - The Palpasa Cafe  India - The God of Small Things  Bhutan - the Circle of Karma  Bangladesh - A Golden Age  Myanmar - Smile as they Bow  Laos - In the Other Side of the Eye  Thailand - The Four Reigns  Vietnam - The Sorrows of War  Cambodia - First they Killed my Family  Taiwan - Green Island  Sri Lanka - Anil’s Ghost  Mongolia - The Blue Sky  North Korea - The Aquariums of Pyongyang  South Korea - The Vegetarian  Japan - Kokoro  China - The Dream of the Red Chamber  Malaysia - The Garden of Evening Mists  Brunei - Some Girls  Indonesia - This Earth of Mankind  Philippines - Noli Me Tangere  East Timor - The Redundancy of Courage

Australiz, New Zealand & The Pacific Islands

Australia - Cloudstreet  Papua New Guinea - Death of a Muruk  Vanuatu - Black Stone  Solomon Islands - Suremada  Fiji - Tales of the Tikongs  New Zealand - The bone People

Africas

Algeria - The Stranger Libya - In the Country of Men Egypt - Palace Walk Morocco - The Sand Child Mauritania - Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery Mali - Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Niger - Sarraounia Chad - The Roots of Heaven Sudan - Lyrics Alley Nigeria - Things Fall Apart Cameroon - The Old Man and the Medal Central African Republic - Batouala South Sudan - They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky Ethiopia - Beneath the Lion’s Gaze Somalia - The Orchard of Lost Souls Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Antipeople Uganda - Abyssinian Chronicles Kenya - Petals of Blood Tanzania - Desertion Angola - A Gloriosa Familia Zambia - Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Mozambique - Sleepwalking Land Zimbabwe - The House of Hunger Namibia - Born of the Sun Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency South Africa - Disgrace

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“A man and a shark were in the wrong place at the wrong time and had a negative interaction” is probably the most understated way of describing a shark attack I’ve ever heard, and definitely not what I expected when I turned on the news this morning

#bbc breakfast #australia #news #shark attack #nothing to do with books

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Giveaway: We’re giving away 15 vintage classics by Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, T.S. Eliot, Willa Cather, J.D. Salinger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 February, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

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“So organic redistribution dumps [poo from a plane] into the sea. The basic process is: wheech- shooo- splash! Well, actually, it wouldn’t go “splash” from that height, it would go thumsch! Anyway, it all gradually makes its way back to the surface, and then it’s all sort of swaying and rocking around there on the water. And along comes a fishie: swimmetty-swim, hungritty-hungry. “Jesus, I’m starving!” Then it spots something: “Ahoy there!” Muchetty-crunchetty. Happy fishie- backstroke.

Then along comes a fisherman. Rowitty-boat. Spots the fishie: “A-ha!” Net, fling, catches the fishie, into the boat- rowitty-home. Up to the market, he sells the fishie. You come along, you buy the fishie. Munchetty-crunchetty.

Then you go in an aeroplane. “Hmmm, I need to go to the toilet.” Into the toilet, do a wee jobbie, close the lid- wheech!

And that’s organic redistribution.

“The Jobbie Wheecher” (“Tall Tales and Wee Stories”- Billy Connolly

#reading #quote #comedy #billy connolly #tall tales and wee stories

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“It’s impossible to fucking eat a Toblerone without hurting yourself. What kind of people are they? And who one earth buys those huge big Toblerones at Heathrow? Perverts who shove them up their arses? Toblerones should come with a wee tool kit. You can’t eat the fucking thing. It’s a stupid shape. And I’m told they keep them in the fridge! It’s so pointy and sharp and offensive. What kind of sick mind thought that one up- an aggressive sweetie. A bar of chocolate that hurts you! Only them fuckers- Switzerland.”

“The Irish, the Scots and the Swiss” (“Tall Tales and Wee Stories”)- Billy Connolly

#reading #quote #comedy #billy connolly #tall tales and wee stories

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This is surprisingly harrowing in places- maybe I was just reading it at a time of heightened stress and emotion, but bits of this hit hard. Still a very good plot that keeps you hooked. Red Dwarf fans will spot plenty of jokes that made it onto the show (particularly series 6).

#reading #sci fi #comedy #red dwarf #science fiction #doug naylor #last human

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This is a beautiful collection of short stories- simple but lyrical in the telling, with stories within stories, all centred around the passage of time and the Orkney islands

#reading #short stories #george mackay brown #the island of the women

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Giveaway: We’re giving away 15 vintage classics by Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, T.S. Eliot, Willa Cather, J.D. Salinger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 February, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

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I slightly resisted this at first. It felt predictable, a little too pigeonholed, but I warmed into it and took it for the absolute comfort blanket that it is

#reading #fantasy #t j klune #the house in the cerulean sea #lgbt author #lgbt #lgbt characters