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I'm so behind on updates here, but I have been reading all summer! Just finished Ulysess with this group and it was a fun ride. I'm genuinely happy to have read this one and don't know that I could have ever conquered it without a group to wrestle through everything with. @matthieumcintosh is the best!

• Page 175; good progress for me. Read quite enough about death and decay tonight; entire section was a depressing funeral scene. Took me 2 hours to get through it 🥴 Time to put this one up for now. Good night, all... •

Finally getting down to reading this iconic behemoth. Let the journey of a life time, lived in a day, begin... now!

• That is all I can take for this evening. Shout out to all you brave souls for attempting and/or finishing this one. I'm going to try, but damn it's frustrating •

#currentlyreading #currentsituation #Ulysses #JamesJoyce #classics #Goodreads #bookgroup

"He watched her pour into the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. Old shrunken paps."

Just a quick instance of Joyce's humor ?

• Trying to make it to the end of the first section. Think I'll drain my cuppa and then catch some shut-eye for a bit. Rest well, fellow Readathon-ers! Hopefully I don't crash too hard and I'll meet you back here in a few hours 😉 •

#deweyreadathon #Deweys24HourReadathon #reversereadathon #readathon #currentlyreading #currentsituation

• Time's a tickin! On to the next book to mix things up. How's everyone doing out there in the #reversereadathon universe? @DeweysReadathon

Tough read for a non-native, reading the Odyssee to make more sense of it 😬

#humpdaypost @mindea @DebbieGrillo

NEVER HAVE I EVER
🔵 Played this game until today. Anglophones are weird.
🔵 Finished tagged. Officially gave up, actually.
🔵 Finished Infinite Jest. Rage quit it, wished harm on the book (it may have been flung on the wall many times) and hope never to meet the author, who would get a piece of my mind (because wallups are considered assault, unfortunately).

Also, I'm not having a good day. Sorry.

"...Joyce gives his readers more information about Bloom than any other character in the history of literature. We know him better than we know most of our friends."

• Attempting this behemoth for the month of August with the "Old Books, New Readers" group on Goodreads. It helps to know you're not supposed to take this novel seriously. You're just supposed to enjoy the eccentricity of it...let's see if I can pull it off ?? •

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Book #59: Although Ulysses is often listed as one of the best books of the 20th Century, I have some definite problems with it. My primary problem with Ulysses is it is written in an odd style, where no two chapters are similar in vocabulary, style, or even concept. Some examples include one chapter written like a play, one with newspaper type...

http://dinojim.blogspot.com/2007/04/the-306-greatest-books-59-ulysses.html

#100greatestbooks

After seeing the abysmal rating this book has on here, I have to make sure and say how much I loved it. So many books I love could not exist without this one. Joyce was a master of words, and Ulysses is truly worthy of its spot at the top of many “best literary works” lists.

I‘ve been reading this book longer than I should have, but I love it so much.

You say #Ireland - I say Ulysses
I'm still proud of myself that I've made it through that book 😆 📙

#LetsTravelJuly

#QuotsyJuly19

(Day 4 - #Gone)

I'm #currentlyreading this bad boy - it's the last book left on my bucket list off Books I Should've Read Already (And Must Read Before I Die). I'm about two thirds of the way through, and really slogging to get to the end... any tips for me? Can't wait to get to some more recent releases when I'm done, it's the only thing keeping me going!

Happy Bloomsday!

Happy #Bloomsday everybody! I used to live near a bookstore in San Francisco who did a reading of Ulysses all day long every June 16th!

Happy Bloomsday!

Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.

Happy Bloomsday, littens! 😊📚💕 On June 16th, 1904, Leopold Bloom made his infamous trek throughout Dublin in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. The day is now much celebrated in Ireland and elsewhere! Super fun! I have always loved the depth and complexity of this novel. I did a whole independant study on it as an undergrad in college and it holds a special place in my heart! 💕

Wonderful!

Started this one today! I'm reading it with a group led by @matthieumcintosh all summer long...here's hoping we have a good time!

You know the writer is famous when the birth place of his wife becomes a museum - even if it‘s only open “randomly” as a note in the window says...

I really like Pete, but I‘m not impressed with his favorite book list. I approve of The Little Prince and the Dylan Thomas poem. Why aren‘t American classics on this list?! How can he not love Huckleberry Finn?!

What do you think of Pete‘s favorite books?

https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/pete-buttigieg-books.html

Part 1 finished, now the real challenge begins...

Because it is St Patricks Day! ☘☘☘

The book that never ends

It is my opinion that James Joyce does not care about the reader in a traditional sense. He does not actively guide you through his work. For this reason I've heard many people trash talk Ulysses. It is a book that teaches you to look beyond context and insert your own experience into the piece. It will develop you into a marathon-endurance reader, and the small moments of clarity will stay with you.

I was determined to finish this book and I did, painfully. @Graywacke I finally figured out about halfway through that I NEEDED to consult outside sources if I was going to get anything out of this book. It was much more enjoyable once I did but I still don‘t know if it‘s really worth the effort. @Litsylily I think the last section, a huge run-on sentence, was my favorite. Maybe I was just excited for it to be over 🙃

Bella is keeping me warm while I try to finish this book. #loveyourpetsday #dogsoflitsy

Thanks for the #jb welcome card @IndoorDame ! I have a box of these fabulous postcards somewhere and clearly need to dig them out! Will get response into the mail to you soon!

Need a beer to get through this 🙃 #booksandbeer

Wondering what I got myself into...

Opinions?

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Starting this chunkster today...

Soo, I decided to finally DNF this book and unhaul it. It is not for me. Maybe it will bring someone else joy or something like that. :)
I studied translation, and literature in English was a part of that and I thought I should have read Ulysses because of that. Well, no. 😬😄
Have you read this? Or tried to read it? :)

Happy Birthday Jim!

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

James Joyce was born February 2nd , 1882 .One of my best trips was to Dublin, couldn‘t get enough of all the history of Irish writers & seeing the Book of Kells at the incredible Trinity Library.☘️

Got some AWESOME new classics today! Including Treasure Island and Ulysses on the very bottom shelf. I have not read any of these great works.... yet 😉 I'm excited!!! 😍

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.” #plunge QuotsyJan19

Book - Ulysses
Author - Uma Krishnaswami
Movie - Urban Legend
Food - Upma (Indian snack made with semolina )

#ManicMonday @JoScho

I‘m trying... but I really don‘t think I can read this book right now. I‘ve tried print and gave up, and audio doesn‘t seem to be helping.

Anyone have any suggestions for a ‘U‘ author or book that I can replace it with for #LitsyClassics? 😬

Time to tackle this freakin‘ thing. I‘ve also selected a couple of buffers incase it gets overwhelming. Wish me luck! 🍀🤞

An interesting experiment in plot and language, but little more. Tedious and not very entertaining and way way too long.

Wow.

In a book full of vague endings I like this one the most. Even though I've long since finished Ulysses it still occupies a fair bit of real estate in my day to day thinking. The only book I've ever read that gets the kneejerk "Everyone should read this!" kind of enthusiasm from me.

Since #australia appears twice in the #augustisatrip calendar, I offer up a photo of Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses.Just for fun .