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#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
📖 Fighting Words
🎧 Justine - I finished this one today, but I‘m not sure what I think and will probably need to read or listen again sometime.

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
📖 Land - still paused
🎧 & 📖 Pericles

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📚 Continue current reads
📚 Listen more than last week, although I probably won‘t make a lot of print progress.

“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.”

Remembering Lawrence Durrell on his birthday.

I loved every single bit of this classic by Lawrence Durrell. This is only the first of the Alexandrian Quartet but I definitely plan on reading them all as time allows. This was one I really had to take time with and soak in every word. Just beautiful. 💜💜💜

Who here has read the exquisite Alexandrian Quartet, Justine in particular? I‘m reading Durrell‘s best known work for the first time.

#7days7covers #covercrush

Posting covers I love for 7 days, no explanation needed. Tagging someone to play each day.

If you‘re not playing yet, tag yourself and join us! (Yes, I‘m lazy today)

#GetMovin #untouched
A few years ago at a village fete in a charity tent i picked up these four books - i have always been intrigued by this quartet but as yet they remain 'untouched' because i don't want to spoil these editions - i will have to make it a plan to read them, maybe on my next litsy classic challenge.

This is the first of the quartet and an in incredibly dense dreamy read. Intellectually challenging to say the least, I felt lost, uninterested at times but then at other turns of the page, captivated by the description and the writing. The ending has the events start to focus and what I know of the other books in the quartet, might have my so-so rating change upon further reading.

I did not know what to expect, but it certainly wasn't such a difficult read. It goes back and forth through hard to read and decipher passages and then very narrative episodes that are easy to grasp. But, how deeply you feel submerged in the ambience (you can almost taste the ocean and feel the Alexandrian winds), and the beauty and incisiveness of its phrases is uncontested. I've heard the next one, Balthazar, is easier. Will keep you posted!

"She was a walking abstract of the writers and thinkers whom she had loved or admired - but what clever woman is more?"

#RetroCoverFun
Has anyone else read The Alexandria Quartet? I'm just starting the second one in the series (Balthazar).
#Riotgrams

Started this last night. Stopped three times to look up a word. This book may be over my head!