Name of the Rose | 
pickOne of my all-time favorite books. The most impressive part of this book is the lack of anachronisms. You feel like you're literally in the mind if a 14th century monk with all the worldviews and biases that go with it.
Have Wikipedia and Google translate open unless you're an accomplished polyglot of Indo-European languages. Eco was an erudite scholar of languages, history, and literature, and he doesn't hold back or dumb anything down.
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 67.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
so-so*drumrolls*
I'M DONE! IT'S OVER! 🎉
So, here it is...
honestly, the story is pretty good: it has its Sherlock Holmes moments, which are pretty great. It's just way too long for the story it is... it could have lasted less than half the pages and still be a good book.
I somehow got the impression that Guglielmo da Baskerville was sort of an alias for Eco himself, showing off how much the author was cultured. I might be wrong, but that's how I felt.
Since I have to drive everyday 1h back and forth to get to work, I've decided to give audiobooks another try.
I started reading this book when I was 16 and bailed after a few chapter because Eco is such a complex author with a difficult (and often annoying and boring) style. Maybe listening to the audiobook won't seem such a big effort considering I'll be doing something else meanwhile.
I'll let you know if I get through it all this time! 🌙
Finally starting this #santathing gift! #librarything
I tried to read this many years ago and have meant ever since to give it another strong effort. One of these days. #roses #literarylove
Lucky find for $1 at the library. I saw the movie years ago, barely remember it but know I liked it. Seems like a good book for this cold snowy week. Also a good fiction to switch back and forth with while reading about the Templars.
I‘m starting my first #NewYearWhoDis read today, and it ticks off the #192019 challenge, too!
This book appears on both Boxall‘s and Mustich‘s must-Read lists, so I‘ve got high hopes!
bailedEco spends 6 pgs describing a door. I mean, it‘s a fancy door. But I don‘t think any door is a 6-pg door. I struggled thru 57 pgs of this doorstop, & I just cannot any longer. The very brief flashes of humor & the cool Sherlock Holmes-style detective monk just aren‘t worth slogging thru this beast. And also...so much Latin. So much.
Greetings from the Outer Banks in North Carolina. On vacation with my wife @EricaCurtis11 the next few days reading on the beach and hoping to crank through my long-TBR'd copy of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Next up: Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. Enjoy the remainder of the summer. Remember, the best season is right around the corner.
My AirBnB host had a copy in Italian on her shelf!
Reading in the Bardini Gardens on my last day in Florence-tomorrow I‘m off to Naples (lots of reading time on the train)!
Doing some reading of The Name of the Rose in the Boboli Gardens 😊🥀🌹🌱📖
Reading The Name of the Rose in front of the Basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi. It‘s so fun to read a book set in Italy while in Italy, plus it takes place in a time period I‘m learning so much about on this trip 🤗
That feeling when you‘ve finished your final exam and you just want to read allllllll the books!!! 😃 I‘ve hardly read any novels lately so I‘ve got some serious catching up to do with the #whodunituk and readalong books! Ahhh, it‘s gonna be an awesome wkend!!!
Thank you @Karkar for the generous giveaway - but picking just one favorite is a real challenge! This is one of my all-time favorites. It has an abbey, a library, rare books, travelers, murder, lust, greed, and all the other good stuff 😉 I would love to read The Librarian of Auschwitz. #FictionalLibrarians #Libraries #Librarians #mystery #HistoricalFiction
Brother William is sent to an Italian abbey with a famous library to investigate a mysterious death. There is also a #lostbook by Aristotle to locate, the key to the mystery.
I loved this book. It's part #crime novel, part medieval library porn, and part philosophical treatise. Satisfying on all fronts!
#maylovesclassics @sarah83 @Bambolina_81 #oldcoolbooks @Linsy
No #incunabulum lying about so since my current read features monks working in a scriptorium, I went with that.
Still enjoying the tagged book, although monks' ideas about women are not so nice.😒
#oldcoolbooks @Linsy
My #fivestack of Umberto Eco's books I've bought before and after reading the Name of the Rose. I loved it so much I want all the series collected. From top to bottom: Foucault's Pendulum, Numero Zero, tagged book itself, The Prague Cemetery and Baudolino. Gorgeous editions for excellent books ❤️ And two more to find at the booksellers.
#readingresolutions
@Jess7
TOTALLY SUCKED IN. 😯
I may need to get a print copy as well.
(I usually don't like super plotty books...but occasionally one gets me and I am obsessed!)
When your husband mentions he wants to read a Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and then the next day you go to a library book sale and it‘s there so you pick it up for him. #wifeywin
I guess I‘m really into read books right now? 🤷♀️
Get it?! 😀 Read... like red! ❤️
SIGH. It‘s too early 😂
#SorryNotSorry
#ImBadAtPuns
1. For tagged book I can't say that it had the biggest impact on my life, but it certainly had a huge impact on my reading life - I realized what it means multilayered writing.
2. I would love to spend a few days with Mitford sisters.
3. Not respecting my personal space.
4. @Dulcinella @ephemeralwaltz @oOArankaOo
Thank you @Moray_Reads for the tag.
#tuesdaytidbits
Uh oh! High praise from the literary, philosophical, and artistic capital of the world! 😂
#Pittsburgh
#IJokeButILoveIt
#BurghBaby4Life
pickKinda like if Chidi from the Good Place wrote the Davinci Code in the 14th century? There is code ciphering and tons of murders (so MANY murders) but mostly there are a lot of beautiful philosophical musings and logic dissection with very long descriptions of 14th century monk life. Super slow but somehow enjoyable.
Lots of #Secrets are hidden in this monastery, especially its library.
Who hasn't read this book or seen the film and dreamt of visiting this library just once?
BTW, I've imagined the library at Kvothe's university to be similar to the one in Name of the Rose. Heck, even the book titles are similar.
#HeartsAndHardcovers @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
My #10authorrecommendations is combination of authors writing nonfiction and/or fiction books.
Thank you @batsy for tag and I‘m tagging @Shannon_McKinney @DebbieGrillo @morgan_krahn and @TK421
pickMost difficult fiction book I've read in a while, but after the first 100 pages, strangely unputdownable.
Couldn't decide, who the better #JackOfAllTrades is Kvothe or Brother William of Baskerville?
#Characters2017
@LibrarianRyan
Starting this one. I think little miss Evie is trying to get on my good side after a 2 1/2 hour chase through our new neighborhood yesterday.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
pickI tried to read this before, but I don't think I was ready for it. A decade or two later and I really truly enjoyed this complex, atmospheric and scholarly adventure.
so-soI'd hyped this book up so much that actually reading it was disappointing. I absolutely loved the premise of detective work in the Middle Ages, but I seriously underestimated both the extent and the importance of the theological discussions within the book, which I found difficult to digest. It ultimately felt like slogging through one of my old college courses. If you're down for in-depth analyses of the likelihood that Jesus laughed, try it...?
#bookwithinabook and a #library and #murder and ...
Loved this book so much - once I got past the prologue - that I read it several times.
#readjanuary
@RealLifeReading
bailedOk I cannot listen on audio. Seems like it could be a good story it is too involved to listen to in bursts. I'll have to get the book as I'm already too confused and it's only chapter 3. Some books are better read than listened to I think.
I don't have any books set in bookstores, but for #setinalibrary this seems an obvious choice. Though technically set in a monastery with a library that's off limits, it is definitely all about the library. #SeasonsReadings2016
I was so busy this week I forgot all about #historymonth 😨 So to make it up to you, medieval manuscripts! This is why I studied the middle ages. These Illuminated manuscripts are beautiful beyond belief. This is a small catalogue of the collection of a Dutch museum. I was lucky enough to see some illuminated manuscripts in real life and it was amazing! Pair ofc with Umberto Eco's masterpiece and Bischoff's influential work on Latin paleograohy.
I love Umberto's fiction and nonfiction books, especially his works about semiotics. In the photo from the bottom to the top: History of Ugliness, The Infinity List, Turning Back the Clock (in Slovenian), The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendalum. In the stack are missing The Name of the Rose, History of Beauty and Baudolino (currently they're with my friend).
#augustphotochallenge #bookstacks
pickI love this book! It's wonderfully written, at times a pain to get through, and worth it every time!
