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Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

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@TheSpineView

1. The only thing I don't like about retirement is that I couldn't do it my entire life. 😂 What I liked least about teaching was dealing with some honors' parents. “Why did Johnny only get 98/100 on his essay? Please explain in detail why you took off 2 points.“ 🙄
2. Tagged. It's not a book but a very long short story. Whenever tasked to do anything, Bartleby would answer, “I'd prefer not to.“
All are tagged.

TheSpineView Kudos to you for having to deal with the parents. Thanks for playing! 8h

Suet624 I‘m with you on retirement. Why didn‘t I start sooner? 3h

dabbe @TheSpineView Anytime! 🩶🖤🩶 3h

dabbe @Suet624 IKR? 🤩😂🤗 3h

Susanita Right??? now

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads

Les Miserables [With Ribbon Marker] | Victor Hugo

I am surprised at how much was left out of this version and it was not acknowledged as being abridged. Or maybe the new translation is more explanatory. It surely is significantly more understandable and enjoyable. #readLesMis

BarbaraBB Is this an abridged version?? It‘s a chunkster! I read this edition and really enjoyed it too. 20h

DrSabrinaMoldenReads It‘s not abridged supposedly but my new translation is soooo much better @BarbaraBB 10h

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Blueberry

Poems | William Carlos Williams

#Wagon. #PoetryMatters

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TiredLibrarian Always loved this one. ❤️ 1d

Leftcoastzen An all time favorite 1d

TheSpineView 😍😍😍 1d

dabbe 🩶🖤🩶 24h

DogMomIrene I loved reading this one with MS students. They really went to town on why that wheelbarrow mattered so much. 13h

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charl08

V13: Chronicle of a Trial | Emmanuel Carrere

I knew, we knew, that what we were experiencing was anything but the grand historical event, the vain, colossal judicial spectacle that we all had good reason to fear at the beginning. No: this was something else: a unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence. It was only very late in the day that I realised that the white box resembles a modern church, and that something sacred had been taking place there.
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Image: BBC news site

Suet624 What do you think about the book? I'm considering reading it. 1d

squirrelbrain What @suet624 said - I‘m considering it too. 1d

BarbaraBB And me too! 1d

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charl08 Definitely recommended, thoughtful look at a difficult process (not least because almost all of those who directly killed people, died before they could be brought to trial). I'm full of flu at the moment and not at my most coherent for reviewing. Tagging @kspenmoll who has posted a "proper review". 14h

charl08 @Suet624 @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain should have tagged you all in the comment, sorry! 🫠 14h

BarbaraBB Thanks. You‘ve convinced me. And I have loved all the books I read by Carrère 12h

charl08 @BarbaraBB any recs? I'd not read anything else by him. 6h

BarbaraBB Another true crime one I enjoyed (though that‘s not the best way to describe it) is

The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

BarbaraBB This is one about cancer, very saddening but so well written

Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir

BarbaraBB And I also loved this very scary one

Class Trip

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Acoleman

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain

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Read this to help myself remember the story before a read James. I don‘t never if I ever read it in its entirety maybe only excerpts. The language makes it slow to read. Not a huge fan, not even sure why it‘s a classic. It does convey a time period well and the treatment of slaves.

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Tamra

Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph

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New IRL bookclub is a fabulous group of smart & funny people. I am really looking forward to future book dissections, I mean discussions.

I “enjoyed” Conrad‘s novella for what it is/was in its time. The literary criticism from various writers included added food for thought. I argued with them via pencil. 😆

Amiable Your book club sounds like perfection. 😍 1d

AlaMich What @Amiable said! 1d

Lcsmcat I got so much more out of this reading it as an adult with a book club than I did in high school. We paired it with The Poisonwood Bible, which is a sort of retelling. 1d

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Dilara

Eline Vere | Louis Couperus

Isn't it nice when you read today's date in your book 😁It feels so fitting...
Also, Happy Birthday Eline!

#Netherlands #FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Texreader I agree! I love it when that happens. I think it‘s only happened once to me. 2d

Dilara @Texreader Same for me! But it was a lot less serendipitous: I was reading The Enchanted April in April, so the odds were in my favour...

The Enchanted April

BkClubCare When fiction and reality collide! Or connect? 😁 2d

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Daisey I really want to read this one, and have it on my shelf, but life is a bit too busy now to add it in right now. 1d

Dilara @BkClubCare 😁 10h

Dilara @Daisey Is this the Archipelago version? It looks like most people who received it are keeping it for a rainy day (or week)😉 9h

Daisey @Dilara Yes, it‘s going to require a bit of a time commitment! 2h

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Taylor

The Possibility of an Island | Michel Houellebecq

A trajectory remains perfect, even one that concludes in death: there can be a truck, an overturned car, an imponderable; this takes nothing away from the beauty of the trajectory.

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OriginalCyn620

Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Found a #pantone2025 match!

#cocoon

Lauredhel

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