Mirjam Donath's Blog, page 3
March 3, 2021
Lecke feladva
Milyen jó lenne kézen fogni hatéves Mariskámat, elsétálni vele az állami általános iskolába itt, két sarokra tőlünk, Zugligetben, büszkén körbevezetni -- hisz én is itt lettem iskolás, sőt már nagyapja is itt lett iskolás -, majd a legnagyobb nyugalommal átadni azt a kicsi kezet a tanítónak, ahogy előttem anyám tette, ahogy őelőtte nagyanyám tette!
De az iskolaválasztás nálunk sem így történik idén februárban.
A pálya duplán nehezített. Ha semmit sem tudnék a magyar közoktatás kihívásairól, ha M...
March 1, 2021
February 24, 2021
Louisa May Alcott's Bookshelf
"Never a student but a great reader. R. W. E. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] gave me Goethe's works at fifteen, and they have been my delight ever since. My library consists of Goethe, Emerson, Shakespeare, Carlyle, Margaret Fuller and George Sand. George Eliot I don't care for, nor any of the modern poets but Whittier; the old ones - Herbert, Crashaw, Keats, Coleridge, Dante, and a few others - I like."
If you are as big of a fan of Miss Alcott as I am of Ernest Hemingway, I invite you to check out th...
February 23, 2021
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Up Next / A Way of Man
The question of 'Why This Book':
Frans Eemil Sillanpää: A Way of a Man (1932)
"Darkness closes in. On the table in front of me is an old magazine, a whole page is covered with illustrations relating to me, and the text on the opposite page tells about me. From all this I gather I was awarded the Nobel Prize. I even learn that I was present and received it."
(Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 1939)
Here's to the first book that has nothing to do with any reading list! I read it for the sake of reading. Th...
February 8, 2021
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Louisa. Your book drove me crazy up until p.300. Boooredom! I didn't abandon it only because I was dying to understand how a popular story for teenage girls had become part of the American classics. Then it made me understand my own grandmother.
Louisa May Alcott and my beloved grandmother had one crucial thing in common.
You might not be interested in my beloved grandmother (JUMP TO REVIEW), but Little Women, this crucifyingly long, sunny morality tale, made me understand something important ...
February 2, 2021
Why do you read THAT book? (Little Women)
The question of 'Why This Book':
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868)
"Don't you want to be inspired by the zeitgeist and read Little Women?"
asked a good friend, Gabor Veress, upon the release of the Oscar-nominated Greta Gerwig movie.
I envisioned a world in which Gabor, a 40-year-old successful economist, who - I don't remember how, but quickly and unalterable - became my dear friend during our studies at Columbia University, would read all the Hemingway recommended books on my reading li...
