Thank you Patti. I could listen to you talk about books for hours. I learn so much and as well as informative it is so relaxing having you take us on a literary journey. I love it and thank you for sharing your precious time with us, as always. XX
Not too long, dear Patti! ❤️ I love to hear you talk about books. I ordered four of these and am looking forward to a summer filled with stories. Thank you!
Thank you for your reading suggestions, Patti. I always discover something new in what you share and will be expanding my literary horizons with some of the writers you have suggested here. Do you have any words of encouragement for someone having a tough time getting through 2666?
Thank you so much for messing up your bookshelves to give us this list of books. I love it. Please do it as often as you can without it becoming annoying.
Thank you also for not writing a blurb for Jo Nesbo, even if he used your not writing a blurb as a blurb.
Just finished “Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.” You are right. Masterpiece.
“All the tired horses in the sun; how am I gonna get any readin done?” Safe travels and gratitude for sharing your book treasures with us. Love and blessings for your trip.
I love the wide range or your taste - so many directions. I remember my mother checking out - every Monday night when we visited the George Mason library in the Washington, DC suburb of Annandale, VA - the Per Wahloo/Maj Sjowall Martin Beck series and everything by Agatha Christie week after week. With the Christie mysteries, Mom favored Hercules Poirot and, although Mom was not a regular drinker, she enjoyed treating herself with a tiny glass of whatever liqueur Poirot savored in each mystery. It was during these nighttime weekday visits to our local library, when, right before closing, I had to hurry and choose my check out books, that I grabbed a frayed paperback in a wire rack, and took it to the librarian in the last five minutes before closing time. The book had an oddly familiar black and white picture of a girl on the cusp of adolescence, a girl like me. Her name, according to the book, was Anne Frank. She was so compelling and familiar. And the fact that the book was a diary spoke to me in a way that mixed the wholesomeness and the secrets and intimacy of girlhood. I instinctively felt the compelling energy of this book with the bright, smiling girl on its cover, that compelled me to hang back and ask permission, and to at least show it to my mother before check out. it is no exaggeration to say that the Diary of Anne Frank changed my life then and now and is still exerting it's impact on me in my 60th year.
I love your book recommendations. I used to swallow books -- daily commute on the A train, the bus, the kitchen window, etc. Now in my 70s, I have forgotten so much of them. Living took a lot of my life. So thank you for the book list and I will be reading Rimbaud and others on your list, too. We need to save our books, especially now in our history when a looming shadow wants to steal our minds, and re-educate our children. The best thing we can do for them is to give them literature, music, poetry, and love, love, love. Thank you always, Patti. C.
Here's an Anna Kavan story you might appreciate Patti.
D A Callard wrote 'The Case of Anna Kavan : A Biography'. Callard lived in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, where I believe you have performed, at The Trades Club. In fact he lived just up the canal from The Trades. (And of course, not far from where Sylvia Plath is buried, up in Heptonstall).
In 1979 Allen Ginsberg (with Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky and Steven Taylor) gave a reading at the Library Theatre in Manchester. Callard attended the reading and interviewed Ginsberg for a local magazine called The New Manchester Review. Callard then drove Ginsberg, Waldman, Orlovsky and Taylor to visit Wordsworth's Dove Cottage in the Lake District.
Thank you for the recommendations, Patti. I learned of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle while reading M Train. I'm now reading A Wild Sheep Chase, which I think is the title you were trying to recall...
LOVE LOVE LOVE this! Thank you
Thank you Patti. I could listen to you talk about books for hours. I learn so much and as well as informative it is so relaxing having you take us on a literary journey. I love it and thank you for sharing your precious time with us, as always. XX
Am I the only one? The image is reversed so that the text is backwards 😟
Not too long, dear Patti! ❤️ I love to hear you talk about books. I ordered four of these and am looking forward to a summer filled with stories. Thank you!
Amazing!!!
Thank you for your reading suggestions, Patti. I always discover something new in what you share and will be expanding my literary horizons with some of the writers you have suggested here. Do you have any words of encouragement for someone having a tough time getting through 2666?
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for messing up your bookshelves to give us this list of books. I love it. Please do it as often as you can without it becoming annoying.
Thank you also for not writing a blurb for Jo Nesbo, even if he used your not writing a blurb as a blurb.
Just finished “Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.” You are right. Masterpiece.
“All the tired horses in the sun; how am I gonna get any readin done?” Safe travels and gratitude for sharing your book treasures with us. Love and blessings for your trip.
Ooh, I love the Maj and Per books!
I love the wide range or your taste - so many directions. I remember my mother checking out - every Monday night when we visited the George Mason library in the Washington, DC suburb of Annandale, VA - the Per Wahloo/Maj Sjowall Martin Beck series and everything by Agatha Christie week after week. With the Christie mysteries, Mom favored Hercules Poirot and, although Mom was not a regular drinker, she enjoyed treating herself with a tiny glass of whatever liqueur Poirot savored in each mystery. It was during these nighttime weekday visits to our local library, when, right before closing, I had to hurry and choose my check out books, that I grabbed a frayed paperback in a wire rack, and took it to the librarian in the last five minutes before closing time. The book had an oddly familiar black and white picture of a girl on the cusp of adolescence, a girl like me. Her name, according to the book, was Anne Frank. She was so compelling and familiar. And the fact that the book was a diary spoke to me in a way that mixed the wholesomeness and the secrets and intimacy of girlhood. I instinctively felt the compelling energy of this book with the bright, smiling girl on its cover, that compelled me to hang back and ask permission, and to at least show it to my mother before check out. it is no exaggeration to say that the Diary of Anne Frank changed my life then and now and is still exerting it's impact on me in my 60th year.
and found The Lover on a trip to New York on the sidewalk
I've bought Astragal years ago because you had written the introduction. Such a great book. Murakami is my 2nd favourite writer after you xx
I love your book recommendations. I used to swallow books -- daily commute on the A train, the bus, the kitchen window, etc. Now in my 70s, I have forgotten so much of them. Living took a lot of my life. So thank you for the book list and I will be reading Rimbaud and others on your list, too. We need to save our books, especially now in our history when a looming shadow wants to steal our minds, and re-educate our children. The best thing we can do for them is to give them literature, music, poetry, and love, love, love. Thank you always, Patti. C.
Thank you... appreciate !
Here's an Anna Kavan story you might appreciate Patti.
D A Callard wrote 'The Case of Anna Kavan : A Biography'. Callard lived in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, where I believe you have performed, at The Trades Club. In fact he lived just up the canal from The Trades. (And of course, not far from where Sylvia Plath is buried, up in Heptonstall).
In 1979 Allen Ginsberg (with Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky and Steven Taylor) gave a reading at the Library Theatre in Manchester. Callard attended the reading and interviewed Ginsberg for a local magazine called The New Manchester Review. Callard then drove Ginsberg, Waldman, Orlovsky and Taylor to visit Wordsworth's Dove Cottage in the Lake District.
There you go!
Thank you for the recommendations, Patti. I learned of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle while reading M Train. I'm now reading A Wild Sheep Chase, which I think is the title you were trying to recall...