This story popping up in my feed today was a delight. I especially love the no-nonsense group leader insisting, "It wasn‘t like I saw God. It wasn‘t a big deal.” ?
Read all about it:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/finnegans-wake-james-joyce-book-club-2...
Came across this in the news and HAD to share 😅 Has anyone here read Finnegans Wake?? Did it take TWENTY-EIGHT years!!? That's commitment.
Love this article from The Guardian!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/12/california-venice-book-club-finnge...
Particularly this bit…. 🤣
Fialka, who started the group in his early 40s, is now 70. “I don‘t want to lie, it wasn‘t like I saw God,” Fialka said, of reaching the book‘s end. “It wasn‘t a big deal.”
pickJoyce‘s Herculean Word Horde!
First time through as an Audible read.
Bears further contemplation,
for the neologism and language play.
“The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.”
#riotgrams #day19 - setting you've been to
Visited Dublin in high school as part of my school's IB program. Was disheartened to learn that my state was considering disbanding the program for our county, but a lot of teachers, alumni, and students have been speaking out, so hopefully it'll stay put.
Since my brain can‘t deal with Joyce alone, I am alternating it with N. K. Jemisin‘s The Fifth Season in my Kindle.
Honestly, at this point I‘m not sure which way is up and which is down, but there‘s something very interesting about Joyce‘s playing around with language. He uses weird spelling and creates new words mixing old ones. It‘s weird and incredibly hard to follow, but it‘s a bit hypnotic at the same time.
Okay, challenge accepted. I‘ll probably go very slow, as I always do with Joyce because he‘s hard.
bailedWhat is a pftjschute? I made it through the first page. Experimental writing is not my thing but just throwing in gibberish is beyond even a try. I wished I could have done a chapter. #noway #wtfisthis
#awesomeautumnbooks #day5 - #toughtuesday
As far as tough books where sheer readability is concerned, this is probably the toughest I own. Given the cyclical nature of it's construction (supposedly the end feeds into the beginning in such a way that it can be read endlessly), I'd probably be just as well off starting on any random page and seeing how far I get.
When you love a book so much that you even find yourself discussing it in your dreams. ☺️
After reading War and Peace in 2015 (no idea why I found it impossible in my first attempt in 2013!) and Infinite Jest last year I decided to tackle this as my "challenge novel" this year but I've still to even open it (image is the personal copy of Danis Rose, a Finnegans Wake editor ?) #IrishAuthors #MarchIntoReading
Had anyone read this? It seems smaller than it should be....
Surprised how many #textonlycovers I found on my shelves. Decided I should stop while I'm ahead, so I didn't even dig through the book drawer to see if there were more. #booktober
These are some of the #weirdbooks I've read. Well, Infinite Jest is on the back burner because I can only endure so much tennis, and Finnegans Wake? Has anyone ever made it through that book? 😂😂🤔🙄 #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge
These are some of the #weirdbooks I've read. Well, Infinite Jest is on the back burner because I can only endure so much tennis, and Finnegans Wake? Has anyone ever made it through that book? 😂😂🤔🙄 #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge
A Shorter Finnegans Wake | 
