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Thanks so much for the tags, @TheSpineView and @Read4Life!

This was a toughie!
1️⃣ I love the Pongos from 101 Dalmations. 🦴🐾❣️
2️⃣ I know Disney made The Sword and the Stone, the 1st book in White's tetralogy The Once and Future King, but I think all 4 books would be fabulous if made by Disney (or even Peter Jackson, who brought to life the Lord of the Rings in the early aughts).

Since I obviously need another buddy read 😂 @AvidReader25 and #BKClubCare are hosting the #OAFKingAlong starting in April... another classic I've been meaning to read, so why not?? #Imayneedhelp #whydoIfindbuddyreadsirresistible

Repost for @BkClubCare

A readalong announcement 📣 #OAFkingalong

Melissa (@AvidReader25) and I are hosting or, rather, planning on reading this in April and we made a button and invented a hashtag cuz that is watcha do when you buddy-read a book, right? I might find fun postcards to mail, too… (lmk you want 🐌 mail: 📧 me at bkclubcare at gmail)

Everyone welcome. Informal, maybe will be a weekly recommended page count and recap? Just for fun.

A readalong announcement 📣 #OAFkingalong

Melissa ( @AvidReader25 ) and I are hosting (?) or, rather, planning on reading this in April and we made a button and invented a hashtag cuz that is watcha do when you buddy-read a book, right? I might find fun postcards to mail, too… (lmk you want 🐌 mail: 📧 me at bkclubcare at gmail)

Everyone welcome. Informal, maybe will be a weekly recommended page count and recap? Just for fun.

Some books linger on your TBR list for way too long. Time for a readalong! I wanted to read this book since watching The Sword in the Stone a million times as a kid. @BkClubCare & I are tackling this one in April. We‘d love for you to join us! Very laid-back, just sharing thoughts as we go along. It‘s hailed as the greatest fantasy classic in history, so I‘m sure they‘ll be lots to discuss. Tag your comments with #OAFkingalong if you join!

We begin with Matt's stories from vacation and then move into his review of Sally Rooney's novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You.“ From there we begin the selection process for our new seasonal book, and with the help of fan nominations, we land on a great choice! Enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DWVyVmEnsaSWwAdXrXmIs

I‘m just about to dig into February‘s double spin so I‘ll be all ready to go for #BookSpin in March. As always I kept the list the same by only replacing the drawn numbers. New editions this month are Those Who Hunt the Night and the Earthsea omnibus which is the first four.
@TheAromaofBooks

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This was all a bit Disney for me to begin with, but the decision to DNF came when I hit the THIRD casually racist comment about Native Americans. This is an Arthurian legend set in England. What kind of effort of will does one need to slam Native Americans repeatedly in it? #doublespin

(NOTE: According to another reviewer, there's an n-word in a rant by a *checks notes* deranged bird later in the book. Why??!!)

Phew-wee! The trouble with reading books written in the 1930s is when that casual racism slaps you in the face. 

I tried, I really did. Maybe it's the writing style, maybe it's the format, but the very idea of listening to ten more hours of it fills me with dread, so I'm out.

This book is just so.... odd.

It's as if it can't decide when it's set and it's making it so hard to follow... 🤔

A dear friend and I finally had a gift bag socially distant masked up gift swap today . Let‘s call it belated everything.Yes, she gets me !

We had a delightful time 🎃 I‘ll miss you spooky season 🖤see you next year

Burn baby burn 🔥

I had really good intentions with this one, and was super interested to see what the “real” story was like instead of the movie versions I‘ve seen. But I only made it through part 1 “The Sword in the Stone.” It was good - equal parts funny & boring - but I just wasn‘t interested enough to keep going. Maybe in the future I‘ll come back for parts 2-4... @TheAromaofBooks this was my August #bookspin

This is my August #bookspin but I‘m definitely not going to finish it in August. I‘ll keep listening to it, though, and will officially review it once I‘m done. I am enjoying it so far! @TheAromaofBooks

“One Thursday afternoon the boys were doing their archery as usual.” 😂👏🏻
(Image begins: Pick up the book nearest to you and turn to page 45.)

Isn‘t the evolution of young Wart into King Arthur one of the best versions of #weaklingtohero trope? 🤔

#tropesinaugust

📖 The Once and Future King
✏ George Orwell
📺 The Outer Limits
📽 Office Space
🎤 Oasis
🎶 Only The Lonely - The Motels

#manicmonday #letterO @JoScho

Currently reading! A treat since the last book was a bit rough.

#fantasy #kingarthur

This is a difficult book to describe - partly because in 800 pages you can be a lot of things! A retelling of Malory‘s Morte D‘Arthur with TH White‘s own spin on it - it‘s at times farcical (and gave me some Monty Python vibes) at other times lyrical about the natural world and medieval England. But much of it is written during WW2 and TH White is visibly struggling with the concept of war and aggression and cruelty. ⬇️

Thought you‘d get this reference @CarolynM 😂 It‘s like TH White is telling the Arthur story to a bunch of 1950s English schoolboys. There are a lot of asides like this that I‘m enjoying!

Excuse me, but how, HOW, has this book escaped me for this long!? The Sword in the Stone (Book One) is straight whimsy and I love it. While White tends to go off on tangents, I think we can forgive him, since he‘s writing in a post-war world. This sticks fairly close to Malory, but White adds so much more depth to the characters. Fantastic work! #1001Books 166/1,001

I listened to The Mists of Avalon (pub 1983, narrated by the inimitable Davina Porter) a couple of years ago; while not my first foray into Arthurian lore, that was my first adult take. Listening to these now, I love the form that seems very much a product of its era — chapters as standalone stories which, strung together, create a larger story (Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh, both books in the 1920s/films in the 60s). Are these considered YA? 🤔

This is listed as one book on the #1001books list, so I‘m reviewing it as such. Sometimes it‘s divided into 5 separate books, and if I had reviewed as such, the first 3 would have been rated higher. I enjoyed the beginning of the story, appreciated the middle, and was disappointed in the end. I also didn‘t feel that the separate books fit together well in style, although they were chronological. However, the #audiobook narration was great.

I‘m working my way through the audiobooks of The Once and Future King available on #Hoopla. It‘s a good way to spend my drive and walk each day, as the audio narration is fantastic. However, I‘m not quite sure what I think of the story as I‘m almost finished with book 3 of the 5 that make up the whole.

#audiobook #audiowalk #1001books

Starting Monday, my reading time will no longer be my own yet again! Associate of Arts ✅ Bachelors of Education with a focus on 7-12 English Ed: in progress!! If you‘ve ever told yourself it‘s too late, knock it off. You wouldn‘t tell a friend that. Why are you talking to yourself that way!?

My next two reads - thought these would go together nicely 😊

All the books I packed finally arrived to join me in New Zealand; I now have a TBR trolley full of an intimidating number of books 🤣

#retellings and I don‘t really get along most of the time, so these are about the closest things I have on my shelves: Hamlet CYOA, Narnia pastiche, and a version of King Arthur. #riotgrams

#BookMail Pt1 Might as well kick off this weeks mail now, I don‘t think anything is coming the rest of the week. This is, obviously, another of the Penguin Galaxy series. I now have the whole set which I can‘t wait to finish reading, plus they look gorgeous! This fantasy based on the King Arthur story is a classic from the years just after WWII, originally 3 short stories which have been pulled together into one novel. #MerlynFanClub

Old school fantasy

@Avanders I can not get over how GORGEOUS this copy of The Once And Future King is, it‘s by far my now most favorite book on my shelf. Also yay for having Circe finally!! I love the teas they smell wonderful, as does the candle and I love the name of it! The bookmarks are adorable and I‘m sure my daughter will “borrow” one to color. Everything is perfect and I love it all! A great start to my day! #mythsandlegendsswap

#goldspines #literaryluck
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

An old childhood favourite, and still one of the best King Arthur retellings.

After listening to (and not loving) The Sword in the Stone, I kept going -- and read the rest of The Once and Future King including the Book of Merlyn, a (unnecessary) posthumous addition.
And much to my surprise, I LOVED it. White recounts tales of Arthurian lore but it's so much more as he considers how (hu)mans should live. (He wrote these pre/post Nazi Germany.) And the nature writing is amazing.
It was an enthralling, rich experience!

Some Halloween decor in my little apartment. 🍂🎃

#quotsyoct18 #virus

The only books I read this month were the ones I‘m teaching to my 12 graders 😩 #augustwrapup

Going on holiday on Saturday. Having that age old argument - how many books is too many books for a week away?

Used to get into some bitter fights with my mum. Apparently ten was too many one year.

#readerproblems #sorrynotsorry

Hey Leniverse if they don‘t have a replacement for you and you live in the UK I can send you this one I need to clear some shelves as you can probably tell from the photo 🤣🤣

Cover is slightly sun faded and there is small crease in right hand top corner inside is good.

This book was listed as "Very Good" condition. I'll admit that it is spotless inside, but does this cover correspond to "may show some limited signs of wear"? I was so disappointed when I saw it. It's also a different cover image than advertised (stock image for the same ISBN, but this is a reprint). I'm feeling like a difficult customer here, but I'm returning the book. ?

My favorite books in multiple editions!

#3
#7Favesin7Days

How to spend a gloomy day: a guide

The last two books are the best. ✨

The once and future king: a tequila sunrise slushie.