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**A Clergyman’s Daughter, by George Orwell**
Started. It’s one of Orwell’s earlier works, something between Down and Out in Paris and London (poverty) and Coming Up for Air (rural-urban life in early 20th century), supposedly with a narrative structure that was used in 1984 again, I’m not that far yet though. It reads like satire; the stereotypes aren’t as grim as in Burmese Days but rather amusing, and unlike a lot of historical satire, it seems to have aged fairly well.
**The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman**
Just started, based on recommendation in Shaun’s video on Palestine.
**Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way, by Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.P. Seaton**
Revisiting. Tao Te Ching is quite short and repetitive, so while I’m not very good at reading poetry, it’s not nearly as intimidating as I anticipated at first.
**We Were Never Here, by Andrea Bartz**
One of the reviews on the back cover wrote that it’s “possibly the best pairs of female leads since *Thelma and Louise*”, and this is an insult to the movie I’m taking personally!
The prose is comically bad. “Like” is the author’s favourite word, and it shows! So many terrible similes, on every pages!
“*The shovels leaned against the back seat like awkward teenagers.*” (p.75, paperback)
“*Her hair smelled autumnal, like sunflower and scalp.*” (p.189)
“*My heart seemed to be folding in half like a soggy paper plate.*” (p.362)
The promised “crazy twists and turns” were very predictable, and there were a lot of plot elements that were not fully though through. I laughed out loud a few times, especially >!at the ending!<.
*We Were Never Here* read like the first draft of a very inexperienced writer.