Parade's End | 
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A book I admired more than I enjoyed it. I‘m cheating a bit here. I started it in August, but didn‘t actually finish until October. It‘s quite long! I am surprised, however that this is not as well known as Ulysses or Mrs Dalloway, because it is a really good example of modernism.
This edition is not going to work! It‘s an oversized book in terms of it‘s dimensions (wider & longer) and the print is minuscule. Each page is like a blur of ant prints. I‘m going to have to get the first of the tetraology as a stand-alone book.
@Ruthiella I may have to try the audio on YouTube. 😉 I just found Bill Nighy reading it! 👏🏾
This will be my next bedtime chunkster. I don‘t recommend this edition - the print is tiny, despite the beautiful cover! 😵💫
This Monday finds me In World War I France 🇫🇷 in a British barracks as I make my way through the second book of this tetralogy.
#WhereAreYouMonday
Great idea for a meme @Cupcake12 ! 😃
pickI have finally finished this book!!!! I enjoyed it. I am glad I took my time with reading it. The characters and the plot where great. This is my second book I have completed for #20in4 readathon. I finished it in 2 hours and 40 minutes!!! So I have read for a total of 8 hours and 13 minutes. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars!!!
These are some of the books that I am going to be working on in the #20in4 readathon. I am wanting to finish Parade's End today, I have less then 300 pages left. I know I won't finish all of these books during the readathon, but I will I have fun doing it.
I am also working on Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Love and War by Melissa De La Cruz, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales by W. B. Yeats, two ebooks and a audiobook.
I am finally reading this book again! Started reading at the beginning of January and then my grandmother got sick. I put it down for awhile. I had to start over because I forgot what I read before. I am enjoying so far.
Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: “But I‘ve read all this before…”
panSome nice writing and some nice material on World War One, but in general this felt like a boorish man‘s meditations on wishing women in nice dresses would bring him lamb chops mixed in with a bit of unexciting banter about whether oxford or cambridge promote better Latin pronunciation... fun. Compared to other modernist writers that pushed the boundaries more I‘ve gotta say I‘m not really feeling this one
My total for the first day of #stayhome24in48 with some terrible pic collage graphic design from me to tell you about it! I‘m about 100/850 pages into Parade‘s End and so far it‘s soooo Great Male Author Classic im finding it absolutely hilarious and having a great time reading it, perhaps not for the reasons the author intended but I‘m definitely enjoying myself! I won‘t get to 24 but I‘m going for beating 12 hours tomorrow
#aboutasoldier #magnificentmarch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
Obligatory picture of Benedict for you all 😉😘
1. Parade's End
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Pride and Prejudice (BBC!)
4. Too many! Panettone, pomegranate, prawns, pasta, persimmon, pesto, peas, pizza, pineapple, pineapple pizza (you read it right!)
#manicmonday #letterp @JoScho
So many great books (sadly) are about #war but these are two of my favorites. A modernist WWI masterpiece, and one of my favourite books of all time, from Ford Madox Ford and a postmodernist WWII triumph from Ian McEwan. #maybookflowers #foliofreaks
bailedI tried reading this when the TV series came out, but abandoned it twice, and I don't think I'm going to bother trying again. Bailed!
I've been watching the BBC adaptation of Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch and enjoying it so much, I thought I'd read the book, too. (Go figure, it's been on the shelf for years.) #betterlatethannever
This is one of the few books that I have dropped everything and read as soon as it arrived. Granted, it took me about four or five months to eventually get through it, but it was well worth the effort!
#aprilbookshowers day 12: drop everything and read
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
My #firstpost on #litsy is my favourite book, or collection of books, Parade's End. I read it constantly, and have a collection or various printings and editions. I'm most at home in this book. #paradesend #fordmaddoxford #bookworm #readingismymentalhealth #collector #oldbooksmell
