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Hey, #WithTheBanned readers. Our July book is 1984 by George Orwell.
If you need to skip this month due to the current political climate, it‘s completely understandable.

Only 13 out of 100 (sigh). But better than last week. 😆
I'm tagging 1984 because I thought it would be on the list but wasn't.

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@Dabbe

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I scored some b-e-a-u-tiful editions of some of the classics from an estate sale recently. They‘re all in pristine condition as well!

Not my fave dystopian novel but holy hell if it isn‘t good. There‘s so much in the book to unpack. The notion of not moving backwards, but keeping time frozen. The Thought Police. The disappearings.

There is no joy watching every predicted fear come true , there is no smug condescension in saying I told you so as this regime proves that us "overdramatic, doomsday, ridiculous people " were right.
I pray that enough people can and do fight back to stop it quickly.

#Bibliophile #CultClassic
I read this in high school and it started my love for dystopian novels. More recently I don't read much of the genre anymore because it is just too real sometimes 😬

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
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Feeling slumpy so calling it for March. Full of #banned dystopian paperbacks and LGBTQIA+ ebooks to cheer me up.

Edit: +1 Finished The Handmaid‘s Tale late last night/early this morning.

Starting today! It‘s been on my bookshelf and TBR for ages…and it‘s my February #bookspin pick.

@TheAromaofBooks

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#1984 👁️

#Bodypart. #CoverStories

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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6% This week was definitely the lowest of all. My top 3 are The Night, 1984 and Of Mice and Men
#TLT
@dabbe

I guess since I had two newish releases picked in January, it‘s only fitting to get two classics in February! My #bookspin and #doublespin for the month! Hoping to get to both of them!

Thank you for hosting @TheAromaofBooks This is my favorite challenge!

I don‘t know - really. I‘ve only read the graphic novel and I liked it, but it only focussed on the love story. Now I listened to the audiobook and thought the whole story was pretty good. But I ended up pretty annoyed by Winston being whiny and insecure. The Winston actir in the audio play was this good, the whining was almost unbearable. 😳😳😳

Not your average holiday reread ! 😳😀

I read this for the first time in 27 years. It was much more impactful to me at this point in my life compared to when I was in college. I had also forgotten most of the work itself. I started with the Audible adaptation with Andrew Garfield and enjoyed it so much, I then listened to Orwell‘s original work. It remains a thought-provoking, relevant work.

Very relevant book to read after a Trump reelection.

A pretty tough book, not exactly a light read. It's an interesting world but I wasn't exactly mind-blown by it. 😔
#classics #dystopia

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I am kinda undone with myself because I DNF'd 1984. I was doing the audio for a bookclub (pairing with Newman's Julia) and then when I was unable to make bookclub I realized there were other things I wanted to read more than 84 for the fourth or fifth time. But still it is lingering in my mind so i will likely pick the audio back up!

A reread, almost 30-years to the day that I last read it for A-Level English Literature. Wanted to reread before Sandra Newman‘s retelling, Julia. I loved it then and I loved it again now. Can I feel another Orwell deep dive coming on?

"Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason."
-George Orwell, "1984"
##GeorgeOrwell #1984

#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern

The tagged, 1984 by Orwell. Where would the country be now since so much of what he predicted has come/is coming true. 😱

I don‘t know how I managed to go through high school in the early 2000‘s and never read this book - and yet, here we are! This hit a little too close to home - it‘s good though! (38)
⭐️ : 3.5/5

#bookhumor

Dystopian butter 😂🤣😂

1984 was 40 years ago (doesn‘t seem like the future anymore), but Orwell‘s views are still relevant today, like AI, war-is-peace, and the thought police… “Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
-George Orwell, 1984

#SetInFuture
#AboutABook

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

"But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party... It is also that no change of doctrine or political alignment can ever be admitted. For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

#classicyouread #aboutabook
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

#CoverLove #White
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

"It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense; it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck."
-George Orwell, "1984"

""Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.""
-George Orwell, "1984"

"The horrible thing about the Two Minute Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in."
-George Orwell, "1984"

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to."
-George Orwell, "1984"

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the preset controls the past.

Reread 1984 so I was better prepared for Julia. Overall I am glad I did, I had forgotten much about the book, and it is interesting to read after reading Wifedom earlier this year and understanding what Orwell's wife gave him (this story idea came from a poem of hers).
The story is quite depressing but fully plausible. Coming out of WWII as he did seeing the 👇

My hopes for the rest of the month. I have had a bit of a slump lately, but I think once I push through the tagged I can pick back up my speed.

Next read from the TBR list.
#bigbrother #GeorgeOrwell #1984

theres a new word in every paragraph that i read. its very admirable. do authors speak how they write? i usually assume that they do with the other books ive read, but this one doesnt seem the most natural. unless george orwell is just a very intelligent fella. most likely so.

11-4 Jun 24 (audiobook)
Without doubt I prefer the humour and the levity of Animal Farm. Somehow the corruption and torture seem less harrowing when committed by farm animals. Nevertheless, 1984 is quite an amazing book and the influence it has had on our thinking and our language is incredible. I hate the torture scenes - the rats, the description of Winston when he looks in the mirror and the betrayal of everything he believes. Orwell was bleak.

ive finally started this book after having it sit on my shelf for months and i cant wait to see how the story turns out. i remember seeing this book on a list of books you have to read in your life or something and id like to see what the hype is about. theres a lot of tricky vocab words tho. this is the first grammatically challenging book ive read so far. im slowly trying to edge my way out of YA novels so this is will be a really exciting read!

#weekendreads

1984 is taking me longer than I had hoped, which is too bad, it is really interesting to reread it.

Loving Margo's Money Trouble, and am listening to Pansies, Alexis Hall is my go to feel good listen.