orual

aspiring renaissance woman ⳩

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Books that helped me understand Till We Have Faces better:
- The Four Loves
- Confessions
- The Weight of Glory
- Phaedrus
- Symposium
- Consolation of Philosophy
- Metamorphoses/Golden Ass
- De Deo Socratis (Apuleius)
- A Grief Observed

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@paolini There's no real word for 'yes' in Latin and it works great.

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@EmmaRSotomayor If you were in my area I would join your book club!

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@BeckyTheChicken Eugenides??

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@NickJFuentes All humans need sustenance to survive, actually

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@LemonCreekPress I went to a great non-denominational wedding this weekend which was very much not focused on the couple.

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@ChannelingEmmaG @wontfindme @laracroftbarbie Sorry, misunderstood! I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on his literary merit then?

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@ChannelingEmmaG @wontfindme @laracroftbarbie I guess if you don't like Tolkien I understand your perspective, and that's fine.

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@ChannelingEmmaG @wontfindme @laracroftbarbie You're totally entitled to that opinion, with which I disagree, but I think classics are more defined by their enduring quality and widespread success than by individuals' judgment of them

[William Weedon @WmWeedon]

Blessed be the holy Trinity and the undivided Unity! Let us give glory to Him because He has shown His mercy to us!

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@ChannelingEmmaG @wontfindme @laracroftbarbie Who defines your canon? I think Tolkien at least will endure hundreds more years, though I'm totally willing to concede that he is a 'modern classic' who still needs the testing of more generations to be proved on the level of Austen or Tolstoy.

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@HellenicEchoes Sadly probably C because of Samos and Dimitsana (is Dimitsana in C?). But I would sorely miss A.

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@Funk_fu749 @laracroftbarbie young adult novels are generally better for people than adult erotica

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@Funk_fu749 @carotaregood @TheJoshGill @laracroftbarbie I vaguely know this guy (we went to the same college) so I can assure you he has read much more than just YA novels

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@moyinis @laracroftbarbie The best books are enjoyable by children and adults

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@JasonLepojarvi I hope so

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@Crystal_Cruiser @ChannelingEmmaG @laracroftbarbie no I think classics means good books tested by time

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@ChannelingEmmaG @wontfindme @laracroftbarbie Classics aren't bound by genre

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@EmmaRSotomayor Yeah it's hard. I liked Story of the World when I was young. I have not yet read an American history textbook that I love. I read a good one on the Reformation. I really need to learn more about medieval & Renaissance Europe as well as non-Western history sometime soon!

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@coltraneist @AntigoneJournal That is so much more readable!