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Matthew
Matthew is on page 62 of 239 of Orlando
Putting this on hold so that my friend can catch up to me. But man is it good.
Feb 12, 2023 10:32AM Add a comment
Orlando

Matthew
Matthew is on page 65 of 427 of Dracula
"My dear, I’m going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. Won’t you give me one kiss? It’ll be something to keep off the darkness now and then."
Jan 30, 2023 04:52PM Add a comment
Dracula

Matthew
Matthew is on page 260 of 380 of Sorcerer's Son
Maybe not quite the hidden gem I hoped it would be, but still good nonetheless. With a few more reading obligations now on my plate, I anticipate tucking away a chapter of Sorcerer's Son here and there before finishing it off and stamping it with a 4 that's more like a 3.5.
Jan 11, 2023 12:06PM Add a comment
Sorcerer's Son

Matthew
Matthew is on page 156 of 380 of Sorcerer's Son
What a comfort to find a page-turning fantasy novel!
Dec 29, 2022 07:50PM Add a comment
Sorcerer's Son

Matthew
Matthew added a status update
And just like that, my reading will now slow considerably for the rest of the year, as I have started grad school. May all of your 2022 reading goals come true <3
Sep 03, 2022 03:37PM Add a comment

Matthew
Matthew is on page 301 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
Melville has just introduced me to The Learned Fogo Von Slack and I will never be the same
Apr 13, 2022 02:07PM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is on page 280 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
"I am convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts."

(I slowed down with M-B, but rest assured, I will finish it, and soon I hope)
Apr 02, 2022 07:28AM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is on page 242 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
Feb 27, 2022 09:21AM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is on page 20 of 131 of Why Read Moby-Dick?
Fine dad, I'm reading it, have it your way.
Feb 24, 2022 08:49AM Add a comment
Why Read Moby-Dick?

Matthew
Matthew is on page 200 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
"If I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he’s a wonderful old man!”
“I don’t think it so strange, after all, on that account. If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know.”
“I don’t know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.”
Feb 20, 2022 09:06AM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is on page 134 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
"This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!"
Jan 30, 2022 02:07PM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is on page 80 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
"I began to be sensible of strange feelings. I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world."

"Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them."
Jan 15, 2022 01:47PM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is on page 70 of 500 of Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
Jan 14, 2022 04:42PM Add a comment
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

Matthew
Matthew is 65% done with Mr. Weston's Good Wine
Powys is clearly enjoying writing Luke Bird. This is more like the Powys I know.
Dec 04, 2021 11:20PM Add a comment
Mr. Weston's Good Wine

Matthew
Matthew is 40% done with Mr. Weston's Good Wine
Feeling strangely put out here. Compared to Unclay, this has a much herky-jerkier pace, fewer memorable characters, and obscurer and less brilliant prose. I find myself reading a few paragraphs, not really understanding what I just read, and not caring enough to try again. If I had read this before Unclay, I wouldn't have bothered reading more T.F.
Nov 16, 2021 12:56PM Add a comment
Mr. Weston's Good Wine

Matthew
Matthew is starting Mr. Weston's Good Wine
Fuck it, we're doing it. Unclay shook my world when I read it in 2019, and I hesitated to read T.F.'s other widely distributed novel in case it wasn't as good (how could it be?) But we're committed now. And I think I'll be reading a Long and Substantial Classic Novel (M___-D___?) after this.
Nov 02, 2021 08:29PM Add a comment
Mr. Weston's Good Wine

Matthew
Matthew is 33% done with Andre Gide
Guerard retrieves a startling figure at the beginning of the "Early Novels" chapter-- that, over a 60-year career, Gide published only 500,000 words, or roughly 1,000 pages. It's hard to think of a major author (nevertheless a Nobel laureate) who worked so slowly, and whose works are so frequently novellettes and novellas, autobiographical sketches, travelogues, and other "slight" pieces.
Oct 04, 2021 09:36AM Add a comment
Andre Gide

Matthew
Matthew is on page 100 of 164 of A Cat, a Man, and Two Women: Stories
The title story was excellent.
Aug 26, 2021 10:44PM Add a comment
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women: Stories

Matthew
Matthew is starting Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''
Here's something truly special; I've wanted to read Franz Kappus's letters to Rilke for such a long time. I happened upon this in a used bookshop in the West Village, and finding gems like this is exactly why one visits used bookshops.
Jun 12, 2021 11:19AM Add a comment
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

Matthew
Matthew is on page 66 of 176 of Far Out Isn't Far Enough
Ungerer is a much weirder figure than I had assumed. The frequency and detail with which he talks about slaughtering animals is disquieting, but it's the truth of farm life. His casual references to kicking dogs and fantasizing about fucking his step-sister are more inexplicable.
May 06, 2021 12:43PM Add a comment
Far Out Isn't Far Enough

Matthew
Matthew is on page 45 of 615 of Letters to Madeleine: Tender as Memory (The French List)
Apollinaire's cultural omnivorousness is of course something we love about him, but it's still surprising and impressive to see him extemporaneously opine about Cervantes and Milton, even on the Front and so far away from the comforts of home and the presence of his books.
May 02, 2021 08:38AM Add a comment
Letters to Madeleine: Tender as Memory (The French List)

Matthew
Matthew is on page 140 of 271 of Correction
sifting and sorting...
Apr 22, 2021 07:01PM Add a comment
Correction

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