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My #ReadtheUSA2022 challenge is looking TERRIBLE. I feel like I've been reading a lot of books that are taking place in the UK. I'm going to have to see if I can clean this up a bit before the end of the year.

Now that I have an ebook and can take this on the subway, it is reading faster. Also reading a few pages in the evening with my favorite lap warmer. 😺

Now on page 203 for the #ChunksterChallenge2020 @Amiable

I finally started my book for #ChunksterChallenge2020. Two decades of fictionalized USA history collaged into three volumes totaling 1151 pages.

It is a quick read and I appreciate the technique, but I really just want a more traditional novel. Only 1048 pages to go!

The #USA trilogy is on Modern Library‘s list of the 100 Best Novels. I‘m curious if anyone has read these books! Also, I would be remiss if I didn‘t mention my favorite patriot, Captain America! #letstraveljuly

Here is an updated list of those who are doing the #ReadingUSA2019 challenge this year. I think this captures everyone who has tagged a post - if not, please let me know! It has so much fun seeing what everyone is reading, and we‘re picking up reading ideas from others! I‘m loving it so much!

I‘ve only recorded one state read so far, but I still have several months to catch up. Want to join in too? It‘s not too late! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Where do you need to be standing in order to get hit in the head by an airplane?!

From the timeline of the life of John Dos Passos at the back of this edition of the USA trilogy. #modernlibrarytop100

I found this book on the highways & byways of Litsy ....and I felt drawn to it , I love a good saga , which I Believe this is ?!!! Any one out there who has read it. It‘s very very long .....

#chunkster #greatamericannovel

Finally finished this epic trilogy weaving the lives of both fictional and historical figures using conventional and experimental narrative techniques. It would certainly be a candidate for the great American novel, particularly in the way that it captures a period of change and people of different classes, but it focuses solely on the lives of white people. I did enjoy reading it, but it was SO long.

Another far too long #libraryhaul

I really shouldn't be starting any more books either. Big lit is calling me though 😳

John Dos Passos Birthday is today.(1896-1970)obsessed with the lost generation and have not read him?The WWI novel is Three Soldiers,Modern Library lists U.S.A. Trilogy 23rd on its list of 100 Best English Language novels of the 20th century.He was an ambulance driver in WWI, with Hemingway in the Spanish civil war, by1960s supported Goldwater & Nixon.The copy of 1919 is the middle one of the trilogy,the only early edition of the three I‘ve found.

"the police have already notified us that any entertainment I Paris must be brief and quietly conducted and not in public view and that we have already had more dances than at ought"

About to start part two! Was thoroughly impressed by 'The 42nd Parallel', so I expect great things from 1919 as well.
#trilogy #Classics #forgottenauthors

Reading through the #modernlibrarytop100 and this trilogy is still coming up.

#nineteen
#novemberbythenumbers

#LitsyAtoZ Over 1200 pages and many quotes later, finished the trilogy. My main criticism is that of the numerous POVs Dos Passos uses, none are POC, which is odd even for the time. Still, his female characters shine against the backdrop of misogyny and injustice he paints, as he describes their daily struggles to escape the narrow parameters within which their families, partners, and society try to confine them in the early 20th century.

"America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have turned our language inside out who have taken the clean words our fathers spoke and made them slimy and foul...

"but do they know that the old words of the immigrants are being renewed in blood and agony tonight do they know that the old American speech of the haters of oppression is new tonight...

"the language of the beaten nation is not forgotten in our ears tonight."

IPA = a bitter drink for "The Bitter Drink" (assuming you prefer * not * to drink hemlock while reading).

"[I]t's too damn lousy being a human...I'd like to be a cat, a nice comfortable housecat sitting by the fire." Drake concurs.

Amazing 2 days at Inauguration protest and the Women's March, but hard choices had to be made, and this book wouldn't fit into my pockets to walk downtown. Instead of reading I protested, vented and drank with husband and friends. It felt paramount to be with loved ones and join a public statement that fascism is unwelcome in our city and nation - but what IS welcome is a recovery Sunday with books, a Bloody Caesar, and fellow dipsomaniac Archer.

The character who says this in the book is referring to Mexico, but, seems like an appropriate guide for coping with inauguration week in DC.

"But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people."

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