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Whether it's visual art, music, movies, or literature, I love seeing an artist reference their own favorite influences. In Oyeyemi's latest, she mashes up two Calvino novels - If on a winter's night and Invisible Cities (maybe more? - those are the only two I've read) with a few nods to Borges mixed in. It's perfect fuel for this meditation on the infinity of mental representations of the same city that exist in the minds of its visitors 👇

Another hit for Dan Jones! This sequel to Essex Dogs takes the Dogs from Crecy to Calais. Of course the history shines through but so do the characters and the setting. Highly recommended

A friend brought us a bouquet from her garden yesterday, and I thought it would look nice with these library holds I‘m very excited about!! 💜📚💐

Picked this up at a used book shop on a whim & glad I did. It opens as Mrs Dean (an assumed name?) checks into a hotel. She has a suitcase full of cash & no memory of who she is or how she got there. She spends her days wandering the town, having awkward conversations & avoiding any attempt at deciphering her identity even though people show up claiming to be friends and family. Part of the fun was having no idea what was happening or how it 👇

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@Andrew65

September: THE THIRD MAN by Graham Greene. I also loved the movie starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. And the music is phenomenal, too! 🤩

I‘m not the biggest fan of poetry, but this is an excellent overview for Victorian poetry. The editors of Broadview always add helpful notes and intros in their anthologies that help make the works more accessible to a modern audience. #TBRTarot Choose a Book Which Has the Word “And” in the Title.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

What a wonderful discourse on race, diversity, literarure, inspiration and culture. Ishiguro's Nobel lecture from 2017.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2017/ishiguro/lecture/

Of course, I couldn‘t do some shopping without getting a couple things for myself! #BookHaul British Anthology from the second hand shop I went to and the cookbook was on sale at Anthropologie. Not pictured is the field guide of North American trees I got for my mom (but I might read it first 😆)

I read this mainly for The Third Man. Greene preferred the movie version of the story to the book, and I wish I hadn‘t read the preface where he said that, because it affected my enjoyment of the story. Also, this was a teeny tiny book with teeny tiny print. Nice gold edges and ribbon bookmark though 😂