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01-26-2022, 02:41 AM | #7444 (permalink) | ||
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01-26-2022, 09:44 AM | #7446 (permalink) |
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Yeah, I can see how that can be the case. Maybe I'll give it a try...
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02-05-2022, 10:34 AM | #7447 (permalink) |
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Finished reading Matrix by Lauren Groff set in 12th century England and revolving around a very ungainly lesbian nun who turns the fortunes of a poor monastery she was sent to after being banished from the court for being too ugly. Competently written and a breeze to get through but I imagine it won't stick around in my mind too long. Not sure what message, if any, it was trying to impart but it was fun to spend time in this feminist fantasy for a while. I might check out her other books.
Now onto Crying in H-mart, a memoir by Michelle Zauner, a.k.a. Japanese Breakfast, the musician turned bestselling author, who is actually not affiliated with Japan but is rather half-Korean, about the loss of her Korean mother to cancer and their complicated relationship. She studied creative writing so it's not so surprising she's a skilled writer.
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02-20-2022, 08:32 AM | #7448 (permalink) | ||
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I just finished Virginia Woolf's The Waves. The best Woolf I've read so far, it's incredible. She writes about people's inner lives in a very unique way. Like, of the mayor writers who are masters at describing complex inner life, Joyce does it by transcribing the flow of thoughts directly, Proust stretches language and vocabulary to its limits of descriptive power, Tolstoy attaches the inner life to outward situations and objects like comets or oak trees for illustration, but Virginia Woolf does does something less obvious. It's neither an outer or inner monologue, nor detached description. I guess instead of a literal transcription, it's a translation of inner life into poetry. (Not that Joyce isn't poetic, but his approach is more direct) Anyway it's beautiful
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02-21-2022, 04:32 AM | #7449 (permalink) | |
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This has nothing to do with anything, but "waves" reminds me of this iconic interview by an Irish legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJY7JSHA3SY |
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