Zhivago (October 4th, 2019)
Zhivago (October 4th, 2019)
Perhaps it was just me being too young when I read it.
It was required reading during my last year (Year 12) at high school short on the heals of 'Great Expectations'. What I saw was two social critical novels. One from the 19th century and the other from the 20th century. I ended up being required to write a paper on that theme after making the comparison to our teacher.
Quite frankly, I thought then that Dickens did the better job.
Chemyst (October 4th, 2019)
I just finished my son's first book - Culled - check it out on Amazon kindle. (if you'd like) Of course I think it is brilliant.
I use a fountain pen and a paper planner - paperinkplan.wordpress.com
Donna Tartt: The Secret History. Wonderful writing. A modern classic.
VertOlive (August 17th, 2023)
Just finished The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung and Wait for Signs by Craig Johnson.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Billy Budd by Herman Melville. As great as stories are, the flowery writing-style by many 19th-century American novelists hurts my brain. I have to agree with Mark Twain on that score.
VertOlive (October 15th, 2019)
Peeps At People by John Kendrick Bangs (1899 Pub. Harper & Brothers New York & London). The (fictional) adventures with real people, of Miss Anne Warrington Witherup a very determined American lady journalist.
Rather funny.
Now turning my attention to Steven Hull's Mabie Todd book - which is as I expected excellent.
Cob
Vive les chevaliers! A bas les tętes rondes!
Just started The Many Lives of Jan Six, about the Amsterdam art family. The first Jan Six was a good friend of Rembrandt, who painted two portraits of him.
Not yet readily available in the US. As a lover of Amsterdam, I gladly paid to have it mailed from the Netherlands.
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Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
“If ‘To hold a pen is to be at war’ as Voltaire said, Montblanc suggests you show up in full dress uniform, ready to go down like an officer and a gentleman among the Bic-wielding hordes.” - Chris Wright
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
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Lady Onogaro (October 16th, 2019)
VertOlive (October 18th, 2019)
Dr. Sleep by Stephen King
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
I use a fountain pen and a paper planner - paperinkplan.wordpress.com
VertOlive (October 20th, 2019)
Agota Kristof: "Hier"
...I am deeply impressed and just ordered another book of her: "le grand cahier"
C.
*A Man from Corpus Christi (or the True Adventures of Two Bird Hunters and a Dog in Texan Bogs)* by Dr. A.C. Peirce. Interesting and amusing account by a New England physician (and amateur ornithologist) who hired one John Marion Priour to take him bird hunting in south Texas in 1887. Another reprint, with additional historical/biographical information, from Copano Bay Press.
VertOlive (October 25th, 2019)
The Secret Commonwealth, the second installment in Philip Pulman's Book of Dust trilogy.
Vintage. Cursive italic. Iron gall.
All the Devils, the last of Barry Eisler’s “Livia Lone” trilogy.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Matt Bondurant: The Wettest County In The World.
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