Based on the title alone, this seems like an appropriate book to read after just finishing We Love You, Bunny.
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Based on the title alone, this seems like an appropriate book to read after just finishing We Love You, Bunny.
#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
Lots of good ones, but these three were clear standouts for me. They're each wacky in their own way:
1. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
2. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
3. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
so-soI listened to this yesterday and I‘m still not quite sure what I think. It‘s got some amusing bits and interesting scenes, but for the most part it‘s just a story of a man that‘s not going to stick with me.
#audiobook #1001books
so-soI actually didn't really care for this one. My #doublespin for the month @TheAromaofBooks
@PuddleJumper #flerken
pickI listened to this during a pretty hard week at work and feel like I missed a lot. But I feel that Nabokov‘s style, while great read aloud, really needs to be read physically to catch all the jokes and idiosyncrasies, anyway.
He mentions in one chapter the hope to write a second part and I wish he had gotten the chance, because ‘Speak, Memory‘ is missing something. Certainly it is the whirlwind his life became after Lolita.
The novel had been on my shelves for years, and I sort of had forgotten that I hadn't read it 😚. It's both sad and funny, but quite cruel in places. Tea is a Kotagiri Frost which has been on my shelves for over a year, probably. Maybe I should have drunk it Russian-style, with jam 😉
https://youtu.be/cMnd0Q5smJQ
The I Recommends by Jon Doughboy: https://minorliteratures.com/2023/10/10/the-i-recommends-jon-doughboy/
#AboutABook #ShortButPowerful I can‘t remember exact details but I remember really liking this book! 😁
pickWeeks later, I‘m still grappling with Lolita. And apparently most people are still grappling with it, months, years, decades later!
I‘m enthralled by this collection, not because every essay is great, but it‘s fascinating how one novel, one author, can provoke so much thought and discussion.
Naturally a book of essays about a book, runs the risk of repetition, oft-quoted lines, etc. but I appreciate that they‘re not all one-sided or laudatory.
