pickThis was the Victober group read for this year, which I finished this week and really liked! I will definitely read more Oliphant, maybe even this month to fit some other prompts ...
pickA low pick. It was slow going but I warmed up to Miss Mole's character as the novel progressed. It's always a pleasure reading VMC editions with the beautiful covers, though this isn't the classic green one.
#192025 #1930 @Librarybelle
#gottacatchemall (Eevee: book you were gifted) @PuddleJumper
pickProfessor Dallerhyde spends his afternoons outside the London Zoo cage of a pair of Hackenfeller's Apes, Percy and Edwina, frustrated in his attempts to study their mating habits by Percy's dolorous indifference to his companion. Then Kendrick arrives, informing Dallerhyde that Percy has been requisitioned for a one-way experimental trip on a space rocket, and the Professor's morals and sentimentality mix to formulate an escape plan... 4🐒
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"Radiant and full-leafed, the Park was alive with the murmuring vibration of the species which made it its preserve."
#FirstLineFridays @shybookowl
I like the way the novel starts with a zoologist's-eye-view of creatures cavorting and disporting themselves in their natural environment, the identity of the animals shortly disclosed when it is revealed that some of them are playing cricket ?
"He enjoyed the sunshine on his face and the patterns of the white dust at his feet. The persistence of the aeroplane's noise, however, reminded him of an uneasiness in himself. Uneasiness seemed to be the background of all ruminations belonging to the twentieth century, just as all its landscapes were presided over, somewhere in the distance, by an aeroplane." ☀️✈️?️
"Once we acknowledge sentiment in other animals, we are bound to acknowledge what follows: their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
- Brigid Brophy
[Quotation not necessarily from the tagged book ?]
A 1953 satire about animal rights. The blurb says that Brophy's 1965 manifesto, "The Rights of Animals," kick-started the modern animal rights movement, so she has good credentials. Her other biographical details say she also campaigned for prison reform, gay rights, pacifism, humanism and vegetarianism, so I'm expecting to find "Hackenfeller's Ape" hitting my marks ??
Thanks to the apartment renovation, I have not been reading much this year. I mostly read the selections for the NYRB Classics bookclub, and some refreshing titles (like Celia Dale) here and there.
These are the remaining NYRB Classics that I chose for the rest of the year. I think we have read most of the mainstream titles, and now exploring the catalogue more extensively.
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Mystery guest
Weekly highlights
Merch and Patreon
Ghosts by Edith Wharton
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa. Polly Barton (Translator)
A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland
The Misses Mallett by E.H. Young
Platonic Love: Three Tales of Language and Desire by Scott Watson
About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator)
Galatea by Madeline Miller
#BigMoon three moon titles
I saw PaperMoon at the drive in as a child and loved Tatum. Apparently its based on an obscure novel?
#falling
@eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
