So pretty much Newland Archer is Ted Mosby. He is in love with one woman for his life but marries someone else because of the complications the first woman would create. There’s a certain type of man who feels like all emotions are charted along legal terms and therefore, as people who who feel can’t be held accountable if in fact he has not declared his love. This novel takes place in “Old New York” a false aristocratic society in which the sins of society […]
Maybe this was the worst week to read this/
So I work in a failing urban school, and a failing urban school system. This book obviously hits home in many many different ways, because the author, without judging, paints a very accurate picture of the various schools I have worked at within this system and visited through my time in this system. Payne works through the various ways in which a failing school system under-serves students, parents, the community, teachers, and pretty much everybody else connected with it. It costs huge amounts of money, […]
I was prepared to hate this…or worse….
One thing I often don’t like about sci-fi/fantasy….or whatever you might this novel to be….is when the stakes are entirely fabricated/zone dependent. I mean by this that when there’s no real connection to something that is “real” and what’s happening in the novel, it’s some times hard to care too much about what’s going on the page. A version of this, where the stakes are invented, but turn incredibly satisfying is Dexter Palmer’s novel Version Control. A bad version of this might be like the movie Pacific […]
Don’t worry, it’s pretty much as good.
So the context of my reading this book might make a difference. I am switching jobs….specifically I am a high teacher and in the middle of switching school systems. I am a city teacher moving to the county because essentially a broken system seeps into you (I promise there’s research that supports this) and changes blah blah blah. But one of the results is that I am feeling a little bit guilty and a little bit insecure about where I should work (which of the […]
Yeah but who wrote the book if….
So a few events converged in the last few days that led me to listen to the audiobook of this singular novel by Poe. For one, I decided to use an audible credit for a complete collection of Poe that had been recently recorded by contemporary readers. Many of the previous Poe audio collections are either really short, really old, really bad, or some combination. This one had some familiar voices and a recent production. So good. It seemed to indicate that it was only […]
Paul Bowles is such an interesting character
This collection of stories is the earliest one from Paul Bowles I could find. He was a renowned composer (friend and colleague of Aaron Copland for example) and just up and decided to write a handful of novels and a lot of stories. These stories kind of take place all over the place, from North Africa to Mexico and Central America, as well as a few nameless places. He, in a way, almost writes anti-Hemingway short stories. These aren’t the stories of masculine men revealing […]
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