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At the moment, I'm struggling & about half way through "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery. It was a gift. It has good reviews, so I'm sticking with it ... but finding it difficult, partly because it is in two voices & early on it's been difficult to discern who's who, partly because the language used is IMO very complex & far outside my usual vocabulary! Now usually I would enjoy that and I love good evocative prose, but some long sentences where I'm not really on top of 40% of the words makes it hard work! Lots about grammar, language, philosophical theories, life & death ...
 
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At the moment, I'm struggling & about half way through "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery. It was a gift. It has good reviews, so I'm sticking with it ... but finding it difficult, partly because it is in two voices & early on it's been difficult to discern who's who, partly because the language used is IMO very complex & far outside my usual vocabulary! Now usually I would enjoy that and I love good evocative prose, but some long sentences where I'm not really on top of 40% of the words makes it hard work! Lots about grammar, language, philosophical theories, life & death ...
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i'm guessing its not really aboot hedgehogs, but rather aboot other things?
and its good to challenge onezself once in a while
(tho dont do it out of maschochism...those begats inna Bibble gorsh...)
 
There was one paragraph (on p 143!) about the elegance of the hedgehog - but that's about it so far! "Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside, she's covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary - and terribly elegant." So at least I found out where the title comes from!
 
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There was one paragraph (on p 143!) about the elegance of the hedgehog - but that's about it so far! "Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside, she's covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary - and terribly elegant." So at least I found out where the title comes from!
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Like the Japanese find urchins ... that delicate internal part they pay fortunes for ... now Johnathan was swift in his quick wit to write an irony on how to pass off poor street urchins by fattening them for market ... this pig-like function carried on an the trough theory reached the Huffington Group ...

In myth pigs are said to be good luck ... a self-consumptive function ... thus the fattyer goes on to higher form ... or lower depending on where the intelligence Sets ... an imaginary god from the land of Imagination in metaphor ... E gybt ide! The spin goes on ... at 93 MM Miles out from delight ... the torque is super ... something is liable to break for it ... Mithra 's ... or just mythraic ... as we ache to know the understanding ... so do ... sum don't thus the Zero Sum Rules as IC ...

IC ... an incidental light of observation passing over the blind at birth? Power of the Mother Myth ... darw it in as druid from the well ... a deep pit of dark Ness ... whorled story ...

Some oily attributes of humanity do not believe in a world view ... they can't see it ... the entire thing! Perhaps over the hills and horizons as lost?

Warped senses ...
 
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Reading short stories from the anthology The Book of Cthulhu and it's sequel. Basically, a comprehensive collection of "modern" (1970s and later) Cthulhu Mythos stories. Some great stuff. Even the ones that I have read before are ones that are worth the revisit.
 
I am reading something profound and deep and by or former Moderator, "It's Good To Be Here".

It is a heart felt look into David Giuliano's feelings as he went through all the horrors of cancer.
It changed him and he tells us how. Or at least as it is now for time will tell the rest.

I have cried and laughed, but am sad yet happiness dots the 'i' and 't's Faith in the love however hard it is to see in the depths of chemo.... I am speaking of my time in that. I was sure it would kill me. But, guess what? I didn't. It damaged my liver so adding 12 years to the five it took to heal from that. They did not tell me why I was still coming all those years
till I got after the oncologist because I was very edgy and suspicious and demanded to know.
Patronizing is never a good thing, it abuses my right to know about my own life.

I won't do chemo again, not enough time to get over it and on with more living. So quality is urgently more important.

I am still reading David's book and sometimes I have to put it down for a while. It touches way down something, not sure what. And maybe I don't need to know all that as long as it informs me as I walk the days and nights of living.
Informs my faith that God is love. I have said that before here. It touches the corner stone of the Creator's truth.

I hope some will take the chance to delve into this book. It is moving and honest. That alone speaks volumes.
Thank you David.

Blessings all as we walk into Fall and all it means.

PS .... I have attached a poem about fall and you....

Keep on loving.....
 

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Thanks for your comments SpiritWind7 - I recall reading David's blogs when he was in the midst of treatment etc. - as you say, his writing touches deep places - and I imagine so much more so for those who have taken the cancer treatment journey. David sat just behind me at GC this year - we exchanged a few comments from time to time - he surely looks fit and tanned and healthy at the moment.
 
I have a few things 'on the go' but recently was looking for a 'lighter' summer book & returned to author Laurie King - reading her 3rd book "A Letter of Mary" . I've read the first two - "The Bee Keeper's Apprentice", and "A Monstrous Regiment of Women" The prime character is a woman, Mary Russell, who in the first book is an orphaned child who meets Sherlock Holmes, become an apprentice detective ... and well, the stories continue from there, featuring Russell & Holmes. Not really 'sequel's' in the sense of plot continuing, but the characters carry over so it's helpful to read them in order. I love King's use of language, witty dialogue, good mystery elements, historic settings ... perfect for what I wanted right now.

Here's a link to her list of books with summaries - Russell & Holmes - Laurie R. King
 
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I have recommended Laurie R. King to a few folks. It is always important to read her first book in a series, whichever series you read.
I also like some of her standalone or small sets, such as Folly or A Darker Place.
 
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I have recommended Laurie R. King to a few folks. It is always important to read her first book in a series, whichever series you read.
I also like some of her standalone or small sets, such as Folly or A Darker Place.
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@Pinga - perhaps it was you in the first place who suggested this author to me!
 
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I have recommended Laurie R. King to a few folks. It is always important to read her first book in a series, whichever series you read.
I also like some of her standalone or small sets, such as Folly or A Darker Place.
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People will not look into the abstract ... the Shadow resides there! Such things could alter institutional protocol! --- Murphy's Rouel!
 
I also read "It is good to be here" this Aug. Some powerful comments-why do we "conquer" cancer, is military language the best metaphor? Laughter-telling children it was a wolf attack, mooing in the waiting room. A thoughtful well written book.
 
Reopening Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism. See how far I'll get this time lol

Interesting ideas.

Its a crying shame thanks to US gov't burning his books, a lot of his knowledge is gone forever.

*queue Easy Reader song*
 
Some say you conquer a mountain
You can also conquer a problem

Only 1 of 3 definitions is miltary.
 
I was pleased, when I opened my Library app late last week, to see that it was the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Harry Potter book. They're offering an "everybody reads" deal with no limits. So I borrowed it, and I've been re-enjoying it. Despite the dozens of un-read, more "meaningful" offerings on and around my bed and den...
 
Ordered copies of David Baldacci's Absolute Power for our book club today ... BS or allegory on powerful ergos?

Maybe, maybe not ... a job of deceit? Read it some months ago ... a grand presentation of the work of screwing around at high levels to see if the populace of god reacts with more than silence ... awed by what authority is capable of when thin-king their conscience isn't watching? Can crank a large dimension ... from where the conscience looks at wide angles?

Could be abstract ... part of the essence of mind as dark and unseen prince?

Doesn't grab the attention of most of humanity as they are in denial ... like Machiavelli way back when when the authorities said he was dark and evil ...

What do people believe? Why? It appears we don't know better ...
 
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I was pleased, when I opened my Library app late last week, to see that it was the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Harry Potter book. They're offering an "everybody reads" deal with no limits. So I borrowed it, and I've been re-enjoying it. Despite the dozens of un-read, more "meaningful" offerings on and around my bed and den...
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Wow. 20 years of Harry Potter. Little M read the series during the time the movies and the last couple books were coming out. I never got far, just the first book and the movie thereof.
 
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