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Delightful. Short. A look at Hemmingway‘s life in Paris 1921-26, driven to write while still happily married and still unknown. Oh, there are many reasons to visit the Louve, but the reason given here was a new one for me. ☺️

Sometimes reading is a battle, especially on cold days. This short book, by the way, is absolutely delightful. It‘s really short. I‘m almost done.

#HumbleHarvest
Day 10. Feast
#Feast

Recommended by a colleague. I forgot how much i loved reading Hemingway in high school. Love his succinct writing style. Paris in the 20‘s sounded like the place to be.

August's #TitlesandTunes took some puzzling, but then I remembered a very vivid description of eating oysters from Hemingway and thought it would be a wonderful month to revisit A Moveable Feast. And what could pair better with Hemingway's Paris than a song by Cole Porter? https://open.spotify.com/track/1unklhCEg2sOraisyjedC5?si=9c7780c4bb214e2a

#TheWorldismyOyster @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

At 130 episodes we finally get around to talking Hemingway and... he's actually pretty good? Perhaps even lives up to his legendary status? Or was that all self serving fluff? Tune in to find out!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/16ARG5icS2fd2dYaqJYrLD?si=Pg0120ExRT6qvfRsUAkxi...

This week we are diving into the 1964 book, “A Moveable Feast,“ by Ernest Hemingway. So much to talk about when discussing Hemingway, and we delve into the book but also Hemingway in general. A very entertaining episode, and not our last Hemingway episode by any means. Enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/16ARG5icS2fd2dYaqJYrLD

A Moveable Feast is equally claustrophobic and sprawling. Everything we touch, taste, see, smell, hear is strictly filtered through Hemingway‘s lens. We are acutely aware that he is controlling our senses, yet by doing so he opens wide 1920s Paris in such a way that we feel we know every inch of the city—its cafes, its nighttime alleys, its rooftops. The feast is as much about what‘s not on the table as what is, and all of it is sumptuous.

Our new episode just posted! We review a couple of essays from Consider the Lobster and select two new books to read for April. Enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rPbRASQtlxOQYcD4BvGtA?si=9e8hL9uxR9SGrkfe8PXTc...

I felt compelled to read this because it‘s Ernest Hemingway, but it was tough to finish. It is short, so possible to push through. I have heard some people hate one of his works, but love another, so I want to try others. He never finished & published this one, so that intrigued me too. Oh well, on to the next!

#Feast #DivineDecember @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Nicely written, covered a number of places and people with some interesting characters.
I liked his thoughts on wine being as essential to a meal as water or meat 😱🤔😆

What's not to like?!
A selection of Hemingway's essays based around eating establisheries during his early Paris years.
🥪🥫🍷🍸☕

An interesting collection of fictional remiscences from Hemingway's life in Paris. #56-2022

I chose the restored version- the one that reflects Hemingway‘s last draft & wasn‘t as edited. It‘s 2 hours longer. I wonder which version will be better?! #Paris

One of my favorites in which Hemingway spends a lot of time in Paris cafes writing and drinking white wine.

Also enjoyed the Ken Burns Hemingway documentary from last year. Really interesting look at a talented, but very flawed figure.

#Cafe #SavvySettings
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

📚📚📚📚 A series of true to life vignettes surrounding Hemingway‘s early Paris life. Collection includes interludes with Fitzgerald, Pound, Ford, Stein and mentions other great arts figures. Not for the easily offended or without historical context. A rich tableau of what a creative existence was in the early 1900‘s without heavy existential conundrums.

#Feast #WishesandBlessings

“…we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast.

#GratefulHarvest #warmth

Thanks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs for a month of fun photo challenge. Haven‘t played in a while and I enjoyed it! 🤗

So excited! My August #bookspin is A Moveable Feast and #doublespin is West With Giraffes.

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

Before this my only exposure to Hemingway was reading The Old Man and the Sea in High School and The Paris Wife which angered me so much I swore I would never read his books again. But then I saw the PBS special on his life and decided to give him a chance to redeem himself. I really liked this book, but I will be re-reading The Paris Wife this weekend.

I didn‘t think I liked Hemingway, but I checked this out of the library after watching his PBS special and it‘s quite good, actually.

Finally finished reading as I‘m also watching the Ken Burns PBS documentary. If I could give more than 5⭐️ I would. Quintessential Hemingway...and I love his writing. Fascinating window into his day to day life in the early Paris years. Mind you, it is Hemingway so largely unreliable but his classic writing style. I think, however, I enjoy it so much b/c I know a bit about his life. Reading without any background knowledge might be less enjoyable.

Day 27 - #Feast #SleighTheShelves
#AMoveableFeast #ErnestHemingway

"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s.

I would like to read this!

#3books that made me want to travel.

I made it to London a couple of years ago, but I still need to get to Paris and Alaska.

#QuotsyAug20 - Romance: I could call a night like this *READING TOGETHER IN BED* romantic!💗

#quotsyjuly20 #orange

#MagicalMay #Feast My favorite Hemingway novel.
@Eggs

This has been on my TBR for awhile now. Hemingway‘s Paris in the 20‘s. #feast #magicalmay @Eggs

I read this one during a Hemingway unit with my juniors. Hemingway knows how to turn a beautiful phrase.

Finally read this classic collection of short stories or essays on Hemingway‘s time in Paris. Everyone is a little cagey about the truthfulness here. An interesting look at Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s personalities, but not as romantic as I expected it to be.

#QuotsyDec19 #Without
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#feast #quotsyoct19

I have to admit that it was worth reading this book to read the bit where EH wrote that he used to leave his son Bumby alone in a crib when he was a baby, with only the cat to babysit him. He wrote that this was how it was done in Paris at the time, and I admit that I howled with laughter. Poor Bumby. 😂

Day 14 - #Feast #QuotsyOct19

I definitely chose poorly here. I have never understood the acclaim for Hemingway, and suspect that it might represent another instance of the emperor‘s new clothes. See my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2987907364. #ernesthemingway #amoveablefeast #book #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookish #bookcommunity #memoirs #paris #booknerd #americanliterature #booklove

This has been on my TBR list FOREVER. I think it‘s time to tackle this classic. Have you read it? Thoughts? 🤔💭

I'm a day late, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind, Hem! 😍😘💕 Happy birthday to one of my all time favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway! 💕📚🍺💕

Despite the high heat and humidity in the Chicago area, I made it out to Oak Park to visit the Ernest Hemingway Birth Place Museum. Learned a lot about the author and his family and got to tour a beautifully restored Queen Anne Victorian Hope. Will be working on a blog post about my visit. #ErnestHemingway

FINALLY enjoying one of my favorite books in my new home. It‘s good to be settled in at last!!

#FrenchKissingInTheUSA, or rather a young American in love with France.

#WanderingJune

Hello Ernest‘s house!

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."

#DinneratEight #TimbitTunes @Cinfhen

#romanticquote #literarylove

#BookMail Pt5 I recently read a beautiful description of a person living in Paris & reading this classic Hemingway every day. It was so lovely, but I cannot for the life of me, remember where I read it!! It‘s driving me nuts.🤨 It‘s the reason I finally bought my first Hemingway, about his life in Paris after the Great War. I really wish I could remember it.

I read A Farewell to Arms in high school and thought I‘d sworn off Hemingway forever, but I‘ve read a few of his short stories in the past couple of years that made me re-think that. I really enjoyed this book in which Hemingway talks about his life in Paris and his time spent with several of his literary friends. Made me want to read travel memoirs or better yet, travel and write about it myself! Glad I finally read this one!

"...I have tried to write by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates."

This is a memoir of Hemingway's time in Paris, mostly pre-Pauline. It's hard to critique this as a literary work, because it only read like he had literary intentions in spurts. I enjoyed this for all of his intentions: a record of 1920s Paris, a truth-telling about the quirks myriad behind the famous names, an imparting of wisdom to writers and life lessons to all, and, perhaps, an unburdening of regrets and letter of apology to Hadley.

#QuotsyDec18 #Tree @TK-421