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J.C.’s 2025 Year in Books
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You get to stay in front of the fire and not feel guilty.
Tulip Spring, to D. © JC Milne
This morning's poem was a belated anniversary gift to my husband (who brought me red roses and dark chocolates!). It obviously refers to more than tulips!
Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
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Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
fo Read more of this blog post »
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Ian wrote: "J.C. wrote: "I loved the review, Ian - what a contrast from your last one (about Chinese Communism). Do I have enough years left to work m
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"I’ve mentioned in other reviews that all of Thomas Hardy’s short stories are available on the Hardy Society website, and that I occasionally dip into that site to read some of them. I was prompted to choose this one after seeing the recent review of "
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
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I'm still shivering, recoiling in horror at the senseless cruelty. I hope you don't get depressed reading these terrible lessons from history. Excelle
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957:
"In publication order this is the second of Frank Dikötter’s trilogy about Maoist China, but it covers an earlier chronological period, since the others cover Mao’s Great Famine, and the Cultural Revolution.
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David wrote: "“Domination of the whim.” Such a powerful review."
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I won't need to read any more reviews of this after your thoughtful summing-up, Zed. I have always believed in the need to pursue the lessons of histo
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"Bloodlands is a superb work of scholarship for the reader that is looking to learn of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi Germany and their ally and then future enemy the Soviet Union, before, during and slightly after World War Two. The depth of "
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I like the idea of reconciliation. A moving review.
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"This novella in the first person (apparently a popular form in Japanese literature) focuses on various types of reconciliation, that with the father probably being the most obvious and the form we as readers would be likely to expect. But the most mo"
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“I have always been a man of peace. I have always denounced the man who strove to tamper with an oppressed people by any appeal to physical force. I have always said that moral force was the degree of deliberation in each man's mind which told him when submission was a duty or resistance not a crime; and that a true application of moral force would effect every change, but in case it should fail, physical force would come to its aid like an electric shock — and no man could prevent it; but that he who advised or attempted to marshal it would be the first to desert it at the moment of danger. God forbid that I should wish to see my country plunged into horrors of physical revolution. I wish her to win her liberties by peaceful means.”
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“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
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“Were women being confined yet again to that alabaster pedestal so beloved of the Victorian age, when Woman as better-than-man gave men a license to be gleefully and enjoyably worse than women, while all the while proclaiming that they couldn’t help it because it was their nature? Were women to be condemned to virtue for life, slaves in the salt-mines of goodness?”
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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“The great French historian Ernest Renan in the late 1880s denied that a nation was based on ethnicity and language or blood-and-soil nationality. His argument was that a nation consists of people who have a collective shared sentiment and that sentiment is based on myth and history and a series of symbols and markers of identity. There is a constant referendum going as to whether that sentiment still exists in the union. Renan’s concept of a nation is that it can be ephemeral; it’s not there forever, it is not a permanency as it varies according to circumstances. This is a very intriguing parallel with what’s going on in the UK today.”
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etherealfire wrote: "Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3"I'm glad you accepted!
Jeanne.
Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3
Thank you, Beata - I look forward to sharing books with you.Jeanne.
Happy to be your GR Friend, JC, and thanks for a lovely request :))
