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jenniferw88
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Pickpick

#chunkstermini #chunksterchallenge2023 completed! @Amiable

#alliterativetitle (well, subtitle but I'm counting it) #pop23 #52bookclub2023 @Cinfhen (I don't recommend this one for you - I think it would be a bail! 😂) @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle @RaeLovesToRead @Deblovestoread @squirrelbrain @BarbaraTheBibliophage @LeeRHarry @MissHel

It's a pick for me, because it's provided me with some useful research notes, but it's DEFINITELY challenging.

Amiable Yay! 🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💃🏻🕺 2y
Librarybelle Great job! 2y
Deblovestoread Well done! 🙌🏼 2y
dabbe #impressed 👏😊❣️ 2y
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jenniferw88
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#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

Continue Count
Finish Swift
Start The Plot

Cinfhen I really enjoyed 2y
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jenniferw88
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#bookreport @Cinfhen

Continued Count & Swift
Finished The Darkness
Started A Day of Fallen Night

Cinfhen I LOVE that cover for the new book by Samantha Shannon 2y
vivastory I read The Darkness last year. Need to continue the trilogy. Innovative timeline 2y
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jenniferw88
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#tbrpile day 25

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EadieB
A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift
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Day 20 - #BookWithAProposal #MagnificentMurder
#AModernProposal #JonathanSwift

Humorous. I would consider this one of the best essays ever written. While reading this, I could just imagine them cooking and eating the children. The idea is rather gruesome, but Swift is not meant to be taken literally. The idea was to show how ridiculous people were being, fighting over religion and economics. Highly recommended!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚👍🏻📚 5y
OriginalCyn620 I‘ve never read it but I‘m intrigued! 5y
EadieB @OriginalCyn620 You should read it. It's only 48 pages long. 5y
BarbaraBB I liked this kind a lot too. 5y
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Lcsmcat
Major Works | Jonathan Swift
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I am not a descendant of Jonathan Swift, but he and I share a common ancestor- very far back, obviously! #spice #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

TheSpineView 🤩 5y
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EmilieGR
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Didn‘t engage me

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GingerAntics
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I was a strange child. Apparently I greatly loved this story...I am quite frankly borde by it, now. I like other of Swift's works so much more. This just seems to go on and on. Not sure if I'm going to get through it before its due. With the wait list I can't renew it, either.
#jonathanswift #gulliverstravels #teaandabook #teaandanaudiobook #teaandaudiobook

GingerAntics A Modest Proposal was great. It was oddly funny and oddly still completely poignant. Admittedly, I have a bit of a twisted sense of humor so that may have had something to do with that assessment. What was not funny was when I had a student who didn't get that it was snark and claimed in a paper that Jonathan Swift believed Irish children should be eaten, actually ate them, and would not be persuaded from this view. Now THAT is twisted. (edited) 6y
BookishBelle I also enjoyed A Modest Proposal much more than Gulliver‘s Travels. I read them both in undergrad. Can‘t remember if I actually finished Gulliver‘s Travels... I think I did. I was much more strict with myself about such things back then. Now I‘ll just bail. 6y
GingerAntics @BookishBelle that's interesting, because I find myself more strict about finishing now than I used to be. lol I think I generally skim when bored just to say I finished. lol That may end up happen with theserial reader, but at least I tried. 🤷🏼‍♀️ (edited) 6y
BookishBelle That‘s the spirit!! Lol 6y
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GingerAntics
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This was read to me long ago, but I don't remeber it. I remeber watching a TV movie version of it when I was quite young. So excited to listen to this classic story once again.
#jonathanswift #gulliverstravels #teaandabook #audiobook #teaandaudiobook