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9-11 Oct 24 (audiobook)
Hemingway may be the antidote to my current trend of reading books about peri-menopausal women seeking sexual exploration - his work is intensely masculine and somewhat misogynistic.
Nevertheless I did enjoy this text about Robert Jordan, an idealistic American teacher who joins the civil war and becomes a bomb expert. Such an interesting period when clever young men headed off to a foreign country to fight a war of ideals.

#SchoolSpirit #Bell always liked the look of this cover

Thought I‘d go a different way with this one 🎸 #schoolspirit #bell

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#bell #schoolspirit @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Meets the hype.

I found a first edition to add to my collection 😍😍

An incredible book. It‘s probably my favorite from him.

1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

2. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway taken from For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne

3. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”

@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

#conflictedworlds #war

I feel like I would have loved to read this in college. To discuss the literary tools he used. Why is Robert Jordan always given his full name but other characters only their first or nicknames? (Probably racism) There is symbolism & philosophical questions surrounding war, fascism & bridges that would be interesting to dissect.
But as a read by myself I was bored. RJ annoyed me, and I wanted more depth this war is important & rarely discussed.

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes" - Robert Jordan

Interesting thoughts on the US.

#august #tbrpile

The latest additions to my Hemingway collection. #vintagebooks #antiquebooks

59 of 2021. Day 5 and book 4 of #awesomeapril. I read A Farewell to Arms years ago and loved it, so I always intended to read more Hemingway. This is a story of an American that fights alongside Spanish Guerrillas in The Spanish Civil War. It has love, camaraderie and sacrifice, but the main theme is death. I really enjoyed this book. I did like a Farewell to Arms more. Good read though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#readathon #classics

It‘s Hemingway day , everybody! PBS USA check your local listings. Clever streamers worldwide?

This week during our trip in Idaho, we visited the suite in Sun Valley Lodge where Hemingway finished For Whom the Bell Tolls. We also visited his memorial, the exhibit of his belongings at a local library, and his grave. I‘ve read most of his work and while he‘s not my favorite author, I respect his impact on American literature as a whole. I loved A Moveable Feast and his short stories are excellent. It was a treat to see this slice of history.

I think it may be time to reread the classics. #classics

#QuotsyFeb21 @TK-421
#Inherit

Planning a Hemingway (re)read for September (banned books week). I wanted a set of books that coordinated, but apparently only Vintage has done a significant number of his books in a matching style and they are only available in the UK. 😭😭 It took a month for this one to reach me. #bookmail

#bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks

Day Five:

Hemingway's famous book about the Spanish Civil War was banned by the Italian government at one point because it portrayed the fleeing fascists as 'cowardly'. This is one of my absolute favorite Hemingway books, and the copy in the middle is my first edition! 😍💕📚

Finally it ended. This soo wasn't my book. The language was beautiful but otherwise this book was a total miss for me. 🙈

Another audiowalk another frog. 🐸😍

This book is bit of a disappointment. Every character is either sexist, racist or naive. This book matches the themes of the year 2020 and not in a good way. There is even mention of a sickness. 🙈

The language is beautiful though. 😊

This almost gave me a heart attack during my audiowalk. 🎧😂

Started this as an audio book. War literature is usually not my genre but I feel like this might be important to get through since it is a world classic. So far I'm not feeling it but maybe it picks up after awhile. 🤔

These are #sentimental because my grandmother gave them to me ❤️ The painting was done by her mother ❤️

#BoundTogetherJune

I don‘t know what‘s wrong with me, but I really didn‘t like this book. It‘s supposed to be a more profound farewell to arms, but for me it was a more boring, more sexist iteration. Of course Hemingway writes wonderfully, of course there are beautiful and touching sentences, I just struggled so hard to pay attention from the opening through to the end. And Maria, what an awful female character, she‘s the epitome of damsel in distress.

#7Days#7Books Book 2. I don't have available now my copy but this will be also a re-read someday!! @DaveGreen7777

Day 24 - #PopularTheYearYouWereBorn #AuldLangReads

Un passage obligé pour ceux qui aiment lire

This is the first Hemingway novel I've read. I was a bit apprehensive, because I wasn't sure if I would like it or if it would be too difficult for me. I was pleasantly surprised. Also, I don't know much about the Spanish Civil War, so I was glad to learn more. It was informative as well as disturbing.

Day 15 - #Coward #ForWhomTheBellTolls #ErnestHemingway #QuotsyMay19

Summer Breeze.
Bell ringer

Unfortunately for Summer he got his bell taken away during the Oscar's..he could not resist ringing it during each clapping session

For Whom the Bell Tolls #raidinggrandmaslibrary

Going through my grandma‘s library and finding some first-edition and special-edition classics 😍 Yes, I will be keeping these.

I'm starting this book, which I was supposed to have read in college, and trying to make sense of what I underlined when I started reading it before. It's weird seeing my own handwriting in the margins and feeling like someone else wrote it.

Did a little book swap with my best friend today. She gave me Bellevue Square, and I gave her Breakfast of Champions and For Whom the Bell Tolls. I decided to give up on re-reading it - I‘m just about as into it as I was the first time I read it, so it was time to call it quits.

Decided to read this one next as part of my purge project. This is another re-read for me. I love other Hemingway works - The Old Man and the Sea; A Moveable Feast - that I had high hopes for this during my first read, and I ended up being disappointed! I wanted so badly to like it too. So we‘ll see how this goes.

This is how I am spending my Friday night...making book pendants! 😁💕📚 The blue is Jane Austen, the pink is Emily Dickinson, the purple is F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the big one is Hemingway. ❤ I also made a bunch of bookmarks! I had a lot of book pages to save after library weeding this week! 👍

Hemingway's majestic story of love and sacrifice set during the Spanish Civil War. The novel is an homage to Spain and a lament for the forces that tore it apart.