A surprising number of strong contenders for #LetterV in the #alphabetgame but in the end I chose this (fictional) short reply to St Augustine's Confessions by his unnamed girlfriend.
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A surprising number of strong contenders for #LetterV in the #alphabetgame but in the end I chose this (fictional) short reply to St Augustine's Confessions by his unnamed girlfriend.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#ThisLife #MartinHagglund #Philosophy #AdventuresinPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety #StAugustine #secularfaith #Tendere #ToSretchandToStrive #Distentio #BothHoldsTogetherandPullsApart #Saecularis #BoundedbyTime
A fictional novella-length letter giving the reactions of Floria, St. Augustine of Hippo's concubine who he abandoned, to his Confessions.
I enjoyed the debunking of the Confessions, and her insistence that God's creation is to be enjoyed, not despised.
Ahhh...beach reading! I‘m using this for the “book set on an island” prompt in the Book Girls Guide Reading Around The World Challenge. #staugustine #bookvoyage #bookspinbingo
One of the best days of every month - my personalised ‘surprise‘ book subscription arriving. Can‘t wait to see what the amazing Amy at Mr B‘s has selected for me this month 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Why is that I always seem to read my #doublespin first each month?
This just wasn‘t for me. Maybe I had a bad translation, but I had a hard time tracking the thought process through the book as a whole and at the sentence-level. There is some good stuff in here, but I ended up doing a lot of skimming.
Luesse‘s writing, as the above example shows, paints beautiful scenes with her words. Side characters are portrayed so richly that they surely deserve their own stories. I followed Peyton‘s physical journey on a map and wished I could meet these people.
Full Review of a 5* read: https://mccombsonmain.com/2020/06/24/review-the-key-to-everything-by-valerie-fra...
#southernfiction #historicalfiction #revellreads #staugustine #savannah
#MarchUnshelving report:
✅Read 50% physical books from my own shelves
❌Donate 15 books (only got rid of 8)
However, the blue titles with pink on the sides - a total of five books - are in the giveaway box, even if they haven't quite made it out of the house, so that brings me much closer!!
Thanks for the inspiration @Clwojick !!!
I love buying used books and imagining where the book has been before it got to me. In this case, I don‘t have to imagine!