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  1. Started reading a new book today!

    The Age of Extremes
    Eric Hobsbawm

    I'm surprisingly reading fast these recent weeks. My TBR queue is continuously growing though, and I don't expect to clear it out until end of the year.

    #bookwormph #bookstodon #histodons

  2. Yesterday I read Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, in one sitting. It was a very damn good read.

    Granted I've only read a handful of classics, but this is easily my favorite of the bunch.

    It also solves one (subjective?) problem I have with novels in general, in that they can feel too long-winded a lot of times.
    Heart of Darkness is a novella, and despite the length, manages to tell a complex story in a fairly fast-paced narrative.

    I'm super satisfied with it. Highly recommended!

    #bookstodon #bookwormph #fiction #classics

  3. Today I finally chanced upon a cheap copy of *Joseph Conrad's* Heart of Darkness. And in fairly good condition too. Nice.

    #classics #bookstodon #bookwormph

  4. It keeps prefacing claims with "some scholars" and "some experts" without either identifying them or citing actual sources. Bruh. #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  5. This should've been yesterday during World Book Day. But now I finally got to bring my top 3 books out once again.

    It's been years since I've read these, but even after hundreds of other books read these are still my all-time favorites.

    The King's Two Bodies
    Ernst Kantorowicz

    The Sleepwalkers
    Christopher Clark

    The Dark Valley
    Piers Brendon

    #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  6. This should've been yesterday during World Book Day. But now I finally got to bring my top 3 books out once again.

    It's been years since I've read these, but even after hundreds of other books read these are still my all-time favorites.

    The King's Two Bodies
    Ernst Kantorowicz

    The Sleepwalkers
    Christopher Clark

    The Dark Valley
    Piers Brendon

    #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  7. This should've been yesterday during World Book Day. But now I finally got to bring my top 3 books out once again.

    It's been years since I've read these, but even after hundreds of other books read these are still my all-time favorites.

    The King's Two Bodies
    Ernst Kantorowicz

    The Sleepwalkers
    Christopher Clark

    The Dark Valley
    Piers Brendon

    #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  8. This should've been yesterday during World Book Day. But now I finally got to bring my top 3 books out once again.

    It's been years since I've read these, but even after hundreds of other books read these are still my all-time favorites.

    The King's Two Bodies
    Ernst Kantorowicz

    The Sleepwalkers
    Christopher Clark

    The Dark Valley
    Piers Brendon

    #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  9. This should've been yesterday during World Book Day. But now I finally got to bring my top 3 books out once again.

    It's been years since I've read these, but even after hundreds of other books read these are still my all-time favorites.

    The King's Two Bodies
    Ernst Kantorowicz

    The Sleepwalkers
    Christopher Clark

    The Dark Valley
    Piers Brendon

    #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  10. Happy World Book Day!

    Here's a stack of some of my favorite books. I will try to talk about them in the future.

    But in general, in this account I will be posting my thoughts on books I'm reading and have read. They can be rather rough and incoherent. But to me, what matters is I get to express myself more often.

    Cheers!
    #bookstodon #bookwormph #worldBookDay

  11. My old pinned post is kinda outdated now. Time for an update!

    Again, in no specific order, 7 books that influenced me:

    The King's Two Bodies
    Ernst Kantorowicz

    The Sleepwalkers
    Christopher Clark

    Catholicism
    Bishop Robert Barron

    Lost in Thought
    Zena Hitz

    The Invention of Science
    David Wootton

    The Historian
    Elizabeth Kostova

    Physical Foundations of General Relativity
    Dennis Sciama

    #introduction #7books #bookstodon #bookwormph