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Der fliegende Holl�nder: Textbuch mit Varianten der Partitur | Richard Wagner

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batsy

The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner | Friedrich Nietzsche

Truly a good book day in that I totally forgot about the #treatyoself batch of books I ordered at some point for my birthday month 😂💜

TrishB Love it when that happens! 2y

batsy @TrishB The best! 2y

erzascarletbookgasm 👏🎉 Yay! More books! 2y

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Cathythoughts Exciting ❤️ 2y

batsy @erzascarletbookgasm @Cathythoughts 🙌🏾💜 2y

squirrelbrain Always good when you get ‘surprise‘ books…especially when you ordered them yourself! 2y

batsy @squirrelbrain Exactly 😂 2y

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tokorowilliamwallace

The Wagner Operas | Ernest Newman

St. Nikolaus Day dinner at Hollenbach's outfit for nephew's birthday celebration---with my tartan Lutherian-Morean tam hat! Books stacked: Sagas of the Icelanders (700-pager), Ernest Newman's 3-vol omnibus of Great Stories of the Operas, JCO's Bloodsmoor Romance (700-pager) a la The Accursed CR, the classic Snow Queen fantasy, Harold Robbins, Brit dragon roller coaster mystery, The Soong Dynasty (another mulitgenerational option), 1200pg war novel

slategreyskies The 1200 page novel would be a good choice for #ChunksterChallenge2022. I can‘t remember how many pages a chunkster chosen for the challenge is supposed to be, but I know 1200 is over that amount. :) 3y

slategreyskies @Amiable came up with #ChunksterChallenge, so you can tag her and follow her if you‘re interested in more details. :) 3y

Amiable @slategreyskies Thanks! My own personal annual chunkster challenge is something that‘s approximately 1,000 pages or more. For me, a “chunkster” is at least 800+pages. But my goal for the challenge is to encourage people to tackle whatever “giant” book intimidates them personally. So that could mean something different to each reader. I really just want people to find the courage to dive into the big books because it‘s so rewarding to finish! 3y

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Amiable And this one definitely qualifies as a chunkster by any definition! 😀 3y

slategreyskies @Amiable okay, thanks! I‘m definitely going to choose a chunkster for 2022. Not sure which one yet! :) 3y

tokorowilliamwallace @slategreyskies, don't forget my order of The first Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth Trilogy (almost 3.000 pages) and Outlander vols. 1 & 6 (800 and 1400, respectively) order from October, the four other epic fantasies I've started and need to finish (all over 500), the 1200 Hindi epic of A Suitable Boy, James Clavell's Whirlwind (Iran revolution of 1979, 1400), the 1400 Sacajawea, 2 sci-fi being worked on (500+), Anna Karenin to finish, &c.! & more 3y

tokorowilliamwallace @Amiable, the south Baltimore book club had some members create a nested internal group for this very thing for the more hardcore blook club members---chonkers or the most commonly considered intimidating books to read/finish. James Joyce's Ulysses got the most votes out of the choices of a David Foster Wallace, a Thomas Pynchon, maybe Proust, and some other choice I can't remember. They held an anniversary meeting for it this year (Bloom Day) 3y

Amiable @tokorowilliamwallace Spread the chunkster love! That's awesome. (Are you in Baltimore? My youngest son lives there -- he's right at the edge of Federal Hill and Otterbein.) For what it's worth, I adored “A Suitable Boy,“ if you are eying that one. :) 3y

tokorowilliamwallace @Amiable, I lived just across the city-county line for two years working with dementia with a friend and his family, but the situation got to be too much for me. I loved Maryland and being so close to Baltimore, and experiencing seasons; one day I hope to move back. I was involved in a religious group out of Federal Hill, and I found some quality philosophy at the bookstore right there around Otterbein!

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Amiable @tokorowilliamwallace Neat! I think he knows that bookstore. He's not very religious, but he does love to read. ;) 3y

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RobinGustafson

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music | Alex Ross

Henry James synchronicity: currently reading The Golden Bowl, just read a chapter in Alex Roth's book Wagnerism that references James, and while reading George Saunder's book A Swim in the Pond in the Rain James is quoted on the style of Turgenev. Whoa

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LTOC

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music | Alex Ross

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A masterpiece, albeit an exhausting read

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Andrea313

G�tterd�mmerung (Twilight of the Gods) | Richard Wagner

After 7 months of working from home, 7 months without live performances, my company is producing opera again! Tonight we open a "drive-thru" opera, an immersive performance/installation adaptation of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, where, in true Detroit fashion, Brunhilde rides off in a Ford Mustang. I am so proud of my incredible colleagues and so overjoyed to be part of bringing the arts to life once again. #SeeMoreOpera #SeeMoreTheatre #MittenLitten

sharread That's awesome I live in Michigan, and have to check that out. 👍 4y

TrishB Good luck 👍🏻 4y

LiteraryinPA Break a leg!! 4y

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BarbaraBB Wow that sounds really good! 4y

quietjenn I hope all goes well! 4y

Lcsmcat Cool! What do you do with the Detroit Opera? 4y

Andrea313 @Lcsmcat I'm the Director of Education. 🙂 4y

Lcsmcat @Andrea313 Cool. My husband and I are both classical musicians and so many of our friends are out of work now. It‘s good to hear of a company figuring out alternatives. 4y

Andrea313 @quietjenn @TrishB @LiteraryinLititz @BarbaraBB @sharread Thanks for the kind words. It was a wonderful opening! ❤️🎵🎶 4y

Andrea313 @Lcsmcat Wow, I love it! Are you instrumentalists? What do you play? 4y

Lcsmcat @Andrea313 I was an oboist, but I don‘t play professionally anymore. My husband was the bass trombonist with the Utah Symphony and Opera for 22 years, but now he‘s a church musician. He‘s been engineering music for live streamed services from tracks we record individually, so we‘re both working. But a lot of our friends aren‘t in as good a place. 4y

Andrea313 @Lcsmcat Yes, I have definitely seen how completely awful this year has been for many friends and colleagues. It's so hard. I have been working on reduced hours, but am working just the same, and I count myself as incredibly lucky. Sending you and yours all the best from afar! ❤️🎶 4y

BarbaraBB Cool job you have 👌🏽 4y

KVanRead How fabulous! 4y

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Hoopiefoot

Die Walk�re | Richard Wagner

Litten at the opera. I live in a cultural desert and I‘ve absolutely LOVED going to these Met Opera live broadcasts this year. Even if watching Die Walkure means I can‘t read for 5 hours!

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Tanisha_A

Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations | Friedrich Nietzsche

Aha! It's okay to sometimes forget a good book (story) then.

TiredLibrarian I can relate! 😂🤣 6y

cathysaid Guilty! 🙋‍♀️ And I usually don‘t figure out I‘ve already read the book until 50 pages from the end. 🥴🤦‍♀️ 6y

Tanisha_A @TiredLibrarian 🙌 😎 I think we are cool that way! 6y

Tanisha_A @cathysaid Hahahah. If the book is great, it's a pleasure. 😂 6y

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annamatopoetry

The Case of Wagner: Nietzsche Contra Wagner ; The Twilight of the Idols ; The Antichrist | Friedrich Nietzsche

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Now that I'm done with both books, I can return this to my friend. I feel weird reviewing classics, so I won't, but I'm having a hard time remember that Nietzsche is being humorous, so it read kind of weird. I tried my iced coffee with an extra shot of espresso, but now it's too bitter instead of too milky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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annamatopoetry

The Case of Wagner: Nietzsche Contra Wagner ; The Twilight of the Idols ; The Antichrist | Friedrich Nietzsche