Humboldt's Gift | 
Why I still read Bellow.
Henderson the Rain King
#bookplates Haven‘t posted one for awhile.Always fun finding these in a used book purchase ! Added value.😄
pickCharlie Citrine has made a bit of a mess of his life - can a gift from his deceased former friend, and poet, Von Humboldt Fleisher turn his life around?
This is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel and is very dense and intense - it took a long time to read but the storytelling is brilliant.
My only gripe would be that it is SO intense and involving that it is a little bit exhausting - perhaps there could have been a little more light and shade.
#weeklyforecast
I picked out the tagged book from my ‘birthday picking jar‘, from the lovely @gradcat ... I made a start on it today Minette and enjoying it so far!
Definitely going to read ‘The Boy...‘ (from the equally lovely @KarenUK ) during this festive week.
Other than that there‘s a Christmas Eve surprise of course and then we‘ll see what Santa brings 🎅❤️
Thank you so much for the lovely gift @gradcat - so nice to come home from work to bookish surprises! And what a lovely bag it came in too. I‘m very much looking forward to reading this and I‘m so lucky to have met you as a friend on here! 😘
so-soI really liked this to begin with, and I loved the writing style, but I got a bit lost in what was going on and felt like good writing had to be backed up by more happening, or me being prompted to think about more things. I felt like we circled around the same themes a lot and I‘d have liked some more development. #1001books
I started keeping a list of books I read in 1977. These pages show the books I read thru 2008. From 1-1-09 I have tracked my reading on LT. The first books listed in 1977 were Humbolt‘s Gift, What I‘m Going To Do I Think, Tristram Shandy, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Japanese Stories, Pickwick Papers, Auto-de-Fe, Riders in the Chariot, The Painted Bird, African Stories, & Middlemarch. I think I read more seriously then.
It‘s really not about my receiving the gifts...it‘s more to do with the way the gifts “stand in” for the giver.
As the gift prompts my memory, it‘s as if the presence of the giver is there, right in front of my mind....
#Gratitude30 #Gift
@hermyknee
This may be blasphemy but I dislike the majority of Bellow‘s books with a passion that comes close to hatred. I find them tedious to read and feels like I‘m trying to run through a pit of treacle.
I‘m trying to read this for our 1001 group but the struggle is real. It‘s very helpful for sleeping. I shudder to think of how many more I need to read to make my way through the 1001 list.
Saul Bellow is recomended by both Obama and Ann Patchett. How can one go wrong?
#yellowcovers #riotgrams
found some yellow covers ! Sometimes you don't know what is lurking in the bookcase😃
Remembering Saul Bellow, who died on this day, April 5, in 2005.
