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In Praise Of A Novel That Teaches Us To Care
It has been a dramatic week in Wisconsin, and now it is time for the weekend. Everyone needs a few days to unwind. Family is coming by our home Friday night, and rain is slated for much of Saturday. James and I have dinner with a friend on Sunday. In between all those reasons to smile, I will be found with my first John Irving book. (Yes, how can this only be the first at my age?) I am halfway through The Cider House Rules and am so captivated by the writing, the plot, the strong […]https://caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/08/13/in-praise-of-a-novel-that-teaches-us-to-care/
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Die #Sommerferien neigen sich dem Ende zu.
Nur noch wenige, ruhige Tage für die #Sommerlektüre.
Heute mussten noch Mal diese drei Bücher aus der #Stadtbibliothek in #Schleswig mitgenommen werden.Welches Buch werde ich wohl zuerst #lesen ?
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RE: https://beige.party/@adub/116873453734451273
I remember being at Brandeis as an undergraduate and hearing him read from The World According to Garp. Brilliant. We are poorer for more reasons than we can count, including #Irving's decision not to promote his new book in the US. I get it.
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People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
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"I’m old-fashioned, a storyteller. I’m not an analyst and I’m not an intellectual."
~John Irving, born today, 1942.
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Nach jahrelanger große Liebe und geiern nach jedem neuen Roman...
Nach Zirkuskind eher so "ja, ganz gut" , dann viele "freudlos durchgelesen". Den letzten (Sessellift) konnte ich nicht mehr durchlesen wg. Langeweile und Langatmigkeit und den neuen kaufe ich nicht mehr, wenn in der Rezession auch schon wieder was von Langatmigkeit steht.
Die geliebten Alten behalte ich und les die immer wieder, die anderen hab ich verkauft.
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Queen Esther by John Irving review – a disappointing companion to The Cider House Rules https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/03/queen-esther-by-john-irving-review-a-disappointing-companion-to-the-cider-house-rules #JohnIrving #Fiction #Culture #Books
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John Irvings „Der letzte Sessellift“ – Queeres Leben, Geister der Vergangenheit und Amerikas verdrängte Wahrheiten https://www.lesering.de/id/4939476/John-Irvings-Der-letzte-Sessellift---Queeres-Leben-Geister-der-Vergangenheit-und-Amerikas-verdraengte-Wahrheiten/ #Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung #DerletzteSessellift #US-Gesellschaft #QueereLiteratur #QueereIdentität #DiogenesVerlag #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #Transgender #Vater-Suche #Gespenster #Reagan-Ära #JohnIrving #LGBTQ+
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I'm definitely preordering this! #bookstodon #JohnIrving
John Irving's 'Queen Esther' returns readers to setting of 'The Cider House Rules' https://apnews.com/article/john-irving-queen-esther-cider-house-feacbe92d0d147b01b6005b5e3d91abb
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'Literarischer Handlungsort' - Christian-Vater-Orgel in der Oude Kerk (Amsterdam)
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@aarpee I'm also reading it now. I'm not sure how I feel about it. The constant tone of irony/sarcasm/TongueInCheek is a bit tiring. But then, I'm also not a #JohnIrving or #Vonnegut fan so ...
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Who are your 5 favourite authors, and your favourite book by each. I need a reading list to help me escape this endless doomscrolling.
I’ll start.
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
John Irving - A prayer for Owen Meany
Paul Auster - The Music of Chance
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
(Yes, that’s 6)
You?
#books #bookstodon #TerryPratchett #PaulAuster #JohnIrving #Murakami #Gaiman #Vonnegut
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The Movies That Made Me podcast is my favourite podcast about film. Instead of talking to filmmakers about their movies they discuss the, you know, "movies that made them".
Kevin Smith doesn't stick to the rules in his appearance, he even talks about his own mental health. He also made me interested to see his latest film *The 4:30 Movie* (not 420). Movies about movies is one of my favourite genres.
One of the movies Kevin mentions as having made him is *The World According To Garp" which he saw in a theater at an "inappropriate" age. I only saw it on TV but I was also quite young, about ten I think. It has stuck with me. I even read the book about a quarter century later.
I wasn't the only one in my school to see Garp. I remember talking about that one scene, you know.
I did wonder where the name Garp came from because it is quite similar to the Icelandic/Norse word "garpur" (which means something like hero/champion). The word was used as the Icelandic name of He-Man (Garpur og hetjur himingeimsins).
I sometimes wonder about "inappropriate" films and now I think about which movies my sons will talk about having watched with me at an inappropriate age.
#TheMoviesThatMadeMe
#JohnIrving
#JoeDante
#KevinSmith
#Films
#Movies
#Podcasts
#MentalHealthThe Movies That Made Me: CLERKS filmmaker Kevin Smith
Episode webpage: https://moviesthatmademe.com/podcast/kevin-smith/
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Collision Courses and Castration Anxiety: Rereading John Irving
#bookstodon #writer #JohnIrving #readinghttps://themillions.com/2013/02/collision-courses-and-castration-anxiety-rereading-john-irving.html
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Heute, #onthisday, vor 82 Jahren am 02.03.1942 wurde John Irving, US-amerikanisch-kanadischer Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor, geboren.
Seine oft skurrilen, Halt suchenden Romanfiguren sind Außenseiter der Gesellschaft und erzählen Geschichten von Anerkennung, Emanzipation und dem Finden von Sinn und Liebe.
"Die Zukunft der Menschheit hängt nicht mehr davon ab, was sie tut, sondern mehr denn je davon, was sie unterläßt."
#JohnIrving #Schriftsteller #Roman
📷 Quelle: https://xombit.com/2012/11/hasta-que-te-encuentre-de-john-irving
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John Irving: “What are they banning? They’re banning books about abortion and they’re banning books on LGBTQ subjects, What they’re saying to young, gay, lesbian, trans kids, they want them to feel even more alone and isolated than they already feel. They don’t want those kids to have access to material that will let them know they’re not alone. They already feel alone. There’s a cruelty to that that is unspeakable.”
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“#Trump’s #PAC paid $189,040 in 2022 to the law firm where #DeOliveira’s #lawyer, #JohnIrving, is a partner.”
#ConflictOfInterest #Ethics #ABA #MRPC #ModelRulesOfProfessionalConduct #Law #Legal #WitnessTampering #Influence #Bribery #Extortion #Criminal #Conspiracy #ClassifiedDocuments #Obstruction #DOJ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
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“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either."
(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)”
― John Irving
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“We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives”
― John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
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“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
― John Irving, A Son of the Circus
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