It has been six months since I’ve finished this book (and hasn’t that flown by!), and I now realise that this book acted as a catalyst for my reflection into my dietary habits. Since reading, I have decided to become vegetarian (which is much easier than I thought it would be), and even thinking about eating meat makes me feel a bit ill. At the time I didn’t look too deeply into my personal views, but it definitely encouraged some deep reflection!

Has anyone had similar reflections since reading? I’d be interested in seeing if anyone else’s opinion has changed!

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a friending meme to meet new people on PB. This week, I want to put up a thread where people can shout out the people who have made their experience on PB great. It can be people you’ve talked to, people whose updates make your day, or people whose reviews are fascinating/hilarious/informative/etc.

Obviously this thread is not meant as a slight to anyone, but to celebrate the many people we have met on PB!

(I will do mine in the comments.)

So many resonant images and uncanny connections in this last scene (with milking the cow)…this would make an excellent artsy movie

Ok. I will bake a quatre quarts this weekend. 👩‍🍳

To all you cutie-patooties out there that love Alix E. Harlow’s The Everlasting as much as I do, I’m fairly certain this quote is the source for the title:

“The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'.”