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Aug 25, 2012
☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
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Home, sweet home. Another read (and a multiple reread) from the young old me. A multifold lovely story with so much folded into just one book.
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The hero of the dangerous novel that had so influenced his life had himself had this curious fancy. In a chapter of the book he tells how, crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him and the fluteplayer mocked th ...more
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The hero of the dangerous novel that had so influenced his life had himself had this curious fancy. In a chapter of the book he tells how, crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him and the fluteplayer mocked th ...more
I read it a long time ago (in my teens) so I plan to do a reread this year. I can't wait.
***reread 2017***
I can't believe how much I've enjoyed reading this amazing classic. I loved everything about it. It was pure perfection from beginning to end. I can see myself rereading this again and again. ...more
***reread 2017***
I can't believe how much I've enjoyed reading this amazing classic. I loved everything about it. It was pure perfection from beginning to end. I can see myself rereading this again and again. ...more
This is something I never read in school, so because it is a classic I am glad I finally read it. However, I had to keep reminding myself that it was first published in 1890 because of the infuriating beliefs of the men in the story. I might have even thrown my book against the wall at one point after page upon page of men spouting nonsense about male superiority. Lord Henry thinks women could never be geniuses and are merely decorative objects. Dorian Gray falls in love with an actress, but aft
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Candy
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