This month I chose Faust! It was my first pick. My second for the month is The Satanic Verses and since I didn‘t have a book for June, Rushdie made it on the bracket, too.
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bailedThe repeating of the first and last lines of each comic was driving me nuts, so I couldn't finish it.
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pickBook 2 in this trilogy brings us inside Kristin and Erland‘s home life in the 14th century. Childbirth (so many children!), the death of Kristin‘s parents and the management of their property are all wearing Kristin down. And Erland isn‘t much help. In fact, he becomes involved in a political scheme that nearly does him in. Simon rises in every instance to help Kristin. Undset writes a great story. #KLBR @BarbaraJean
If you like 1984, you might like my short fiction: The Silence Dividend
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pickAn early Wharton story about a shop run competently by two sisters in lower Manhattan, ~1890. This sisters have their tight bond, and codependency. An eligible bachelor strains all this. It looks at sibling relationships, and also at loneliness, loss, and, quietly, at longing. It's a lovely novella, showcasing Wharton's early natural sense of prose and composition.
Thanks #whartonbuddyread for the company and conversation!
pickI didn't *adore* this one, but as I've observed before, with these short story collections from the British Library Crime Classics collections, they're often more than the sum of their parts. It makes for a fun survey of classic crime in the period, and there were a couple I liked quite a bit -- R. Austin Freeman's stories are always so detailed, for instance.
Aaand that was my #BookSpin!
pickI expected to enjoy this, and I wasn't disappointed ?
I do, however, have to disagree with the Times reviewer's adjective "jolly". Haynes does inject her subject with humour, but as that subject covers infanticide, rape, murder, torture, slavery, execution and war, even at a great historical distance, jolly it isn't!
She also cautions against judging the ancients by modern ethical and moral standards, while drawing out lessons to be learnt. 4⭐
Timshel: thou mayest;
now that you don‘t have to be
perfect, you can be good.
This is my absolute favorite book and I‘ve been thinking about getting a timshel tattoo. Would anyone be interested in doing a buddy read with me? I‘m long overdue for a reread.
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