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Had a sleepover with my friend last night and spent the morning at the AAUW book sale. Got several for Wes and came home with these three for me at $1 each :)

Forgot I had this one when I went hunting for #reptile in my TBR stacks. I'm sure ancient Rome was full of 🐍 both metaphorically and literally. #Coverstories
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"Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth."
-Niccolo Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy"

#poetrymatters
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I'm finding it hard to study, but I'm trying nonetheless
Last exam.. c'mon...

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Essential Erasmus: Selected and Translated with Introduction and Commentary by John P. Dolan (gift from my good friend Shawn)
📖 Ecohumanism (Volume 15 of Humanism Today) edited by Robert B. Tapp

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

This book wanders a bit and I don‘t know that I believe the authors assertion that the specific poem that the book focuses on has as much of an impact as the authors claims, but it is well written and interesting.
The book follows the life of a papal secretary who rediscovered and made available through his copies a book the author claims jump started modern science and thought.
2.5/5 interesting and well written but weak in arguments sometimes

I actually finished this book this morning xD sorry for the not to artistic photo. One day, I'll learn.
It's a nonfiction book about the history of Print and Books and how it all affected culture in Europe. I thought it was very well-written and interesting, and easy to understand. I also think that, despite the text being very short, it had s lot of information that helped contextualize the situation at that time.
4/5
#nonfiction #booksaboutbooks