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Hey /lit/ so my gf and I are going to spend the spring on a farm
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Hey /lit/ so my gf and I are going to spend the spring on a farm working as assistants. The set up only requires 4 hours of labor a day in exchange for room and board. We are both bookish so what do you suggest that I bring along to read on my off time. I'm definitely bringing pic related. Would appreciate thematically or stylistically relevant suggestions.
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>>7679385
>my gf and I
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>>7679391
Wait is that not correct? I am hopeless with grammar.
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Anne Karenina for those sweet farming scenes
maybe some Steinbeck like East of Eden
Walt Whitman's poems are pretty good
maybe Thomas Hardy or Henry James
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>>7679418
Ah yeah Anna Karenina is definitely going on the list. Also maybe i should try Walt Whitman again? I didn't like it in h.s. but then again I have changed.
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>>7679385
How to suicide
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>>7679449
I don't get it? I'm asking for literature recommendations on a literature board.
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The Adventures of Augie March
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>>7679505
thanks anon! i had to look it up, which is nice. not to say i have an exhaustive knowledge of literature but i have read a lot of the classics and i am always looking for more. contemporary literature generally leaves me feeling flat. dat lack of ethos.
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Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo
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I did literally exactly this.

A few points:
- there's a good chance it'll end up being more than 4 hours a day, just because when any employer (and yes I know the whole woofing thing is phrased as some sorta alternative lifestyle peace core-ish thing - they're just employers all the same) say you're only going to work x hours, add anywhere from a half hour to 2 hours onto that
- if you've never worked 4+ hours a day of hard physical labor for days on end, you're going to be amazed at how tiring it actually is. You won't want to read.
- there's a good chance this will turn your relationship into a nightmare. You'll probably have a very hard time getting meaningful alone time, so unless you're okay not only living with her but also working with her, this can get ugly. Imagine having a fight, and then having to do hard labor with that person while your feelings are still hurt - if that's not obviously unpleasant then I don't know what is.

Not saying I'm not projecting but I met a few woofing people and that's how it worked for a lot of them.
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