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Shawn is 37% done with The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
Maybe I am just saturated with too much fantasy too much magical stuff, I just finished the book where chimpanzees and dolphins could talk maybe I need to get back to some realistic reading?
Nov 15, 2022 11:36AM Add a comment
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

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Shawn is on page 40 of 448 of The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran
Gosh, what really stands out is all of the killing of brothers fathers and sons, but overall, this book has started out with it, with son, very important themes and points of understanding upon which to comprehend the progression of Iranian history, namely, that succession has always been a problem, and also that the territory is wide and fast and difficult to administer and control
Nov 12, 2022 11:04AM Add a comment
The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

Shawn
Shawn is on page 100 of 264 of The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di
I have to put this on hold for a few weeks because there was someone waiting for this, randomly, at my local library, and I had hoped to slowly nibble on and enjoy this as a sort of morning self-help wake up treat, but now I gotta have all that interrupted because there was a line for this book! This so old book!
Nov 12, 2022 10:04AM Add a comment
The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di

Shawn
Shawn is on page 32 of 448 of The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran
This history text will take a while but it’s definitely of authoritative stature and I’ll be 5-starring it for its completeness.
Nov 11, 2022 11:10AM Add a comment
The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

Shawn
Shawn is 85% done with We Are Satellites
Dang, kudos to the author for illustrating how a functioning family can turn into a dysfunctional famiky.
Nov 10, 2022 10:58AM Add a comment
We Are Satellites

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Shawn is 74% done with We Are Satellites
Lol Pinsker has A way of justifying devices, in this case, pills, but the oversaturation and noise pollution of electronics everywhere
Nov 09, 2022 01:50PM Add a comment
We Are Satellites

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Shawn is 54% done with We Are Satellites
Yes! When it’s done right it is an ennobling thing. Most writers, when describing a black person who just say the black guy did this for that whatever, but this writer records some respect and sensitivity to description, B for black person etc. A small thing, but a world of difference. Because most of America is white writers usually make no special occasion to describe a white person only exceptions (blacks et al
Nov 09, 2022 10:45AM Add a comment
We Are Satellites

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Shawn is 40% done with Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
You forget sometimes how bizarre this all this! Talking dolphins & monkeys, ancient ET beings__
Nov 08, 2022 10:11PM Add a comment
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

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