#SundaySarton finally secured a copy, so I’m behind but will try to catch up!

#NYRBWomen26 ETHIOPIA!!? oh dear Henry, talk about “impracticable!”

For NYRBWomen25 and Elizabeth Taylor “Angel” fans. I wonder if this NYT contributor reads with us?

On M. le Duc, Mitford writes, “his appearance was thought to be due to his mother’s having intercepted a sexy look from her dwarf when she was pregnant…” 😳 #NYRBWomen25

On Louis XIV, Mitford writes “…he did not think it was right that Christ should speak the language of poor people.” #NYRBWomen25

#NYRBWomen25 “I came to New York from Syracuse. Well, I didn’t really come to New York, I left Syracuse.” (p. 406) A sentiment resonant for all of us who have left small towns.

#NYRBWomen25 Ouch, Eve so harsh in her assessment of Canadians on p.213!

#NYRBWomen2025 On navigating LA the Eve Babitz way: “Sure, you could complain about the heat and the freeways, or you could eat this perfect sandwich and listen to the birds sing.”

#RachelCuskTogether I first read this book 9 years ago and made an underline of a sentence that still strikes me today. “Money is a country all its own.”

NYRBWomen25 Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes, not sure I’m up for this Medea story today.

The genius of Flaubert! Emma's descent recalled Anna's obsessive love and her ambivalence towards her daughter, Elisa, in "Lies and Sorcery" (1948) by Elsa Morante. (Read with @joiedevivre9.bsky.social with #NYRBWomen25 )

Well that got very dark! I miss the shopping and the sex. #flauberttogether

#Prousttogether my sources (goodreads) tell me that we started reading Swann‘s Way five years ago on August 14, 2020. Happy belated anniversary @literaturesc.bsky.social et al

#NYRBWomen25 “better that she had never been brought forth into the light, that no fisherman‘s net had hold her up. And she would have gone on winding through the dark waters, unseen, unknown there in her own element, pushing ahead the darkness…feeding on the abundance of the sea…”

🐈WRITERS AND CATS 🐱 Elsa Morante and her cats! Morante’s love for cats crept into her writings such as History: A Novel (translated by William Weaver, 1977) featuring Rossella, the striped orange and red cat! #WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙

The Wizard of Oz The Outsiders Napoleon Dynamite

Happened upon this edition today. Ready for our final instalment of #anthonypowelltogether

“We can sleep together if you want, but you should know I’m only doing it ironically. ​” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

The preface of my edition describes the novel as, “The first sex and shopping novel.” I’m in!!! #FlaubertTogether

#NYRBWomen25 “As for Lydia, she has set foot in the United States once, when a marshmallow roast had taken her a few yards inside North Dakota, some sixty years before.”

A message from the Toronto Public Library

“…depression…is nothing other than a congealed and immobile rage, a wave that strikes the shore just as the temperature plummets and halts its forward path.” #knausgaardtogethertheseasons P.128

#HadrianTogether podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Billionaires are so lonely and money can’t fill the void of authentic emotional and/or intellectual connection.

the people who felt that having to wear masks and go to school online during the pandemic was fascist, have created an actual fascist state and see no problem with it

Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.

#NYRBWOMEN25 “We are all hiding from each other,…”

#NYRBWomen25 #Knausgaardtogethertheseasons #AnthonyPowelltogether

#NYRBWomen25 Great Granny Webster is a real cheerful sort. I wonder if we’ll find out more about why. It can’t be just because she’s a Scot “in exile.”

#knausgaardtogethertheseasons “That I was constantly noting her mood, that i interpreted everything she said and did as part of a larger pattern, was not unlike what I had done with my father…” I’m very curious to know what happens with KOK and Linda, but don’t tell me.

NYRBWomen25 Filling in my Hardwick knowledge. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

#NYRBWomen25 I’m keeping up but feel I’ve lost the plot.

Codes for the tariffs are: 4902.90.00, 4901.99.00, 4903.00.00, 4905.20.00, 4901.91.00, 4901.10.00

“is it better,” said Bruno quizzically, “to have a half thought out Magazine and produce it? Or the perfect conception that can never appear?“ The dilemma of idealism. #NYRBWomen25

Everything is awful

Digging into my first ever Ginsburg and paused at “Dodo was eating the gypsy sundae…” wonder what the ingredients are? #NYRBWomen25

In sync with KOK, I too am searching for the perfect winter boot which combines utility with fashion. #knausgaardtogethertheseasons

#NYRBWomen25 A 4 part series about Simone Weil. Becoming a big fan here. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

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“..the wait was such a bore the she purchased total surcease on the smooth, blank, clear, smiling lake of heroine. A famous friend of the famous.” (About Janis Joplin waiting for her prince to come. #NYRBWomen24

“The night was young and the moon was silver, and the Irish have never been boring.” #NYRBWomen24

#NYRBWomen24 from Alice James to Eve Babitz in less than a century.

#nyrbwomen24 Alice James writing fantasy fiction “someday the rights of women will be respected, I suppose.”

#NYRBWoman24 “All correspondence between William and his wife has been donated to…Harvard with the stipulation that it not be opened to the public until 2023.” 👀👀

Should I tell Twitter I’m here? I don’t want to inadvertently cause an influx of all the worst accounts on the internet.

“..we are forever strangers to the pain of others.” #knausgaardtogethertheseasons