Personne n’est jamais trop vieux pour rêver. Et les rêves ne vieillissent jamais.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne de Windy Willows
English : Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.
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J’ai continué la série Anne de Monsieur Toussaint Louverture, et j’ai adoré ! (Attention petits spoilers du tome 3)
Anne est désormais licenciée de Lettres et enseigne au lycée de Summerside. Elle est fiancée à Gilbert ♡ Ce quatrième tome est un peu différent des autres, notamment de part sa forme épistolaire. On y lit uniquement des lettres qu’Anne écrit à Gilbert — même s’il y a aussi quelques chapitres de roman.
Comme d’habitude, Anne est pleine de vie et de poésie, et ça fait du bien ! Lorsqu’elle prend son poste, elle a du mal avec tout un clan qui règne sur la ville (la famille Pringle) et qui lui rend la vie impossible. Mais elle va réussir à les dompter !
On suit Anne pendant trois ans. Elle devient de plus en plus adulte et mature ; les gens se tournent vers elle, elle aide beaucoup de personnes, mais reste poétique et rêveuse comme on l’aime !
J’ai bien aimé ce tome, très différent des autres. Il y a tout un tas de petites intrigues, une grosse par année, et ensuite plein de petites intrigues au milieu des plus grandes. (J’espère que c’est clair !) Cette série est comme un petit bonbon dont on ne se lasse pas ! C’est toujours tout doux et lumineux, et j’ai hâte de découvrir le cinquième tome !
09/08/2022 - 10/08/2022
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J’aime m’asseoir là et écouter le silence. As-tu déjà remarqué qu’il en existe de toutes sortes....Le silence de la forêt, le silence de la plage, celui des prés, de la nuit, d’une après-midi d’été. Tous différents, car les nuances qui composent leur trame le sont.
Lucy Maud Montgomery- (Anne de Windy Willows)
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1 and 17 for the end of the year book asks! Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année à toi :)
Bonjour et merci pour les questions :) Bonne fin d’année à toi aussi !
How many books did you read this year?
Pour l'instant 241 si l'on en croit mes statistiques sur Goodreads (pour être honnête il y a aussi un certain nombre de titres graphiques dans le lot, ce qui a rendu plus facile le fait d'arriver à ce chiffre). Mais je compte en lire quelques autres avant la fin de l'année, d'autant que j'en ai reçu pour Noël.
17. Top five books of the year
-Anne de Green Gables (et les autres livres de la série jusqu'à Anne de Windy Willows) de Lucy Maude Montgomery. C'est vraiment une lecture douce et reposante par excellente. L'héroïne et les personnages qui l'entourent sont très attachants, les descriptions de la nature sont superbes et l'histoire garde toujours un fond optimiste malgré les difficultés (j'ai d'ailleurs été très surprise par la différence de ton entre l'oeuvre originale et l'adaptation Anne with an E).
-They never learn, Layne Fargo : un livre avec un côté jouissif assumé dans sa dénonciation des violences envers les femmes et son exploration de la colère féminine.
-Artémise, Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet : on sort de la fiction cette fois. Artémise Iere de Carie est un de mes personnages historiques préférées, donc j'étais ravie de trouver un livre aussi complet sur elle. Lequel s'attache aussi à la replacer dans son contexte et à couvrir d'autres exemples de femmes puissantes.
-La bibliothèque des rêves secrets, Michiko Aoyama : une vraie lecture feel-good pleine de bienveillance, avec différents personnages dont les histoires vont se croiser.
-Kim Jiyoung née en 1982, Cho Nam-Joo : un livre sur la Corée du Sud mais qui dont le propos est universel et qui décortique avec beaucoup de justesse toute l'influence d'un système sexiste sur dans le vie d'une femme.
End of the year book asks
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J'ai lu Anne de Windy Willows (le T04 d'Anne de Green Gables)
J’ai lu Anne de Windy Willows (le T04 d’Anne de Green Gables)
Si j’avais énormément aimé Anne de Green Gables, le premier volume de la série, et bien apprécié les deux suivants, Anne d’Avonlea et Anne de Redmond, j’avoue avoir un peu plus de réserve avec ce quatrième tome des aventures d’Anne; et ce, malgré toute la douceur qui en ressort.
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Anne de Windy Willows - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Une nouvelle fois cette plongée dans la vie d'Anne m'a rendu heureuse...
Anne n'est plus une fillette mais elle le reste pour moi.
Je me sens proche d'elle pour un tas de raisons, encore plus avec ce tome.
Si le changement de narration m'a au départ prise au dépourvu, je m'y suis rapidement faite pour finalement, trouver que c'était les meilleures parties du roman !
Anne est vraiment amoureuse de Gilbert et j'adore la passion qu'elle met dans ses lettres pour lui 🥺
Il y a également de nouveaux personnages toujours aussi loufoques, je me souviens de Minerva Tomgallon terrifiante et hilarante à la fois !
Et évidemment je quitte Anne avec un gros pincement au cœur mais pour mieux la retrouver pour le prochain tome
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SAGA Anne de Lucy Maud Montgomery 1908 - 1939 (Canada)
Anne de Green Gables, 1908
J'avais adoré les films des années 80 et j'ai profité de la parution des magnifiques éditions de Monsieur Toussaint Louverture pour lire les romans originels.
Le livre correspond presque en tout point au film et j'ai pu me remémorer les différentes scènes. Cela n'a toutefois pas gâché mon plaisir.
J'ai beaucoup aimé la fraîcheur, l'humour, l'émotion et l'élégance du style. Il est étonnant que ce roman soit toujours assez moderne alors qu'il a été écrit au début du vingtième siècle.
Anne d'Avonlea, 1909
Ce volume ne semble pas reprendre la trame de la série. En tout cas, je ne m'en souvenais pas.
Anne a 17 ans, elle est engagée en tant qu'institutrice dans son ancienne école.
Même si je préfère l'enfance d'Anne, j'ai apprécié de suivre la suite de ses aventures.
Anne de Redmond, 1915
Anne intègre l'université de Kingsport en Nouvelle Ecosse. Elle se fait de nouveaux amis et emménage en colocation dans une jolie maison.
De nouveaux personnages font leur apparition notamment l'extravagante Philippa Gordon.
Comme toujours un roman frais et printanier plein d'optimisme et d'émotions !
L'humour et l'étonnante modernité de l'autrice permettent cependant d'éviter toute mièvrerie.
Anne de Windy Willows, 1936
Anne et sa maison de rêve, 1917
Anne d'Ingleside, 1939
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Songs From 2019 (one per artist)
Another mixed bag of stuff i either enjoyed a lot, thought was excellent or interesting (regardless of taste… sort of), emerging artists to maybe look out for, and generally music that for whatever reason connected with me in some way, including the odd earworm i just couldn’t shake. Some artists are left off just to vary a little more from some other popular lists.
Hope you enjoy some of this too and find something new to be taken by. Please do buy their music if you can and hopefully from a local independent record store if possible to support their work.
There’s a spotify playlist (below) for easier listening but I’ve also posted a few links to extra things on some of them if you want to check them out.
Spotify:
(As ever…. as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything (besides this list), this won’t be seen by many (if any?) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do share this along)
In Alphabetical order:
A.A. Bondy - Killers 3
Abdallah Oumbadougou - Thingalene
Alasdair Roberts - Common Clay
Alex Rex - Latest Regret
Andy Shauf - Try Again
Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors bonus. her collab with Mark Ronson “True Blue”
Anne Müller - Solo? Repeat!
Antoinette Konan - Kokoloko Tani
Arthur Russell - Words Of Love
Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou - Sandia
Baby Rose - All To Myself
BCI - Grateful
Bedouine - When You’re Gone
Benny The Butcher - Crowns For Kings ft. Black Thought
Ben Walker - Afon
Better Oblivion Community Center - Chesapeake
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - A Little Talk (from a reissue of her 2004 record Primal Prayer)
Bibio - Curls
The Big Moon - It’s Easy Then
Big Thief - a. Not b. Cattails (from 2 excellent albums released in the same year: “U.F.O.F” and “Two Hands”)
Bill Callahan - a. What Comes After Certainty b. The Ballad Of The Hulk
Bill Fay - Filled With Wonder Once Again
Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow
billy woods - a. Spongebob w/ Kenny Segal b. Western Education Is Forbidden ft. Fielded (From 2 excellent records this year: “Hiding Places” with Kenny Segal, and “Terror Management”)
Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses
Blu & Oh No - The Lost Angels Anthem ft. Kezia
Bon Iver - Hey, Ma
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Beast For Thee
Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman (”supergroup” of the great Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D Johnson & Josh Kaufman)
Brent Cobb & Jade Bird - Feet Off The Ground
Brighde Chaimbeul - O Chiadain an Lo
Brigyn - Oer
Brittany Howard - Stay High (the video for this, with Terry Crews, is a delight)
Bruce Hornsby - Voyager One ft. yMusic
Burd Ellen - Sweet Lemany
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett - Kestrel
Caribou - You and I
Caroline Polachek - Door
Cate Le Bon - Daylight Matters
Caterina Barbieri - Arrows Of Time
Clairo - Bags
Cochemea - Mitote
comfort - Not Passing
The Cool Greenhouse - Cardboard Man (a pretty hilarious song about David Cameron)
CRAC - You Can’t Turn Your Back On Me (Unreleased old track from ‘76)
Cross Record - PYSOL My Castle
CZ Wang and Neo Image - Just Off Wave
Damon Locks / Black Monument Ensemble - a. Rebuild a Nation b. Power
Daniel Norgren - The Flow
Danny Brown - Dirty Laundry
Daphni - Sizzling ft. Paradise
Daughter Of Swords - Fellows (Mountain Man member Alexandra Sauser-Monnig’s 1st solo record)
Dave - Psycho
David Kilgour - Smoke You Right Out Of Here
David Thomas Broughton - Ambiguity (from the 15th anniversary reissue of his remarkable debut album, The Complete Guide To Insufficiency)
Denzel Curry - RICKY
Destroyer - Crimson Tide
Dry Cleaning - Dog Proposal
Dubi Dolczek - Do The Gloop
Durand Jones & The Indications - Long Way Home
Ela Orleans - The Season (From 2012 but on a career retrospective, Movies For Ears, put out this year)
Elkhorn - Song Of The Son
Emile Mosseri -
a. The Last Black Man In San Francisco
b. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) ft. Mike Marshall (both from the wonderful score for the wonderful film The Last Black Man In San Francisco, the latter a cover of an old song sung here by the guy who sang “I Got 5 On It”!!)
Erland Cooper - Haar
Ernest Hood - Saturday Morning Doze (from a re-issue of his “self-released proto-ambient masterpiece” in ‘75)
Fat White Family - Feet
Faye Webster - Room Temperature
Fennesz - In My Room
Fernando Falcão - As 7 Filhas Da Rainha Sumaia (reissue from ‘87)
FKA twigs - cellophane
Florist - Shadow Bloom
Flowdan - Welcome To London
Fontaines D.C. - Roy’s Tune
Four Tet / KH - Only Human
French Vanilla - All The Time
Gang Starr - Family and Loyalty ft. J. Cole
Georgia - About Work The Dancefloor
Girl Band - Shoulderblades
The Good Ones - Will You Be My Protector? (of Rwanda)
Grand Veymont - Les Rapides Bleus (of France)
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - Sunkwa (of Ghana)
Hailaker - Not Much
HAIM - Summer GIrl
Hana Vu - Actress
Hand Habits - placeholder
Hannah Cohen - Get In Line
The Harlem Gospel Travellers - If You Can’t Make It Through A Storm
Hayden Thorpe - Diviner (Former Wild Beasts frontman’s debut solo record)
Helado Negro - Running
The Highwomen - Redesigning Women
Hiss Golden Messenger - I Need A Teacher
Holly Herndon - Frontier
Homeboy Sandman - Far Out
Hoops - They Say
Hotel Neon & Blurstem - Language Of Loss
House and Land - Rainbow ‘Mid Life’s Willows
Ibibio Sound Machine - Wanna Come Down
IDER - Saddest Generation
The Innocence Mission - On Your Side
International Teachers Of Pop - I Stole Yer Plimsoles ft. Jason Williamson (of Sleaford Mods)
Jacken Elswyth - The Banks Of Green Williow
Jaimie Branch - nuevo roquero estéreo
Jake Xerxes Fussell - The River St. Johns
Jamila Woods - ZORA
Jayda G - Leave Room 2 Breathe
Jenny Hval - Ashes To Ashes
Jenny Lewis - Red Bull and Hennessy
Jesca Hoop - Outside of Eden ft. Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit) and Jesca’s 12 year-old nephew Justis. This live performance is so sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPmE_hU7Ss
Jessica Pratt - As The World Turns
Joanna Sternberg - This Is Not Who I Want To Be
Joan Shelley - Cycle
John Blek - North Star Lady
Jordan Rakei - Say Something bonus. under his DJ pseudonym: Dan Kye - Focus
Jo Schornikow - Incomplete
Joseph Shabason - West of Heaven
Julianna Barwick - evening
Junius Paul - Baker’s Dozen
Kali Malone - Spectacle Of Ritual
Kate Teague - Sweetheart
Kate Tempest - a. Firesmoke b. People’s Faces
Kelly Moran - Halogen (Una Corda) (from a record full of all the bare piano parts she played for her prior record before all the editing and processing)
Kim Gordon - Air BnB
Kindness - Hard To Believe ft. Jazmine Sullivan
KOKOKO! - Buka Dansa (Congolese collective upcycling discarded materials to make their instruments)
Konradsen - Baby Hallelujah (of Norway)
Lambchop - Everything For You
Laura Cannell - a. Sing As The Crow Flies b. Flaxen Fields
Laura Stevenson - Lay Back, Arms Out
Le Groupe Obscur - Planète Ténèbres
Leonard Cohen - Happens To The Heart
Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks
Little Simz - 101 FM
Lizzo - Tempo ft. Missy Elliot
Loren Conors & Daniel Carter - Departing
Lou Roy - Bite
Low Chord - Walkk
Lower Dens - Galapagos
Mahalia - What You Did ft. Ella Mai
Majja - Black James Dean
Maria Somerville - This Way
Maria Usbeck - Amor Anciano
Mary Halvorson & John Dieterich - Vega’s Array (Mary the recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant this year, because she is)
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan - IV
Matana Roberts - As Far As The Eye Can See
Meitei - Ike
Melanie Charles - Trill Suite, No. 1 (Daydreaming/Skylark)
The Menzingers - Anna
Messiahs Of Glory - No Other Love (from a collection of rare black gospel from the Midwest between ‘65-’78 put out on Tompkins Square)
Mica Levi - a. Hosting b. Lobo y Lady (from the excellent Colombian film Monos)
Michael Abels - a. I Got 5 On It (Tethered Mix) b. Pas De Deux
(both from the terrific score to the excellent Jordan Peele film, Us)
Michael Kiwanuka - Living In Denial
Michael Nau - Poor Condition
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Wonderful To Love
Minor Pieces - Rothko (duo of Ian William Craig & newcomer Missy Donaldson)
Modern Nature - Footsteps
Molly Sarlé - Twisted (Mountain Man member’s 1st solo record)
Moodymann - I’ll Provide
Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light
Moor Mother - After Images
Moses Boyd - Stranger Than Fiction
Moses Sumney - Polly
Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron - Love Without Possession
MSYLMA - Inqirad (Rihab-U Dhakir) (Saudi Arabia)
The Murder Capital - Don’t Cling To Life
Nardeydey - Freefalling
The National - Rylan ft. Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit)
The New Pornographers - Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - a. Waiting For You b. Bright Horses c. Night Raid
Nivhek - After Its Own Death: Side A (Liz Harris of Grouper)
Noname - Song 32
Octo Octa - Move Your Body
ODD OKODDO - Auma (Kenyan/German duo)
Øyvind Torvund - Starry Night (Norwegian composer)
Pet Shop Boys - Burning The Heather
Petter Eldh - Fanfarum for Komarum II
Porridge Radio - Give/Take
PREGOBLIN - Combustion
Purple Mountains - a. Snow Is Falling In Manhattan b. All My Happiness Is Gone c. That’s Just The Way That I Feel
Quelle Chris - Obamacare
Quinie - Whas At The Windy
Rapsody - Ibtihaj ft. D’Angelo & GZA
Reb Fountain - Faster
Rian Treanor - ATAXIA_A1
Richard Dawson - Two Halves
Robert Stillman - All Are Welcome
Róisín Murphy - Incapable
Rosalía - Milionària
Rosenau & Sanborn - Saturday
Rozi Plain - Symmetrical
Ruth Garbus - Strash
Sam Lee - The Moon Shines Bright ft. Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins)
Sam Wilkes - Run
Sandro Perri - Soft Landing
SAULT - Smile and Go
Seabuckthorn - To Which The Rest Were Dreamt
serpentwithfeet - Receipts ft. Ty Dolla $ign
Sessa - Flor do Real (of Brazil)
Sheer Mag - Hardly To Blame
Shit and Shine - No No No No
Sinead O Brien - A Thing You Call Joy
Siobhan Wilson - Plastic Grave
Six Organs Of Admittance - Two Forms Moving
Sleaford Mods - Kebab Spider
Slow Meadow - Artificial Algorithm
Snowy - EFFED ft. Jason Williamson (of Sleaford Mods)
SOAK - Knock Me Off My Feet
Solange - Binz
Sophie Crawford - A Miner’s Life
Squid - Houseplants bonus. Their cover of Robert Wyatt’s “PIgs..... In There at End of the Road Festival) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DktZtQbo-YU
Stella Donnelly - Old Man
SUSS - Ursa Major
Swamp Dogg - Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg ft. Justin Vernon & Jenny Lewis
Tami T - Birthday
Tenesha The Wordsmith - Why White Folks Can’t Call Me Nigga
Theon Cross - Activate ft. Moses Boyd & Nubya Garcia
Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus
Tierra Whack - Wasteland
Tim Hecker - That World
Tiny Leaves - Respair
Toya Delazy - Funani (of South Africa)
Twain - Death (Or S.F.?)
Twin Peaks - Dance Through It
Tyler Childers - All Your’n
Vagabon - Water Me Down
Vampire Weekend - This Life
Vanishing Twin - Magicians Success
Velvet Negroni - Confetti
Vendredi Sur Mer - Chewing-Gum (of France)
Victoria Monét - Ass Like That
Vieo Abiungo - Cobble Together
Visible Cloaks - Stratum ft. Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano
Warmduscher - Midnight Dipper
Weyes Blood - Andromeda
Wilco - Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
William Tyler - Our Lady Of The Desert
Willie Scott & The Birmingham Spirituals - Keep Your Faith To The Sky (from a collection of obscure 70′s era gospel on Luaka Bop, “The Time For Peace Is Now - Gospel Music About Us”)
Xylouris White - Tree Song
Ye Vagabonds - The Foggy Dew
Zsela - Noise
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BBC 100 books (with commentary)
thanks for the tag @thegreatorangedragon As an English major I was compelled to read a lot of these, and I may only have skimmed/read chunks of some of them if I could get away with it....
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen: not my favorite Austen, actually (Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility are 1 & 2)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - OMG, SO many times. My siblings and I had rituals around the reading of LOTR.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte. Yes - it’s OK
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Yes! My kids grew up to them and the experience was almost as good as the books. But I also really enjoyed watching Rowling mature as a writer over the course of the series. I don’t ask for perfection from my writers, but warmth and growth. :-) Also, they got my stubborn non-reader sons to READ.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - like probably every other person who went to MS/HS in the US.
The Bible - yes, and twice all the way through. once at about 10, and then more recently along with Slate’s Blogging the Bible (ok it was just the Old Testament). That was a stage on my journey to my current fallen-catholicness
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - yes, but prefer the Pat Benatar song :D
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - yes and really need a re-read
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - No, keep meaning to.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
. Yes, and can I say I love Dickens - LOVE Dickens - but I hate this book. I think it’s always assigned because it’s shortish. I regularly reread the glorious messes that are Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, and my fav, the insane Our Mutual Friend (but ONLY the Lizzie Hexam/Eugene Wrayburn segments).
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - and the sequels. I think Jo’s Boys might actually be my favorite.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
. yes - I am pretty sure???
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. read enough of it to count
Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare; yes! my mom was a Zefferelli Romeo & Juliet junkie - we had the album of the film - and I must have heard it 3 dozen times before I was 7. She bought a complete works and I read all of it over the years.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier. No
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Yes. My husband’s favorite book. And I really liked the Rankin-Bass film, when I was young.
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk No
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - yeah
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Realllly? This is a good book but I’m not sure it belongs on this list. First novel and feels fresh out of an MFA program. My other complaints I won’t say here because I tend to get very snarky about this book. (Another book I read around the same time [mid-oughts] was Then We Came to the End, the debut novel of Joshua Ferris - much better, like DeLillo without the air of self-importance.)
Middlemarch - George Eliot; love me some Eliot (but prefer Silas Marner, mainly because of a very good tv adaption).
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Again: really? I read this book because I spent the summer between HS and college in a really small town with a teeny library and I basically read my way through the fiction stacks. Won’t say more than that, because I would get political.
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Yes, but not a favorite.
Bleak House - Charles Dickens. A great, great book for which two amazing miniseries have been done in my lifetime. But rightly criticized, IMO, for the annoying tone of its first-person narrator, Esther. Dickens was dazzlingly, spectacularly wrong in writing about women. Not to mention other groups. But my god did he skewer institutions on behalf of the (British) poor - none better. This book wins for the Jo’s death scene and its sweeping, bitter, critique of church and state and society and everything - and so human. “Dead! And dying thus around us, everyday.” I was 12 when I first read that, recovering from chicken pox, and I sat straight up in bed. This is the book that made me a socialist.
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy This is so horrible, but I haven’t!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams. Yes, fun, but not a favorite.
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - No. I started to and have a copy at work, for some reason I don’t even remember. But not enough to county
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky No :(
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck. Yes, oh and my grandma’s family were Okies. Everyone in my family has a copy of the Sacramento Bee front page story sneering about the dust bowl immigrants arriving in town and my great-grandmother is mentioned by name (though they mistakenly think she is her widowed father’s wife). I love Cali, and Sactown, but we have a long history of being not-so-welcoming to everyone at certain times (was it in the 80s where the “Welcome to California, Now Go Home” bumper stickers were everywhere?).
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - yes
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - yes but so long ago I don’t remember it at all
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy yes.
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens. Yes, not his best by far. Another “easy” read like Great Expectations
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - and many other of his works, when I was trying NOT to be an atheist - Mere Christianity, his sci-fi trilogy and Til We Have Faces, a retelling of my favorite myth, Psyche and Cupid. I like the more obscure books in this series best - The Silver Chair and The Horse and his Boy.
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen - oh, here it is!
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis .... uh, yes
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - was a group read at work a couple of years ago. recommend.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - yes
Animal Farm - George Orwell - another book I want to re-read.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - nope
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; YES
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ... did I? I’m pretty sure. Or was it The Moonstone?
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery. YES. Anxiously awaiting the new adaption. Why is it so hard to get Anne of Windy Poplars on kindle? That is the funniest one. And Rilla of Ingleside so heartbreaking
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood, yes and ever so long ago. Another book to re-read soon (haven’t started watching the series yet)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan; LOVE this book and his writing in general. He also wrote the screenplay, and the movie and the book are a perfect match in tone.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel No, but on my list
Dune - Frank Herbert - no
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - yes,
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - yay!
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - my intro to Dickens, though not his best
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - starting to get depressed at all this dystopian fiction that needs to be re-read as a primer for the present times
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - lives at my desk at work. Not even a favorite book of mine, but I love diving into his words every once in a while
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - when I saw the movie it reminded me why I wasn’t into reading the book
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - plot better than the story
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - yeah, I had to read so much Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - no, want to though
Moby Dick - Herman Melville; I can’t even think about this book without remembering our class discussion of the “circle jerk” chapter. I remember literally nothing else.
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - meh
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - an ALL-TIME favorite
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce; all hail the master, and the bastard responsible for my sick dependence on the em-dash
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - unfortunately, yes
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens; of course
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker - excellent
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White: yes
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Yes. I prefer Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter series hands-down, but despite her association with Tolkien, Lewis, et al, she got squashed between Conan Doyle and Christie. Her Gaudy Night is one of my top five books.
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - yeah
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery heck, yeah
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams yes
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - my kids read this book in HS, so I have a copy lying around, but have never read it
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare - yes, probably too many times. What are my favorite Shakespeare dramas? Maybe King Lear, Richard III?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl. yes
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Mais le problème c’est qu’il n’y a pas de tournants, sur mon chemin à moi. Je le vois s’étirer droit devant jusqu’à l’horizon, d’une monotonie sans fin. Oh, la vie ne vous effraie donc jamais, Anne, tant elle est vide, tant elle grouille de gens froids, inintéressants ?
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne de Windy Willows
English : But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony. Oh, does life ever frighten you, Anne, with its blankness…its swarms of cold, uninteresting people?
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J’aime m’asseoir là et écouter le silence. As-tu déjà remarqué qu’il en existe de toutes sortes, Gilbert ? Le silence de la forêt, le silence de la plage, celui des prés, de la nuit, d’une après-midi d’été. Tous différents, car les nuances qui composent leur trame le sont.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne de Windy Willows
English : [...] Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.
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Anne d’Ingleside, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Après la violence du Diable en personne, il me fallait du doux, du léger, du doudou ! Et quoi de mieux qu’Anne pour ça ?
Je suis quasiment à jour dans la série, on y croit ! Après avoir été Anne de Green Gables, Anne d’Avonlea, Anne de Redmond, Anne de Windy Willows et Anne de la maison de rêve, Anne est maintenant Anne d’Ingleside… et mère de 6 (!) enfants : Walter, Jem, les jumelles Nan et Di, Shirley, et Rilla. Chacun.e semble avoir hérité des dons de leur mère, entre imagination débordante, fantaisie et poésie.
Ce tome-ci est très différent des autres. Davantage de personnages, beaucoup de petites histoires, et pas forcément une longue intrigue étalée sur 300 pages. On retrouve toujours (quoi qu’un peu moins) la merveilleuse Anne, qui arrive à voir la beauté du monde dans toutes les petites choses du commun qui passent inaperçues chez les autres. J’ai bien aimé, même si j’ai trouvé que c’était parfois un peu long, et que ça me manquait de ne pas avoir plus d’Anne. Elle a grandi, elle et Gilbert sont mariés depuis 15 ans.
« Les mères étaient les mêmes de siècle en siècle, une grande sororité d’amour et de dévouement, qu’on se souvienne d’elles ou qu’on les ait oubliées. » C’est un tome sur la maternité, sur le fait qu’Anne soit là pour ses enfants, qu’elle les prenne au sérieux alors qu’à l’époque ce n’était pas forcément le cas (puisque comme cette chère Tante Mary Maria (non) l’a si bien dit, quand elle était enfant il fallait être vu mais pas entendu…). À un moment, Anne parle des petites peines de cœur et tourments qui semblent, en gros, futiles pour les adultes mais qui représentent une montagne pour les enfants, et c’est très beau. Pour mon grand bonheur, le dernier chapitre nous offre une jolie scène entre Anne et Gilbert, mais j’ai trouvé que ça avait beaucoup manqué dans ce tome — Gilbert est sollicité de partout en sa qualité de médecin, et souvent absent. J’ai hâte de lire La Vallée Arc-en-ciel et Rilla, ma Rilla, les deux derniers (et très triste d’avoir bientôt fini) de la saga !
22/07/2023 - 24/07/2023
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