ModernClassics

The Plague | Albert Camus

“Упродовж історії було стільки ж епідемій, скільки й війн; та все одно вони щоразу застають людей зненацька”.
— Альбер Камю, «Чума»

«Те, що правдиве для всіх лих у світі, правдиве і для чуми: вона змушує людей перевершувати самих себе».
— Чума

«Єдиний спосіб боротися з чумою — це порядність».
— Альбер Камю «Чума»

#ThePlague #AlbertCamus #Existentialism #LiteraryQuotes #ModernClassics #ReadToThink

IriDas I read The Plague after 2020. I‘m glad; because I would have embarrassed myself before by thinking “we would never react like that, we‘re smarter than that now.” 🤦🏼‍♂️ 3d

Sunday13 @IriDas Absolutely agree. I used to think we‘d learned from history. Reading The Plague after living through a real one was humbling — it felt less like fiction and more like a mirror🫣 3d

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GatheringBooks

I Have More Souls Than One | Fernando Pessoa

#DaysDevotedTo Day 2: #AllSouls with Pessoa. Here is my book haul from Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, the world‘s oldest operating bookstore in the world, according to the Guinness World Records: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qPD

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Lovely! 8mo

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GatheringBooks

I Have More Souls Than One | Fernando Pessoa

#DaysDevotedTo Portuguese #Authors while I was in Lisbon a few weeks back - at the ostensibly oldest running bookstore in the world, according to Guinness World Records - Livraria Bertrand founded in 1732.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Oh the lure of the bookshop 👌🏼 8mo

Kristy_K I‘ll be in Lisbon in two weeks! Adding this bookstore to my list. 8mo

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anushareflects

The Missing Girl | Shirley Jackson

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My first introduction to Shirley Jackson who I‘ve heard so much about! A set of 3 short stories where she offers no easy explanations or conclusions to the reader. An underlying sense of eerie-ness that persists even if we don‘t completely get what‘s going on. Great mindbenders. Definitely interested in reading more of her soon!

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merelybookish

Death the Barber | William Carlos Williams

Day 1#sealeychallenge
A short collection of works by WCW. (I believe from a poetry swap from @batsy ?)

"Flowers by the Sea"
When over the flowery, sharp pasture's
edge, unseen, the salt ocean
lifts its form -- chicory and daisies
tied, released, seems hardly flowers alone
but color and the movement -- or the shape
perhaps -- of restlessness, whereas
the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem.

sarahbarnes I still love his well-known poems from college - the wheelbarrow and the plums. 2y

batsy Oh, lovely! I need to read more of him! Like @sarahbarnes I've enjoyed the few well-known ones I've read. This sounds like a great challenge; only know about it now thanks to you 🙂 2y

merelybookish @sarahbarnes Me too! As much as they get made fun of, they are so powerful in their simplicity. 2y

merelybookish @batsy I don't think it's very old! It's a good excuse to read more poetry. 2y

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merelybookish

I Have More Souls Than One | Fernando Pessoa

My stack for #thesealeychallenge. It's my second time attempting it. Goal is to read one book each day in August. Wish me luck! 😅

Ruthiella You can do it! 😃👍 2y

BookwormAHN Good luck 🍀 2y

Lindy Duffy; Boland; Sarton; Atwood… I see you have lots of great reads ahead of you this month. Bon courage! 🍀 2y

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merelybookish @Ruthiella Thanks! It feels pretty ambitious. 2y

merelybookish @BookwormAHN Thank you!! 2y

merelybookish @Lindy Merci! Part of the appeal is to dig into some poets' work that I usually just dip into. 🙂 2y

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BekaReid

Create Dangerously | Albert Camus

"Art cannot be a monologue."

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TalesandTexts

The Skeleton's Holiday | Leonora Carrington

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Lenora Carrington‘s “The Skeleton‘s Holiday” has to be the weirdest book I‘ve ever read in my life.

It‘s crazy, bordering on creepy. Absolutely indelicate and strangely incredible. By calling upon human artifice, she brings alive creatures at their best and baddest simultaneously.

You gotta love an author who really couldn‘t give two shits about the rules of literature.

(Also, have you seen her paintings? OMG!! They‘re incredible.)

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