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Cchilderoland reacted to Ben Jackson's post in the thread Understanding Nobel Prize: Universal Interest 1930---1933 with
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The Nobel Prizes between 1930-1933 were awarded to Sinclair Lewis, Erik Karlfeldt (surprising), John Galsworthy, and Ivan Bunin. United... -
Cchilderoland reacted to Ben Jackson's post in the thread The 'Recently Watched Films' Thread with Like.
At the Oscars last night (early hours this morning in Nigerian and the rest of Africa), the much beloved blockbuster Oppenheimer won...
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Cchilderoland replied to the thread The 'Recently Watched Films' Thread.Finally saw Across the Spiderverse. Yep, as great as everyone's been saying.
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Cchilderoland reacted to Ben Jackson's post in the thread Understanding Nobel Prize: Great Style 1920---1923 with Like.
Great style was a criteria used by the Nobel committee to judge candidates for the Nobel Prizes in the 1920s. It had connections with...
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C君たちはどう生きるか (How do you live?) aka "The Boy and the Heron" (2023) {minor spoilers} - First I'd like to say that I vehemently dislike the...
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CScenes From a Childhood (tr: Damion Searls, 2018) is a selection of Jon Fosse’s short fiction that spans 1987 through 2013. It contains...
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Cchilderoland reacted to Bartleby's post in the thread Haruki Murakami: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage with Like.
Just finished reading this novel. You see, Murakami is comfort food. He's not at all a bad writer, but one whose idiosyncrasies make...
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CIt's not realism. His parents are dead. He is writing about them (a movie script) in the present and returns, in his mind, to the...
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CSaw this pretty little poem on the train today (part of NYC subway's Poetry in Motion series): Lullaby (Ilya Kaminsky, b. 1977) Little...