pickKind of quirky but sometimes poetic story of Laurel who loses her father and is thinking about others who are gone.
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pickKind of quirky but sometimes poetic story of Laurel who loses her father and is thinking about others who are gone.
Starting a book of fiction that is supposed to be a modern classic.
pickSo very much to think about!! Wow. Packs a punch and not only because it is about grief but about personality, society expectations (and burdens) and perception. Would be a terrific book club book IF you have a trusting group to share personal honest discussions. (I do not 😕)
Sharing the bloom of my Christmas Cactus and another #BookSpinBingo 4th row. Should still get 2 more! 🎉
Who‘s read this Welty? What did you think?
#CC50_part2 #classic
What‘s better than receiving a postcard out of the blue and finding the referenced quote a few days later? Not much, a few things, maybe; these are the simple joys that delight. The universe reinforcing my reading choices! #CC50 #Cc50_part2
I have to honest, I seriously had a moment of cold emptiness in my gut when I realized that I wasn‘t sure what my next book was to be. 😱 Then I remembered I have my Bingo card to guide me. I am choosing the novella* by Welty and not just because it sits ready nor because it is short, and a classic, and it won the Pulitzer AND fave author A.Patchett cites her as an influence. But because ALL of this together. #CC50_part2 #ClassicsClub
No book buying ban in my house! Bought these beauties today. Only In Concrete by Anne Garreta and the Baldwin were planned; for #Tob2022 and #BookSpinBingo respectively. Excited for Disreputable History for #ReadICT (been on my tbr forever!) the Pachett and the Quindlen because of author. The Rachel Long for my #PoetryEveryDay project. 😁💖📚💪🌻
pickThis was such a wonderful slow, meditative look at death, grief and recovery and I‘m so glad I read it now - I‘m very stressed in my life right now trying to move into my first flat and this was the prose I needed exactly. I loved the character, the ending and hearing it in the author‘s voice was really special. Can‘t believe it took me this long to read Eudora Welty
I was so well-behaved at the big booksale today. I managed to leave with only eight books, which is a record for me.
pickBelletrist September Pick
For Belletrist, this was the first classic pick. And let me tell you, I am so glad that Welty was chosen. I had never heard about her before. This novel about grief and the past resonated with me as I have lost both my parents before I 23 years old. I learned so much from Laurel and I can‘t wait to read more of Welty‘s work. Definitely one of my new favorite writers.
#trivialthursday @GarthRanzz
1. A few fav Southern Authors - Classic: Eudora Welty + Flannery O‘Connor. Modern: Pat Conroy, Ron Rash, Margaret Atwood + Jesmyn Ward
2. Night in reading
3. WWll time period, so interesting!
4. Thanks for the tag 🌷@eggs - tagging anyone that hasn‘t played (Sorry, a bit behind) 🙂
The 1973 winner of the Pulitzer. Short and lovely. #pulitzer. #audiobook
#TBRtemptation post 2! This book won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize. Laurel Hand suffers the loss of her mother when young and, later, her husband. In her 30s, she goes to her hometown to care for her father after he has eye surgery. Then he dies, and everything is left to his wife, Fay. Fay's even younger than Laurel. While Laurel tries to Fay kindness, Fay gives Laurel only contempt. I'm looking forward to reading this one. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
pickMade this one last. Had no idea I would enjoy it this much.
"The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much"
so-soAn odd choice for the Pulitzer--perhaps more of a lifetime achievement award for Welty. The book has no real weight to it. Only the title character is close to fully realized, and Fay has got to be among the most obnoxious (at times unbelievably so) characters ever put to page. Still, there are some poignant moments dealing with grief and the unmaking of a family that make it worth plowing through the low page count.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order. . .
pickThe themes of place and belonging in this novel resonated with me. Welty is an expert writer, but this is the only novel of hers I've read. Any recommendations for where to start?
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Fay slept ... deep under the cover. Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you cannot be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
