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So in high school I absolutely did not like The Great Gatsby & thus over the years never picked up more Fitzgerald, content in my dislike. We had two #SundayBuddyRead books that put the author in a more favorable, sympathetic light & I decided it was time to go back again & reread TGG after a (cough) few decades of life 😉 & picked it as my #FictionalTraveler March pick for #BigCity. Surprise! I quite enjoyed the book this time. ⬇️

Headed to Hilo for the day for meetings. Starting the morning with coffee, a breakfast sandwich & a little reading. This one is for #FictionalTraveler March: #BigCity prompt.

A couple of #SundayBuddyRead books where F. Scott Fitzgerald is mentioned have made me want to reread The Great Gatsby again (my first time since high school) so I‘m making it my pick for #FictionalTraveler March: #BigCity

While I‘m reading the edition with the iconic blue cover, the 2013 movie tie-in cover & the movie itself have more than one beautiful #EveningGown soI‘m using it for today‘s #CoverStories prompt.

So not the brightest thief… 🙄🙃

https://www.startribune.com/st-paul-man-charged-in-connection-with-theft-of-f-sc...

#FeelinTheLove perhaps one of the greatest tales of #LoveLost Gatsby does everything to try to turn that around.

As I already mentioned - unexpected, flowery language. YAY!!! 🥰🥰🥰

I enjoyed this classic very much. It had been on my reading list for some time now and I wanted to read a easier version with my students, so I dived in. I did not know that the actual part surrounding Gatsby is this short, but I enjoyed the very detailed descriptions of his feelings. Fitzgerald used a very flowery language I didn‘t expect.

Trying to read on the plane to Edinburgh. 🙈🙈🙈

What an introduction to a novel. 😍

#HauntedShelf #BookScavengerHunt

#ArtDeco

+16 points #FrightClub

I‘m still opening my #LitSolace cards and savoring the notes & surprises. Thanks @BarkingMadRead That colorful bird sticker melted my heart. 🧡💚💛💙

#HauntedShelf
@PuddleJumper @Jadams89 #FrightClub
#BookScavengerHunt
#artdeco

+16 points

A classic cover. 💙💙💙

A long overdue reread. I can‘t believe this would be on any high school reading list because what would a teen relate to in this novel?

I can‘t say I enjoyed Fitzgerald‘s writing style, but I did enjoy examination of Nick‘s loss of innocence about humanity and the American promise of infinite progress.

#AboutABook #Pub100YrsAgo

#AboutABook #WithSadEnding One of the saddest, I think .

“Do you always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it.”

My summer solstice tradition is to read this book every year. This year we listened to it in the car while driving back from vacation.

Always a favorite of mine, and a perfect summer book.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

I love these questions. Here goes:

🌹Authors: Lauren Groff, Curtis Sittenfeld, Angela Davis; Titles: The Color Purple, O Caledonia, Mrs. Caliban, Infinite Jest, Don Quixote
🌼 Stoner
🌺 The Great Gatsby, but not in a good way. I think it's the perfect book to read during middle age, not as a teen 🙃

#StorySettings
Day 29: #party
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#TGG.

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs (thanks for the tag! 😘)
1. My high school copy of THE GREAT GATSBY. All my notes as a 16-year-old are still in it. I have kept it through the years (now 42 years old). It is held together with a rubber band. 💚
2. That would be early 1980s: all books by Sidney Sheldon, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosamond du Jardin, and my precious Harlequin romances.
3. THE SECRET GARDEN.

Play @PageShifter, @Catiewithac?

Jake Gyllenhaal does a fantastic job. Loved every minute of it and I didn‘t speed it up once! (Always a good sign 😂)

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that‘s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .And one fine morning-
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
#TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #lastline #closingline #Classics #Fiction #School #HistoricalFiction #Romance #Literature #Novels #ReadForSchool 🧡🧡

🌿A couple appointments, and generally work meetings. Hoping for a quick week.
🌿🌿Munchie type food, if I'm in the mood.
🌿🌿🌿Usually a bookmark, but if not, whatever is handy.
🌿🌿🌿🌿Tagged for my #classicschallenge
#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12

#ItTakesAllKinds
#witheyes
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#bookhaul from my trip to the book warehouse outlet in Easley SC. $400 worth of books for about $130

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in he dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.“

#LuckyInLove
#sunset
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#thegreenlight

#2024Book4

Movie was better than book

4✨ I remember reading this in high school, but not quite understanding/remembering how it ended. As an adult I think I was able to absorb more of the story with understanding. This story is short, but it is expertly crafted. It‘s about love, loss, sacrifice, jealousy, bad decisions, and unlikely friends. I‘m glad I decided to do a reread.

Oh man what a day. I‘m going to chill out for a bit and read a chapter before going home.

I‘ve had these clothespin lights forever, but finally set them up. Excuse my messy bookshelves. I‘m working on cleaning out my library.

This is probably my 5th or 6th reread of Gatsby, a book that really never stops giving. My grade 12 students are just finishing up reading before we watch Leo take on the titular role. #classics

I re-read the book last month in anticipation of this, now let‘s see how closely the musical will follow.

One of my favorite books has eyes on the cover. #AutumnPlease

F. Scott Fitzgerald House 🏡
Montgomery, Alabama

This was definitely one of the best classics I've read. I'm trying to determine what and how I feel about the story. It definitely impacted me. My mind is turning it over and over. Tragedy of course. Misguided love. Depravity of human nature. Triumph of the soul. All these things. 3 words: I loved it. Read it

Classic. What more needs said? Second time with this one. Let's see how it impacts me at this point in my life. Books like to do that. The words stay the same but our view changes.

#BookBinge
#BookishQuote

Wrapping up August. Thanks for hosting, @Eggs and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks! 🧡💜🧡

This is my all-time favorite quote from a book.

*sheepishly points up* The tagged book. I‘ve tried! But I just can‘t get into it.

And I feel like that, with my English degree, I‘m supposed to have read ✨The Classics✨. But this is one I just can‘t finish. 😂

#SundayFunday Have a great day, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

#Titles&Tunes
@Cinfhen
@BarbaraBB

I never get tired of revisiting this one. Gatsby's “story“ to Nick: “Well, I've been ALL OVER THE WORLD. Been in all the capitals more than once. Lived in all of them too [...] Why, I've made a small fortune in the East, and I've come back to America to start the oyster business.“

Song: “All Over the World“ by ELO. 🤩

#MayMontage
#FaceonCover
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

When I think of a face on a cover of a book, this is the one that haunts me--ever since I first read it in my American literature class 40 years ago. Oh, and that blue! 🤩

4⭐️ Read this during the most #deweysreadathon and I liked it more this time around than my first time reading it. I was able to understand the story better and therefore enjoyed it more. #2023 #fiction #classics #reread #modern #bookstagram #bookreview

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald/18533627?ean=97...

An important read but other Fitzgerald books are better. “Babylon revisited” explores similar criticisms of the American Dream, over indulgence, wealth and poverty while being more interesting and attention grabbing than the Great Gatsby.

1.She cannot be trusted with cash or credit card in a bookstore.
2.Jay Gatsby: He believes the dream , the illusion, and cannot see the reality.
Anyone play!
Thanks @Eggs for the tag!

#favoriteclassic #marchmagic @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

4/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 #marchreads #classics

4️⃣ I‘ve always meant to read this and never have, my goal is to read more of ‘the classics‘ this year, so this is the first one of those #thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald #kindleread