Litsy

Ulysses: Annotated Edition | James Joyce

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✅ Completed! June 16 is the day on which Ulysses is set & I did manage to read it between February 2 (date of publication & Joyce‘s birthday) & today along with the Friends of Shakespeare & Co centenary read! I won‘t say I completely enjoyed it, but I believe it is well worth the effort of reading. I found all the writing styles fascinating, was amazed by the allusions, and truly enjoyed parts of it. Happy #Bloomsday!

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Graywacke Congrats! 🙂 3y

DivineDiana 👏🏻🎉👏🏻 3y

wanderinglynn 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congrats! 3y

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Branwen Happy Bloomsday! 🎉💚🎉💚🎉 3y

Saknicole Awesome! That‘s my summer read that I am about to start! Nice work finishing it for Bloomsday! 3y

Daisey @Graywacke @DivineDiana @wanderinglynn @Branwen Thank you all! 3y

Daisey @Saknicole Fantastic! I‘ll look forward to seeing what you think of it. 3y

JazzFeathers 👏👏👏👏👏💪😁 2y

Daisey @JazzFeathers Thanks! I have Bible School prep this week, but hopefully after that I‘ll actually be able to get back to reading a few of Tolkien‘s letters again! 2y

JazzFeathers @Daisey I'm catching up at the moment. Just read the famous letter to Woldham yesterday night, the one where Tolkien told about the Silmarillion. Alwayscan emotion 💚 2y

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Leftcoastzen

Ulysses | James Joyce

June 16th Happy #Bloomsday everyone!

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LeahBergen

Ulysses | James Joyce

Happy Bloomsday!

Will this be the year I finally get to this book? I doubt it. 😆😆

#Bloomsday

TrishB I thought you were going to say you were reading it 😁 5y

rabbitprincess Ooh the calendar colour coordinates with the book! (edited) 5y

Kimberlone Lol! The only Joyce ever been able to get into is Dubliners, which I do think is very beautiful, but is also his least experimental book. 5y

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Ladygodiva7 It will be the last book I‘ll read, if I bother. 5y

Cathythoughts Happy Bloomsday ! That book is way to long 😁 5y

AvidReader25 I finally read it the other year and it was as crazy as I always expected. 😂 5y

BarbaraBB I read it. It‘s hard working and not very rewarding in the end - in my opinion 😫 4y

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Leftcoastzen

Ulysses | James Joyce

Happy #Bloomsday everybody! Joyce picked this day for his novel to take place in honor of the first outing with his future wife , Nora Barnacle.🎉

LeahBergen Nice! 👏🏻 5y

ValerieAndBooks I‘m still slogging my way through

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ValerieAndBooks Mainly because I keep looking stuff up to try to understand 😂 5y

Leftcoastzen @ValerieAndBooks I love portrait all his stuff is full of Irish details.old Irish details 5y

ValerieAndBooks @Leftcoastzen yes, lots of Irish history and politics that I was unaware of. 5y

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ElaineR

Ulysses | James Joyce

Happy #bloomsday all. RTE are doing a 30hour reading to celebrate but if that's a bit too much, how about just Molly Bloom's soliloquy to whet the appetite? https://youtu.be/ii_aZ6djNkM.

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Leftcoastzen

Ulysses | James Joyce

Happy #Bloomsday everybody! I used to live near a bookstore in San Francisco who did a reading of Ulysses all day long every June 16th!

Theaelizabet Happy Bloomsday! That Brenda Maddox book on Nora was terrific. 6y

BarbaraBB How cool, Bloomsday!! 6y

Leftcoastzen @Theaelizabet yes , I thought it was terrific. 6y

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Leftcoastzen @BarbaraBB some places have readings and celebrations.The store I used to listen to the reading closed in 2016.😞 6y

jveezer Which bookstore? I miss Aardvarks and Bibliohead. 😢😢 6y

Leftcoastzen Jveezer Modern Times ☹️ 6y

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jveezer

Ulysses | James Joyce

I missed #Bloomsday because I was on the road. So today I sat down with some #tea and my editions of this favorite of mine...The ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more,

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Faibka

Ulysses | James Joyce

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

Happy #Bloomsday!

Grab your copy and post a random quote!

jveezer Are you still on your odyssey of reading Ulysses? Are you planning to tackle Finnegans Wake next? If so, there is an interesting reading group starting next week to read one page of the Wake a week. Check out Blotty Words on Facebook. I‘m going for it as a reread. 6y

Faibka @jveezer thanks! I did finish Ulysses last year and was thinking of tackling Finnegans Wake later in the year. I would love to join, I‘ll check it out. Thanks again for letting me know! :) 6y

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