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I'm still on that Hiroshima book. It initially was a bit of a tedious read, primrily focussing on US intelligence (which was incredibly tight, the
last the Japanese intelligence picked up was in late 1944, that it would take years until the US had a working atomic bomb), and now it's a very
difficult read for a different reason. Eek eek eek eek eek eek eek eek.
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wow, it's been such a long time since I read a book, i ain't got the time anymore.
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Having returned to study the only books I have time to read are maths and physics books. Any spare time I get, which is not a great deal, I socialise
with family or work on my music. It's mid year break at the moment and I'm working on a jigsaw puzzle of Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette by Renoir
with my wife, who's pretty damn busy herself most of the time.
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Hey, Dad and I did one of that exact painting!
I recall I started with the lady in the striped dress in the middle, and that we ended with a lot of black pieces; as a joke I put on a wallpaper on
my father's desktop while we were working on it. Definitely a two man's job.
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We finally finished that one yesterday afternoon. The next one is a Turner and I'll swear that entire painting is made of three shades of brown. It
will be a hard one. A while back we tried doing Blue Poles - a sure recipe for a nervous breakdown - we gave up on it.
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Xa! I know that, I know that... My favourite painting is Monet's Bridge over the garden pond, and I have a jigsaw of it... but it's nigh impossible,
so pixellated... so little focus points...
There's an online jigsaw game that's nothing but white, but at least all the pieces are shaped significantly different, so it's solvable.
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Just finished 1Q84 by Murakami, it's awesome!
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Currently reading Spinoza's Ethics.
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seems interesting, I'll have to read that.
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Rest in peace Oliver Sacks... 
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Yesterday, I started reading Clair de Femme by Romain Gary. It starts pretty well.
Just bought:
Carl Jung's Symbols of Transformation and Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self.
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
Michel Houellebecq's Souimission et Serotonine.
And Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and Responsibility and Judgment.
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I see how your week’s going now. That’s some pretty hefty stuff.
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So great when you're able to finally read those books that have been on your to read list for a long time, enjoy!
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That's exactly that, Bonny. I had stopped reading, years ago, but my ex-girlfriend put me back to it a few months ago. It was a bit difficult, in the
beginning, cause I had lost the habit, but now it's ok. I can't stop reading the stuff I already have, and I have to buy some more.
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Haha! I just found a verse by Annie M.G. Schmidt (who was one of the greatest Dutch children's books and TV show authors) called Literatuur, relating
how her lovers introduced her to Hemingway, Ibsen and others, while bemoaning she hasn't had one yet who was into the Iliad. Moral: the more lovers
one has, the more we develop intellectually!
Not that I have much experience in the field but I think I can still play all the reggae Niki once taught me. And I still listen to some of the music
he gave me way back when.
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That's true. I often listen to bands my ex lovers introduced me to. Or watch movies they like. I even, sometimes, remember reflections they shared
with me, and act accordingly.
For example, my recent quitting my job was directly resulting from thinking about what Sylvie told me a few months ago: "When are you gonna stop
working for these people who don't know how to manage their businnes?" I finally decided she was right, so I quit.
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I'm reading "them" by Joyce Carol Oates. It won the US National Book Award in 1970 and is the third title in a series called 'The Wonderland Quartet'.
Essentially a four volume series on social aspects of Americana from the 1930's thru the 1960's. I really enjoy her styles and voices. "them" is the
story of a poor family raised in Detroit from the '30's to the '60's. She employs several inner voices to tell her story of a single family, begun
with that of a teenage girl who becomes a mother, and then carries on with her kids who grow into adulthood.
I say it is the third in the series but the other two that come before it have nothing to do with the characters in this third title. The second one
called "Expensive People" is a first person narrator, also a teenager who confesses in the first line that they are a child murderer. That is, a child
who killed someone. This act of violence is typical of Oates work. She writes A LOT about crime, violence, and the criminal mind set. So, yes, a
reflection of a great swath of American reality in the 20th century, and beyond. Remarkable insight she brings to that field! Well worth reading, her
descriptions of everything are amazing and I envy her wide ranging skills. But yes, she does get around to some sort of violence happening, but there
is so much more along side those episodes. I highly recommend her work. And she is SO PROLIFIC! Hundreds of books, short stories, poetry, essays over
the last sixty years. And she is still alive!
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Been on a serious reading trip this year, read classics like Hunchback of Notre Dame, Max Havelaar, Anne Frank's Diary, The Tea Lords and Oeroeg by
Hella Haasse, Val van de Vredeborgh, Oliver Sacks's autobiography...
I loved Hunchback so much I'm now also reading Les Misérables.
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that book is a serious commitment!
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Wouldnt't say that, I find Hugo to be very accessible, much more than most 19th century authors I've read.
When I was on the train to my friend for the tea party I had to interrupt reading at a very tense part, where one of the main characters, Jean
Valjean, escapes in a coffin but the plan turns a rough corner when the guy who nailed him in, who was banking on his ability to get his gravedigger
friend to go on a drink with him so Jean has enough time to escape - and upon arrival at the cemetary he learns that the gravedigger friend has died
and is replaced by a new gravedigger who doesn't drink.
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