963 pages of the smallest font imaginable. Not during the summer, 👹. I love the back half of the Penn Cage tale, and I‘ll absolutely come back to this…some colder day and maybe on the Kindle. Now I‘m off to choose a book that‘s not an arm workout to carry to the beach.
pickThis is the 7th book in the Penn Cage series. As with previous books, this one deals with race relations, power and greed, black history and family. It is very long and violent, but thought provoking, informative and I really enjoyed it. I would like to think that events in the book are unrealistic and our world has improved, but the last few years have made me realize we have a long way to go. Thanks to Edelweiss+ for the digital ARC. 4.5/5
There was a woman in the bookstore today, pretending to listen to her husband. She was standing there all dreamy like, petting the books. And she wasn‘t me. But she was my people. I haven‘t been to the bookstore in months and months. Or at least weeks and weeks. But traffic was so bad, hubby suggested I stop on the way home. These are murder prevention books.
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pickFaulkner‘s 1st book set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha county MS. It sets the backdrop most of his other work going forward. His postage stamp. It was rejected by publishers for having no plot or character development.
And yet I enjoyed it. I took in these characters and I closed it with real affection - the myth of Colonel John Sartoris, his brother, son, great grandsons all a short paths to glamorous bad ends, or haunted by the prospect.
My past week. I finished Ammonites, started Faulkner‘s Flags in the Dust - which will take me most of March. Chaucer and How to Say Babylon continue. (I finished Sir Tropas in Canterbury Tales)
Started Faulkner‘s 3rd novel yesterday. The publisher felt it was too long, and only published it in a cut form in 1929. The full version wasn‘t released until 1973. There were corrections made in 2006.
A completely unknown author to me.
I pulled it out of my case on the train between Berlin and Prague and have read half already. It's a series of events which then narrate the character's younger life.
pickAn interesting book about a couple who fled New York City to seek a simpler life in the Mississippi Delta. It wasn‘t that simple after all, and I found Grant‘s treatment of the issues in the area to be nuanced. I wish there was an update.
^^p245 Jackson MS “publicly, unapologetically Black,” 💜 marching band depiction (gleaming horns, left right precision) but some metaphors seem overlinked, askew (“musicians consistent as seasons of crops”).
P168 “‘Why didn‘t enough change?‘ one answer is this: domination is creative as well as consistent.”
P176 “Staying alive on the grounds of your ancestors‘ murder and abuse is no small matter. It requires a living witness to their alchemy.”
