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🔵 TN mom, grew up in MI, Gen-X, Introvert 🫘
Some interests: reading, libraries, museums, archaeology, anthropology, history, photography, nature, Outlander, Doctor Who, Belle and Sebastian, Marcus Aurelius, Thich Nhat Hanh
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We didn't expect parallels when writing the book. We thought it was an obscure bit of history, since book banning was not a big problem when we started writing in 2017. The reason we got the book deal was our publisher's shock that Korea had banned books...
April 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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#BannedBookSkyClub schedule:

April 2025: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, et al.
May 2025: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
June 2025: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
July 2025: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
April 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I was thinking that it reminded of some part of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius too. This isn't even all the quotes I've found about constant change in the universe (some are just partial quotes from longer paragraphs), but I think they are definitely similar to the concept of change in this novel.
"The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 2, paragraph 3 "The world is nothing but change. Out life is only perception." - Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book 4, section 3 "Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is a seed of what will emerge from it." - Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book 4, paragraph 36 "Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 6 paragraph 15
March 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I probably fit in with the people she mentions who see 'God' as a metaphor for nature or the universe. I think her statement that God is change made me think of the essential concept of impermanence (Pali word 'Anicca') in Buddhism and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
March 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This line made me think of this part of the Tao Te Ching. I like to think of water as a symbol of persistence.
Verse 78 Nothing in the world is soft and weak as water. But when attacking the hard and strong Nothing can conquer so easily. Weak overcomes strong, Soft overcomes hard. Everyone knows this, No one attains it. Therefore the Sage says: Accept a country's filth And become master of its sacred soil. Accept a country's ill fortune And become king under heaven. True words resemble their opposites. Cheng yen jo fan Watson, Burton; Lao-Tzu; Stephen Addiss; Stanley Lombardo. Tao Te Ching (Hackett Classics) . Hackett Publishing - A. Kindle Edition.
March 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I'm only ~2/3 through the book, but I did like this quote. It's good advice (literal caution about water rescue*) and metaphorically about how people may resist or even reject help when it's offered.

*BSA rescue technique: Reach, Throw, Row, Go - prevent the victim from latching onto you.
The rescue techniques for reaching and throwing to a victim in water include: Reach: Use an object to pull someone to safety. Throw: Toss a floating object to a person in trouble. Row: Use a boat to save if available. Go: Swim to the victim as a last resort. Prevent the victim from latching onto you.
March 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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It's hard to know for sure, but I suspect they will still cover some of book 8 in S8 based on how S7 ended. We probably won't know how much will be from MOHB and how much will be from BEES (or even ideas DG has shared from the unfinished book 10?) until it starts. MOBY = MOHB (My Own Hearts Blood)
March 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM