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J.C.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at J.C.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
J.C. Milne’s Followers (100)
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J.C. Milne
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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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Intriguing review, Ian. Your review caused me to look for the French original. I doing so I read one other review, which warns against 'adult nightmar
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Thanks for the warning on this, a' Threasaigh!
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"A bit about the Author and book: "The Other Side of the Mountain" (La montagne morte de la vie) is known by some as a rare Euro-flavored oddity. Written by Michel Bernanos, the son of French novelist and essayist Georges Bernanos, considered one of t"
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"I wouldn’t say this is the strangest book I’ve read, but it’s probably up there in my top ten within that category. I don’t actually have a weird fiction shelf. Maybe I should create one.
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Thanks, David! My son-in-law has just brought us a great pile of logs.
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J.C.
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Vladys Kovsky’s review
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The Murderbot Diaries Series 7 Books Set – All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse
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What an entertaining review, Vladys!
I could never read James Joyce after having had to read the 'Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man' at Uni. Henry ...more " |
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The Murderbot Diaries Series 7 Books Set – All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse:
"I entered the summer of 2025 with the scariest reading block of my life inflicted on me by two Jameses. First, Henry James and his Ambassadors, which I valiantly finished and even enjoyed. Then James Joyce and his second hardest book I used to admire"
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mia. (hiatus) wrote: "Wow what an insightful review! Now I'm interested but super glad you enjoyed"
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| My last Christie for the time being, and what a way to go. No Poirot, and certainly no Miss Marple. Was this, then, the perfect crime? I should probably make that plural, as there were, predictably, ten deaths – the title is based on an old rhyme inv ...more | |
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There was an old poet whose nose Could sniff poesy out of common prose Of course it stood out Like an alligator snout But I'd trade mine any day for one of those A sinistra... / A destra... ." Read more of this review » |
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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!
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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 :))
