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Lisa Ling recommended Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in Books (curated)

 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford | 2005 | Biography, History & Politics
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"When we think of Genghis Khan, we think of one of history’s most violent pillagers and rapists. But in actuality, Genghis Khan was a great democratizer. His Mongol Empire conquered more territory in 25 years than the Romans did in 200. His strategy was to kill off the aristocracy and envelop the lowest members of society into his army. He allowed former servants to rise in rank and gain status in his empire."

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    The Deaths

    The Deaths

    Mark Lawson

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    Four families live in a beautiful stretch of English countryside in magnificent listed houses, built...

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Grimes recommended The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) in Books (curated)

 
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
Pearl S. Buck | 2009
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"“For some reason I became enraptured by this book as a teenager. It smelled really amazing and dusty. I think our copy was from the 1940s and the pages would crumble as I turned them. I’ve never been so careful while reading a book, and I think that really endeared it to me. I’m very calmed by methodical descriptions of farming. The images of opium addiction amongst the wealthy Chinese aristocracy, who ‘smoked the flesh off their bones’, always come back to my mind; it’s so decadent and horrifying.”"

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ClareR (5603 KP) rated My Man Jeeves in Books

Sep 8, 2020  
My Man Jeeves
My Man Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse | 1919 | Humor & Comedy
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My Man Jeeves is the first book I’ve read by P. G. Wodehouse, and I very much enjoyed it. They were very amusing stories, and there were lots of laugh out loud moments. They had a cartoonish quality to them, and it was as if the characters came from another world entirely - perhaps that’s just what it was like for the aristocracy at this time 🤷🏼‍♀️
I had avoided Wodehouse, thinking that he didn’t write ‘my kind of books’. How wrong I was!

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for giving me the chance to read these short stories.