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I am having fun with the #augustisatrip photo challenge. So here's a book I had forgotten was on my TBR list. Perhaps I will track down a copy soon. #heaven
Thanks @vkois88 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

At the heart of the story we find Morel and his passion for saving the elephants who are being killed by ivory hunters and tourists and the natives. The demonstration of his value of life lies at the heart of Gary‘s novel.

#BirthdayBookhaul Day 2. Post 2/2.
Here are the rest of my purchases today! Hardcovers to the left and soft to the right. I'm really chuffed about some of these! I spent 4 hours in the Hay Cinema Bookshop and selected 19 books. The shop attendant who helped me carry them to the till cheerfully informed me I was absolutely bonkers, and I confided that I had actually shown great self-restraint. 😂

#best #30daysofreadathon. Read these in September. Roots of Heaven was the best of the bunch.

Not the best month, but school events (and driving to/from) have eaten into my reading time--which is fine! 3 1001 list books and 5 (!!) in translation (2 French, 1 German, 1 Japanese, 1 Chinese). I'll take it! Best of the bunch is tagged.

"It was in fact a great cause, with the company a great cause always keeps: men of good will and those who exploit them, generous endeavour and sordid calculations, an ideal over the horizon, but also the treachery of ends justifying means. Man's oldest company, I tell you, a noble cause and a pack of scoundrels behind it, a generous dream and all the purity that's needed to cause great massacres..."

'How can we talk of progress when we're still destroying, all around us, life's most beautiful and noble manifestations? Our artists, our architects, our poets, sweat blood to make life more beautiful, and at the same time we force our way into the last forests left to us, with our finger on the trigger of an automatic weapon, and we poison the oceans and the very air we breathe with our atomic devices."

'He was the first to recognize the enemy and to cry tally-ho, and he had gone on the attack with all the passion of a man who feels himself challenged by everything that makes too-noble demands upon human nature, as if humanity began somewhere around thirty thousand feet above Orsini. He was determined to defend his own height, his own scale, his own smallness.'

This book is intense, strong, upsetting, infuriating, and frustrating. It's also very very good. Written post-WW2, it looks at the issues of colonialism v nationalism v conservation in Africa. His characters are fascinating, and 60 years on things have certainly changed--yet some things have not. And some things have turned out just as his characters predicted. #1001books #192019 #1956

#1001 books. Not much has changed in almost 60 years.

Gary wrote this 60 years ago, and it is spot on.

I thought this book was going to be too much--I made it all the way to page 16! And then I started over and made a character list. I already have 3.5 sides! It's going much better now, definitely the right decision!

A #1001books #libraryhaul I'll be starting the Gary first (it's a group read) but the other two both sound better to me lol!!

#tbr #september2017, #1001 Roots of Heaven Romain Gary and Legend by David Gemmell. #awesomeautumnbooks.

Our #1001books books of the month for September. Legend was published in 1984 and is the first and most famous move by British fantasy writer David Gemmell. RoH is a 1956 novel by the Lithuanian-born French writer and WW II aviator, Gary. It received the Prix Goncourt for fiction.

Want to discuss either or both of them? Join our group -discussion sep 1 https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/180736-reading-1001?ref=discussion_newsfeed...

This book tells the story of this strange, charismatic man, Morel, who is convinced that man is generous enough to care about the fate of the elephants.
With this mission he travels through Africa, surrounded by a group of characters at least as interesting as Morel himself. They tell us the story and by their points of view sketch us this period in Africa after World War II, of French colonization and elephant hunting.
#1001books