Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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I‘m a bit late starting, but I got caught up listening to the first few chapters of The Mill on the Floss while taking a walk with Luthien today. I‘m not sure what I think of these two siblings yet, but I‘m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
#HashtagBrigade #audiobook #1001books
pickA reporter is assigned to investigate a string of recent suicides in the city to determine "why they did it", while the impending anniversary of his own father's suicide looms. Interspersed with religious and philosophical treatises on the morality of self-death, provided to the narrator by a research assistant as background for the story, the question soon shifts to "why not?" There's something impressive happening here. Di Benedetto's...?
A dystopian novel that‘s light on details but heavy on word play.
Posting our check-in for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent a little early since I‘ll be out of town visiting friends on Saturday & Sunday.
I got caught up this week—and wow, lots of action, lots to talk about. But I‘ll save that for next week‘s end-of-book discussion!
How is everyone‘s reading coming along? What are you enjoying and/or not enjoying in what you‘ve read so far? Which characters are you most curious about?
pickThe last few weeks have been chaotic with family issues, so I‘m trying to catch up on recent reads.
This is part of the Pushkin Collection of classics and other overlooked works. It was a quick and fun novel about a man who sees the Mona Lisa while it is being painted and believes the woman exists. What follows is a man utterly obsessed who destroys his life in the efforts of tracking her down. An odd book on the power of art.
Book mail
This fabulous edition of John Milton's epic poem came in the mail a few days ago.
The illustrations by Gustave Dore are spot on.
When I purchased this huge tome, I didn't realize the actual size of the book. A pocket book it's not... 🙄😆
But I'm glad I got it, all the same.
I probably won't start this baby for a few weeks until I finish up some of the multitude of books I've started.
#bookmail #poetry #epicpoems
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Vs. A.I.
In his "On Epic Poetry", Pope satirises the proliferation of bad epic poetry, written not by poets with "genius", but by hacks according to a "recipe" in which they take themes and episodes from the great works of literature, "stack them up" and pour out verbiage void of any true human meaning, moral or value. ???
My reading of this essay was enhanced by it sounding in my mind as narrated by Simon Callow ?
More Moby Dick and more book-related Mom memes here:
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I'm about ¼ through this essay collection, having just finished the selections by Joseph Addison (1672-1719), which I've really enjoyed.
He was co-founder of The Spectator magazine, the title of which was borrowed by a still-extant conservative periodical, which is ironic given that Addison's satirical essay, "The Tory Fox-Hunter" lampoons the Little Englander mentality that still prevails amongst current Spectator & Daily Mail reading folk. ⬇️
