The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | 
so-soI read this last weekend and forgot to post about it. I expected to enjoy this because of how much I liked The Member of the Wedding, and I was surprised that didn't really. The titular story is by far the longest and it didn't appeal to me. #storyaday2023
Although I wrote an enthusiastic review upon finishing McCullers' book a little over a year ago, I haven't posted about it since. Since the title work struck a chord with me, it is perfect for #titlethatstartswithb Adapted into a film in '91, it seems to be McCuller's second most well known work. Although I am not yet a completionist, it is not really hard to see why. I read many novellas last year & this was one of the best. In my original (cont)
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Beautiful new penguins...😍
pickThe Ballad of the Sad Café is a collection of a novella & several stories. The only work that left me indifferent is Wunderkind. I might revisit it at some point to see if there is an element I overlooked that would jump out upon a second reading. The standout story is Madame Zilensky & the King of Finland. The titular character, a talented composer, joins Mr. Brook on the faculty of Ryder College. She begins telling Mr. Brook offbeat stories,👇
pickLove these stories as much as I did when I first read them. The title story in particular is very good. Moss Amelia is one of the most vivid characters I've ever read.
pickHeart rending, as I expect from Carson McCullers. I had to skip one of the stories cause it was just too raw. All of them were so powerful, so kind of desperate with a special kind of southern bleakness that was different from English bleakness in a way I can‘t quite put my finger on. Definitely not a beach read, not easy for the soul, but I also wish it had been longer.
Impromptu thrift shopping #bookhaul from this weekend. Exactly $5.
When Miss Amelia‘s rejected husband, Marvin Macy, arrives back in town, all hell breaks loose. American gothic at its finest. #ohnonotyouagain #marchintooz
First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which had lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto. And somehow every lover knows this.
#lonelyhunter
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