The Decameron

Graywacke

The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

#12booksof2022 March

This was a major part of my 2022 reading plan. Seems I‘ve moved on, but it was fun.

Andrew65

Andrew65 A real classic! 2y

Cathythoughts Great cover 💫 2y

batsy Gosh! I've had this TBR since the late 90s 😂 2y

Graywacke @Andrew65 true, that. @Cathythoughts I agree. I love the cover. @batsy well, I can‘t give you a hard time. I have my own 1990‘s tbr pile… (and, of course, i mean books I‘ve owned since then) 2y

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Graywacke

Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

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Love, or the natural drive of lust, cleverness and fortune…and storytelling. One of my big projects for 2022 was to read the Decameron and I finally finished yesterday. Individually the 100 stories range from mildly amusing, to erotic, to just mean and hurtful, but they have a sum affect, one after another, within the plague story frame, that in a sense lifted me up and floated me off to another plane of existence. An experience.

batsy Well done! I've been meaning to read this for years and in 2020 it was being touted as the perfect pandemic read and I still haven't got to it 😆 3y

Graywacke @batsy I think it would have been a tough read for some of us in 2020. It‘s a fun read though. I imagine if it calls to you, you will enjoy it a lot (and all it‘s oddities). 3y

jewright I‘m intrigued. 3y

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Graywacke

Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

I‘ve started 4 books this new year, and opened the year by starting this Norton edition - an abridged translation of Decameron by Wayne Rebhorn (with context and commentary).

Leftcoastzen 👏🐶 3y

PaperbackPirate 💙🐶 3y

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GingerAntics

Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

@Graywacke I settled on the Rebhorn translation. This looks like quite the hefty read (1K+ pages) so it could take a while, but at this rate, I‘m pretty sure we‘ll be in this pandemic a while longer, so I‘m sure I‘ll have the time.

Graywacke Thanks! Noting! 4y

GingerAntics @Graywacke I think I‘m going to wait until the new year to start this. I don‘t think I‘m going to be able to finish it by the end of the year. 4y

Lcsmcat It‘s long, yes, but made up of short stories. So you can read it in bits and pieces without losing the thread. 4y

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GingerAntics @Lcsmcat I got the impression it was short stories, or at least shorter sections, from something I read last night, but I can‘t remember what, now. There are 100 of them, right? 10 stories for each of the 10 days? (edited) 4y

Graywacke @GingerAntics i have to make my 2021 plans. Haven‘t done that yet. (Well - there‘s Nabokov - the English novels) 4y

GingerAntics @Graywacke I‘m supposed to have a plan?! 😂 4y

Graywacke @GingerAntics ☺️ my fragile little 🧠 likes plans. 4y

GingerAntics @Graywacke oddly, mine usually does as well. My anxiety quite likes having a plan, but every time I‘ve tried planning my reads, I end up feeling trapped and not wanting to read those books. My brain always chooses something else. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think the reading part of my brain is broken a little — It‘s disconnected from the “plan and execute” part of the brain. 4y

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bouktique

Il Decamerone: One Hundred Ingenious Novels | Giovanni Boccaccio

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637 pages.

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EmilieGR

The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

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So funny and fun

SerialReader

The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

Trapped for days hiding from the Black Death, a group of Italians tell each other 100 stories ranging from witty to funny to erotic. An entertaining snapshot of life from 14th century Italy. Added recently to #serialreader

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GabrielleDubois

The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

Flower power...

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TheAnitaAlvarez

The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

I found this lovely old edition (1924!) of Boccaccio‘s Decameron in a beautiful and charming bookshop in Inverness last July. It‘s got a dedication from Christmas 1925, from Connie to someone named Crowther, which I think is lovely and makes me curious about who they were and what their relationship was. Friends? Siblings? Lovers? It‘s also illustrated, and the pictures still look rather good. #oldbooks #used books

JanuarieTimewalker13 Interesting! 7y

tif That's gorgeous! Also, the handwriting looks like my grandmother's, must be a generational thing 😀 7y

TheAnitaAlvarez @JanuarieTimewalker13 aren‘t old bookshops amazing? 7y

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Palimpsest Love it! 7y

TheAnitaAlvarez @tif could be something about the way they used to teach handwriting back then, maybe. My mom, her sisters, and her mom went to the same school and they all have the same handwriting 7y

TheAnitaAlvarez @Palimpsest You should‘ve seen the bookshop, it was incredible 7y

Palimpsest @TheAnitaAlvarez I love any bookshop, but especially like to get lost in ones that sell old books. 7y

TheAnitaAlvarez @Palimpsest me too! 7y

JanuarieTimewalker13 Oh, they are!!! 7y

JanuarieTimewalker13 This wouldn‘t be possible with a download...that‘s why there‘s a romance to real books ebooks will never have! 7y

TheAnitaAlvarez @JanuarieTimewalker13 yup, it‘s just not the same getting a book as a present than a gift card for ebooks. Though I‘ll say it‘s so much easier carrying a kindle in your bag than seven or eight books 7y

JanuarieTimewalker13 I don‘t own a kindle, but that‘s true!! 7y

TNbookworm Amazing! 7y

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