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August 28th, 2019 || starting my last book for the NEWTs readathon. How Green Was My Valley is one of those books which has been on my TBR for a while. I’m 25 pages in but I already adore the writing. I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to finish it before the end of the month... however, this prompt for the readathon gave you the choice to read a classic or reread a favourite so I’m also gonna start Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone just in case. . What is your current read? 🌻 • • • • #howgreenwasmyvalley #penguinmodernclassics #modernclassics #booksandcoffee #readingupdate #reading📖 #fortheloveofreading #booksandchocolate #booksandmugs https://www.instagram.com/p/B1tDmNLoVZH/?igshid=1sy7clpgus7m3

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal”. It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country’s antireligious laws.”

This is an outstanding 3 story collection set in #California's #Salinas Valley in the #1930s. I just loved it. The story that stood out the most is the second one called The Snake. It's very mysterious and disturbing, and though not evident at first, the snake itself is a main character with the other two characters a young lab technician guy and an unknown tall woman who walks in the lab one evening unannounced. The first and also the titular story was about the aftermath of a mob attack. A man comes home shellshocked, unable to speak from the horror of the violence he had just witnessed, but all his wife is thinking is that he has been out shagging some other woman and so she is hysterical and she can't stop shouting and accusing him. The third story, The Chrysanthemum is about a very discreet and subtle betrayal, so subtle that I was not quite sure what happened (hence the four stars), but something not very pleasant happened. The prose is very cool and straightforward, yet the characters are full of life and passion. #johnsteinbeck #thevigilante #shortstories #penguinmodernclassics #penguinbooks #bookstagram #whatimreading #justfinishedreading #photooftheday #instadaily #love #writer #girl #writersofinstagram #bookcover #bookcoverart

It's like the book gods knew I needed cheering up this weekend & sent me my Penguin mini modern classics box set from overseas a week earlier than estimated. Yippee! * #funaekbooks #funaekreads #bookstagram #instabooks #instaread #penguinmodernclassics #penguinmodern #penguinclassics #penguinmodernboxset #penguinmodernclassicsboxset #penguinminimodernclassics #penguinminimodernclassicsboxset #pugsandbooks

My Beat Generation week starts today! I love these beautiful Penguin modern classics editions of my favorite Beat authors- they're so simple and so pretty. 😍❤️ . . . But some more important news you guys- I just finished listening to Vicious and I LOVED IT! I can't wait for the sequel! ✨💜 . . . #bookstagram #bookstgrammer #bookish #bibliophile #bookoftheday #instabooks #booksofinstagram #booklovers #booklr #thebookgallery #bookaholic #bookaddict #iphone #bookphotography #book #books #booknerd #bookworm #bookporn #beatgeneration #penguinmodernclassics #whitebooks #bookstack #allenginsberg #williamburroughs #jackkerouac

Yesterday I stumbled upon a folder in my laptop that had photos from my college days. It was too late before I realised I had fallen into a #rabbithole . The bitter after taste came when I realised that so many years flew by between then and now. - - I love reading about the past of a familiar place from books and I am glad this book is so helpful in that way. I am enjoying reading about a Kerala that existed at a period of which I have neither heard stories nor read about. - - Do you have any recommendations for books for your state that capture the essence of life in a real manner? Extra thanks if you know other books on life in #Kerala. . . . #friyay #fridayreads #kamaladas #classics #penguinmodernclassics #indianclassics #malabar

August 25th, 2019 || happy sunday! here’s another reading update. The last week of the NEWTs readathon is upon us and I still need to finish Priory (200 pages left only) and read the whole of How Green Was My Valley - read only one chapter but the writing is superb. . Hope y’all are having a great day with loads of reading 🌻 • • • • #reading📖 #readingupdate #theprioryoftheorangetree #samanthashannon #howgreenwasmyvalley #richardllewellyn #fantasybook #modernclassics #penguinmodernclassics https://www.instagram.com/p/B1lR595IQ5L/?igshid=j7pkyidyby3q

“Only in our valley was there a colliery to poke its skinny black fingers out of the bright green. Over in here was all peace and quiet content, and even the wind sounded happier to be working down here, coming up from our Valley with a joyful rush and poring down here, passing us sharp and bitter cold, eager to lie along the warm fields below and tease the manes of the horses browsing in the sun.
“Sad it is, Huw, my son,” my father said, after a long while, “Sad, indeed. Here is everything beautiful by here, nothing out of place, all in order. And over with us nothing but ugliness and hate and foolishness.”
“How is that then, Dada?” I asked him.
“Bad thoughts and greediness, Huw,” my father said. “Want all, take all, and give nothing. The world was made on a different notion. You will have everything from the ground if you will ask the right way. But you will have nothing if not.”
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Look, this is not a quick read but it is so beautifully written, with such tenderness and love - despite describing a very crude issue; that I truly don’t care if I am reading How Green Was My Valley for months. I am completely mesmerized by the story.
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Have you ever read a book that made you feel that way? 🌿🌻
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