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Eggs
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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1: Latin bc it was the origin of so many languages

2: L‘Etranger (The Stranger) - I read it in French

#Two4Tuesday on Wednesday!! Thanks for tag @Kshakal

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TheSpineView Thanks for playing 🥰😊🤩 2d
Eggs @TheSpineView My pleasure 🙏🏻 1d
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danx
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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Finally read the renowned work, this the American translation. I know at it‘s time it was quite impactful. I find it more interesting for how much has been made of it over time and it‘s historical & geographic placement rather than the content itself. Men abusing dogs, women, and indifferent to others. A man writing a male protagonist who attracts a woman for not much reason. Some good quotes and moments but not a lot there today for my interest.

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ImperfectCJ
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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I read The Plague years ago (while pregnant with my first, whose 20th birthday is today), and while I kept meaning to read this one, it took my second-born reading it in high school and begging his father and me to read it to get me finally to pick it up. It's a quick read, the style reminiscent of Hemingway in the first half. As my son promised, there are some fire quotes in here, as well as musings about existence in the modern age. I liked it.

Scochrane26 I first read this in French class but didn‘t remember much about it. So I reread it (in English) a few years ago. 1w
ImperfectCJ @Scochrane26 My son's English class read this, Oedipus Rex, and Crime and Punishment, which I think is a very interesting grouping. How did you find The Stranger when you read it in English? I also see it translated as The Outsider...is it the same word for both in French? 1w
BarbaraBB I read The Plague too when I was really young and still remember it. Much much later I read The Stranger and unfortunately didn‘t enjoy it as much. I hope you have a better experience. Oh and I love you son‘s English teacher 🥰 1w
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Faranae @ImperfectCJ It's the same word in French: “étranger“. It can also be translated as “Foreigner“. You can't use “extérieur“ as a singular noun to mean a person rather than a place. 1w
ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB I definitely like her style! My son has been talking every night about his readings for class and is even enjoying reading outside the curriculum, which I was worried he'd dropped entirely in favor of YouTube videos! I need to send his teacher a thank you card. :-) 1w
Liz_M @ImperfectCJ I'm trying to come up with an informal name for this class -- is The Guilty Murder Club too obvious? 1w
ImperfectCJ @Liz_M That's better than what I thought of (Remorse and Remorselessness in World Literature). But both are more descriptive than Honors English 10, which is the actual name of the class. 😁 1w
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ImperfectCJ
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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"So, with all the sleep, my memories, reading my crime story, and the alternation of light and darkness, time passed...days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me."

He's talking about prison, but this works to describe how a lot of 2020 felt, too.

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RowReads1
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#independentbookstoreday

Reflections on a guillotine is in here. I just got that. I should‘ve checked.

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bibliothecarivs
The Stranger | Albert Camus
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Recent acquisition:

📖 The Stranger by Albert Camus

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Texreader
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Almost the entire Irish village of Baltimore was taken captive by pirates in the early 1600s and sold as slaves in #Algeria. With little records about their lives as slaves, the author relies on a number of accounts by other slaves to try to describe what their lives could have been like. The author also posits a hypothesis that the taking was an elaborate plan of an evil mastermind who wanted to rid the coastal town of its inhabitants for his ⬇️

Texreader own reasons—and the hypothesis seems to make sense! I had heard about this historical event but I‘d never realized how many “northerners” from England, Iceland, etc were captured as slaves by Barbary pirates and not just sailors from captured boats, but hundreds of women and children. I also learned how the women may have had a better life as slaves than in the cold northern climes. Islam treated women more equally! A very interesting read for ⬇️ 2mo
Catsandbooks 👍🏼🇮🇪 2mo
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Teresereading We visited Baltimore in 2016, it‘s a fascinating story and one I hadn‘t heard before. Thanks for sharing. 2mo
Butterfinger So interesting. 2mo
tpixie Wow! Interesting part of history! 2mo
Cuilin One of my favorite places. I grew up near there. #🩷Cork 2mo
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FelipeChapulaS
La peste | Albert Camus
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Un malade a besoin de douceur, il aime a s‘appuyer sur quelque chose, c‘est bien naturel. - Albert Camus, La peste

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Anna40
The Rabbi's Cat | Joann Sfar
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An Algerian rabbi‘s cat can speak, argues with the rabbi about theological matters, demands a bar mitzvah, is jealous when his mistress (the rabbi‘s daughter) falls in love with a young rabbi from Paris and accompanies the couple and rabbi to France to meet the in laws. Funny, clever. Thanks @Adventures_of_a_French_Reader for recommending! 🥰

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Texreader
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Ebook on sale today. It works for #Algeria in November (plan ahead!) for #foodandlit. I for one am looking forward to finally reading this one that‘s been on my tbr list a long time!

@Catsandbooks