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37. I'm reading Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Sun Aug 21, 2022, 03:08 PM

Aug 2022

Baudolino is a Lombard peasant boy with the Apostolic Gift for languages. Through an unlikely series of events he becomes the ward of Frederic Barbarossa, who is on his way to Rome to be crowned emperor. I'm only 35 pages in and have no clue where this is going.
I actually bought this used from Amazon for $6 and received a very clean, hard cover edition complete with dust jacket; unwarped and free of wormholes, which have been issues with recent used book purchases. I got a bent copy of Kafka's short stories that I pressed for months and still wont lie flat. Wormholes are disgusting.

Take care Hermetic. give youself time to heal. Cheers.

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