#BooksThatInfluenceYou

Day 8:

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I guess, some of knew what was coming when I placed my comment on Day 7 regarding Day 6 (Pillars of the Earth). Well, here's the thing, I did like "La catedral del mar" (#CathedralOfTheSea) by #IldefonsoFalcones. It is about the uring the construction of a cathedral. But it is the lesser known Santa Maria del Mar, not the...

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Day 8

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...#SagradaFamília of the Catalan #AntoniGaudí (to be completed in 2033.)

That wasn't the only disappointment. I had expected something like Pillars of the Earth, but architecture is pretty much absent and construction work is chiefly just a background story.
That said, as it was one of my first novels in...

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Day 8

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Aaaaaaa
so good
I want to read that one...

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Day 9:

Let's start with the 1st digitized book.

I am sure you all agree that this book 📖, IF it had influenced all our lives decades earlier, the world 🌎 would be a better place.

Failed education. Humankind's calamity

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So true...

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#Fahrenheit 451, however, it is but one of the #SciFi #dystopias that seem to be becoming reality in many countries. Here are some:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110432256287101216

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For now, we're looking in awe at what is happening in the US, especially in the Bible Belt, but there is no room for complacency: If we don't push against it, we will get the same.

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Day11:

I have been looking with increasing dismay at the political situation in the #US: they are a #DemocracyInChains, a book by historian #NancyMcLean.

(To be fair, I'm cheating a bit here, as I've so far only read a detailed but excellent article on the book so far:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143

It is on the top of my reading list, though.)
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It's on my bucket list, too.

Despite everything, the US is still by far the world's most important and most powerful country, so what happens there, concerns us all.

The author Annika Brockschmidt has also written excellent books about the fight of the Christian Right against US democracy.

I also love to listen to Leeja Miller, a US lawyer with a YouTube channel.

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