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good books and future-to-read books and nunneries

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 nesskingsley

Books, books, and more books.

Tagged 2020, amelia peabody, mark forsyth, meditations, reading2 Comments
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disappointing marcus aurelius

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 nesskingsley

I haven't been a good Stoic. If I was a Stoic. Which I'm not. But if I was, I'd be a bad one. Life is full of disappointments and unmatched glove

Tagged a suffragist abroad, christmas, colour, dying my hair, life, reading, writing2 Comments
ness talks books

books that were not my cup of tea

September 28, 2020July 20, 2021 nesskingsley

Is this the book, I cried, that repelled a thousand ships?

Tagged books, Christian fiction, disappointing, dnf, reading, reviews, time travel, western2 Comments
ness talks about life

reading books, writing books, and buying fish, and so on and so forth

September 8, 2020September 7, 2020 nesskingsley

In short, there isn't a series I've read that surpasses this one.

Tagged a suffragist abroad, amelia peabody, book, bookworm, fish, history, life, reading, writing6 Comments
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the book buying ban is lifted

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 nesskingsley

I was a bookworm drunk on power. I have learned lessons and after the ban, I chose to ignore those lessons. It was glorious

Tagged book buying ban, books, buying books, life lessons, readers, reading7 Comments

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