🇺🇦 David Griner 🇺🇦 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Just finished The Gates of Europe, which wrapped up 400 pages of Ukrainian history by noting accurately and ominously when published in 2021 that Russian aggression there would soon become the tipping point that would shape the future of Europe. https://t.co/39H9gj0suW

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1. The Exorcist III (1990) If "Better than it has any right to be" were a film, it would be this one. Ignoring a cash-grab middle sequel, author William Peter Blatty decided to direct this one himself. The jokes, monologues, acting and scares are all top-notch. Just a delight. https://t.co/04g3T3LACz

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I love how Rick Riordan blew through every god you've heard of in Percy Jackson books 1-4, so by book 9 every cameo is like "Osswygius, god of knuckles and unfinished tapestries."

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Throwback to one of my favorite ads: 2007's "We Wish England Was Australia" for Bundaberg Rum. Agency: Leo Burnett Sydney Director: Guy Manwaring (The song is set to the tune of "Jupiter" from Gustav Holst’s The Planets Suite.) https://t.co/SHugEN5M9Z

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“We’ve made a lot of people millionaires by waking up and playing our game for eight hours, turning it off and logging back in the next day to do it again.” —Dan Sutton, global head of esports marketing for Riot Games (League of Legends) at #Brandweek https://t.co/Q9cAqpqWwi

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Mine is from Robertson Davies' The Manticore, when a kid hears his philandering dad get called a "swordsman," slang for a guy sleeping around. He thinks it sounds cool and starts excitedly telling everyone his dad's a swordsman, not noticing everyone responding like 😳

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A true delight for @Adweek subscribers: a deep dive into the origin story of Lil' Sweet. A long-awaited masterpiece by @ShannonL_Miller https://twitter.com/ShannonL_Miller/status/1546610367610208256

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You really notice the contrast in pre-evangelical interpretation when you read Dante's Inferno and see this downright pathetic depiction of a failed revolutionary rotting in prison: "He wept with all six eyes, and the tears fell over his three chins mingled with bloody foam."