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T.D.’s 2019 Year in Books
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T.D. Whittle
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Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakame
Look what just arrived in the post! Of course, I’ve also ordered the American edition (this is the British) from an independent bookseller in the U.S. so I can get free Murakami book bag (Because one can never have too many book bags, yes? Especially when they have black cats on; or, in the case of my Harper Lee bag, a mockingbird.) This is the Harvill Secker hardcover without the dust jacket on.
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13 Ways: Illustrated Stories
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The Infinite Loop: a novella of spaceships, time warps and free pie
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“In the ashes on the hearth Saigyo traced and retraced the word, "pity." He had yet to learn to accept life with all its good and evils, to love life in all its manifestations by becoming one with nature. And for this he had abandoned home, wife, and child in that city of conflict. He had fled to save his own life, not for any grandiose dream of redeeming mankind; neither had he taken vows with the thoughts of chanting sutras to Buddha; nor did he aspire to brocaded ranks of the high prelates. Only by surrendering to nature could he best cherish his own life, learn how man should live, and therein find peace. And if any priest accused him of taking the vows out of self-love, not to purify the world and bring salvation to men, Saigyo was ready to admit that these charges were true and that he deserved to be reviled and spat upon as a false priest. Yet, if driven to answer for himself, he was prepared to declare that he who had not learned to love his own life could not love mankind, and
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"The Heike Story is an epic tale of two rival clans struggling for power. The loyal Heike and Genji clans have served the Fujiwara court well, but later find themselves in a battle for military and political control of the Imperial throne.
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I enjoyed your review, Kirk, and appreciate the points you make. Yes, my sympathies are entirely with the "creature" rather than Victor too. I think M
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“Remember , that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”
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“If I start quoting myself, someone shoot me. My people are from Texas, so they'd know what to do.”
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“She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.”
― 13 Ways: Illustrated Stories
― 13 Ways: Illustrated Stories
“What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
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“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
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“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”
― Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
― Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Shiloh and Other Stories
― Shiloh and Other Stories
“Brother Fox looked in. He saw two people. He saw them raise their glasses of wine to him, liquid that for him was suspended in the air, as if by a miracle.”
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
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Jul 21, 2017 05:44AM
Thanks for the friend invite, T.D. Looking forward to chatting books!
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Fionnuala wrote: "Glad to reconnect!"So am I! Thank you for accepting my friend request.
Thank you for liking my very brief review of Portrait of a Lady.
Mizuki wrote: "Thanks for liking my The Invention of Morel's review! This book needs to be read by more people!"Hi Mizuki :) I enjoyed your review, and had never heard of the book. I am looking forward to reading it. Cheers.
Thanks for liking my The Invention of Morel's review! This book needs to be read by more people!
On meta-modernism, from Queen Mob's Teahouse: "...The discourse surrounding metamodernism engages with the resurgence of sincerity, hope, romanticism, affect, and the potential for grand narratives and universal truths, whilst not forfeiting all that we’ve learnt from postmodernism." http://queenmobs.com/2015/01/metamode...
Abubakar wrote: "Hello T.D, Thank you for the Friend request. Looking forward our bookish discussions."Hello Abubakar, thanks for accepting. Cheers :)
Hello T.D, Thank you for the Friend request. Looking forward our bookish discussions.
"From time to time, a writer rises up to chastise our modern squeamishness about sentimentality. In 'A Lover’s Discourse,' Barthes claims we have grown so chilly and clever that we can no longer speak of love without putting the word in mocking quotation marks." - From Should Writers Avoid Sentimentality?, by Zoe Heller and Leslie Jamison. Sept. 23, 2014, NYT Sunday Book Review http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/boo...
Jan wrote: "T.D., it's good to see your comments cropping up again. Is your sabbatical from Goodreads done (if that's an appropriate characterization)? Was it productive?"Hi, Jan :) Thanks, it's good to be back. It was productive in many ways, yes, but it also included dealing with various real-life dramas (I prefer the ones in books) and Robin and I moving to a whole new town, in the Central Highlands of Victoria. We are country folk now, and loving it. I hope all is well with you and yours.
T.D., it's good to see your comments cropping up again. Is your sabbatical from Goodreads done (if that's an appropriate characterization)? Was it productive?
Stephen wrote: "Thanks for the request T.D. Since both of us have been marriage counselors and psychotherapists, enjoy many of the same authors from Murakami to McCarthy, I really look forward to our GR Friendship."Hi, Stephen. Sorry for my late response, but I only just saw this on my status updates. I am happy to meet you, and I look forward to knowing you better, for all those reasons :)
Dolors wrote: "Good Lord TD!That was one of the best answers to my stupid question I have ever received!
Shelley, Coleridge, Whitman, Dickens, Stevens, WCW...sweet balm for my soul.
Thank you so so much for your..."
Ha ha! Sorry, Dolors, I only just saw this in my status update. I am not a minimalist, I am afraid, when it comes to raving on about books and authors!
Good Lord TD!That was one of the best answers to my stupid question I have ever received!
Shelley, Coleridge, Whitman, Dickens, Stevens, WCW...sweet balm for my soul.
Thank you so so much for your friend request, I had seen some of your comments in common GR friends and thought you very articulate and erudite. I think we'll have plenty to talk about. Have a nice day:))
Thanks for the request T.D. Since both of us have been marriage counselors and psychotherapists, enjoy many of the same authors from Murakami to McCarthy, I really look forward to our GR Friendship.
Jan wrote: "td wrote, "About me:...."In your "about me," I do believe I've found a new source of cosmic relief, td. :)"
happy to do my part, wherever I can, Jan :)
td wrote, "About me:...."In your "about me," I do believe I've found a new source of cosmic relief, td. :)
Sandra wrote: "Why, I was just not saying that! Imagine. Mine is "a dry sob caught me unawares." Well that's a cheery start to the day..."Still, a big improvement on "dry retching caught me in my underwear"
Why, I was just not saying that! Imagine. Mine is "a dry sob caught me unawares." Well that's a cheery start to the day...
I received a FB link, which suggest that you pick up the book nearest you, turn to page 52, and post sentence 5 as your status. That would be: "Kindly allow me to attend to the running of this presbytery in my own way." I almost never get to say that in real life, due to ... well, obvious reasons. It feels so important and authoritative.
Jan wrote: "I love your new profile picture. You have a beautiful smile."Oh gosh, thanks so much, Jan :)
I love your new profile picture. You have a beautiful smile.
Hi, Kris. I look forward to getting to know you and your books better ;)
Thanks so much for the friend request, td - it's a pleasure to accept it!
