pickInterweaving 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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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pickInterweaving 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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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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.
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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pickThis was a great read. It was so intense and thrilling. It was truly worth the read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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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.
The Madman‘s Daughter trilogy 🐆🧪⚡️
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The Island of Dr. Moreau retelling 🏝️🐆
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My Valentines Day book haul 📚💌
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pickThis thought-provoking book is a mix of unusual personal/family memoir and what feels like a NF version of Labatut‘s How We Cease to Understand the World. It ruminates on life, death, war, and more. I found it fascinating and I‘m glad it serves as my final completed book of 2024. #TOBlonglist
pickAn idiosyncratic memoir with much about Flanagan‘s father, WW2, the atomic bomb & invented vignettes about H. G. Wells & the physicists who developed the bomb. It‘s artfully woven together in his usual muscular style. His writing is jaw-droppingly good & he‘s distilled this tapestry of a life history to its essence. Humble, Australian & acutely aware of injustice in Tasmania 1780s through to the war, & how precarious life is, including his own.
