from ml.books
I must warn you of my bad disposition. I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. If this is possible for you, I'd like to speak of literature.
- Milan Kundera, in a 1985 letter to the New York Times in response to them asking for an interview
New post at macrolit.books at IG about one of the rarest vintage Modern Library books and a female author who emerged on the literary scene 85 years ago.
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Today’s book haul! Sooo many vintage editions! I can’t wait to show you the covers of Orlando, Lolita, and Brave New World. :D
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real.
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Imagine reading a fictional novel and coming across a person you actually, literally know. I wrote about this in my new IG post.
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Mr. Postman brought me another gem for my library yesterday. I like him, he always bears gifts and treasures to me :-) How to read a book, the classic guide to intelligent reading, caught my attention when I started to think more about the structure, wording and other hidden secrets of writing books. I am really looking forward to dive into, together with How to read literature like a professor.
You may have noticed similar yellow pattern on some of my photos. That is because I love to work, read or simply linger in my kitchen. After a while, I have also a table now, so I enjoy it immensly :-)
Where do you read most often? Do you have some special reading place(s)? I’d like to know!
FYI - the co-author of this book is Charles Van Doren, infamous for his part in the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. Ralph Fiennes depicted Van Doren in the 1994 movie Quiz Show.