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This book of short stories is slim - but it took me a month to mentally scale the lofty (but beautiful) prose, dense with philosophy, history and theology. Borges is a master of magical realism (perhaps veering closer to fantasy and esoterica): his stories are riveting imaginings concerning the impermanence of time, the symbolic nature of labyrinths, the ambiguity of authorship, as well as how eternity may manifest on a human scale.

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1. It's not terribly original, but it's hard to beat a dragon. Or maybe a sea serpent - I love to swim, and I could hang out in Lake Champlain with our own resident monster, Champ (though I guess that would make me a lake serpent 🐍 🤔).

2. The tagged book has ALL the creatures! 🐲🐉🧛‍♀️👾👻

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I was totally charmed by this category defying book. It‘s part biography (of 3 different people from 3 different interests and times) and part history of philosophy; it‘s a damn good read. I let it lead my imagination through space-time and beyond. Now I‘m obsessed with Borges. Such an excellent and inspiring book! ⏳ 🌌 📚

Have either of you read anything by Sarah J Maas or Rebecca Yarros? @Readergrrl @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks #LMPBC

Fascinante

I enjoy some non fiction all year, but towards the end of October as I begin thinking about November‘s #bookspin list I start getting excited for #NonFictionNovember. I don‘t know how it got started, but I love spending a month focused on nonfiction. Here are a few titles I might read.

Will you participate? Any books you‘re looking forward to?

Thought-provoking short fantasy stories by Argentinian writer Borges published in the 1940s, which influenced the magic realism movement later. Themes include mythical spaces, dreams, immortality time travel and the perception of time, reflections on the nature of consciousness and the illusory self, the relationship between God and creation. I would have enjoyed this even more if I had some knowledge of metaphysics and the hermetic writings.