Hawksmoor | 
#WeRemember Day 28: I just realized I put #StephenSondheim for Day 26 😅 - so here is my belated Day 26 where I featured #DavidBowie‘s book club booklist organized according to themes: https://wp.me/pDlzr-hq7
bailedUnfortunately neither the physical or audio book is working for me, so 44 pages in and bailing.
1/2 🌟
@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo
so-soI didn‘t like this as much as I hoped but didn‘t hate it. I didn‘t have much of a problem understanding the ‘early modern‘ (ish) writing style but I felt like the writer was being purposefully obscure at times which gets a bit exhausting when you feel like someone‘s determined to work you that hard. I liked the plot and the ideas but wish it hadn‘t had to be so dense.
A Woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclined to Death and her Paths unto the Devil.
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This is my new 💯💯💯 fave description of what womanhood means. No assigning gender at birth here, you just need your house inclined to death and your paths leading to the devil.
Happy Friday! Reading on the train to a weekend on the coast with my whole extended family - it‘s a few family members‘ birthdays so I‘m hoping it‘ll be a lovely weekend. It‘s nice to get some time to read on the train after work as well 😊
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. Tagged book, The Enigma of Arrival by VS Naipaul and The Secret Barrister
2. Hmm probably The Testaments which I pre-ordered ages ago but I was charged for it this week but I‘m counting that!
3. Warm for September! Autumnal in colour but summery temperatures, I walked to the gym in just a sports bra and leggings
Same book, same dogs, different day.
Good grief, they are big babies.
#dogsoflitsy
#pitbullsoflitsy
#pibble
Just your typical Saturday night excitement- Hawksmoor and lazy dogs.
so-soI did it! Finally finished the first selection of the #davidbowiebookclub chosen by his son Duncan Jones. Waited months for my reserve to arrive, and forced myself to finish. (I owed it to David. 😉) But let me say, it was torture! The author is a graduate of Cambridge and chose to write the majority of the book in the language of the early eighteenth century. I just knew it was eventually going to click with me, but it never did! 🙄
My boyfriend‘s v generous parents insisted on lending me these before they went on holiday! Excited to read them next, I love being recommended books and these are some vintage beauties.
Finally! @ValerieAndBooks I have had this book on reserve for six months! Only one book available in the system. It was the first choice for the #davidbowiebookclub organized by his son, Duncan.
bailedTime to call it a bail on Hawksmoor. It just was too much of a chore to try to read. I think I know why it went out of print. Ugh. It got republished after Duncan Jones picked it for the #bowiebookclub.
So far I‘m not doing well with this reading challenge. I liked Baldwin‘s The Fire Next Time (gave it a pick) and the next two are still TBR.
If May‘s pick looks questionable, I‘ll probably just abandon any effort to read every book picked!
Starting this for my #1001Books and #BowieBookClub (January 2018 selection). I hope I can get used to the writing style soon 😰!
pick'no Light without Darknesse
no Substance without Shaddowe'
So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren, with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. 250 years later, detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the same sites.
@GatheringBooks @DivineDiana Hawksmoor finally arrived! I ordered it as soon as I learned from you guys that it was back in print. I‘m still on hold for it from the library 😂. I found February‘s book, The Fire Next Time, at the used bookstore today! It‘s like new!
so-so#ReadingResolutions Day 5: This is the perfect book and quote for #Darkness - devil worship, human sacrifice, unmitigated misery, and the inevitable descent into madness. #BowieBookClub - we had a fairly vibrant discussion over at the FB page hosted by Elizabeth Hamilton. Not a book I would have picked for myself but I feel accomplished that I have endured and slogged through it, regardless. Plus, it is fascinating, in a moribund kind of way.
#QuotsyFeb18 Day 2: Not sure if this is more a #Decision or a Realization of the main protagonist about his life. However, along with that flash of insight comes a quiet decision to accept his descent to oblivion and madness.
pickFor the #BowieBookClub - Duncan's 1st pick of the year. It was truly fascinating to read. Loved the language, themes, and time differentials and parallels. I wish PBS made this into a series - It would be fab. Recommended if you love to read something off the usual path. Based on Lud Heat by Iain Sinclair - which is now on my TBR.
Working from home and breaking for lunch. Hope to finish the last three chapters today. Avo toast on sprouted bread with herbed salt and Sriracha!! #Book&Lunch #BowieBookClub
pickRead this for the David Bowie book club after seeing an article on his son who is continuing his fathers appreciation of reading. A mystery thriller set in London with a historical twist, old churches and secret societies. #davidbowiebookclub this is on Bowie‘s list of top 100 books he loved.
So, #Hawksmoor is a pretty strange and disturbing read, thus far. First chapter was laborious, but second chapter kept me riveted. Here‘s hoping I can finish it before 01 Feb. #BowieBookClub
First book of the #bowiebookclub quite the interesting tale
Did you know that there is a #BowieBookClub hosted by David Bowie's son, filmmaker @ManMadeMoon. Here is the first book which you are supposed to have finished reading by 01 February - so there's still time #ReadingIsBrainFood. - anyone from Litsy joining this? Get your own copy of the book here: http://bit.ly/HawksmoorBowieBookClub
Finally diving into my copy of Hawksmoor. It's going to be a very interesting ride. #BowieBookClub
Package received from the U.K.! To be read by February 1st. A $5 hardback print in good condition. #BowieBookClub ⚡️
Duncan Jones, David Bowie‘s son, has started an informal book club in honor of his Dad, and the first selection is Hawksmoor. Here‘s a link to DB‘s list of 100 books:
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/11/david-bowies-top-100-books?utm_campaign=Soc...
Have you guys heard about the Bowie Book Club? It was started by his son to read Bowie's 100 favorite books. Unfortunately, he unknowingly started with a book that is out of print and hard to find. I am interested in reading the club books but I think I will start with February and come back to this one when the price is reasonable.
Follow Duncan Jones (ManMadeMoon) on Twitter for the Bowie Book Club (David Bowie). This is the first book that they are reading.
Is anyone joining the #DavidBowieBookClub that his son Duncan Jones started? First book is Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd, you can follow the ordeal on Twitter or Instagram! We‘re gonna go through a few of his favorite 100 books! #DavidBowie #manmademoon #DuncanJones #Bowie100
Apparently David Bowie‘s son, Film director Duncan Jones, is starting a book club based on his dad‘s favorite books: http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/the-david-bowie-book-club-gets-launched-by-hi...
Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son, is starting a read along book club/group of his father's favorite books.
This is massive news for me being a lifelong fan and avid reader.
The first pick is Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd to be read by February 1st.
#bowie #bowiebookclub #bowieforever 👩🏻🎤
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Not sure if I love him, but Hawksmoor has to have the darkest, creepiest, most evil (fictional) villain I've ever met in a book.
Wanted to read a few books from "1001 books". Started with this one, but oh lord! First chapter is written in 17th century language! Very hard to get into. My solution is to read semi-aloud, using the dialect of the town I grew up in. Works surprisingly well, lots of words make more sense now...
It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this astrological and superstitious Humour disarms men's Hearts, it breaks their Courage, it makes them help to bring such Calamities on themselves.
