This was my first Hardy, and I absolutely loved it. Of course, his beautiful descriptions of nature that he is famous for, but the characters too! In love with these people. Can't wait to read more!
Definitely one of my favorites of the series so far. So much fun. 100 things happen in this book. I know this is kind of where the series starts to get a little ahistorical, he needed to find things to write about, and start to stretch out time, but that probably makes it fun! All the great characters are here.
Wow, did I love this one. My favorite ones of the whole series. Imenon was so smart when he wrote these books. The way he changes viewpoints is very interesting. This one is completely from Maigret as an observer or bystander. He's on vacation and does not have access. So he's just going by what he sees in the paper. So good.
The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Mikhail Bulgakov
I guess I read this about 20 years ago? Re-reading with all the great HLBC lectures. Love it more this time than last time! So many great characters.
This is an incredible book. A work of genius. A triumph, as they say. Woof.
Home on medical leave, so catching up by Shakespeare!
I received this as a gift from a friend at work when I was leaving for a month-long sabbatical due to a surgery I needed to have. It was an important work for him, and he thought it would be a great idea if I read it while I was recovering.
took a while to get through this one...my desired pace, was to do one of these Shakespeare plays a month, but the book club reading schedule is pretty tough! Filling these in on my time, and not only reading them, but watching a production of them as well. Falstaff!!
My first foray into Blake. Knew about him, of course, tyger, tyger, and all of that, but read through a bunch of things now with the book club. Didn't get into Jerusalem and Milton and the harder things; that was just a little too far off for me. I think I'd like to read a biography of him, just sounds fascinating.
As Henry Elliot on Sub Stack told me one time, these are very snackable, aren't they? They are. But they are also so well written. Every time I read one of these, I am amazed that this guy wrote some thing like 400 novels and 75 or so of these. maigret books, and they are good. Simenon was jab salute best in these books at showing you the grind of being at work. It just happens to be that these people were cops.
Has I started to listen to this one, I thought I remembered it, being one of my favorites of the series, and I was right!
The HLBC is reading all four of these novels over the next two months. I enjoyed the first one, but did not love it. I cannot see myself reading three more of these at this point. Too many other great classics to read. At some point, maybe I go back.
Not sure exactly where to put this one in relation to the brothers K. All of his hallmarks are there, of course, but absolutely different. Enjoyed the brothers K more, but this was wonderful as well. read Crime and Punishment when I was younger, will probably have to revisit it and then read Demons, just so I have the four biggies under my belt.
Dream Story (Translated, Annotated, & Illustrated) (aka Traumnovelle, Rhapsody, Eyes Wide Shut): Ovid Publishing Edition by Arthur Schnitzler
Enjoyed this short book, really a novella. Have never read Schnitzler, read this as a quick read-along with Henry Eliot on Substack. What's real and what's a dream???
Something Fresh (Collector's Wodehouse) by P. G. Wodehouse(April 7, 2005) Hardcover by P. G. Wodehouse
Another fun Wodehouse...going to try and read the whole Blandings series. Love these Everyman's editions
I enjoy how Widmerpool is kind of essential character in this, as he is in most of the books, but he doesn't really have that many lines in the book! It's kind of more about him than him. I don't know what can you say? These books are incredible.
Read this one on the plane back from holiday in Spain. Another little gem!
My favorite of the first three. Really getting underway now.
Big reread happening here. Flew through these first three, they’re not very long, maybe seven or eight hours apiece audiobooks. Finish them in a week back-and-forth to work. We’ll take a little break now getting back HLBC main schedule, but I’ll reread the next three soon.
Big reread happening here. Flew through these first three, they’re not very long, maybe seven or eight hours apiece audiobooks. Finish them in a week back-and-forth to work. We’ll take a little break now getting back HLBC main schedule, but I’ll reread the next three soon.
So funny how when I first read this book back in the day, my first time reading it, I gave up halfway through it, thinking oh my gosh, an entire book about going to two different parties?
Anyway, I finally got around to reading it a couple of years later and loved it and read the entire series. Now I’m rereading the books, listening to them actually with a great Simon Vance narrating.
Anyway, I finally got around to reading it a couple of years later and loved it and read the entire series. Now I’m rereading the books, listening to them actually with a great Simon Vance narrating.
Read this for the book club and then coincidentally saw this on the closing day on Broadway with Leslie Manville. Fantastic all around.
Starting a full re-read of this series. Found an interesting set of lectures and book talks online that were produced just last year on YouTube. They have some Anthony Powell experts that come on and talk and I thought it would be a good time to re-read this incredible series. Listening to them on the audiobook this time through, occasionally reading along with the audiobook with my folio Society series. The audiobooks are only about six or seven hours long for each of them, so whenever I have a few days open in my listening schedule going back-and-forth to work I can bang them out.
The finish line is in sight here, about a dozen and a half to go...been at this series for about 10 years now, maybe a little more! Each one a little masterpiece.
Finally! I have tried to read Austen for my entire adult life and could never care, but I finally get it! Read Emma at the end of last year, then this. Persuasion next at some point this year.
I was working at a bookstore when the second of this series dropped. I read it and enjoyed it, went back and got the first, and i've gotten every one since when it came out. Always fun!
Enjoying this...never finished though, will get back to it when reading dickens...needs to be read in conjunction with!
One of the best books I've ever read. Knew it was a classic, but just not a western guy. Wowee. Loved pretty much every one of these characters.
Listened to a BBC production, really liked the acting...love the HLBC lecture as well
Classic...just bought my first three of the everyman's set of Wodehouse, can't wait for more.
Not my very fav so far, but certainly better than his early comedies...I know this is a personal favorite of Bloom...will have to read his commentary