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#midwintersolace #litsolace

Brooklyn botanic garden does a Lightscape winter walk at night for a couple months every year. I love going and getting some hot chocolate (with baileys!) and wandering the exhibits.

I‘m a member and like doing walks around there any season tbh, it‘s so close to my apartment.

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Looks at how our Christmas celebrations are linked to solstice celebrations #mistletoemaniacs #wintergames2021 +6pts

Cannot believe this book takes me almost 1 month to finish.

I enjoyed this book but sometimes got lost or had the feeling that why I read this book. I wouldn‘t say that I love this book but I could say I liked it.

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for in #London there is all that life can afford. #JulyJourneys

#BookReport 09/21

Except for the tagged one I had a great reading week. I enjoyed all of these books.

Rasselas lives in complete happiness in an Ethiopian valley and is bored by it. ‘You find it boring because you‘ve never known misery‘, someone says to him and this leads Rasselas to go in search of the meaning of life, misery and happiness.
These two sentences pretty well sum up the content of this book. Samuel Johnson needed a lot more pages though. A very boring book but it‘s another #1001books ticked off!

#FoodAndLit #Ethiopia

Not for nothing was Smith‘s first book about moral philosophy. His concern, as Foley says, was the one that has haunted economic thinking ever since: “how to be a good person and live a good and moral life within the antagonistic, impersonal, and self-regarding social relations that capitalism imposes.

An Irish clergyman was present at a dinner where someone asked what the greatest pleasure was, and Johnson replied, “Fucking.” He added that the second best was drinking, and therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards, for all could drink, though not all could fuck.

My to read stack is getting out of hand. Some of these I‘ve started and pick up when I‘m in the mood. Especially the poetry collections. I guess I should get to it. 📚