The British #travelbybook site TRIPFICTION is organizing a #giveaway of Loving Modigliani -- The Afterlife of Jeanne Hebuterne -- short listed for the Montaigne medal for books of distinction in 2022. Kirkus claims: “brilliantly researched, imaginative cross genre historical fiction“ UK only. Ends Feb. 25. 3 copies available. https://www.tripfiction.com/giveaway-3-copies-of-loving-mogigliani-by-linda-lapp...
I am always intrigued by books about slimming down clutter and simplifying -- because our outer environment reflects our inner one, so I started this one (French edition) to refresh my language skills. But I eventually came to a part where it was suggested that I would need to toss out all my wardrobe, beauty products, handbag, etc and buy new trendy stuff. I didn't proceed.
#simplicity is a process rather than a destination! @darklunarose
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” --Joan Didion
#WeRemember @Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I had so much fun with this, as setting is so important to me as a reader, writer, and teacher of writing – which is how I came to write this book. Landscape is character claimed Henry James, a concept echoed by L. Durrell. Settings & places may have personality. #savvysettings
in ancient classical culture of the Mediterranean, the soul of place was a spiritual entity – residing in a place and energizing it @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
This novel set in #Paris includes #savvysettings : #courtroom #graveyard #attic #river #hospital #hauntedhouse #cafe #train #bookstore #church #prison #gardens #palace #bridge Also art studio, catacomb, gallery, gondola, island, beach Kirkus writes: “the book‘s afterlife is as vividly portrayed as the Paris streets…brilliantly researched, imaginative cross genre historical fiction“
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Charlotte's final masterpiece --for me her greatest work. Lucy Snowe flees England to seek her fortune as an English teacher in a #boardingschool in the fictional country of Lasbassecour modeled on Belgium. Maybe it resonates for me as I also moved abroad at a young age to seek my fortune as English teacher...#SavvySettings day 27. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
In this poem, a long nighttime bus ride through the forlorn villages of Nova Scotia is interrupted by the majestic appearance of a moose.
“a bus journeys west,
the windshield flashing pink,
pink glancing off of metal,
brushing the dented flank
of blue, beat-up enamel...“
#savvysettings day 29 #bus @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#poetrymatters
Imagine a garden like a picture book, in which you are reader, character, writer, all in one....
“Entering a garden like Bomarzo was like succumbing to a dream. Every detail was intended to produce a specific effect on the mind and body, to excite and soothe the senses like a drug. To awaken the unconscious self.”
#SavvySettings Day 28 #Gardens
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“In the 16th century, parks and gardens were models of the cosmos and also tools for altering one's consciousness, possibly for changing one's destiny.“--
2014 Daphne Du Maurier winner for Mystery & Suspense
#SavvySettings Day 28 #Gardens @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Of all his delightful, surreal creations -- this enigmatic parable about the loss of an old way of life is my favorite #SavvySettings Day 26, #Circus
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Sorry to break the rules. I neglected day9 #Pub of #SavvySettings because I couldn't think of anything -- then it hit me- Giovanni's Room - the book that established Baldwin's reputation as a great American writer overnight! While his classic Go Tell It On the Mountain. is another tough reckoning with #Church, Day21 Brilliant stylist. Powerful emotions. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.“ This was the cover of my 1st copy of The Bell Jar. It hadn't been published in the USA at that time, and I ordered it from #Blackwells! I had read her stories in the Atlantic. I have never forgotten the first line or the last, and I was about 16 when I first read the book. #amreading
#FirstLineFridays @shybookowl
“scarlet peppers like trumpets: magnificent fennels, so white & big & succulent; baskets of new potatoes; scaly kohlrabi; big, clean-fleshed carrots; feathery salads with white hearts; pyramids of big oranges...The green and vivid colored world of fruit-gleams I have never seen in such splendor as under the market roof at Cagliari: so raw & gorgeous“ #SavvySettings Day 25 #Fair
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in the aftermath of the First World War, 4 unhappy women, strangers to each other, rent a castle in Italy for a month - answering an ad in a London newspaper.
there they will experience the transformative and civilizing power of Italy's landscape & culture. the author was the elder cousin of #KatherineMansfield
One of many Italianate novels with this theme --
#SavvySettings Day 24 #RemoteInn @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
An eerie tale of passive resistance, nonconformism, civil disobedience. Bartelby
efficient employee, forlorn outsider, one day just refuses to carry on at his mindless task, offering his boss this explanation: I would prefer not to. And ends up going to jail.
#SavvySettings Day 23, #Prison. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“the bakers who bake in the night so we can have bread in the morn.“ Surreal fantasy picture book of a boy who almost gets baked into the dough!
#SavvySettings #Bakery Day 22. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Our metropolitan civilization is not a success.“ Lewis Mumford
A fascinating take on the history of urbanization.
#SavvySettings Day 20 #Skyscraper #history #nonfiction
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Inspired by their charismatic classics professor, 5 college students majoring in Ancient Greek re-enact an authentic Dionysian ritual with murderous consequences. Chilling, thrilling, dazzling, debut novel by the author while still a college student. (Photo in the post is of the Dancing Satyr, a bronze sculpture pulled out of the sea in Sicily in 1998)#SavvySettings Day 19, #campus @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“The airplane has shown us the face of the world“
“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.“ --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“
#SavvySettings Day 18 #Airplane @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
What better place for a romantic reunion 9 years later than your favorite bookstore? Life imitated Art here at #Shakespeare&Co when Ethan Hawke presented his new book of poems to his Paris fans. Didn't notice Julie Delpy in the audience tho....#SavvySettings Day 17, #Bookstore @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“The train pulled on through the blizzard. Katherine pressed the small of her back against the seat and took small, tremulous breaths to keep herself from coughing...“ #SavvySettings Day 16, #Train @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Kerrigan, a writer on the rebound after a life-numbing betrayal, is writing a guide to the eateries & pubs of #Copenhagen, which number over 1000. Assisted in his research by a lovely green-eyed woman, he discovers life anew. The book combines travel guide, historical essay, and fiction as we romp through a magnificent city, Highly praised by the NYTs. #SavvySettings Day 14, #cafe
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The ultimate book about libraries & their value. Even when you burn them, you can't make them go away. #SavvySettings Day 15 #Library
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“It was the hour between dog and wolf, as they say.“ --Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie. Chilling, fierce, beautiful, an impeccable style.
#SavvySettings, Day 14. #cafe @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I'll never forget the thrill of this book --or my fascination for the tesseract!
#SavvySettings Day 13 #OuterSpace @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
An unsettling book about the worst kinds of ghosts -- those who take up residence in your mind through outside suggestion. A magnificent film also by Roman Polanski.
#SavvySettings #hauntedhouse @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I love haunted houses, ones in which the ghosts are “real,“ or only imagined presences, or simply ruses...this light read is riveting. Even better was the film starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. #SavvySettings #HauntedHouse @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I recently read one Hummer's poems in the New Yorker -- My Mother in the Bardo -- and was blown away. I don't know how I never took note of his name or his work before! The complete text of My Wife in Chemo appears on this website https://voxpopulisphere.com/2022/02/22/t-r-hummer-my-wife-in-chemo/?fbclid=IwAR3...
#SavvySettings #Hospital #poetrymatters @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I'd like to announce that #LovingModigliani is a 2022 finalist for the Montaigne Medal in the #HofferBookAwards. The medal is given to “thought-provoking books of distinction.“ Winners will be notified on April 14. The complete list is given at http://www.hofferaward.com/Montaigne-Medal-finalists.html#.Yi... I'd like to give a shout out to #smallpresses and #independentpresses many of whom are represented in the list.
“Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space. / Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike / Feeds beast as man. “
a more romantic declaration has never been uttered. #SavvySettings Day 10. #River, @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverof books
Lyric essays on Italian Art & Culture, interwoven with memoir snippets of her long life in Italy by poet Wallis Wilde Menozzi. In some ways a sequel to her first memoir of life in Parma, Mother Tongue. #SavvySettings #River @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
soulful journey along the grand river of romance. Companion to her previous The Only Street in Paris --enticing reads for would-be flaneurs #SavvySettings #River
1. Bookstore: Shakespeare & Company, Paris -- a total experience
2. Library. the Kingsport Public Library the first library I frequented - I still remember the smell of the book stacks on a hot summer day...
3. Grateful for my home.
#wondrouswednesday. @eggs
In gothic writing, I love the way setting is a manifestation of the characters' mental states --and can even function as a character. It also fascinates me how dungeons often open out in the end toward the sea...#SavvySettings, #DAy8 #Dungeon @Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Aug. 1920, #VirginiaWoolf paid weekly visits to #KatherineMansfield in Hampstead before KM's return to France to seek a cure for her TB. In Katherine's studio, they talked shop. After that summer, they would not meet again. Mansfield died in France, near Paris at the Prieurè of Fontainebleau in January 1923. Radioplay adaptation at this link https://yorickradio.buzzsprout.com/1084415/10203906-radio-revelry-a-public-of-tw...
“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
#SavvySettings #Laboratory #Frankenstein and #AMonster'sNotes DAY 7
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I know it's late for #Day4 #SavvySettings #ATTIC but I wanted to pay homage to a marvelous work of #literarycriticism that influenced at least 2 generations of writers & critics -- and these 3 works of fiction all develop the theme: #JaneEyre,# TheYellowWallpaper, & #WideSargassoSea
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“To return to the source, one must travel in the opposite direction.“
“Shoes, unlike feet, are not something you're born with. So you can choose what you want.“
“Keep your eyes fixed on the way to the top, but don't forget to look right in front of you. The last step depends on the first.“ #SavvySettings 6 #Mountain @Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The beginning is a classic family drama. The middle is a symphony in prose. The ending is a metaphysical triumph
sorry I'm late, just saw this on Friday morning, 6.30 CET!
1. as a reader & writer I enjoy both, but am particularly partial to multiple --one of my absolute favorite reads of all times is the Alexandria Quartet by Durrell --
2. I am a literary translator from Italian and live in italy, so I read books in Italian, also in French, and struggle hard to read children's books in modern Greek
3. a mood reader, definitely
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
Delighted to announce the upcoming radio play A Public of Two, adapted from my novel Katherine's Wish about the life of #KatherineMansfield. This chapter deals with the #friendship of Mansfield and #VirginiaWoolf
The play will be performed by a troupe of brilliant young actors in UK, under the direction of Yorick Radio Productions. It will be available on all podcast platforms, & I will share the links when ready! Please stop by for a listen!
Jean Rhys' novels & short stories have many scenes set in Paris #cafes -- though 100 years later from when she frequented them-- this is a pic of one of my favorite cafes.
#SavvySettings @thespineview @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
Mansfield's grave near Fontainebleau. This volume of her letters contains the last ones she wrote from #Gurdjieff's institute at the Prieurè of Fontainebleau where she died.
#SavvySettings 2 #graveyard.
@TheSpineView
This tells once again the story of how Sylvia Beach founded Shakespeare & Company and of her friendship with Adrienne Monnier.
This is a picture upstairs at Sh& Co, ages ago, at a reading.
#SavvySettings 17 #Bookstore @TheSpineView @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Creepy & terrifying -- but a masterpiece. #SavvySettings
#train @TheSpineView @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
“And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading“
