“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
~ George Orwell, 1984
A Chilling First Line
A Fondness For Reading
…thoughts, memories, and ideas from a lifetime of reading
A Fondness For Reading 
I read this years ago and really don’t think I can read it right now. 😦
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Everyone is reading this lately. For obvious reasons. I think it’s high time I did a reread. 🙂
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I have read Orwell before but not this one. One day…
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Yup, creepy.
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I have a loooooong list of older and classic books I want to read and this is at the top of it. Hopefully I’ll get to some of them this year!
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OK. I guess I will re-read this work.
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Thanks for your comments about this book, dear friends. I’m having a hard time getting started on it… It just seems so grim and ominous, and I think I’m just plain scared because I know it is so relevant to what is happening to us right now in this country! I thought I could face it, but now I’m not so sure.
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You know, I recently took a speculative fiction writing class and the instructor asked us to think of first lines in novels that were particularly striking and I can’t believe I didn’t think of this! I read it many years ago, along with Brave New World. Yes, it is time to read it again.
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