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Architecture and Lanscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500

Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian

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Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the...

Great Plains Bison

Dan O'Brien

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Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the...

Joseph Mount recommended I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen in Music (curated)

I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen

1988 | Pop

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"Hearing this Leonard Cohen stuff, after listening to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers it was like ‘this sounds like bullshit!’, I didn’t understand the layers of intellect that had gone into making that record, and the large element of humour. My dad is into Leonard Cohen, I remember hearing the older stuff, then my sister was getting into it because she was becoming very literary. I was basically absorbing Leonard Cohen but I wasn’t crazy about it. I remember hearing ‘The Story Of Isaac’ as a child and thinking ‘god, this is fully intense, it’s so bare’. I remember hearing I’m Your Man it and at first finding it a really odd, unenjoyable experience, but now I realise that it’s a very curious idea, this industrial Leonard Cohen record, it’s really cool! ‘First We Take Manhattan’, imagine being a musician and being able to put a song like that out."

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Donna C (199 KP) rated Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine in Books

Aug 26, 2019

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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I have just finished this. I liked it. Quite a lot. I do tend to judge books by their covers - bad I know. I didn’t think this was “my type of book” before I read it. I thought it was either “chick lit” which I can’t stand or was too literary for me. But I was in a charity shop a few weeks ago and it was 2 paperbacks for £1. I’d chosen 3 when the assistant pointed this out so I grabbed this absentmindedly to make up the numbers.
What a revelation to read something different. I thought the characters were great especially Eleanor and was eager to read on as small snippets of her history were revealed. It is essentially a story about loneliness and was quite poignant at times. I will be revising my opinions and trying out different genres in future.