April Wrapup part 1: in which I read a lot of the classics

I totally forgot to mention that I also listened to these and they were both amazing:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (audiobook read by Colin Farrell) amzn.to/3xioBt9
Dubliners by James Joyce (audiobook read by Andrew Scott) amzn.to/3vw5HyI
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Books:
Read this month:
The Captive and The Fugitive by Marcel Proust amzn.to/49SkFNn
Time Regained by Marcel Proust amzn.to/3UkovsS
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake amzn.to/4bcv4Vd
The Master and Margarita by Mikhaïl Bugakov amzn.to/4aXnjmn
Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat amzn.to/3wbljHY
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann amzn.to/3Jy8k6t
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James amzn.to/44f8Yzh
Middlemarch by George Eliot amzn.to/3Wi27D3
Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreywev amzn.to/4aShxSS
The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy amzn.to/44gh1fc
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky amzn.to/3Wgznuk
A Nervous Breakdown by Anton Chekhov amzn.to/4diCIPG
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn amzn.to/3JAErlJ
Studying/In progress:
Ulysses by James Joyce amzn.to/3Jy7IxE
La fraternité de l'anneau by J. R. R. Tolkien amzn.to/3weiExl
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert amzn.to/4dd7SrL
L’arabe by Assimil amzn.to/3wa5rpc
To read next:
Faust and Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe amzn.to/3wd5rVr
Dante’s Inferno (from The Divine Comedry) amzn.to/3weqMOj
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein amzn.to/49X4hvc
Podcasts:
Re:Joyce: exploring the world of Ulysses with Frank Delaney podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast...
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[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

Omg I want to read everything all at once. Remembrance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time has been on my TBR for years… I bought a copy of Swann’s Way like … 10 years ago? Lol Thank you for the podcast recommendation; I don’t listen to those often but this sounds like a lot of fun. Much of Ulysses has stuck with me, and I read it maybe 6 years ago? Henry James is such an interesting person to me. I can’t say he’s my favorite either, but I’ve only read Wings of the Dove and some other short stories including Turn of the Screw, which I loved because it actually scared me, and I wasn’t expecting that. I think what makes it so scary is the fact it’s so elusive. I really want to read Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, I bought a copy after reading Death in Venice. Ok I’m still watching …. 😊

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

I had similar thoughts on Master and Margarita: I did really enjoy it, but I’ve read a bunch of Russian lit and I didn’t consider it the best of the best as the Russian who recommended it to me did (we are not friends anymore, but it’s not Bulgakov’s fault) 😂 love Chekhov but I haven’t read The Black Monk! Sounds like I need to get my hands on a copy. I think I remember reading that Oroonoko was based on a true story but I’m not sure. It’s weird I haven’t read Madame Bovary, but there’s so many books to read 😫 I read a bunch of Gertrude Stein a few years ago and I find her fascinating. I’m going to look up Blind Owl! 🦉

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

So many books to read! And I want to read them all! It’s an ongoing problem. I definitely need to read more Chekhov. I read some of his plays ages ago for my undergrad but I’ve been sleeping on his shorting fiction. I’d say Stein is up next but I’m also reading about 7 books right now and really need to finish at least one of them first!

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a definite problem for me too. I was reading 7 or 8 books recently myself … finished a couple recently so I’m making progress but yeah lol I read Chekhov plays for a theatre history course years ago and that’s how I discovered him, LOVED those courses. I forgot to mention: I think it’s cool you read the books which inspired operas. I haven’t read many actually; Eugene Onegin by Pushkin is the only one I can recall at the moment, but I read the librettos which accompany the operas I own. I love opera! 🥰