Ben Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Ben Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️ on X
Husband, Quaker, theologian, lecturer, writer, Hedge Druid, "Aristotelian Liberal". Devotee of Terry Pratchett, and E.M. Forster, and Mavis Clare.
The Return of the King
J. R. R. TolkienBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King", VI, ii, 901) https://t.co/ifwLLHsNJ4
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Cloud Atlas
David MitchellBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️'One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction' (David Mitchell, "Cloud Atlas") https://t.co/rVLswAgppP
Paperback, 2004
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Howards End
E. M. ForsterBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️1/2 E.M Forster was fascinated by the meaning of houses. Thus, the fate of "Howards End" is really about: Who will inherit England? Vigorous merchants or tender-hearted creatives. Peering in at the first 100 days of Rishi Sunak, I keep thinking about another house in Forster... https://t.co/eoSx7JnYAc
Paperback, 2000
$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️“We may not have a 1984 like George Orwell’s, but if the Tories have their way we will be a very carefully controlled society indeed. All very sad, especially as Labour and the left are muddleheaded and ideologically dogmatic.” (Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979) https://t.co/Dmqlp818z4
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prophet
Kahlil GibranBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️Liz Truss's bland politico bookcase is a cry for help. Might I suggest some additions to soothe the mind and enlighten the soul: 💟 Matthew Arnold, "Culture and Anarchy" 💟 Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet" 💟 Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet" 💟 Hannah Arendt, "The Human Condition" https://t.co/yctQa6PwYv
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Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le GuinBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️'There is no death for an otter, only life to the end' (Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea) ♥️ https://t.co/y5oSA9aead
Paperback, Mass Market, 2012
$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Odyssey
HomerBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️"O Stranger, it is not lawful for me, even if one poorer than you should come, to dishonor a stranger. For all strangers and beggars are from Zeus. The gift is small, but it is precious." (Homer, The Odyssey, 14-531) https://t.co/iH30Dopos2
Paperback, 2018
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nicomachean Ethics
AristotleBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” (Aristotle, "The Nicomachean Ethics") https://t.co/8O4AtRJL1w
Paperback, 2020
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Song of Achilles
Madeline MillerBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️Madeline Miller on The Song of Achilles: ‘It helped people come out to their parents’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/27/madeline-miller-on-the-song-of-achilles-it-helped-people-come-out-to-their-parents
Paperback, 2012
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas À. KempisBen Wood 🔶🌐/|\✝️While at the Front in 1915, Harold Macmillan read the Bible, Homer’s Iliad, Theocritus, Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ, as well as Augustine’s Confessions. While wounded in No Man’s Land he read a Greek edition of Aeschylus's Prometheus, which he kept in his pocket. https://t.co/l5fnBE9B9Y
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