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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Progress:
637/997 pages
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works
Progress:
119/1183 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Progress:
8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
Progress:
122/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
Progress:
78/534 pages
Poems Selected
Progress:
4/50 pages
Selected Poems
Progress:
18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Progress:
133/789 pages
Reading progress update: I've read 290 out of 2016 pages.
The Patient Man...Sc.2: Candido is the titular Patient Man. His wife, Viola, is determined to provoke him to anger for no sound reason and plots with her brother, Fustigo, to achieve her obsession. The foundatins for comedic shenanigans are thus put in place.
The phrase "Lend me your ears," famous from Shakeseare's Julius Caesar, recurs here and is in fact proverbial.
"Whiblin" (= cheater/double-dealer) is a great word! Love it! I can think of a few people I'd like to say, "You whiblin, you!" to. This word needs to be brought back in to common usage.
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