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50 in 52 Project quotes from The Sun Also Rises!

50 in 52 Project Quotes!

Because it’s Hemingway, we have two quotes!

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

from: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (that’s him in the photo)

 

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for www.RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 on 52 blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52

#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project continues! I’ve finished Mrs. Dalloway…coming up: The Sun Also Rises

The 50 in 52 Project continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 21st book, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf…only 29 more books to go!

Next up is….The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

For those keeping score: this is book #22, week #2

A little info on Ernest Hemingway and his work:

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1889 in Illinois. Hemingway, along with friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald, formed the nucleus of what Gertrude Stein called “the lost generation” of American expatriates living in Paris. Hemingway’s influence on literature cannot be overstated. He developed his staccato style during his time working for the Kansas City Star, but the simplicity of his writing is deceptive—he wanted to capture emotions in snapshots that eliminated decorative wording and verbiage. Like Fitzgerald, much of the beauty of his work can be found in his short stories. His best known novels: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway took his own life in 1961. (He father had done the same in 1928.)

 

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

 

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

#50-in-52

#RAINN

A 50 in 52 Project Quote from Mrs. Dalloway!

A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

from: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (that’s her in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project 2018-19 blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52

#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project continues! I’ve finished The Great Gatsby…up next: Mrs. Dalloway!

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 20th book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald…only 30 more books to go! (For a cool quote from the book, check out the previous blog post!)

Next up is….Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

For those keeping score: this is book #21, week #22

A little info on Virginia Woolf and her work:

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 in London. She is considered to be one of the most important modernists and an early feminist. Along with James Joyce and William Faulkner, she pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a way to delve deeper into the psychology of her characters. Woolf also used her characters’ internal dialogue as a narrative device. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group of writers along with E. M. Forester. Her major works include To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One’s Own (1929). She suffered from mental illness and took her own life in 1941.

 

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

 

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog  posts.

Thank you!

 

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

#50-in-52

#RAINN

A 50 in 52 Project quote (from The Great Gatsby)

A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

from: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (that’s him in the photo)

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

 

Thank you!

#50-in-52

#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

My short story, “Mount Rock,” made Glimmer Train’s Honorable Mention list for the Best New Writer 2018 Award

Back in August, my short story, “Mount Rock,” made the Honorable Mention list for the Best New Writer 2018 Award.

“Mount Rock” will be included in the two volumes of short stories coming out next year!

 

My short story, “All Dogs Die of Cancer,” made Glimmer Train’s Top 25 in their Very Short Fiction contest

My short story, “All Dogs Die of Cancer” made the Top 25 of the literary magazine Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction contest!

“All Dogs Die of Cancer” will be included in the two volumes of short stories coming out next year!

Check out the Top 25 list HERE.

 

 

The 50 in 52 Project continues! I’ve finished The Age of Innocence…up next: The Great Gatsby!

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 19th book, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton…only 31 more books to go!

Next up is….The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

For those keeping score: this is book #20, week #21

 

A little info on F. Scott Fitzgerald and his work:

Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896. His work chronicled the Jazz Age, and writer Gertrude Stein considered him one of the Lost Generation of writers (which included his friend Ernest Hemingway) that emerged during the Modernist period. Although primarily known for his magnum opus, The Great Gatsby, as well as his large collection of short stories (164 of them!), he also wrote the novels This Side of Paradise (1920) and Tender is the Night (1934), among others. In Fitzgerald’s works, the present is immediate, and his diction and sometimes complex sentence structures mirrored the jazz and art of his time: fractured yet self-assured. He was married to writer Zelda Fitzgerald, who struggled with mental illness, while he battled alcoholism. Fitzgerald passed way in 1948.

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 blog posts.

Thank you!

 

Blog: www.michaelpatrickharrington.com/blog/

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

 

#50-in-52

#RAINN

A 50 in 52 Project quote!

A 50 in 52 Project Quote!

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

from: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (that’s her in the photo)

 

What is the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge?

I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19) to raise money for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network).

I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. You choose the amount. You don’t have to pay until after 6/1/19. To sponsor me & make a pledge, click HERE. Be the hero in someone else’s story!

For more info, see the post pinned to the top of the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

Thank you!

#50-in-52

#RAINN

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

The 50 in 52 Project continues…I’ve finished My Antonia…up next: The Age of Innocence

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more info)

I’ve just finished the 18th book, My Ántonia by Willa Cather…only 32 more books to go!

Next up is….The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

For those keeping score: this is book #19, week #20

I’m finally in the 1920s, my favorite literary decade!

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge continues! (scroll down for more info)

A little info on Edith Wharton and her work:

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York. Although she was a modernist, Wharton was heavily influenced by Henry James, who would become a close friend. Wharton was a popular writer, perhaps best known today for The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth (1905), the novella Ethan Frome (1911), among others. She was very prolific: fifteen novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, plus poetry, criticism, and a memoir. Wharton grew up in New York society, which was the setting for many of her works. Wharton’s modernist approach was to often look in the rearview mirror, what she called her “backward glance,” employing dramatic irony and ambivalence to achieve a warm mixture of reminiscence and criticism. The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Martin Scorsese directed a beautiful adaptation in 1993 with Daniel-Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder (who was nominated for an Oscar). Edith Wharton passed away in 1937.

 

The 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is a fundraiser for RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network). I challenged myself to read 50 books in 1 year (6/1/18 to 6/1/19). I’m asking folks to sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book I read. Sponsors don’t have to pay anything until after the Challenge finishes (6/1/19).

To sponsor me, click HERE. For more info and a list of the 50 books, go to the posting pinned to the top of the official 50 in 52 Facebook page.

Click HERE for the 50 in 52 Project blog posts.

 

Thank you!

 

Twitter: @50_in_52Project

Instagram: 50_in_52_Project

GoodReads: goodreads.com/michaelpatrickharrington

RAINN on Twitter: @RAINN

 

#50-in-52

#RAINN