Chat about my recent reads

[@alldbooks9165]

Haha . . . I am always adjusting my “life hacks” … love that term.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

yes I'm all about the hacks! 🙂

[@thelefthandedreader6632]

It’s wonderful to hear from you! You always have such interesting reads! It’s fun to see what type of Summer reading you’re getting into.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Thanks Renee! Hope you're summer is going well. I know it will eventually speed up, so I want to enjoy the slowness while I can!

[@jessicaw1839]

I'm glad you're doing well, other than fatigue. These are great reviews! You always go into just the right level of detail about the books and your analyses are clearly well thought out.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Thank you so much! It's great to hear that the "depth" is adequate. I think about what to say but it's still all very ad lib and off the cuff.

[@elzbethmrgn]

Lovely to see your face! The problem I find with fatigue (as opposed to just being tired) is that just stopping doesn't help, you really need time to recover. And then you go back to work and start the cycle over again 🙃 I always appreciate the way you talk about books!

[@elzbethmrgn]

I will definitely watch travel vlogs, not only do I rarely leave my little country town, let alone travel internationally, but your perspective on travel is of course going to be different to mine!

[@thegrimmreader3649]

This is exactly the point! stopping isn't enough. you have to remember to build in recovery time when you know you'll need it.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

I'll see how much footage I'll get when I go on my trips. It might just be some photos, but I"ll try and vlog a bit too.

[@jf8559]

Interesting set of books! Glad you are enjoying your reading!

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Thank you so much!

[@lindseyreads5450]

Nice to see you. Glad you're enjoying the summer vacation outside of the fatigue. An interesting mix of books! I have such a hard time with horror movies. I can read them but I hate the jump scares in movies with the sudden loud noises.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

I HATE jumpscares too. The Exorcist is so old it has a totally different feel to it though. Much more atmospheric. There may have been a jump shot here or there, but not many. Her transformation is truly shocking, but I think they did a good job of convincing us that she was a vessel for this spirit, it really wasn't her doing these things.

[@lindseyreads5450]

@@thegrimmreader3649 That's good to know that the movie is more about the atmosphere than jump scares. You've convinced me to add it to my list of movies to watch!

[@Paromita_M]

Psychogeography is something I am also very interested in. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair (whom Alan Moore considers an influence) was an interesting read. Would you recommend any other authors who deal with this in their fiction? W G Sebald maybe but I didn't vibe with Rings of Saturn or The Emigrants and Austerlitz was just okay for me. I am interested to reread Jerusalem, when I read it first time last year, I got lost a bit.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Glad I'm not the only one who is just not all that impressed with Sebald. Psychogeography is such an interesting area of thought. I do think of Walter Benjamin's essays about Paris and his work on the Arcades as connected to the movement. I also own a work by the surrealist Louis Aragon called "Paris Peasant" that apparently inspired Benjamin's project. ("A mythology of the modern"). I def want to look into Iain Sinclair's work. Another name mentioned is Peter Ackroyd. Perhaps also some of Olivia Laing's work or Rebecca Solnit? To be continued! 🙂

[@Paromita_M]

@@thegrimmreader3649 I'll look into the Walter Benjamin title. Rebecca Solnit I read A Field Guide To Getting Lost, sadly not for me. I was thinking whether Roberto Bolano's 2666 might qualify? Very intriguing concept.