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What are we reading? 31st August 2021
Greenfairy wrote: "One of my grandsons has discovered The Midnight Folk, so I have ordered him a copy along with The Box of Delights- I don't think I will be able to resist a re- read myself..."I still have my very old-and now getting very fragile- Puffin copies of both The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights and reread them regularly, especially at Christmas but at other times too! Wonderful books both! I also have the DVD of the dramatized version of The Box, with Patrick Troughton as Cole Hawlings and a wonderful cast! I watch it every Christmas.
In "Box", Masefield conveys the same mysterious feeling as Rider Haggard in "She"..... as in the part about Aurelia Stiborough burying the Box.... I am always reminded of Dorothea Vincey "In earth and skie and sea, strange thynges there be"..... Which brings me to more 17th century mystery....Toby, Alexander, and Linnet in The Children of Green Knowe........
In 2019, my brother, for Xmas, bought us all-the family- tickets for a stage version of The Box of Delights in a small theater in the East End. We all went one evening and it was wonderful-it was the most perfect Christmas gift and so imaginative! Despite having grown up in London and lived there until I finished my PhD, I had never visited the East End-it was truly another world..... The theater where this was staged, Wilton's, is an old former music hall a block or two away from Cable Street (The Siege of). I recommend a visit. Great fun and the most perfect Christmas outing!
https://wiltons.org.uk/about/mission
My gift to the family that year was to take everyone out for a pre-Christmas dinner to Simpsons in the Strand! It was sumptuous! With hindsight, 2019 was truly a memorable Christmas visit, and a gift that has helped me get through the last 18 months.
AB76 wrote: "MK wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Regarding the comments on Anne Applebaum, i must say that her and Timothy Snyder have done a lot for the history of the borderlands between the Hapsburg Lands and the Tsaris..."Here's another - Serhii Plokhy. I particularly liked his - The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. He may be a prof. at Harvard, but he is nice and lucid for this general reader.
And now I real
Sandya wrote: "Greenfairy wrote: "One of my grandsons has discovered The Midnight Folk, so I have ordered him a copy along with The Box of Delights- I don't think I will be able to resist a re- read myself..."I..."
Wonderful memories Sandya! I am reminded of The Dark is Rising series I wonder if Folk and Box inspired them?
Greenfairy wrote: "Sandya wrote: "Greenfairy wrote: "One of my grandsons has discovered The Midnight Folk, so I have ordered him a copy along with The Box of Delights- I don't think I will be able to resist a re- rea..."No idea as I haven't read that series.......
Speaking of Eastern Europe, here's a Serbian author I've just heard about after reading a review of his book Burn-Out n a French journal. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to have been translated into English yet but there are two novels that have been done into French, Burn-Out and L'Égout. Both sound really interesting.
MK wrote: "On the odd chance that someone here might be interested in looking at a private castle in Yakima (of all places!) WA - here's a link.https://preservewa.org/events/westhome/
I was lucky enough to..."
You never know where collections will show up. My parents once found a collection of Rodin pieces in a little site in Oregon.
LeatherCol wrote: "AB76 wrote: "September is one of my favourite times of year, autumn my favourite season, as it reminds me of the now long gone smells and thoughts of new school years, university terms and the end ..."Hej LC! I was thinking of you. Last month Copenhagen held world pride and as we were watching the closing parade a contingent (maybe phalanx?) of leathermen appeared. Of course, I couldn't help but wonder if you were among them, though I was sure you weren't.
As to the seasons and the months, right now Denmark is giving of its very best in full measure: endless blue skies, warm days, soft breezes, crisp evenings and nights. Strolling through Assistens Kirkegård at 8.30am yesterday morning was almost like taking a refreshing plunge.
MK wrote: "AB76 wrote: "MK wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Regarding the comments on Anne Applebaum, i must say that her and Timothy Snyder have done a lot for the history of the borderlands between the Hapsburg Lands a..."i'm a fan of Plokhiy and he is writing a lot nowadays, want to read his book on Chernobyl too
Veufveuve wrote: "LeatherCol wrote: "AB76 wrote: "September is one of my favourite times of year, autumn my favourite season, as it reminds me of the now long gone smells and thoughts of new school years, university..."Its even warmer here in South East Blighty, this morning its 18.5c as i type, very mild for mid-ish September......i welcome the last breaths of summer, would prefer a slower transition generally in Sept..to the first cool airs of autumn
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That would be Maryhill Museum of Art, located quite literally in the middle of nowhere near Goldendale, WA*. In addition to the Rodin pieces, the permanent collection includes over 300 chess sets; mannequins and other artifacts from the Théâtre de la Mode; Eastern Orthodox icons, some donated by Queen Marie of Romania (who dedicated the museum in 1926), memorabilia from Loïe Fuller; an outdoor sculpture garden (where peacocks roamed the last time I was there) and a concrete replica of Stonehenge. I love that place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhil...
*It's actually located on the Washington side of the Columbia River, in the eastern end of the Columbia Gorge.
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I love Copenhagen. How I would like to be paying a 4th visit there ...
And going back to the Louisiana Modern Art Museum - one of the most magical museum visits I've made, we were lucky enough to go there on a beautiful day. For those who don't know it, it's near the sea, one can see Sweden across the sound, and set in beautiful gardens with statues by Moore, Calder ... The owner of the original house was married 3 times and all his wives were called Louise, hence the name.
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I expect to spend the next 48 hours or so crying.
A wee trip out on Tuesday, slightly disappointed in the books on offer in the charity shops I investigated, but came home with An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019. Just a few pages in but looking promising so far.
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I liked it - I hope you continue to find it good.
Lljones wrote: "I was living in Seattle on September 11th, 2001. My mother was still alive, one of my brothers was living with me to help with her care. I was up at 5:46 PST, watching morning news and preparing to..."On that day i had secured a new job, only my second in my career and was spending it relaxing and walking the family dog, was still living at home having moved back after graduating in 1999
As i came in the front door, around lunchtime my brother said "a plane has flown into the trade towers", i didnt believe it and we both went to switch on the tv and i then watched for the next few hours stunned. In a tv movie sure that could happen, in real life....no chance but this was real life
I will always remember telling my father, he had been out with the sheep(something he is still doing to this day) and when i told him, he looked more shocked than i have ever seen him, he came in to watch and his face was still shocked, unbelieving,
No tears from any of us but profound shock......which lasted for days....
Had to drop "Gull" by Glenn Patterson. I've read so many good Ulster novels (mostly classics) in the last four years that my standards are high and this just drifted onwards without a real sense of depthInitially the subject matter was solid and should usually keep me interested but by mid way, it was just another modern novel without any reason for me to continue reading sadly
It must have been about 15 years after Mt. St Helens blew her top that I drove the recently constructed/paved? road to Spirit Lake. I will not forget that point where the road curved, and we went from lush green forest to a stark brown land where trees lay on the earth like so many match sticks - all in the same direction.I remembered that scene when I watched this clip - https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/1...
Lljones wrote: "I was living in Seattle on September 11th, 2001. My mother was still alive, one of my brothers was living with me to help with her care. I was up at 5:46 PST, watching morning news and preparing to..."I too was living in Seattle on 9/11/2001! I was at that time Director of Foundation Relations at UW. That morning, I had to go to a federal building about renewing my green card and I knew nothing, only to arrive at an empty federal building with the news on the big screen TVs and guards armed to the teeth everywhere......
That week I had a hard foundation grant submission deadline on 9/15-to the Keck Foundation in CA, and the proposal had to be submitted on time as it had $2-3M riding on it. However, US airspace was shut down so there was no fedex service, and I had to call the Foundation for advice-at that time the Keck Foundation only accepted hardcopy submissions. The Foundation staff had a meeting about it and got back to me. For the first time ever they allowed electronic submission! It was not until the next Monday that I finally had leisure to react, and I was so upset I had to request time off, which was granted. The grant proposal was funded. Grant proposal submission deadlines are carved in granite.
9/11 reading from twitter: a large selection of cartoons from Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2002 Edition
https://twitter.com/KikiRosecrans/sta...
9/11 - I was having lunch and watching the news, at the time that one tower had been hit. I shall never forget the shock of the news presenter as she watched the second hit, thinking at first that it was a replay; then it dawned on her that it was a second strike on a second tower. words to the effect of "that isn't the same tower, this isn't an accident,"
Big thanks to Veufveuve; I have just finished reading The Merchant of Prato which I really enjoyed and found very interesting. So much material from one person's life. I would give the book 5 stars if it had included translations of some of the older Tuscan Italian. You certainly get a great idea of what life was like for someone of his class, although I don't think he would have been the best of bosses to work for - OCD comes to mind. Or just bossy!Now on to Georges Duby's William, The Flower of Chivalry, Marshall as recommended by Slawkenbergius. Bit Shakespearean in that it takes 18 of the book for him to die😀 , although at the beginnning of the book!! But I think I am going to enjoy it very much.
giveusaclue wrote: "9/11 - I was having lunch and watching the news, at the time that one tower had been hit. I shall never forget the shock of the news presenter as she watched the second hit, thinking at first that ..."forgot to add earlier that i saw the second tower impact almost live, just as the plane hit, which was possibly the grimmest "live" situation i have ever seen, i missed the first plane hitting and then followed the inevitable concern that maybe one tower would collapse and things got even worse , when both collapsed.
of the scary events in my lifetime, only Chernobyl and the 7/7 attacks in london can compare and 9/11 was live on tv, the other events were relayed in newspapers and reports.....
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MSNBC is re-airing the original broadcasts from that day, starting tonight at midnight EST.
Lljones wrote: "AB76 wrote: "...and 9/11 was live on tv"MSNBC is re-airing the original broadcasts from that day, starting tonight at midnight EST."
thanks LL, it does feel like a long time ago, i usually find myself disagreeing with my inner self when i say that to people but 2001 was such a different world, a more hopeful time in some ways(before 9/11), with the tory party in the UK a battered and shabby collection of knaves.
It still is a battered and shabby collection of knaves but sadly in power and disrupting every facet of political life
MK wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Regarding the comments on Anne Applebaum, i must say that her and Timothy Snyder have done a lot for the history of the borderlands between the Hapsburg Lands and the Tsarist borders w..."Because i have strong connections with Bulgaria after living there for some time in the 90s and have visited the country many times since I read Kapka Kassabova's first book A Street with No Name about growing up in communist Sofia. It was difficult for me to relate to her very apparent and strong dislike for not just the communist system but the country now and Bulgarians. She was particularly and unnecessarily disparaging about an older woman she met in a beautiful wooden church in Plovdiv. Bulgarians I knew who read her book detested it. They considered her family have been privileged and well connected as they were able to work abroad during communism and emigrate very soon after its fall. Having said all that Kassabova writes very well so I did read Border, a rather less sour account of Bulgaria's borders with Greece and Turkey, how populations from each have chosen or been forced or prevented crossing these borders , including East German tourists in the past and refugees now trying to find escape routes to the west.
Jeffrey Archer...Dont want to bring the literary tone down too far but as i am enjoying the first of his prison diaries, i wonder has anyone read or enjoyed his fiction?
I think Uk satirical quiz show Have i Got News For You managed to get him a reputation as a terrible author and am now wondering if thats fair...
AB76 wrote: "Jeffrey Archer...Dont want to bring the literary tone down too far but as i am enjoying the first of his prison diaries, i wonder has anyone read or enjoyed his fiction?
I think Uk satirical qui..."
Never read his books but I have met his wife, Mary, a formidable woman. She had the sort of gaze that could drop a deer at twenty paces...
Tam wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Jeffrey Archer...Dont want to bring the literary tone down too far but as i am enjoying the first of his prison diaries, i wonder has anyone read or enjoyed his fiction?
I think Uk ..."
she seems very much his rock in the diary
Lljones wrote: "Robert wrote: "You never know where collections will show up. My parents once found a collection of Rodin pieces in a little site in Oregon...."That would be Maryhill Museum of Art, located quite..."
Yes, that's right. They loved the place.
Haven't read any Jeffrey Archer but I have no problem with reading "airport novels" now and then, if that's what he writes. I haven't been doing much of it the last few years, apart from the odd detective or thriller, but I expect to get back to it eventually. I'm thinking of writers like Arthur Hailey, if Archer falls into that sort of best-seller category.
Tam wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Jeffrey Archer...Dont want to bring the literary tone down too far but as i am enjoying the first of his prison diaries, i wonder has anyone read or enjoyed his fiction?
I think Uk ..."
I remember that the best line at his libel trial against the Star newspaper came from the hooker: "Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this to your wife?"
Why, indeed? Sadly, Archer's victory against the tabloid paper was achieved through perjury. Off to jail he went.
The wife, I gather, is still married to him. She may have a glance that could turn a man to stone.
Machenbach wrote: I liked the fact that the painter - almost certainly not a woman - thereby managed to sympathetically signal a certain amount of WTF-ness for the women to ponder whilst they were excluded...Ha, this is great! Love the writing in the paintings, too. Is it names only?
I took pictures but it was dark and they came out crappy.
https://i.postimg.cc/zDQhJD6w/IMG-521...
https://i.postimg.cc/RZ4KYs22/IMG-523...
Your examples are not as gorily drastic as Artemisia Gentileschi's biblical take on Judith and Holofernes (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis...), but still...
(I was thinking of Gentileschi recently, regarding male gaze: Her take is an unusual one for the Susanna and the Elders motiv. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:S...)
(We as spectators seem very much included in the F off gesture.)
LeatherCol wrote: "Veufveuve wrote: "LeatherCol wrote: "AB76 wrote: "September is one of my favourite times of year, autumn my favourite season, as it reminds me of the now long gone smells and thoughts of new school..."Hej man! Of course I thought of you! How could I not! And yes we did enjoy it very much, and the drag night in Faelledparken, which was a lot of fun. I hope I got it too. So glad also that your friends felt welcomed and appreciated.
Reading! Ugh, total doldrums almost all year - I've no idea why. It's meant I've been around here very little.
And I may have spoken too soon about the weather - the familiar grey and drizzle has returned. If yesterday was the last hurrah of summer then it was a very fine one - after teaching I enjoyed an hour of sunshine and beer on the terraces of Cafe Svejk (to get in at least one literary reference).
But so good to see you.
@Gpfr - I've not been Louisiana yet, but I know it's a must.
giveusaclue wrote: "Big thanks to Veufveuve; I have just finished reading The Merchant of Prato which I really enjoyed and found very interesting. So much material from one person's life. I would give the book 5 stars..."Oh, that's wonderful - I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Stefan Zweig came up quite often recently, thanks to Hushpuppy favouring his novellas as well as his only completed novel, Beware of Pity, also recommended by AB, and Tam taking on The World of Yesterday. And there are other fans here, too.
Zweig's fans were numerous in his time as well, he was a bestseller in many countries around the world.
This volume with four of his novellas is a little treasure to me.
I treasure it for many reasons.
Zweig, much different from his friend Joseph Roth, was very unwilling to believe in the consequences the Nazi regime would bring about. He had such acclaim and status as a writer, and he strongly believed that, in essence, people were good. He could not envisage what was to follow.
The writing here says that the book was printed as part of a run of 61 000 to 100 000 exemplars. This was a lot for the time.
(I am sorry for the bad focus, I thought it would suffice but it turns out not.)
It struck me that this little book would have been published just a few years before Stefan Zweig's books, as so many others, came to be burned:
(Edit: Here is a direct link for a better-quality view: https://i.postimg.cc/cLfKdbFR/IMG-742...)
Unfortunately, there is no date of publication to be found, but you can see from the dates attached to the stories that this book would have been published in the early thirties, not that long before Zweig and his wife Charlotte Elisabeth Altmann, as so many others, were driven into exile.
As Volker Weidermann writes in his Das Buch der verbrannten Bücher (book of burnt books), unlike the work of other authors whose books were meant to be destroyed, Stefan Zweig's writing has never been forgotten and he remains popular.
In his last letter before his suicide, he described himself as
a man for whom cultural work has always been his purest happiness and personal freedom – the most precious of possessions on this earthI am glad that his cultural work persists, and that other lesser-known authors whose books were confiscated are being rediscovered - such as Irmgard Keun, another author mentioned this week.
Happy to share this with you, as I did in my reading group recently. (Though one member stuck their hand in the book and then closed it with the other hand and kept it that way for a couple of minutes, absent-mindedly - ouch!)
And, in commemoration, here is a list with authors' names and book titles of the books which were burnt: http://www.verbrannte-buecher.de/?pag...
Continuing with Stefan Zweig's novellas for a bit:@ Hushpuppy, you asked about my favourites. As I wrote earlier, it's really difficult, but besides "Burning Secret", "Confusion of Feelings", "Chess Novella", I would strongly recommend "The invisible Collection" and "Episode at Geneva Lake" - the latter two being included in the little volume I posted above.
"The Amok Runner" is great for the first part on board the ship and looking into the skies, but then it declines very strongly in my view. It was defended by another member of the reading group though, most valiantly. But then he is of the persuasion that Zweig is always great!
I was not too happy with "Letter of an Unknown Woman", which you mentioned as your least favourite either! And one member of my reading group really, really disliked it (female self-negation, and focusing so strongly on her son as an image of his father).
Everyone agreed on liking "Burning Secret", and some were a little confused by "Confusion of Feelings". Ha.
Intensity is the word that came up most in our discussions, as well as feverish. We were agreed on not being able to read one novella straight after the other.
Which favourites and dislikes do others here recall?
I'm feverish with book lust. I have a pile of seven books demanding my attention and there are so many others that I feel like ordering - a glorious predicament. Spring has begun and I'm feeling a rare sense of optimism. I am jovial.
Excellent, Sydney!That's great to hear. Will you share which are your seven attention-demanding finds?
I am off to read Hilary Mantel's Fludd now. Cosidering Justine's review, I do expect it to be "cheering and refreshing" (quote from Justine, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)!
Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "Excellent, Sydney!That's great to hear. Will you share which are your seven attention-demanding finds?"
First, I'd like to say thank you. I've just been admiring The Post Office Girl and The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig, thanks to your post. I may have to investigate.
I should say I have six demanding my attention - I'm currently reading The Princess Casamassima by Henry James, which is decent, though I covet the others. I have The Gothic Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle also, which I figure I can dip into whenever I feel in a rut. A delivery of five books arrived for me during the week: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Tolstoy; The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard; Of Love and Other Demons by Garcia Marquez; Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon; and East, West by Salman Rushdie. The Howard is long, but the others are short.
Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "Stefan Zweig came up quite often recently, thanks to Hushpuppy favouring his novellas as well as his only completed novel, Beware of Pity, also recommended by AB, and Ta..."a great writer, i have a few collections of his novellas (nothing as lovely as your volume shelf, i love the gothic script!.
His life covered three worlds really (Hapsburg Youth, Inter War Austria and then the hell of WW2)
SydneyH wrote: "I'm feverish with book lust. I have a pile of seven books demanding my attention and there are so many others that I feel like ordering - a glorious predicament. Spring has begun and I'm feeling a ..."the best situation a booklover can have sydney, too much choice!
Berkley wrote: "Haven't read any Jeffrey Archer but I have no problem with reading "airport novels" now and then, if that's what he writes. I haven't been doing much of it the last few years, apart from the odd de..."alongside Harold Robbins in the airport bookshops....oh how i miss train station and airport bookstores. that hour b4 a flight or trip browsing,something for the journey..magazine...book..etc....never a Robbins or an Archer book though!
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Has anyone else seen the film about the end of his life, Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe? As I remember, it had mixed reviews at the time and I had mixed feelings about it, but looking back quite a lot of scenes have stayed in my mind.
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She is an Indian journalist. Her first trip to Kabul was in 2006, 5 years after the overthrow of the Taliban government, with her husband, to teach video production techniques to employees of a TV station. She returned there several times between 2006 and 2013.
I know very little about Kabul. In the light of current events, it's difficult reading in many ways, but very interesting.
Picking up on booklookers (296) Nazi book burning comment:"The Burning of Books" by Bertolt Brecht (my amateur translation and formatting))
When the regime commanded that harmful books
should be publicly burned, and everywhere
oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
to the pyres, one disdained writer,one of the best,
studied the list of the ostracized and was horrified
to find that his books had been spared.
Filled with wrath he rushed to his desk
and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me!
Do not do this to me! Do not leave me out! Have I not
always told the truth in my books? And now
you are treating me like a liar! I command you, burn me!
("Bücherverbrennung"
Als das Regime befahl, Bücher mit schädlichem Wissen
Öffentlich zu verbrennen, und allenthalben
Ochsen gezwungen wurden, Karren mit Büchern
Zu den Scheiterhaufen zu ziehen, entdeckte
Ein verjagter Dichter, einer der besten, die Liste der
Verbrannten studierend, entsetzt, daß seine
Bücher vergessen waren. Er eilte zum Schreibtisch
Zornbeflügelt, und schrieb einen Brief an die Machthaber:
Verbrennt mich! schrieb er mit fliegender Feder, verbrennt mich!
Tut mir das nicht an! Laßt mich nicht übrig! Habe ich nicht
Immer die Wahrheit berichtet in meinen Büchern? Und jetzt
Werd ich von euch wie ein Lügner behandelt! Ich befehle euch, Verbrennt mich!)
The writer was Oscar Maria Graf. Two days after the book burnings his open letter "Burn me!" was published in the the Austrian "Arbeiter-Zeitung" (he stayed in Vienna at the time):
...I ask myself in vain: how I have deserved this ignominy? ...I have not earned this dishonour!... After my whole life and all of my writing I have the right to demand for my books to be consigned to the pure flames of the pyre, rather than fall into the bloody hands and the diseased minds of the brown murderous mob!
Burn the works of the German spirit! It will be as inextinguishable as your disgrace!
Unlike most German exiled writers Graf was not an urbane person. A baker by trade he grew up in rural Bavaria and was very attached to his "Heimat". He spent his first years of exile, 1933-38, in Austria and Czechoslovakia before emigrating to New York. He died there in 1967. The only time he set foot on German soil again was for a visit in 1958.
Georg wrote: "Picking up on booklookers (296) Nazi book burning comment:"The Burning of Books" by Bertolt Brecht (my amateur translation and formatting))
When the regime commanded that harmful books
should b..."
would be interesting to get a definite list of all the books and artworks the Nazi's declared "degenerate" and the books burnt on that famous day. I tried to explore the opposite angle, Nazi sponsored art and fiction, i found some artworks(generally rather eerie) but not many works of fiction(probably pretty unreadable). I guess Heidegger covers nazi philosophy and Schmitt legal theoryl.
Unlike the communists, the nazi's had less time to create a hateful world of sponsored state mush.
Checking in from 1900 metres up in the highest municipality in Spain, Valdelinares, a brief catch up on my reading in the last week. Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Journey by Paolo Cognetti, translated by Stash Luczkiw.
Rather than fiction, which I have enjoyed from Cognetti previously, The Eight Mountains, this is a short piece of non-fiction about a journey the author makes in the Nepalese Himalaya, specifically the Dolpo region. It is, in effect, a homage to The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen, as Cognetti follows in his footsteps.
Why not settle for reading The Snow Leopard one may well ask. I haven’t read it, yet.. And Cognetti does write very well, so for me it’s been like a long recommendation, completed with the occasional memorable sentence or passage which was the feature of his earlier work.
One of my teachers said that borders are particularly odious in the mountains, because on both sides of the watershed the same grain is cultivated, the same beasts graze, they have the same customs..
And, on finishing The Snow Leopard for the second time..
..the kind of sadness that only readers know, the nostalgia for finished books..
And I am steadily plodding through Angela Carter’s short stories. This morning I really enjoyed The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe. I expect Poe must have been one of her great influences, at least to her horror writing.
It contains a wonderful sentence of the great author’s father’s demise..
Then, before his sons’ bewildered eyes, their father became insubstantial. He unbecame.
I often read novels in translation, and this set me thinking how much I miss by not reading in the book’s original language.. that ‘unbecame’.. if it’s not a word, it certainly should be.
AB76 wrote: "Georg wrote: "Picking up on booklookers (296) Nazi book burning comment:"The Burning of Books" by Bertolt Brecht (my amateur translation and formatting))
When the regime commanded that harmful b..."
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/explor...
The V &A has a list...
Andy wrote: "Checking in from 1900 metres up in the highest municipality in Spain, Valdelinares, a brief catch up on my reading in the last week. Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Journey by..."
good to see you on your travels in this covid-era, i would imagine you are dwelling off the beaten track?
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