pickI wasn't far in to the tagged book before I realized I just had to do a reread of Gatsby along with it. I can't begin to count the number of times I've read Gatsby because I used to teach it, but So We Read On made it feel like a new experience. It's part literary criticism and part author study, but it's all heart because it's written by a Fitzgerald/Gatsby scholar who adores the book. I loved it! And I loved revisiting Fitzgerald's prose ❤️
And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed. . .
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
“I know myself,” he cried, “but that is all.”
#ThisSideOfParadise #FScottFitzgerald #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookfair #Classics #Fiction #Literature #Novels #American #Romance #HistoricalFiction #20thCentury 💖💖💖
bailedI really just couldn‘t get into this one. I didn‘t get the same feeling as when I read The Great Gatsby. 🪂
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pickI have an innate curiosity to learn about the lives of other people. Identified as a biographical fiction novel, Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck, spoke to my interests about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The novel opens in 1932 with Zelda being admitted to the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland, and meeting her assigned nurse, Anna Howard.
Full review at https://abookandadog.com/blog/call-me-zelda
Great month!
#BookSpin✅
#DoubleSpin✅
#SummerTeads ✅✅✅✅
#FiveStarReads ✅✅✅ (Sandwich, The Situation Room, God of the Woods)
#Nonfiction2024 ✅
pickFinished it today . I think people that enjoyed the original would enjoy this as well. I liked the illustration style a lot .
pickThis incomplete manuscript could have been an interesting novel were it was finished. The characters weren't exactly interesting but the events surrounding them were.
#Bookreport
📚Currently reading:
📕The Love of the Last Tycoon
📙The Witness for the Dead
📙Artemis
Progress:
I finished AFfC last week and a short story, overall a productive week. Will be finishing Artemis this upcoming week. Started a bunch of ebooks too, still fantasy-dominated but I am balancing that with The Last Tycoon.
still trying to get back into my other picks.
