For October and November I liked all my readings :
As @Thyella I read "the Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. I found this dark novel, about mental illness and suicide, the only one she has written, very touching. One review talked about writing incarnate! I'm thinking of trying to read some of her poetry in English.
I read "Demons" by Fiodor Dostoevsky, I am always blown away by his writings, since I discovered "The Idiot" he remains one of my favorite novelists. Now I really want to get into "Crime and Punishment" and "Notes from Underground".
"Plexiglas" by Antoine Philias, is a very beautiful social and contemporary novel, which tells the story of friendship between Eliot, in his thirties, forced to look for work in the city of his childhood, and Lulu, in his sixties, a cashier at Carrefour. I totally recommend reading it.
"L'amour" by François Bégaudeau, is a short novel that tells a love story of a couple over 50 years, through their routine, their daily life, it's very beautiful and sometimes seems more powerful than a love story full of passion.
"Todo Modo" by the sicilian author Leonardo Sciascia, is a kind of detective novel set in a remote hermitage in Italy that depicts with finesse and irony the political and Catholic society of Italy and the degradation of moral values during the 70s.
For Nov, I re-read LOTR. I still think it was too ahead of its time and one of the best books written in the universe.
But what is this CUTE COMIC!!!!!
OMG OMG I am so reading Over the Garden Wall
fiflydramalover:
I've been reading a lot of books recently, but I haven't been finishing as many.
This month I finished reading the anthology It Came From the Closet. I tried reading it over the summer or something like that and skipped a few essays. This time I reread some, skimmed others, and finally read the essays I skipped the first time. It was fun!
I also read two volumes of Over the Garden Wall paperbacks. For a while they were released as 32 issue comics that were then combined into volumes. It was nice. Most of the issues had the spirit and tone of the show, but one issue didn't. I ended up skipping a lot of it, but I could see why it might be meaningful to a different reader.
Wol hwa:In September I read 2 books, a short story by Kafka and "The Savage Detectives" by Bolano.
"Letter to His Father" (Brief an den Vater) was written by Franz Kafka to address it to his father when he disapproved of his 2nd marriage project, however in the end the letter was never sent. This letter is a key to understanding the whole of Kafka's work, who lived with his tyrannical and malevolent father, a destructive relationship that made him an introverted and anxious person. I really recommend reading this letter, plus it's quite short (less than 100 pages) and personally it really moved me.
Otherwise I also really liked "The savages dectives" (los dectetives salvajes) by Roberto Bolano. This rather dense novel tells how two friends, Arturo Bolano and Ulyses Lima, who founded a poetic movement, the "real-visceralism" marked many of the characters they met on their way. I continue to discover Latin American literature with a lot of pleasure.
ASTER:
I was just kidding, I knew mentioning such books would make the atmosphere heavy and serious which would take away the fun from people. Especially when the community is not academic but of hobbies.
But what if you read academic books AS a hobby? :) These are 4 of my most recent acquisitions, the two on the right I read last month, the 2 on the leftI will read in 2024. All just for personal interest and fun.
burhaa aadmi:
But what if you read academic books AS a hobby? :) These are 4 of my most recent acquisitions, the two on the right I read last month, the 2 on the leftI will read in 2024. All just for personal interest and fun.
Wow what a cool collection of books. It's such an interesting topic! Love learning the origins of words and phrases.
Wow what a cool collection of books. It's such an interesting topic! Love learning the origins of words and phrases.
The two Durkin books were very enjoyable reads, and I was pleasantly surprised that the Oxford English Dictionary's chief etymologist took the time to reply to an email I sent him with a query about the book
