repost for @TheAromaofBooks:
Hey friends!! So I've been looking at my life and my upcoming schedule, and I am going to pause #RandomClassics definitely for January, and maybe longer, kind of depending. I still have a huge list of classics I would like to read, and I have really enjoyed reading these with you all, but for now I need to skip a month!! I'll let everyone know when I am ready to pick back up again!!
A Modern Library Giant. A book I couldn‘t resist at Goodwill even though I have too many books! My bone to pick is in the subtitle , by the “men “ who made it. No women here , expected in the time frame. I‘m sure I will still like it 😁
bailedNope. Can‘t do it. This one is NSFW, and that doesn‘t really bother me but I get the feeling that Jerry Saltz is particularly obsessed with over-sexualized (perverted, as he sometimes refers to them) pieces of art. That‘s just not my thing. And the worse for me was the feeling that the art world and its critics might just be way too pretentious for me. I love art, and I love finding connections to the emotional, political, and spiritual themes ⬇️
“To make or experience art is to enter a kind of free zone. It slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need to communicate or be entertained or stave off death, to create our own mating dances, to deliver our own children, to mourn. Art is bigger than mere subject matter. It is as big as life.”
“All art is a kind of exorcism. This is what gives art its power, to change the conditions of our life.”
Next listen is nonfiction… I struggle more with listening to nonfiction so I‘m hoping this one can keep my attention. It is about one of my favorite subjects so🤞🏼
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Fragrance of Sweet-Grass discussion (4/4)
Were there new insights or perspectives that you gained through this reading?
Did this reading cause you to notice anything about LMM‘s work that you hadn‘t noticed before?
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