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📙#38/100 'Northern Lights' by @PhilipPullman

What an incredible story, and what a treat to read it as a 29 year old who just moved to Oxford!

I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy, they're already in the post 👌
📙#39/100 Issue 233 of the
@parisreview

It's great to read ~250 pages of words by people I've never heard of, and to be introduced to ideas and works outside my usual scope.

I particularly enjoyed 'Violets' by @Bud_Smith & 'The Juggler's Wife' by Emily Hunt Kivel in issue 233.
📙#40/100 'Nine Lives' by @DalrympleWill

Impartial & articulate look at sacred vs profane in India. Most fascinating are insights into how religion can underpin unequal social structures, or be the vehicle through which they are legitimately, albeit temporarily, scorned.
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#28 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This book asks profound questions about 'home', about what cultures expect - or demand - of people born into or outside of them, and how the backdrops of our lives can define the things we value, notice, and think about most.
#29 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien

A perfect adventure with gold, dragons, goblins, wizards, magic, peril, treasure, and morals. I wish I'd had this read to me as a kid because the various songs and scrapes lend themselves perfectly to that.

Book and author are both badass. Image
#30 'The Eden Express' by Mark #Vonnegut

An eloquent & deeply human account of his descent into psychotic mania, two relapses, and eventual long-term health.

A @nytimesbooks review nailed it: "Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside." Image
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