Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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Reading progress update: I've read 238 out of 683 pages.
Zeus bans interference from the other gods and sends his lightning and thunder down to aid the Trojans.
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Reading progress update: I've read 633 out of 997 pages.
We learn how the school of wizardry was founded on Roke.
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The Absolute Sandman, Volume IV, Neil Gaiman
The fourth Absolute Sandman volume completes the main story arc of the series, combining disparate elements and characters to produce a finale that I did not expect at all at the beginning. Initially I struggled with not being able to discern how anything related to anything else but the second half ravels everything up neatly.
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Reading progress update: I've read 158 out of 208 pages.
Shout out to Giacommo Balla and his excitable dog:
Reading progress update: I've read 150 out of 208 pages.
Shout out to Paula Modersohn-Becker and her Old Peasant Woman:
Reading progress update: I've read 114 out of 544 pages.
Story 8: The "bed trick" more famously used later by Shakespeare in All's Well that Ends Well.
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Reading progress update: I've read 115 out of 1183 pages.
These essays are only interesting (to me) when they connect to Middleton. I'm skimming a lot.
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Reading progress update: I've read 375 out of 608 pages.
Why, at any given time, can I only ever name six of the seven Endless?
Reading progress update: I've read 108 out of 544 pages.
Story Seven: Are men more cunning than women? (Part 2.)
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Reading progress update: I've read 134 out of 208 pages.
Shout out to Walter Sickert, who observed Ennui:
Reading progress update: I've read 295 out of 608 pages.
OK, now I'm fully engaged again, having figured out how all the disparate parts fit together.
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Reading progress update: I've read 228 out of 683 pages.
Antenor asks that Helen be given up to the Argives. He seems to have the backing of most of the Trojans - but Paris refuses once more. A one day truce is called so that both sides can burn their dead.
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Reading progress update: I've read 126 out of 208 pages.
Shout out to Gwen John, student of Whistler. This one is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Reading progress update: I've read 122 out of 208 pages.
Shout out to Berthe Morisot, who exhibited at seven of the eight Impressionist exhibitions and out-sold Monet, Renoir and Sisley during her lifetime. So why have I never come across her before? Here's Cherry Tree:
Reading progress update: I've read 116 out of 208 pages.
Of all the Manet paintings I've come across, this croquet game is my favourite:
