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Tag Archives: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vacation Reading List
Very important choices had to be made this morning: Which books should I take on vacation? A week is a long time. Especially if your days are free, and more time can be given to reading. I can’t just bring … Continue reading
Odets on Dostoevsky
Entry from Journal March 29, 1940 The man of genius walks, talks, sleeps, eats, loves, and works with a load of dynamite in him. If he carries this load carefully — balance — its power for good work and use … Continue reading
Of Use
Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. — Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”
100 Greatest Novels of All Time
… as chosen by The Observer. I have read 37 of them. But, of course, being obnoxious, I have a couple of comments about some of the books: The Executioner’s Song? What? To have THAT book be on there and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte's Web, children's books, D.H. Lawrence, E.B. White, E.M. Forster, Emily Bronte, England, fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry James, Ireland, Italy, Joseph Heller, Primo Levi, Russia, Wuthering Heights
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Recommended Reading: Fiction
And now for the Fiction recommendations. (See the Non-Fiction ones below) Choosing books out of all the books I love is rather torturous for me. So this is an impulsive, scanning-the-bookshelves-with-mine-eyes and writing titles down spur-of-the-moment kind of list. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged A.S. Byatt, Atonement, Charlotte Bronte, Crime and Punishment, England, fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Going After Cacciato, Harriet the Spy, Herman Melville, Ian McEwan, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jane Eyre, Louise Fitzhugh, Michael Chabon, Moby Dick, Possession, Russia, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Catcher In the Rye, The Dead, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam
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