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Hi everyone!! I'm very sorry that I've dropped the ball the last two months with the #ClassicLSFBC. Between work and some recent health issues, I haven't been on Litsy as much as I'd like and things got away from me. Unless someone else wants to take over, I figured we'd let the book club pause the rest of 2025, and start anew in January. Let me know what's the general consensus. Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving (a little early)

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This is sad, beautiful, funny, warming as it is unsettling. And in the midst of all this there is wonderful imagery like this:

“There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children‘s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.”

quote fr “December 2001 The Green Morning”

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Short story by Ray Bradbury, a parody of Poe‘s “House of Usher“.

I‘ve finished reading Martian Chronicles for the second time this year, but this time I read “Usher II” separately. It turns out I didn‘t need to, I didn‘t know my eBook had an update, so I updated it and it now includes “April 2036 Usher II” and “May 2034 Wilderness”. ️⬇️

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reading this for the second time this year (and making up for all the years this has been on my TBR).

This isn't the opening lines of MC but it is the first line of one of my favourite stories from here. This made me laugh, and is a really nice contrast to the story about Ylla.

This was my second Dick (I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep!). I read this one for the #ClassicLSFBC .
I liked how it started, but the second half of the book had too many unreliable narrators and characters so it got kind of confusing for me. Fortunately there were a lot of humorous moments.
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🌧️ Photo taken last Saturday morning. I got to read on the porch while it rained - such a nice fall experience!

(1969) Joe Fernwright is a repairer of pottery in a future world where most pots worth repairing have been repaired already. Joe is recruited by a near-godlike being to join a project that goes to raise a sunken cathedral (with lots of broken pots) on a distant planet. It's a strange, surreal story with themes of transformation and imperfect information. It's fascinating and disorienting, in the way of an alchemical allegory.

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84/100 Not one of my favorites, seems more confusing than even the usual Dick novels. A creature named the Glimmung has gathered together a group of people from various planets, to come to Plowman's Planet to help it raise a sunken cathedral called Heldscalla. Seems a pretty straight forward plot, but it has the usual Dick touches about reality, predestination, metaphysical theories on good and evil. I found the ending vague and confusing, and

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This is one of PKD's more surreal novels, one of his later ones leading towards the VALIS books, so the plot is minimal and ideas & archetypes are prominent.
The story begins in a future pseudo-socialist dystopia: Joe leads a pointless, unfulfilling life, filling his time with vacuous games played remotely with people he's never met. In an episode of mental crisis, Joe is saved from the secret police by a mysterious alien entity, ⬇️

I didn't read last month's #ClassicLSFBC selection due to a library delay, but I am reading this month's (not least because I nominated it, so I really should! ?).
I had an uncertain feeling that I had a "Potteries" bookmark that would be an appropriate match, and I was right - in my uncertainty! I don't have one. So the pictured is not the best example of #BookmarkMatching but it shows elements from the baked clay Minoan Phaistos Disk ⬇️