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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (this is a rare case of buying the book after having read it. ★★★★★)
📖 The English Nation: The Great Myth by Edwin Jones
📖 Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Becker
George Orwell: Essays | George Orwell
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Pickpick

I have been listening to this huge essay collection over the last several weeks and I have loved the experience. They are well written and so thought provoking. A excellent reflection on history but surprisingly applicable to our current times. 🤔

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Chelsea.Poole
1984: The Graphic Novel | George Orwell
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Pickpick

Revisiting classics in graphic novel form is a great to brush up on the story and themes without dedicating the time it takes to read the whole book. While Im not a huge fan of the style of the illustrations, the book does do an amazing job of capturing the bleak, gritty dystopia setting. Remains a warning for our time.
Thanks to @Megabooks for the idea to read this prior to reading Julia, the retelling of 1984, a pick for #litsyToB24.

Megabooks Glad this was helpful for you, too. I enjoyed how the artist depicted Winston visually. I feel it was just right. And I will always love a good graphic adaptation!!! 2mo
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Megabooks
1984: The Graphic Novel | George Orwell
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Pickpick

Definitely recommend brushing up on 1984 with this graphic adaptation ahead of reading the #LitsyToB24 pick Julia. While not strictly necessary, the stories dovetail enough that it was helpful. The art in this adaptation is great, and I could read it in a day!

BarbaraBB Great graphics 🥰🥰 3mo
Megabooks @BarbaraBB yes 💯💯 3mo
Kimberlone Good idea! I haven‘t read 1984 since high school 😳 3mo
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Creadnorthey
Why Orwell Matters | Christopher Hitchens
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Pickpick

Some of this is dated with opaque and oblique references that were way above me- not exactly an introductory text, but fun and informative to read nonetheless.

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Shalinisbooks
George Orwell: Essays | George Orwell

Power is not a means; it is an end

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Creadnorthey
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Mehso-so

Not my favorite so far. Again seeds of the future writings are here throughout; the disaffected protagonist, the posters and soulless advertisements, the “tarts” and the poverty, lovemaking and nature. But in the end this is a bit too much of an on the nose moral tale about the money-god that is still (prophetically) ruling us all.

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Creadnorthey
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Pickpick

Clearly a first… novel. There are no real moments of craft or stylistic brilliance, but I felt some of these raw impressions did resonate out to inform his later worlds and characters. Winston Smith has some archetypal characteristics and the poverty in 1984 has its blueprint here.

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AllDebooks
Orwell's Roses | Rebecca Solnit
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#Naturalitsy

"I have often thought that much of the beauty that moves us in the natural world is not the static visual splendour that can be captured in a picture, but time itself as patterns, recurrences, the rhythmic passage of days and seasons and years, the lunar cycle and the tides, birth and death."

My first book by Rebecca Solnit for this month's #Backlistreadathon @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 🧡🤍 8mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 8mo
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TheBookHippie
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