One of the last books I bought. Used a gift certificate I got for Xmas. Sort of an impulse buy. One of the authors whose name I knew but was never exposed to as an English major.
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pickI‘m not quite sure what I‘ve just read but I loved it!
I can‘t fathom what it must have been like to have a mind like Borges. His writing is like a complicated math problem—pretty sure some of these stories are arithmetic in disguise. They are precise, at once full of detail and absolutely nothing.
Borges has a tendency to use conflicting language—fantastic reality, logically illogical—which is sort of the perfect description of his work.
pickThis book of short stories is slim - but it took me a month to mentally scale the lofty (but beautiful) prose, dense with philosophy, history and theology. Borges is a master of magical realism (perhaps veering closer to fantasy and esoterica): his stories are riveting imaginings concerning the impermanence of time, the symbolic nature of labyrinths, the ambiguity of authorship, as well as how eternity may manifest on a human scale.
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1. It's not terribly original, but it's hard to beat a dragon. Or maybe a sea serpent - I love to swim, and I could hang out in Lake Champlain with our own resident monster, Champ (though I guess that would make me a lake serpent 🐍 🤔).
2. The tagged book has ALL the creatures! 🐲🐉🧛♀️👾👻
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pickI was totally charmed by this category defying book. It‘s part biography (of 3 different people from 3 different interests and times) and part history of philosophy; it‘s a damn good read. I let it lead my imagination through space-time and beyond. Now I‘m obsessed with Borges. Such an excellent and inspiring book! ⏳ 🌌 📚
Have either of you read anything by Sarah J Maas or Rebecca Yarros? @Readergrrl @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks #LMPBC
