Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings | 
so-soI finished this #audiobook a few days ago, but I didn‘t have time to make beef empanadas until today. I enjoyed a few of the stories, but most of them were not for me and I‘ll admit I was a bit lost in several. “Death and the Compass” remained my favorite. The empanadas, on the other hand were fairly simple and delicious.
#1001books #FoodAndLit #Argentina #translated #shortstories #ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld
I am slowly making my way through this audiobook. A lot of the stories are a bit deep for me and a few I‘ve listened to twice for clarity. So far my favorite has been “Death and the Compass.”
#audiobook #1001books #shortstories #FoodAndLit #Argentina #translated
pickI found this collection quite complicated, and in particular had to read one story, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," three times in order to feel like I understood it. Overall it‘s been an intriguing experience reading this and has given me more than enough to chew on. I suspect it even transmuted my worldview/literary view (kind of the same thing for me to be honest) if only slightly.
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
“I always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” I can attest to that. #mybookroom
1️⃣ There are many, but let's say Labyrinth for today.
2️⃣ Star Trek (not Abramverse so much, though)
3️⃣ Antarctica
4️⃣ SF
5️⃣ Fluently, French and English; Reading, understanding, and mumbling, Spanish and Italian; wading through when reading, German, Latin, Dutch and Portuguese.
#premondays on a Tuesday @pepsicola
so-soFinished. I loved some, disliked one or two of the short stories. Borges was a very intellectual man. I hate to say that I ignored proper nouns and italics because it went over my head Overall, it made me think which is why I read. It was a so-so for me. I'm thankful I was introduced to this work. Now on to Sammy Davis, Jr.
#PopSugar2019 - 25/50 (South American author)
Halfway @jmofo. Some of it makes me uncomfortable, most of it makes me think, and that is why I love to read.
I received my book from the LMPBC Group @arubabookwoman Thank you all for your comments. @suvata thank you for setting this up. I enjoyed getting to know my new friends. @jmofo, I will send it to you as quickly as I can. I started it last night. @sprainedbrain glad I got to know all of you.
pickI really wanted to get this book on the way sooner for #LMPBC group F, but it was so richly detailed and complex, I really needed to take my time with the stories and essays. Also, this little fiend kept stealing my pen. 😜
Thought-provoking, diverse, and challenging. Clearly, Borges was brilliant.
I‘m so glad that you chose this book, Jessie! Thanks for sharing with us. 😃
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Also, my first #1001books read for 2019.
pick#LMPBC book is on its way to @sprainedbrain
Thank you all in group in being so kind and supportive.
I am glad I have finally read this book and I am looking forward to reading your reactions and insights.
This book is a collection of short works with complex or at the very least abstract subjects. I enjoyed it, all told. I‘m looking forward to to reading more by Borges
1. Mail my mark up book. I‘ve been real low and lacking gumption and I have anxiety that my f group friends will not like this weird little book. 😑 It‘ll be in the mail Monday or bust.
2. I am working but I hope to read and clean and finish up a Saturnalia kit I‘m making for a friend.
3. Gingerbread anything, everything. I‘m more into breads this time of year.
4. Labyrinths!!!!
5. Thanks for the tags, @Trashcanman so much love today
1. For #LMPBC tagged book, a couple Pratchett books if @Graywacke still wants to buddy read later this month and finish a few books I have going now.
2. I‘m a ten-year-old NoNoWriMo-er! 😍😅🤨
3. I like stargazing on crisp nights and foods in casserole dishes, baking and cooking more
4. @Trashcanman thanks for the tag! 🤗 Happy November group F-ers: @Butterfinger @arubabookwoman & @sprainedbrain happy reading
Group F friends: Here‘s my list of possible choices for #LMPBC. We seem to be readers 😬 so it was tough finding classics that weren‘t already read recently that I‘m interested in reading next month (since it‘s NaNoWriMo, I am planning my reading more that I tend to). Below, I have tagged books I am interested in, Labyrinths is a forerunner as I have had it on my shelf for years. Sorry for the delay, I got food poisoning over the weekend.
I meditated on that lost maze: I imagined it inviolate and perfect at the crest of the mountain; I imagined it erased by rice fields or beneath the water; I imagined it infinite, no longer composed of octagonal kiosks and returning paths, but of rivers and provinces and kingdoms... I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.
Following up my #bookishresolutions2018 to talk more about books with real people - I‘ve joined a new Bookclub! Challenging first read, full of metaphysics, symbolism, intensely stylistic writing - but I read it ( well ‘most ‘ of it😂) and I went!
"The purpose which guided him was not impossible, though it was supernatural. He wanted to dream a man: he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert himself into reality." #Borges is a master. Guh.
@inwhichHeikereadsharder ❤️❤️❤️ My littlest, Tyler, grabbed the beans out of the pack before I had finished the letter! He screamed that he had been wanting to try them, popped one In his mouth and promptly began gagging on what seemed to be a mouth full of newly turned dirt. 😂😂 Thank you. 😘
"The Library of Babel" is my fav short story #setinalibrary! It's about a library that holds ALL POSSIBLE BOOKS (all combinations of letters in 300 pages). It sounds great, but it's awful: most of the books are complete gibberish-- it's a lifetime's work to find anything meaningful in all the nonsense. There's actually a website, libraryofbabel.info, if you want to bring some existential dread into your day. #seasonsreadings2016 @RealLifeReading
This was a gift from my clever younger brother. I read one page and it hurt my brain. While I am old enough to admit when books are beyond me, I keep Labyrinths on my bedside table, so if I die in my sleep people will think I am an intellectual. Shhhh don't tell. 🤓😇😉
#onewordtitles #youRemindmeofthebabe #photoadaynov16
This is really cool. #JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #LibraryofBabel #Labyrinths Cc: #MarkZDanielewski fans, #HouseofLeaves fans
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
"The House of Asterion" - another, yet unique, trad story retold from the monster's POV. Steeped in defensive language (contrast w conclusion) and self-justification, A's alternate narrative is terrifying. And also human. Distorted redemption/Christian refs. #intertextuality #perceptionasreality
Entering the labyrinth at LA's The Last Bookstore. Now I need to read Borges again.
pickDoes this book need more champions in this world? Borges existed on another plane from the rest of us--to read his work is to struggle to reach his level. When you do, even if it's only for a moment, it's sublime.
