🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc.
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25% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 3 of 12 books.
Aux belles heures de sa bibliothèque, le Mont-Saint-Michel était connu comme la Cité des livres. C’est là, entre les murs …
@AliCircles@bookrastinating.com Oh another oldie but goody, I should also re-add this to me TBR pile.
@AliCircles@bookrastinating.com There are bits of the second and third book that I find very compelling, even now as an (older) adult who sees more clearly the inner workings and (to me) failures of the story. So I hope you enjoy revisiting these when you get to them!
@Leaving_Marx@wyrmsign.org The only Stephen King book I read is the Colorado Kid and I agree with you that King's writing's aged. I wanted to get into more SK (especially Dark Tower stuff) but was never able to. Hope your next read is loads better!
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal …
It has been far too long, old friend.
@leifur How was it??
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, …
@nichobi@bookwyrm.social How did you find it? I've been wondering if I should revisit Sally Rooney. (I wasn't super enthralled by Normal People a few years ago, but I've become a little less harsh with age.)
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths …
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …
Attempting to read nonfiction that is not SUPER depressing, I guess?
I am skeptical about this one, but it came unexpectedly soon in the library so let's hop to it.
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In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are …
This is such a beautiful, short novella. I went into it with no expectations, and I'm glad I didn't.
The whole story takes place over the course of seven hours, from midnight to 7 am, and follows a small cast of characters over the course of the night. The experiences that most of the characters had reflect a strong sense of community and care that I remember coming across late at night while I was in university. Of course, there are bleak moments here, but the weight of them are kept at bay by the humanism of the characters.
The story does have surreal moments, but they don't predominate, and they add a lot to the story. Late at night, things don't always feel right, and the surreal really feeds into that.
One component of the story that does a lot of work is the point of view. For one, …
This is such a beautiful, short novella. I went into it with no expectations, and I'm glad I didn't.
The whole story takes place over the course of seven hours, from midnight to 7 am, and follows a small cast of characters over the course of the night. The experiences that most of the characters had reflect a strong sense of community and care that I remember coming across late at night while I was in university. Of course, there are bleak moments here, but the weight of them are kept at bay by the humanism of the characters.
The story does have surreal moments, but they don't predominate, and they add a lot to the story. Late at night, things don't always feel right, and the surreal really feeds into that.
One component of the story that does a lot of work is the point of view. For one, the narrator and the point of view have nearly anthropomorphic characteristics. At the same time, the whole story is told in the present tense. The narrator learns about occurrences at the same time we do, and it offers a sort of meta-commentary. In some ways, it reads almost more like a screen play than a novel. The PoV's voice adds to the sense of strangeness and wonder.
My only regret was that the book is so short--but I also think it was as long as it has to be.
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published on December 20, 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, …
I always forget how short this book is! A little fairy tale.
When you know the Disney Beauty and the Beast, the bones of this story are very apparent. But they're good bones. And though I don't like the first two-ish chapters, it does pick up nicely.
