Today after getting my nails done I popped in to the op shop next-door to see whether I could find myself a Georgette Heyer @LeahBergen . I did not find a Heyer, but I did find these two 😍. For $2 each! #bookhaul #winning
Today after getting my nails done I popped in to the op shop next-door to see whether I could find myself a Georgette Heyer @LeahBergen . I did not find a Heyer, but I did find these two 😍. For $2 each! #bookhaul #winning
This has been on my shelf forever… and while it took a few pages (I had to reread the first 5 pages) to get a handle on the writing style, and then it blew me away. I could almost feel this story settling over me like a blanket while reading. Set in Cairo, this tells a story in 4 different perspectives.
#Reading1001 #ReadAroundTheWorld #Sweden
Interconnected vignettes with forgettable characters but great descriptions of nature. The book encompasses folklore, myth, legends and historical stories.
Great descriptions of rural Sweden you can really feel the chill and smell the forest.
#JOLABOKAFLOD package has arrived 🎄🎅🏼
My #JolabokaflodSwap23 has been sent @MaleficentBookDragon . Thanks for organizing this fun swap.
excerpt from "No Title Required" by Wislawa Szymborska
Full poem https://inwardboundpoetry.blogspot.com/2007/09/489-no-title-required-wislawa.htm...
#title #poetrymatters @TheSpineView
What to make of a novel of essays? Apparently JMC took his own published essays and their criticism (good, tough criticism) and made a novel out of it, with an afterlife confrontation added in. Of course, these are Elizabeth Costello‘s speeches in the book.
So it works and also doesn‘t. First chapter of Realism is fantastic. Later obsession with the morality on veganism was ok - but, i had trouble caring. But i still kind of liked it overall.
Still warming my cat (and vice versa). Trying out Coetzee. Lovely 1st chapter toying with perspectives on Realism.
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
What a wonderful discourse on race, diversity, literarure, inspiration and culture. Ishiguro's Nobel lecture from 2017.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2017/ishiguro/lecture/