Gersande La Flèche finished reading Thorn by Anna Burke
I always forget how short this book is! A little fairy tale.
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Gersande La Flèche started reading Thorn by Anna Burke
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.
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel …
Well, that was cheerful. And I'm noticing so many more little similarities between Persuasion and P&P and the evolution from P&P to Persuasion is very interesting to think about. The use of the epistolary is so good.
Gersande La Flèche commented on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel …
The botched proposal, followed by the heartfelt letters, are such good scenes. Interesting how Persuasion also has the haughty, love forlorn man hand his lady a letter.
Gersande La Flèche rated Uprooted: 4 stars
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Gersande La Flèche finished reading Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
Ach! The ending! Too soon!!!
Gersande La Flèche commented on Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
Pride and Prejudice reference! I knew it! I knew I remembered it!
Gersande La Flèche commented on Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
The book is definitely better than I remember, so far!
Gersande La Flèche commented on Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
The beginning is actually better than I remember it. I remember thinking the beginning was a bit too bland, a bit too cookie-cutter, but I think there were little details I missed, or maybe that got flattened as I got further into the book. Or maybe I'm just better at paying attention to those little not-really-hidden things that are interesting.
Gersande La Flèche started reading Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
I remember liking Uprooted a lot, despite how well it follows many romantasy/fairy-tale tropes to the letter. Revisiting to see if it holds up against my memory (I originally talked about Uprooted on my blog a million years ago.)
Gersande La Flèche rated Pride and Prejudice: 5 stars
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of …
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The Weaver Reads reviewed Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company))
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the …
Triangles and Circles
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WOW. This book had long been on my to-read list, but I pushed it to the top, as someone mentioned that it helped them cure their depression. It surely didn't do that for me, but it had me reflecting on my own life. There isn't a lot here that's resolved, but it's so easy to get attached to the many, many characters--both "small" and large. I felt most attached to Don Gately, and Mario is one of the single most lovable characters in literature. There's so much here that's unresolved, but it feels a lot like life. The book functions as both a circle and a triangle, but I'll let you read it to get a sense of what I mean by this.
I have more to say on this, and I might just write a post about plateaus and what J. O. Incandenza calls "figurants." Those two concepts, in …
WOW. This book had long been on my to-read list, but I pushed it to the top, as someone mentioned that it helped them cure their depression. It surely didn't do that for me, but it had me reflecting on my own life. There isn't a lot here that's resolved, but it's so easy to get attached to the many, many characters--both "small" and large. I felt most attached to Don Gately, and Mario is one of the single most lovable characters in literature. There's so much here that's unresolved, but it feels a lot like life. The book functions as both a circle and a triangle, but I'll let you read it to get a sense of what I mean by this.
I have more to say on this, and I might just write a post about plateaus and what J. O. Incandenza calls "figurants." Those two concepts, in my reading, are central to the novel.
Gersande La Flèche wants to read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company))
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the …
This comment makes me want to read this!
Gersande La Flèche commented on AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan
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@leifur you might want to check this out
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David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company))
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the …
It is a load of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature, but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self of the self's most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul. It is an unnumb intuition in which the world is fully rich and inanimate and un-map-like and also thoroughly painful and malignant and antagonistic to the self, which depressed self It billows on and coagulates around and wraps Its black folds and absorbs into Itself, so that an almost mystical unity is achieved with a world every constituent of which means painful harm to the self. Its emotional character, the feeling Gompert describes It as, is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency--sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying--are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.
It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed.
Incredible commentary on depression