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reads a lot
#SundaySarton
finally secured a copy, so I’m behind but will try to catch up!
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ETHIOPIA!!? oh dear Henry, talk about “impracticable!”
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For NYRBWomen25 and Elizabeth Taylor “Angel” fans. I wonder if this NYT contributor reads with us?
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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…” 😳
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about 1 month ago
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On Louis XIV, Mitford writes “…he did not think it was right that Christ should speak the language of poor people.”
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about 2 months ago
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“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.
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Ouch, Eve so harsh in her assessment of Canadians on p.213!
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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.”
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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.”
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NYRBWomen25 Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes, not sure I’m up for this Medea story today.
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5 months ago
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
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Well that got very dark! I miss the shopping and the sex.
#flauberttogether
5 months ago
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#Prousttogether
my sources (goodreads) tell me that we started reading Swann‘s Way five years ago on August 14, 2020. Happy belated anniversary
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“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…”
5 months ago
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Cita Press
5 months ago
🐈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!
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The Wizard of Oz The Outsiders Napoleon Dynamite
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5 months ago
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Happened upon this edition today. Ready for our final instalment of
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
“We can sleep together if you want, but you should know I’m only doing it ironically. ” ― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
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The preface of my edition describes the novel as, “The first sex and shopping novel.” I’m in!!!
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6 months ago
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“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.”
6 months ago
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Alan Richardson
7 months ago
A message from the Toronto Public Library
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“…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.”
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P.128
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#HadrianTogether
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The Best French Novel of the 20th Century
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 2025-06-11 · 42m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-lrb-podcast/id510327102?i=1000712437620
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Roxane Gay
8 months ago
Billionaires are so lonely and money can’t fill the void of authentic emotional and/or intellectual connection.
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Amber Sparks
8 months ago
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
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Alexander Chee
8 months ago
Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.
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“We are all hiding from each other,…”
8 months ago
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9 months ago
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Literature as Political Resistance
Podcast Episode · What Rough Beast · 2025-03-28 · 49m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/what-rough-beast/id1787176282?i=1000701262011
9 months ago
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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.”
9 months ago
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“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.
9 months ago
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NYRBWomen25 Filling in my Hardwick knowledge.
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Critical women
Podcast Episode · The TLS Podcast · 2017-12-07 · 50m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-tls-podcast/id868068396?i=1000396604255
9 months ago
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I’m keeping up but feel I’ve lost the plot.
10 months ago
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Codes for the tariffs are: 4902.90.00, 4901.99.00, 4903.00.00, 4905.20.00, 4901.91.00, 4901.10.00
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10 months ago
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“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.
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10 months ago
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Amber Sparks
11 months ago
Everything is awful
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Digging into my first ever Ginsburg and paused at “Dodo was eating the gypsy sundae…” wonder what the ingredients are?
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11 months ago
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In sync with KOK, I too am searching for the perfect winter boot which combines utility with fashion.
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12 months ago
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A 4 part series about Simone Weil. Becoming a big fan here.
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Episode #172 ... Simone Weil - Attention
Podcast Episode · Philosophize This! · 2022-11-21 · 38m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/philosophize-this/id659155419?i=1000587040323
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about 1 year ago
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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.
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about 1 year ago
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“The night was young and the moon was silver, and the Irish have never been boring.”
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about 1 year ago
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from Alice James to Eve Babitz in less than a century.
about 1 year ago
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Alice James writing fantasy fiction “someday the rights of women will be respected, I suppose.”
about 1 year ago
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“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.” 👀👀
about 1 year ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
about 1 year ago
Should I tell Twitter I’m here? I don’t want to inadvertently cause an influx of all the worst accounts on the internet.
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“..we are forever strangers to the pain of others.”
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