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Listening to #WideSargassoSea by #JeanRhys.
So well done.
And I'm cooked after 10 munutes.
So v e r y despair inducing for me.(Written 1966 as a prequel to #JaneAyre - the back story of the mad woman in the attic. Small liberties taken with actual historical chronology.)
Classified as #PostColonialLiterature.
And I see just about every human on the planet is living a post-colonial life.Yet the Xia dynasty, the Greeks, Romans, etc have had postcolonialism around for millenia.
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Listening to #WideSargassoSea by #JeanRhys.
So well done.
And I'm cooked after 10 munutes.
So v e r y despair inducing for me.(Written 1966 as a prequel to #JaneAyre - the back story of the mad woman in the attic. Small liberties taken with actual historical chronology.)
Classified as #PostColonialLiterature.
And I see just about every human on the planet is living a post-colonial life.Yet the Xia dynasty, the Greeks, Romans, etc have had postcolonialism around for millenia.
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Trying to find audiobooks by #JeanRhys is frustrating.
#Audible has nothing, nada, zilch.
Librivox "No results found".
Next trying YT.EDIT: YT has The Wide Sargasso Sea - a post-colonial response (prequel around #EdwardFairfaxRochester) to #JaneEyre.
Performed well, with accents. Produced by Isis Audio - probably 2007, performance by #AnnaBentinck.But only a radioplay of #GoodMorningMidnight was found.
#Bookstadon #Accessibility #TheWideSargassoSea #Audiobook #PosrColonial
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Trying to find audiobooks by #JeanRhys is frustrating.
#Audible has nothing, nada, zilch.
Librivox "No results found".
Next trying YT.EDIT: YT has The Wide Sargasso Sea - a post-colonial response (prequel around #EdwardFairfaxRochester) to #JaneEyre.
Performed well, with accents. Produced by Isis Audio - probably 2007, performance by #AnnaBentinck.But only a radioplay of #GoodMorningMidnight was found.
#Bookstadon #Accessibility #TheWideSargassoSea #Audiobook #PosrColonial
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No audiobook yet found.
A #Radioplay though.
#GoodMorningMidnight by #RoderickGraham
#JeanRhys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjl_427KyE -
No audiobook yet found.
A #Radioplay though.
#GoodMorningMidnight by #RoderickGraham
#JeanRhys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjl_427KyE -
Fun things about studying up on #JeanRhys is that there have been theses for Masters and PhDs written and published on the web.
#ItsHowTheLightGetsIn
Some of them are dreadfully written.
And, here's the lovely bit, after giving up on one after 5 pages, I find I have learnt a lot about where Rhys fitted in to "Literature" in the 1920s and 30s and where she fits in now.
All while I complained about the writing style of the student. 🙃Whereas "good" writing would have been boring & opaque. 🤫
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Fun things about studying up on #JeanRhys is that there have been theses for Masters and PhDs written and published on the web.
#ItsHowTheLightGetsIn
Some of them are dreadfully written.
And, here's the lovely bit, after giving up on one after 5 pages, I find I have learnt a lot about where Rhys fitted in to "Literature" in the 1920s and 30s and where she fits in now.
All while I complained about the writing style of the student. 🙃Whereas "good" writing would have been boring & opaque. 🤫
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Looking for an #Audiobook of #JeanRhys' #GoodMorningMidnight.
Anyone know of one?
Maybe in a collection of short stories?
(That'd be a human reader, non-"AI enhanced" audio.)
#Audible (at least in Australia) shows nothing by Jean Rhys. (Just a biography of her.)
Nothing, on G, (but then that's been crapified).
#Bookstadon -
Looking for an #Audiobook of #JeanRhys' #GoodMorningMidnight.
Anyone know of one?
Maybe in a collection of short stories?
(That'd be a human reader, non-"AI enhanced" audio.)
#Audible (at least in Australia) shows nothing by Jean Rhys. (Just a biography of her.)
Nothing, on G, (but then that's been crapified).
#Bookstadon -
Who knows why the book was chosen?
Not I.But #GoodMorningMidnight immediately after #BoySwallowsUniverse is ... a jarring experience.
Gone is the criminally violent melodrama. And positivity.
In is something that each member of the venerable club has lived beside. Or lived out. For decades. -
Who knows why the book was chosen?
Not I.But #GoodMorningMidnight immediately after #BoySwallowsUniverse is ... a jarring experience.
Gone is the criminally violent melodrama. And positivity.
In is something that each member of the venerable club has lived beside. Or lived out. For decades. -
Only seen snippets of reviews so far.
And some photos.You're going to take this the wrong, wrong way I'm guessing.
But I've got a really bad feeling about this book.Not oversharing, not too honest, more "spot on target" to a central delicate issue or two.
Maybe something that hasn't really been "solved".
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Only seen snippets of reviews so far.
And some photos.You're going to take this the wrong, wrong way I'm guessing.
But I've got a really bad feeling about this book.Not oversharing, not too honest, more "spot on target" to a central delicate issue or two.
Maybe something that hasn't really been "solved".
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A brief encounter between James and Nora Joyce and Jean Rhys, reported by Brenda Maddox: https://stancarey.tumblr.com/post/99403430383/james-and-nora-joyce-and-jean-rhys
#books #JeanRhys #JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #BrendaMaddox #LiteraryHistory
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A brief encounter between James and Nora Joyce and Jean Rhys, reported by Brenda Maddox: https://stancarey.tumblr.com/post/99403430383/james-and-nora-joyce-and-jean-rhys
#books #JeanRhys #JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #BrendaMaddox #LiteraryHistory
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Latest reads, Illusion, A Spiritualist, From a French Prison, In a Cafe, and Tout Montparnasse and a Lady, from The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys (1927).
Rhys details Parisian life during the "années folles" (crazy years) following WWI with an eye for character and cool passion. -
Latest reads, Illusion, A Spiritualist, From a French Prison, In a Cafe, and Tout Montparnasse and a Lady, from The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys (1927).
Rhys details Parisian life during the "années folles" (crazy years) following WWI with an eye for character and cool passion. -
#7books
(these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday) -
#7books
(these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday) -
Oof. I just discovered that the #JeanRhys (#WideSargassoSea etc.) house in Dominica 🇩🇲 was demolished in 2020 -- only a year after we saw it while visiting the island on my spouse's research trip to the national archives.
Must admit that this is a bit of a gut punch for so many reasons. -
Oof. I just discovered that the #JeanRhys (#WideSargassoSea etc.) house in Dominica 🇩🇲 was demolished in 2020 -- only a year after we saw it while visiting the island on my spouse's research trip to the national archives.
Must admit that this is a bit of a gut punch for so many reasons. -
Have seen a few #bookstodon folks posting this so I’m having a go!
Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. Some of mine: #HilaryMantel
#MadelineMiller
#JaneAusten
#JeanRhys
#MargaretAtwood
#KazuoIshiguro
#JimCrace
… and I suppose I ought to say #LordByron but that’s really for his letters 🤓 -
Have seen a few #bookstodon folks posting this so I’m having a go!
Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. Some of mine: #HilaryMantel
#MadelineMiller
#JaneAusten
#JeanRhys
#MargaretAtwood
#KazuoIshiguro
#JimCrace
… and I suppose I ought to say #LordByron but that’s really for his letters 🤓