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“Brave New World“ was definitely worth listening to!
It was an interesting dystopian classic with themes that one can still ponder today....
Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6499574546

I finished my typewriter 🎉 and this book 😳 my hat is off to Aldous Huxley for writing this almost 100 years ago!!!

I‘ve got one bag of Lego left and I‘m at 86% of this on audio. I think it will all end perfectly ( kind of mind blowing this book was written in 1931/32)

Started this on audio ( part of my “fixing the gaps in my literary education” quest) narrated by Michael York ❤️❤️

Getting back into Litsy and Bookly again ♥️

Very weird book, but a decent classic dystopian. Not as good as 1984.

Then it gives me stuff like this that I love. 🤷‍♀️

What?! What am I reading? 😳

Ahead of its time and scarily accurate in a lot of senses.

Was slow going though due to being a bit mixed up and confusing in places.

Bluuuurrrrrggghhhhh . . . I tried to read it. I tried to listen to it. I just couldn‘t make myself care about any of the characters and I honestly could not care less what happens in the story. It‘s been a bit since I‘ve bailed on book and it‘s a first for me to show up to FOTL book club having not read the book.

Eh so so. Not as good as 1984. Sorry I said it but it‘s true. Read that one instead.

“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you‘ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

The only thing I knew about this book when I started it, was that it was old and a dystopian novel. I was not prepared. It was good, but I wasn‘t obsessed. Borderline pedophilic which was awkward, but overall I didn‘t hate it (the book, not the pedophilia).

... I‘m not really sure what I think about this book.

Next up for #BookSpinBonanza: Belle Prater‘s Boy

#NutsInMay Book 28 ✔️

#readathon #potteraday #dailycheckin #24B4MONDAY #27hours7days up to 9 1/2 hours on the 27/7, and continuing to turn the April pages. Way better focus today, trying not to get overwhelmed by house and work Goals.

Not as good as 1984

Excellent, amazing prediction of technology for a book written decades ago.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Getting a little reading done. I find it so relaxing to do an in-depth close reading of a text. #booknerd

when u decide to rearrange your classics rite before bed time 😂

Here is my other picture from yesterday. #controversial #jubilantjuly

Dystopian novels offer terrifying possibilities and consequences of the different ideologies that could #RuleTheWorld. #JuneTunz

I enjoyed Brave New World much better than 1984. Though I found frightening similarities in both to the current climate, I was more concerned with Brave New World because I agreed with it more. That is scary and gave me pause!! Brave New World Revisited was interesting as well but was a bit pompous for me in parts. I do recommend reading both Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Listen to 1984).

Sometimes you gotta break out the classics.

Revisiting an old favorite because reading Huxley, Wells and Orwell has never been so important

#Riotgrams Day 2: #WhereIRead I make sure my couch is well stocked with plenty of pillows and blankets. But I have to fight the #beagle for the comfiest spot. #booksanddogs

File this under "unhelpful for my crush".

"You can't consume much if you sit still and read books" ?? Clearly this person has no idea lol

These are some pretty cool #headlesscovers. #photoadaynov16
@RealLifeReading

(Side note: Out of curiosity, I googled "book covers with torsos only," and that is apparently the current contemporary romance book cover strategy. So many oiled six packs with no heads!)

One week vacation visiting my sister-in-law. Yeaaah! 📚💕✈️🏠

"Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly-they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

#bookfacefriday #scaretober