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Singout
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An excellent exploration by political analyst Naomi Klein into how being mistaken for Naomi Wolf, a writer who's moved to the political right, has prompted an analysis of how the left/right binary isn't as simple as it was. She looks at a “mirror world“ where the axis can sometimes be a diagonal one, revolving around issues like Covid and anti-vaxxing, big pharma, conspiracy theory, global and online media, and wellness.
#Nonfiction2024 #1984

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Rome753
1984 | George Orwell
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"Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason."
-George Orwell, "1984"
##GeorgeOrwell #1984

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AnneCecilie
Hotel Du Lac | Anita Brookner
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Edith Hope has been sent to Hotel du Lac in Switzerland after an indiscretion to be out of view to her English friends. She sees it as an opportunity to do some work, she‘s an author.

At Hotel du Lac there‘s several other rich, English women. In a way this atmosphere reminded me of a Poirot crime without the crime.

Edith gets to know the other women, and suddenly there‘s a man there, a Mr Neville

The view on unmarried women reminded me a

AnneCecilie a little of the women in a Prym novel, only they are happier in their lives than these women seemed to be. They also seemed to be judged more, even if this was written later. That‘s another thing, this book gives the feeling of being set in the 30s/ 40s, but color TV is mentioned and that came way later. #1984 #192025 @Librarybelle 3mo
Librarybelle On my to read list! 3mo
youneverarrived Love the cover 🩷 3mo
Ruthiella This is the only Brookner title I really liked. I don‘t think her protagonists are ever happy. I prefer the bemusement of Pym‘s novels. 3mo
squirrelbrain Gorgeous cover! 3mo
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Rome753
1984 | George Orwell
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"But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party... It is also that no change of doctrine or political alignment can ever be admitted. For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

RamsFan1963 Well I guess someone in the Republican party has read 1984. 4mo
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Rome753
1984 | George Orwell
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"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

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Rome753
1984 | George Orwell
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"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

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Rome753
1984 (Signet Classics) | George Orwell
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"How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#1984 #GeorgeOrwell

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Rome753
1984 | George Orwell
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Next read from the TBR list.
#bigbrother #GeorgeOrwell #1984

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mabell
Harm's Way | Catherine Aird
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A crow drops a finger on a footpath in front of a walker, and the best laid plans go awry.

Poor Crosby is back to the barely competent sidekick in this one 😆

Aimeesue Crows are the best! Caw! 🐦‍⬛ 10mo
Librarybelle What a great setup for a mystery! 10mo
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mabell @Aimeesue I see you‘re interested in corvidology! Kaarh, kaarh,kaarh, as it said in the book 😄 10mo
mabell @Librarybelle And icky 😂 10mo
Tamra I love your place setting! 😍 10mo
mabell @Tamra Thank you! I started collecting Wedgwood Countryside years ago, and picked up coordinating pieces as I found them. 💙 10mo
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AroundTheBookWorld
1984 | George Orwell
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