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#wondrouswednesday Thank you @Eggs for the tag!

1) I fell in love with the tagged book in high school. And then thanks to my work on the school paper and the town paper I was invited to a journalism conference north of NYC my junior year during which we had a field trip to The Strand! I was in love with NYC (even the dirty 1980s version) and The Strand ever since! The next year I started working in NY!
2) Absolutely!
3) Litsy reviews! 😉

This has been taken off required reading thus I never have to read this again 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

However I have a very lovely penguin copy that I‘m willing to mail stateside to anyone - I didn‘t even break the spine 😂

Email me social@bookhippie.com if you want it.

First come first serve 🤍

My husband visited my work for the first time this weekend & took some pretty pictures. This is a detailed shot of the fountain in the library‘s garden.

"Sexual love, Peter, is a profoundly selfish emotion. And selfish emotions are not the ones that lead to happiness."

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The story was fine, though the characterizations were flat, making the hero (anti-hero) too heroic and the bad guys into boogeymen. The sexy parts weren't too sexy, but probably makes such a long book worth reading for most who finish it.

Besides, the philosophy behind the story and characters is, shall we say, problematic, both at a gut level and as far as reason goes. I've been struggling to understand atheistic philosophies all my life.

"The orange hair looked preposterous with formal dress; besides, she did not like his face."

Easy, lady.

#3books that I DNF‘d

1. Tagged. I don't know if its underrated, but I know a lot of people don't like Ayn Rand's writing. I hated Atlas Shrugged but I loved this book.
2. Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Both are too long and too boring.
3. The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline both deserve to be genre classics.

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

Finished reading the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
A book that made me think about objectivism a bit but I finally settled down on the fact that no one philosophy can perfectly work in unison with our complex minds.
Also found the book to be quite lengthy and some things didn't make sense like the fact that Howard Roark was acquitted from court in the end.

Rand can write some damn good mind-fuckery, can't she?

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Philosophy, architectural descriptions, society-culture commentary, heroic character, mind-fuckery and aggressive sex. What more do you want in a book?

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One of my go-to novel.

My first time reading Ayn Rand. The protagonist ranks among my top five in the novels I‘ve read.

"Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?"

-- Howard Roark, the man who stands for something and stands alone ?

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Principled and alone 🖤

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"Can't you ever be comfortable -- and unimportant?"
"No."

Sums up my Saturday well ?

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• Good morning, friends 🌼 Don't know when I'll get to actually settle down for #Deweys24HourReadathon today; I think we're in Hour 3-4 now. I hope to make some more progress with the tagged book, and I'll also be moderating Hours 18-19 on the official Dewey's #Goodreads page. Who's doing the RAT?! •

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"Howard Roark laughed."

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"Well, you see, Guy Francon -- it's only a name. He would have nothing to do with your house. It's one of those professional secrets that I shouldn't divulge, but I don't know what it is about you that makes me want to be honest. All the best buildings in our office are designed by Mr. Stengel."
"Who?"
"Claude Stengel. You've never heard the name, but you will, when someone has the courage to discover him." TBC in comments ⬇️

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"Compromise. Compromise now, because you'll have to later anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't."

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"Francon smiled. And Keating thought suddenly that Francon did not really believe it and knew that Keating did not believe it, and yet they were both contented, bound tighter together by a common method and a common guilt."

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"Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing."

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1. Biochemist, about to be graduate student 😁
2. Ayn Rand and Lauren Oliver
3. I have two turtles at my house and a chihuahua at my parents' house.
4. Lots of reading, but not many books 👀
5. When people say my name too much
6. Do books count? 🤪
7. Reading, Animal Crossing, pokemon
8. Paramore and Panic at the disco

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A great man, thought the Dean, or a criminal. The Dean winced. He did not approve of either.

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"Every form has its own meaning...I'd like to understand."

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"My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"

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For once, she expected some emotion from him; and an emotion would be the equivalent of seeing him broken. She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

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Seems pretty relevant these days.

I've decided this is THE YEAR I read all these books I've been putting off. Most of these have sat sad and lonely for years and years.

What is one book you have been wanting to read but keep putting off?? 📚

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#QuotsySept19 Day 26: #Fitness

1. I thought this book was the WORST.
2 The Daily Show
3. Treat day - 🥯 sandwich
4. EST
5. Black Marvel ... I Am not nearly so cool as Kamala Khan (my current read is Ms. Marvel, so yeah, I don‘t think this would work).

#friyayintro

Caught reading- my 17yo reading The Fountainhead at his 14yo brother‘s soccer game. We‘re in Pontiac, Michigan for a couple of days of soccer. He‘s disappointed that this is the last of Rand‘s fiction. He tackled Atlas Shrugged and Anthem last summer.

3 ⭐️.

Rand deserves an A+ for the writing used to preach about her philosophy, thought it didn‘t appeal to me. While I did like some of the characters and the ideals they stood for, I found some of them to be boring and therefore uninteresting and unimportant to the plot. Rand‘s writing is descriptive, sometimes to the point of being too wordy, but it did help to visualize the scenery of this era of NYC.

Overall good but would not reread.

🗣 #FountainheadBuddyRead Part 3 discussion questions are about to be posted up! 💬💭

Crime: Charged with not keeping up with this #LitsyBuddyRead.
Verdict: Guilty as charged. 🙈😬

I know I haven‘t been the best leader for #FountainheadBuddyRead. Please forgive me; this is not an easy, breezy book to get through but I‘m trying my best! 😭

Here are the updated dates for discussion posts. I love to see your thoughts as you read so please keep them coming! ❤️

Thanks to all my buddies joining me on this 🥰

This was my one and only audible book this month. #litsybuddyread #buddyread Stop by my blog and check out my thoughts. https://reecaspieces.com/2019/03/28/march-audible-reads-audible-audiobooks/

I haven‘t been reading much this week, but I hope I get back in my routine soon. I miss my books. For any #FountainheadBuddyRead friends, I will post up questions as soon as I get through Part 3!

This has not been an easy week for me. My grandma just passed away at 91, almost exactly 2 years after my grandpa passed.

They are back together now, after a 70 year long marriage and 2 difficult years apart. I miss them both so, so much. 💔

#FountainheadBuddyRead Part 2 discussion!

1. I think their personalities complement each other, but it seems like a really unhealthy relationship. I struggled with the intimacy piece of it for sure.
2. Nope! He seems like a big phony. He seems like someone who learned to use his speech to protect himself as a wimpy little kid and carried on that way through adulthood.

Share your thoughts in the comments below! ⬇️

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I share a library account with my child, and the book I just borrowed and wasn‘t even done with chapter one, she returned! (It wasn‘t malicious, but still...)

Gotta be honest here... these pages were tough to get through. Roark and Dominique‘s relationship had a shockingly unpleasant beginning, and I‘m not sure I‘m shipping them. Might be my least favorite book couple. 😦

Also, Toohey is just plain off-putting. He seems petty and pathetic going after Roark like that. His speeches put me to sleep. They sound like a bunch of 🐂💩. Not an exciting character for one who has such a following. 👎🏼

I started this today, just read through the introduction. Very interesting that in her introduction written 25 years after the first publication she talked about how difficult it was to get this published, how many times it was rejected, how it was seen as too intellectual; all the reasons that I would want to read it! How it has held up through time. I‘m looking forward to the reading, I hope it doesn‘t disappoint. @booklahoma

My walk today! Fantastic day in the ‘Sip! #litsywalkers #buddyread #3.4miles