September reading wrap-up

Books from September!

People/videos:
@pastorytime2683
@jameskatie

Books:
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye) (1947)
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman (1990)
Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau (1947)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls (1987)
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (2015)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)
This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2018)
The Golden Notebooks by Doris Lessing (1962)

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[jameskatie]

the emotional support beverage is an essential part of filming!

i don't think i can ever forget the opening of the dry heart, the DRAMA. i've been wanting to read the new bernstein for while and really need to get to it, obviously you have only made me want to read it even more.

my reading is also going very strangely at the moment as well, and has been strange for the past few months. maybe something is in the air? haha x

[MJ-in-Canada]

"Emotional support beverage." 😄

[pastorytime]

Such a good wrap up and thanks so much for joining in on the shorties. Definitely need to read more lispector and I have Notes on suicide ready to pick up at the library. Siân ❤

[nathansnook]

oh gosh my reading has been odd as well, this month and last, and idk if it's reading fatigue or what.

after hearing you and Etima talk about the Doris Lessing, i'm curious about it! such questions are revolving around my own writing and self and seems like a festive, feisty, frustrating head space that i need to confront.

also loved these thoughts on the roach book! i'm going to revisit it for november! also we need that Lispector chat soon!

[DogEaredMusings]

The Dry Heart seems really interesting! I love when the first line of a novella really grips you in

[jorjastonej]

Can I just say that I have one diner mug. This old school cup is my absolute favorite for morning coffee. ☕️

[jay_poet]

I’m planning to read The Golden Notebook in November - it’s quite daunting! I foresee many emotional support beverages will be needed to struggle through it.

[thelefthandedreader]

I’m interested in dipping into Kate Briggs either this or the newer one. I too have scattered reading right now-both slumpy and unwittingly stumbling on some real bangers. Frenetic work, frenetic mind, frenetic reading taste. 😊

[yenasung]

I too have been having weird but good but weird reading months recently and have been unable to come to a conclusion during the few mins of sitting here contemplating the why - just acknowledging I guess that reading, like life, can be all over the place whether by circumstance or fate. It just is. And maybe we’re in our thick weird overwhelming reading era 🤷🏻‍♀️

The golden notebook sounds just like me/right up my alley: intentionally boring, frustrating, interesting! Adding it to my tbr 🌟

[erinh]

After that review of The Golden Notebook, I think when I get to it (and I do want to at some point) definitely going to go for the audio ... which I see I can get narrated by Juliet Stevenson, so hopefully that will make it go down easier!

[ameliareads]

I've read 'Exercises de Style' in the German translation years ago and was wow and meh at the same time, if you know what I mean. I found it similarly interesting and pretentious.

[JohnSeney]

Ok now the t-shirt must be considered. I think I am seeing a cat walking across a computer keyboard and can make out the word "space." Correct? Explanation? Or is it something surreal? I don't know how Lispector meant it but I could take a story based on the death of a cockroach 🪳 seriously. There are eastern religions like Jainism that take the death of insects seriously, Catholic saints who appeared to be vegan and to love all creatures and so on. Is the herbal tea for your singing voice? Are you restricted from caffeine 😒😾 as I have heard some singers are?