“…‘writers tend to magnify the significance and difficulty of writing and to destroy its essential simplicity and directness.‘ Also, they ruined tablecloths with their lead pencils.”
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“…‘writers tend to magnify the significance and difficulty of writing and to destroy its essential simplicity and directness.‘ Also, they ruined tablecloths with their lead pencils.”
so-soRe read for my book club & enjoyed it more this time around apart from the political themes of the 30s spookily now being played out ☹️the Mitfords all I‘m sure were neuro divergent , unity especially, annoying , spoilt , privileged & definitely a way of life now long gone , aside from their strange political leanings not sure why everyone was obsessed with these horrible women . Nancy the most famous for the right reasons barely gets a look in ;
“…the real tragedy occurs when the drive that should go into creation becomes unhinged and spills over into personal relationships.”
pickSuper interesting read, and a really interesting perspective, focusing on a woman who has been largely forgotten by history
“Male editors who fulfilled their job duties were deemed not ‘formidable‘ but ‘genius…‘
Lurking within the word ‘formidable‘ is this original sin: she did nothing to prop up male authority or disguise her own, nothing to make it easier for men to defer to her.”
“She valued intellectual risk, because she herself had profited from wading into books that made her stretch to encompass them.”
“…her father and Crullie seemed to have provided only support, never censorship. Katharine was allowed to read books that scared her and books that she didn‘t understand—and these were ‘often the ones that meant the most‘ to her.”
pickYou can never have too much Shakespeare, or books about Shakespeare, specially when they're as erudite as this one.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404969427
pickBegan this memoir as a Phantom of the Opera and Hello Dolly! super-fan, ended it as a Michael Crawford superfan.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404860879
