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[stormbreaker-290]

GOODMORING BESTIE BEDTIE BESITE!!!

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[olameni]

Presently reading.

I have reached the point of my life where I'm reading a book in the effort to properly orient myself to think clearly about another book i'd like read.

[kwebtv]

Vanessa Knox-Mawer as Sarah Palmer and Jim Davidson as Jim London in "Home James!"

[mariastadnicka]

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

[kupwaratimes-fan]

Prominent religious personality Abdul Khaliq Pir of Kutlari Mawer passes away

Prominent religious personality Abdul Khaliq Pir of Kutlari Mawer passes away Funeral prayers to be held at 11:30am Handwara Oct 04: A renowned religious scholar, Abdul Khaliq Pir (85) passed away on Wednesday morning after brief illness. According to the family source, The Funeral possession of the deceased will be held at 11:30am in his native village Kutlari Mawer in district Kupwara. He was…

[booksandwinter]

★★★★ to Ancestry by Simon Mawer

[lesparaversdemillina]

C'est Lundi, que Lisez-vous ? N°285

Cher.e.s voyageur.e.s, Comme tous les lundi, c’est l’heure du “C’est lundi que lisez-vous” je vous présente mes lectures passées, présentes et peut-être futurs. Ce rendez-vous a été mis en place par Galleane et repris par moi. Je suis heureuse d’être responsable de ce rendez-vous. Je curieuse de voir vos reprises, lectures passées, présentes et à venir :D. C’est lundi par le menuJE RÉPONDS…

[rodspurethoughts]

Miss Florida & Social Media Star Talk Influence, Expansion and Philanthropy

New Podcast Episode of “Living the Red Life” Features Lindsay Bettis TAMPA, Fla. (Newswire.com) – Lindsay Bettis, the reigning Miss Florida, was recently a visitor at Mawer Capital’s headquarters where she recorded an episode for the “Living The Red Life” podcast. The “Living The Red Life” podcast episode featuring Miss Florida, Lindsay Bettis, as a guest is scheduled to air in February and…

[i-got-the-feels]

Do you know what all I have given up to come this far?

- My Name,2021

Quotes by Simon Mawer | Krish | Arundhati Roy | Ishmael Beah | Krish | Ottessa Moshfegh | John Darnielle | Sheniz Janmohamed | Krish

( krish - My writings are the parts used to connect these quotes)

As far as I am concerned, the show ended on the beach scene. P. S my analysis on their relationship and the impact he had on her

[ceridwyn2]

Trailer for “The Affair”, based on Simon Mawer’s novel, “The Glass Room”. Starring Carice van Houton and Hanna Alström.

Description: Wealthy newlyweds Liesel and Viktor have enlisted a famous architect to build them a new home which becomes the talk of 1930s Czechoslovakia. Liesel's friend Hana is nursing seemingly unrequited romantic feelings for her pal, while Viktor is caught in the act with nanny Kata. On the eve of Nazi invasion, Liesel and Viktor flee to neutral Switzerland with their two children. Almost immediately, Liesel misses her friend and realizes her feelings were more than platonic.

[sapphorrific]

summer book diary 2023

this is just my general big post about books i read this summer plus a bit of my thoughts! a bit like my personal goodreads comment section exept other peoples bad takes only make me angry. if i ever have a take that makes you angry im really sorry:(

june

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | my first venture into the genre of magical realism! fun and whimsical but not only that! the writing and story structure was just captivating and as someone who normally does not resonate with religious themes in the context of this book being written by a Soviet author, it felt natural and magical indeed, an act of rebellion against a totalitarian regime.

A little life by Hanya Yanagihara | i feel like this was falsely advertised to me as 'a booktok book about traumatized college friends that makes you cry' and i cannot stress how much this book was not that. i mean there was a group of college friends but the story focused mainly on only one of them. they did have trauma but i never expected the ammount of it. and i did cry a little bit once but i mostly felt angry. and i absoluthely understand why is it so controversial among people since i dont think anything can prepare you for experiencing a little life in its 600 page entirety. my feelings about this book are extremely mixed, on one hand i dont regret picking it up however i never want to read it again. the book felt like how i imagine watching a child torture small animals feels. absolute psychological warfare of a text. if you are sensitive to any sort of triggers i recommend looking them up before you read this. i do not want to label it as 'problematic' or say it was overall bad tho. it really did make me feel strong emotions and i think it really captured the helplessness and complicated emotions of watching someone close to you really struggle and refuse to get help. it does explore the themes of abuse, illness and addiction but also friendship, found family and love. also everyone who read this and went ah yes this is a hurt/comfort gay love story literally what is wrong with you how do you read this book and proceed to go make moodboards

july

Prague Spring by Simon Mawer | i feel like this book would be a better experience if i knew next to nothing about prague spring since it is written by a british author about events taking place in czechoslovakia in the 60's from a point of view of two young british hitchhikers and a british diplomat. so i really felt like im not the target audience here. the decision to tell the story from the point of view of foreigners was an interesting one, however i also had to witness with my own two eyes how the author described czech women. the brithish female characters are described as dainty and traditionally beautiful but the czech women always had a 'square slavic jawline' or an uneven face or something. the characters overall felt flat and the plot itself was not well executed since it essentially ended with the invasion of czechoslovakia and the evacuation of the main characters back to the uk. the book laid a heavy focus on the romantic relationships of the characters which, since the characters were one dimensional, felt one dimensional as well. a very mediocre experience for me, if you want to learn about the prague spring and are a foreigner maybe this would be of value for you but, i would probably not suggest you read this

Another Country | James Baldwin even though i did learn about american classic literature in high school, unfortunately my high school (and the czech curriculum in itself i think) does not put much emphasis on classic literature written by afroamerican writers so i have never really heard of james baldwin until i saw someone recommend this in a youtube video and honestly loved it! it really had all the things i was hoping it would have, the complexity, nuance, incredible characters who feel like living breathing people and last but not least the atmosphere of new york in the 50's and early 60's. definitely the kind of book i would read multiple times and this is not the last time i read something by james baldwin either. really recommend!

The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood quite uncomfortable to read but that was obviously the point. nevertheless, read it in one day since it was very hard to put down. i liked that it did not shy away from showing women actively participating in keeping other women in a patriarchal society in check. what i found a little limiting about handmaids tale is the lack of incorporating racial dynamics into what was essentially a dystopia based on the control of womens bodies, eugenics and religion which of course affect women of color differently than white women, therefore in that direction the book felt a little one dimensional. still i feel that its an important book to read

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | oh boy heres when the unpopular opinions come i really thought this book was very mid. a fine beach read you pick up at the airport to read on a holiday but i feel that its a little overrated. the story focused of a journalist interviewing a fictional holywood actress at the end of her eventful life, and it promised me an unpolished view of complicated womans life. i felt like i was already reading the published biography the main objective of which was for me to still like evelyn hugo and fondly remember her legacy as a beloved movie star even though she does not even exist. i feel like the choice to tell a story of a fictional celebrity provides a way to really delve into the rotten world of hollywood and show its ugly uncomfortable side. shows like bojack horseman or hacks take advantage of this. but i dont think this book attempts to do this in any shape or form. sure, she admits to doing one extremely fucked up thing which affects the journalist interviewing her very personally. but this is just the way to tie the plot neatly together and is not really explored in depth or properly dealt with. there is also the question whether we as a reader can trust evelyn hugos account of her own life, as she is the only one alive to tell it. i feel like seven husbands of evelyn hugo had a lot of potential, which it ultimately did not deliver on for me. if mild enrichment is the kind of book you want to go for rn i think it serves a purpose in that way

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russel | as much as evelyn hugo did not deliver my dark vanessa deliveredd!! a really captivating story of a imperfect victim of child abuse within a teacher student relationship. really shows how this kind of experience can haunt a person their entire life even if they refuse to believe they are not a victim in the first place. even though it covers a difficult subject, it really does go through the whole process of denial and acceptance so it does not leave a reader absoluthely hopeless and it does feel like the author did her research and did not write this as a sort of traumaporn but with care for the victims of this kind of abuse.

august

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | i was inspired to read lolita (and my dark vanessa for that matter) after listening to the lolita podcast by jamie loftus which really felt like a good introduction before reading lolita itself as it covers not only the book but lolita as a cultural phenomenon by which i mean everything from the movies to the tumblr nymfette/coquette subculture. it gives a great context for the story and i really recommend listening to this podcast first as it helped me to better navigate the book as someone who did not know that much about it prior. it really is a complex multilayered text with a great ammount of references, anagrams and double meanings, there is an unreliable narrator manipulating you with his stunning flowery language and seemingly self aware sarcastic humor and on top of that it is a book about child abuse. so it really is a lot. still an unforgettable experience, had to rush through it as it made me sick to my stomach, truly an icredible read. kudos to the czech publishers for the new cover design of the book its really beautiful and honors the authors wishes.

[bamboomusiclist]

12/9 おはようございます。Benny Carter / Cosmopolite mgn1070等更新しました。

Benny Carter / Cosmopolite mgn1070Chet Baker Russ Freeman / Quartet Pj1232VA / Melody Of Love MHK33-1232Shorty Rogers / Martians Come Back 1232Gerry Mulligan / I Want to Live Uas5006Herb Ellis / the Midnight Roll Ba17034Paul Griffin / The Swingin’ Sound Of Soul sas-606Lamont Dozier / Right There bs2029Asphalt Jungle / Freakin’ Time #765Esso Trinidad Steel Band / July1971 Ws1917Anthony Mawer /…

[olameni]

Finished.

The text introduces the reader to the foundational concepts of (broadly speaking ofc) African cosmology, metaphysics, and epistemology.

It is written in academic which can get confusing and make reading this text a slog. particularly as Mawere is rather floral with his words. Mercifully the text is pretty short. Overall his argument is that Africans should take more pride in their indigenous ways and champion what they offer to the philosophy. Citing that the lack of attention is a product of colonization and ethnocentric bias against Africans.

To write this book Mawere has to walk this tightrope to advocate for African systems of knowledge and metaphysics while also contending with what we have been able to discover through science. Mawere does this well when he rightly critiques science's ability to confirm or falsify metaphysical truths as well as its purported neutrality. He does this less well when he makes the claim that there is evidence of witchcraft all over Africa. While I appreciate this as apart of the goal to not see these things as merely cultural asides as opposed to sources of truth, but when you say something like that you gotta evidence it.

3.75 out of 5 stars

[kwebtv]

Home James! - ITV - July 1, 1987 - July 23, 1990

Sitcom (25 Episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Jim Davidson as Jim London

George Sewell as Robert Palmer

Harry Towb as Henry Compton

Vanessa Knox-Mawer as Sarah Palmer

Sherrie Hewson as Paula

Cecilia-Marie Carreon as Connie

Owen Whittaker as Terry

[mariastadnicka]

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and…

[kupwaratimes-fan]

Nowgam Brigade organise International Democracy Day in Mawer Valley

Nowgam Brigade organise International Democracy Day in Mawer Valley Handwara Sep 15: International Democracy is celebrated to honour the principles of democracy and commemorate the struggles and sacrifices made to secure and sustain democratic governance. With a vision of honouring the principles and essence of Democracy, an event was organised at Chinar 9 Jawan Club, Nowgam which witnessed…