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Joseph Meyer

Book review: I finished reading Notes To John by Joan Didion, a series of summary notes she wrote about her therapy sessions with a focus on her relationship with her adopted daughter. Its coverage of adoption, personality disorders, depression, and substance use hit close to home for me. I would not recommend it to anyone who feels fragile around those topics. But, I did gain some insights by eavesdropping on Joan’s therapy sessions. Yes, some have raised the question of whether it was unethical to publish her notes. But at least one reviewer argued the way she left the notes suggested that she expected them to be read after her death.
#Books #Reading #Adoption #JoanDidion #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Psychology #Psychiatry #Depression #PersonalityDisorder #SubstanceUseDisorder

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Alina Leonova

Oops, I kind of forgot about social media for a while. Read a few books in the meantime. One was The Bride of the Blue Wind by Victoria Coddard. It was more like a fairytale than anything else. Pretty short (novella length), characters that are mere symbols without depth, struggles that are overcome within one sentence of description. Pretty interesting but not my cup of tea, so I won’t be continuing the series. 1/
#reading #books #bookstodon

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Blair
For this week’s #ThursdayBooksandBeer I’m escaping Melbourne’s wintry weather and mentally travelling to Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, the setting for Theft, the new novel by Nobel Prize-winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. This is the third of his novels I’ve read and I’d as captivating at the first two. It’s accompanied by a Radical Hazy IPA from the team at Bodriggy in Abbotsford. “His one redeeming quality for Raya was his ability to tell stories. Those stories had charmed her childhood.” #literature #reading #nobelprize #craftbeer
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Hawksquill

Book 12 of 2025

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

4.5 stars

I was excited to read an alternative retelling of Cortés's first meeting with Moctezuma, and it ended up being completely different from what I expected in the best way. Well-researched and immersive like traditional historical fiction, but modern in prose and postmodern in construction. What surprised me most was how funny it was. In some ways it felt more like a 21st century dark satirical comedy film than a book set in the 16th century. (I couldn't get The Death of Stalin out of my head as I was reading).

It wasn't what I expected, but it was a psychedelic delight from start to finish. The prose is so unique and the jokes are so subtle that I'd love to test out my Spanish skills by reading Enrigue's original text. Maybe a goal to work up to.

@bookstodon #Bookstodon #Books #BookReview #Reading #AmReading

The cover of You Dreamed of Empires. Neon green and blue swirls in a psychedelic circular pattern. At the middle of the central circle is the front half of a brown horse in motion.
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Ronsboy67

Finished my #JaneAusten #Reading with #NorthangerAbbey - VERY funny in places, especially early on & some insightful asides about women & their treatment, as in the screenshot it did enough to ensure it did not come in last in my affections. My rankings and #StoryGraph ratings #bookstodon @bookstodon

RE-READ CERTAIN
1. Persuasion 4.75/5
2. Mansfield Park 4.75/5

RE-READ POSSIBLE
3. Pride and Prejudice 4.25/5
4. Sense and Sensibility 4/5

ONCE WAS ENOUGH
5. Northanger Abbey 4/5
6. Emma 3.5/5

A quote from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, as follows The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all
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