RIP Paul Auster. I’m going to start working through his books again. I think I have them all, but some are here in Sydney and others are still in a box in Wales, so I can’t read them in order.
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
Just finished Out of Africa. Lot's of subtle life truths revealed/recognized in that book. Plus I'm easily influenced. Really loved it after pushing through some sad parts about the wildlife. Hope to watch the movie tonight.
I'm reading The Man in the High Castle. Frankly, I think it kinda sucks, which surprises me. It's a bit of a slog. Barely anything happens for most of it. It could have been so much better, with the amazing concept.
I remember when the series was out, hearing that the book it was based on was not great. Meanwhile 90% of that series was great!
I finally started this and am about halfway through.
What a book! Not for everyone because it's rather dark, but I literally couldn't put it down, and read it in one sitting.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
RIP Paul Auster. I’m going to start working through his books again. I think I have them all, but some are here in Sydney and others are still in a box in Wales, so I can’t read them in order.
This is on my list, also New York Trilogy..
Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015. Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022 EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
I just finished the audiobook for The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams By Stacy Schiff. Very interesting. I've ready quite a few books about that time in U.S. history, but this emphasized events I didn't know.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I'm reading The Man in the High Castle. Frankly, I think it kinda sucks, which surprises me. It's a bit of a slog. Barely anything happens for most of it. It could have been so much better, with the amazing concept.
I remember when the series was out, hearing that the book it was based on was not great. Meanwhile 90% of that series was great!
I finally started this and am about halfway through.
What a book! Not for everyone because it's rather dark, but I literally couldn't put it down, and read it in one sitting.
I'm a slow reader with CM. Read some paragraphs 5 times. Almost distracting how much I enjoy some of his wording!
I'm reading The Man in the High Castle. Frankly, I think it kinda sucks, which surprises me. It's a bit of a slog. Barely anything happens for most of it. It could have been so much better, with the amazing concept.
I remember when the series was out, hearing that the book it was based on was not great. Meanwhile 90% of that series was great!
I finally started this and am about halfway through.
What a book! Not for everyone because it's rather dark, but I literally couldn't put it down, and read it in one sitting.
I'm a slow reader with CM. Read some paragraphs 5 times. Almost distracting how much I enjoy some of his wording!
Yes, quite the wordsmith. And nothing wrong with savoring good writing!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
I love my national geographic subscription on my iPad - so many extra features with audio and video. It’s really cool. Highly recommend a subscription.
After watching the docuseries “Six Schizophrenic Brothers” - which I found both tragic and riveting - I decided to read the book it was based on. So far it is really interesting.
Last night, I started Charles Bowden's Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America. I had read a couple of other Bowden's creative non-fiction earlier this year (The Red Caddy and Down By the River), and had heard that Blood Orchid
was his masterpiece. So I knew I was in for something great and
powerfully absorbing. The book uses the blood orchid as "a metaphor
for our obsessive love affair with violence" and is "a plea for peace
and hope on the land". But I highly suspect Bowben's literary quest for
peace will take me down some very dark places, and some places of
"courage and terrible beauty".
Just
ten pages in last night, and I was floored. Most of page nine and the
top of page ten begins with, "The bloom is more fearsome." We very
quickly see that Bowden was both in top form here and unsparing. This
should not have come to a surprise as the quote that opens the chapter
with a quote from Meeuse and Morris's The Sex Life of Flowers:
"They
will do anything to reproduce. And they will use the needs of others,
the deep appetites they see in all our faces, they will exploit these
things to further their own ends. They will take over our ways of
loving, they will seize upon our sense of property. They will
ruthlessly read our diaries, our secret thoughts, and then make us
slaves to our own obsessions.
Perhaps
no clearer example exists than the tactics of the hammer orchid.
(Drakaea fitzgeraldii) and its scheme to seduce one particular type of
wasp (of the family Thynnidae). Thynnids fall into the trap once they
gaze upon the labellum of the hammer orchid."
Though not a long book (298 pages) this will (intentionally) be a slow read. I read page 9 alone about four times last night. Amazing work!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
I've ordered the prequel through Vinted! I'm currently reading a book about Justin Trudeau and alternating it with the Delta of Venus by Anais Nin.
It (the sequel to Days at the Morisaki Bookshop) was on the "Buy One Get One Half Price" table at my local Waterstones So, I bought the Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (I really enjoyed it!), and got the More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop at half price. I'll probably buy the prequel too
Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024
When I bought Days at the Morisaki Bookshop from Vinted, I also purchased Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop at the same time, which I haven't started yet. Im really enjoying DATMB and will definitely get the follow up!
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(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
Lot's of subtle life truths revealed/recognized in that book. Plus I'm easily influenced. Really loved it after pushing through some sad parts about the wildlife.
Hope to watch the movie tonight.
What a book! Not for everyone because it's rather dark, but I literally couldn't put it down, and read it in one sitting.
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Yes, quite the wordsmith. And nothing wrong with savoring good writing!
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Great book
Then watched movie 'wild style' .
Actors, not actors, authentic to rappers and artists. Watch without knowing that you may say wtf!
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
even if I look and act really crazy.
Currently halfway through this:
A City On Mars (Kelly And Zach Weinersmith)
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
I'm currently reading a book about Justin Trudeau.
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..