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It‘s spooky season, yay! Halloween reads here I come! Ooh, how about “The Dead”!

Zombies, right? Decomposing bodies rising? Ooo…bring it, ye devils & demons! I am pumped! 🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️

THIS BOOK IS A LIE.

zero stars, do not recommend. 😉

(Picture is Xylaria polymorpha, the fungi more commonly known as dead man's fingers.)

For this month's #doublespin I re-read The Dead by James Joyce. I don't think I've read it since college, but was very glad for the re-read. Definitely was able to appreciate this in different ways than when my younger self read it.

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A lot of build up for an unexpected ending (Henry rec)

Ticking away books this week! Read the James Joyce novella "The Dead" on #serialreader and found it to be quite lovely. I really want to see the adaptation (with food and partying) in NYC called The Dead 1904 which is produced by writers /spouses Paul Muldoon & Jean Hanff Korelitz (Admission). Tomorrow January 6 is Epiphany when the story takes place, so I finished it just in time! #litsyAtoZ (J for Joyce!)

This was the final story in Joyce's Dubliners short story collection. It seemed to me to probably be the darkest of all the stories. I really enjoyed it. It was very subtle at first, like I didnt know where Joyce was going with it but by the end, I thoroughly understood what Joyce was trying to say through the story. This was a great conclusion and final story with which to end the Dubliners collection.

Really happy to have read this, beautiful and haunting and occasionally very funny, I'll definitely be reading more Joyce, that makes 3 books so far in #24in48

Sudden change of plans but here's my temporary set up and some book picks with plenty to keep me going on audio or kindle if I run out! #24in48

I'm on the move Littens but the reading continues, this is my first Joyce, I saw a musical adaptation recently and I'm very excited! #24in48

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." A passage that makes my soul swoon. Happy Bloomsday.

Subtly symbolic and expertly crafted, there are so many layers to happily digest and analyze. Please, let's talk about those last few paragraphs, which are a testament to genius. I come down on the side of hope and believe that Gabriel has an epiphany that will lead to change, but the brilliance of the ambiguity really is staggering. I can make a logical case for several interpretations, and that is why Joyce is a master. Art from Paravion Press.

Fun fact: I was so bookish that I didn't go to high school English class (a girlfriend and I wrote our own curricula). I read a ton of great stuff. This shelf holds some of my favs.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.