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May Flowers, 2024 edition
It is the last hours of May on the West Coast, and I wanted to share a bouquet of books—that is, everything I’ve been reading recently: A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux. A friend had been telling me to read this French author (and Nobel Prize winner) for years, and this memoir about her mother… Continue reading
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Suddenly Last Summer
Dr “Sugar” Cukrowicz is summoned to Mrs Venable’s house with the jungle garden and elevator. The doctor is a lobotomist and seeking funds for his psychiatric research. Mrs Venable, a rich and eccentric woman, promises to help him out financially if he will do something about her niece, who has been raving about her cousin… Continue reading
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Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks
I have at this point read all of Kafka’s fiction, or at least all the novels, the Lost Writings, and everything that appears in the Complete Stories collection. It’s now that I turn to his nonfiction, which holds as much interest to me, though of a different flavor. The Blue Octavo Notebooks contain a set… Continue reading
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A Restless Heart – Augustine’s Confessions
Confessions is one of those monumental works I feel unqualified to review. I read it with as much care as I give any book, especially a nonfiction work, but reading anything written before the 1800s feels like stepping into another galaxy. I don’t feel like I quite belong there or understand everything I see. However,… Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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