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This week's #podcast episode is here! 📚🎙️
Featuring ✨
Book of Forbidden Words by #LouiseFein
The Gossip by #RonaHalsall
Bad Asians by #LillianLi
Graduation Day by #JohnWalker
Love Me Like You Shouldn't by #HarperBliss
Ride For Your Life by #BenCreed
Her Sweetest Mistake by #KatherineGarbera
Wars Not Won by #KateLMary
The Silent Blades by #JonathanSmidt
The Step Sister's Secret by #KarenKingFind the complete list of #newbooks in the comments. #bookstodon
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This week's #podcast episode is here! 📚🎙️
Featuring ✨
Book of Forbidden Words by #LouiseFein
The Gossip by #RonaHalsall
Bad Asians by #LillianLi
Graduation Day by #JohnWalker
Love Me Like You Shouldn't by #HarperBliss
Ride For Your Life by #BenCreed
Her Sweetest Mistake by #KatherineGarbera
Wars Not Won by #KateLMary
The Silent Blades by #JonathanSmidt
The Step Sister's Secret by #KarenKingFind the complete list of #newbooks in the comments. #bookstodon
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I just watched Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948) and rated it 4/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_%281948_film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #AnnaKarenina #JulienDuvivier #VivienLeigh
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I just watched Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948) and rated it 4/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_%281948_film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #AnnaKarenina #JulienDuvivier #VivienLeigh
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I just watched Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948) and rated it 4/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_%281948_film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #AnnaKarenina #JulienDuvivier #VivienLeigh
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Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – especially with other notable omissions – please feel free to do so through the box below.
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Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature, with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions
Novel by Leo Tolstoy
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No matter how much I re-read Anna Karenina, each time I cannot believe that his heroine will commit suicide, and each time I feel equally sorry for her. But the fate of Raskolnikov, Nastasya Filippovna and many other characters in Dostoevsky's novels does not cause any participation in me - for they have no fate.
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Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. “Best” according to what criterion? I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – perhaps with other notable omissions or novels that are on the list but you feel shouldn’t be – please feel free to do so through the box below.
#100BestNovels #Guardian #literature -
Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – especially with other notable omissions – please feel free to do so through the box below.
#100BestNovels #Guardian #literature -
Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. “Best” according to what criterion? I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – perhaps with other notable omissions or novels that are on the list but you feel shouldn’t be – please feel free to do so through the box below.
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Those “100 Best Novels of All Time”
As it does from time to time, The Grauniad has compiled a list of what it claims are the best somethings. This time it was novels. The full list with an explanation of how the list was compiled, clickable links to comments and pictures of the book covers can be found here, but I’ve reproduced a simplified version below:
1. Middlemarch – George Eliot
2. Beloved – Toni Morrison
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
5. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
11. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
13. Emma – Jane Austen
14. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
18. Persuasion – Jane Austen
19. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
20. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
21. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
22. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
26. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
30. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
32. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
33. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
36. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
40. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
43. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
44. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
45. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
46. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
48. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
49. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
50. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
51. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
52. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
53. The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
54. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
55. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
56. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
57. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
58. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
59. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
60. Howards End – E.M. Forster
61. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
62. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
63. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
65. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
66. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
67. The Man Without Qualities – Rubert Musil
68. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
69. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
70. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
71. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler
72. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
73. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
74. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
75. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
76. Dracula – Bram Stoker
77. The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
78. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
79. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
80. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
81. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
82. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
83. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
84. The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
85. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
86. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
87. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
88. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
89. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
90. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
91. Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
92. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
93. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
94. The Known World – Edward P. Jones
95. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
96. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
97. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
98. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
99. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
100. My Ántonia – Willa CatherSuch lists are a bit silly, except for the fact that they might encourage people (including myself) to read more books, which is a good thing. I wouldn’t compile a ranking myself as I don’t think of books in terms of league tables. I don’t see how you can sensibly compare very different types of novel or novels from very different eras. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist counting how many books on the list I have read. If you want to know the answer, it is 42. I’ll let you guess which ones.
I have read the Number 1 novel, Middlemarch and, although I thought it was very good, it surprises me to find it at the top of the list, above Ulysses The highest-ranked book I haven’t read is No. 2, Beloved. There are several others on the list that I’ve never even heard of let alone read. The only book on the list that I did at school was No. 78. A House for Mr Biswas, which I didn’t think was all that great. I’ve been meaning to read Tristram Shandy (No. 19) but I think I’ll get that out of the library rather than buying it.
To save you counting, here are the authors with multiple entries:
5 – Virginia Woolf
4 – Jane Austen
4 – Charles Dickens
3 – Henry James
3 – Toni Morrison
2 – James Baldwin
2 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 – Gustave Flaubert
2 – Thomas Hardy
2 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2 – Franz Kafka
2 – Thomas Mann
2 – Cormac McCarthy
2 – Vladimir Nabokov
2 – W.G. Sebald
2 – Leo TolstoyI haven’t read anything by either Sebald or McCarthy or Flaubert. Among the omissions that surprised me are The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I’m not saying that any or all of these would be on my list, just that I’m surprised they don’t appear on the Guardian‘s.
If anyone would like to comment – especially with other notable omissions – please feel free to do so through the box below.
#100BestNovels #Guardian #literature -
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https://www.alojapan.com/1404820/little-tokyo-branch-library-celebrates-20th-anniversary-at-permanent-site/ Little Tokyo Branch Library Celebrates 20th Anniversary at Permanent Site #20thAnniversary #CathyChang #Fascinoma #JanetMinami #JimSherod #JulietWong #KarenLinaresLuna #LittleTokyo #LittleTokyoBranchLibrary #news #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 Photos by J.K. YAMAMOTO / Rafu ShimpoKaren Linares-Luna, representing State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, presents a proclamation to Senior Librarian Jim Sherod. “From Dreams to Reality” was the theme of the Lit
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Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions
Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…
Listen Below!
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x1PNDmSQZApeI1zOe5oII?si=kT6Rwmp5Q6G8urOV6iAHGg
Listen on YouTube:
Also listen at the following places:
Pandora Pocket Casts TuneIn SubstackThings Discussed In This Episode
Related Articles and WebsitesIs It Just Me, or Are the Books Getting Fancier? A Guide to the Special Editions Trend
The Benefits of Graphic Novels: Why They Count as Reading
What’s the perfect length for a book?
Books MentionedHeated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu
The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton
Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.
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Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions
Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…
Listen Below!
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x1PNDmSQZApeI1zOe5oII?si=kT6Rwmp5Q6G8urOV6iAHGg
Listen on YouTube:
Also listen at the following places:
Pandora Pocket Casts TuneIn SubstackThings Discussed In This Episode
Related Articles and WebsitesIs It Just Me, or Are the Books Getting Fancier? A Guide to the Special Editions Trend
The Benefits of Graphic Novels: Why They Count as Reading
What’s the perfect length for a book?
Books MentionedHeated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu
The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton
Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.
#BigBooks #BookAdaptations #BookEditions #BookLovers #BookPetPeeves #Bookmarks #Books #BooksToMovies #Bookworms #Conversation #ConversationalPodcast #CurrentlyReading #DogEarring #FakeBookClub #FantasySeries #JaneAusten #LeoTolstoy #LiteraryOpinions #Movies #music #NewEpisode #Opinions #Pandora #PetPeeves #Podcast #Romance #RomanceReaders #Season3 #ShortReads #SpecialEditions #Spotify #technology #TuneIn #UnpopularOpinions #YouTube -
Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions
Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…
Listen Below!
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x1PNDmSQZApeI1zOe5oII?si=kT6Rwmp5Q6G8urOV6iAHGg
Listen on YouTube:
Also listen at the following places:
Pandora Pocket Casts TuneIn SubstackThings Discussed In This Episode
Related Articles and WebsitesIs It Just Me, or Are the Books Getting Fancier? A Guide to the Special Editions Trend
The Benefits of Graphic Novels: Why They Count as Reading
What’s the perfect length for a book?
Books MentionedHeated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu
The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton
Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.
#BigBooks #BookAdaptations #BookEditions #BookLovers #BookPetPeeves #Bookmarks #Books #BooksToMovies #Bookworms #Conversation #ConversationalPodcast #CurrentlyReading #DogEarring #FakeBookClub #FantasySeries #JaneAusten #LeoTolstoy #LiteraryOpinions #Movies #music #NewEpisode #Opinions #Pandora #PetPeeves #Podcast #Romance #RomanceReaders #Season3 #ShortReads #SpecialEditions #Spotify #technology #TuneIn #UnpopularOpinions #YouTube -
Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions
Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…
Listen Below!
Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x1PNDmSQZApeI1zOe5oII?si=kT6Rwmp5Q6G8urOV6iAHGg
Listen on YouTube:
Also listen at the following places:
Pandora Pocket Casts TuneIn SubstackThings Discussed In This Episode
Related Articles and WebsitesIs It Just Me, or Are the Books Getting Fancier? A Guide to the Special Editions Trend
The Benefits of Graphic Novels: Why They Count as Reading
What’s the perfect length for a book?
Books MentionedHeated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu
The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton
Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.
#BigBooks #BookAdaptations #BookEditions #BookLovers #BookPetPeeves #Bookmarks #Books #BooksToMovies #Bookworms #Conversation #ConversationalPodcast #CurrentlyReading #DogEarring #FakeBookClub #FantasySeries #JaneAusten #LeoTolstoy #LiteraryOpinions #Movies #music #NewEpisode #Opinions #Pandora #PetPeeves #Podcast #Romance #RomanceReaders #Season3 #ShortReads #SpecialEditions #Spotify #technology #TuneIn #UnpopularOpinions #YouTube -
Our newest #podcast episode🎙️ is available now!
Featuring ✨
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Navy Captain's Convenient Wife by #CarlaKelly
Growing Old Disgracefully by #KarenKing
The Hanging Heart by #EvaSimmons
Last Dragon on Mars by #HoneyPhillips
The Child at the Window by #GillThompson
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by #PatrickCottrell
Shadow Hunt by #TomBale
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Our newest #podcast episode🎙️ is available now!
Featuring ✨
A Cute Little Murder by #MollyHarper
Navy Captain's Convenient Wife by #CarlaKelly
Growing Old Disgracefully by #KarenKing
The Hanging Heart by #EvaSimmons
Last Dragon on Mars by #HoneyPhillips
The Child at the Window by #GillThompson
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by #PatrickCottrell
Shadow Hunt by #TomBale
Play Tough by #ZoeyRose
Mom Brain by #NicoleHackettStream now at our 🔗 link in the comments. #bookstodon
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Our newest #podcast episode🎙️ is available now!
Featuring ✨
A Cute Little Murder by #MollyHarper
Navy Captain's Convenient Wife by #CarlaKelly
Growing Old Disgracefully by #KarenKing
The Hanging Heart by #EvaSimmons
Last Dragon on Mars by #HoneyPhillips
The Child at the Window by #GillThompson
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by #PatrickCottrell
Shadow Hunt by #TomBale
Play Tough by #ZoeyRose
Mom Brain by #NicoleHackettStream now at our 🔗 link in the comments. #bookstodon
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Our newest #podcast episode🎙️ is available now!
Featuring ✨
A Cute Little Murder by #MollyHarper
Navy Captain's Convenient Wife by #CarlaKelly
Growing Old Disgracefully by #KarenKing
The Hanging Heart by #EvaSimmons
Last Dragon on Mars by #HoneyPhillips
The Child at the Window by #GillThompson
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by #PatrickCottrell
Shadow Hunt by #TomBale
Play Tough by #ZoeyRose
Mom Brain by #NicoleHackettStream now at our 🔗 link in the comments. #bookstodon
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Girl brat summer in Russian winters -- Anna Karenina
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@Athenenoctua J’ai retrouvé le texte de la lettre de Louise Brooks à Guido Crepax, d’abord ici, puis, par archive.org, publiée dans un livre.
January 7, 1976
Dear Guido,
Thanks for the beautiful book and the comic strips. (But you didn’t tell me what that hyper-active slipper in the book meant).
I send you Image with the photo from the Dixie Dugan comic strip because it illustrates a unique fact. So far as I know no American actress has been the inspiration for one strip, and certainly never for two strips. Also John Striebel drew the syndicated Dixie from 1926 till 1966. And you began Valentina in 1965, just as if you were picking me up where John left off when he died.
Could Valentina be the lost Louise Brooks? Dixie Dugan was not. She was clever and intelligent and always knew how to take care of herself in a world she understood perfectly.
Ortega Y Gasset wrote that “We are all lost”, it is only when we confess it that we find ourselves and live true. But I knew I was lost when I was a little girl and my mother could not understand why I wept alone. Making films in New York was alright because I learned so much and discovered Tolstoj and Anna Karenina. Then I was sent to Hollywood in 1927 to make films. Nobody could understand why I hated that terrible destructive place which seemed a marvelous paradise to all others. “What’s the matter with you, Louise? You’ve got everything! What do you want?”. To me it was like a terrible dream I have — I am lost in the corridors of a big hotel and I cannot find my room. People walk past me as of they can not see or hear me. So I first ran away from Hollywood and I have been running away ever since. And now at 69 I have given up hope of ever finding myself. My life has been nothing.
But looking back, there was one time in Paris in 1929, when I was filming Prix de beauté and lived at peace with myself. I think that was because I did not speak French. Being lost was perfectly natural among those people with whom I could exchange no thoughts and feelings.
What does Valentina have to say to all this?
Love
Louise
Remember when the prodigal son returned the father said, “He was lost, and is found”. It was the father who found the lost son. Somehow I have missed being found.
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@Athenenoctua J’ai retrouvé le texte de la lettre de Louise Brooks à Guido Crepax, d’abord ici, puis, par archive.org, publiée dans un livre.
January 7, 1976
Dear Guido,
Thanks for the beautiful book and the comic strips. (But you didn’t tell me what that hyper-active slipper in the book meant).
I send you Image with the photo from the Dixie Dugan comic strip because it illustrates a unique fact. So far as I know no American actress has been the inspiration for one strip, and certainly never for two strips. Also John Striebel drew the syndicated Dixie from 1926 till 1966. And you began Valentina in 1965, just as if you were picking me up where John left off when he died.
Could Valentina be the lost Louise Brooks? Dixie Dugan was not. She was clever and intelligent and always knew how to take care of herself in a world she understood perfectly.
Ortega Y Gasset wrote that “We are all lost”, it is only when we confess it that we find ourselves and live true. But I knew I was lost when I was a little girl and my mother could not understand why I wept alone. Making films in New York was alright because I learned so much and discovered Tolstoj and Anna Karenina. Then I was sent to Hollywood in 1927 to make films. Nobody could understand why I hated that terrible destructive place which seemed a marvelous paradise to all others. “What’s the matter with you, Louise? You’ve got everything! What do you want?”. To me it was like a terrible dream I have — I am lost in the corridors of a big hotel and I cannot find my room. People walk past me as of they can not see or hear me. So I first ran away from Hollywood and I have been running away ever since. And now at 69 I have given up hope of ever finding myself. My life has been nothing.
But looking back, there was one time in Paris in 1929, when I was filming Prix de beauté and lived at peace with myself. I think that was because I did not speak French. Being lost was perfectly natural among those people with whom I could exchange no thoughts and feelings.
What does Valentina have to say to all this?
Love
Louise
Remember when the prodigal son returned the father said, “He was lost, and is found”. It was the father who found the lost son. Somehow I have missed being found.
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@Athenenoctua J’ai retrouvé le texte de la lettre de Louise Brooks à Guido Crepax, d’abord ici, puis, par archive.org, publiée dans un livre.
January 7, 1976
Dear Guido,
Thanks for the beautiful book and the comic strips. (But you didn’t tell me what that hyper-active slipper in the book meant).
I send you Image with the photo from the Dixie Dugan comic strip because it illustrates a unique fact. So far as I know no American actress has been the inspiration for one strip, and certainly never for two strips. Also John Striebel drew the syndicated Dixie from 1926 till 1966. And you began Valentina in 1965, just as if you were picking me up where John left off when he died.
Could Valentina be the lost Louise Brooks? Dixie Dugan was not. She was clever and intelligent and always knew how to take care of herself in a world she understood perfectly.
Ortega Y Gasset wrote that “We are all lost”, it is only when we confess it that we find ourselves and live true. But I knew I was lost when I was a little girl and my mother could not understand why I wept alone. Making films in New York was alright because I learned so much and discovered Tolstoj and Anna Karenina. Then I was sent to Hollywood in 1927 to make films. Nobody could understand why I hated that terrible destructive place which seemed a marvelous paradise to all others. “What’s the matter with you, Louise? You’ve got everything! What do you want?”. To me it was like a terrible dream I have — I am lost in the corridors of a big hotel and I cannot find my room. People walk past me as of they can not see or hear me. So I first ran away from Hollywood and I have been running away ever since. And now at 69 I have given up hope of ever finding myself. My life has been nothing.
But looking back, there was one time in Paris in 1929, when I was filming Prix de beauté and lived at peace with myself. I think that was because I did not speak French. Being lost was perfectly natural among those people with whom I could exchange no thoughts and feelings.
What does Valentina have to say to all this?
Love
Louise
Remember when the prodigal son returned the father said, “He was lost, and is found”. It was the father who found the lost son. Somehow I have missed being found.
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The character Levin is thought by many to be based on Tolstoy himself, as he shares the same beliefs and struggles. Tolstoy's wife even said to him, "Levin is you, without the talent."
10 things you didn't know about Anna Karenina.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/08/30-august-anna-karenina.html
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@HipPriest I've been listening to Anna Karenina on audiobook. Puts me out in <10 minutes.
(Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying it and don't fall asleep to it while, say, driving. But when sleep needs to be induced it works wonders)
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@design_law call me crazy but I've re-started Anna Karenina on audiobook. 🙃
(only got maybe 1/3 way through last time, but it was because life intervened)
#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #nowReading #tolstoy #annaKarenina