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[Describing 60s Manchester]...the city's immense and time-blackened nineteenth-century buildings... . Even the grandest of the buildings, such as the Royal Exchange, the Refuge Assurance Company, the Grosvenor Picture Palace, and indeed the Piccadilly Plaza, which had been built only a few years before, seemed so empty and abandoned that one might have supposed oneself surrounded by mysterious façades or theatrical backdrops.

...before religion lessons, Paul would always top up to the brim the holy water stoup...that was fixed by the door, using ...the watering can with which he normally watered the geraniums. Because of this, the Beneficiary never managed to put the holy water bottle he always carried... to use.... he was torn between his suspicion that systematic malice was involved and the intermittent hope that this was a sign from a Higher Place...

Reading now. Second from the Sebald series

1. (The) Emigrants by WG Sebald
2. Jenny Erpenbeck
3. Emma (with Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller)
4. Eggs Benedict 😋
#manicmonday @joscho

A little shelfie of works by #wgsebald. A man on the cusp of the fame he always deserved when he died suddenly. One of the most original writers of the late 20th century. Sebald invented a new way of presenting human experience through flowing prose enriched by images.

What are some of your daily simple pleasures? I enjoy the ritual of making tea - the gurgle of water as the kettle fills, and then the merry boil of the teapot. My day also wouldn‘t be complete without a book. An easy way to escape, travel the world, gain priceless knowledge. I also try to write down something daily, even just a paragraph; a quote, a memorable moment or something funny that was said that I want to remember.

I felt a bit like I was reading someone else‘s journal—maybe that‘s good, maybe it‘s not. To me, this read a little disjointed and while there are moments of quiet beauty, I didn‘t feel the book pulled together enough for me to feel it was a great book. The author is a collector of stories. I think I got the main idea of the story: Everyone‘s life is and was important. It‘s absolutely important, but I didn‘t get sucked in.

Another class book that I just started, but mostly I wanted to share the lovely bookplate in the front of the copy I got from my school's library #college #currentread

I found this novel to be excellent. Sebald discusses the Holocaust, without directly referring to it, which I found very tasteful. Altogether, the novel is very surreal, and with the inclusion of different photographs, it blurs the lines of whether or not what transpired in the novel actually occurred.

This book is exceptional. Bowing down at the altar of Sebald's writing.

@DebinHawaii this avocado toast is just what my morning needed! Spending a quiet day revising my paper and editing my students' thesis statements. Please send more coffee.

My dear friend sent this to me in the mail. He works near the Strand bookstore. He's always going. I'm always jelly.