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RanaldClouston<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FinishedReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinishedReading</span></a> this surrealist psychological novel, in which a delusional amnesiac is hospitalized, with a narrative flicking back and forth between his elaborate fantasies and the attempts of doctors to treat / pacify him. This strange novel swings widely in tone and sometimes has very strong 'person describing their dream to you' energy. At its best, as in the 'briefing' of the title, it is a weirdly compelling blend of environmental panic, mysticism, extreme scepticism about science, and many more things that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DorisLessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DorisLessing</span></a> throws into the mix. I didn't love it and it is not exactly a book that tries to be loved - at times deliberately repetitive, alienating, or deflating - but it was definitely interesting. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Andrew Shields<p>On first reading Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” (1988). <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DorisLessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DorisLessing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheFifthChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheFifthChild</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UniversityOfPennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfPennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ComparativeLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComparativeLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiteraryTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dissertation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dissertation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Novel</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-first-reading-doris-lessings-fifth.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/on-first-reading-doris-lessings-fifth.html</span></a></p>
Patch Zircher<p>Latest read, The Fifth Child (1988) by Doris Lessing.<br>Harriet &amp; David, against middle class convention, want a big family. But then the 5th child arrives--and he may not be human.<br>Great. A classic of literary horror akin to Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden<br>151 of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/400FantasyStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>400FantasyStories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkFantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkFantasy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DorisLessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DorisLessing</span></a></p>
Patch Zircher<p>Vintage International has reprinted Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child, her modern gothic horror novel.<br>I grabbed it because that prestigious a level of writing + horror = a rare experience.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DorisLessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DorisLessing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a></p>
Clinton Dreisbach<p>Intro post! It took me a while to figure out what to say. I've been a software developer or something related like programming instructor or development manager for more than 20 years. I still love it but am trying to start a new career as an author.</p><p>My posts are mainly about <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a>, <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parenting</span></a>, <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/MagicTheGathering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicTheGathering</span></a>, and <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/ProgressiveChristianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProgressiveChristianity</span></a>.</p><p>Favorite authors: <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/DorisLessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DorisLessing</span></a>, <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/LaurenGroff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaurenGroff</span></a>, <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/HowardThurman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardThurman</span></a>, <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/StudsTerkel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudsTerkel</span></a>, and <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/TonkeDragt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TonkeDragt</span></a>.</p><p>Favorite <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/MTG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTG</span></a> deck type: graveyard shenanigans</p>
one-day-at-a-time<p>“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.” </p><p>― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook</p><p>-<br>:welp: :welp: :welp: :welp: </p><p>Doris Lessing's books changed my life when I read them in my late teens. <br>It was the late Sixties and the world was changing radically. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/dorislessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dorislessing</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/courage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courage</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberty</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sixties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sixties</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/passion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passion</span></a></p>
Theta Sigma<p>Introductory post! For anyone new to Mastodon, this is a great way of linking up with likeminded people. Boosts are always welcome to help with that!</p><p>As might possibly be gleaned from my profile, I am a fan of <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/DoctorWho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoctorWho</span></a>. </p><p>I’m also an avid <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/reader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reader</span></a> - favourite authors being <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/DorisLessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DorisLessing</span></a> <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/IainBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IainBanks</span></a> and <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/UmbertoEco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UmbertoEco</span></a></p><p>I’m a part time occasionally professional, mainly amateur <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/actor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actor</span></a></p><p>Professionally I’m a <a href="https://fandom.ink/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> officer and caseworker (happy to give advice)</p>
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