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It anyone were to scroll down my thread, they will notice a post on my starting this 5 months ago. Well, it didn‘t take 5 months. I put it down, paused my Faulkner reading, and started again. I found it unexpected, going ways i did not anticipate. But exceptionally powerful. A rewarding if difficult book. It includes The Bear, a famous Faulkner short story that is novel-sized in the contents. That story does a lot. (But it‘s not my favorite part)

This is a single sentence. 😳 (Struggling slightly to get through this book.)
#Faulkner #1001books

Starting this 1942 novel. Opening 21 pages are terrific.

I started with “The Bear”, since my prof said it was the most important story for our class. I could not finish it in a week, and I have no desire to come back to it later (for now, at least). I don‘t mind a difficult text, but I didn‘t feel this book gave me any reward for its difficulty. I was bored and frustrated most of the time. It just isn‘t my cup of tea: not the themes, not the writing style.

1. 📖 Go Down, Moses
📖 Kingdom of Copper
2. Slytherin/Ravenclaw. Old Pottermore test vs new Pottermore test. I mostly identify as Slytherin!
3. Murdoch Mysteries
#weekendreads

I couldn‘t finish this one, I couldn‘t even read it. The short stories in this book together form a novel. I started each story but finished none. It‘s me, I know. I loved Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying, but now the typical Mississippi accent just irritated me (reading English is difficult enough as it is). So no, not for me. #1001books

I'g going to start my Masterthesis soon, for that I will transcribe this old Moses Theatre play from the 17th century. Super interessting but also not the easiest handwriting 🙊

Stopped in Oxford, MS so of course I had to stop at Square Books. I could have stayed forever and spent all the monies!!!