Working through my stack of books after being in a slump last month. Currently reading The Passion According to G.H. by Lispector. What is everyone reading?
Anonymous :
171 days ago :
No.7616
>>7618
>>7616
What did you think of the sailor? I quite liked it, maybe a little short though.
>>7654Crossings by Ben Goldfarb. Sort of a pop-sciencey book about the ecology of roads. Read a few books by John McPhee earlier this year so was hoping for some nice eco-literature but not really enjoying it so far. Interesting in theory but every chapter is the same structure, very bland, but it was a gift so I will finish it.
>>7616
Since you posted something about linguistics, just wondering if you had recommendations for a first book for someone with no background? Would like to put something on my list for the future.
an introduction to linguistic typology by viveka vellupillai. just finished the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Anonymous :
171 days ago :
No.7618
>>7620
>>7618
i liked it a lot! it's my second mishima after confessions of a mask. really pretty & at points gutwrenching. i saw that just the other day there was a book about mishima by david vernon published, i wanna check that out cause i've been really imppressed by both his books i've read now. i don't mind the length, i really like novellas personally
>>7616
an introduction to linguistic typology by viveka vellupillai. just finished the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
What did you think of the sailor? I quite liked it, maybe a little short though.
>>7618
>>7616
What did you think of the sailor? I quite liked it, maybe a little short though.
i liked it a lot! it's my second mishima after confessions of a mask. really pretty & at points gutwrenching. i saw that just the other day there was a book about mishima by david vernon published, i wanna check that out cause i've been really imppressed by both his books i've read now. i don't mind the length, i really like novellas personally
Goebbels, by Longerich; Hunger, by Hamsun (I’ll probably finish it tonight); and Heydrich Et La Solution Finale, by Husson (just started).
The first is a monumental work on the "master propagandist," Dr. Goebbels, apparently the best on this subject. Personally, I find it quite educational, mostly because the first hundred pages restore the context I lacked regarding the years between the Munich Putsch and 1933.
The second is a fascinating example of the typical "miserable loner" (a kind of literature I’m really into, what can I say). Honestly, very much worth recommending.
As for Husson’s work, I can’t say anything significant yet (I started it today). I usually read one work of fiction and one of non-fiction in parallel; this book is in the list because I want to learn the language it’s written in.
Llittle Women. What a wonderful book, I'm glad I get to enjoy it
Anonymous :
166 days ago :
No.7654
>>7660
>>7654
honestly the one i mentioned is a pretty good introduction for broad aspects of the field. it's very basic & easy to follow if you lack any background. other than that i don't think i have any good recommendations, sorry! i mostly just read papers to get my bearing in the field but i know that isn't the best option for most people
Crossings by Ben Goldfarb. Sort of a pop-sciencey book about the ecology of roads. Read a few books by John McPhee earlier this year so was hoping for some nice eco-literature but not really enjoying it so far. Interesting in theory but every chapter is the same structure, very bland, but it was a gift so I will finish it.
>>7616
an introduction to linguistic typology by viveka vellupillai. just finished the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Since you posted something about linguistics, just wondering if you had recommendations for a first book for someone with no background? Would like to put something on my list for the future.
>>7654
Crossings by Ben Goldfarb. Sort of a pop-sciencey book about the ecology of roads. Read a few books by John McPhee earlier this year so was hoping for some nice eco-literature but not really enjoying it so far. Interesting in theory but every chapter is the same structure, very bland, but it was a gift so I will finish it.
>>7616
Since you posted something about linguistics, just wondering if you had recommendations for a first book for someone with no background? Would like to put something on my list for the future.
honestly the one i mentioned is a pretty good introduction for broad aspects of the field. it's very basic & easy to follow if you lack any background. other than that i don't think i have any good recommendations, sorry! i mostly just read papers to get my bearing in the field but i know that isn't the best option for most people
Nowhere Stars. Dark mahou shoujo. It is my favorite series out of anything I have found during this year.
Wasn't there already a book thread
Reading Business slop, How Big Things get done, about the managing of huge projects.
It's not actually slop, it's pretty interesting, but as usual, it's ten bullet points ideas stretched over 200 hundred pages, with dramatization.
I lack grace for authors that waste my time.
"Las invitadas", by Silvina Ocampo.
I feel a hitherto ignored area of my brain being furiously stimulated. Reading in a foreign language has a certain mystique for me, true, but this is unprecedented.
Not much recently. I've been making attmpts at blitzing through Hamsun's "Hunger" but albeit it is rather easy in the literary sense I keep bouncing off it. Behaviours of main charecter are very familiar to me and I keep physically cringing when reading it.
Anonymous :
15 days ago :
No.8594
>>8606
>>8594 (me)
To add onto my simple comment, I wasn't expecting to like the Pickwick Papers as much as I do.
I haven't read any Dickens before this, and wasn't expecting much, but I wanted to pick up something a bit lighter for the warmer weather. It's mostly right now just four buds getting into zany situations, but under the auspices of traveling for their "club", where they seem to be recording interactions and pieces of "Pickwickian" information, which seem to be mostly interesting or noteworthy things that twist or create a novel human understanding. The definition is left vague. I appreciate Dickens' ability to create wholly funny, yet plausible, characters, such as a fat boy who falls asleep at every moment, like a narcoleptic, except when he interacts with food, or a grotesque actor who relays the story of a dying friend, who was an alcoholic that drank himself to death, and in his death throes began to unconsciously preform his role, as a pantomime, in his deathbed.
So, to me, without having finished it, the core of the book isn't especially profound, (though I do like the idea of a club of gentlemen who just travel around to look at things and talk to people) but Dickens seems to be an adept detailer.
i just started the pickwick papers by charles dickens. it's amusing i like it.
>>8594
i just started the pickwick papers by charles dickens. it's amusing i like it.
(me)
To add onto my simple comment, I wasn't expecting to like the Pickwick Papers as much as I do.
I haven't read any Dickens before this, and wasn't expecting much, but I wanted to pick up something a bit lighter for the warmer weather. It's mostly right now just four buds getting into zany situations, but under the auspices of traveling for their "club", where they seem to be recording interactions and pieces of "Pickwickian" information, which seem to be mostly interesting or noteworthy things that twist or create a novel human understanding. The definition is left vague. I appreciate Dickens' ability to create wholly funny, yet plausible, characters, such as a fat boy who falls asleep at every moment, like a narcoleptic, except when he interacts with food, or a grotesque actor who relays the story of a dying friend, who was an alcoholic that drank himself to death, and in his death throes began to unconsciously preform his role, as a pantomime, in his deathbed.
So, to me, without having finished it, the core of the book isn't especially profound, (though I do like the idea of a club of gentlemen who just travel around to look at things and talk to people) but Dickens seems to be an adept detailer.
>>8609
I am hoping to read BABY ALEX BY QUENTIN SCOBIE if I can get a copy. Let me know if you have a copy and we can arrange for you to let me borrow it.
Have you thought to ask Quentin himself? He's active on Twitter and Substack.