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My 2015 media diet

April 29, 2015 Nicola

I've put myself on a media diet in 2015.

I'm cutting back on my Facebook intake and devouring books instead.

Here's a bookworm's account of the year.

(Read more about this here)

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It didn't change my life like it changed Bob Dylan's and everyone else's, and at times I experienced travel fatigue and longed to get off the road. Yet, now the journey has ended, just like the protagonists Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty I'm twitching to get back on it and experience once again Kerouac's richly evocative descriptions of America. Like this:   The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mystery.

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You can read my views on Matilda as the ultimate role model, aged four, here.

In Books Tags book lover, Books, Bookworm, Year of the Book
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