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eclecticreading

Joined February 2016

Reader, writer, coffee drinker, blogger. Poetry collections SHALL I BE A POET INSTEAD? and OF FROST AND FURY available now!
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All Our Wrong Todays | Elan Mastai
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Someone please convince me to continue reading this? Does it get better? Because I‘m several chapters in now and I‘m not so sure... #currentlyreading

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The Fall of Gondolin | J. R. R. Tolkien
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Finally reading this book ❤️📖 #currentlyreading #middleearth #Christmasbreak

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Journey to Armenia | Osip Mandelstam
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A bit of #nonfiction to my #currentlyreading 😊📚

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When the book you‘re reading reflects a conversation you had with a friend #currentlyreading #poetry

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This week on my blog (eclectictales.insanitysandwich.com/blog) I reviewed the first two books of the Queens of Renthia trilogy. The worldbuilding is fascinating and I found book two much stronger than the first one. Definitely looking forward to reading the final book in the trilogy! #bookbloggers

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The Queen of Blood | Sarah Beth Durst
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The story is interesting as is the world but some elements of it are kind of meh, namely the school setting and the Hunger Games-like trials 🤷🏻‍♀️ If you‘re into those elements, cool. Me, not so much. But anyway...#currentlyreading

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I‘m really enjoying this book right now, the ideas are cohesive around idea of national identity and memory using artefacts and ideas, and I‘m just learning a lot about German history 😊 #currentlyreading #nonfiction

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Poems | Wystan Hugh Auden, Edward Mendelson
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Happy October! #currentlyrereading this classic 😊 (and this edition is gorgeous 😍)

JordanGraft Awesome cover! 6y
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My expression as I‘m reading this book #currentlyreading

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My transit reading 😆📖 #currentlyreading #nonfiction

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I may no longer be a history & political science student but you can‘t take the history & political science out of this girl 😉 Intrigued to see what he says about the current state of affairs #toread #nonfiction

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Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman
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Just started reading this as I wait for my lecture hall to open 📖 #currentlyreading

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The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems | Honor Moore, Paul Schmidt, Catherine Ciepiela
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By Marina Tsvetaeva. Sorry for the odd angle of the photo, I‘m lying in bed and it‘s hard to juggle the phone and holding the book upright 😅📖 #currentlyreading

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Finally got around to picking up the last book in the trilogy after watching CRAZY RICH ASIANS earlier his week (loved it! Review up on my blog now) 😄📚 #toread

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Took me a while to figure out what to read next on my TBR pile but here we go 😊📖 #currentlyreading

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The Ludwig Conspiracy | Oliver Ptzsch, Pia Gtz
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I‘m finally off from work (for two days, but anyway) so I can do things like read a book 😅 #currentlyreading

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The White Russian | Vanora Bennett
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DNF. I‘m usually all for novels featuring any aspect of Russian history and culture but after 4 chapters, the book just did not pique my interest or compel me to read on. I may pick it up again in the future but for now I have other books on my TBR I‘d rather turn to 🤷🏻‍♀️

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It‘s finally picking up(-ish), thank God #currentlyreading

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Still Water | Amy Stuart
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I need the next book in my life, stat! This book was so so so so good, highly recommend it 👍🏻

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😂😂😂 Omg I think I'm going to have fun with this book #currentlyreading

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Before the Fall | Noah Hawley
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Wasn't sure how i felt about the set-up but in the end I found myself wholly engrossed by the story and finding out what exactly happened. Not sure how I feel about the reveal in the end but all in all I enjoyed reading the book 😊

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Omg and now I want a new Bridgertons series featuring Gregory & Lucy's children ❤️

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Finally got my hands on this book! Looking forward to reading it 💙 #toberead #allsoulstrilogy

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Reading the last of the Bridgertons books! I'm not ready! 😭📖 #currentlyreading

EloisaJames There are the new prequels?? They‘re fun too 6y
eclecticreading @EloisaJames That‘s true! I‘ve only read the first book in the prequel series so catching up will be something to look forward to 😊 6y
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It's In His Kiss | Julia Quinn
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Yaaaah, the annual Smythe-Smith musicale! Loved that quartet, maybe a re-read of that series is in order 🤔📖 #currentlyreading

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Okay, am checking out this book (the tv show trailer intrigued me) #currentlyreading

sprainedbrain Love love love that book series! Also, Zack Morris looks super hot in the trailer. 😂 6y
eclecticreading @sprainedbrain Glad to hear you enjoyed the series! Am slowly reading through the first book as I‘m reading it whenever I‘m on break at work but it‘s pretty intriguing so far 🤔 6y
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Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
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I brought this book with me when I went on holiday the last two weeks to Portugal but didn‘t get far (too busy sightseeing and journalling lol 👍🏻). Oops 😳

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Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders
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It‘s pretty interesting so far 👍🏻📖 #currentlyreading

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Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford
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That‘s all there is to it then, eh? 😅 #currentlyreading

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Poems | Anne Michaels
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#currentlyreading her earlier poetry 😊❤️📖 #poetry #CanLit

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Sometimes I‘m in the mood for reading about economics 😁 #currentlyreading

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Sounds like a very Canadian convention to me 😂😂😂 #currentlyreading

LeahBergen 😂😂 6y
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I've found something of a kindred spirit in Pierre Elliot Trudeau (as if I didn't consider him enough of a badass) 😊😎 #currentlyreading

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Notes on Nationalism | George Orwell
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Regrammed from my instagram: Timely now as it was when it was first written 👍🏻 Can‘t believe I didn‘t read this when I was in grad school 🤔📖 #currentlyreading #nonfiction #penguinmodernclassics

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All We Saw: Poems | Anne Michaels
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Finally got my hands on this book ❤️ #currentlyreading #nationalpoetrymonth #canlit

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Happy #TolkienReadingDay! Despite of how busy I am this year I‘m slowly re-reading The Lord of the Rings again ❤️ Here‘s my Tolkien Reading Day post on my blog: http://eclectictales.insanitysandwich.com/blog/2018/03/25/tolkien-reading-day-6/

JazzFeathers Great blog! I agree that the appreciating for Hobbits comes over time, since they're qualities are not as apparent as those of more 'usual' heroes. 6y
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Samarkand | Kate Clanchy
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Re-reading this book ❤️ #currentlyrereading #poetry

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Hero and Leander | Christopher Marlowe
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Happy Valentine‘s Day! Some Christopher Marlowe for all of you 😁✨💝

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French Love Poems | New Directions
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This poem also stands out for me rereading this book a second time ❤️ #currentlyrereading #InTranslation #poetry

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French Love Poems | New Directions
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One of my favourite poems from this collection ❤️ #currentlyrereading #InTranslation #poetry

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Heart of the City | Robert Rotenberg
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This is just so Canadian 😂😂😂 #currentlyreading

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Iceland's Bell | Halldor Laxness
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Finally starting to read this book ❤️ The first page has me intrigued 🤔 #currentlyreading

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An illuminating read from a fantastic author 👍🏻 #nonfiction #nobellecture

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A Winter Scandal | Candace Camp
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Not despising them, but I experienced something close to this this year. Talk about timing that this quote popped up 🤔 #currentlyreading #historicalromance

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Of Frost and Fury | Lianne M Bernardo
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My second poetry collection, OF FROST AND FURY, is just about out (lol, I saw the listings on Amazon.com & Barnes and Noble—others to follow soon)! This collection features poetry I wrote and photography I took while I was on holiday in Iceland earlier this year 🇮🇸❤️ #poetry

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Hogfather | Terry Pratchett
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Regrammed from my Instastory but thanks so much for the gift & card, @Aims42 ! 📬📦🎁 #litsypenpal #discworld

Aims42 Yay!!! The post office told me you should get it by the 15th, glad you got it before then 😃 I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for being a great pen pal ❤️ 6y
eclecticreading @Aims42 Haha it‘s always great to know that packages arrive sooner than the post office‘s estimated date 😆 Thanks so much again! 💙 6y
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Selected Poems | Giuseppe Ungaretti, Andrew Frisardi
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Chapterhouse: Dune | Frank Herbert
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Finally reading the last book in the original Dune series! 😄📖 #currentlyreading #scifi #sciencefiction #RRSciFiMonth