I often take book reviews with a grain of salt. Unless if they’re informative of the books structure, I usually feel one shouldn’t be steered away from reading a book if one definitely Wants to give it a go.
Started reading The Secret History today. I really need to read some of that Dark Academia lol.
I’m grateful this has been a productive year for me reading-wise. I think an important cause of it is my goal-setting; yet, even though I reached my book goal I’m still going because I feel the drive to which is pleasant.
Started reading A Gate at the Stairs a few days ago. Pretty amusing and odd book so far.
It’s been a long time. I feel like it’s time to read The Corrections by Franzen soon.
Found a copy of John Barth’s The End of the Road today. I’m not sure if one is supposed to read The Floating Opera before it or not, however.
Gonna continue to read the man with the golden arm and also probably the great Indian novel. The former bothers me slightly in that there’s not really any “chapters” per se, but rather, there are just sections
It was a good book. Now i need to remind myself to read the books I actually have been reading on-and-off for a while now.
Almost done with Cry, The Beloved Country. Good book. Pretty emotional book, and there’s some really good lines in it
My least favorite part of the first one is the constant having to look back into the glossary for translations. It’s very frustrating. You’re basically actively punished for not knowing French. The second is really fun and proto-postmodern
Finished reading The Enormous Room and All About H.Hatterr yesterday. The former was not so great to me but the latter was really good and enjoyable!
I also a chance and got a copy of the novel The Dark Lantern by Henry Williamson. It’s a part of his “Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight.” I am reluctant to read it anytime soon though because I read Tarka the Otter and had a pretty unenjoyable time doing so.
Voss is such a conflicting character. He’s both a complete jerk & surprisingly compassionate at the same time. In 1 section I was like “gosh, how the f could he do such a senseless heartless act?!” And then a few pages later I’m like, “oh my gosh, how could he do such a compassionate and kind act?”
Started reading All About H. Hatterr today. Problem is I’m so tired and need some more coffee D :
Haven’t listened to audiobooks before. I always would worry id space-out and not pay attention..
“It's the trees of this day
That I do battle with for the light”
youtu.be/ztvr09J7KK4?...
It’s refreshing when authors write so well that you end up highlighting so many good sentences!!
Been going back to reading Voss. Patrick White writes with some really good sentences. I don’t even care per se about the story. I mostly just like how he writes.
Have to finish Voss at some point. But also The Enormous Room too
Penguin classics or Oxford World Classics? I generally prefer Penguin. Though Oxford sometimes has more obscure books that Penguin hasn’t printed.
I oftentimes try to be very strategic and look my public library’s website to see which books it Doesn’t have in order to justify myself. But I still just feel guilty buying books
Amazon is always so tempting. There’s always so many books I want to get D:
Not sure which translation of The Blind Owl is the best. I see penguin released a different translation in 2022.
I had no clue the organization even had bookstores. That’s so cool.
Sad :(
Tends to have that irony and cynicism. That “there’s no moral absolute”-ism to it. I’m not a professor though. I can’t say things with certainty.
I would’ve included Infinite Jest, but since DFW himself coined the term “New Sincerity,” I feel it’s more appropriate to label that work as that. Haven’t read that book nor Frolic though. I did hear that IJ is more serious with regards to emotions and all that. Postmodernism in writing I feel..
I imagine Postmodernism as a movement/epoch in literature and philosophy and culture is generally over at this point in time. I’ve heard it be described as being from 1945-1980. Although, I feel maybe an exact end-date could be 1994- with the publication of A Frolic of His Own. Not sure though..
Maybe after the Sue book, I’ll finish up some other books and venture back into postmodernism. It’s been a long time. Haven’t read anything postmodern in a while..
Been reading the Mysteries of Paris by Eugene Sue nowadays.
