p. 21: 'At thirteen, [Orwell] won a scholarship to the most elite [public school] of all, Eton, where he spent another four years, acquiring an accent that marked him as an outsider among the poor without making him an inside among the rich.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick (on my wish list for a few years)
📖 Another Brick in the Wall: The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song by Cliff Jones (read this 25 years ago!)
📖 Atheism (20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism) by Étienne Borne
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (this is a rare case of buying the book after having read it. ★★★★★)
📖 The English Nation: The Great Myth by Edwin Jones
📖 Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
pickI have been listening to this huge essay collection over the last several weeks and I have loved the experience. They are well written and so thought provoking. A excellent reflection on history but surprisingly applicable to our current times. 🤔
pickRevisiting classics in graphic novel form is a great to brush up on the story and themes without dedicating the time it takes to read the whole book. While Im not a huge fan of the style of the illustrations, the book does do an amazing job of capturing the bleak, gritty dystopia setting. Remains a warning for our time.
Thanks to @Megabooks for the idea to read this prior to reading Julia, the retelling of 1984, a pick for #litsyToB24.
pickDefinitely recommend brushing up on 1984 with this graphic adaptation ahead of reading the #LitsyToB24 pick Julia. While not strictly necessary, the stories dovetail enough that it was helpful. The art in this adaptation is great, and I could read it in a day!
pickSome of this is dated with opaque and oblique references that were way above me- not exactly an introductory text, but fun and informative to read nonetheless.
so-soNot my favorite so far. Again seeds of the future writings are here throughout; the disaffected protagonist, the posters and soulless advertisements, the “tarts” and the poverty, lovemaking and nature. But in the end this is a bit too much of an on the nose moral tale about the money-god that is still (prophetically) ruling us all.
