Abundance courtesy of the library AND I found a $20 bill stretched out in the walkway to the building.
I‘ve got something to read for #CampLitsy and #CampTOB22 and the recommended Lily and the Octopus. The book on the bottom of the list was written by Tim Conway‘s daughter. Those of you who watched Carol Burnett shows will remember him fondly.
pickI never the got the opportunity to read this book in high school or college. I recently read it and devoured it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
so-soYou need a lot of background knowledge on the Chinese revolution to be able to understand the action — of course, it‘s about deeper questions, not the action. The dialogue doesn‘t translate well into English, I‘m sure it‘s much more readable in French.
But it asks the big questions succinctly, if nakedly, you can tell Camus used a lot of it for The Plague. that said, I had to slog through some parts
pickI kept seeing this on the Modern Library list and came across this 50¢ copy at Goodwill and my god, I‘m glad I did. It‘s got a bit of Ulysses and a bit of On The Road but set in the same Mexico as Power and Glory.
The writing is brilliant — powerful and the pace controlled. You get some Dost and bit of Melville on the big questions. You hate the main character and you love him, you want to live in this world and hope to god it doesn‘t exist.
“The bookcase of early childhood is a man‘s companion for life.”
I have been on such a BUMMER kick of “blah” reads (sorry for all my “so-so” reviews 😕) that I just want to throw out a blurb and say I am loving this book. It‘s exciting! I actually don‘t know where it‘s going all the time, and it‘s exactly what I want out of a novel. 😄
Monday I got to hear Neil Gaiman speak. He‘s one of my favorite living authors & it was such a joy to listen to him joke & answer questions. He read essays & poems (Chivalry). He has such an incredible skill for storytelling & the perfect voice to read his work. There's something so magical about an entire sold-out auditorium listening with rapt attention as someone reads to them. It's so different from our normal society doing 15 things at once.
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