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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition | Ernest Hemingway

#CharacterCharm #Nurse @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Not his finest, and Nurse Barkley can best be described as male wish fulfilment. There are better WWI novels but this always makes the list. Sigh.

Eggs It‘s overrated for sure 4d

TheBookHippie I love it- flaws and all 🤣🤭🙃 4d

Cuilin @TheBookHippie I didn‘t hate it, is the best I can come up with. 😆 4d

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TheBookHippie @Cuilin I should preface it with when I was 30 years younger I read it with a really cute man and we said we would grow up and be in our beds me reading him listening…. And we are. Okay that‘s puke worthy sap -I know 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️😅😊🤭 4d

Cuilin @TheBookHippie Actually that‘s quite beautiful. I wish you more years of bed + book reading together. 🩷 4d

TheBookHippie @Cuilin ♥️ 4d

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie That's absolutely wonderful! 😍 4d

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Davidtk20

The Greatest Evil is War | Chris Hedges

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Hedges in this book, exposes the underbelly of war by revealing its futility, reckless abandon, and senseless destruction. There is no real point to it. A few soulless ghouls may profit, but the vast majority are left with broken and devastated lives. Peace, love, diplomacy, and a respect for humanity offer simple, powerful alternatives to the problems manufactured by the power-hungry.

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ChrisBohjalian

Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death | Kurt Vonnegut

At least once a season, I read or re-read a classic.

BiblioLitten I started doing that this year. Read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I read it back in 2006-07. It hits differently and I like it way more! 6d

Sarahreadstoomuch It‘s been years since I‘ve read this, and instantly the visions of the firebombing scene came right back. (edited) 6d

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Cuilin

Carve Her Name With Pride | R J Minney

#CharacterCharm @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Spy

I saw this movie as a child when I was too young to fully understand it. The book is based on the true story of SOE agent Violette Szabo who was executed by the SS in 1945.

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1w

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keithmalek

Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo | Louise Callaghan

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When ISIS took over Mosul, a small zoo was left abandoned. This book chronicles one man's heroic effort to save the animals who were left behind. It also describes in vivid detail what it's like to have your city occupied by a bunch of jack-booted thugs, (the type of jack-booted thugs that college kids are now such big fans of when they cheer for Hamas).
#2025Book30

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All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque

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I read this in school years ago and decided to re-read it for #192025

My son tells me this was the first book the Nazis banned and I can see why. This book showed what war was like very realistically. Heartbreaking.

Librarybelle

Tamra So very, very heartbreaking and real. 😔 2w

Librarybelle I still think about this book after all of these years…I too read it in school. 2w

KAO I did not read this in school, and it was on my TBR list for ages until I finally read it about five years ago at the age of 60! And wow! It made a huge impact on me. I also highly recommend the 2022 film version. Both the book and this film were so powerful! 2w

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readingjedi

Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres

Sat in a beach bar, trying to read, but I keep getting distracted...🇬🇷♥️🇬🇷

Ruthiella Understandable! 🤩 2w

wildwoodreads You can‘t beat that view 😍 2w

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FelipeChapulaS

For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway

“In politics, the first thing is to continue to exist.” (EH, FWTBT pg. 284)

“As long as there is one of us, there is both of us.” (EH, FWTBT pg. 463)

Lindy

War on Gaza | Joe Sacco

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Comics journalist Joe Sacco criticizes American complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza powerfully and without compromise. The images are so distressing that I won‘t show examples here on Litsy. The instalments collected in this volume are available on The Comics Journal website, to see for yourself.

https://www.tcj.com/the-war-on-gaza-1-26-24/

Cathythoughts 💔 3w

Lindy @Cathythoughts Recently, I was comparing which books that I had rated 5 stars had the highest ratings on Goodreads. The top book has a 4.66 rating, with 10,759 readers responding. It is

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Cathythoughts Yes and the title says it all. But it will be too late for so many. 💔 Still, raising awareness 👏🏻❤️❤️ (edited) 3w

Lindy @Cathythoughts 💔💔💔 3w

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