I love it! ♥️ Brilliant as always. For me, all the church indoctrination dogma as a child about burning in an eternal fire for this, that and the other thing was just a cognitive punt to keep everyone in line with fear. It definitely worked (obviously not for long). Hahaha.
@Karen would be fantastic for you to join us! We both bought the book. Here is the full list on the author's website: https://www.1000bookstoread.com/
We're starting with Great Expectations because I had just bought it before we got The Big Idea and neither of us have read it (shame!).
Here are the author's notes on Great Expectations from 1000 Books to Read:
"More nuanced and darker in mood than David Copperfield, Great Expectations is its author’s deepest working of the terrain of childhood and the fears and fates that spring from it. Anchored in a Kentish village, around which the years and events of the complicated plot will revolve, the book returns Dickens to his native ground in search not of autobiographical details, but of the familiar spirits and psychological tempers that nurtured his imagination: the injuries of class, the uncertainties of love, the snobberies of fashion, the limited purview of personal agency, the coincidence—or is it more?—that links crime and fortune, or goodness and inequity. In the end, Great Expectations is not really about expectation at all, but about regret, and as powerfully so as any book in our language."
Your question. What have you bed led to believe as a child that’s not likely true.
That the sun was dangerous.
Well turns out when utilized correctly it has huge health benefits and essentially optimizes our health.
So here’s to sunrises little mini sunshine breaks and barefoot walking on the beach
I love it! ♥️ Brilliant as always. For me, all the church indoctrination dogma as a child about burning in an eternal fire for this, that and the other thing was just a cognitive punt to keep everyone in line with fear. It definitely worked (obviously not for long). Hahaha.
Did one of you buy the book 1,000 books to read before you die? Will you post the notes on said books here? I'd love to join!
@Karen would be fantastic for you to join us! We both bought the book. Here is the full list on the author's website: https://www.1000bookstoread.com/
We're starting with Great Expectations because I had just bought it before we got The Big Idea and neither of us have read it (shame!).
Here are the author's notes on Great Expectations from 1000 Books to Read:
"More nuanced and darker in mood than David Copperfield, Great Expectations is its author’s deepest working of the terrain of childhood and the fears and fates that spring from it. Anchored in a Kentish village, around which the years and events of the complicated plot will revolve, the book returns Dickens to his native ground in search not of autobiographical details, but of the familiar spirits and psychological tempers that nurtured his imagination: the injuries of class, the uncertainties of love, the snobberies of fashion, the limited purview of personal agency, the coincidence—or is it more?—that links crime and fortune, or goodness and inequity. In the end, Great Expectations is not really about expectation at all, but about regret, and as powerfully so as any book in our language."