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#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. I have about a dozen books in the on-deck circle to read next, but I'm not sure which I'll choose. Most likely The Skin of Dreams or Portnoy's Complaint (thanks @RaeLovesToRead 😊).

2. No, between the NYRB bookclub and all my local used bookstores I have more than enough to read at the moment.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @CBee @BarbaraBB @eeclayton @dabbe

RaeLovesToRead Fair warning: he complains a lot.. 🤣 4w

TheSpineView Let's not talk about how much we have to read. 😳😬📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 4w

dabbe Will do; thanks for the tag! 😘 4w

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Dilara

Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 | Raymond Queneau

Back from the open-air market with lots of fruit & vegs & Christmas roses. Glad for the warm coffee as it was nippy ❄
Have started a book of essays that seem to be mostly about the state of the French language & the un(der)recognised widening gap between spoken & written French. Quite apposite given the handling of language registers in my last read - the French translation of Thumbprint.

catsuit_mango When was it written ? I think of queneau as a writer from the 70s, so I'm thinking a lot is still changing. 4mo

Dilara @catsuit_mango The essays I've read so far were written in the 30s, 40s and 50s. The 1st edition was published in 1950, but this is a reworked later edition. What strikes me is that although spoken French has evolved since then, the themes he writes about are still being discussed in French media today (spelling, classism, the fact that the Académie française is out of touch). It seems we haven't moved on much since the fifties. (edited) 4mo

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masticocarta

Zazie dans le m�tro | Raymond Queneau

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Un lessico complesso e articolato, ricco e completo. Un libricino che ti fa respirare aria surrealista.
Ambientato nella bella Parigi.
Gente di strada.
Storie di strada.

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Liz_M

W Or the Memory of Childhood | Georges Perec

Weekly Report

I am reading a little of Celestial Harmonies each day and I think I'll restart The Rainbow as my subway book this week. I'm halfway through the Perec (tagged). I finished, a few days late, Kintu and then read The Sandman Overture. And somehow, not only have I not killed my plant, it bloomed!

Suet624 I‘m so happy about you and your plant! 1y

merelybookish Lovely! 1y

BarbaraBB Beautiful pic 😍 1y

Liz_M @merelybookish @Suet624 @Barbarabb thank you! 1y

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Bibliobear

The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form | Philip Terry

A couple new readerly pleasures added to the collection today: this handsome selection of Baudelaire's heretofore untranslated late writings and a hefty sampling of all things Oulipian. Eager to dive in!

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vivastory

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise | Georges Perec

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This slim book is my first experience with Perec, author of a 300 page novel that doesn't use the letter E & another based on the residents of an apartment building. In this comic fictional manual, language is the real protagonist & Perec playfully navigates the anxiety of asking for a raise.

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Liz_M

Life, a User's Manual | Georges Perec, David Bellos

Since this may be the only time I use exclusively owned books for #BookSpinBingo, I had to borrow @Hooked_on_books layout technique.

Leftcoastzen I‘ve been meaning to read that one for a few decades now

Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel

Hooked_on_books It looks great! (I‘ll admit, I have sometimes snuck in a book image that is pasted in if I don‘t have it yet, so it‘s possible to do this without all the physical books! 🤫) 2y

DisneyFan This is awesome! 2y

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Liz_M @Hooked_on_books 😂 Clever! 2y

Liz_M @Leftcoastzen It's size is daunting! Tall as well as thick and no ebook in either of my library systems. 😑 2y

tokorowilliamwallace Looks like a lot of quality picks and interesting subjects there. 2y

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