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Tasmanian, but only recently...Gippsland was getting too busy 😄

Prefer animals to people, and games over anything serious.

Tasmanian Chess Champion 2023/24

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I just read the most sublime paragraph.

"What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models. Mazes in the nodules on the murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes."

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Absolutely. It has unleashed the whole spectrum of emotions in me.

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Earlier this year I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I thought that it was so good I would be lucky to read anything as good this year.

I have indeed been lucky

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I think after a couple of page turner fantasy or crime novels, my next serious read will be Shuggie Bain

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I was in a bookshop today but they didn't have the book I wanted. So I went to the desk to see if they could order it. While I was waiting I looked at a book on the counter called A Field Guide To Tasmanian Fungi and I thought what a great book to help ID all the species I see about. I wasn't going to buy it, though, until I noticed that I knew one of the authors, who besides being a mycologist, is a keen chess player.

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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


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Garth Nix
Peter Robinson
Thomas Hardy
Phil Rickman
Stephen Donaldson
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Alice Hoffman
Kate Mosse
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kate Forsyth

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    Beautiful and so vibrant

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    You have good eyes! They really are charming scenes

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    Liz Truss, Ten Years To Save The West

    I don't agree with banning books, but this is going to the top of my Never To Be Read list.

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    Morning river fog

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    Reading slump. I feel a little burnt out and generally reading a book helps with it, but lately I don’t seem to finish any book that start. Most of these books are quite good tbh but they take up a lot of mental energy and that makes it harder to read. :(

    @bookstodon any recommendations for a good page turner to get out of reading slump?

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    Any particular genre?

    Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch dystopian humour

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    Great advice! I started rereading books during the pandemic, I just couldn't focus on anything unfamiliar

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    "I think you're wrong. It's not an insane serial killer who read his Bible wrong. It's just a common or garden bastard who hates women." - Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo published in 2005.

    (Or the GOP in 2020's USA)

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    Great sky out the back of our house.

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    We built this city on Dwayne Johnson and Roll


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    In "The Book That Wouldn't Burn" by Mark Lawrence, each chapter is prefixed with a quote from a book, real or imaginary.

    It gives the author a chance to make statements tangentially about the plot, throw in some humorous asides, and maybe even take a political stand about real world events.


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    Maybe, but for the past 50+ years it has been a Palestinian used phrase. And seeing this book is 2023 publication, my guess is that if there is any intended meaning, it would be from the Palestinian POV.

    Perhaps he added it to get us thinking and talking? If so, then he succeeded

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    Yes, I believe Likud did borrow the phrase from the PLO. It fits nicely with the Israeli right wing policy of limiting Palestinian rights within a Jewish state.

    As for it's use in the book. The book was published pre October 7th, so it wouldn't be a reaction to the current crisis. But since the phrase was being used almost exclusively by pro Palestinian groups then, I would guess that was why it was put into the book, either pro or anti.

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