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Question 7 | Richard Flanagan

There was a great remembering that was also a great forgetting, one hundred years of silence ... of the convicts and Aboriginal people little was ever said. Of a slave system and a genocide nothing. What remained was either silence or lies. Such as: the convicts and their children had all fled to the mainland during the gold rushes. Such as: the Tasmanian Aboriginal people were extinct, long gone...

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads “Silence or lies” I live in Charlotte, NC (edited) 12h

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Question 7 | Richard Flanagan

My father's mother and father...were... illiterate. My father had...a sense of the magic of words that never left him, an awareness that those twenty-six abstract symbols could liberate if you understood them and oppress if you didn't.

He told me the written word was the first beautiful thing he ever knew, a line I stole and used elsewhere. What is a writer but a robber and what is the history of literature but a milky way of theft?

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Question 7 | Richard Flanagan

I missed my big sister greatly and the point of the books was to smuggle a message of love to her, and each book, every faux sentence and every scrawled picture of a word was simply saying that one word over and over.

And so at the beginning I learnt this: the words of a book are never the book, the soul of it is everything.

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Question 7 | Richard Flanagan

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Interweaving memoir, science, history and fiction, Richard Flanagan sure can write. This book was striking and affecting. Talk about stopping you in your tracks and making you think. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

charl08 Yes. I want to quote from every page! 1d

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Time After Time | Karl Alexander

#Bibliophile

I was semi-obsessed with this #TimeTravel movie in 1979 with the mashup of H.G. Wells & Jack the Ripper & even bought a copy of the book.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

BkClubCare I love time travel stories and movies 6mo

MemoirsForMe I remember that movie! 6mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 6mo

Eggs Well played👏🏻👏🏻 6mo

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The Island of Doctor Moreau | H.G. Wells

There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live. And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau | H.G. Wells

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This was a great read. It was so intense and thrilling. It was truly worth the read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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A Modern Utopia | H G Wells

Here I am, making my sloooooow way through A MODERN UTOPIA. It‘s more interesting than I expected, and Wells has made a solid attempt to balance different perspectives as he crafts his ideal society. That said, this is still very much an early-1900s-style Utopia, and I expect the next chapter, on the role of women, may leave me somewhat scowly.

ALSO, I‘ve realized I have H.G. Wells & George Orwell tangled up in my head. THEY‘RE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

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The Madman's Daughter | Megan Shepherd