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[JollyRoger]

Read my junior year in high school and now rereading. Title of the books is also what I called the red icons that moderators used to use to honor my best posts

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[Columbkille]

IIRC GRRM included that in GOT. Daenerys' brother longed for gold....

Yes! Quite a memorable scene.

According to Google, a Roman governor had gold poured down his throat during the Mithridatic Wars (while still alive). I've had a book about Mithridates on my reading list for a while; might have to read that one next...

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

On hold until next week. Used up my checkouts on Hoopla for the month.

 

[bene_legionary]

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin. I liked how she described the world of Earthsea, it has me intrigued... being a children's novel it's not very deep but it was still fun.

 

[Josu]

Ended Unwind by Neil Shusterman, enjoyed
Started The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Finished a sci-fi short story Death Rides By Night by Leroy Yerxa. Nothing more to it besides classic misogyny

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Reading Veiled Women, a novel by Marmaduke Pickthall. Started out reading like an amateur and cartoonist mix of Orientalism and Islamic apologia. Still I persevered. It's not good, but it's definitely interesting, and I do like the descriptions of Egypt before modernisation (actually mid-modernisation, the novel takes place during the Khedivate period, when the elites were more or less Westernised and adopting the latest technology). The whole book though smacks heavily of Orientalism.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It's little gems like these that make me feel glad I stuck on:

It was that years ago a European officer in the Egyptian service had wooed Amînah Khânum secretly; and she had been entirely captivated by his charms. But endeavouring to sound his character, she found him shallow. She made him islam, but his carelessness informed her that conversion meant no more for him than access to her. In the same way she perceived that what he felt for her was nothing more profound than the desire to add a Muslim lady to his list of conquests. The blow was dire, for she was then extremely lovely, and a great examiner of men, having divorced or killed ten husbands. She would not have him tell a tale among his kind, yet could not conquer her intense desire of him. What could she do? She satisfied her heart, and the next morning gave him death in easy form, being well versed in poisons.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It's little gems like these that make me feel glad I stuck on:

“His face is dirty, the poor little one! Our Lord preserve him!” the visitor remarked in Arabic as she returned the baby to his nurse; at which there was an outburst of applause from the onlookers. They called down blessings on the lady’s head, desiring she might have herself a thousand children, not like this one, puny and unpleasant, but most beautiful.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It's little gems like these that make me feel glad I stuck on:

The month of Ramadan came on them in their country life; and the long hours of heat without a bite or sup made everybody irritable except Barakah and the wife of Ghandûr, who were both exempt from fasting—the former as an invalid, the latter as a nursing-mother. The slave-girls lost their usual delight in birds and greenery. A gun fired in the distant market-town announced the moment of release in the first bloom of night; but the party failed to hear it sometimes, and looked out for the lighting of the lamps around a village mosque across the plain. At once arose vast sighs of praise to Allah; cigarettes, prepared in readiness, were seized and lighted; water was handed round and food set out.

I like how it's the cigarettes that take precedence over food and water when breaking the fast

 

[Hygro]

Just finished Leviticus after months. Reading the whole thing aloud in order.

What a grind, gets pretty boring but still a wild story.

 

[Josu]

Ended The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy by Gavin Edwards, a collection of Bill Murray stories. Disapointing as most of stories are not fun, not even interesting

Still deciding which non fiction book going to start

 

[reddishrecue]

I just finished all of Leviticus in the King James bible for some random reason not known to me. I was thinking I chose Leviticus because it was one of the books in the Torah that I don't really remember except for Genesis and Exodus which of course name most of the beginning roots of many ancestral people while Exodus has Moses and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt. Leviticus, the third book however, talked about a lot of ways that the priests used to atone for their sins without a Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure people still do atone for sins without Jesus the way it's written in Leviticus.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Finished Veiled Women. Such a strange book

 

[JollyRoger]

The Iliad - Books 19 to 24

One of the components of my reading list is the syllabus for the Great Books seminar of Thomas Aquinas College in California. I read in class day segments, thus some works get divided into multiple parts. Currently a Fall semester class 4 freshman,