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Vita brevis | Jostein Gaarder

#coffeeandabook

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rwmg

Vita brevis | Jostein Gaarder

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

Graywacke Sounds entertaining! 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing 🙌🏻📚 2y

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kspenmoll

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom | Martin H�gglund

#ThisLife #MartinHagglund #Philosophy #AdventuresinPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety #StAugustine #secularfaith #Tendere #ToSretchandToStrive #Distentio #BothHoldsTogetherandPullsApart #Saecularis #BoundedbyTime

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TheBookHippie ♥️ I am so enjoying this read! 3y

GingerAntics This is mildly terrifying. I am not a fan of Augustine at all. I‘m not sure his intent is what Hägglund is saying it is. This is a man who took his own pathology and turned it into a theology that still haunts the entire Christian world and the larger American culture. 3y

kspenmoll @GingerAntics I don‘t know much about St.Aug. What you are saying intrigues me, especially his pathology part. 3y

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GingerAntics @kspenmoll he is the inventor of original sin, as well as the Christian idea that all things to do with sex is inherently dirty or sinful. Before he became a Christian he was something of a man whore. When he was a bishop he had a debate with another bishop in which he said if people have to have sex, they could at least wait until it‘s dark out. The other bishop responded that he would have sex with his wife whenever and wherever they chose. 😂🤣 3y

GingerAntics @kspenmoll the creepy Christian obsession with purity and virginity didn‘t exist until he came along. I‘m willing to concede that he believed god told him to stop having sex, but that doesn‘t mean it‘s bad or that everyone needs to give it up. I am not willing to concede that god made human reproduction what it was, called it good, then called it dirty and shameful. 🙄 3y

GingerAntics Don‘t get me started on that man. I can‘t even with him. Oh how he has screwed up western civilisation… and he was in bloody ALGERIA!!! He didn‘t even live in the west!!! smh 3y

kspenmoll @GingerAntics Thank you sooo much! Rant on! Your knowledge is so helpful-an eye opener. Especially that he invented original sin & crazy sexual attitudes of the Church-Catholic? Knowing all this, it does make me look at Hagglund‘s rather positive analysis of his writing/philosophy makes me question him. Where is his thesis going? 3y

GingerAntics @kspenmoll yeah, it does make me curious to see where Hägglund is going with this. 3y

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rwmg

Vita brevis | Jostein Gaarder

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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.

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GinaKButler

You Then, Me Now | Nick Alexander

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

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Mitch

My Secret Book | Francesco Petrarca

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 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Oryx What did you get? 4y

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Hestapleton

Confessions of Saint Augustine | Saint Augustine

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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.

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks I haven't been able to wrestle my way all the way through this one, so good progress!! 4y

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McCombsonMain

The Key to Everything: A Novel | Valerie Fraser Luesse

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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

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TheAromaofBooks

The Confessions of X | Suzanne M. Wolfe

#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 !!!

Clwojick Way to go! 🤍 5y

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Mtroiano

Confessions | Saint Augustine of Hippo

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!

Hooked_on_books And you get a cool library card with it! Bonus! 5y

Mtroiano @Hooked_on_books yes!! 5y

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