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Bibliotek973 böcker — se bibliotek

Recensioner198 recensioner — se recensioner

Molntaggmoln, författarmoln

Taggarhistorical fiction (95), TBR (91), memoir (72), fantasy (71), lyrical prose (70), wishlist (60), erotic (54), decadence culture (52), humor (49), sexuality (48) — se alla taggar

GrupperAsian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Early Reviewers, Happy Heathens, Mathematics, Reading Canada, Reading Globally, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, Spies & Spy Fiction

FavoritförfattareJorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Roberto Calasso, Angela Carter, Hart Crane, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Isak Dinesen, Steve Erickson, Paula Fox, David Grossman, H. D., Joseph Heller, Peter Høeg, Etgar Keret, Milan Kundera, Jhumpa Lahiri, Denise Levertov, Czesław Miłosz, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Michael Ondaatje, Thomas Pynchon, Marilynne Robinson, Anne Sexton, Studs Terkel, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Oscar Wilde (Delade favoriter)

Om mig Recently Read:

                                     

De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Chatter by Perrin Ireland
Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

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Highly Recommended:


Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson  

i read Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson very slowly to savor the haunting beauty and strangeness of her story as well as the many themes she weaves through it: resurfacing of the deeps; scapegoats and sheltered vagrants; grief and loss; identity, belonging, and isolation; the sacredness of the everyday world; etc. Her story grows on you and, like the best books, has the power to change the way you view the world.

Her prose reminds me of the poetry of Rilke or Levertov:

There is so little to remember of anyone -- an anecdote, a conversation at table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long.

Here's another bit:

For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break forth upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.

Top Favorite: Jorge Luis Borges

                          

    Dreamtigers       Seven Nights     Collected Fictions

The Writing of the God is one of the most scalp-crinkling mystical stories ever ~ next to which the epiphanies of Joyce or redemptions of O'Connor seem pallid and crude. Amazing how many writers fashion entire careers stealing from Borges.

A few quotes:

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. - Anne Sexton

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Apropos to start of the American political season, Craig Clevenger on the gubernator's election:
Fuck you, you miserable mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, troglodytic, couch-potato fuck nozzles. Fuck every single goddamned motherfucking last one of you. You dumb fucks.

Listening to:

Be Here, Keith Urban
Before I Speak, Kyle Riabko
Brother, Bring the Sun, Dave Barnes
Carencro, Marc Broussard
Chariot Stripped, Gavin DeGraw
Chasing Mississippi, Dave Barnes
Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, Keith Urban
Move By Yourself, Donavon Frankenreiter
Raising Sand, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant
The Shepherd's Dog, Iron & Wine
Bach: Suites for Cello, Janos Starker

Om mitt bibliotek Anything with 3 or more stars is ok.

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Medlem sedanDec 20, 2006