{"id":2592,"date":"2013-03-15T02:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2019-07-13T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T08:56:02","slug":"borrowings-scribbles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/03\/15\/borrowings-scribbles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowings: Scribbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here some Notes are taken describing books acquired, thus possibly illustrating motivations, etc., which may serve Bibliome growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2013_03_01:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A book by Cicero and by Drabble, via the Philosophy and Literature Bibliomes.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dense Macarbe<\/em>\u00a0by Stephen King, which are essays on his thoughts on Horror. This serves my previous affection for his writings and respect for his authorship, and which may refresh or update that perspective.<\/li>\n<li><em>Fountain of Age<\/em>\u00a0by Nancy Kress is a short story collection. The author has won the Hugo and Nebula, and was a selection based merely on the general desire for Scifi.<\/li>\n<li><em>City of Glass<\/em>\u00a0by Paul Auster (he being the original author) is a graphic novel adaptation, and was chosen for curiosity. Auster seems to fit the general mould of American contemporary fiction that I enjoy, but that&#8217;s incidental insofar as not much thought preceded this selection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2013_03_15:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>King Rat<\/em>\u00a0because I saw it on the shelf and because of the author: China Mieville.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>White Teeth<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The Plot Against America<\/em>\u00a0by Z. Smith and P. Roth were both planned and both from the Literature Bibliome.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Imperium<\/em>\u00a0by R. Harris is something I&#8217;ve been thinking of picking up after seeing it on Amazon. I&#8217;d just finished reading Cicero, and this book is historical fiction about him. Ultimately the decision to read to completion will depend on my experience in doing so &#8211; at the very least I want to know how it is to test these waters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here some Notes are taken describing books acquired, thus possibly illustrating motivations, etc., which may serve Bibliome growth. 2013_03_01: A book by Cicero and by Drabble, via the Philosophy and Literature Bibliomes. Dense Macarbe\u00a0by Stephen King, which are essays on his thoughts on Horror. This serves my previous affection for his writings and respect for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,134,255,242,128],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-autodidactic","category-bibliom","category-evernote-entries","category-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2557,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/22\/bibliomes-scribbles-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2592,"position":0},"title":"Bibliomes: Scribbles","author":"Pala","date":"April 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: For a broader elaboration on Shai's 'Bibliome project' see the Editorial notes to\u00a0'Philosophy Readings Through Time' (Open link in a new tab). 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