This month I directed Stefan Rudnicki narrating Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel. An absolute FEAST of beautiful prose. #audiobooks @skyboatmedia.bsky.social #audiobooks @stefansecho.bsky.social
Yep. I do that all day long. LOL. #audiobook narrator! It's hard when the sentence is either poorly constructed, or in many cases not EVEN a sentence! 😂
I first read On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin years and years ago and even after several re-reads I am still astonished at the perfection of the writing (that’s not to say it’s my favourite novel).
You too? I thought it was just age. I'm retraining myself to do it. Octavia Butler makes it easy. I also love books with short chapters, so I don't lose attention in the middle of a chapter. I'd love to read for a good hour, like I used to. And not want a snack while I'm doing it 🤭
Oh, I still read four hours a day, but I can only manage reading bubblegum right now. I have the same problem during Covid. The overwhelming anxiety did not welcome introspection
I didn't know there was a miniseries! I'm excited to check it out now. I've had so much fun reading this book already. I suspect it would be an even lovelier read now if you read it again.
Your post made me think of this sentence from Heaney's The Wellhead
"Being with her
Was intimate and helpful, like a cure
You didn’t notice happening".
I could read that a thousand times and still be in awe of it.
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There really should be a German word for it.
- Philip Roth
Goodbye, Columbus
I use to keep a notebook of favorite words and phrases.
Many places in his novels I experience that!
The Baroque Cycle, Interface, Anathem
all WONDERFUL
Literally 🙂
"Being with her
Was intimate and helpful, like a cure
You didn’t notice happening".
I could read that a thousand times and still be in awe of it.
Radical, militant Librarian
"She'd gone from the warm quilt of memory to the cold library of fact."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer