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: Asaf Bartov (ijon) wrote,
2013-02-13 15:44:00

Asaf Bartov
ijon
2013-02-13 15:44:00

Goodreads is fun; Dickens; Mortimer

I've been pretty indifferent to most of the recent social-network sites, but I'm really enjoying goodreads.com. I'm a pretty busy reader, with a large to-read list etc., and I like (but am very undisciplined about) recording my thoughts in little reviews after finishing books, and this site provides for easy and social-as-you-want-to-be tracking of all of this.

Here are a couple of reviews I posted recently:

Shah of Shahs / Ryszard Kapuściński

Exactly 38 years ago, Khomeini returned to Iran from his exile in France, and set in motion the Islamic Revolution of Iran. A little over a year…
On Immigrants

Speaking of immigrants, Sir Ian McKellen would like to offer this passage, from the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More: GEORGE. Marry, the removing…
TestTOSterone, or: Brilliant foolish men go off and get killed

(the post's title is to be pronounced as George Carlin does, here.) The Guardian featured an interesting piece on the (forgotten) poet and…

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Goodreads is fun; Dickens; Mortimer

Shah of Shahs / Ryszard Kapuściński

On Immigrants

TestTOSterone, or: Brilliant foolish men go off and get killed

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