On any given Sunday I'll be at work – reading whenever there's a free moment, though I'll probably be reading something new (and trying to work down my TBR pile).
I am hard pressed to choose one book for rereading on a rainy Saturday night, so I suppose I would have to choose from two books that are widely different in their themes, content, and quality:
(1) Flannery O'Connor's short stories (collected the Library of America edition but originally published in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everythng That Rises Must Converge.
(2) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Short stories are excellent for rereads. The time commitment isn't as great. Hey what's this new flurry about A MOVEABLE FEAST. I need to read up on it but there's some question over his satisfaction with this version.
A. E. Hotchner has written about A MOVEABLE FEAST--in its new version--at The New York Times, and I've linked to the article and commented briefly on the issue at my blog: NOVELS, STORIES, AND MORE.
The bottom line is this: Ernest Hemingway's grandson has revised A MOVEABLE FEAST as a way of mitigating family reputations, and the publisher (Scribner) seems to have no problem with a corrupted, subjectively altered version of the otherwise perfectly acceptable and correct original. Read more via Hotchner.
I don't think I read teen books. I don't think they had them in the sixties when I was a teen. I remember marching from the children's section to the adult section at age 12. I wonder...maybe this will jog my memory though.
The Big Sleep or A Moveable Feast. I reread very little.
ReplyDeleteOn any given Sunday I'll be at work – reading whenever there's a free moment, though I'll probably be reading something new (and trying to work down my TBR pile).
ReplyDeleteWhoops - meant to say "Saturday." I don't work Sundays (yet).
ReplyDeleteSherlock Holmes short stories. It fits a rainy day.
ReplyDeleteI think a good Louis L'Amour western, maybe "To Tame a Land."
ReplyDeleteI am hard pressed to choose one book for rereading on a rainy Saturday night, so I suppose I would have to choose from two books that are widely different in their themes, content, and quality:
ReplyDelete(1) Flannery O'Connor's short stories (collected the Library of America edition but originally published in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everythng That Rises Must Converge.
(2) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
I'd have to see the pile/stack. There's too much to read and reread.
ReplyDeleteWould I still be? Maybe that's a reason not to read it.
ReplyDeleteShort stories are excellent for rereads. The time commitment isn't as great.
ReplyDeleteHey what's this new flurry about A MOVEABLE FEAST. I need to read up on it but there's some question over his satisfaction with this version.
A. E. Hotchner has written about A MOVEABLE FEAST--in its new version--at The New York Times, and I've linked to the article and commented briefly on the issue at my blog: NOVELS, STORIES, AND MORE.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line is this: Ernest Hemingway's grandson has revised A MOVEABLE FEAST as a way of mitigating family reputations, and the publisher (Scribner) seems to have no problem with a corrupted, subjectively altered version of the otherwise perfectly acceptable and correct original. Read more via Hotchner.
That's the article I was thinking about. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteTALK OF THE NATION on NPR tomorrow intends to have a segment on which teen books would one like to reread.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I read teen books. I don't think they had them in the sixties when I was a teen. I remember marching from the children's section to the adult section at age 12. I wonder...maybe this will jog my memory though.
ReplyDeleteDell Laurel Leaf started in the early '60s...they and Scholastic's TAB (Teen Age Books) lines were the pioneers, I think.
ReplyDeleteNewbery winners are an oddly mixed lot. Some a lot less kidsy than others.
I can always reread P.G. Wodehouse, Jack Vance, Jane Austen, and Samuel Johnson with delight.
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