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Coincidence! In this essay collection (tagged) by Hustvedt, the essay “No Competition” includes an examination of Karl Ove Knausgaard and gender roles— and I happen to be also reading his Book 4!

She says “Knausgaard does a lot of crying in *My Struggle*. His tears are not only ‘unmanly‘, they subvert the strong stoicism that permeates Norwegian culture. I know. I grew up with it.” And “A ban on tears can be hard on a sensitive child...”

Reading at the hairdresser.

Today's reading spot. I am enjoying this essay collection immensely, but the middle part, which is a lengthy piece on neurology, is a bit outside my area of interest.

Thanks for the tag - @Kaye !😀
1. 32
2. Three brothers
3. Nope
4. The tagged book
5. So many! But it's been a while since last I said Darkness At Noon
6. 😅
7. Ouagadougou (capital of Burkina Faso- I could say it all day ☺)
8. That I've never been to an English-speaking country
9. None
10. Coffee
11. A Supposedly Fun thing I'll never do Again
12. I tag all of you who haven't done this already
#hallowhoareyou @Gyldholm

Took a long weekend in Gothenburg - and what did I find? Cinnamon buns bigger than my face. Quality time indeed.

#LongestBookYouRead #AllTheBooksof2017

I thought the longest one I read this year was The Blind Assassin but this collection of essays on science, art, and philosophy by Siri Hustvedt was slightly longer. She has a deeply inquisitive and curious mind and I appreciate that in an essay-writer.

Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster are sitting in the white tent on the right and talking about novels, literature, life and all the stuff. While listening to them, I'm looking out over the ocean and feeling very zen ??

Siri Hustvedt: "Novels are the places we can have experiences we wouldn't have had otherwise" - Preach!

#louisianalit #bookwormontour

The first and third sections of this book are essays on art, philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis. Hustvedt brings a wealth of knowledge to her pieces & she's a generous thinker. Her central argument is that the mind cannot be studied as an entity abstracted from the body, and crucially, that it exists in relation to other people. The second section is a long 200+pp essay on the mind/body problem. It's dry & repetitive & it drove me nuts.

Easing into the #deweys24hourreadathon with Hustvedt, who I'm already reading. She is critiquing the arguments of people like Dawkins and Pinker, both of whom I loathe, so it's hard not to love her 😍, even if the whole second section of this book is going over my head.

Also, I think my ability to do this readathon will depend a lot on how disciplined I am about staying away from social media. 😬

Can't-read-without-pen-and-notebook kind of book. Also with the laptop nearby so I can look up literally everything Hustvedt mentions. Her breadth of knowledge is astounding. I love books that make me want to *look it up*. #currentread

Oh library, you spoil me. 📚😍

Happy birthday to one of my favorite writers, modern thinkers, and feminists - Siri Hustvedt. Kali was especially interested in looking at her latest essay collection!

#authorbirthday #littenkitten

Viv! Look what I got 😍

Went to my local indie bookstore and am instantly filled with booklust!

This lovely brick of a book requires attention, a pencil, sticky notes, a notebook. I feel deep thoughts gathering! After all, this is Hustvedt's stated mission: that the reader "will discover that much of what is delivered to you in the form of books, media, and the Internet as decided truths, scientific or otherwise, are in fact open to question and revision." #challengeaccepted

Happiness. 💜

Emotions cannot be fictive. If I am afraid or joyous when I dream or when I read a book or when I am inventing people and their stories in my novels, the love and fear I feel is real even though the characters are not. This is the truth of fiction.

The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.

#TBRtemptation! Found this thick essay collection in the sociology section of my bookstore. Just came out this month! She attempts to bridge the humanities with the hard sciences, writing essays on a wide variety of topics: art & literature through biases; feminism; the mind/body dichotomy; desire; imagination; neurological disorders; suicide; hysteria Sounds like an interesting viewpoint on various important topics! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Really looking forward to reading this essay collection

This #SockSunday is brought to you by the awesome socks that @Betty gave me for the #wintersolsticebookexchange and this awesome collection of essays my grandma gifted me for Christmas!

bookmail! quite an interesting haul if I say so myself!

#womenwriters #feminism

I could read Hustvedt's essays all day, unfortunately I can only sip on one or two at a time with my morning coffee because I keep joyfully turning to my laptop to look up an artist, novel or scientific principle I'm not familiar with. Pick up this book, expand your view of art and science.

woo hoo! 😁🎉

#bookmail from my friend ar Simon & Schuster. I won't be able to dig into this meaty read for a while, but I am glad to have it in my "to read" collection.

I didn't much care for her 2003 novel 'What I Loved.' Maybe I'd like her essays more?