James Joyce – Cannonball Read 17

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

November 23, 2022 by Wanderlustful 4 Comments

Uggggghhhh. Sometimes I don’t know why I do it to myself, choosing books like this to read (or at least why I don’t quit when I’m not enjoying it). I think its that I always suspect the book is going to get better, especially ‘classic’ books, because otherwise why would someone still be putting it on some ‘100 books to read’ list (including a scratch off poster of important novels that I am very keen to scratch off entries on)? Two years ago I read […]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

February 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I guess if you’re going to read a “young man begins to question the institutions that have built up his understanding of the world” you could go with one of the best. Although the sub-genre obviously predates this book by quite a wide margin with The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe being more of the OG version — well aside from Hamlet, and The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil being a contemporary of Joyce’s. The difference here is the way in which […]

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Dubliners by James Joyce

December 9, 2021 by Singsonggirl Leave a Comment

I’ve always liked Dubliners unironically, even after I was informed that it apparently is something people hated to read in school (maybe that was just my friends, please enlighten me on this). A separate print of The Dead was one of the first books I got from the adult section at my local library, when I was still very much a child and I remember being blown away by the beauty of it. Two or three years ago I finally read the whole book and […]

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.

June 8, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So for the first time in my life, I actually feel compelled and/or ready to give Ulysses a go. I have had a copy for a few years, and it’s a very readable copy, just one without notes. So I have to make a decision about that: my current one is that I will see how it goes, and then as necessary I will look online for what I feel like I need to know. I am also ok with being a little awash in […]

Life Imitates Art

September 14, 2014 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

This graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, perhaps knowns to some as the creator of the Bechdel test, to others as the creator of the comic Dykes to Watch Out For, has won critical acclaim and is currently featured as The Atlantic’s 1book140 selection for LGBTQ month. I found to to be a truly engaging read both for its art and for its written content. The art is done in black, white and blue tones. Bechdel mixes up her own comic illustrations of her family with […]

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