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Really enjoying the return to my A Levels with John Locke, John Maynard-Keynes, post war economic policies and even El Niño/La Nina

Arguably the wrong order to read these in but realised I hadn’t actually read the hobbit since year 7 and probably couldn’t tell you a great deal about it so here we are.

I find it unreasonably exciting when a book mentions a different topic i know a little about, currently getting very excited about mentions of the Crimean war and Tsar Alexander II

“In deciding what will be remembered, a museum is also deciding, in part, what will be forgotten”

I fear this book is not helping with my habit of excessive philosophising (mind you this happens with most books I read so maybe I’m the problem here)

“When times are confusing, everyone is a little lost. No one is as inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog”

Because we all know I really needed to start another book before finishing anything else

Was not expecting Rory Stewart to make an appearance ngl

Holiday book no. 2/70
Failing to read the prologue was once again detrimental to my reading experience so had to go back and do that after a couple of chapters and now I’m enjoying it lol

I’m really enjoying this approach to writing a biography by focusing on certain days in detail

I have indeed got to the bit where “things start to happen”

Reading about bible smuggling in the 1950s from a guy who was clearly successful is evidently fairly stressful (dread to think what the first hand experience would be)

Apparently this week I’m making up for barely reading anything over the past few years

Yay for the crazy aunts recommendations because this is amazing

I am amazed at how Lennox manages to answer such complicated questions on so few words (my waffling could never)
I reckon if I wasn’t already Christian, I would be convinced by now, and I’ve not even finished it yet.

I’m getting there folks. I reckon Miranda could conceivably rename this “a manual for how to live”. Only the second self-help-y book I’ve ever got close to finishing.

It's slightly ridiculous that I've read this enough to know certain parts word-for-word