There‘s a chapter where Zola brought the reader to the Louvre. I enjoyed the mini tour so much I spent a lot of time googling the mentioned artworks
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There‘s a chapter where Zola brought the reader to the Louvre. I enjoyed the mini tour so much I spent a lot of time googling the mentioned artworks
pick4⭐️ My first Victor Serge and I loved it! This is also my first spy thriller. My fav part is when he told the story about Germany‘s side after losing the WWII, which I‘ve never found in the books I‘ve read so far. I guess I need to read #PersephoneClub book (On the Other Side) to understand more.
Thank you for the birthday wishes @robinb @squirrelbrain @CarolynM @julesG @JessClark78 @Librarybelle @Jas16 @Bookzombie @Chelleo 😘 Here‘s a photo of the hotel that Spirited Away movie is based on. It‘s at Shima Onsen, Gunma prefecture, Japan. I‘m here for the autumn break 🤓 and also birthday celebration 😀
St. Marc Cafe at Jimbocho, Tokyo. Trying to finish this book for this Sunday‘s bookclub meeting 😅
Saw this on Instagram, and it got me thinking…. Why can‘t give Zola less than 4⭐️? I love Zola but I hated this book (It was 1⭐️ for me).
pick4⭐️ I usually dislike a novel with infidelity, but I tolerated this one so much even though the affair is rather annoying. And then I realized that I can only tolerate Penelope Lively for such theme because she‘s so good in applying all the fine nuances. Moon Tiger is a love story (another theme I don‘t fancy) but it‘s one of my favs. I‘d read anything written by her, really!
Lawrence Durrell reminds me of my uni classmate Peter. We were assigned to partner in a group assignment, and he‘s very controlling. While reviewing our work, he read my part of the essay and looked very annoyed. “Come on, Sisilia. You can‘t use “to solve the problem” for such serious paper. Change it to… *thinking for a few minutes*… “to decipher the enigma”. You need to work on your writing skill!” 🤪
bailedI decided to cut my losses at p.70/877. I think Durrell worked hard to impress his readers by putting a lot of acrobatics. I appreciate good writings but this one is full of words jumbled up together and yet I was left asking “wth are you trying to say?” I posted those paragraphs that caught my attention and made me feel 🤢 My last draw was this: “..love, as a sort of masturbation, took on all the colours of neurasthenia.” Pfftt 🙅🏻♀️
Starting my journey with this tetralogy
pick3⭐️ Not my favorite Szabo 😑 I didn‘t enjoy the jumping around bits. It‘s an inner monologue addressed to the narrator‘s dead lover. The narrator is Eszter Enczy, an actress who really dislikes her friend Angela she‘s practically consumed by hatred 🔥 It took me a while to connect with Eszter although her bitterness tired me down. An interesting way of story-telling but not so much on the reading enjoyment
Nice cover but I‘m skeptical…
Saw this on instagram. I can‘t help thinking what‘s the point of underlining if it‘s for the whole page?
pick4⭐️ Lively likes doing flashbacks, revealing one tiny bit at a time. I‘m not a big fan of that when I read her other work Spiderweb, but it works well with this one. Pauline‘s marriage was marred by infidelity, and she now watches the same is happening with her daughter‘s marriage. I love the surprise at the end; it felt like I was being rewarded with a candy for finishing the book.
😭 Not true… not true…
Our NYRB Classics book club turns 5 this month 🎉 This was our first meeting in Sep 2018, discussing Grand Hotel.
I‘m grateful for the friendship and amazing book discussions (yes, we have read 61 titles 😎)
Officially, we have 213 registered members, but only 6-8 serious regulars 🙈 Here in Singapore, I noticed that people like the idea of joining a book club but not the actual acts of reading and discussing 😆
Starting this today… my 3rd Lively book 😄
I tried not to read the blurb when I took a picture and while posting this. I prefer to go in without knowing anything 😌
pick3.5⭐️ A WWI tragicomic with no war actions, set on a single day in a French provincial town. Guilloux portrayed his characters well. I got lost in the sea of characters at first, but slowly Guilloux dug deeper into each one of them, revealing how the society dealt with the horror of a war. I sniffed a bit of Zola‘s style here, but in a more masculine and careless way.
It‘s raining here. I have the second half of the tagged book to finish for tomorrow‘s bookclub meeting. Rain + a cup of tea + jazz + a book… while I‘m still in my pyjamas… it‘s the perfect way to spend the weekend 🥰
I think Bill Nighy will be excellent as Cripure 😎
Current stack to last me til the end of this year. Do I have the time to read them all? 🤔
pick3⭐️ What a cute book! I can see my future self as Strega Nona … with lots of books, of course 😃
pick4⭐️ I found it hard to get into at first, but I became fond of this family. Each family has its own drama; what else if not about money and relationship among the extended family members 😆 It‘s not easy to hold a family together. So many different personalities, and each having different agenda. I like how Hull pulled me in to the story; it was as if I was there among them. Read this if you like Dorothy Whipple.
Coming back to this book. I started reading this a while ago but stopped at page 62 because domestic drama is not my fav 😅 … but I rarely DNF unless it‘s terribly annoying.
pick3⭐️ A story about family and friends dealing with WWII. I found the voice similar to the one in Family Lexicon.
A short trip to Jakarta gave me a chance to play with Melon 🍈
pick3⭐️ I was 12 when I read this book for the first time, and I‘m now older than these kids‘ parents! 🙈 Have you all seen the movie? Is it worth watching?
Current stack
Starting this for book club meeting this weekend. I have been procrastinating because this is my last John Williams. I‘m a big fan of Stoner and Butcher‘s Crossing, and I‘m sure Augustus won‘t disappoint
pick3⭐️ I enjoyed the early part of Jill, with descriptive campus narrative, and strong characterizations. While the kids in The Secret History inhaled drugs and alcohol, the pupils in Jill have afternoon tea with cakes and scones 👨🎓It starts getting weird in the middle, with the main character - poor student John Kemp - becoming a totally different version of himself. Still a good college novel, though.
pick3⭐️ Somehow I didn‘t like it as much this second time (first read was 5⭐️). I was annoyed by this bunch of kids. Yes, they are quirky and interesting, but the alcohol and drugs made my head spin. Now I remember that the character in The Goldfinch is pretty much the same. Is it a Tartt‘s recurring theme? Anyway, these kids are still better than the madness happening today, with the confusion over genders and angst over climate change.
Reading the tagged book makes me want to learn Latin 🤓
Off to Bali 🏝️ with this as a re-read
Back in 2017, there‘s a play for the tagged book at the Hampstead Theathre. I hope they‘ll revive it now that Covid is over, and come to Singapore, please!
pick4⭐️ A re-read with the bookclub. I love Patrick Hamilton 😍 and I love this book. It‘s funny and enjoyable, and the boarding house setting adds on to the fun. Enjoy this book with a serving of gin and french🍸
Reading slump hits me hard this time round 😓
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