#Colleen McCullough

[catoswound]

good morning mr marius. do you believe this heterosexual

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[enlitment]

Don't worry, as someone who's all over the place, I got you!

30. How many books do you have on your 'currently-reading' list?

Ugh, let's see. This will be helpful for me as well!

There's:

Plato's Symposium (though I'll most likely finish that today or tomorrow)

The Last Nights of Ventôse by Stanisława Przybyszewska (big thank you to @hhorror-vacuii for the English translation!)

Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety (I'm quite far into it but I've been sort of savouring it? Idk even)

Ruth Scurr's Maximilien Robespierre: Fatal Purity (I've made a commitment that I WILL see it through!)

Also on the list (though I've only leafed through them at this point so I'm not sure if it counts, but they are next in line!)

5. Machiavelli's The Prince 6. Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars (not just for the memes, I promise)

7. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian 8. need to get into Colleen Mccullough as well at some point 9. Robert Darnton has published a book about the French Revolution apparently? The Revolutionary Temper: Paris 1748 - 1789. Also need to get my hands on it! 10. Tanith Lee's The Gods Are Thirsty because I require a Camille-centred book in my life.

oh, and I need to read Marat/Sade before I see it on Tuesday. Apparently it's a good idea to do it in order to get what's going on on the stage?

So we're looking at at least four that I'm actually currently reading, and at least seven others that I'm dying to read. Hope this helps OP :'D

@18thcenturythirsttrap would love to hear about yours TBR pile as well!

[lifeinbooks]

Savršenstvo u bilo čemu je nepodnošljivo dosadno. Ja, osobno, mnogo više cijenim trunku nesavršenosti.

[whilereadingandwalking]

I reread The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough on the plane ride to Sydney, trying my best to hurry through the second half as I lagged somewhat through it, finally finishing it on our first day in wet, hot Queensland. I saw sugarcane fields and galahs and saw a plaque to McCullough on a Sydney poet's walk.

This book continues to be good, compelling, and difficult to put down, a really rooted family epic of station living, sheep, the tragic turns of life, and the awe and terror of nature. On reread it was much harder to ignore Ralph's grooming of Meggie: it is explicit and clear, and Ralph tortures himself plenty about what it means for him as a priest but little about her comparative youth. So I think it's safe to say that readers should be well-prepared for the primary romance of the novel to be a problematic one of grooming and an imbalanced age gap, framed as a "pure" star-crossed romance.

Still, the book, particularly its front half, is intensely powerful as a family epic. The characters feel dense and real. I've always been minorly unimpressed by the last chunk, and believe it could have ended much earlier and felt more satisfying. But I loved reading once again about the difficult life of this huge farm, the twists and turns of fortune, the flinty steel within Meggie and her mother. It's a rich, big family epic that I enjoyed on reread—and I should say, the twists took me just as much by surprise this time around.

Content warnings: grooming, age-gap relationship, body horror, child death, misogyny, animal death, violence.

[ravencromwell]

Cannot adequately express how much I am preening like a well-stroked cat over art history prof just ever-so-casually going: btw, you know your paper is grad school symposium level, right? Me inwardly: The Fuck? No dude, I did not! in fact know I was doing that well in my EXTREMELY visual very undergrad! intro to historical art, but I sure as shit do *now* sure make my fucking semester on a Sunday night.

me outwardly trying desperately for a semblance of cool in reply to this e-mail: that's very nice to hear I've had an excellent professor of course.

[seianusfanboy]

this was FOUL !!! ...proof?

[ghostwithwings]

Yep, I'm not dead, only drowning in the ten thousand books and consequential thousand fandoms I should be at the same moment.

[litandlifequotes]

I did it all to myself, I have no one else to blame. And I cannot regret one single moment of it.

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

[himekasza]

literally me after finishing The Thorn Birds:

[cocrante]

I'm reading a "new" book -The Song of Troy- and I'm already laughing out loud at the first page where it talks about the construction of Troy's walls: Zeus, to please his beloved mortal son, sent those two lazy gods, Poseidon and Apollo, to build the walls. But Apollo had just gotten a manicure ahahahah so he ended up playing the lyre while Poseidon did all the work.

Now I understand why a god asked to be paid

[catoswound]

dont know what to say anymore

[mzannthropy]

Fun fact: Colleen McCullough (of Thorn Birds fame) wrote a book titled The Ladies of Missalonghi, which so closely resembles The Blue Castle that she was accused of plagiarism.

[descreverte]

"Não há ambição nobre o bastante para justificar ter partido o coração de alguém."

Colleen McCullough

[carmenhorrendum]

Reading Masters of Rome is a constant struggle for me. Like. I really try not to develop a crush on Sulla because he is officially A Terrible Person, but with each page it feels like I'm loosing this mind game.....

[d3mon-ology]

Prologue from THE THORN BIRDS by Colleen McCullough