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MrsMalaprop
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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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DebinHawaii
Time After Time | Karl Alexander
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#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.

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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AroundTheBookWorld
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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.
#TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #HGWells #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookworm #Classics #ScienceFiction #Fiction #Horror #Fantasy #Audiobook #Literature #19thCentury #Novel

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AroundTheBookWorld
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xicanti
A Modern Utopia | H G Wells
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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.

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AroundTheBookWorld
The Madman's Daughter | Megan Shepherd
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LoverOfLearning Looks like a good haul! 9mo
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Hooked_on_books
Question 7 | Richard Flanagan
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This 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

squirrelbrain Interesting…I‘ve been on the fence about reading this one, but may borrow it from the library now. 10mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 10mo
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Yes, you should! I don‘t think you‘ll regret it. Plus, it‘s short, which is always nice. 10mo
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Abailliekaras
Question 7 | Richard Flanagan
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An 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.

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