pickA great companion for a Mediterranean trip. August Blue is alluring, hard to put down and sprinkled with witty humour and biting social commentary. I have a sense that a little too much goes left unsaid to really understand what‘s going on, and I didn‘t get particularly invested in Elsa‘s narrative; we join her following THAT performance when she is trying to redefine and reassess who she is. Ultimately the dreamlike prose pulled me along. 7/10
Simon & Garfunkel's "The Only Living Boy in New York" is in my head today. Fun fact: this was one of the quotes I picked for yearbook senior year. ?
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#5joysFriday
1) watching the 3 extended LOTR movies with the kids before my son headed back to school in Arizona
2) both kids getting 4.0 in the fall at their respective universities
3) figuring out my favorite books of 2024 thanks to #12booksofchristmas (thanks @Andrew65 )
4) sharing the joy with my cohosts and so many Littens of 3 challenges: #foodandlit and #whatthedickens and my #litsyatoz ❤️
5) this weekend at the lake with my sister
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Enjoying Christmas gifts and a visit from my partner to round out the year. Long distance sucks but having a partner you can sit and read with is priceless. I‘m a big fan of Levy‘s writing and my book twin sent me this one for Christmas.
#ChristmasCheer #BowsAndRibbons if you are old , no sugar coating here,😄this records might have been in your parents or grandparents collection!
pickNot gonna lie. I had to read some reviews & take time to think about this before I could write a review. It is still reverberating through my system. Deceptively simple & short but it carries so much weight - of personal power or lack thereof, of being given up at birth, of music (I found myself listening to the music that the main character refers to), of hidden memories. My first Levy and I‘ve already grabbed a second of hers from the library.
pickElsa is a famous concert pianist who drifts around Europe after she, mid-performance, walked off stage.
In meeting her doppelgänger, she sees a signal to figure out who she really is.
As a child she was adopted by Arthur Goldstein, a genius piano teacher, when her talent became clear.
Now he is dying and she can‘t keep sheltering in the trance of performance.
As always, I love reading Deborah Levy‘s words and sentences.
This book is a great tool to teach music minded children about one of the greatest artists to be in the jazz genre
“Duke taught himself to press on the pearlies like nobody else could.”
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It had never occurred to her, she said, that she wasn't valuable.” (edited) 1mo