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robinb
July's People | Nadine Gordimer
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The Birthday Fairies are looking forward to celebrating with these special birthday Littens in July!

☀️🥳☀️🥳☀️🥳☀️🥳☀️

If you‘d like to add your special day to the Litsy Birthday calendar for a little extra dose of #birthdaylove ❤️, just send YOUR Litsy handle and birthdate to litsybirthdays@gmail.com . 😊

squirrelbrain ❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️🎉 5d
julesG 🎉🎁🎉🎁🎂 5d
mcctrish My birthday is on the 11th with @CSeydel and @Karisa 🎉🎉🎉 4d
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dabbe Turning 60 on Bastille Day! 😱 Thanks for including all of us! 🤩 4d
robinb @mcctrish 🎉🎉🎉Could you drop an email to litsybirthdays@gmail.com so you‘ll be included on the calendar? 😊 4d
mcctrish @robinb done ✔️ 4d
mcctrish @dabbe you have the same birthday as my oldest 4d
robinb @mcctrish Thanks! 4d
dabbe @mcctrish Well, how cool is that? We can be “crab“by together! ♥️🦀♥️ 4d
mcctrish @dabbe Joyeux Fête Nat 4d
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Tove_Reads
Mine Boy | Peter Abrahams
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An important book in South African literature. It‘s an easy and entertaining read. Hard to believe it‘s from the 40s - before apartheid and still so accurate 🤷🏼

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Tove_Reads
Mine Boy | Peter Abrahams
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Preparing for a 1-2 week long sick leave. Also have 5 books from NetGalley. Do you think this is enough? 🫣

Ruthiella You might need a couple more! 😂 3w
BarbaraJean If the stacks aren‘t falling over, you don‘t have enough yet 😆 3w
Bookish_Thoughts Maybe? 🤔 I would probably add a few more just to be safe. 😄 3w
BookmarkTavern No! What if you need backups? 😂 3w
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Graywacke
Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee
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Pickpick

I‘m working through some Booker listed books i‘ve own. This is the 1999 winner, and probably Coetzee‘s most well-known work.

It‘s fantastic, unsettling, dark. Lit prof David Lurie sleeps around, and a maybe rape of a student ends his career in disgrace. His Dantean hell is to go to his daughter‘s farm. He loves his daughter. What happens there parallels his own crimes. Coetzee keeps it moving, keeps the reader glued and surprised. Fantastic.

Ruthiella This book is so disturbing but so very good. 2mo
Reggie Oof. Stacked. 2mo
mjtwo Loved this at uni but need to reread. 2mo
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Graywacke @Ruthiella yes. Agree. And no answers. He‘s trying hard to let us make our own judgements and conclusions 2mo
Graywacke @Reggie ha! Oof, another? It‘s a quick, oddly easy read, if that helps. 2mo
Graywacke @mjtwo cool that you studied it. I didn‘t take any lit classes, sadly. But then, i graduated before this was published. 2mo
Reggie It‘s just sounds like a difficult subject-wise read. 2mo
BarbaraBB I still remember this one vividly 2mo
Graywacke @Reggie it is! 1mo
Graywacke @BarbaraBB I‘m not surprised by that 1mo
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AshleyHoss820
Dusklands | J. M. Coetzee
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Pickpick

I‘m not sure how to feel here. There are two different stories. One story follows an an agent involved with the Vietnam Project, his obsession, and his descent into madness. The second story is about Jacobus Coetzee, a white settler in 18th century South Africa on a hunting expeditions that goes awry. I‘m not going to sit here and say I *enjoyed* spending time with either of these men, but I think that‘s the point. 242/1,001 #1001Books

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TheBookgeekFrau
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#SchoolSpirit #Apple

On my wishlist

Eggs 🍎🧡🍏 10mo
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Hooked_on_books
Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee
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Pickpick

Walking embodiment of the patriarchy Prof David Lurie creates a situation for which he will pay dearly if not learn. His disgrace sends him to his daughter‘s place in the country where we get to see his racism, too. At once an exploration of attitudes that need to disappear and post-apartheid South Africa, this book is brilliant. Glad I finally read it.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 12mo
dabbe I also have to say your pup is the epitome of ZEN. You could create a blog with just these poses rolling ... the most perfect thing ever. 🖤🐾🖤 12mo
Hooked_on_books @dabbe Isn‘t she a hoot? 😂 I call it dog yoga when she does this. She is a constant source of entertainment. I‘m glad I get to share her silliness on here. 12mo
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robinb
July's People | Nadine Gordimer
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And the celebrations continue…July Littens, you‘re up next! 🎂🎂🎂🩷 Looking forward to all the birthdays coming up next month. 😊

If you‘d like to be added to the #birthdayfairies calendar and receive a little extra #birthdaylove on your special day, just send your Litsy handle and your birthdate to litsybirthdays@gmail.com.

Get your party hats ready, July babies!! 🥳🥳

🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

dabbe Thank you! 💙💚💙 12mo
robinb @dabbe 🤗🥳🎈💛 12mo
Blueberry !!! Happy birthday everyone 🥳 12mo
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squirrelbrain 🎉🎉🎉 12mo
robinb @Blueberry 🎉🎉🎈🎁 12mo
Blueberry Thank you 😄💙 12mo
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Pinta
The Pole: A Novel | J. M. Coetzee
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Mehso-so

Lyrical & creepy. More of Coetzee‘s distant objects of desire & ardent, pitiable men. Deconstructing Dante w/ a banal Beatrice. Allegory?—an aging Coetzee telling the WORLD “I love you, I desire you, remember me when I‘m gone?” But maybe that‘s too generous. Also: pity is an uncomfortable place. Without the release of farce or melodrama, an empty grand passion is hard to sit with. Maybe that‘s the point. Strange book. Language & translation. 2023

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Graywacke
Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee
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Pickpick

What to make of a novel of essays? Apparently JMC took his own published essays and their criticism (good, tough criticism) and made a novel out of it, with an afterlife confrontation added in. Of course, these are Elizabeth Costello‘s speeches in the book.

So it works and also doesn‘t. First chapter of Realism is fantastic. Later obsession with the morality on veganism was ok - but, i had trouble caring. But i still kind of liked it overall.