May reads/June TBR
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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I discuss some reading from May including:
Stories of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie by Stephen King
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Man, Fuck this House by Brian Asman
"Laying Down a Wine Cellar" (1937) by Evelyn Waugh
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
True Grit by Charles Portis
Books for June
Dune by Frank Herbert
Levels of the Game by John McPhee
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade
Other books mentioned:
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Ah, the dreaded pot roast implausibility. Right there with you on True Grit. The voice of Mattie Ross is an abiding joy.
Can't let these indie horror writers get away with it!
I surprisingly enjoyed Waugh’s thoughts on port.
Me too. I mean, he looks like a guy with considered opinions on port (but don't get him started on claret!)
I hope you enjoy Dune! Loved it last year. I already want to reread
Starts off pretty strong
True Grit is on my list for June! I enjoyed your discussion of Red Badge…it sounds like you had a pretty great reading month, James.
Have you read TG? In her afterward, Donna Tart says it was a common English class assignment
@@JamesRuchala No, I've not read it, nor do I know of anyone who was teaching it in English classes around where I have been most of my life. But I'm going to read it this month. Sounds like you had a great experience with it. I've heard only good things about it.
No way in hell am I making a pot roast on moving day. The human race invented takeout for a reason!
No one is! Pizza delivery!
Orwell has a book of essays too. My favorite is about tea drinking which I completely disagree with but enjoy due to how a simple explanation of how he thinks people should drink tea reveals so much about him,his outlook and life.
Orwell's essays are wonderful. I remember his essays on "public" school and on working in a bookshop particularly. Mark at Book Time with Elvis was reading Orwell Essays on Fridays last year, but I think they were not very popular. I'm toying with the idea of a series of videos where I read these Waugh essays, but I'd probably get myself cancelled pretty quick.
I think it would be great. You would at least have an audience of one.😄
And there is also the movie," The Lion in Winter" with Katherine Hepburn portraying Eleanor of Aquataine. I haven't seen that one in a while,but it is good.
I hope to see that one some day, but falling-asleep-while-reading has taken up most of the time that I used to spend falling-asleep-watching-movies.
Hmm, Interesting about Port. My Grandmother liked Ruby Port, never the dry tawney. There may have been a loss of interest in Port because it started to become associated with the working class over time. It seems to me that
Port became a favorite after dinner drink for the working classes and the poor as a way to stave off the cold. Once the coins for the gas meter had been spent,take that last drink and hurry off to bed before you notice the temper drop in the room.
* temperature
That's a good theory. I'd read (years ago when I was learning about wine) that the taste for different drinks in the UK depended on who they were at war with. When they were at peace with France, they (especially the upper classes) would buy a lot of Bordeaux wine (claret), but when they were in one of their frequent wars, they'd import more wines from Spain (like sherry) or Portugal (port).
That sounds correct.
Happy to report Proust's fourth volume is picking up as he gets into toponymy.
I don't know if I'll be able to handle that kind of thrill.
@@JamesRuchala Persevere and you will be grateful for it; maybe even giddy.